seame of their head or os triquetrum Cure by unction with oyle of fleabane see Chap. 2. mixed with oyle of sweet almonds or alone by it selfe Let their body be kept soluble Also they may bath their head in water in which strawberry leaves Stoole Bath violet leaves and flowers mallowes and other hearbes that have a moistning vertue have beene boyled CHAP V. Of Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of plentitude or blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of blood HItherto I have written of Head-ach comming through alteration of the bare quality only I now come to Head-ach caused of fulnesse and abundance of blood I call fulnesse in this place that which the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is when all the four humours abound and be encreased in their proportion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or when blood onely abounds The cause This is caused commonly of eating all such things as ingender abundance of humours in the body as meates and drinkes of great nourishment plentifully taken as also the neglecting and omitting exercises bathes sweatings and usuall purgings bleedings and evacuations The signes be these Signes the face and the eyes be ruddy the veines be swoln so that the least and smalest may be easily seene the pulse is great and vehement the urine reddish and thick the veines of the temples beate more hard strong and vehement then those at the wrest the paine of the head is heavinesse Let the sick be in a cold and dry aire if you can get no such place naturall Cure make it so by art Let his diet be spare Aire let him avoyd things that nourish plentifully as egges flesh c. Let his drink be barly water in which cold hearbs have been boyled as endive Meat succory purselane lettuce Drinke or only barly water with a little Cinnamon Let him use meane exercise Exercise rubbing his body often if his body be soluble and no feaver let him bath often In the beginning of the disease let him blood in the cephalica of that arme on which the griefe lies most if that appeare not take the middle veine Bleeding if bleeding in the arme suffice not let them bleed in the forehead If age or weaknesse or both prohibit bleeding use cupping glasses to the shoulders to draw backe the blood Cupping These done use medicines externall that are cold and astringent Vnction wherewith you are furnished in the second Chapter You must in this disease have a special care that the body be kept soluble if necessity require and neither feaver nor weaknesse hinder Purging give a decoctum Sennae with rubarbe and agricke at i. ʒ iv ℥ After this you may apply such medicines to the head Repelling as disperse the disease and dissipate and repell the humours such be mallow seedes fenugreck seeds chamomel flowers melilot flowers either in bathes liniments or oyles as you think fit Also you may bind the lower parts of the body hard Bindings as the things to call or draw back the humours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of Choler CHAP VI. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of Choler The cause HEad-ach comming of cholericke humours is caused of all such things as heate and drye the head unnaturally as care anger paine labour watching fasting eating of meates that be cholericke as Garlique Onions pickled herrings and other meates extraordinary salt c. The signes be these the pains be like his that hath headach by reason of heat Signes but that only they have a more sharp and pricking pain as though awles or bodkins were thrust into their heads their face is pale and wan their head is moderately hot bitternesse of the tongue drinesse of the eyes nose and tongue this disease chanceth most to young and flourishing yeares to such as are cholericke of complexion to them that take overmuch businesse in hand and the like Let the sicke abide in a cold and moist aire which may be procured by the Art specified in the second Chapter Cure as by sprinkling the Chamber with cold water Aire by strewing the Chamber with cold herbs and moist flowers and branches of trees their mentioned Let his whole diet be moist let him eat meates that be moist and of good juyce Meates give them Endive Succory Lettice Purslaine small fishes that live in gravelly Rivers Let his drinke be water only Drinkes in which a little Cinnamon hath been boyled but let him altogether abstaine from Wine and strong drinke Let him be kept quiet Sleepes and have long sleepes you may provoke sleep by the rules in the second Chapter let him be merry and refraine from all perturbations of mind Purges You must refrain purging there be a feaver In the beginning of the cure you must purge the cholericke humour with medicines fit for the purpose such be Hiera picra Electuary of the juyce of Roses Rubarb Pillulae aureae Alephanginae c. ☞ But if it chance the cholericke humours do rest quietly in any part of the body as many times it doth and so becometh adust and burneth the place where it lyeth and maketh the man uncapable of receiving purging medicines you must use preparatives to alter and concoct the humour till it appear by the urine to be digested the best way of all to do this is to administer a spoonfull of Vineger of Squils every morning fasting and let the party walke a quarter of an houre after it if you find that too hot as you seldome shall administer it in an ounce of Julep of Roses or Syrupus acetosus Also you may give an ounce of pulp of Cassia at night when he goes to sleep or lenitive Electuary Bolus If they be very costive as it is the nature of choler ☜ to procure costivenesse administer clisters of the mollient herbs viz. Mallows Beetes Violets Clisters Pellitory and Mercury of each a handfull boyled in a quart of ☜ water to three quarters of a pint in which being ☜ strained mingle Diacatholicon i. ℥ Mel rosarum i. ℥ species Hierae picrae i. ʒ make it into a clister Also you may use Oyle of Fleabane for unction in the manner and forme prescribed in the second Chapter Vnct on Beware of ♂ If the disease for all these medicines continue still viralent and malignant Boxing you may apply cupping glasses between the shoulders and friction or rubbing of the armes and legs time and care convenient being used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of Wind. CHAP. VII Of the Headach coming of Windinesse The cause IT is a cause of eating abundance of windy things besides the nature of the body and other things were such as were apt to ingender wind It is known by a distention or stretching within the head Signes and that without heavinesse or beating as also by noise in the ears
boyled in stale ale and the decoction drunk is excellent good for the same and therefore both together cannot do amisse 36. For a pain in the periostion take Alhoofe or Ground Iry make a strong decoction of it and ale and drink it A strong decoction of mouse-eare made in like manner works the like effect therefore if you please you may use them both together 37. A good oyntment for bruises and aches Take a good quantity of black snails alive such as have no shels on their backs salt them very well viz. throw salt upon them then put them into a linnen bag and let them hang til the water be dropped out of them take of this water a pound boyl it and scum it clean then add as much May butter to it and boyl it to an oyntment viz. till the water be consumed then adde a little wax to it and keep it to anoynt the grieved place with 38. Vineger made of Rew as you make vineger of Roses is excellent taken inwardly for shortnesse of breath and stoppings of the breast and lungs 39. A good remedy for a Tetter or Ringworm is to take the pouder of brimstone and having mixed it with black sope apply it to the sore 40. An oyntment made with the leaves of Henbane and hogs grease presently stancheth the blood takes away inflammation of any wound whatsoever 41. The juyce of the leaves or roots of fox-gloves mixed with the like quantity of the parties urine is excellent to wash any festered sores with it will cure to admiration You may boyle the juyce till it be thick and so you may keep it all the yeare 42. The juyce of Walwort or dwarf-elder which is all one drank four ounces each morning is an excellent safe and speedy cure for the yellow Jaundice if the disease be inveterate you may make a bath of the hearb boyled in water to bath the diseased body in 43. Take a hare a march hare saith my Author but he leaves no markes to know a march hare from another hare having taken out her bowels put all the rest of her hair and all into a pot and convert her into a Mummy as you were taught before A dram of this pouder being first beaten bones and all and exquisitely mixed being taken in white wine every morning is an excellent remedy for the stone 44. In an old Cock you may find when you have opened his gizzard and looked a white stone sometimes more then one never fewer this being born about one adds valour and makes one strong in the sports of Venus and beloved of all this is the magical use of it I come now to the Physicall 45. A very little of it being beaten in an Iron Morter for brasse spoyles it and given in white wine breaks the stone 46. The same stone or to speak more properly such alike one may be found in the gizzard of an old Hen why might not a man draw a conclusion and think it rationall when he hath done that the male is medicinall yea most medicinall for men that which is found in a hen for women 47. The best way to apply Cupping-glasses is to heat them first in hot water by putting the glasses in when the water is cold else they will break and so letting them heat with the water and so apply them close to the part of the body to be cupped as they cool so the Air in them will condense and to avoyd Vacuum draw the humours through the pores of the skin 48. By this means may bowed ribs be drawn to their proper places and the skull it selfe when it is broken and that without pain this way is ten times better then firing them with tow as the loggerheads of our age use to do 49. Centaury usually taken will prevent a dropsy before it come and help it being come viz. by drinking the decoction of it in ale 50. The seeds of hen-bane being wrapped up in the leaves of the same herb and so rosted in the embers well and then bruised and pressed hard through canvas in a press there will come out a precious oyl for the gout the grieved member being anoynted with it 51. I make no question but the ingenuous may easily find away to keep this all the yeare the hearb being only to be had in the beginning of the Summer I fancy the receit much it doth it by Sympathy I regard not the opinion of Artists most of which hold that Hen-bane is an hearb of ♃ which I disprove by this argument That hearb which delights in Saturnine places is a Saturnine hearb But Hen-bane delights in Saturnine places viz. where they empty jakes and naturally springs there in abundance Ergo it is a Saturnine hearb 52. Another thing to be admired in our Physitians for indeed their ignorance is admirable to every knowing soul is that hen-bane say they is only profitable in hot Gouts not in cold because it is cold it selfe whereas indeed it cures by Sympathy and their rule Contraria contrarâ—â—â— medentur is but a wooden and worm-eatene◠〈◊〉 for how then could hot things do good in a Feaver 53 Vervain boyled in water provokes urine exceedingly but you must drink the decoction it is not the boyling of it will do the deed 54 The distilled water of green-Walnuts is excellent good to take the freckles out of the Face but the oyl drawn out of the kernels is better 55. Take Cummin and Caraway seed and having bruised them well boyl them in Ale till it be thick this eaten with a spoon is an excellent remedy for the Collick 56. If any be bitten by a Spider take a great quantity of flies and bruise them and apply them to the place 57. Anoynt thy cheek with Horse-grease and thy gums also and thy teeth will cease rotting 58. An oyntment made with Hogs-grease and Mugwort and a little vineger is excellent for the swelling of the legs and feet 59. Rew infused all night in sack and the sack drunk the next morning is excellent good for the worms and wringing in the guts 60. Beat the white of an egg and then wet a Colewort leafe in it and lay it to the eye that runs a water at night when you go to bed and by morning it will help you 61. Take a kid of about a year and an halfe old and having fed him nine dayes without water kill him and take his blood and when it is cold pour the water away from it then dry the blood till it be hard a dram of this blood and halfe a dram of Ivy-berries taken in white wine every morning will break the stone in the body 62. For a wen bind him about as hard as you can endure then make a save with Vertdegrece Brimstone Allum and honey and lay it to it and it will consume it 63. Take a soft peice of sappy wood lay it in the fire and save the sap that runs out the which make into
a pultise with bran the which lay between the navils and the privities of one that hath the strangury and it will helpe him 64. If thy nose bleed chew the hearb pervincle in thy mouth and it will cease 65. Vervain boyled and the house sprinkled with the decoction drives flies out of it 66. A suppository made of white sope and put up the fundament is a medicine inferiour to none for one that is costive 67. The roots of flower-deluce bruised and boyled in white wine are an excellent provoker of urine 68. Chamomel and Betony of each an equall quantity boyled in vineger to a pultis and applyed warm to the head helpes the Megrim and the inveterate head-ach called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 69. Rosemary tops boyled in ale in like manner and applied to the temples doth the like 70. If thou be costive 't is a hundred to one if choler be not the cause but if not boyl the hearb Mercury in thy pottage in stead of hearbs and let them be but halfe boyled this pottage so eaten will not only take away the effects by making thy body slippery but also the cause 71. Take of Rew Sage and Cummin seeds bruised of each a handfull beaten pepper halfe an ounce make a strong decoction of them in water the which boyl into a syrrup with honey this syrup will help an inveterate cough by taking one spoonfull of it in the morning and another at evening 72. Three drops of a mans owne water put into his eare every morning warm helps noyse there 73. A strong decoction made with Plantane in White-wine drunk every morning doth the like 74. An oyntment made with Ivy-leaves and hogs-grease is excellent for swelling of the eyes 75. Take three or four great Onnions and having rosted them well in the embers take off the outward pill then bruise them with a few cummin seeds in pouder this applied plaister-wise in a few times using helps the head-ach This I am perswaded the hair being shaven off it is a good remedy for the Lethargy 76. Take wormwood and mallows of each alike quantity boyl them in water till they be soft then by adding-barly meal or malt-malt-flower which is better and a little vineger and sheep suet to them they make an excellent pultis for any swelling whatsoever 77. The liquor wherein neats-feethave been boyl'd is an excellent bath to bath swolle legs in and if you will add chick-weed mallows and smallage to it t will be never the worse 78. Also when you have well bathed your Legs therein you may take out the hearbs and apply them to the soles of your feet 79. The juyce of Vervain or if it be time of year you cannot get it take the decoction of the dryed hearb it mightily encreaseth not barely milke but good milke in Nurses 80. The blood of a Hare dryed and taken inwardly breaks the stone in the bladder 81. The claws of a Goat burnt to powder and a dram of the powder taken in the morning helps such as cannot hold their water 82. To drinke an Allum Posset is a good remedy for overflowing of a Womans Menstruis 83. The juyce of Sorrel mixed with the like quantity of Milke is an excellent remedy being drunke for pissing blood 84. Pigeons dung mixed with Vinegar is excellent to anoint Warts with if you would be rid of them 85. The juyce of Primrose-roots snuffed up into the Nose is an excellent remedy for the Megrim 86. Take an Onion and having cut a round hole in the middle of it fill it full of Oyle then rost it by a gentle fire and having taken off the outward pill stamp it together and apply it warm to the deafe ear to restore hearing 87. An ointment made with Leek-blades and hogs grease is excellent good for burnings 88. A decoction of Earth-worms Sallendine and Ivy-berries in White-wine take equall quantities of each is an excellent remedy for the yellow Jaundice and if towards the latter end of the decoction you adde a little Saffron tyed up in a rag 't will be the better 89. Take the roots of Female Ferne such as in Sussex are called Brakes and having bruised them well mix some raw Cream with them so have you an excellent plaister for a scald He that hath any wit may make an Unguent or plaister of them to keep alwayes by him 90. The powder of burnt Garlicke helps the Hemorrhoids being strewed upon the place 91. The powder of Anniseeds strewed there doth the like 92. A rosted Onion laid to the place workes the same effect 93. An excellent cool ointment for wounds that have inflammations is thus made take of Litharge of Gold very finely powdered as much as you will and with Oyle of Roses and Verjuyce of each equall parts make it into an oinment by stirring it up and downe in a Mortar without the heat of the fire as it cooles so it dries exceedingly 94. For Ach in the Legs or Arms a precious remedy take very stale Ale and with the Gaul of an Oxe boyle it till it be as thicke as Birdlime when it is cold then anoint the grieved member with it by the fire it will be fluid when t is hot as hot as he can endure it and when it is dryed in once or twice spread some of it upon a peice of white leather and apply to it when it is hard take it off and apply to it another the former will wax soft again thus doing three or four dayes will help you 95. For the Megrim put some Assa foetida into the eare on that side the paine lies and the matter causing the disease will come out at the Nose And yet it may by my Authors leave be some question whether the Megrim lie within the scul or without 96. Take Snails Shels and all and burn them in a crucible till the ashes be white halfe a dram of this taken in White-wine is a great provoker of Urine 97. Take a quantity of water-grasse that part of it that grows above the water and having beaten it presse out the juyce this juyce a little of it being dropped into the contrary ear of one that hath the tooth-ach cures him of that paine for ever saith my Author 98. Take a piece of blew cloth wollen cloth the deeper the blew the better burn it to powder a little of this powder snuffed up the nose stops the bleeding of it 99. It is certain and by dayly experience verified that Elder barke if you slip it upward will provoke vomiting if downward it purgeth by stool 100. It s property is to cleanse the body of crudities and indigestion and they cause three quarters of the diseases in man you need but run to an Elder-tree for the cure and you may find one a great deale on this side Arabia if your stomack trouble you slip it upwards but if the disease afflict not the first digestion then slip it downwards 101. Polipodium stamped and plaistered upon
the feet of a Woman labouring with Child causeth the birth of the Child presently either alive or dead 102. Take the grease of a Hog and rub the body of any that is sicke against the heart and the soles of the feet then throw the grease to a dog if he eat it the sick will live if not he will die 103. Take a green Elme or Ashen stick and put it in the fire and save the water that comes out at the ends and mix it with the fat of an Eele the like quantity boyl it a little over the fire and drop a drop or two of it into the ear that is deaf at night when you go to bed let it be lukewarm when you drop it in and in three or four dayes they will hear perfectly 104. Also the juyce of Bay-leaves dropped into the eares Pet Hisp takes away both deafnesse and noise in the eares 105. For ach in the bones anoint the place three or four times with good Aqua composita and let it dry in by a good fire then anoint it again and while it is wet strew the powder of Olibanum upon it then sew a cloth round about it and let it lie there three or four dayes by which time it will be well 106. Bay-leaves a thing knowne well Laid up among your cloaths Dioscorides Will give to them a fragrant smell And keep them safe from Moaths 107. Ants eggs beaten and strained and a little of the juyce of Knotgrasse put to the juyce of them and a little of it dropped into the eare cures deafnesse though of long continuance 108. Drop a drop of good Aqua-composita into the eye that is anoyed with cold and you will find it a present remedy to recover the sight 109. For Legs that are swollen by water this doe and you may heale them seeth Oats in water till they be soft then hold the swoln Legs over the steeme of them covering the Vessel with a Blanket that the steem may not go out and it will draw blisters out of which being cut will come much water and corruption a little fresh butter will quickly heale them againe if the cure be not perfect the first time doe so oftner 110. Dandelion or to write better French Dent-delion for our Country Blades are so nice that they scorn to call it by the plain English name Lions-tooth being boyled in water is a speciall remedy for the knitting of wounds as also for the cure of Ruptures the decoction being drunk and the boyled hearb applyed to the grieved place 111. Put unslaked Lime into a cleane new earthen Vessell till the Vessell be almost halfe full then having heat some water boyling hot in a cleane new Vessell pour it into the lime till the Vessel be full take off the scum from it clean and let it stand till the Lime be setled at the bottome then pour off the cleer water and keepe it in a glasse close stopped This is a marvelous water for the cure of Ulcers and chiefly such as spring from the French Pox by dipping a linnen cloth in it and laying it as a Plaister over the sore it draws the corruption out of Ulcers and putrified sores cleanseth them and takes away the inflammation of them this water Mizaldus extols to the skies 112. A dram of Mirrh given to drink in warm wine brings forth the Child Pet. Hisp alive or dead 113. A peice of the root of Crowfoot either put into the tooth if it be hollow or otherwise applyed to it instantly easeth the pains of it 114. Centaury taken either the juyce or powder of it cleers the voyce and cleanseth the breast marvelously 115. Pigeons dung boyled in wine till the wine be consumed and then applyed plaister-wise to the gout takes it away being used morning and evening in four or five dayes 116. Nettle-seed beaten into powder and taken with syrrup of Violets cleanseth the stomack of tough and hard flegm and helps the Plurifie 117. If the paine of the Gout be very outragious take a dram of Opium two drams of Saffron mix them with four or five Yolks of eggs and plaister the same upon the griefe it will not only asswage the paine but also dissolve the corruption 118. Heat two or three Bricks red hot then put them in a Pan under a close-stoole and pour a little Vinegar upon them and let him that is troubled with the Hemorhoids commonly called the Piles fit over them and receive the vapours up his fundament 119. The juyce of broom flowers of Scala Coeli commonly called Solomons Seale and of Honey of each a like quantity boyled to the thicknesse of Honey maketh a soveraigne ointment for the Gout 120. A little Gun-powder tyed up in a rag and held so in the mouth that it may touch the aking tooth instantly easeth the pains of the eeth 121. Tie Saffron up in a little rag and bind it to the Navil of one that hath the yellow Jaundice it gives present help 122. Take the roots of Beets and pare off the outer barke then stamp them and having pressed out the juyce snuffe some of it up your nose and you shall find it wonderfully purgeth the head and helps the Headach Vertigo or dissines in the head and Megrim 123. The feet of a great living Toad being cut off when the Moon is void of course and hastens to the conjunction of the Sun Cardanus cures one of the Kings-evill being hung about their necke 124. Tie up a Spider in a Linnen cloath and there bruise her a little and hold her near the nose that bleedeth but touch not the nose with the cloth and the bleeding will cease the reason is because a spider is so extreamly contrary to the blood of man that it flies back from its Enemy Oh Campanella how acute was thy judgement how is the world beholding to thee The truth of this Aphorisme appeares in that a Cobweb which is but the excrement of a spider will stop the bleeding of a wound 125. An approved remedy to stop bleeding which I have proved my selfe is this Dry some of the parties blood in a fire-shovel to powder which is quickly done and apply it to the place viz. if the nose bleed snuffe it up in it if by wound apply it to it 126. The blood of a Hare dryed and taken inwardly helps the bloody-flux 127. So doth the bones of a man or woman taken in powder the sex considered 128. Also one experience of mine own invention give me leave to quote for a bloody-flux Take new Tobacco-pipes that were never used beat them into powder and give a dram of them at a time in any convenient liquor morning and evening but so soon as the flux is stopped leave off This I found out in this manner when I was a Prentise a Gentleman in Tower-street gave a poor boy money as I remember five shillings to eate four grosse of Tobacco-pipes which is twelve dozen
handfulls of Cummin-seed very well and boyle it in a pottle of white-Wine to a quart and drink a good draught of it morning and evening and in a fortnight it will help him 158. Put the feet of a hen in hot embers till the skales come off Pet. Hisp then rub your warts with those skales and they will be gone 159. Beat a pound or two of Hemp-seed very well then moysten it with a little wine and set it over the fire in an earthen pan well glassed till it be so hot you cannot endure your hand in it then put it into square baggs and presse the oyle out It is a very precious oyle for taken inwardly it makes men pleasant and merry valiant and hardy fierce to fight voyd of fear Outwardly by unction it giveth a comely face 160. A pint of Aqua Composita a Bullocks gall and an ounce of Pepper beaten very small and all boyled to a save cures any Sciatica ach or gout being applyed to it and changed once in twelve hours 161. Both Agrimony and Purslain are such enemies to warts Pet Hisp that they will go away if they be rubbed with the juyce of either of them 162. For Cods that be swolne without any rupture this do Take of Cummin seed in powder barly-meal and honey of each alike quantity fry them together with a little sheep suet and apply it to the Gods 163. For sore and swelled throats first rub your hand upon the bare ground and then presently rub the throat with it do so often times and you shall quickly perceive both sorenesse and swelling will quickly go away 164. Posset and curd is an admirable thing to ripen any boyle carbuncle or felon and when it is ripe there is nothing better to break it then unslaked lime mixed with black sope 165. Fill an Egg-shell newly emptied with juyce of Howseleek set it in the hot embers and take the scum from it then strain it and you have an excellent remedy for hot burning pricking eyes 166. Agrimony Bettony Sage Plantane Ivy-leaves and Rose-parsley boyled in Wine and the decoction drunk is a notable remedy for such as are bruised by falling 167. If you burn Turpentine upon a hot plate of Iron and give two drams of it at a time Em. Ben. Vict. Faventin in powder in Saxifrage water it will break the stone in the bladder also by taking it once or twice a week it keeps such safe from the stone as are subject to breed it 168. Lavender boyled in water and halfe a pint of the decoction drunk morning and evening helps such as have the palsey 169. Take a pint of Aqua Composita and put a handfull of Ivy-leaves into it and stop it close and they will consume in it two or three spoonfuls of it taken at a time is a most excellent remedy for the Strangury 170. Take a pound of black sope a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a pint of Aqua vitae a quarter of a pint of juyce of Rew boyled together till it be thick makes an admirable plaister for the Sciatica remove it not in two or three dayes 171. Take of the wood of Ivy cut it in little peices of Ivy-berries and the gum of Ivy of each a like weight let the wood be dryed then put it in a pot that hath two or three little holes in the bottom Rogeriuâ— Euonimus then set another potup to the brim in the earth and put the bottom of the first pot into the mouth of the last luting it round with past so that the uppermost pot that holds the ingredients may be all above the Earth then make a fire round about it and there will a black oyle distill into the neither Vessell very soveraigne for old aches and pains comming of a cold cause 172. Empty an Egge of all the white and fill up the voyd place of the shell with the juyce of flower-deluce then warme it a little in the hot embers and give it every morning to one that hath the Dropsey and it makes them avoyd the Hydropicall humour downwards 173. An admirable medicine to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the menstruis in women Galen any aches impediments in the back and liver it allayes the heat in Feavers and causeth sleep Take Cinnamon Cassia Lignia Opium of each two drams mirrh white and long pepper of each one dram Galbanum one dram all being beaten into powder that can be beaten make it into a masse with clarified honey and let the party diseased as before take two pills of it no bigger then a pease at night going to bed 174. Take the quantity of an Almond of a Buls gall and mix it with two or three spoonfuls of wine Wicker and let a woman that hath a dead child in her body drink it and she shall instantly be delivered 175. An excellent oyle for old wounds sores Issues Vlcers Apsius quoted by George Baker Aches paines in the back Hemorrods Gout c. Take of old white-Wine a quart old oyle three pints Carduus benedictus Valerian sage with the flowers if you can get it of each a quarter of a pound of the leaves and flowers of St Johns wort halfe a pound let the hearbs and flowers be infused in the oyle and wine four and twenty hours then boyle it in an earthen vessell well glassed or a brasse Vessell till the wine be consumed stirring it now and then for feare of burning then take it off and strain it and adde to it a pound and an halfe of Venice turpentine and boyle it again a quarter of an hour then adde to it Olibanum five ounces Myrrh three ounces Sanguis draconis one ounce let it boyle a little till the Myrrh be dissolved then take it off and when it is cold put it in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the sunne ten dayes before you use it 176. The body of a Birch tree Mathiolus Dioscorides cut down in the spring time and laid in the fire doth yeild great store of water which water being drunke is of wonderfull force to breake the stone in the Reins 177. The smell of Bitumen Rew Mizaldus Monardus or the smoak of it burning is of wonderfull force against the fits of the Mother 178. The leaves and Barke of a Willow tree sod in Wine doth case the gout being bathed with it 179. A Diamond held to the head that akes Hollerius quite takes away the pains thereof 180. Peices of Amber tyed to the nape of the neck Mizaldus helps the watring of the eyes 181. The same hung about the neck helps distillations of the throat Mizaldus 182. Letharge of Silver boyled in Vinegar and the skin washed with it Mizaldus makes it exceeding white 183. If any great Beasts as Horses Kine c. be lame mark where the lame or swelled foot doth stand and cut up a turfe where the foot
many other things too tedious to rehearse And thus much for Preventions I come now to Provision for it when Prevention is too late Twelve signes of one infected And first of all that Provision may be timely I begin with the signes of one infected which are twelve The first is when the outward Members be cold the inward Members being burning hot The second is heavinesse wearinesse Sloth and indisposition of the whole body and difficulty in breathing The third is paine and heavinesse in the head The fourth is carefulnesse of the mind and sadnesse The fist is a marvelous inclination to sleepe for the most part for sometimes watching and raving vex them The sixt is a frowning eye The seventh is losse of Appetite The eighth is immoderate thirst and often vomiting The ninth is bitternesse and drinesse of the mouth The tenth is a pulse swift small and deepe The eleventh is Urine for the most part turbulous thicke and stinking although I have seene the Urine of some that from the beginning of the disease to the time of their dissolution differed nothing from the Urine of healthy men and indeed the Prognostication in my opinion was the worse for I as yet never knew but two whose Urine was so and both were delivered by death and not preserved by Physicke and therefore considering that Vrina est meretrix you must have an eye to the precedent and subsequent signes and signe The twelfth and most certaine signe of all is if there appeare risings behind the eares under the Arme-boles or in the groyne without any manifest cause knowne or if Carbuncles arise suddenly in any other member These when they arise shew nature is strong and able Prognostica because it thrusteth the venome from it in the beginning of the sicknesse yea many times before the body perceives it selfe sicke These Carbuncles appearing shew which of the vitals is most affected with the malady for if they appeare about the eares the braine is most annoyed because that is the purging place of the braine If the rising appeare under the Arms the malady lyeth heaviest upon the heart for that is the purging place of the heart But if it appeare in the Groyne the Liver is most infected for the Groyne is the purging place thereof But if no rising at all appeare it foreshews weaknesse of nature and is most dangerous for nature is weake and not able to expell the venome When those spots appeare that are called Tokens they shew the whole blood universally is corrupted but of these hereafter If you feele your selfe infected first upon a full stomacke Cure-Vomit take a vomit presently Also in the beginning of the disease Bleeding let him bleed on that fide that the rising appears if it appeare in the Necke bleed him in the Cephalica on that arme viz. if it be on the right bleed him in the right arm if on the left side of the the neck on the left arm If the rising appear under the arm bleed him in the Basilica of the arm on that side the Carbuncle appears But if it appeare in the Groyné breath the vein in the Ankles of the same side If none at all appear consider which parts are most greived with pains and aches and proceed in blood-letting according to the former rules Sweating also is a soveraine remedy Sweat which you may affect by some such medicines as these Mithridate Venice Treacle Matthiolus his great Antidote his Bezoar Water Serpentary roots Electuarium de Ovo Let his blood be cooled with this or the like Julep Julep and let him drinke no other drinke Take of Harts-horne and Ivory of each â„¥ ss of the flowers of Violets Bâ—rrage Buglosse Clove-gilly-flowers Rosemary and Marigolds of each ii Ê’ of the rootes of Petasitis and Zedoary of each iii. Ê’ of the rootes of Scorzonera i. â„¥ boyle them all in a pottle of water to a quart adding toward the end of the decoction of Saffron and Cochaneal of each ten graines straine it and adde to the decoction syrrup of Violets clove-gilly-clove-gilly-flowers and Melissaphylli Fernelii of each an ounce Oyle of Sulphur twelve drops let him drinke a draught of it so often as he is a dry If he be astringent Clyster keepe his body soluble with Clysters Refresh and strengthen him with Cordials Cordial such be Confectio de Hyacintho Confectio Alchermes Electuarium de ovo species Cordiales temperatae Trochisci Galliae Moschatae Magisterium perlarum Corrallorum pulvis Gasconiae Bezoar orient these or any of these consideratiâ— considerandis Provoke him to sleepe with Diascordium Sleepe if he sleepe not but have a care of Opiates in the beginning of the disease If he vomit much as some vomit up all they eate or drinke stay it with Spiritus menthae If swelling arise consider first whether it be likely to breake or not For risings that you may know if it lie deepe in the flesh and look white it is not likely to breake you must then anoynt it with oyle of Lillies or Chamomell If it rise to a head looke red and lie not deep it will breake then take a young Pigeon pull off the feathers from her taile and hold her bare fundament to the swelling and it will draw out the venome Some lay Venice Treacle to it and with good successe Venice Treacle attractive for Venice Treacle draweth the poyson to it and doth not cast it from it as some Physicians ignorantly affirme for proofe of which consider that all hot things are of an Attractive quality Treacle is hot Arg 1 therefore Actractive All purges draw the humour to them and having gotten it together nature casts it out for Rhubarbe that purgeth choler is purely Cholericke it self and therefore draws its like so Venice Treacle draws the venemous humour to it selfe and having gotten it into the tunicle of the stomack or other place farre from the Vitals nature will deale well enough with it Secondly if the Attractive faculty be hot Arg 2 and drie then must all hot and drie things be attractive But the attractive faculty is hot and drie Thirdly if the originall of all heate be attractive Arg 3 so are the Branches But the originall and roote of all heate is attractive as the Sun so then are the Branches But enough perhaps too much of this Sometimes the swelling falls downe again and blacke and that comes through cold taken and is a desperate signe for you must be very carefull of taking cold in this disease But when it is too late to prevent the remedy is presently to take a Pigeon and with a sharpe knife cut her through the breast to the back break her open and apply her yet alive to the place If this do no good apply a Cupping-glass to the place for though this remedy be desperate yet I have knowne it save a mans life When the sore is broken apply a Melilot plaister to
Teeth sound and free from paine is to keep them clear 2. To make Teeth white Dip a little piece of white cloath in Vinegar of Quinces and rub your Gums with it for it is of a gallant binding quality and not onely makes the Teeth white but also strengthens the Gums fastens the Teeth and also causeth a sweet breath 3. For the Tooth ache Boyle Wheat bran stale Ale together till it be as thick as Mustard let it stand while it is cold then strain what you can out of it and adde to what you have strained the like quantity of juyce of Rew make it into paste which paste tye up into a little bag of fine Linnen cloath lay one of them between your Cheek and your aking Tooth lye down on that side and let the water run out at your mouth this using three or foure times will not onely cure the Tooth-ache but also clense the brain 4. Another Take Hounds-tongue and stamp it and fry it with Butter and make a Plaister of it and binde it to the Cheek on that side the pain is on 5. Another Take a pint of the strongest White-wine Vinegar you can get a handfull of Sage a quarter of a handfull of roots of red Nettles and as much Oaken rind boyle all these together and wash your mouth with it 6. To make teeth fall out of themselves Take the root of a Mulberry-tree lay it in steep in strong Vinegar then take it out and dry it in the Sun beat it into powder doe but touch a tooth with that powder and it will drop out 7. For rotting of the teeth Wash thy mouth often with the water of Mother-wort the water of Vervaine will doe the like 8. For the Tooth-ache Take Ivy-berries and bruise them and when you have done so boyle them in strong White-wine Vinegar wash your mouth with the decoction and lay the Ivy-berries hot to your cheek 9. Another Roast an egge hard and when you have done put to it a spoonfull of Salt and two spoonfuls of White-wine Vinegar beat them all together to a pap very well and now and then put a little into your mouth 10. To make childrens teeth cut Take the brains of a Hare or the brains of a Hen and rub the childs Gums with them once or twice a day and it will make the Teeth cut without pain 11. Another Take the Tooth of a Colt of a yeare old and hang it about the neck of the child and this will doe it if Mizaldus say true And now give me leave to quote an experiment of my own one of my children breeding Teeth extreme hardly having read this in Mizaldus it seemed to me impossible to get a Colts tooth of a yeare old wherefore I bought a Calves head and took one of its teeth and hung about its neck and the very first night three of its Teeth cut which because its very unusuall so many Teeth should cut in one night I cannot but ascribe some virtue to the Medicine Besides all this I am of opinion that the tooth of a dead man hung about the neck of a child will doe it far better than either I am not determined to give my reasons at this time yet will I give you a verisimile for it the Tooth of a dead Man born about a man instantly suppresseth the paines of the Teeth as I have often found my selfe when all other remedies have failed me and if this be true why not the other 12 To fasten Teeth Seeth the Roots of Vervaine in old Wine and wash your Teeth often with them and it will fasten them 13. For the Tooth ache Take the inner rinde of an Elder tree and bruise it and put thereunto a little Pepper and make it into balls and hold them between the Teeth that ake CHAP. VII Of the Gums and their Infirmities 1. For a Scurvy in the Gums TAke Cloves and boyl them in Rosewater then dry them and beat them into powder and rub the Gums with the powder and drink the decoction in the morning fasting an houre after it Use Red-rose water for that is the best 2. For a Canker in the Gums Take halfe a pinte of White wine a quarter of a pinte of water an ounce of burnt Allum a handfull of Cinkfoyle roots bruised boyle all these in an Earthen pot for the sharpnesse of Allum will make vert-de-greese of a Brass vessell over a gentle fire till halfe be consumed scum it well strain it and keep it in a glasse till you have occasion to use it and when you have occasion wash your Gums with it 3. Another Take herb of Grasse or Rew which you will stamp it and presse out the juyce and mixe it with as much strong Vinegar the best way is to put the Vinegar to it after you have well beaten it and so strain them out hard both together when you have occasion to use it wet a Linnen rag four or five times doubled in the aforesaid juyce and apply it to the Gums if the Canker be very great and eating mixe a little burnt Allum with it 4. For rotting and consuming of the Gums Take Sage water and wash your mouth with it every morning and afterwards rub your mouth with a Sage leaf CHAP. VIII Of the Face and its infirmities 1. The Cause IT is palpable that the cause of rednesse and breaking out of the Face is a venomous matter or filthy vapour ascending from the Stomach towards the Head where meeting with a Rheum or Flegm thence descending mixeth with it and breaketh out in the Face Therefore let the first intention of cure be to cleanse the Stomach 2. Caution Negative Let such as are troubled with red Faces abstaine from salt Meats salt Fish and Herrings drinking of strong Beer strong Waters or Wine Garlick Onions and Mustard yea if it be a Welch Man or Woman he must abstain from toasted Cheese and Leeks and that is a Hell upon Earth to them 3. Caution Affirmative Let them use in their broths and stewed meats Purslane Sorrell Wood-Sorrell Lettice Sparagus tops and roots the tender tops of Hops Endive and Succory let them alwaies keep their bodies laxative and sleep with their heads high 4. For a red Face Take Sow-thistles Borrage Sorrell Purslane French Barley Parsly roots and Liquorish boyl them together in running water and drinke a draught of the decoction first in the morning and last at night 5. To make the Face faire Boyl Rosumary flowers in White wine and drinke a draught of the decoction every morning and wash your face with another part of it yet in my opinion it were a better way by farre to take a pound of Rosemary flours and put them into a rundlet to a Gallon of white-Wine shake them together and let them stand so a Moneth then strain it out and keep the Wine for the aforesaid use 6. Another Wash your Face with Bean floure water yet in my opinion Burnet water is the
CULPEPERS LAST LEGACY Left and bequeathed to his dearest Wife for the publicke good BEING The Choicest and most profitable of those Secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his Breast and resolved never to be publisht till after his Death CONTAINING Sundry admirable Experiences in severall Sciences more especially in Chyrurgery and Physick Viz. Compounding of Medicines Making of Waters Syrrups Oyles Electurries Conserves Salts Pils Purges and Trochischs With two particular Treatises the one of Feavers the other of Pestilence as also other rare and choice Aphorisms fitted to the understanding of the meanest Capacities Never publisht before in any of his other Works By NICHOLAS CULPEPER late Student in Astrology and Physick Printed for N. Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill 1655. Master Culpepers Wifes Accompt HAving in my Hands these my Husbands last experiences in Physick Chyrurgery c. composed out of his dayly practice which he laid a severe injunction on me to publish for the generall good after his decease therefore to stop the mouths of malicious Persons who may be apt to abuse and slander his labours and to discharge that duty and debt of gratitude due to his name from one so neerly related to him I do hereby testifie that the Copy of what is here printed is truly and really his owne and was delivered to my trust among his choicest secrets upon his death-bed and I do further approve the printing thereof and having viewed them see nothing in them but what is his own To the truth of all which I do here subscribe my hand A. Culpeper WORTHY READERS My Works have hither to been so well knowne unto you and have merited such just applause in the world though envyed by some illiterate Physitians that I am the more confident to goe on doing that good which you have received by my former Labours Viz. 1. Dispensatory 2. English Physitian 3. That incomparable peece of Semiotica Uranica enlarged 4. Catastrophe Magnatum 5. Directory for Midwifes c. This my last Peece the reserve of all the rest I had never thought to have published till now finding indisposition of body to be such as that I have no other way left to continue my owne fame and that happy gratitude which I owe to my Country but by publishing these my last Remaines which I have left to my dâ—â—rest Wâ—f◠〈◊〉 my Legacy being the choicest Secrets which I lockt up in my breast and never made knowne in any of my former Workes And now Reader to speak more fully in the praise of you be confident what thou hast here is what I have gained by my constant practice and by which I have obtained a continuall reputation in the World not doubting but you will receive that satisfaction and advantage which I was ever assured of my selfe and now if it shall please Heaven to put a Period to My Life and studies that I must bid all things under the Sun farewell farewell my dearest wife and Child farewell Arts and Sciences farewell all Worldly glories Adiu Readers Nicholas Culpeper CHAPTER I. Of HEAD-ACH in general with its several Names and Kinds Three sorts of pain in the head OF Head-aches or pains in the head simply there are three sorts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek in Latin Capitis dolor in English the Head-ach The second is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Cephalaia in English a continued or inveterate Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Hemicranium in English the Megrim The two former possesse the whole head the latter only the one halfe of it By head I meane in all this treatise onely the scalpe or so much onely of the Head as is covered with haire I question whether all internal pains in the head afflict the eyes but only such whose seat is near the optique nerves And here is pain ingendred sometimes without the scul sometimes within If it lie within the scull there is paine at the roots of the eyes by reason of the immediate influence from thence to the braine if without the scull there is no pain there The first sort of headach called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cometh of diverse causes as heat cold drinesse blood choler wind vapor from the stomack drunkennesse feavers each of which to discourse of will require a several Chapter Severall sorts of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CHAPT II. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of heat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of heat BY Heat I mean only a hot distemper without any kind of moisture or humour It is caused for the most part by the vehement heat of the Sun note that it is extream hurtfull to the braine to stand bareheaded in the Sun The cause ☞ It is also caused by immoderate running jogging or moving especially to such as are not used to it though it be most perillous to those that are used to it it is caused also by being long near the fire through anger and furiousnesse and by hot diseases and smels of hot things The Signs of headach coming by heat are besides immoderate pain Signes you shall feele their Head burning hot when you touch it their skin dryer then it was wont to be their eyes looke red they sleep little or not at all and are delighted by sprinkling or anointing their head with cold things and find ease by it other causes may be known by the relation of the Patient Cautions for the sicke Let the air and Chamber where the sick abideth be cold by nature or else you must make it so by art as by keeping it continually washed by strewing there flowers and herbs and branches of trees that are of a cold nature Aire as Roses Violets Water-lillies Vine-leaves Bryer-boughs Willow boughs Endive Succory or the like also to poure water out of one Vessell into another near him to let him smell to Nose-gayes of cold flowers Great heed must be taken that the Patient sleep well Sleepe yea more than he usually was wont to do if he sleep not well as most labouring of this disease do not provoke him to sleepe with Diascordium if that will not doe use Laudanum two grains if that will not doe use three grains encreasing it till it come to six if he sleep not sooner let his Chamber be quiet free from noise and wrangling for that causeth perturbation of mind Let his meat be but little Meat and let that little be of good digestion as chickens birds that delight in Mountains and dry places rabbets c. let it be dressed with cold herbs as lettice endive purslain and verjuyce also Almond-milke Pomgranates Raisons of the Sun Drinke I doubt water is not so good in cold countries I think a cool julip were better and ripe Pears are wholsome for him but
let him avoid Milk and all other meats of a dilative quality for they send vapors into the head and are hurtfull for him Let his drink be water in which a little Cinnamon hath been boyled or in which syrrope of the juyce of Succory or the juyce of Pomgranates or Lemons is put Let him eschew carnal copulation exercises and baths all perturbations of the mind especially anger Directions negative Affirmative Perfumes Vnction If ♂ cause the disease you had better use vervain gathered in the houre of ♀ take this as a generall rule all things that are binding all things that cause stupefaction as crude opium Mandrakes Henbane Poppeys Nightshade those things that bind much though they coole must also be avoyded as juyce of Quinces Medlers c. Let the sick smell to rose water mixed with vineger and often snuffe some of it up into his nose Let also his forehead temples and that part of his head where the paine lies most be anoynted with oyle of fleabane Let the fleabane be gathered in the houre of Mars he being if it be possible in Aries in a good aspect to the Moone So will the infirmity be the easier and more speedily cured Have a speciall care that the Patient go to stoole in good order at the least twice a day Stoole if he do not provoke him first with a Clister then with an ownce of lenitive Electuary every night when he goes to bed for the people most incident to this Infirmity are such as are of a Cholerique constitution though the trouble of this disease be no absolute signe of a Cholericke-man which complexion most commonly causeth astringency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of cold CHAP. III. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of Cold. BY cold I meane simply cold without any Flux of cold humours ☞ for that causeth Lethargies but onely a cold distemper The cause This paine in the head is caused of outward cold as by tarrying long bareheaded in a cold aire also by suddain applying of any wet and cold or very cold thing to the head The signes of this are contrary to the signes of the other that came of a hot distemper for in this though the paine indeed be vehement yet the head when it is felt is not hot their face and eyes do not look red neither are they hollow nor shrunke but on the contrary their face looketh full and pale and their eyes are full and swarthy also they desire not cold things nor find ease but paine by them Cautions Let them sleepe moderately but no more then usually they use to do Sleepe They must remaine in a warme aire if it be cold remedy it with a good fire Aire Let them forbeare all meates cold in operation Meats all fish water-fowles and milke Let them eat rear eggs hennes chickens partridge and phesants For drinke let them use Wine moderately Drinke and generally for the cure thereof you must use things that are hot in operation but in the cure as well of this as other diseases in the head you must diligently consider the natural temperature of the braine ☜ for it is such a thing as cannot endure either violent heat or violent cold Directions Negative Let not their bodies be costive but let them have every day a stool if not by nature give suppositories Let them avoide sadnesse deepe speculations and thoughts studying and other immoderate affections of the mind Let them use moving of their body Affirmative walking and if strength suffer riding Oyle of Vervaine is medicinall for the disease Motion let it be gathered in the day and houre of Venus she ascending fortunately Also Rew Laurell Unction If ♀ cause the discase use Fleabane an herb of ♂ Orris Dill Chamomel Mother of time Marjoram are Medicinal for the disease For the Oyle anoint the fore-head temples nostrills and holes behind the eares Also to boyle any of these hearbs especially vervaine gathered as beforesaid in water Nasalia and snuffe up the decoction in your nose Also quilt these leaves betweene two caps Cucufa and let the patient weare it upon his head The innermost cap being made of fine silke or Sarsnet Take Laurell Mother of time Marjoram Rosemary flowers of each a handfull Rew halfe so much Penny royall Calaminth two drams Cloves Staechas one-dram beat these into grosse ponder and sew them up in the Cucufa or double cappe before mentioned and having first sprinkled the head with Vineger warme it and apply it Also it is very good for the sick to smell to such a Pomander as this Pomander Take of Storax Calamitis two drams Cloves Mace wood of Aloes of each halfe a Dram Lavender two Drams Gallia mofchata a Dram Muske Amber greece of each two graines beate them into fine pouder searce them and with mussilage made with Gum Tragacanth and Marjoram water make it up into a Pomander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of driness or moysture CHAP. IV. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of drinesse or moysture BY drinesse here ☞ and moysture also is meant only the baire quality for although of these alone without heate or cold no paine come yet hereby the studious in Physicke may learne and discerne when the Head-ach commeth of heate and driness when of heate and moisture when of cold and drinesse when of cold and moisture The cause Head-ach through drinesse is caused through drinesse of the aire through hunger much watching extreame studying by dry medicines over much exercise excessive use of venery and violent perturbations of the mind Head-ach of moisture is caused through moisture of the aire The fimptomes moist medicines bathes hot waters and other things that moisten over much Drinesse is knowne by these signes there come few or no excrements out of the nose the eyes be hollow the patient cannot sleepe neither before nor in the sicknesse also the skin of the head is dry as though it were scorched dry medicines do not ease the paine but increase it Moistnesse is knowne by the same that lethargies are of which hereafter Those in whome drinesse doth trouble the head let them remaine in a moist aire let them eate meates of good juyce and a moistning nature Diet. as yolks of egges cocks stones and the broth of them phesants partriches and such meates as moisten and nourish much let them drinke wine alwayes with water let them sleepe largely provoke them to it as in the second chapter let them eschew motion of the body and exercise and use quietness and rest let them eschew carnal copulation hunger and thirst and all things that do dry let them use baths of sweet waters that are warme let them be merry and pleasant and avoyd all perturbations of mind For paine comming of moisture See Lethargyes Let such as have head-ach of drinesse use to anoint the
either totally or partially But note here that the palsey that followeth the Apoplexie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is properly and particularly called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the palsey sometimes sesne only is lost and not moving sometimes moving and not sense and sometimes both sense and moving yet the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly loss of motion A word to satisfie the curious Quest that may aske why sometimes sense only and sometimes motion only should be lost You must note that the faculty of motion Answ as well as that of sense flowes from the brain as from the fountaine and is derived from thence by the nerves to the instruments of sense and motion and so either sense or motion is lost according as the sinews that convey sense or motion are affected in the disease therefore it being considered that divers members participate in two kinds of sinews the one for sense the other for motion I doe not yet understand this the doubt is easily cleered One sinew may be hurt and motion is lost the other may be hurt and that fare then sense is lost and motion remains both are hurt and then farewell pro tempore sense and motion If members participate but of one sinew as few do perhaps none yet Gallen saith some do and at present I cannot contradict him I rather adhear to this judgment lesse vertue is required for feeling then for motion saith he and so if the sinew be much hurt sense and motion are both lost if it be but little hurt onely motion is lost The matter indeed is scarce worth disputing for or writing of and therefore I proceed The Original of this disease lies sometimes in the Brain Description and sometimes in the marrow of the backe If the disease lie in the back as but seldome it doth then is the face firme and then sometimes halfe sometimes the whole body is paralitick according as the halfe or whole marrow of the backe is vitiated If it come from the Brain it lies only in some particular Pellicles thereof for if the whole Brain be vitiated it is an Apoplexy These things being first duly considered we come to the cause It is caused through vehement and inordinate cold Cause or through grosse and clammy Humours that stop the passages that the animal vertue cannot passe freely from the Centre to the Circumference If it come from the back it is caused through Inflamation or hard swelling without sense called Schirrus hapning at the backe bone or nigh to it or other siinewy part dependant thereon whereby the sinews are pressed together and so stopped that the animal vertue cannot passe It may happen by ablow or wound The Disease is so apparent that it needs no Signs The Palsey is no acute oâ— sharpe Disease Prognostica and for the most part is curable ☞ It chanceth for the most part to ancient people and beginneth commonly in the Winter time If the Palsey come by a cut or wound it is incurable and very difficult if the Paralitique members wane or wan lesse and lesse for then it sheweth the parts to want spirit naturall as well as animal Let his Diet be extenuating and drying Diet. let his Meat be easie of digestion and roasted viz. Birds that frequent dry grounds Almonds Raisons of the Sun Pine Nuts For Pot-herbs Herbs let him use Fennel Pursley Hisop Marjoram Sage and Savory Let him eschew Water-fowl Caution Fish and all other meats that are cold and moist and flegmaticke Let the Aire he abides in be hot and dry Aire if not make it so by Art Let him drinke no Wine but Hippocras Drink and let him use Cinnamon in all his drink or broth It is good for him to indure as much thirst as he can Let his sleeps be but mean Slâ—epe and let him not sleep at all in the day Let him use as much exercise as well he can Exercise Let him be merry and cheerfull Mirth and fly anger vexation and other perturbations of the mind If there be signes of Plenitude Bleeding you may draw out blood moderately for feare of over-cooling of the sound side else forbear If he have not a Stool once a day Clisters provoke him with a Clister Acetum Scilliticum Cure or Vinegar of Squils taken two spoonfuls every morning fasting is a soveraign medicine So is also Castoreum Sneezing If it lie in the Brain sneezing is good which you may provoke with white Hellebore but let it be in the Evening the party in bed and their head wrapped warm for fear of after-claps Unction Also use Unctions to the nape of the necke for their the marrow of the hacke hath its passage to the Brain use first weak ones such as Oyle Chamomel More properly the Brain hath its passage to the spinalis medulla Bath Dill St Johns Wort or Earthworms Then after some dayes such as are stronger as Oyle of Bricks or Tile-stones Castoreum and Euphorbium Wherewith you may anoint all the paralitique members wrapping them up hot afterwards in a Fox skin Also you may make a Bath with St Johns Wort Rosemary Staechas Sage Marjoram and Camomel boyled in Water wherewith you may bath the paralique members before you anoint them Ceratum Also this Cerecloth is excellent to apply to the paralitique members Take of Oyle ii â„¥ Oyle of Pepper i. â„¥ ss Oyle of Euphorbium ii Ê’ Aqua vitae ii â„¥ ss juyce of sage Marjoram or cowslops of each ii â„¥ ss Galanga iii. Ê’ Pellitory of the wall and pepper of each a dram Staechas and Rosemary of each ii Ê’ EuphorbiumÊ’ ss boyle it till the Aqua vitae be consumed then strain it and put wax enough to it to make a Cerecloth Also you may make a quilt for his head with Hysop Cucufa Marjoram St Johns Wort Sage Rew Bay-leaves of each ii Ê’ Spikenard Mastich Castoreum and Staechas of each ii ℈ Cloves Mace Nutmegs of each i. ℈ red-rose-leaves well dryed halfe a handfull make of them a quilt as you are taught Chapter 3. Use these medicines to the head if the disease lie there to the nape of the necke and the back bone if the disease lie there CHAP. XX. Of the Palsey in one Member ALthough any expert man may draw out of what hath beene written before the cure of the resolution of any member the radix being the same yet to satisfie the unskilfull I thought good to write a line or two If any member be paralitique search from what root the sinews come that supply that member and mend it there at the root with the former medicines There is also a kind of Palsey called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Tortura oris in English wrinesse of the mouth this you may cure also by the aforesaid medicines
regard the Patients strength his naturall temper the time of the yeare age and usuall custome of the sicke and accordingly order your Physick If the natural temper of the body be cholericke you must feed them with meat at the beginning of the fit â—â—â—tioâ— for it is very subject if the body be kept fasting to turn to an acute rotten Feaver See the body be kept laxative Stoole if he go not naturally to stoole provoke him with an emollient Clister Finally Bath so soon as the fit begins to wane bath him in a warm bath made with sweet hearbs boyled in water for that will open the pores and let out the vapours CHAP. IIII. Of Synochus non pistrida being a Feaver which lasteth three or four dayes THis Feaver is caused 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quid either because the small pores of the skin are stopped Cause or because the body it selfe is moderately thickned through cold or after bathing or by sharpe binding medicines heat of the Sun or any other thing that dries the skin It may be thus knowne First by touching Signs for the skin is harder and more compact then it was wont to be Secondly by the heat which at first seemes gentle and easie but after you have held your a hand while you shall feel it sharper Thirdly the Unine is not much altered from its naturall substance and colour for this disease lies in the spirits not in the blood Fourthly the body fals not away but their eyes are swollen and fuller of moisture then usually Fifthly the pulse is equall swift vehement and frequent Cure Bleeding For cure of this disease you may safely draw out so much blood as age strength and the season of the year permit After bleeding use things that clense and scowr Abstergents such are Oximel Hysop Origanum Smallage and observe whether the heat abate by this diet ☜ For if by the third day you find little heat left Bath you may safely bath him with such things as are scouring such be Orris and Aristolochia roots Smallage salt-peeter boyled in water and honey But if the Feaver then increase or on the fourth day then either you were mistaken at first in the disease or else the Feaver is altered and some humour putrified CHAP. V. Of a rotten Feaver called Synochus putrida Synochus putrida quid SYnochus putrida is a Feaver which holds from the beginning to the ending without any great mutation or sensible change and may well be called a constant or stable Feaver Of this are three sorts I described them in the second Chapter This Feaver is caused by the rotting of all the humours equally within the Vessels Cause and especially in the great Vessels about the arm-holes and share and this chanceth when fervent heat is kept in by violent binding and stopping which is within the body for when heat and moist things cannot breath out they putrifie and rot presently Therefore this feaver is seldome ingendred in thin spare folke nor in cold bodies nor old age but in such as abound in blood of grosse fat or fleshy bodies or stuffed with hot excrements This is properly known from Synochus non putrida Signes because there are signes of rottennesse in the Urine and the pulse of a man sicke of this but not so in the former The other signes all agree with the former The Cure of this feaver ‑ must begin with blood-letting Cure Bleeding and that in the beginning of the disease if you can Cold drinke is most perilous in this disease Caution first because it causeth obstructions and hindreth the attenuation of the clammy humours Secondly cold drinkes hurt weake members some by drinking cold drinke in this feaver have gotten such sore throats that they could not swallow in some the Stomacke is hurt that they could not digest in some the Bladder generally that part that is weakest is most subject to hurt and being hurt cannot performe its proper office But blood-letting you may use at any time if strength permit provided it be not upon a full stomacke Such as have this feaver have alwayes loosnesse and sometimes vomit up Choler Let his drinke be barly water Diake sweetned with syrrup of Violets and a little Oyle of Vitrioll to make it tart Let his diet be light of digestion Meat and let him eat it at his usuall times of eating for then it will digest best Also Oranges Lemmons Oxymel and Verjuyce are medicinall for him CHAP. VI. Of continual Feavers called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke is a continuall feaver that hath some certaine slacking betweene the fits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet no absolute intermission till the end of it and by this only it is knowne from Agues or intermitting feavers therefore I shall omit the signes till then Cause This feaver is caused by rotting of one particular humour only within the Vessels I shewed it in the first and second Chapters I remit you to that I shall only treat of that which is called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by it selfe in the next Chapter for that is the most dangerous and wind up the rest together in this A Compendium of the cure of Feavers In the generall cure of feavers of this sort these things must be considered First the Feaver Secondly the rottennesse In the Feaver In the feaver two things must also be considered First How that part which is already kindled and inflamed may be remedied 2 How that which is not kindled may be letted and hindred from inflammation Also two things must be considered touching the rottennesse or putrification In the rottennesse First how the humours already putrified may be healed Secondly how those that are not putrified may be kept from putrefaction Heac qui non animadvertit errabit nimis In the begining of the feaver if strength and age permit Bleeding let blood for that lets out the inflamed blood and cooles the rest Obstructions The body thus cooled you must cure the obstructions and that without heating the Patient lest you increase the feaver and cause more putrefaction This is best done by Clysters Clysters and sweates for Clysters take only the common decoction with Molossus Sweats and Diacatholicon For sweates you may use either Venire treacle Matthiolus his great antidote Serpentary roots Electuarium de ovo Consideratis considerandis To stop and hinder the humours not inflamed from inflaming use cooling juleps made with barly water Harts-horne Ivory Scorzonera roots Zedoary c. Syrupe of Violets c. To prevent putrefaction avoyd all meats I mean flesh and all broths of flesh To bring away humours already putrified boyle a white Lilly roote in White-wine and let him drinke it For outward medicines Vine branches Water Lillies Lecalia Endive Succory Wood-sorrel Sorrel Lettuce Knot-grasse Vinegar these
put into the eye breaks the web there though it be never so strong or of so long continuance 8. The Milke of a Womans breast is excellent for the foregoing infirmity of the eyes only with this Proviso if the party afflicted be a Male let it be the milke of a Woman that bare a Male if a Female the contrary 9. When People have gotten an inflammation in any wound the vulgar say they have gotten the Ague in it as 't is familiar when Womens breasts are inflamed to say they have the Ague in their breasts a speedy way and as cheap as speedy that I may not keepe such a quarter about the name as the Colledge of Physitians did about the Rickers is to take malt flower and make it into the forme of a Caraplasme or Pultis with Vertjuyce and apply it be the place in Arm Leg or Breast or elswhere either with wound or without 10. Hollyhock leaves boyled to a Pultis in milke works the same effect in the same causes 11. A most admirable remedy if not the best of remedies for a Consumption is to goe into the Country in Plowing-time and follow the Plow that so the smell of the earth being newly broke up may be taken in at the nose if this may not be by reason of the season of the year or poverty of the Patient then let it suffice to go out into the field every morning and dig up a fresh turse and smell to it an hour or two together 12. Take five white pease and chew them very well then swallow them downe then hold thy breath as long as thou canst thou shalt find it an excellent remedy against the heart-burning 13. For a Rupture this doe give the Patient two or three spoonfuls of the juyce of comfry every morning I know no reason but that the curious may make it into a syrupe then apply the bruised hearb mixed with its equall quantity of Dazies to the place and let him keepe his bed nine dayes by which time he will be well 14. Take a Jay pull off her feathers and pull out her guts then fill her belly full of Cumminseeds then dry her in an Oven till she be converted into Mummy a dram of her being beaten into powder seeds and all is an excellent remedy for the Falling-sicknesse being taken in any convenient liquor every morning put in Piony water 15. Rew bruised and worne under the fect next the skin is an excellent remedy for a quartan Ague 16. If deafnesse come of stopping in the passages of the eares as usually it doth no better remedy in the World then to inject white Wine into the ear being first a little warmed for the ears abhor cold and if you mix a little spirit of Castoreum with it t will be so much the better 17. The powder of burnt Harts-horn let it be well burnt viz. till it be white and rub your teeth well with it and it will keepe them exceeding white and safe from rotting 18. To eat the liver of a mad dog being first dryed and beaten into powder a dram at a time is sufficient is an excellent yea the best of remedies for the biting of a mad dog 19. If an Earwig be gotten into a mans ear you will say it will kill him but presently or so soon as you can conveniently get a mellow sweet apple and having cut a hole in it lay the hole so cut to the eare then lie down on that side and the Earwig will come out to the apple 20. The leaves of Agrimony bruised and boyled in hony and the head that is open moulded plaistered with it helps the disease 21. The juyce of Rue mixed with vineger and the head washed therewith remedies all superficial evils of the head and strengthens it to boot 22. A draught of the same drunk going to bed helpeth such as speak in their sleepes 23. Rew stamped with hony and salt helpes swellings in the knees 24. For broken bones in the head make an oyntment with Agrimony Betony and Hogs-grease with which anoynt the sore and tent it if need be also let the patient drink the juyce of Betony and Agrimony or a very strong decoction of them a quarter of a pint every morning 25. Take an Owl pull off her feathers and pull out her guts salt her well for a week then put her into a pot and stop it close and put her into an oven that so she may be brought into Mummy which being beate into pouder and mixed with Boares grease is an excellent remedy for the Gout anoyncing the grieved place by the fire I fancy this receit much it standing to good reason that a bird of ☽ should help a disease of ♄ and therefore define a dram of the pouder may be taken inwardly every morning 26. Also take notice that the foregoing way is the best way to convert any thing into Mummy and so the Jay before mentioned is to be used 27. If a man be feaverish and cannot sweat for sweating usually helpes such take brook lime and stamp it and having added a little vineger to it apply it to the soles of his feet and it will quickly rout the feaver and withall provoke sweat 28. For any ach or swelling in the knees bruise Rue and lovage and having boyled them a little in a little honey apply them warme to the griefe 29. The inner rind of Elder or dwarf-elder which is held to be better boyled in like manner in bores grease takes away paines in the feet and thighes I know no reason neither indeed do I beleeve there is any why the former should not take away paines in legs as well as in the knees both of them being under the houses of ♄ viz. ♑ and ♒ 30. If any sweat too much bruise lettice and linseed together and apply them to his stomack 31. Make a strong decoction of Centaury in stale ale then having strained it wel boyle it with two third parts of honey viz. imagine there be a pound of your decoction then take two pound of honey boyl it into a syrup a spoonful of this taken in the morning helps the yellow Jaundice strengthens the heart helps digestion and provokes Appetite 32. A pultis made with linseed and chick-weed bruised and boyled in water a little sheeeps suet being added at the latter end is excellent good for one that hath met with a woman a little two hot for his turn I mean to apply it to his members 33. Make vineger of vervain as you make vineger of Roses only make it of the leaves not of the flowers of vervain and this helps the head-ach the head being bathed with it this recepts I fancy much 34. A most excellent remedy for an imposthume in the head is to apply warm to it a red rose Cake moistned a little either with womans breast milk or else with red rose vineger 35. Also a handfull of Betony leaves and halfe an ounce of Cummim seeds