which must be separated from its Faeces 3 grains a day may be given for a Dose in Speedwell Water Kircheruâ— 10. This is proved by certain Experience if any one have swallowed Leeches or eaten Mushromes or any poysonous thing let him immediately drink warm Vinegar with a little Salt Kunrad and he will presently be cured by Vomiting 11. Against Opium Let Mustard and Castor be taken in equal quantities and put into the Nose Mercurialis to cause Sneezing 12. Treacle with â—xymel Simpl. or Scylliticum satisfies all Indications for none that ever took this after eating Mushromes died of them Panarolus but all through GOD's Blessing recovered 13. A Decoction of Linseed corrects all Erosions of the Stomach caused by taking Cantharides Platerus and it is reckoned their Antipharmack 14. Against Quicklime the Gall of a Roebuck from 1 scruple to 1 drachm taken in warm Water is an Antidote as also a scruple of Deer's Gall given the same way ¶ Against Gypsum 1 drachm of Mice dung in Wine ¶ Against Aqua fortis Mucilage of Quince seed Marsh-mallow and Gum Tragacanth drawn with Rose water and mixt with Honey of Roses and of Violets ¶ Against Antimony besides Treacle bole Armenick and Oyl of Cloves ¶ Against Arsenick Fossile Crystall powdered 1 scruple taken in Oyl of sweet Almonds also Oyl of Pine-nuts 3 drachms given in drink also juice of Mint 2 drachms ¶ Against Minium burnt Ivory 2 drachms in Wine also Treacle and Mithridate ¶ Against crude Mercury filings or leaves of Gold also juice of Burnet and Wine ¶ Against its Fume a draught of Wine wherein Rosemary Staechas Arabica and lesser Centaury have been boyled as also a draught of Sage and Zeodary water ¶ Against sublimate and precipitate fine powder of Crystal 1 drachm with Oyl of sweet Almonds also 2 drachms of Oyl of Tartar or salt of Wormwood ¶ Against Cinnabar burnt Ivory 2 drachms given in Wine ¶ Against Mushromes Hen's dung or ashes of Vine-branches with a little Nitre drunk with Honey and Water warm Sowre Pears are commended whether green or dry and if they be eaten before Mushromes or boyled with them they render the Mushromes harmless Treacle also is good But let a Man especially use Honey in his Meat which is a peculiar and proper Antidote against Mushromes ¶ Against Napellus Take of the Flies of Napellus they are blew Flies which sit and live upon no other Plant of the like Nature with this N o. 20 Birthwort Bole Armenick each 1 drachm Make a Powder ¶ Against Wolf's bane Opchalsamum 1 drachm ¶ Against Henbane Pistachio-nuts eaten and drunk ¶ Against green Coriander roots of Swallow-wort in Wine ¶ Against Euphorbium Citron seed in Wine wherein Elecampane root has been boyled also terra sigillata Emerauld prepared Crystall c. ¶ Against white Hellebore powder of the Flowers or roots of white Water Lily or Parsnep seed 2 drachms taken in Wine also Treacle ¶ Against the bite of a Viper Bezoar from half a scruple to 1 drachm boyled in Wormwood Wine and given Also Garlick Leeks Onyons Rue Treacle Mithridate Antidotus Matthioli which some highly commend the Dose is 3 drachms in some Cordial water ¶ Against a Scorpion besides the live Scorpion taken and bruised and applied to the Wound and Oyl of Scorpions the Milk of a Fig-tree dropt into the Wound is good ¶ Against the biting of a Leech Agrimony bruised and applied ¶ Against a Spider the Catkins of the Walnut-tree dried in an Oven from 1 drachm to 2 given in Hydromel or white Wine also Treacle and Bole Armenick taken in Vinegar also the dry Reâ—â— of the Fir-tree Against Cantharides Penny-royal taken either in Substance or in Decoction also Terra Lemnia 2 drachms or Winter Cherries N o. 10 with Wine ¶ Against the Venome of Flies Bees and Wasps the Animals themselves bruised and applied to the Part also live Sulphur mixt with Man's spittle Rue or the Milk of the Fig-tree applied to the Place And if there be need Coriander may be given inwardly with Sugar ¶ Against the Brain and Blood of a Cat half a scruple of Musk taken frequently ¶ Against Milk curdled on the Stomach Vinegar simple or of Squills also the juice of Mint new drawn also Milk of the Fig-tree given with Wine and Vinegar also the Runnet of any Animal ¶ Against the poysonous Sweat of any creature Take Bole Armenick Terra Sigillata Bay-berries each 1 drachm the Runnet of a Roe-buck or instead of it of an Hare half a drachm Myrrh leaves of Rue each half a drachm with clarified Honey make an Electuary Senâ—ertus Take 2 drachms every day 15. All things premised that ought it is the best way to drive out the Poyson to the Skin to which purpose this is a most excellent Water Take of Aqua theriacalis camphorata 1 drachm and an half Liquor of Tartar corrected Spirit of Vitriol each half a drachm the oyly Liquor of red Corall 1 drachm Oyl of Turpentine 5 drops of Juniper 4 drops Essence of Celandine half a drachm Water of the root of Colts foot Eryngo each 1 ounce of Elder flowers Wall Gilliflowers each half an ounce red sweet Wine 2 ounces and an half Vid. Vidius Mix them Destill them in Balneo Keep it for use Ventriculi affectus or Diseases of the Stomach See Stomachicks Book XIX The Contents Whether Topicks must be applied for the strengthning of it I. What such the things that are applied to the Back should be II. Plaisters should not be long kept on III. What dry Things are applied must not be cold or astringent IV. An Instrument to scour a foul Stomach V. It admits of an Incision VI. When the Stomach is ill the Diet must be thin VII The Cure of an unaequall Intemperature VIII In a hot Intemperature we must take care of the Liver IX A Vomit is most convenient for an Intemperature with an Humor X. The Efficacy of Hiera in cold Diseases with Phlegm XI Strong Purges are hurtful XII We must use Heaters with caution XIII When Wormwood Wine may be given XIV How far we may heat the Stomach XV. Things with Vinegar in them are not proper in every Crudity XVI A Caution about digesting Powders XVII Strengthning Powders do harm upon account of the Sugar XVIII The use of Pepper is strengthning the Stomach XIX When the drinking of hot or cold Water is good XX. Spirit of Vitriol is hurtful XXI Whether Spirit of Vitriol of Venus be proper XXII All strong destilled Things are hurtfull XXIII Destilled Aquae vitae help not Concoction XXIV Strong smelling Things must not be added to digestive Powders XXV Things that heat the Stomach if the Liver be hot must be taken after Meat XXVI Wormwood worn under the Soles of the feet cures a cold Stomach XXVII Over hot things applied do hurt XXVIII Wine rather hinders Concoction than helps it XIX An austere Wine in a dry Intemperature
Fevers for which Wine is not at all ill especially for those which have their seat in the Stomach if so be such Wine be given as disturbs not the Head though in a pretty quantity it sometimes effects a cure according to Primrose l. 3. de vulg err in Med. cap. 18. The same person adds The propriety of a man has great power in the cure of all Diseases and there are some so very much addicted to Wine that even in the extremest Sicknesses they cannot abstain from it Add to these Canonherius of the admirable vertues of Wine who Lib. 1. cap. 3. § 18. writes thus We may use Wine in Fevers and as Aliment and § 25. Wine procures Sweat and by it not a little of the serous matter is carried fourth by Vrine Let the Reader compare with these Costaeus in Tract de Potu in morbis lib. 2. Hippolyt Obicius Hipp. Antonellus in apparatu Animadv upon the same XIV Hippocrates greatly disallows of Water for ordinary Drink and as much commends it as a Medicine namely when drunk in a large quantity Now he says it hurts in ordinary drink because it is thick passes not through the Hypochondres and in cholerick Persons easily turns into choler for being conquer'd by the febrile heat it easily Putrefies otherwise because it is cold and moist it is wholly contrary to the Fever and therefore is good for it In those therefore who are used to drink Water I see no reason why it may not be granted but it will be better if it be corrected with the mixture of other things yea it may be boiled to make it the thinner Some will have it distilled and then to be temper'd with the mixture of cooling and opening Syrups some would have Bread so soaked in it that it may a little imbibe the vertue of the Ferment Primiros de febr p. 146. others would have Cinamon infused in it c. XV. Beer although it be small yet it always has some faculty to heat and make drunk although that vertue be less and weaker in small than in strong whence it is not so good for those that are in acute Fevers and whose Head achs because it inflames and causes thirst if it be drunk plentifully as Febricitant Persons use to drink that are very dry You will object that Beer is only Barley-water nor does it acquire any quality that is adverse to a Fever from the addition of Hops seeing Hops are usually prescribed to depurate the Blood But Experience teacheth that there is a great difference betwixt Barley-water and Beer seeing the Water cools and drink as much as you will it never inflames nor disturbs the Brain nor causes thirst which cannot be said of Beer even though it be small And the difference depends upon this that Beer is not made of simple Barley but of Mault which is Barley steep'd and dried and dry Hops are added which heat sufficiently then it is fermented whence it acquires an hot quality which is not in Barley-water nor Ptisan and therefore it seemeth to me not so good Yet its use is better to be born with than that of Wine because it is less hot and is Diuretick Add that a Spirit is drawn even from small Beer Idem XVI In giving Drink to People in acute Fevers 't is fitting to use a measure lest on the one hand by too much moisture which is improper for Febricitant persons there spring either a greater crudity or a fouler and longer Putrefaction or on the other side by too much driness the accidents be increased and the Body consume Yet this one thing is worth noting that Drink being mixed with Meat is easilier concocted doth sooner refresh and doth less burthen weak Nature whence it comes to pass that on the first day of an acute Fever we may forbid all moisture unless the Patient be so weak that on that account Food is necessary but on the last days when driness and burning are urgent we must give Drink more freely Merc. lib. Praeâ—d 1. c. 2. especially if there shall be manifest concoction XVII Drinking in the Fit of an Ague is very hurtful for hereby just like as when Water is thrown upon a red hot Brick Valaeus m. â— p. 1â—0 there is caused such an ebullition of Humours as that both the Disease and the Symptom thirst are increased ¶ And yet we ought not pertinaciously as some do adhering to the indication from the cause neglect the intemperature for it is better sometimes to let the Disease be prolonged Valles 1. 2â— p. 41. than that a man should be presently burnt up ¶ I have found by Experience that hereby there have often sprung continual and mortal Fevers of intermittent ones and such as have been void of danger Heurn Aph. 62. 7. XVIII In continual burning Fevers the effect is commonly more urgent than the cause the Symptom than the Disease when therefore burning and troublesom thirst are grievous to the Patients in those Diseases it seems reasonable to give them their Drink cold and in that plenty that it may temper the boiling Humours and extinguish the fervour of the Spirits To this Hippocrates has regard whilst in many places he commends cold Drink thus l. de vict ac both in the Causus or burning Fever and Quinsey he gives cold Water In lib. 4. Epid. he says that in acute Fevers 't is profitable to give cold Water In 2. de morb On the second day after the beginning of the Fever you shall give him as much cold Water as he 'l drink again 3. de morb he prescribes cold water even that hath been exposed to the open air But l. de Loc. he says For Drink you shall give warm water and water and Honey and Vinegar with water for if the drink be not received in cold being and remaining warm it will detract from the sick Body or either will eject by Vrine or will dry There namely he is more intent upon the cause of the Disease For drink is given in Fevers upon a double account either that it may be a vehicle for the food and quench thirst which is taken with the food it self and this should be cold or for the alteration or exclusion of the Humours and here warm drink is commended as also if the Body have not been accustomed to cold or if the Stomach be cold XIX Give cooling potions to drink in burning Fevers when you will says Hippocrates 3. de morb v. 69. Note that Hippocr said not when the Patient will but when you the Physician will that is according to the regulated will of the Physician and not the perverse will of the Patient Now these potions are of different operations for some cause pissing others going to stool some both some neither some cool only like as when one pours cold Water into a Vessel of boiling Water or exposes the Vessel it self full of Water to the open air Therefore you shall give
even Turpentine it self than which there is not a better Medicine against the Stone and difficulties of Urine even those which the filthy Pox causeth sometimes does encrease nephritick pains But this Pease Pottage doth preserve others from nephritick symptomes and those especially who have not a slimy viscid and tough mucus turned into Stone in the Kidneys or those from whom it forces gravel or little stones S. Pauli Quadripart Botan p. 435. the Kidneys not being Ulcerous And thus not onely both these sorts of people but all in general may be secure from the flatulency of the Pease XXVI Trallianus approves of Myrtle to evacuate the Stone Yet it may be questioned what way we may safely use this Adstringent Medicine to expell the Stone It consists of contrary faculties for it does not onely bind but hath also something of Acrimony in it by reason of its tenuious and hot parts This is the reason why Diascorides saith that Myrtle provokes Urine In the mean time we must note that Astringents are used against the Stone and difficulty of Urine both joyn'd with diureticks that these may the longer be detained in the Kidneys and sometime by themselves alone Capivaccius that strength may be added to the weak Kidneys ¶ I have heard from great Practitioners that most men suffer this torture for their flaccid reins hereupon Astringents came in use Hofmannus 2. de medic offic p. 310. as Syrup of Lemons with Water of the herb Horsetail c. ¶ Seeing none but hot Kidneys breed the Stone and that they are much weakned by strong Diureticks it is no wonder if by the use of the Brier Sponge Idem ibid. p. 74. called Bedegar the Reins be strengthened and thereby more fit to expell the Stone ¶ If in the cure of the Stone we could well distinguish Medicines we should have fewer troubled with it For they that perpetually use Diureticks properly so called especially the first ways not cleansed when they have thus brought the calculous matter to the Part affected they make that which is ill worse How much better do they that once every quarter in the year do scowre the first ways as they call them and then they take Almond-Milk for several days And for the Cure S. Pauli Quâ—drip Botamci Class 2. voce Cynosbatos before all things they purge gently afterwards they use Diureticks improperly so called that is cold ones which restore the tone to the Kidneys as Syrup of Lemons Chamaemil c. with the Water of Sloe-flowers Strawbery Violet Mallow common and Marsh Horsetail Toadflax Plantain c. some of which are astringent and not diuretick others are diuretick onely for their watry substance XXVII Where we must note that cooling Cataplasms and Inunctions should be applied to the Liver before the Kidneys when the heat of the Kidneys proceeds from it or when some strange Salt Fâ—id Hofmannus m. m. l. 1. c. 12. bred by the digestion of the Liver hath crept by means of the bloud into the Kidneys then this being inclosed and because not vital troublesome to the Archaeus in process of time grows hot hence proceeds this heat of the Kidneys XXVIII Empiricks are in an errour that cool miserable nephritick old men who are deprived of heat giving them Spaw-waters and Whey because they believe excess of Heat must necessarily concur to the production of the Stone and they urge that heat must necessarily be a mean to dissolve the thin parts and leave the gross But a moderate heat is able in process of time to harden and condense the clammy matter that is settled as is evident from Galen 6. Epid. 3.15 Sanctoriuâ— meth vnerr l. 3. c. 7. Heat saith he if it be but moderate is sufficient to harden this matter seeing in warm Waters that spring of themselves though but a little warmer than ordinary tophi are seen to grow So Stones grow in the bladder which is far colder than the Kidneys both by reason of its nervous substance and of the Cavity into which after making of water the air gets lest there should be a Vacuum XXIX Outward Coolers applied to the Kidneys in fat and fleshy Bodies are of no use because their virtue cannot reach the part affected Forâ—iâ— and by onely condensing the outer parts they are apt to encrease the heat inwardly XXX There are some that prescribe a Bath of sweet Water which I have ever suspected as too much loosening Instead whereof the Reins should be anointed with Vnguent Rosac Mesues Idem consulâ— 98. cent 3. and Infrigidans Galeni and Water-Lily-leaves applied to them XXXI In meat and drink seeing thence the matter of Gravel and Stone takes its beginning that we may prevent breeding of it Moderation must be used and the food we eat must be of good juice but we should especially accustome our selves to temperate Meats and therefore we must seldom and sparingly use salt-meats for it is a principal Rule in the Cure to abstain altogether from very salt things as also from the earthy and dry since from such the matter of this earthiness doâ—s arise and from very sharp and hot things seeing by the Gravel compacted into a Stone the Kidneys are heated and dried And therefore we are rather solicitous in prohibiting all salt and spiced meats than crude and clammy ones and such as are accounted to breed phlegm seeing these do indeed breed a thick juice which creates obstructions but they cannot be converted into an earthy matter unless some other earthy matter be mixt with them Platerus XXXII This must never slip your memory that nothing is better to bring away the Stone in me Kidneys than warm Water Zecchius consulâ— 13. or Chicken or Veal or Mutton Broth if four or five ounces be drunk pretty warm immediately before meat morning and evening ¶ That the great heat of the Kidneys may be remitted which is as the efficient cause of the Stone 's returning I commend the taking of boiled fair Water to the quantity of six or seven ounces before every meal twice or at least once a day for nothing renders the Kidneys so free from Recrements and so temperate And their fiery heat is at length extinguished with the warm Water that they can never after breed a Stone Idem consult 17. XXXIII It is my advice that when other things do no good the Matter be retracted to the Joints for the turning of the Stone into the Gout is most easie and of this into that and it is less dangerous to be troubled with the Gout than with the Stone for the Gout pain never endangereth Life by its trouble but the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder by their many Agonies and those incessant kill the miserable Patients Saxonia Praelect pract c. 36. Therefore the matter must be diverted to the Limbs by Frictions frequent Bathings hot Inunctions Sinapisms and Blisters XXXIV Cutting for the Stone in the Kidneys is indicated
into its natural posture he remained dull as it were stonied yea sometimes he staggered And although he had an Issue made for it in his neck and right arm yet he found no good by them He tried the Leaden waters to no purpose Praevotius advised him with good success to medicinal wines Turpentine with Castor a decoction of box China root Misletoe of the Oak Mastick Tree Sage and Groundpine Velschius Obs 14. Besides Treacle with Sugar of Roses And among external things Goose grease with Spirit of Rosemary applied with Scarlet to the nape of his neck after embrocation Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians Accorombonus de Catarrho 1. I affirm I have seen several cured by the continual use of Diacodium who have been in manifest danger of a Consumption from a thin and salt Catarrh ¶ Take of Cloves Cinnamon Mastick Mace Benzoin each 1 drachm Cipresnut red Coral Pomegranate flowers each 2 scruples mix them make a powder and apply it to the Coronal suture both I and others have often tried the virtue of this powder and we have found it stop destillations in so short a time Idem that it has appeared wonderfull both to our Patients and us 2. The tincture of Luna is very good for destillations Agricola Take of Spirit of Vitriol 4 drops Tincture of Luna 8 drops Water of Mother of Time half an ounce Oil of Amber 5 drops Mix them give it every day ¶ This is a secret for Catarrhs never enough to be commended Take of white Sugar 3 pounds Root of Liquorish Elecampane Flower de Luce each 2 ounces Spring-water 24 pounds Boil them filtre them well To 8 pounds of the Colature add of the herb Speedwell Maiden-hair Lung-wort Scabious Horehound the cordial flowers Colts-foot red Poppy each 5 Pugils Roman Nettle seeds and of seeds of Carduus benedictus Anise Fennel each half an ounce infuse them 2 days and boil them again to a third add of Gum Guaiacum China root each 2 ounces Cinnamon lesser Cardamome Cloves each 3 drachms boil them over a gentle fire for an hour Idem filtre them and strain them Drink of it four or five times a day 3. In a suffocative Catarrh I use with great success water of Violets or Colts-foot Bartolettus with white Spirit of Sulphur dropt in drop by drop in danger of suffocation and I have delivered several from imminent danger 4. Take of Aloes Penniroyal Calamint Mint Citron rind Petr. Bayrus each a like quantity make a powder incorporate it with Ladanum and a little Acacia and apply it to the Coronal suture having first shaved off the hair 5. Terra Lemnia or Bole Armenick with wine is a most excellent Remedy in a cold Catarrh Alex. Benedictus for they effectually hinder suffocations 6. A decoction of Turnips with butter and Sugar is very good or if there be any wind in the Turnips Crato it may be corrected with a drop of Oil of Aniseeds ¶ In a salt Catarrh I have found this a most wholesome remedy A Decoction of Honey with Roses which is made thus Take of pure water 6 measures Honey half the quantity boil it and scum it put a bag full of dry Roses in it and boil them for a convenient time Drink of it every morning Also red Bole Armenick laid upon the Tongue and Palate at night especially stops and dries a Catarrh and wonderfully strengthens the head Idem so as it seems an Inchantment it is as good as any Treacle 7. A Lohoch of Oak of Jerusalem in diseases of the Breast is excellent for the Destillation falling on the Breast it is made thus Take of the juice of Oak of Jerusalem Scabious Speedwell Colts foot each half a pound Barley Cream 3 ounces Sugar half a pound Gul. Fabricius Boil them to the consistency of a Syrup add of Species Diaïrews simp half an ounce powder of Anniseeds 2 drachms Flower of Brimstone 1 drachm Mix them 8. This is very good Take of Rosemary Marjoram Nigella red Roses Cloves Nutmeg Goclenius Indian Spike each half a drachm Make a Powder take it in a Pipe fasting like Tobacco 9. In a thin suffocative Catarrh destilling violently upon the Asperia Arteria and raising a continual cough Graba in Elapâ—ograplica a little burnt Hartshorn held onely in the Mouth or put upon the Tongue is accounted an excellent Remedy for the Catarrh is presently thickned and the cough comes but seldom ¶ Oil of Amber hath an admirable efficacy to stop a Catarrh if some powdered Amber be put in a bag and heat in Spirit of Wine and sprinkled with some drops of Oil of Amber and applied to the Crown of the head Idem the nostrils and Temples being both anointed with it at the same time 10. This is an exceeding good sternutatory to dry and stop the Catarrh and strengthen the Brain Petr. Michael de Heredia Take of Darnel Seed of Nigella Castor each 1 scruple Marjoram Rosemary Sage each half a scruple Musk 4 grains Mix them make a powder and snuff it up Linseed infused in strong white Wine Vinegar then dried and strowed upon some coals its fume received by the nostrils doth wonderfully stop a defluxion ¶ The destillated water of flowers of white Dittany is also a celebrated Remedy snuffed up into the Nostrells ¶ This promotes expectoration of the thick matter Take of the powder of Elecamparte seed half an ounce Savine seed 2 scruples Honey 2 ounces fresh Butter 3 ounces Mix them 11. Frid. Hofmannus Sassafras wood is of excellent use in this disease so that it is reckoned the true and proper Alexipharmack of Catarrhs especially if it be infused with Spirit of wild Time which is done thus Take of field Mother of Time destill it from strong wine let it stand a few days and destill it from fresh Mother of Time and then infuse Sassafras wood in it ¶ Nothing stops immoderate Catarrhs better than the following Cataplasm Take of sowre leaven 2 ounces Amber powdered 2 drachms make a Cataplasm and apply it to the Crown when it is shaven ¶ Also in a suffocative Catarrh Tacamahaca dissolved with some Oil of Mastick spread upon lether and applied to the Crown of the head when it is shaven is very good 12. For a Catarrh with hoarseness I have had good success in this Medicine of Forestus Gt. Horâ—tiuâ— Take of Liquorish juice white Sugar each 2 drachms seeds of Purslain Cucumber Melon Citrul each half a drachm Aniseed Gum Tragacanth each 1 drachm Penidy of Sugar 2 drachms and an half Make them into sublingual Pills ¶ I have had experience to my honour of this Electuary in several in difficult expectoration which threatned a Consumption Take of Elecampane Root Quinces boil them with Honey and add some flower of Brimstone ¶ In thin destillations I successively use Pilulae de Styrace Cratonis 13. Pope Adrian's Wine is highly
whiles to give a little Rheubarb-water which is thus made Take of water of Hops Grass Maidenhair or Cinnamon two pounds Infuse three drachms of Rheubarb powdered with Syrup of Cichory or Scorzonera or three or four spoonfulls of Syrup of Cichory with Rheubarb for it wonderfully carries off the superfluous humours of the belly and mesentery by stool especially if you add a little of the decoction of Seed of Carthamus In taking of which Medicines you must observe this order that the Child either before taking of this Medicine in a solid form drink a draught of diuretick water warm or after it And a thing which I rather approve of is to sleep a little upon it as long as may suffice to dissolve the Medicine and then to use exercise ¶ Specificum Intutropham Idem used much by the Physicians of Schafhausen will answer all intentions Take of White Sugar-Candy two ounces Volatile Salt of Soot half an ounce Root of Florentine Iris 2 drachms Root of Aron prepared Diaphoreticum Joviale Diaphoreticum Martiale prepared Crabseyes each 1 drachm Mix them Make a fine Powder If you add Anniseeds Nutmegs M. Th. Zwingerus or Cinnamon each half an ounce you will have a Powder inciding and dissolving viscid humours tempering and absorbing the acid and austere ones The dose from five grains to half a Scruple in some Syrup morning and evening XCI In Children that are troubled with obstructions of the Mesentery if they be not lean nor cholerick nor have a hot Liver and be not thirsty but have a soft flesh a cold Stomach squeamish and inclined to Vomit full of crudities and if the obstructions consist of Condensated Phlegm I think it very wholsome to give a little Wine namely as much as is sufficient to recall the Heat into the Bowels to attenuate gross excrements and help the Obstruction of crude ones whereby Obstructions and Accidents are far better cured than by any other remedy which I find by faithfull experiments and instances But if you give it once a day is enough not mere Wine Mercatus but mixt with a little boiled water Oris Inflammatio or An Inflammation of the Mouth XCII Whether is Honey of Roses good for an Inflammation of the Mouth It is affirmed because Medicines wherewith it is mixt have in regard of the Honey an abstersive faculty and in respect of the Roses a cooling one But some suspect the taking it 1. Because of the hot fiery quality of the Honey 2. Because it is readily turned into bile 3. Because it is rather proper for Phlegmatick Diseases I answer 1. The hot quality of the Honey is tempered by the Roses by reason whereof it is cooling as well as detergent Wherefore 2. It is not so easily converted into Bile as if it were alone Horstius And 3. An afflux of Phlegm is joined with it Pavores or Frightfulness XCIII Whether is Wormwood good for frightfulness It is affirmed by reason the juice tempered with Sugar is proper for the antecedent cause namely corruption of Meat in the Stomach Nor is it any hindrance that Wormwood as they say affects the head and by heating may increase the exhalations and may cause sleep before the time which causes this evil For addition of Sugar corrects the first mischief when it is made into a Syrup Therefore 2. If it be taken after a right manner and season the other mischief need not be feared 3. Nor need unseasonable sleep be feared here because it corrects the cause of it Horstius Scabies or The Itch. XCIV Let Mothers have a care that they cure not the Itch in Children whatever part of the body it be in unless it corrupt the eyes ears nose and such parts My eldest Son till he was seven years old had not one speck of his body wherefore I often foretold that some sudden and mortal disease would seize him And indeed being taken with a stoppage of Urine he died the seventh day of the disease of a great inflammation of the Kidneys and parts adjoyning which turned to a Gangrene Nature to wit not being able to purge the body of vitious humours by the Itch they in the seventh year as by critical expulsion fell suddenly from the head breast and other parts upon the Loins In my practice I have met with several diseases internal and external in Children in whom either Nature had not expelled the Itch or it had been cured violently Therefore let the honest Physician abstain from Medicines And if there be a necessity let the Pain of the Itch in Children be mitigated onely with fresh Butter Hildanus or with it washt in Rose-water or with Creme ¶ Children are very often taken with an Itch in their hands and feet when the rest of their limbs are untouched by reason of their voraciousness which if you should heal with Litharge Quicksilver Oil of Bays and a little Brimstone as Empiricks doe you may presently cure them of the Itch but you will put them in present hazard of their lives because you partly hinder the circulation of the bloud and partly repell the excrements of the third concoction as when you anoint on the cutaneous veins and arteries Simon Pauli ¶ In this sort of Ail the Parents always desire help of Physicians or old Women But if any one will but consider it seriously beginning with the nature of the thing he will find nothing more needless than a Medicine for it for by applying any all we doe is but to weaken the Childrens strength so that the recrements being kept in grow more furious and it may be fall more violently as they often do upon the principal parts Wherefore I judge the cure of this present Ail and the care of the internal recrements must be committed to Nature onely because she alone will insensibly by little and little and most securely separate those vitious recrements from the nutritious substances and will insensibly also transmit what is amiss into the ignoble parts that is into the Skin nearest to where they are most prevalent And when she has bred much good aliment and very little bad excrement remains she takes care to dry up the foulness transmitted to the Skin and makes it separate and fall off the Skin remaining whole and sound underneath which will receive no more because there is nothing remaining to be separated and if there be anything it is either destroyed in the place or the Skin being whole digests and dissipates it and permits it to go out freely without making any abode there so as to turn to the Itch as it did formerly By which prudent Patience alone I have known several Children restored to their perfect health and beauty whereas I have seen others ruined by using unseasonable and useless remedies XCV But let no Man think that it may not be holpen by any means nor in any case Let a Man consider that if with the recrements there be any
fixt parts are elevated Since therefore all the virtue of Guaiacum consists in that oily and resinous part and since strong boiling is required to get it out the gentle heat of a balneum dannot doe it but boiling in an open fire is requisite which nevertheless if there be a convenient quantity of water put to it causes no adustion Idem XII A. Minodaus lib. de Lue c. 4. judges the Decoction must be sweetned especially with Honey for he thinks that a small quantity of Honey if it be boiled with it and scummed does take away the bitterness and that the Decoction acquires a greater virtue in absterging attenuating opening and melting the humours and strengthning the parts Which as we allow to have place in phlegmatick bodies So since Honey easily turns to choler in cholerick bodies we reckon it cannot safely be used in hot and dry ones but we reckon Raisins Liquorice or Sugar may more conveniently and safely be added for the tast 's sake and that the bitterness and acrimony may be taken off we may put them in towards the latter end of the Decoction Idem XIII Some for such as have a hot and dry Liver do towards the latter end of the Decoction add a root or two or a handfull or two of Cichory Endive or Sow-thistle But since such Decoctions must be continued a long time we must have a care lest by addition of such things they be rendred ingratefull and loathsome to the Patient Again seeing enough Decoction is made at one time to serve for several days and because the putting in of such Herbs makes it worse to keep to prevent this we must not put these Herbs to all the Decoction but onely to about one pound at a time Idem XIV The Extract of the Wood in Saxonia's judgment is not strong enough to cure an old and strong Disease but the Decoction is deservedly preferred before it However if any one have a mind to use it it is necessary to take some liquour after it by which vehicle the Extract may be distributed all over the body Idem XV. Chymists fearing lest by a long Decoction which is made to half or to a third part the spirituous and subtile parts should exhale and be dissipated and so the virtue of the Medicine should be diminished they put some dust of Guaiacum in a retort they pour to it a sufficient quantity of Water and set the retort in ashes they fit a receiver then they put fire under it first digest it and then they distill it to a consumption of half of the Water Four ounces of the distilled Water are given But it is the best way to put the distilled Water again to the rest of the Decoction in the retort For so all the virtue may be got out Upon the Decoction remaining in the retort new Water may be poured and digested for twelve hours and afterwards may be distilled and the distilled liquour may be given instead of drink And because sometimes it happens that Children are born with the Pox or infected by the Nurses this Distillation sweetned with Sugar may be given them for a Julep Idem XVI If any Herbs have been added to the first Decoction the secondary Decoction must not be made of its Remainders because it would be loathsome but it must be made more dilute and fresh Some also towards the latter end of the Decoction add a fifth part Wine And Fallopius thinks this should not be done onely when the Patient goes abroad or his Stomach is weak especially if the Decoction be made of Sarsa But though some make a second Decoction of China yet Palmarius thinks it gives its virtue at the first Decoction yea some give the first Decoction at Dinner and Supper because it is not ingratefull to the Palate Idem XVII Some utterly reject Purgatives in the Decoctions and maintain that they should neither be put in a Decoction nor used separately from it because Peoples Bodies use to be well purged before they come to the taking of the Decoction 2. Because Purgatives and Sudorificks cause contrary motions Others would have them mixt that the Belly may be conveniently kept loose and the Bloud be cleansed Others will not have them mixt but will have a Purge to be given once in eight or ten days which is best For although the body be purged before the taking these things yet something may easily remain and now and then be gathered anew And Sweat onely carries off the thinner matter but leaves the thick Nor this way are contrary motions made for that day a Purge is taken no Sudorifick is given Sennertus XVIII Though all we Practitioners use the Quaternion of exotick Medicines China Sarsa parilla Guaiacum and Saffafras yet there are not wanting with us both Roots Woods and Barks which are able to perform the same as powerfully easily safely and pleasantly as these Exoticks which are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete And our Country Drugs are such as these Roots of Prickly Bindweed Roots of Butter-bur Bark and Wood of Juniper together with its Berries Oak-wood and several such things Certainly Exoticks are not to be despised nor home-bred things to be neglected because as they are bred in our Soil so they have the greater affinity with our bodies and are observed to operate more kindly Sylvius de le Boë yea and more effectually upon the same than Exoticks XIX The best way of taking aromatick Decoctions and other Medicines that temper the acid Spirit is to take them often in a day and in a small quantity that they may introduce a gradual and therefore a more laudable change and amendment into the bloud For every sudden alteration especially if it be great is dangerous Nay we may and with advantage mix the same Alteratives with their Food and give the said Decoctions both at Dinner and Supper instead of other Drink to the end that being mixt with the Food they may together with the Chyle which they make much better be more easily kindly and profitably mixt with the Bloud and amend it insensibly As I have often found it to the Patient 's great benefit when I have done this in the Pox Idâ—m and in other Diseases XX. That we may sweat with more success we must take notice that the same Decoctions which were given before onely for the alteration of the humours if Sweat must be procured must either be given in a larger quantity or they must be made stronger Let them be taken therefore in a double or treble quantity and either at once or at several times but at short intervals i. e. within half an hour For so when not onely the strength of the Sudorificks is increased but the liquour it self also is augmented the eruption of Sweat will be promoted But if it be irksome to the Patient to take a great quantity and often the same Decoction
Gentian root and other things boyled in White Wine may be applied to the region of the Stomach with woollen Clothes dipt therein hot and a little wrung out The use of Clysters is convenient Opiates also often do a great deal of good Of the Belly-ache and Scorbutick Colick No Disease almost requires more speedily help from Medicine then the Colick and Gripes which often happen in the Scurvy Against these evils Clysters of divers sorts Fomentations liniments and Cataplasms are used The use of Opiates is found very necessary here Certainly in this case that rule of Riverius to give purging Pills mixt with Laudanum has place especially for after sleep is caused and plentiful purging the Fit is often at an end But testaceous powders by which acid Salts are imbibed or fixt do very much conduce to drive away the Morbifick cause for example Take of powder of Crabs eyes Egg-shels each 1 drachm and an half Pearl 1 ounce Make a powder divide it into 12 Doses of which one sixth part may be taken once an hour with some Scorbutick water or with a Decoction of Root and Seeds of Burdock as is described before or with posset drink wherein Roots and Seeds of Burdock Leaves of sweet Marjoram and Saxifrage have been boyled and Leaves of Scurvy-grass infused In a Scorbutick Colick and in the Diseases of the Stomach but now mentioned the use of purging spaw-Spaw-waters such as ours of Epsum and Barnet are excellent good Of a Loosness and Bloody Flux An inveterate Loosness such as frequently happens to Scorbutick Persons must by no means be stopt with astringent Medicines nor is easily cured with Alteratives or any Antiscorbuticks Spaw waters impregnated with Iron or Vitriol are the best Remedy for this Disease next to these are artificial Spaws or Chalybeate Medicines which use to give great relief Crocus Martis rightly prepared may well be preferred before all the rest I have often used the following method with good success First of all give a purge of the powder or infusion of Rhubarb adding astringent Aromaticks and let it be repeated sometimes at the interval of 3 or 4 dayes the other dayes let the quantity of a Nutmeg of the following Electuary be taken in the morning and at 4 of the Clock Take of Conserve of common Wormwood made with an equal quantity of Sugar 6 ounces in a hot Constitution instead hereof Conserve of red Roses may be taken Species diarrhodon Abbatis two drachms Sanders white and red powdered each 1 drachm the best Crocus Martis half an ounce With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Steel make an Electuary In Dysenteries and a Tenesmus we may proceed in the like method Spaw waters if they may be had must especially be used Moreover Clysters of vulnerary Decoctions may be often used I lately cured one of a long and grievous Dysentery who had for a long time voided every day an ounce of Blood by Stool with this Remedy Take of the best Rhubarb in powder 1 ounce red Sanders powdered 2 drachms Cinnamon 1 drachm Crocus Martis 3 drachms Lucatellu's Balsome what is sufficient Make a mass for Pills he took 4 Pills sometimes every day sometimes every other day for a fort-night and he was perfectly cured I also prescribed him a Physick Beer of an Infusion of roots of sharp pointed Dock and Leaves of Brooklime to drink constantly Of the Vertigo Swooning and other Ails usually attending the same in the Scurvy A Vertigo frequently comes upon an inveterate Scurvy which is usually accompanied with frequent Swooning and almost a constant dread of it and moreover with a numbness in the Limbs and a pricking running hither and thither Which sort of Ails proceed from the failure of the Animal Spirits sometimes in the very fountain sometimes among the Nerves both Cardiack and which serve other parts and seeing they depend upon the Brain and Nervous kind being much pestered with a Scorbutick Salt they are not easily cured Cephalick Remedies such as are proper in the Vertigo and Paralytick Diseases caused by themselves must be used mixt with Antiscorbuticks Having therefore first of all made provision for the whole by fitting Catharticks and such as are proper in the Scurvy you may proceed in this manner with appropriate Medicines against the said Ails At the beginning of the Cure apply Leeches to the Haemorrhoid Veins and unless something contra-indicate let the same be often afterwards repeated Take of the powder of the Root of male peony half an ounce red Coral prepared 2 ounces Man's Skull Elk's hoof each 1 drachm Mix them Take of the best Sugar dissolved in compound Peony water or in Horse-radish water boyled up fit for Lozenges 8 ounces oyl of Amber well rectified half a drachm Make Lozenges according to Art Take a drachm and an half or two drachms morning and evening drinking thereupon a draught of the distilled water following Take of Leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime Cresses Lilly conval Sage Rosemary Betony each 3 handfuls green Walnuts 1 pound Peels of 6 Oranges and of 4 Lemons fresh Roots of male Peony 1 pound and an half When they are bruised and shred pour to them of Phlegm of Vitriol 1 pound Whey made with Cider 5 pounds Distil them after the common way let all the water be mixt together The Dose is from 3 to 4 ounces Of Haemorrhagies Haemorrhagies in the Scurvy often threaten great danger of the Patients being hastened to his end thereby while Blood bursts out sometimes at the Nose sometimes by the Menses or Haemorrhoids almost to Swooning Besides sometimes it being cast out of the Lungs or Stomach gives suspicion either of an Ulcer or at least of a great debility in the part affected Wherefore Bloody excretions if they either be immoderate or come in an inconvenient place must for the present be stopt and for the future prevented For stopping of Blood when it bursts out immoderately the method is well enough known and there is nothing to be done in this Case more peculiar because of the Scurvy than when it comes upon other occasions Yet to prevent Haemorrhagies Remedies may be used which take off the Acrimony of the Blood and straiten the Mouths of the Vessels which are too lax and gaping Each intention may be well performed by Chalybeate Medicines The use of Vitriolick Spaws is most proper for this business Moreover Infusions Extracts Salts and such preparations of Steel which especially contain the Saline or Vitriolick nature of Iron are ever good against Haemorrhagies Take of Conserve of red Roses of Hips each 3 ounces Species diarrhodon Abbatis Diatriωn each 1 drachm and an half Salt of Steel 1 drachm Crocus Martis well prepared 2 drachms red Coral prepared 1 drachm and an half With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Steel make an Electuary Thrice a day take the quantity of a Nutmeg drinking thereupon a draught of some appropriate Liquor I use to prescribe for the Poor in this manner Take of the tops of Cypress
Nettle each 2 ounces Brooklime 2 ounces bruise them in a Mortar with 10 ounces of the whitest Sugar then add of Scales of Iron very finely powdered 1 ounce powder of white and red Sanders each 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of juice of Nettle make an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day Take of the destilled water or Decoction of some temperate Anti-scorbutick two pounds of our preparation of Steel 2 drachms Mix them in a glass The Dose is 3 or 4 ounces Take of Nettle tops Leaves of Brooklime each 4 handfuls When they are bruised strain out the juice keep it in a Glass The Dose is 2 or 3 ounces twice a day with some distilled Antiscorbutick water Of faults in the Mouth arising from the Scurvy Whenever the Scorbutick Infection has seized the Mouth so as the Gums swell and the flesh of them become fungous immediately Remedies which drive away putrefaction from them must be diligently used Among these Washes for the Mouth and Liniments are of especial use both when the Disease begins about these Parts and when it grows worse which nevertheless as they respect divers intentions so they use to be diversly prepared to wit the flesh of the Gums when it first swells must be freed from the Incursions of a Salt and corrupt Blood and Serum afterwards the Flesh grown flaccid and shrunk from the Teeth must be defended from putrefaction and that it may stick closer to the Teeth there must be astriction for these and other intentions Gargarisms or Mouth-washes of divers sorts may be used Of all which the chief ingredients are Vegetables boyled and Minerals infused The Herbs and Roots that are boyled in some proper Liquor either Water or Wine are for the most part either sharp or bitter or styptick and then such Decoctions are impregnated either with a Volatil Lixivial Vitriolate Chalybeate or Aluminous Salt 1. When therefore the Flesh of the Gums by reason of a defluxion of Salt and corrupt Blood and Serum first begins to swell and grow fungous Take of the middle rind of Elder Elm each half an handful Leaves of Savory Sage Rocket Cresses each 1 handful Roots of Pellitory of Spain 2 drachms being shred and bruised boyl them in 3 pounds of Lime-water to the consumption of a third part If edulcoration be required add of Honey of Roses 2 ounces Make a Gargarism Or take of tried Vitriol 1 ounce our Country People call it Captain Green's powder Spring-water 2 pounds mix them in a Glass shake it and when the Liquor is settled and clear use it Or Make a Ly of ashes of Broom or Rosemary or of calcined Tartar or Nitre in 3 pounds of this boyl of the Leaves of Savory Time Rosemary Sage each 1 handful Let the colature be poured upon 2 handfuls of Scurvy-grass Leaves Make a hot and close Infusion for 3 hours strain it again and keep it to wash the Mouth often in a day For the same intention also Liniments at times and especially at Night may be applied that their virtue may be communicated to the Patients even while they sleep There is exstant a Famous prescription frequent among Authors and approved by long experience Take of Leaves of Columbine crisp Mint Sage Nutmeg Myrrh which yet sometimes is omitted each 2 drachms burnt Allum half an ounce Virgin Honey 4 ounces or what is sufficient make a Liniment according to Art 2. If at any time the flaccid Flesh of the Gums part from the roots of the Teeth a gentle scarification is often used moreover let the Mouth be washed with this Decoction Take of tops of Bramble Cypress Leaves of Sanicle Ladies smock each 1 handful boyl them in water wherein Iron has been quenched 3 pounds to the consumption of a third add to the colature of Honey of Roses 2 ounces Mix them Such a Liniment as this may be applied Take of the powder of Florentine Orrice Leaves of Sage St. John's-wort each 2 drachms bole Armonick Sal prunellae each 1 drachms Virgin Honey hot what is sufficient incorporate them well by stirring 3. When the Gums are putrid and corrupt and the Teeth are rotten and loose and send out a nasty stink stronger Medicines and such as exceedingly resist putrefaction may be used an Infusion of Camphorate vitriol or lapis Medicamentosus are especially proper in this Case Or Take of root of Gentian round Birthwort cut each half an ounce Leaves of lesser Centaury Sea Wormwood Savory Columbine each 1 handful boyl them in some lime or lixivial water and sometimes wherein Iron has been quenched or Allum dissolved 3 pounds to the consumption of a third part To the Colature add 2 or 3 ounces of crude Honey Mix them 4. If the falling of the Teeth be chiefly feared Take of the bark of the root of the wild Sloe-Tree 1 ounce Tormentil and of Bistort whole each an handful Pomegranate rind and flowers each half an ounce boyl them in 3 pounds of Spring water the best Honey 2 ounces Mix them Take of Camphorate Vitriol burnt Harts-horn each 1 drachm Nutmeg half a drachm the best Honey what is sufficient Make a Liniment Or Take of the Powder of root of Bistort Pomegranate rind Bole-Armonick burnt Allum each 1 drachm Honey of Roses what is sufficient add of Spirit of Vitriol 1 scruple Make an oyntment 5. If at any time as is sometimes usual putrid and deep Ulcers seize the Gums or other Parts of the Mouth the foresaid stronger Medicines must be often used Moreover a rag dipt in Vnguentum Aegyptiacum dissolved in Spirit of Wine or in an Infusion of lapis medicamentosus or Sublimate may sometimes be applied In these cases the Cure must be left to a skilful Surgeon Of Pains that usually infest the Legs and other Limbs sometimes at Night especially Against these Pains because sometimes they are very bitter beside the general method of curing the Scurvy specifick Remedies and such as oppose this Symptom are indicated therefore in such a case when a man has been well purged and bled if need be it is convenient to set upon the Disease both by Medicines inwardly and applications outwardly As to the former things that move Sweat and Urine often give relief inasmuch as they carry another way the lixivial and acid recrements of the Blood and Nervous juice which used to meet in the part affected especially if such things be used as vindicate both these Humors from that bad disposition as well saline as acid Testaceous powders of Crabs Eyes mandible of a Pike also Spirit and Flowers of Sal Ammoniack Spirit of Blood Tincture of Antimony Coral Decoctions of root and seed of Burdock Groundpine Germander are very good Which sort of Remedies may be taken with distilled Antiscorbutick waters twice or thrice a day Distilled water of Horse-dung adding Scurvy-grass Brooklime Iva arthritica and the like does sometimes a great deal of good In the mean time Fomentations Liniments Cataplasms or
by Cohobation He commends above all others Spirit of Sal Ammoniac inwardly and outwardly mixt with a due vehicle Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Drink every day out of a Mans Skull and the Kings-Evil will then vanish ¶ The Mushrome that grows on a Birch-tree put in Wine and drunk has a singular Virtue in gradually curing and wasting the Kings-Evil Agricola 2. It has been observed that Scroffles and other Tumors fall if the Part affected be rubbed with a dead Man's Hand for so the Swellings gradually vanish Th. Bartholinus as the dead Body rots by degrees 3. Root of Vervain hung about the Neck of one that has the Kings-Evil gives wonderful and unexpected relief ¶ They say Silver-Knapweed is marvellous good also red Poppy steeped in Wine and bruised and the Mucilage applied to the Swelling is a Medicine that does good by tempering and has those Virtues which we require in Medicines for the Kings-Evil over drying things being excluded Paricellus 4. Three Toads boyled in Oyl Olive in a glazed Earthern Vessel make an excellent Oyl for the Kings-Evil but the Fumes of them while the Oyl is in making are dangerous Therefore keep that Vessel close and have a care First they apply Arsenick to the Scroffles and blister them then corrode the Part with sublimate and use the said Oyl which will be yet better if you infuse the salt of Toads in it Borellus 5. This Potion has been often tried which not only takes away the Kings-Evil but all Mucosities of the Throat Take of Broom-flower Water 3 ounces drink it warm with Sugar in the Morning The Powder of Broom-flowers does the same mixt with Honey of Roses Sebast Cortilio 6. The lesser Celandine has 4 or 5 grains like Wheat growing to its root which are used to draw out the Scroffles with great success Crollius 7. Their Cure depends upon the Meazles of Hogs which may be calcined and sprinkled on them and Oyntments may be made of them which are very good for the Cure of these Swellings and these Unguents may be fortified with distilled Oyl of Hogs-Lard or distilled Oyl of Hogs-Meazles which is a specifick against the Kings-Evil Joh. Pet. Faber 8. If the Kings-Evil must be taken away by causticks there is no better Medicine to take them away than sublimated Arsenick but you must have a care Guil. Fabricus that the Parts near the Swellings do not Putrefie or Inflame 9. An excellent Electuary to take away the Kings-Evil is thus made Take of the Bones of a Hen the flesh whereof has been boyled off dry them and powder them Take of this Powder and Seed of Sesamum each alike as much as you will with Honey make an Electuary Take a drachm at a time Morning and Evening all the decrease of the Moon till the new Rod. à Fonseca and then repeat it the following decrease of the Moon 10. The use of the Powder of Sponge will cause it to decrease if you drink as much as you can take upon a Knife's point in Cinnamon-water The Sponge must not be burnt Grembs for then its seminal Virtue is destroyed 11. This is admirable for the Kings-Evil Throat-rupture Parotides and all hardness Take the leaves of Cypress neither the tenderest nor the hardest reduce them to powder Sprinkle them with strong Wine and turn them till the Body of them turn to dreggs Lay it upon the Scroffles or Rupture and the third day take the Medicine you will find the place contracted which must be squeezed out with the Fingers Let this Medicine be repeated and on the Seventh or Ninth day at farthest the Kings-Evil will be gone to a Miracle Hollerius 12. Take of root of Fern Spleenwort Dwarf-elder each 3 ounces cut them and boyl them in the best Wine then pour away the Wine bruise the Roots and add of live Sulphur 1 ounce ashes of Cockle-shells 2 drachms With equal parts of Honey and Vinegar reduce them into the Form of a Cataplasm lay it upon the Scroffles it consumes them wonderfully Fr. Joel 13. There is scarce any Plant of so great Power in softning and discussing Swellings in the Kings-Evil Laurembergius c. as the bulb of Cornflag and Hogs-Lard outwardly applied 14. It has been found by experience that burnt Allum powdered if half a drachm of it have been given in Wine alone or mixt with other discutient and drying Powders Platerus has done much good in this Case 15. Root of Figwort eaten for 10 dayes every Morning fasting cures the Kings-Evil Arnold Villanoanus Stupor or Numbness The Contents Sweat must be promoted if it be from a Melancholick Humor I. Some is cured by Bleeding II. It is to be cured especially by Bathing III. The Numbness of the Thighs ending in the voiding of Stones IV. I. WHen the whole Body is evacuated the matter comprehended in the Nerves must be digested to which end Sweating is reckoned altogether necessary for the portion of the Melancholick Humor which is the cause of Numbness is serous and acid rather than thick and may therefore be got away by Sweat But you must be very careful in composing the decoction so that it may be drying in the passive and temperate in the active Qualities Wherefore Sarsa may be the basis of the decoction to which may be added China Mastich-tree wood of Rosemary and Tamarisk making the infusion in Chicory and Betony-water and when it is almost boyled add an handful of Ground-pine II. Hippocrates cured Stimargus his Maid of Trembling by plentiful Bleeding So I have several times cured Plethorick Bodies of Trembling and Numbness by repeated Bleeding Idem III. Pumping requires the Head should be exactly Purged a Sheeps-skin can but make lax and resolve a little The putting a Limb into an Ox new killed is good rather for shrunk Sinews than for such as are lax and full of Moisture But here is occasion for some Medicine that is of subtil Parts very penetrating and dissolving but not hardning because the Nervous kind is hard and dense Such as is Sulphur wherefore sulphureous Bathes are a Remedy of great use used for several dayes And because they penetrate and dissolve the Humors but do not streng hen the Parts therefore afterwards a strengthning Bathe must be used Idem IV. I lately had a Nobleman under Cure who brought the Advice of the Physicians that had by common consent prescribed him Medicines for the Palsy When I predicted to him that within four dayes he would be eased by voiding fragments of a Stone he laughed at me and my Prediction because no Body else had told him of any such thing nor had he ever voided any Gravel Yet at length with much ado he was perswaded and found that I foretold truth And the Cause is this the Branch of the vena cava descending one goes to the Kidney another to the Thigh and a
as by washing of the Head are good for the Cure of this Disease for by Bathing plenty of Sweat is provoked and the antecedent matter of the Fluxion is discharged And by washing of the Head the Brain is strengthned and dried The peculiar way of using them is described by Penotus and is very much commended Nothing does so much good in Deafness even after the use of an Hundred Remedies as for the Patient first to cleanse his Body well and then purge his Head and wet his Head with Sulphureous Bathes in this manner Let him wear upon his Head as it were a Cap of large Sponges sowed together coming down to his Eye brows and below his Ears Let him sit under the current of the Bath and turning a Cock let him receive the water which soaked up by the Sponges will keep the Head warm with its continual heat and opening all the sutures of the Head and commissures of the Ears it will take away the Vapours or will wast by exhalation the matter impacted in the Nerves and auditory Passages or will so displace it that it will quickly go away It is convenient for him to sit thus twice a day for two hours and then presently to sweat in Bed and to use a thin diet of Flesh Brothes Riverius and he must abstain from all Wine unless it be very small If any one insist upon the use of the Bathes I utterly disapprove of putting the whole Body into the Sulphureous water because of the frequent effusion of Blood by the Haemorrhoids but especially because of the Stone for which the heating of the Kidneys and Loyns is very bad I think it sufficient if the Head the Body being first well purged be watred from on high all cautions observed which the Physicians there present shall give My Lord seems to abhor the thick fuliginous Air of the Bath An Embrochation from on high by some proper Instrument will serve instead thereof out of which some Cephalick Decoction may run at a Cock prepared with a Barber's Lixivium adding Malmsey Wine upon the Head shaven and covered with a Cap made of soft Sponges with other things which may keep the Liquor from the Parts below and may deliver it into a bason near it This irrigation also may be received upon the sutures of the Head naked which when the season of the year is heat Th. de Mayerne confilio M. S. pro Comite Denbigh done once or twice a week wiping and drying the Head very well after it will be very good It is used daily by the Italians X. In Deafness from pituitous matter some Topical Medicine must be put into the Ears which at first must have an inciding and detersive and then a drying faculty that the Humour which is in the Ears may be attenuated and cleansed and then the Membrane may be dried Therefore let a Tent dipt in Oxymel of Squills be put especially in the Night time for Medicines must not be poured in Fortis tom 2. Cent. 1. cons 79. lest the auditory passage be hurt as Galen 3. K. T. 1. advises but they must be got in with a Tent or a Probe wrapt in Wool Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. A Decoction of Castor and Laurel-berries mixt with a little Vinegar and dropt into the Ear is admirably good Donatus ab Altomari ¶ Ants Eggs bruised will cure the most inveterate Deafness 2. Praevotius has Saffron and Cloves with juice of Woodbind for a Secret Thom. Bartholinus with which I use to mix rose-Rose-water dip Cotton in it and put it into the Ear. 3. This Tent is a most effectual Remedy Take of Coloquintida white Hellebore each 1 scruple Euphorbium half a scruple Mix them Make a Tent with Honey juice of Onions or Radish and keep it in for some dayes Capivaccius 4. In the diminution of the Sense of Hearing Take of Leaves of Carduus benedictus dried 1 handful sprinkle them with wine then pour some Carduus benedictus water to them and destill them in a Glass Warm a little of this in a Spoon and hold the Head a little on the contrary side then let it run out again Crato and keep the Ear always stopt with Cotton and Musk. 5. Snails with long Ears and an exquisite touch if they be boyled in water and salt and after they are dried be destilled with Oyl of Amber or Fenil or Castor The Oyl that comes off is admirable for the recovery of Hearing Deodatus 6. The Steam of boyled Beans received into the Ears is said to be a present Remedy ¶ Nothing is more certain than spirit of Turpentine if you drop a few drops into the Ear. Grulingius 7. If it come from gross Humours obstructing the Auditory Nerves destilled oyl of Chamomil flowers is a generous Remedy Joel a few drops whereof may be dropt in warm 8. Take the fat of an Eel as she is roasting on a Spit and it drops from her mix it with its own Gall keep it in a Glass when there is occasion drop a drop or two in the Ear. It is a specifick Medicine for Deafness by what means soever it comes Dominicus Leo. 9. After the Tympany is cleansed and some Liquor poured in that discusses wind nothing is better than the Urine of an Hare dropt in warm the frequent use whereof has done several good Tulpius 10. Several who had been long Deaf have been cured with this One gave diaolibanum and he made a steam under the Ear of a Decoction of hot Herbs if it came from a cold matter but of cold Herbs if it came from hot matter and he fomented the Ear with the simple Decoction Afterwards he dropt in this Take of white Hellebore Castor Pellitory of Spain nitre each a like mix them all and boyl them in wine till the wine be almost consumed strain it and drop a little of it hot into the Ear and keep it there an hour afterwards give some sneezing of powder of white Hellebore or Pepper When the Patient begins to sneeze let him hold his Nose violently Villanovanus that he cannot breathe when he sneezes Syncope Leipothymia or Swooning or Fainting The Contents Whether one may be let Blood in a Swoon I. One arising from afright cured by Bleeding II. Some dye for want of Bleeding III. Vinegar of Roses is not good for all IV. How Medicines must be poured in when People cannot swallow V. Swooning caused by the Spleen cured by looking to it VI. By what virtue Medicines act that cure it VII If it come from the Stomach things concentrating the Spirits are proper VIII The efficacy of Aromatick Oyls and Volatil Salts IX Spirit of Roses does not cool X. They that dye away must not be quickly buried XI All Swoonings that proceed from the wasting of the Spirits must not be cured one and the same way XII If it proceed from pain Narcoticks are sometimes
proper XIII Medicines I. WHether may Blood be let when People are in a swoon In a spurious Syncope which the stopping of the Blood in the Veins breeds which according to Hippocrates and Galen l. 4. acut must be esteemed twofold one from store of Blood in the greater Vessels another only from the Carotides and jugulars Blood must immediately be taken away ere it being deprived of its Spirits become concrete and the Disease be incurable as much as convenient considering the strength and fulness of the Body Which when done and a spare course of diet is followed we must divert what is contained in the Body to the lower parts and afterwards what concrete Blood there is we must make it fluid with drinking hot things and by gently rubbing the whole Body But in this case it is very rare that one can make the Blood fluid unless the Spirits be much stronger than before for if not or if the Pulse be bad it is a sign that the Blood is then concrete in which case we must wholly abstain from Blood-letting and make use of such Remedies as may make the concrete Blood fluid as Hares-rennet in water and Honey or water and Honey with Marjoram boyled in it with the addition of a little Oxymel or half a drachm of Treacle or Mithridate dissolved in the said water But if you be certain that the Blood is not concrete you can no way sooner bring the Patient to life again than by letting him Blood Which when you have done once if the Patient bear it well and if the Blood run high you may try the Remedy again till you find the Patient relieved but if no Blood will come you may reckon it is concrete and you need try no more II. A Woman as she saw her Husband fighting with his Neighbour fell into a Swoon I was called and by my order she was cured by Bleeding In this sick Woman the Blood had for fear and grief retired to the Heart as to a tower by which when the Heart is suffocated I have observed several have died both because the vital faculty is extinguished by too great abundance and because the Spirits cannot pass through the Vessels for want of which the extream parts grow dead In so great decay of Spirits let the Physician never omit Bleeding But â—f by reason of extream loss of strength and the abolition of the pulse in a manner the Physician be doubtful let Cupping-glasses be set to his Hips and Thighs with scarifications instead of Bleeding Fontanus III. It often counterfeits an Apoplexy but without ratling nor does it leave a Palsie behind it If it return often violently at length it oppresses and suffocates the Heart not only because the excursion of the Blood is intercepted by the plenitude of the Vessels but because some thick substance of the Blood being forced within the Ventricles of the Heart oppresses it which causes an Asphyxy in the motion of the Heart and Arteries This Disease is as frequent among the Germans as the Apoplexy from their athletick habit of Body which is contracted from their continual good fellow-ship and drinking Yet they take no care to take down that plethorick habit by Bleeding liberally And so no wonder if through such abundance of Blood Riolanus they fall into an Apoplexy or a Cardiack Syncope IV. Vinegar of Roses is not good for every Syncope for seeing contrary causes must needs be removed by contrary Remedies therefore it is manifest that the dissolution of the Spirits must be cured one way and their suffocation or infection another Wherefore we conclude with Capivaccius 2. pract cap. 9. that a Syncope coming from a dissolution of the Spirits may be very well taken off by the use of cooling things applied especially to the Forehead Face region of the Heart and Wrists in which case Vinegar of Roses is proper for Vinegar penetrates and Roses cool and concentre the Spirits But if suffocation be the cause attenuation and dissolution of the Morbifick matter is of necessity required which cannot at all be done by cooling things wherefore here we must have recourse to Cresses Nigella Mithridate Cinnamon water rubbing the extream parts c. If there be Malignity we must provide for the Heart by Bezoarticks No wonder then if in the absence of Physicians Patients often dye in a Swoon For it may so happen that the Spirits which are otherwise suffocated may by applying some common cooling Remedy be further conglobated about their principle and by this means the vital faculty may be utterly suppressed Horstius V. When a Patient is liker to one dead than alive so that he can neither open nor shut his Mouth much less swallow any thing as he should then it will be the best way to take some Aromatick Oyls either simple or compound mingled only and stirred together a little with rectified Spirit of Wine or more nearly joyned together by a greater artifice and long circulation and pour 3 or 4 drops into the Patient's Mouth and sometimes more and especially by a Silver or Golden pipe into the Throat to the end they may penetrate both into the Stomach and Guts from whence the cause of so grievous an evil is often dispersed to all parts and into the Pipes of the Lungs to the very Blood that sticks in the Pulmonary Vessels Sylvius de le â—oë and so correct and amend this urgent harm VI. A Noble-man complained to me that he immediately fell into a Swoon as he turned himself on his left Side and his Spirits were so far gone that he was got out of it with much difficulty When I inquired into the cause I reckoned some Melancholick Humour having some ill quality in it sent a poysonous Vapor from the Spleen to the Heart which must be the cause of this Malignant Symptome nor was I deceived in my conjecture For when he was put in a right course of Diet after his Body had universally been purged of Melancholy and particularly his Spleen by giving Medicines to open the Obstructions thereof and his Heart strengthened Riverius he was cured of it VII In a Swooning Fit sometimes such things must be given as powerfully concentrate the Spirits and acid Vapors and sometimes such as discuss glutinous ones Subtil things to the end they may penetrate to all parts may be mixt with them such are Spirituous things and volatil and Oyly Salts especially such as are prepared by art of divers parts of Animals or of certain Plants These are good Aromatick Tinctures drawn by means of rectified spirit of Wine from divers Spices or from any Aromatick parts of Plants or Animals either by infusion alone or also by destillation for example Take of water of Mint Fenel each 1 ounce Scurvy-grass Aqua vitae Matthioli each half an ounce Laudanum opiatum 2 grains Syrup of Mint 1 ounce oyl of Cloves Nutmeg destilled each 2 drops Mix them Give it by spoonfuls Let no
have been reckoned to have escaped them they have been over fed before the time by the silly Women as if they despised this Disease But the wicked Small Pox growing ill again and burning a new did fiercely assault the little ones and scalding them or rather roasting them with inextinguishable heat did at last kill them And truly edacity in the Small Pox is usually an ill Sign Therefore we must not trust them in the beginning of the declination and melioration But according to Hippocrates his rule Eph. 15.2 The Urine and Ordure must be lookt into which if they be bilious and of a bad colour it is a sign that the Body is yet impure Joseph Medâ— apâ—â— uâ— which by how much more you nourish by so much more you hurt Have a care therefore of a full diet and you may conquer the remainder of the Putrefaction and Cacochymy LXVIII A Boy five years old being ill of the Small Pox was the third day taken with a Bloody Flux and frequent desire of going to Stool he voided pituitous and mucous stuff with a great quantity of Blood the Pustules were small white and flat I prescribed thus Take of red Roses 1 pugâ—â— red Sanders half an ounce scraped Liquorish and stoned Raisins each 1 ounce boyl them in Sheep's head broth In 9 ounces of the Colature dissolve of Confectio de Hyacintho 3 drachms Conserve of Roses passed through a Sieve half an ounce the yolk of an Egg. Mix them Make a Clyster Give it often Take of water of Scabious Carduus Benedictus each 1 ounce and an half Syrup of dried Roses 1 ounce Coral and Pearl prepared each 1 scruple Bezoar stone 3 grains Confectio de Hyacintho half a drachm Make a Julep Give it twice a day Take Oleum Scorpionum Matthioli Anoint the Groins and Armpits often hot After he had taken the Clyster twice and his Julep twice the Bloody Flux quite ceased and the Pustules began to come out more violently and afterwards he underwent the Disease quietly till he was perfectly well Although the Remedies proposed be vulgar ones yet this case deserves observation Riverius Cent. 1. Obs 71. because the event was not vulgar for of all the Children in the Small Pox that I have hitherto seen only this one had the Bloody-Flux LXIX I learned that a Loosness coming upon the Small Pox is not alwayes fatal from my own Daughter Elizabeth who anno 1670 in the Month of September being about 4 years old was upon the 7th day from the coming out of the Small Pox taken with a Loosness which proved critical and salutary first of serous then of thick and variegated Humours which a violent Swooning preceeded I used no astringents to stop it being content with the use of gentle Diaphoreticks because it began on a critical day appetite was good and there was no striking in of the Small Pox This lasted 3 days and a little after she recovered And this was observable that whereas before the coming out of the Small Pox she was impatient of all Clothes so that her Legs and Thighs were exposed to the open Air there and about her Face the Small Pox came out more plentifully than about her Back Arms and Breast which were clothed So that it seems very probable to me that the matter of the Small Pox in the covered parts expired by occult transpiration and that it would have been so in the rest had they been covered LXX It must be observed that in Children sick of the Small Pox a Loosness is often caused by Worms and continues almost all the time of the Disease whereby Life is in imminent danger because the coming out of the Small Pox is abated or hindred And this is easily known by the thickness and sliminess and the gray or white colour of the excrements for then things that kill Worms and sweet Clysters must be given LXXI When watry Pustules came here and there all over a Boys Body but all of them struck in through the ill management of the by-standers the Patient falling into Swoons and coldness in his extream parts lest nothing should be done in so dangerous a case because the Patient could swallow no Medicines I apply four Vesicatories to the inside of the Arms and Thighs following the duct of the greater Veins in hopes that the Poysonous Humour being recalled to the Skin might find a more ready passage out In short the water returned into its cells Olaus Borrichius and though they turned slowly into Pus they made way from certain despair to former health LXXII A Woman was taken with the Measles her whole Body was covered with them and she had a violent Fever She had moreover a most grievous Symptome a thin defluxion upon her Lungs which often made her Cough and put her in fear of choaking with an hoarseness A Vesicatory was applied to the Neck and 2 grains of Laudanum were given in Conserve of Roses the defluxion stopt that whole Night it returned the next day and Laudanum was given again with the same effect whereby the Woman was brought in a few dayes to a convalescence her hoarseness remaining for a long time Riverius LXXIII A young Man about 20 years old of a thin Body and an hot Constitution in the beginning of Spring began to have a Fever the first days grievous Vomitings oppression at his Heart frequent hot and cold Fits by turns pain in his Loins watching c. did trouble him On the third day the Small Pox appearing these Symptomes abated yet the Fever with thirst and heat continued Not only the Decoctions usual in this Disease but the most grateful Juleps were nauseous and troublesome to him Whenever at the hour of Sleep he took Diascordium or any other temperate Cordial to continue transpiration though but in a little quantity he was very restless the Night following and the next Morning bled at his Nose which when the Small Pox indeed were fully come out happening once and again upon this occasion the Patients fafety was highly endangered Wherefore observing his Blood to be apt to ferment immoderately upon any slight irritation I according to the occasion insisted on this method Leaving off all manner of Medicine he drank small Beer and emulsions of Almonds to quench his thirst as much as he pleased Because he refused all Oatmeal and Barly grewel he had for his Diet Apples boyled till they were tender and then seasoned with Sugar and Rose water which he eat several times a day Nature being content with this thin course and seeming to be disturbed with any other happily finished her work so that the Small Pox ripening and then falling off of themselves Willis de feb c. 15. the Patient recovered without any grievous Symptome afterwards LXXIV In the middle of Autumn a young Man who had a sharp Blood and had been often subject to bleed at the Nose was ill of the Small Pox His Blood fermented immoderately
Treacle he was well For Treacle is a common Remedy against all Poyson I could not prescribe a proper Antidote because I knew not what Nature the Poyson was of but by these means their Pain in their Stomach ceased and both of them were cured Forestus ¶ Cardan cured some that were dying of an unknown Poyson by giving them Milk to drink XLII It is found by experience that a Mule when his Guts are taken out has such an attractive and dissolving Virtue that it is able to extract and dissipate Poysons As it was proved in Valentine Borgia Pope Alexander the fifth his Son who being enclosed in a Mule which had its Guts taken out immediately overcame the violence of the Poyson Claudinus ¶ In the year 1629. Falcini an Illustrious Patavine having by Gods mercy escaped great treachery had a present of Wine sent him which when he had tasted he was long tormented with an Ulcer in his Stomach and by Sylvaticus his advice after Valentine Borgia's example he escaped after he had been inclosed in a Mule whose Guts were taken out the Poyson being drawn from within to the out parts of the Skin And an accident showed that the Wine was poysoned with Mercury sublimate for as many as drank of it found the Poyson one of his attendants among others after he had pissed Quick-silver which however it be prepared Rhodius Cent. 3. Obs â— is restored to its former shape by dropping some Spirit of Salt upon it escaped XLIV A Nobleman had a Son who consumed away and at last died After his Body was cut open a certain hard mass like unto horn was found in the bottom of his Stomach which was sent to his Father He in memory of his Son caused a spoon to be made of it which he often used at the Table It happened that when this Spoon was put into a Sallet of Water Cresses and Vinegar it dissolved Hence we may easily conjecture that Water-Cresses has no common virtue against a Philtrum Schenckius XLV We must know there are three sorts of Diseases which are held to come from Witch craft The first is no way Witch-craft but when the Devil observes any one will be taken with a Disease as he is well skilled in natural things he perswades Witches and Wizzards that if they will but do what he orders them the Man will fall into such a Disease into which notwithstanding he would have fallen had the Witches done no such thing And in the mean time the Witches think the Disease was caused by their power Secondly there are other Diseases which indeed are not caused by the Devil but by natural causes while he changes the natural constitution and corrupts and alters the Humours Thirdly there are Diseases which are simply caused by the Devil without the Mediation of natural Humours As to the first sort of these Diseases it is most manifest and without doubt that it may be cured with natural Remedies But the third cannot be cured by natural Remedies because natural things can have no influence upon the Devil who is a Spirit And natural Medicines are good to cure the second sort however they are not sufficient alone but besides there is need of a divine cure For since in such Diseases two causes concurr the Humours and such things as are in a humane Body and the Devil besides although the former cause be removed yet unless the Devil cease from acting and hurting a perfect cure cannot be expected And these natural Medicines are either such as evacuate those vitious Humours which the Devil uses in causing Diseases or alterâ—tives and Alexipharmacks contrary to the dispositions caused by him amongst evacuants Vomits are chief by which it is evident many stubborn Diseases have been cured whose cause lay in the Stomach Mesentery and thereabout Therefore Rulandus cured Demoniacks by giving Vomits for these vitious Humours being taken away the Diseases which by their means the Devil had caused to cease Nor indeed must Purgatives be neglected H. ab Heer 's obs 13. tells how one who was hurt with a Philtre was purged by Urine and so cured Aâ— to Alteratives and Alexipharmacks we must obsâ—rve that the word Veneficium is sometimes taken for Inchantment and an action absolutely magical s metimes for a Disease caused by Philtra Therefore when in Authors you find that this or the other Herb is good against veneficia they are for the most part to be understood of secret Poysons rather than of magical actions For since there are common Alexipharmacks they may very properly be used in these Poysons whose natures are for the most part hid Yea perhaps one may use them with success even in Diseases caused by the Devil seeing he also is able to cause poysonous Dispositions in the Body which may be conquered by such Medicines Yet in all these natural Medicines both outward and inward this must be observed if we may use them because often in occult Diseases we may try various Remedies that they be used without all manner of superstition ceremony pronunciation of Words and the like Sennertus and that we rely only on their natural Powers and leave the rest to God XLVI Because they say that in these Mountains there is no small number of Witches and Wizzards by whose Witchcraft several are oftentimes bewitched I will therefore describe a true and proper Alexiterick to drive away such a Poyson which I tried at Geneva with admirable effect in a certain Girl of Lions originally about 6 years old who had been long since bewitched by a certain Witch she was almost quite emaciated dumb destitute of her motive Faculty very voracious who upon taking a certain Alexipharmack twice or thrice and repeating it begun both to Speak and Walk A little while after her Father signified to me she was perfectly well And this Antidote is Dogs-tongue yet not the common but that which is described by Dioscorides l. 4. And we have hitherto used the Leaves not having yet tried the Roots Now the Witch who divulged this Alexiterick gave nine leaves to drink in Water but we neglecting the number of Leaves ordered an handfull to be boyled in half a pint of Water till half were boyled away then we gave the Decoction to the Patient on an empty stomach Afterwards one gave to another Girl at Geneva bewitched almost in the same manner half a drachm of Moibanus his Antidote in white Wine with good success with which within a little time after she had been purged upwards and downwards at last she recovered Because the virtue of this Alexipharmack is so great against almost all manner of Poysons I think it not amiss to describe it Take of root of Valerian half an ounce root of Swallow wort 1 ounce Polypody of the Oak Marsh-mallow wild Angelica each 2 ounces fresh Garden Angelica 4 ounces Bark of the Root of Spurge Laurel 1 ounce and an half All these Roots must be digged up
between the fifteenth of August and the eighth of September according to Moibanus but the Antidote is found as effectual though they be digged up later When they are cut let them be put in a glazed Pot pouring on strong Vinegar till it stand 2 inches above Then let the Pot be close covered with a Lid and let all the chinks be close stopt with Flouer and the White of an Egg well mixt together then let them boyl a little over a gentle Fire in the Pot Then open the Pot cast away the Vinegar remaining and let the Roots be dried till they may be powdered After when they are all powdered add of the Berries of herb Paris and make a Powder a drachm whereof at the most may be given in white Wine Jac. Aubertus Exerc. 42. in Fernel de abditis rerum causis to grown persons for the weaker sort 2 scruples or half a drachm is enough ¶ Carrichterus his Unguent wherewith a bewitched Girl was cured Take of Dogs grease well melted and clarified 4 ounces Bears grease 8 ounces Capon 's grease 24 ounces 3 bunches of Missletoe of the Hazle while green cut them to pieces and bruise them till they be moist then pound them altogether Wood Leaves and Berries Mix them all in a Glass which when you have set in the Sun 9 weeks you will extract a green Balsame anoint therewith the Places most pained H. ab Hee obs 8 rs and the Joynts of bewitched Bodies and upon certain experience you will Cure XLVII I have it from Dr. Geilfusius that he knew a Man who had been long ill of a Fistula in his Thigh out of which all manner of things came Rags Paper Hair c. after many Remedies had been used in vain one who was reckoned a Magician Joh. Doleus Misc cur ann 76. obs 61. strewed an ash-coloured Powder on the Wound and the sick Man was cured in a few dayes The Powder was the ashes of a Witch that was burnt XLVIII Concerning the Cure of poysonous and malignant Diseases Eustachius Rhudius l. 1. de morb occult advises to consider Whether the Body affected when the Poyson siezed him were pure and entirely sound or rather plethorick or cacochymick for the Plethory and Cachochymie must be removed before Alexipharmacks be used and he shows that this must be done very speedily in things very pernicious and that kill quickly but in those Poysons that will give truce longer time may be taken For he fears that the Plethora and Cacochymie will weaken the strength of the Antidotes and not suffer them to pass to the Part affected And indeed it must be granted that they are more in danger who when they are poysoned or seised with a malignant Disease do labor under a Plethory Cacochymie or other inward Ail for the reason aforesaid and because the Poyson more easily diffuses and multiplies it self in vitious Humors whence the Disease becomes more grievous Yet I deny that in Poysons which come to the Body from without this advice should be followed For seeing we must ever oppose that first which is most urgent and that it is certain there is most present danger of Life imminent from Poysons or that such an impression will be made as cannot afterwards be got off it is plain that the Poyson must first be opposed for if we should first employ our selves in removing the Plethory Cacochymie or Obstructions the Poyson will kill in the mean time or will so insinuate it self into the Body that no Skill can afterwards expell it But in Poysons that will give truce Sennertus the advice is not to be rejected Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physician 1. This is a most effectual Remedy to eat Garlick and drink strong Wine so that there will be need of no other Medicine if a Man can but bear the use of them ¶ A preservative that one cannot be hurt by Poyson Calaminth taken every day does naturally resist all Poyson ¶ This is a common Medicine sayes Strato which preserves from all Poyson Take leaves of Rue 20 Walnuts 2 Salt 1 grain Give this any man fasting Aetius and no Poyson will harm him 2. For eating of Mushromes One gave Hen's dung finely mixt with Oxycrate or Oxymel whereby the Patient found great relief Bâricellus 3. Against Napellus or Monk'shood the Plant that grows near the root of Napellus which is called Mâ—s. Half a drachm or a drachm of the root of this Plant may be given It is an Alexipharmack for Napellus A good Medicine also may be made of the great Flies which feed on Napellus ¶ Treacle or the powder of white water-Lily is good against white Hellebore Capivaccius 4. The Tincture of Emerauld or the Powder of it taken inwardly is the true Antidote against Toads Aug. Exlerus 5. Quintessence of Vitriol is the chiefest of all Treacles it expells all Animal Vetegable and Mineral Poysons Faber The Dose is 1 drachm at any time in some Broth or an Egg. 6. A Physician gave a Boy who had swallowed Aquaâ— fortiâ— â—â—cilage of Quinces to drink and the Boy recovered beyond all expectation ¶ For a Trembling from the fume of Quick-silver It does a great deal of good Forestuâ— if the tremulous Parts be often washed in ones own Urine 7. A drachm of Dittany in Gentian water with a little Zedoary or Citron seed drunk fasting brought away a great many Lizards from one Man ¶ The root of Walnut-tree if the upper rind be taken off and boyled in Water and Wine and drunk is good to bring away Frogs in Men as also the Powder of Bryony root taken in Milk Gabelchoverus 8. The following Experiment is highly commended by some Take of the middle rind of Elder finely scraped and a little dried in the shade 1 large handful Pour half a pint of new Goat's milk to it boyl it half away on a gentle fire Drink a draught of it Morning and Evening It is said that all Poyson which has been given a Man in his Meat or Drink for 3 years before will be utterly extirpated If it will not do at once repeat it Grulingius till at length through Gods Blessing the desired Event succeed 9. This is a most excellent Specifick against all Metallick Diseases arising from Fumes and Damps The Essence of Tartar which is thus made Take Liquor of Tartar Laudanum opiatum Oyl got out of Colcothar which being destilled will afford a Liquor 3 grains whereof for a Dose taken once in half a year is said to defend a Man from all poysonous Vapours of Metals But for him that is already infected abstract the Phlegm from the Vitriol till it grow as sweet as Honey and incline to a Purple colour The Dose 1 grain in Speedwell water Or let the Salt of Nettle be so long rectified in its Water in a moderate heat of Ashes Sand or Balneo till the fat of the Oyl appear
his Bowels being hurt I think the wound should not be enlarged for it will do no good but rather harm Because the greater the orifice is the more will the Bowels be burnt by the external Air. But if any of the parts aforesaid be wounded the dilating the orifice of the wound in the Epigastrium will do no good Idem seeing there is no hope of a Cure XLIV But if the Bullet remain within and you have no certain sign that any of the said parts are hurt you must endeavour to get it out the Patient lying upon his wound and turning himself this way and that yet so as that the orifice of the wound may look directly to the ground Then the experienced Artist must search for it and bring it out with a bended Probe But if it cannot be found and if the wound be in a part which may suffer dilatation without much danger it must be opened length-way of the muscles till it will admit a man's fore-finger And the Instrument for dilatation must not be sharp-pointed lest the Guts should be pricked when you perceive the Bullet you must endeavour to get it out by Art but if you cannot well do it let it alone Certainly I have seen some shot in the Belly who have lived after with the Bullet which it may be had fallen out otherwise if we had been forced to seek it and take it out Among which there is an Armour-Smith now alive who was shot a little above the right Groin and the Bullet lodged but could not be got out or so much as be found yet I would not suffer the wound to be enlarged Therefore it must rather be left within than make a Section Idem that is either dangerous or but with little hopes of obtaining one's desir'd end Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. A noble Bezoardick Plaster Take of Wax 1 pound Turpentine half a pound dried Toad half an ounce Bdellium 2 ounces and an half white frankincense half an ounce white Amber one ounce and an half Serpent's Skin dried No. 1. Figs No. 8. incorporate and mix them all according to Art In the end add prepared Magnet 1 drachm liquor Arsenicalis 2 ounces Spirit of Salt half an ounce Boyl them all keeping them continually stirring then pour to them Oyl of Scorpions 1 ounce and an half Mix them Make a Plaster Joh. Agricola It is very good in gun-shot Wounds 2. This is an approved Medicine in a deep wound made by a Shot Take of Bay-berries root of Aristolochia rotunda each one drachm Crabs dried in an oven 1 drachm and an half dried Burnet half an ounce Make a powder which must be boyled in 3 pounds of Wine to a third Let the Patient drink 1 ounce every day Platerus and foment the wound with it or inject it into the wound 3. This drives out all poyson from a poysoned burnt wound by a shot as I have often tried and though it be an ordinary Medicine yet it may be reckoned a great secret Take of Swallow-wort 1 ounce Valerian Tormentil each half an ounce Polypody 2 ounces Garden Angelica 4 ounces wild Angelica Marsh-mallow each two ounces nettle 1 ounce and an half root of Thymelaea 1 ounce and an half root of Scabious Valerian each half an ounce Let them be all gathered between the fifteenth of August and the eighth of September which must then be cut and put in a glazed pot well stopt with a sufficient quantity of vinegar and so let them stand 12 hours Then let them boyl an hour and an half Then pour off the Vinegar and when they are dried and beaten to powder add Quercetanus 12 berries of the herb Paris and 36 leaves Make a Powder the dose is 1 drachm in white wine A GUIDE TO The Practical Physician BOOK XIX Concerning Remedies borrow'd from Diet Surgery and Pharmacy Acidulae or Mineral Waters The Contents They cure contrary Distempers I. Not to be drunk rashly II. Whether the necessary quantity should be drunk together at one draught III. In what quantity they are to be drunk IV. The greatest dose is not to be taken it the beginning V. Whether when one is come to the highest Dose he must keep to it VI. The necessary quantity to be drunk in as little time as may be VII How many dayes they are to be drunk VIII Whether to be drunk cold or hot IX How to be emptied when they will not pass of themselves X. Whether the smoaking Tabaco help their passage XI Lying in Bed furthers their passage XII Riding is better than Foot-exercise XIII We must Purge once in eight or ten dayes XIV How one may know when to Dine XV. Sleep at Noon is to be avoided XVI The Waters are not to be drunk in the Evening XVII Whether Women should desist upon their Terms flowing XVIII Whether leanness alwayes prohibit their use XIX Divers cautions in their use XX. Whether artificial Acidulae can be prepared XXI Whether Victuals may be boyled in them XXII Of what parts Acidulae consist what Waters are understood by that name and of their vertue in general XXIII I. SPaw-Waters being endowed with the faculties of both hot and cold Minerals must needs cure both hot and cold Distempers in the same and in divers Bodies And seeing it is the property of heat to rarifie incide and attenuate and of cold to condense astringe and incrassate 't is no wonder that these waters produce contrary effects namely for instance both procure the Terms in Women and also stop their immoderate flowing For these Waters are an Empirical Medicine and the same thing happens to them as to Treacle which seeing it is compounded without reason and receives into it many things that are superfluous and repugnant to one another Heer cap. 9. 13. comes to cure various and those contrary Distempers II. A poor Country-Fellow being a long time troubled with Bleeding at the Nose and with the fluxus hepaticus drank the Mineral waters disorderly observing neither hour nor season yea in the very drinking of them whilst others use AnniseedS or Lozenges to warm their Stomachs he eat raw Apples laughing at those that advis'd him better But before a Month went about one of his Legs gangren'd so that he was glad to have it cut off and within a Month more the like Gangrene seis'd upon the Arm of the other side Heer Obs 23. about which whilst consultation was had whether it should be cut off also the poor Man died miserably III. Whether should the necessary quantity be drunk all together or be divided into several Doses This latter way is the safer for 1. being drunk at one draught the Stomach is so loaden with it that it vomits it up or 2. if it should be kept its weight would make it pass through so quickly that its vertue could not be put into act nor it self be distributed into the Body and 3. seeing they
of concoction and most agreeable to Nature XX. Ptisan is not generally good for any unless those that are in Fevers or that have an estuating Stomach or Hypochondres it produceth a thick juice especially joyned with Pine-apples and being endued with a deterging vertue it also hurries the meat off the Stomach sooner than is fitting Fortis cons 82. cent 3. XXI Many things are deliver'd concerning the choice of water and how to know which is better and which worse Some approving most of all of Rain-water as being thinnest and boiled as it were by heat others greatly dispraising it as partaking of all Malignant qualities inasmuch as it is drawn out of all things even the most hurtful and sordid Some preferring before all other Well or conduit-Conduit-water as being the best cleansed by their percolation through the Earth others thinking these to be the most thick crude and flatuous of all and some lastly esteeming Fountain or River-water the best I think it is consonant to the opinion of Hippocrates and Galen and so to the truth that Summer Rain-water that descends with Thunder and Storms is the best of all inasmuch as this is not truly made of Vapours that are thick and that ascend with abundance of moisture but of such as are thin and are hardly extracted by the force of the heat but that other Rain-water which descends from thick and very opaque Clouds and is foggy is the worst of all sordid partaking of evil qualities and easily putrefying Moreover Well or Conduit-water that is sweet and is known to be derived from the next River or Spring is better than River or Spring waters themselves unless the Ground that lies betwixt the Wells and the Rivers or Springs partake of some foreign quality But if the Well-water as it commonly does proceed from that abyss of waters that is every where under the Earth it is certainly the thickest and most crude Seeing therefore the best Rain-water cannot be procured without too great curiosity and Rain-water is seldom to be had from a River and has that danger with it which we spoke of the ground or soil it is better to use Spring or River water the best that is in or near the Town we live in especially seeing that vertue which is in the Summer Rain-water you may impart to Spring-water by boiling it and that vertue that is in Well or Conduit water you may impart to River-water by barrelling of it up For both by barrelling up the water is purged and by boiling it is moreover attenuated but Spring-water cannot be kept so well as River-water Yea and besides the boiling that Water which flows out of Springs that are high and exposed to the Sun that run down a steep place towards the Rising or Noon-Sun is wont to be more concocted and better than that which runs out of dark and foggy places towards contrary places But because one Water differs so much from another Spring from Spring River from River and Well from Well that many Spring and River Waters are worse than most Well-waters 't will indeed be better to try by proper Notes the very Water by it self omitting its manner of breaking out of the Ground and in every place to use that which Nature has provided the best there whether it run along the Ground or spring up in a Fountain or be drawn out of a Well That is best which is most simple and thin you may know its simplicity from the greatness of its want of taste colour and smell and its thinness from the quickness of its growing hot or cold as it is said in the Aphorism Valles comm in l. de vict Acut. p. 127. for you will find this a better and more exact sign than that which is taken from its weight XXII Hippocrates adds In acute Dâ—seases I have no other operation to attribute to the drinking of Water that is Water performs nothing else for the Body than to serve for drink and to serve for drink is nothing else than to be a vehicle for the Aliment You will object that it is said 6 Epid. s 4. Water is devouring that is it stirs up an appetite to meat and that Galen m. m. reports very many things of plentiful drinking of cold Water namely that it extinguisheth burning Fevers if it be taken seasonably and by a fit Person namely by such an one in whom there is neither crudity nor any inward inflammation nor weakness of any principal Part nor too much leanness of Body for these things are not to be remedied by drink only but by the best Medicines But inasmuch as it is said to be devouring that belongs not to acute Diseases but to the Diet of healthful Persons As to what we said of its extinguishing of burning Fevers Hippocrates does not deny the first vertues of Waters that is those which are in them in respect of their first qualities for he will not gainsay that they cool and moisten but only the second and third for Water neither incides nor cleanseth nor doth any other thing in a Man which belongs to the second faculties nor does it either astringe or loosen or draw or repel but as it refrigerates and therefore it neither asswageth a Cough nor brings up Phlegm nor loosens the Belly nor provokes Urine nor does any other thing that belongs to the third faculties nor does it draw forth sweat or breed Milk nor lastly is any other faculty attributed to it than to convey the aliment and to cool and moisten Idem and by cooling and moistening it extinguisheth a Fever XXIII But a little water adds Hippocrates if it be supt betwixt Oxymel or Vinegar and Honey and Melicratum or Mead brings up Phlegm because of the change of the quality of the Drinks That is if he that useth Oxymel or Mead made with Wine do betwixt these sup a little water sometimes even the water will further the Coughing up not indeed as if that were proper to the Water but because seeing it is void of all faculties it easily receives the vertues of all the things wherewith it is mingled or which are boiled or steeped in it When therefore it is drunk betwixt Mead and Oxymel it makes an inundation and moves the other drink and is mixed with it and encreaseth the fusility and therefore the Coughing up Idem XXIV Hippocrates in the foresaid place sayes that water is Cholerick to a Cholerick Nature and therefore such as have a Cholerick Nature it cannot quench their thirst but rather irritates it But how is Water Cholerick to any that is so greatly contrary to Choler seeing it is cold and moist Not surely as if it self were turned into Choler for so it cannot be but because making an inundation of Choler it does after a sort encrease it and causes it to redound this way and that way like indeed as he that pours Water into Wine makes there be more Wine namely such as is dilute Indeed
that Milk but the raw is better than the boiled for it cools more because of the admixture of much watriness which is consumed by boiling and therefore it alters less and is made thicker and less apt to temper the febrile heat On the contrary some Fruits are the better for being cold as Raisins Prunes and all such as abound with too much moisture when they are new and may be reduced to a more wholsom nature by being laid up Primiros de Febr. p. 144 XXXIV Pot-herbs and others are profitable in Fevers to alter 1. Cold as Lettuce Eâ—dive Spinach in bilious Fevers 2. Hot as Tyme Hyssop Majoran in Phlegmatick but we must not use them alone for they have no nourishing vertue in them or but little they are rather Medicinal therefore they are prescribed to be boil'd in Broths that there may be Medicin with Aliment The Sick therefore may not have leave to feed upon Herbs and Roots for most of them use to be turned into a porraceous or leeky choler in the Stomach and Galen having dispraised almost all Herbs in relation to food seems to grant Lettuces only as being less hurtful Let them therefore be taken boiled with other Aliments for alteration XXXV Moreover Salads are not disallowed of some Galen 1. ad Glaucon cap. 9. and 10. grants not only Lettuces but also Garden orach Mallows Sorrel and if Vinegar be added it will stir up the Appetite resist Putrefaction cut tough Humours open Obstructions yet but a little Oil is to be added because it is easily inflam'd in Fevers But Vinegar being used with Salads or other Meat in a little quantity cannot dry much but rather according to Galen resists Putrefaction stirs up Appetite makes Victuals pass down well colliquates and attenuates the thick and so Olera as Cabbage Spinach c. with Vinegar are not so hurtful they nourish but little are cold and moist excite appetite and being boiled in Broth and prepared or dress'd with Salt and Vinegar Primiros de Febr. p. 143. may be good XXXVI Galen in Arte parva commends Wine as a Restorative for old Men and such as are recovering from Sickness but so it is that Wine dries and does not moisten I answer that Galen allows of Wine of an indifferent age such as is pure and clear in substance namely that which is a little yellowish or whitish smells well and as to the taste seems neither altogether watry nor exceeds much in any quality whether sweetness or acrimony or bitterness but such Wine as this does not dry but moisten This we note from this place against almost all the Moderns who think that all Wine dries for if the Wine described by Galen dried doubtless it would be bad for Persons recovering from Sickness and old Men who are already too dry therefore we say that the Wine proposed by Galen for taking away the dry disposition of Persons recovering from Sickness and old Men has a faculty to moisten substantially and is temperate as to heat and dries not Sanctor art parv c. 99. for no temperate quality can dry or moisten heat or cool XXXVII It is observable that Hippocrates used Water for drink in a drying Diet and neither Wine nor Wine and Honey though both of these moisten less than Water which he did not that he suspected Wine for any reason for besides that he grants black racy Wine in an exulceration of the Womb if he had suspected Wine he should have prescribed some other Drink and not simple Water Hippocrates therefore approves of Water inasmuch as it affords very little or no nourishment to the Body the principal action of which nourishment is to recruit and moisten the radical moisture of the Body which is continually spent and so it happens by accident that water dries Add also that Drinks that nourish the Body are sooner distributed through it and by consequent moisten it than Water which because as Hippocrates said P. Martian comm in v. 183 Sect. 3. l. 1. de Morb. mul. it stays longer in the Hypochondres it does not proceed so to moisten the Body as other Drinks that are more pleasant to Nature XXXVIII Santorellus Lib. 26. Antepr c. 8. admires that Avicen has written that Snow-water is good where he says 2. 1. Doctr. c. 16. But Snow and Water turn'd to ice seeing it is clean and not mixt with any other thing that has a bad quality whether it be melted and Water be made of it or other water be cooled by it by lâ—ying it on the outside of the vessel or it self be put into water it will be good But the admiration will fall if you understand Avicen of a Morbous state wherein if you give Water diluted with Snow as a Medicine you will not err XXXIX Those do ill that let many enter into the Patient's Chamber because the breaths of many People corrupt the Air. Galen 10. Meth. cap. 8. sayes that a crowd of Friends heat the Chamber On that account the Windows are to be kept open for by shutting them the Chamber is not only heated but seeing the Putrid steams are not ventilated with the inspiration of pure Air the Patient falls into a worse condition And let none object that the Skin is made dense and obstructed by the colder Air for by the inspiration of cold Air there arises greater benefit to the Patient than there does hurt by densating the Skin But though the condensation of the Skin be the cause of heat this inconvenience may also be avoided by covering the Patient and the cold Air being breathed in will cool the internal Viscera for nothing sooner changes the temperatures of the Humours than the Air as Galen says 3. de humor comment 2. Indeed in malignant and continual Fevers there is perhaps no errour greater Sanctor Mâ—th Med. V. H. l 13. c 4. See Gal. in m. m. than to keep the Patients in close hot places and such as are full of a crowd of People XL. To change the Patient's Linnen often seems a hainous thing to the vulgar for they think that Sick Persons are made weaker thereby But Hippocrates commands all things to be kept clean about the Sick and Galen endeavours by all means to keep transpiration free that cold Air may be breathed in and steams excluded especially in continual Fevers which happen for the most part through constriction of the Pores And therefore when they are obstructed both by the sordes and Sweat there follows a retention of the vapours and steams whence the pre-existent Fever is increased or a new one is kindled on the contrary that man shall hardly fall into great Diseases whose Body has a good perspiration Comm. in l. 1. de vict Acut. In which thing says Vallesius vulgar Physicians offend who will not permit their Patients either to put on a clean Shirt or change their Sheets or wash their Face or Hands or to do any thing else that belongs to cleanliness
Physician a Drying and Sweating Diet he endeavoured to dry his Head with Bags Plasters c. he used Apophlegmatisms Sneezing yea and made an Issue behind in his Head all in vain At that time I was following my Studies at Paris he sent me a Description of his Disease to shew it to some famous Physicians I consulted severally with Monsieur Carolus Buvardus Chief Physician to Lewis XIII with Monsieur Curaeus de la Chambre Physician to the High Chancellour and with Monsieur Hurduynus de S. Jaques Physician to the Hospital of Charity They well considering the Constitution of the Patient declared The Disease was Sympathick arising from Fumes ascending from the Hypochondria affecting the Top of the Chimney i. e. the Gullet and that the tempering and exclusion of Melancholick Humours must be lookt after they prescribed him Spaw Waters the use of Chalybeates an Issue in each Leg and stopt up that in his head they order'd Leeches to the Haemorrhoids and other things to conquer the Melancholick Humours The Patient consented who a little after was rid both of his Melancholy and his Quinsey XXIII In this Controversie I think we must take great notice whether the Body abound with Bloud either naturally or because of the manner of living or of some accustomed Evacuation stopt for then I think we should bleed in the Ham or the Ancle and the same day if the Disease be urgent or the next to Breathe the Jecorary or Cephalick Vein and if the Disease abate not we must proceed to Bleed under the Tongue But if there be no such great plenty of Bloud Septalius Animad vers lib. 6. Sect. 113. I think it better not to meddle with the Veins of the lower parts but presently to open a Vein in the Arm and afterwards to bleed in the upper Veins XXIV But Bloud-letting in the Arm must be repeated not onely because it makes better Revulsion and causeth less weakness but because it is often observed that there is new afflux to the Part affected either from some other Part transfusing Matter Idem Ibid. Sect. 114. that it may ease it self of the burthen wherewith it is oppressed or by the Part affected drawing by reason of its pain and heat XXV And seeing some either in the Working of their Physick or that they naturally abhor it are apt to vomit it up again it is better always to give Potions than Pills or Bolus's for if they should happen to Vomit either a Bolus or Pills when they are suddenly and with great Violence forced to the Passage straitned with the Inflammation Idem Ibid. Sect. 115. there is no small danger of Strangling XXVI Bags that are made up with drying Powders to discuss in Inflammations of other parts must never be made use of in the Quinsey because by thickning the outer Skin Idem Ibid. Sect. 116. they rather hinder the Cure Therefore we must rather work with Moistners Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Aetius Tetrab 2. Sect. 4. c. 47. I have used in an Inward Quinsey a Gargarism of Mustard and have often delivered my Patients from danger 2. If the Swelling in the Neck will not soften J. Agric. Chirur. parv p. 802. burn an Owl in an open Pot to Powder a little of which you may blow into the Throat The Swelling will soften to admiration and break This is a Singular Secret 3. Bartoletus l. 5. part 2. c. 16. Duke Ferdinand's Powder is a great Secret in the Quinsey It is made of Mineral Crystal Cream of Tartar and Sugar For every half ounce of Crystal 1 ounce of Cream of Tartar and 2 ounces of Sugar are taken Tho. Bartholinus cent 4. hist 73. Blockwitius anat Samb Sect. 3. c. 12. 4. A Purple Thread wherewith a Viper hath been strangled is highly commended for the Quinsey 5. Let the Water or Decoction of Elder Flowers wherein is mixt a little Elder Honey and a few Leaves with one or two Jews Ears be Gargled This is recommended by experience Claud. Deodatus 6. Spirit of Nitre with Water of the Anodyne Salt Gargled hot is most excellent to allay the Inflammation Hartman prax chim 7. Take of Houseleek a sufficient quantity bruise it and strain it Take of this Juice 1 pint Sal Ammoniack half an ounce leave it in a moist place till the Salt be dissolved Distill it by an Alembick Wash your Tongue often with this Water 8. Galen Aetius Orobasius and all the Ancients commend Dogs-Turd White poudered and dried mixed with Honey and laid to the Throat Platerus 9. The Juice of Tree-Ivy swallowed gently from 3 drachms to half an ounce doth much good by repelling and digesting Eust Rud. Art Med. l. 1. c. 42. 10. This is an Excellent Remedy Take of Swallow's Nest 3 ounces Sapa 1 ounce Pulp of Cassia newly drawn 1 ounce and an half Mix them and apply it outwardly For it digests and asswages 11. This also is admirable which is made of the crum of a Loaf Milk Flowers of Roses and Chamaemil mixt together and applied after Bloud-letting Idem ibid. by virtue of which Medicine they use to spit plentifully and be much relieved Scultetus Armamen Chir. Obs 32. 12. This Gargarism is highly commended in all dangerous Quinseys especially in the beginning if the enflamed Jaws be often washed therewith Take of Saffron powdered 1 scruple and an half of the sharpest Vinegar 1 ounce Plantain Water 3 ounces white Sugar 2 drachms Mix them and make a Gargarism M. Joh. Wittichius Cons Med. 23. 13. Sennertus commends the Decoction of Berberry wood or of the inner Rind of the Hazle 14. Oil of sweet Almonds new drawn given with Sugar and a little of the Powder of a Boar's Tusk is the most present Remedy for the Quinsey and Pleurisie Anorexia or Want of Appetite The Contents It s Cure must be various according to the variety of Causes I. Food must be actually cold II. Fasting must sometime be injoyned III. It s Cure in Women with Child IV. It s Cure when caused by Choler V. When by Phlegm VI. In Consumptive Persons VII When Cured of its own accord VIII Medicines I. WOmen about sick persons desire nothing more than to remove this fault but they reckon that which is onely a sign of Health to be the Cause For this reason oftentimes the Physician is forced to provoke an Appetite It is lost 1. Because the Powers are weakned and the Bloud is not well concocted 2. Because for the former reason the acid Humour cannot be separated because of the thin Humours that are admitted We see this in them through whose Arteries noxious Humours together with the acid Humour are poured into the Stomach which often deceives Physicians while they ascribe the cause to the Intemperature of the Stomach or because it is corrupted and too thin That the loss of Appetite is to be ascribed to the fault of the
acid Humour appears from this If the Ail be alleviated by taking Acids Melancholick persons who have a good stomach after the use of Acids seldom recover We amend the loss of Appetite that depends upon some fault in the acid Humour with Acids and we see that Acids are good almost for all Diseases but those of the Breast Spirit of Vitriol is qualified by a mixture of Sulphur Vineger is good and Oranges and Lemons but people often take too much and then they fall into gnawing of the Stomach and much spitting a little Sugar qualifies them The season for giving them is in the state of Declination before Dinner not before Supper lest when their Appetite is raised they eat over-much and so be not able to bear the Assault of the Disease which is always more violent toward night nor to digest your Food the Seeds of Citrons and Oranges may both be eaten because of their Cordial Virtue The loss of Appetite which arises from decay of strength is seldom cured unless that Decay come of a cold Cause then hot and Aromatick things are proper In old Men that through weakness have lost their Appetite Valaeus m. m. p. 145. hot things are not so good inwardly as outwardly For taken inwardly in dry Bodies they create greater dryness Outwardly Oil of Mace is good and a Tost of Bread dipt in Malmsey Wine II. Rondeletius Pract. lib. 2. cap. 14. In all Loss of Appetite let the Food be given actually cold and if possible let it be set before the Patient when he is not aware of it Let such use bread well baked or a good while dried in the Air or dry Cakes well fermented and not too close III. When any one complains he never comes to his Meat with an Appetite it is advisable to make him fast till he have a stomach Vallesius 6. Epid. s 4. for starving breeds Appetite So when a Man cannot get sleep if he be forced to wake and nod standing before he be suffered to ly down he usually falls into a long and profound sleep IV. Want of Appetite in Women not with Child is cured better by Purging than Letting of Bloud for it arises of bad humours abounding in the Stomach and the whole Body In Women with Child bloud-letting is the better Cure Riverius for it is caused by retention of bloud while they are first breeding V. Because Choler dejects the Appetite by its heat to cleanse the stomach a Decoction of Tamarinds soure Prunes and Sebesten with syrup of Roses and Rheubarb should be given The morrow following this Medicine two hours before Meal let them drink a draught of cold water Rondeletius l. c. unless weakness of the stomach or something else do hinder Let them use soure Sauces and they may take a Tast of Salt things VI. But if Phlegm be the Cause after Evacuation it is best to give Acids but with detersive and salt things for what sweet things are detersive they satiate and are flatulent wherefore they are not good in this case unless a great deal of Vineger be added Idem so as they may scarce be perceived to be sweet VII For raising the Appetite Sylv. de le Boe Prax. Med. Append Tract 3. Sect. 210. which is often dejected in Consumptive Persons I think there is no better Remedy known as yet than Elixir Proprietatis if 4 or 5 drops of it be taken in Wine or some other convenient Liquor about half an hour before Meal VIII Sometimes I have known the Appetite recover of its own accord But that falls out for the most part either because of an exact Diet which sometime is rightly observed even by chance or of some notable Evacuations or Alterations that are spontaneous For when the noxious humours are conquered and amended or evacuated Idem Prax Med. Appen Tract 10. Sect. 739. the usefull and necessary ones by degrees recover their lost strength and then exert it Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians Petr. Fotest l. 18. Obs 8. 1. I steeped for a night some Leaves of Roman Wormwood and a Root or two of Dandelion a little bruised in Rhenish-Wine In the morning I strained out the Wine and gave it my Patient and which is wonderfull he voided a dead Worm and a living one and his stomach increased to a wonder 2. Peaches eaten before Meals get a stomach if it be lost through a hot cause Syrup of Peaches may be thus made Take of the Juice of Peaches scarce ripe 4 Pounds boil half away let the dregs settle then add of Pomegranate juice 6 ounces Sugar and a little red Sanders as much as sufficeth make a Syrup Idem Obs 9. The Dose 2 ounces morning and evening two hours before Meal If you want Peaches you may use Juice of foure Apples Fred. Hofman Meth. Med. p. 319. 3. In the loss of Appetite through weakness of stomach in the declination of a Disease Amber from 1 grain to 5 mixt with Faecula Ari is a specifick Also Ivory calcined without fire is very good 4. The best thing and which raises an Appetite above all others is Antidotus Thespesiana thus described by Galen Take of Smallage-seed 1 ounce and an half Myrrh Anniseed Opium each 6 drachms white Pepper 5 drachms Parsly Spikenard long Pepper each half an ounce Eusta Rud. Art Med. l. 2. c. 12. Castor Flowers of Juncus Odoratus Saffron each 3 drachms Cinnamon 2 drachms Cassia lignea half an ounce Mix them with boiled Honey make an Electuary Take about the quantity of an Hazle nut when you go to bed with 4 ounces of Water River prax Med. l. 9. c. 1. 5. Balsam of Peru is an excellent Remedy for this if some drops of it be given in Hippocras-Wine or some other an hour or two before Meal Diseases of the Anus The Contents The Way of putting it up when fallen I. We must abstain from too much Astringents II. We must spare the Sphincter in Curing the Fistula III. The Cure of the Condylomata by pricking IV. The Cure of the crested Haemorrhoids by Excision V. Medicines I. I Will propose a Way of Cure which at first sight will look ridiculous but what is of great use in the falling out of the Arse-gut Slap the Buttocks of your Patient with your flat hand five or six times or oftner that the Muscles Ani Levatores may immediately draw up the Intestinum rectum into its place Barbette Chirurgiae cap. 9. But before you thus beat your Patient it is requisite you anoint the Intestinum rectum with oil of Roses and Myrtle II. In curing the falling out of the Arse-gut you must abstain from too much Astringents lest by making the Body Costive and therefore causing greater straining Platerus you rather promote than hinder the falling of it out III. Riolanus Anthropogr lib. 2. reprehends almost all modern Surgeons in curing Fistula's which are very often bred in Ano
and pass the Sphincter-Muscle and sometime go above it for he affirms the whole Sphincter Muscle may be cut because saith he this Intestine cut is easily healed for seeing it is Flesh it must be united We also acknowledge it may be healed We deny that the constrictive Faculty can be preserved Whence it is that the Excrements cannot be retained as I have often observed and especially in a Shoomaker all whose Sphincter-Muscle was cut across and then united Yet the thin Excrements came away without his knowledge it 's true he perceived the thick but could not stop them nor was there any other reason for this but that the whole Muscle was cut And Aquapendent l. 3. de ulc c. 12. saith We ought to cut the Sphincter-Muscle yet with caution that we cut it not all but that some portion of it at least always remain whole lest the Excrements pass involuntarily Domin de Marchettis Anat. lib. 3. Therefore all the Muscle is not to be cut as Riolanus would have it but some small portion though never so little is to be saved whole lest the constrictive Faculty be utterly lost IV. Condylomata Swellings of the Anus so called from their likeness to the knuckles of a Man's fingers are irritated and grow painfull from the Afflux of the Salt and Serous parts of the bloud coming from above To take away these troubles I have experienced nothing better than to endeavour the vacuation of the Humour by pricking them Severinus Med. Eff. p. 82. A Vigneron Melancholick of a thin body but tall was frequently troubled in this nature and found present Remedy in pricking these Tubercles with a Pen-knife V. Many fleshy Excrescences grow about the Anus in Women and Boyes that live at Rome which some call the Crested Haemorrhoids and are accompanied with Chaps For curing of which Fleshy Excrescences whereas several have devised several things we after trial of various means have hitherto found no safer Remedy than to clip them off for when they are cut off the Sores they leave are quickly cured But the Chaps are healed with Oyntment of Lead and other very drying things Some cure these Crested Haemorrhoids with Waters made of Styptick things as Allum Tartar and Sublimate Amatus Cent. 2. curat 87. Some use Goldsmith's Aqua fortis But the first way of Cure is safest seeing it brings but little pain and almost no symptomes with it as we have tried by long Experience Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Aetius tetrab 1. Serm. 4. c. 24. Wolf Gabelchoverus cent 1. curat 71. In the falling out of the Arse-gut I always use warm Brine and it does very well 2. It is reckoned a powerfull and singular remedy which is made of 12 red Snails put in a Pot with Salt and Allum of each half an ounce strowed on them shaked a pretty while for when they are dead there will be a liquor at the bottom which soaked up with Cotton and applied to the Gut keeps it up 3. Hartmannus prax Chymiatr If the Gut formerly put up will stay by no means or art this is a present Remedy Take the Ashes of Scarabei pilulares strow them on the Gut that is down put it up as well as you can it will never come out more especially if for some time you use a decoction of Self-Heal Root 4. Eustach Rudius Soot of Chimneys mixt with the White of an Egg and applied is good 5. For the Fistula in ano Horatius Augenius Tom. 1. l. 12. Epist 6. Take 3 drachms of the following Powder boil it in Barley-water or if you will have it more detersive in Water and Honey then inject it into the Fistula with a Syringe The Powder is made thus Lead is beaten into very thin Plates these cut into very small pieces are steeped in very sharp Vineger for three days changing the Vineger every day when they are taken out and dried without burning they must be laboriously beaten in a Mortar to make them into a fine Powder which strowed on Malignant Ulcers doth gently correct purge cleanse and heal them without Pain and with admirable Success J. Crato l. 7. Cons 12. 6. To dry the Excrescencies so as they may not increase nothing is better or safer than the use of Crocus Martis Petrus Joh. Faber l. 3. de morbis ani 7. The Rhagades and Condylomata are cured with the Oil of Chamaemil and of Eggs wherewith if you mix Balsam of Sulphur you will have a more efficacious Remedy Joh. Stokerus pract morb partic c. 88. 8. If they be rebellious this is a good remedy Take quick Lime mix it with Honey dry it in an Oven so as it may be powdered Anoint the part and strow on the Powder they will sall off and be removed Aphonia or Loss of Speech I Cured a Woman that had been Speechless Seven years with a Cautery made in the Coronal Suture Lanfrancus tr 3. doct 3. cap. 18. Neither were Evacuations nor Unctions nor any other Remedies able to doe any thing towards perfecting the Cure till the foresaid Cautery did the work And before I closed the Cautery the Woman had a clear Voice for she had lost her Voice by an old Catarrhe coming from her Head Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians Tennet Paralie de Aphonia The best way is presently to give a Vomit of White Vitriol and Salt of Vitriol in a draught of warm Beer and a little Butter Aphthae or a Thrush The Contents Its Causes and Care I. It s Cure differs from the Cure of other Vlcers II. Medicines I. EVery Thrush hath its Rise from an offending Acid and indeed usually rising from the lower Parts by the Stomach and Gullet seldom brought into the Mouth with the Spittle Therefore a Thrush always indicates some sharp Acid doth offend in the body to which we must have a special regard not onely because of the Thrush in the Mouth but because of the Acid in the body which doth or may produce other mischief in the body from which there is greater danger of Life than from the Thrush which may indanger a Man's life by straitning the Jaws and hindring breathing and swallowing It s Cure therefore consists in the following Particulars 1. In correcting and amending the Acid Humours and Vapours that are brought to the Mouth which not onely corrode its Superficies but the inner Coat of the Gullet also and produce infinite Ulcuscles 2. In the Diminution or Expulsion of the foresaid Humours when corrected 3. In hindring a new production of them 4. In clearing the Parts affected in ripening and promoting the fall of the Thrush 5. In cleansing and healing the Parts cleared And although many have no regard to the Correction of the peccant Acid because the knowledge and doctrine of sharp things among Physicians hath hitherto been confused one onely name of Acrimony being known to them Yet now a twofold
and indeed contrary sharp being by me discovered and now for some years confirmed by the Experience of several regard must be had to the force and Mischief of each Acid and to the best correction of it And amongst many things which use to correct or allay either or both the Sharps every thing deserves commendation in curing the Thrush that concentrates the Spirits and that does it gently Amongst which are Crabs-Eyes Pearl Coral White Earth Bloud-stone c. which may be made choice of according to the Diversity of the Thrush and the peccant Acids For example When the Mouth is not onely ulcerated but the Tongue also chapt with extreme heat and other parts in like manner affected so that the very bloud runs out Bloud-stone and Dragons-Bloud are proper When a Thrush comes without such driness of Tongue Crabs-Eyes and Pearl will be the best to temper and correct the Acidity for they gently concentrate and what I have mentioned hitherto doe good in asswaging and destroying the noxious Acidity Bezoarticum minerale is also good Medicines that purge Phlegm diminish and carry off these humours when they are corrected as much as can be for all pure Acid humours are found to be like Serum and no wonder if they be joyned and confounded with other humours as Phlegm and Choler and so it is not absurd to carry them off by Specificks This is the reason why in curing the Thrush in Children we so frequently use Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb because Choler is also corrupted and by the very sharp Acid is made eruginous To say nothing now that all humours are purged by any Purgative although I think that this or that humour is more easily and plentifully purged by some certain Medicines than by others The production of Acid humours as it depends especially upon the use of Meats Sawces and Medicines that are Acid as also of a cold Air Grief or Terrour of Mind so this same production may be hindred both by abstaining from such things and by using those that are more oily or more fat and spirituous by the enjoyment of a more serene and warm Air and by recreating the mind with gratefull and delightfull things And as the Original of Acid Vapours is owing to the effervescency caused by a very sharp and powerfull Acid so the vapours will be hindred when the said vitious effervescency is corrected or hindred both by things which concentrate the potent and exceeding sharp Acid and by things which otherwise take off its edge Chalk Dragons Bloud and the like do powerfully concentrate a sharp Acid Fat and oily things take off its edge especially Opium and all Narcoticks but I prefer a Metallick or Mineral Sulphur fixt above all in comparison of which nothing I have hitherto tried does so kindly certainly speedily and safely restrain these vitious effervescencies The parts affected may be cleared of the Thrush by maturation of it and by its spontaneous Fall promoted by Medicines that kindly temper the Acid Acrimony which accompanies it and that draw the Acrimony to themselves amongst which the juice of baked or boiled Turneps is deservedly commended with a little Sugar Though less be needfull when they are baked for the juice that comes out of them then is in consistency and taste like a thin Syrup The Patient must wash and gargle his Mouth and Throat often with this juice or hold it a little in your Mouth and swallow it by degrees which I prefer because not onely the Mouth and the Parts therein contained have the benefit of it but also the whole Gullet and the Stomach which are not less troubled with the Thrush than the Mouth And this should be done in Children especially in whom we cannot expect Washing and Gargling Besides seeing this peccant Acid is kindly and effectually tempered by this juice it is also corrected in the small Guts and its ascent is hindred and the Disease is sooner cured Divers Syrups are also used as solutive Syrup of Violets Jujubes Syrup of Liquorice c. which I think doe good in that they take off the edge from the noxious Accidity by the mucilaginous juice of the Plants of which they are made I must needs commend the yelk of an Egg mixt with a little Rosewater and Sugar for it draws to it the Acid humour that hurts the Stomach and so by degrees clears the part affected and promotes the fall of the Thrush You may use it as the Turnep juice Some commend Beer with slit Figs boil'd in it Yet I have observed it ingratefull to some because of its great Glutinousness While the Thrush is ripening that is gradually falling from the Parts disaffected a new Cuticle grows under them Sylvius de le Bâ—ë Appen Tract 1. c. 5. Sect. 50. 59. and covers the Parts And although this follow of its own accord and by the benefit of the Medicines now commended yet it will be promoted by the Syrup of red Roses Honey of Roses and the like Also Bole Armenick Terra Lemnia c. ground fine with a little Plaintain Water and Sugar may be held in ones Mouth and the last part of the Cure i. e. healing it be hastened II. This is remarkable that the cure of other Ulcers is promoted when they are dried by degrees and little Humour comes from them On the contrary there is hopes in a Thrush when it is moist Idem Appen Tract 10. Sect. 2. 85. 286. and when one spits as if he were in a Flux For then the Thrush is cured with more speed and ease Wherefore as in curing other Ulcers Medicines are commended that temper the Acid Acrimony and then dry so Medicines on the contrary are good to cure the Thrush which are gentle and temper the Acid Acrimony but they must also be moist Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians Aetius 1. This helps Children wonderfully Take Galls and beat them boil them in Water to the Decoction strained add an equal quantity of Honey Make it so thick that you may be able to rub it long enough on the place with your fingers Idem 2. Fennil Root burnt applied by it self or mixt with Honey is very good J. Caes Baricellus Hort. genial p. 145. 3. Thomas Thomasius in his Idea mentions a tried Remedy how with wonderfull success and skill he hath cured the Thrush with no other thing than the Decoction of Cinquefoil Root Wolf Gabelchoverus cur 4. Petrus Angillata Writes how he hath cured a hundred Thrushes with Savory boiled in Wine to wash the Mouth It cures the Patient in two or three days Rud. Goclerius Experimentor c. 15. 5. For the Thrush in Children Take of Allum Sugar each half an ounce boil them in Plantain Water add of Mulberry juice what is sufficient wash the Mouth often it will doe much good Joel Oper. Med. Tom. 2. Sect. 7. 6. The most present Remedy for the Thrush both in young and old is this
Willis c. de Apoplexâ—â— and turned sometime on one side sometime on the other XXVI They that are stricken immediately with a deprivation of Pulse and Respiration and a little after when they are cold seem to have breathed their last must not presently be laid out and left destitute of the help of Physick Moreover were there no hope of life at all they should not be buried for three or four days Because such sometime either of themselves or by the use of Remedies come to life again Which certainly comes to pass not because the Vital Heat is kindled afresh in the Heart for it was never quite out but inasmuch as the morbifick matter being discussed or evaporated from the Cerebellum the motion of the Heart as that of a Clock Idem when the Weights are hung on is set on foot again Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. The Salt of Elder is highly commended for preservation from the Apoplexy if it be mixt with a third part of the Volatile Salt of Amber and every new and full Moon be given from one scruple to half a drachm in some convenient Liquor Martinus Blockwitius anat Sambuci Sect. 3. cap. 5. de Apoplexia Joh. Theodorus de Bry introduct in vital Philosoph tract 2. de causis curatione morborum c. 8. de gutta Also the distilled Spirit of Elder Berries will doe much good if a spoonfull of it be taken once a week at each quarter of the Moon with a little white bread and Sugar 2. The Solution or Oil of Pearl is a Secret in the Apoplexy if one have lost his Speech drop five or six drops on his tongue and he will recover his Speech 3. Decoction of Sarsaparilla is a divine Remedy in preservation from the Apoplexy for its detersive cutting and opening and strengthens the inner parts of the head especially It may be thus prepared take of Sarsaparilla cut two ounces of Primrose and Lilly Conval Flowers of each an handfull Fennil Seeds six drachms Crato lib. 6. Epist Med. 4. Steep them four and twenty hours in two quarts of Water and boil half away when it is almost boiled put in of Agallochum three scruples and an half Strain it and keep it for use The dose is five or six ounces in a morning with a drachm and an half of Cinnamon Water let the Patient sweat but not so as to weaken him much 4. Having had singular Experience of these Pills in preserving from the Apoplexy I advise the use of them whereof I give a scruple at night every time the Moon is at change and full even in Summer Take of Cubebs Calamint Mastich Nutmeg Cloves each a drachm Amber-grise half a drachm Musk six grains Idem Ibid. p. m. 15. with juice of Marjoram let them be made into Pills Idem singular consil Medic. 34 35 3â— 37. 5. Let him that is subject to the Apoplexy hold a piece of rosted Nutmeg frequently in his Mouth For this corrects the cold temperament of the Brain 6. The use of Caroway-seeds not onely eaten but smelled to is highly commended Also the following Powder is very good for Preservation Take of the Roots of Siseli Creticum one drachm of the Seeds of Rocket Cardamome White Pepper each two scruples mix them and make a Powder Let him take to the quantity of a Bean or mix it with syrrup of Betony It is good to snuff into the Nostrils Idem Ibid. Marjoram Water which hath had beaten Rocket-seed and a little Ginger steeped in it 7. You may preserve your self from the Apoplexy if once a Month you take of Hiera Hermetis three drachms and an half and thrice a week a drachm of Mithridate except in Dog-days The Hiera must be taken in the morning fasting Idem Cons 109. and the Mithridate at Bed-time 8. This Powder is good to preserve from the Apoplexy Take of White Amber prepared three drachms of Peony Root Species Diarrhodon Abbatis each half a drachm Mix them and make a Powder The Dose is a drachm every month next day after the change of the Moon in a little Aqua Vitae The use of it must be continued Idem Cons 113. and so at length the Body will be freed from the Apoplexy and from several other Symptomes 9. A Powder made of a like quantity of White Amber and Species Diarrhodon Abbatis given to a Scruple in Betony or Black-Cherry water is deservedly esteemed as a peculiar Remedy in the Apoplexy and Stone Idem Cons 149. 10. This Balsame bears the bell from all the rest Take of Oil of Nutmeg by expression one ounce David Crus Theatr. morb Heâ—metico Hâ—ppocrat lib. 20. 13. p. m. 19â— Species Diambrae one drachm of Hare's Pasterns half a drachm infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Oil of Castor for two days when you have strained it add Oil of Cloves Cinnamon Lavender Marjoram Cummin Amber each one Scruple of Musk and Amber-grise each half a scruple mix them and make a Balsame shave the head and apply it 11. This Ointment of Villanovanus is of admirable use Take of Galbanum half a pound of Gum Ivy half an ounce mix them and distill them by an Alembick take the Oil and Water and mix them with an ounce of Oil of Brick Idem Ibid. and a pound of Turpentine distill them again separate the Oil from the Water and keep the Oil for an Ointment 12. Claudius Deodate panthei hygiast lib. 3. cap. 21. de specifica particul morb cùratione p. m. 127. Apoplexia sive gutta highly commends the Semilunar Stone found above the eyes of a Carp And Johannes Vincentius Finckius enchirid Dogmatico Hermet cap. 6. de Apoplexia tells us This Stone was a Noble Womans Serret whereby she cured several of the Apoplexy of that especially which seised the Patient with the motion and contraction of the Muscles above the Eyes by giving some of them in Aqua florum Tiliae 13. A most secret and certain remedy against the Apoplexy Take of Lion's Dung powdered two pounds pour Spirit of Wine till it be covered three fingers breadth let them stand in a Viol stopt three days Strain it and keep it for use Franciscus Hildisheim Spicâ—legio 6. p. 536. Then take a Crow not quite penfeathered and a young Turtle burn them apart in an Oven powder them pour on the above-said Spirit of Wine let them stand in Infusion three days Then take of the Berries of the Linden-tree an ounce and an half of Peony seeds powdered one ounce and half Let them be steeped in the foresaid Spirit then add as much of the best Wine and six ounces of Sugar-Candy boil them in a Pot till the Sugar be melted Put it up Let the Patient take a spoonfull of it in Wine often in a day for a whole Month. In the Paroxysm give a spoonfull with Aqua Tiliae and with the same Water rub the Forehead Neck
Fr. Sylâ—â—â— de le BoeÌ„ Tract l. 1. c. 2. than too violently seeing that Sudorificks mend and correct the bad humours though they expell them not And I still prefer liquid and spirituous things before gross ones though Antimonial how dry soever are excellent in this case to wit Antimonium Diaphoreticum Bezoarticum minerale c. IV. Seeing a depraved Appetite differs according to the diversity of the thing craved I will here propound its Cure onely in general which consists in cleansing the Bloud and other humours by amendment whereof the Pica ceases of it self Idem Prix lib. 1. c. 2. I have by experience found that Volatile Salts doe more good than all other Medicines I have yet tried because they provoke the Menses gently and kindly The suppression whereof is often the cause of the Pica V. A Man troubled with the Itch had also the longing Disease for three Months He had the Haemorrhoids and within two days the Disease left him Rhodius Centur. 2. Obs 57. For the matter residing in the Veins affected the Nerves of the Stomach which once removed the party was eased of that trouble Whence it is clear that in this Disease the matter doth not always stick in the Nerves Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians for Excess of Appetite 1. Take of Hiera simplex Galeni one Scruple Petr. Forest lib. 18. Obs 8. of Rhubarb well powdered a Scruple and half with Syrup of Roses solutive make it into Pills N o xv I have cured several of this Disease with these Pills onely taken for some time 2. Hartmâ—nnus prax Chymi aâ—r p. 100. The Philosophick Spirit of Vitriol divers times given in Pomegranate-Wine Syrup of Lemons or Tincture of Roses cures most perfectly 3. Senn. de Boul. m. If in a Boulimy one be troubled with Fainting it is good presently to give him Bread sopped in Wine 4. Weikardus Thesaur Phâ—rm l. 1. c. 11. Antiquity found not a more present Remedy for this eating Evil than Bread and the smell thereof For the Appetite depraved 5. I know Hor. Aug. 3. Epist Cons p. 425. that to give a Drachm and half of the Powder of the Seed of Ammi four days one after another doth admirably help a depraved Appetite for the Women are either cured or much better by it 6. Jul Caes Claud. in Empiriâ—â— Rational p. 238. These two things have great Efficacy in the longing Disease 1. Take of Walnut Buds four Ounces Aloe Socotrina one Ounce Juice of Agrimony half an Ounce Frankincense one Drachm Scoinanth two Drachms Mash them together boil them in water till the water be almost boiled away Then strain it and to what is strained out put as much Honey give one Drachm of this every other day 2. Take of Mustard-Seed half a Scruple of Pigeons Bones burnt to ashes one Drachm and a half Seed of Purslane one Drachm Cinnamon two Scruples Juice of Quinces two Ounces White Sugar three Ounces Mix them in a double Vessel over the fire David Herlic de cur gravid c. 16. 7. This is very good Take in the Month of May the first white Buds of the Vine bruise them and distill them by an Alembick Let a Woman with Child drink a little of this for three or four days and it will neither hurt the Child nor give it any Mark though she should not get what she longed for Jacob. Holler Inst Chir. p. 49. 8. A Decoction of the greater Chamaemil that is very like Southernwood will be of great use in this case for it surpasses all other sorts of Remedies Mercurial de morb Mul. p. 3â— 9. If Women labour under a depraved Appetite Aegineta commends the use of old and odoriferous Wine the Water of Shepherd's Rod especially drunk after Meals also Dill infused in Wine Schroderus 10. Sowre Pomegranates are good for the Pica in Women with Child The Leaves of the Vine are also good Troâ—ula de Regimin Praegnant p. 101. 11. If a Woman with Child long give her Beans with Sugar Arthritis Podagra or The running Gout and Gout The Contents The running Gout and Gout differ in their Causes and Cure I. What should especially be observed in the Cure II. Generous and extraordinary Remedies are required to cure the Gout III. A Gouty person cured by nailing his feet to a Block of Wood. IV. By violent knocking of one foot against the other V. The good of Bloud-letting VI. The Hurt of it in an inveterate Gout VII Whether Bleeding in the Foot be proper VIII Why a Vomit is proper IX Whether Purging be proper X. When you must Purge in the beginning of the Gout XI Violent Purgers often taken doe hurt XII For whom Caryocostinum is proper XIII Whether Hermodactyls should be used XIV Cassia is hurtfull XV. Diureticks good in the Scorbutick running Gout XVI Whether a Cure may be performed by Salivation XVII Whether drinking Vrine be proper XVIII After what manner Alteratives given in the Paroxysm do work XIX Whether Sudorificks be proper XX. Whether Milk be good against the Gout XXI What Preparatives should be used for prevention XXII Whether Narcoticks taken inwardly doe good XXIII In what the Virtue of Antipodagricks consists XXIV Whether Medicines outwardly applied doe good XXV The benefit by Application of Narcoticks XXVI Whether the use of cooling things be safe XXVII Whether Strengtheners should be applied XXVIII The nature of Discutients XXIX Whether it be possible to dissolve the Knots in the Gout XXX A thin Diet is proper XXXI Diet doeth more good than Medicines XXXII Exercise when convenient XXXIII Bleeding will doe little good in old Men. XXXIV Purging will doe none XXXV Vsed by Empiricks XXXVI Sweating must not be procured by Art XXXVII Things that help concoction are proper XXXVIII Remedies must be used constantly XXXIX A Milk Diet good if it can be continued in XL. Medicines The sum of William ten Rhyne's M. D. Treatise of the Gout I. HIppocrates l. de Affect Sect. 3. lays down the peculiar signs of the running Gout 1. Pains of the Joints with remarkable heat not in them onely but the whole Body over insomuch that men seem plainly to be in a Fever 2. The nature of the Pains which at the very first invasion are presently acute although sometimes they are more moderate 3. The running of the Pains from one Joint to another The essence of the running Gout consists in these Three things which distinguish it from the Gout for in this the heat is not so evidently perceived at the first as in the running Gout nor till the corrupt Humour in the Veins be transmitted to the out-parts And the reason of this difference arises hence because in the Gout the Disease is in the little Veins and the inner parts in the running Gout it lies outwardly and nearer the skin 2. In the Gout the Pains at least in the beginning are not so sharp and that by reason
ran in abundance he was restless his stomach and strength were gone he was in a Fever and in much pain and that not without fear of a Gangrene Notwithstanding I undertook the Cure in this manner When I had put him in a right course of Diet I gave him a stool for he was costive with a Suppository After Supper I gave him a little Laudanum with Cinnamon Water and Confectio Alkermes The day following I gave him an Infusion of Rhubarb Agarick and Senna with a few drachms of Elect. Diacarth But that Potion scarce wrought at all the next day therefore I gave him a drachm of Pil. Coch. de Hermodactyl with a few grains of Trochischs of Alhandal Diagrydium I applied to his Arm things to asswage the Pain maintain the native heat consume excrementitious Humours and to resist Putrefaction Then I made use of an opening Apozeme for several days and when at set times I had purged him with our lenitive Phlegmagogue and with Hydrogogues he was perfectly restored Hence it appears how dangerous it is to move any thing in bodies that are impure and full of ill Humours Wherefore Galen was in the right that Wounds should be judged dangerous not onely for the Excellence of the Part affected or for their greatness but for the impurity and cacochymy of the Patient for we often see most grievous and deadly Diseases do arise from the least wound nay from a little worm while the Humours flow from the whole body to the part that is hurt Fabricius Hildanus Cent. 4. Obs 71. as to their common sink and so destroy the innate heat of that part and excite various symptomes III. A Person of Quality about five and forty years old had his Arm shrunk He took an Extract of Grana Acanthalidis and Pulp of Coloquintida for fifteen days by means whereof the Humours that were gathered there were dissolved and expelled In the mean time the part was outwardly fomented with this Dâ—coction P. Poterius cent 1. curat 79. Take of Mallows Violets Calamint Chamaemil Melilot each 1 handfull Let them be boiled with a Neats-foot in Water and Wine Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. A certain person when he had anointed his Arm that aked with the Juice of the Root of Devil's-bit was presently eased of his pain ¶ Some who have had violent pain in their Periosteum Pet. Forest l. 29. obs 28. especially at night have reaped much benefit from the Oil of Earth-worms and of a Fox You may first apply Aqua Vitae after that Fox Oil alone and last of all you may anoint with Dogs-grease as hot as you can by the fire 2. I have often experienced this Plaster to doe a great deal of good Take of pure Gumm Caranna 1 ounce and an half of Tacamahac 3 ounces of Ammoniac and Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar Bal. has Timaeus Ep. Med. l. 5. Ep. 13. each half an ounce Bdellium 6 drachms yellow Amber 1 ounce Mastick Frankincense each half an ounce Turpentine and Wax each what is sufficient Spread it on Leather and apply it to the part grieved It must be used for three weeks or a month Bronchocele or the Throat-Rupture The Contents It hath not one onely Cause nor Cure I. One ceasing when the Swelling broke of it self II. By Application of an actual Cautery III. Caution must be used in cutting of it out IV. If Medicines prove ineffectual we must have recourse to Incision or a Seton V. Medicines See Strumae I. CElsus defines Bronchocele to be A Swelling in the neck betwixt the skin and the Aspera Arteria wherein sometimes dull flesh sometimes some Humour-like Water or Honey is contained Platerus makes the cause to be Wind breaking in under the skin and the general Membrane under and adhering to the skin in the forepart of the neck But the cause of that Aërial Collection he makes to be the loosening or separation of the skin with its Membrane which is thicker and redder in that place than elsewhere from the seat of the Aspera Arteria and fore-Muscles of the Neck into which space when made the Air or Wind to avoid a vacuum breaks in and not onely by filling it raises the skin and Membrane into a Tumour but by continuance distending it much encreaseth it whence it is rightly called Bronchocele as if it were a Rupture of the Throat And he makes the cause of the separation of the Membranes to be violent straining either in going to stool or in labour in Women There is truth in both opinions although Sennertus thinks it scarce probable that Wind alone can procure so lasting an evil ¶ I saw an example of the first kind Anno 1660. in my own Maid Petronella Definod a faithfull servant who died of a Consumption and Dropsie in her Breast and Belly In the process of her Disease sâ—e had a huge Throat-Rupture which had disfigured her Neck for ten years I ordered the Swelling to be opened with a Razor there was underneath glandulous flesh swimming in great store of purulent Matter which had flowed thither from the Breast and Lungs ¶ I had an example of the latter kind in a noble Matron who upon her straining in Travel and holding her Breath contracted that Ail on a sudden She went with it two years but at length it dispersed of it self without any Medicines or remainder of it behind ¶ That driers may properly be prescribed for this Disease the example of a Small-coal-man in Geneva doth shew whose Neck was beset with one of these Swellings as big as his head but by his continual stirring in and carrying of Coals and by inspiration of the Dust he obtained a perfect Cure and at this very time his Dewlaps hang at his Neck as upon an Ox. Arnoldus de Villa nova his Powder is very Efficacious and deserves commendation while the Disease is new Take of Sea-Spunge Pila marina Pepper long and black Ginger Cinnamon Sal Gem Pellitory of Spain Galls Sponges Bedegar each 1 drachm pound them all together except the Sea Sponge which must be burnt and its ashes mixt with the rest and sierced let him hold a little of this frequently in his mouth both night and day he may take a little of it often in a day ¶ Amongst topical Medicines this of Aetius discusseth which hath Of Quick-lime Gum-Ammoniac Bdellium Shells burnt in an Oven Verdigreece live Sulphur each alike quantities mix them up with Vinegar and then make them up with Sewet or Turpentine and apply it ¶ Also Vnguentum Valesci is good Take of Euphorbium 1 ounce Sulphur Sandarach each half an ounce Wax and Oil as much as is sufficient Make it into an Vnguent with which anoint the Neck and apply the Plaster above prescribed For saith he in good ones of a years standing we wrought by way of Resolution as we said but now and thereby we had honour and obtained benefit II. One called Blandin had his neck
speaks thus But such saith he as are wasted with bad humours gnawing the mouth of their stomach you must cause them to vomit with warm water or water and oil If they be hard to vomit you must first warm the places near the mouth of the stomach and the hands and feet but if they cannot vomit this way they must provoke it by putting their finger or a feather in their throat But if this way neither will doe they must again take the best Oil can be got a little warm for Oil usually does not onely provoke to vomit but also makes the Belly loose And this is very good in the present case wherefore unless it happen of it self it must be procured by Art and this thing above all we must attempt with proper remedies Where he proposes Medicines to purge sharp and biting humours such as both take off the acrimony and purge not onely by vomit but by stool Water and Oil moisten loosen and obtund Oil answers this intention best for sometimes it causes vomit sometimes it gives a stool yea and sometimes it doth both but because it doth not strengthen but make lax he therefore gives Wormwood boiled in Honey and Water And at length when Superfluities are every way purged out of the Stomach and Guts he then applies himself to strengthning with astringents inward and outward This way of cure differs from the former where he supposed the Heart-burn less than to cause sainting namely such a Heart-burn as comes by sits and may be cured in the intervals But here he supposes a dangerous Symptome namely Fainting Therefore in the former Cure Galen would have us first strengthen the mouth of the stomach and proceed afterwards to vacuate the whole by letting bloud or purging but here he makes no mention of evacuation Again in the former he would have us onely take care of the mouth of the stomach but here he explains the way to mitigate to purge by vomit and stool and to strengthen What therefore is the reason of this diversity No other certainly but because the Heart-burn and all Gnawing of the stomach is rather to be corrected with obtunding and alterative Medicines than enraged with evacuating ones But when necessity is urgent we must make use of these but then they must be moderate in their kind such as both obtund and purge from the place Hor. Auâ—egenius Tom. 1. Epist l. 1. p. 128. as in the case proposed by Galen i. e. when Fainting is either expected or actually present IV. Celsus l. 3. c. 19. saith the first Indication in the Heart-burn is to apply Cataplasms to the Stomach which may repress it Secondly to stop Sweating For this he is grievously found fault with by some because when this Disease sometimes takes its original from the sole acrimony of humours in the Stomach sometimes beside that from a base poisonous quality yet before the peccant humour be either vomited or purged or if it cannot be evacuated before its acrimony be taken off or its base quality subdued he applies astringent Medicines to the mouth of the stomach whereby the matter is more stufft and rendred more stubborn in evacuation and alteration Yea Galen 1. ad Glauc 14. while the bad humour is yet contained in the part grieved he bids us in the beginning onely warm the parts near the mouth of the stomach and the hands and feet to make the part affected lax that so it may more easily discharge and divert the matter All which things indeed as they are true when the Disease gives truce and time allows the use of such Remedies so when the case is hazardous and strength sinks which is Celsus his case wherein the Body is melted with immoderate Sweat and the Pulse is low and weak we must immediately have recourse to strengthners as Galen there advises See the place at large above Besides astringents first strengthen the mouth of the stomach but then they are the cause that when it is strengthned it forces the noxious humours downwards that used to rise upon it which falling downwards Rubeus com in loc citat and stimulating the lower passage of the stomach are at length discharged by stool V. While the Heart-burn continues and the matter is much diminished we may safely proceed to things that intercept the course of the humours to the stomach to be given two hours before the Fit if a Fever be joined with it And they are incrassating and astringent things as Take of prepared Pearl 1 drachm true terra sigillata half a scruple Scorzonera water 4 ounces Pomegranate-wine 2 ounces Give a spoonfull often You may add 5 drops of Tincture of Corall Fortis If it be malignant give new Treacle with Pearl VI. Hippocrates cured a Woman of the Heart-burn without intermission by giving her Barly grewel with some juice of Pomegranate in it and eating once a day Now if the Pain came from Cold how could Pomegranate-juice be proper If from Heat why must she eat no more than once a day For they that are so held are hurt by nothing more than Fasting insomuch that unless they eat something in the morning before their usual dinner time they either faint or at least feel a greivous gnawing and they are never better than when their Stomachs are full of victuals whereby the Bile is imbibed and the close contracted Stomach is not receptive of it Certainly her Disease was from a fluxion of hot humours and they that are so held must take food neither in a small quantity nor thin because such corrupts and increases the Cacochymy but if a good quantity and substantial be taken it frees from fluxion and concocts Nevertheless a great quantity taken often can never he concocted especially in an indisposed Stomach therefore they must eat plentifully and but once But because they cannot pass any long time without all manner of food they should use some light and medicinal Breakfasts and Suppers such as Barly-grewel with Pomegranate-juice Therefore Hippocrates does not here mean by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all tasting of Food but one full dinner so his advice is to dine once well and at other hours to take a taste of something medicinal which cannot load the Stomach as if you should advise one to take a Tost and small Wine for Breakfast in Winter Vallesius sect 2. Epid. lib. 2. and Pomegranate-juice in Summer and for Supper Barly-grewel with that juice or a baked Pear Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. The Stomach of an Osprey dried to Powder and drunk doth wonderfully help them that cannot digest their meat but it must not be continued for it causes leanness ¶ In a continual Pain and Vomiting when nothing will stay in the Stomach this is an approved Remedy Two Yelks of new-laid Eggs a spoonfull of Honey Powder of Mastick half a drachm let them be made hot in live Embers in an Egg-shell Al. Benedictus take this thrice a-day
restlesness toward the latter end of the day was so great that I was forced to use Laudanum two grains of which in Pills swallowed every evening gave him a quiet night upon the return of day Vomiting of mere bile followed yet he could bear it well Then he drank a little strong Capon broth and that he might quench his intolerable thirst with drink a draught or two of his Emulsion was given him Within an hour almost his restlessness returned with difficulty of breathing which threatned Suffocation for none could be more extreme In the mean time the Patient desired a draught of simple water I should easily have granted it him considering he was in the flower of his age and that his disease was cholerick but because the by-standers usually reckon this strange and destructive to the Stomach not accustomed to it that I might satisfie both parties I perswaded him to natural Water but Medicinal namely the Wells at Egra in Bohemia In the mean time that I might stop his longing I commended those of Silesia As soon as they came he presently quenched his thirst and they did him good Sigism Grassius obs 99. miscell curios An. 4 5. When I visited him the next day he told me he had rested well that night he commended the Waters as gratefull both to his palate and Stomach and there were some hopes that he began to recover this hope continued so that after dinner he could sleep a little When eight days were over he signified to me he was perfectly well but that there remained some little effervescence of humours and thirst I sent him word he must continue the use of the Waters After this method but the attempt is bolder the Inhabitants of the Alps in Switzerland are said to drink Ice in cholerick Fevers Diarrhoea's and Dysenteries ¶ Borellus saith cent 2. observat 27. that he cured a Woman onely by drinking fair Water and applying Ceratum Santalinum to the region of the Stomach XIII A Woman was taken with a Vomiting and Loosness in the Month of July about Noon and before night she had twenty stools with grievous pains about her Guts and Stomach so that she was opprest with Vomiting likewise and voided much sharp and cholerick humours Being called in the evening I advise my Patient to drink a glass of Vinegar and Water till other Medicines were got ready the operation of which was so effectual that her Vomiting and Loosness were presently stopt Riverius cent 4. obs 8. and no other remedies were used because she said she was well XIV A certain Bricklayer when he was but newly Married went home every day at noon to his Wise from the Kiln which was about 2 Miles It so fell out about middle of Summer while he was too vigorous in her Embraces Dom. Panarolu◠Pentec 2. obs 11. that he voided great plenty of bloud upwards and downwards for the heat and motion had opened the mouths of the Veins nor would I call this disease by any other name than a bloudy Cholera for besides his losing about twelve pounds of bloud there were other very bad Symptoms namely want of Pulse with loss of strength Hippocratical face cold sweat and he was in a dangerous condition But by giving him four scruples of Bloudstone in Pomegranate-Wine he was presently cured to the great admiration of all men XV. When there is imminent danger from the violence of the pain we must fly to Narcoticks which when given prudently are often attended with good effects Some mix them with Purgatives that both the pain may be asswaged and the peccant matter carried off Forestus commends this of Elidaeus Take of Diaphoen half an ounce Philonium Romanum 2 Scruples Riverius pr. l. 9. c. 11. with either the Water or decoction of Chamaemil make a Potion XVI If there be a necessity of purging downwards that is when it moves imperfectly and is cholerick we must abstain altogether from Manna and Medicines made up with Honey or Sugar for they presently corrupt and turn to choler But Whey will be the best remedy of all or a Potion made with Cassia which lays the heat takes off sharpness and purges gently But if putrefied phlegm or thick Choler cause it nothing will be better than Mel. Rosatum S. ptalius Ammad vers l. 7. Sect. 2. or Solutivum in Whey or in an Infusion of Red Roses Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians Benedictus 1. Among other things Syrup of Mint with Pomegranate-Wine is highly commended if the Pomegranates themselves with their inner pulp be put in the Press 2. I gave one a little Cummin-seed powdered in Beer then of the decoction of Barley 4 ounces with Syrup of Infusion of Roses one ounce a little Honey of Roses strain it and take it then I anointed the whole part with oil of Dill and Chamaemil By which means Forestus without any other Remedy he was cured to a Miracle Fr. Joel 3. I have found no better remedy for this disease than Crocus Martis Paracelsi ¶ This also wonderfully stops a Vomiting and Loosness Take of the Mud in the bottom of Smiths Troughs in which they quench their Iron mix it with a little Vinegar and apply it warm to the Stomach for a Cataplasm Langius 4. Crystal is a most approved and excellent Remedy in a Vomiting and Loosness Half a drachm of it may be given alone or made up with other Medicines Mercatus 5. Outwardly I find Emplast de crusta panis or Bread new-baked and dipt in Pomegranate juice if it be timely applied doth much good in a Vomiting and Loosness from a hot Cause ◠olfinkius 6. In strengthening the Stomach a decoction of Mint has great virtue Coeliaca Affectio or Loosness See Lienteria Book 10. How it may be known and cured WHen too much is voided by Stool considering the quantity that is eaten seeing the usefull part must necessarily also perish we must consider whether the disease should be reckoned a Lientery or a Coeliack Passion or some other disease for if food a little after it is taken be voided and so there is a Lientery because the stay of the food and the necessary retention of it in the Stomach is hindred through some fault in the Stomach which is out of order and presently excludes all it takes it must either be strengthened or freed of its troublesome Irritation by Medicines that temper the humours and if they abound that may carry them off But if the Food do make the necessary stay in the Stomach be rightly and sufficiently fermented in it and do make a pultaceous mass which is voided such downwards and if there be that sort of Coeliack passion which I think may be called an Icterick Loosness by reason of the defect of Secretion of the Chyle and Excrements and that either through absence or sluggishness of the bile that this evil may be cured and the
piece of thin white Linen or Silk be wet in the Liniment and applied to the burnt place and let it not be taken off till the ail be healed but every day twice or thrice at least let the Linen be wet again After 4 days are over Omribonus Ferrariuâ— Art med Infant l. 4. c. 25. instead of Whites take Yelks of Eggs and so let the use of it be continued till it be skinned over again Then as a new skin comes the dead skin must by degrees be clipped off day by day till it be all taken away which done no mark of hurt will appear III. If Blisters and Pustules arise and the Sore be not at all the worse they must not presently be opened for if they should the place will smart because the skin is laid bare and the cure will proceed more slowly but on the third day when the skin begins to grow again they should be opened and the opening must be deferred no longer Sennertus lest the contained humour grow sharp and erode the skin IV. The Heat may be restrained at the same time inwardly Digby in his Treatise of the Sympathetick Powder Wedelius highly commends Spirit of Salt as an excellent Balsam for this purpose Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. That hair may grow on burnt places Aegineta Take Fig leaves fried in Oil and apply them with some Ointment instead of a Plaster 2. This is wonderfull good for burns Aetius Take of Verdigrease and Litharge of Silver equal portions mixt with Wine and Oil. Anoint with a Feather 3. Oil of Saturn is very good for Burns ¶ For Burning or Scalding in Oil Fire or Water Take of Oil-Olive 2 ounces Whites of Eggs No xvj shake them together till they become an Ointment anoint the place There is not a better Medicine in Nature Joh Apâ—icula ¶ Take Saccharum Saturni what is sufficient add Oil of Roses Mix them make an Unguent anoint the place within 24 hours it extinguishes the heat 4. For Burns I have known people cured in 9 days who have been burnt with Gunpowder or some other way with an ointment of pure and fresh Oil of Nuts mixt with as much Yelks of Eggs anointed on the burn twice a day ¶ A good Ointment also is made of the middle rind of Elder cut and mixt with the fat of a Loin of Mutton Oil-Olive and Juice of Prick-Madam or with Oil onely ¶ A wonderfull Oil for a Burn Let fat boiling gently fall drop by drop upon Bay-leaves anoint the burnt place with this Oil Pet. Borellus and in 3 days it will be cured as by inchantment though the place be very sore Burnt 5. Take Water in which Quicklime is quenched shake it till it be thick Chalmaetaeus with Oil of Nuts first boiled and anoint the place 7 days It is a present Remedy 6. Take fresh Butter not salted boil it with Goose-dung strain it over cold fair-water Melt it again and pour it on fair-water as before The oftner this is done of the greater virtue it will be Last of all let it be washed in Rose-water Anoint the place with it it presently asswages the pain Dorncrâ—llius and cures old deep Ulcers caused by Burning 7. The following Unguent powerfully draws out the Burn and suffers not Blisters to arise Take raw Onions 2 ounces and an half Salt Venice-Sope each 1 ounce Mix them Add of Oil of Roses and of sweet Almonds what is sufficient Make an Unguent ¶ The Cure of the second degree of Burning Pickle wherein Sauces are kept made of Vinegar Water and Salt if cloths be dipt in it and applied but not to the eyes doth wonderfully repress the humours asswage pain and oppose the Burning ¶ This is a most excellent Unguent for all Burns Take of fresh Butter washed in Rose-water 3 ounces Oil of Olives Eggs Sweet Almonds each half an ounce Barly-flower 2 ounces and an half Saffron 1 drachm Mucilage of Quince-Seeds 1 ounce and an half Wax what is sufficient Make an Ointment It mollifies lays pain and by little and little brings a Cicatrice ¶ This is a most excellent Unguent in all Burns Take of Diapalma Plaster 2 ounces fat of a Hen a Goose each half an ounce melt them add of burnt Alume calcined Lead Litharge of Gold Lapis Calaminaris each 1 drachm Gul. Fabricius with as much Mucilage of Quince-seed and Faenugreek as is sufficient in a Leaden-Mortar make an Unguent 8. A Man's Face that was burnt with Gunpowder was restored and healed with Butter of Saturn presently applied with Spirit of Henbane and Mandrake and Rose-water these Remedies being often changed that they might take off the acrimony of the burnt Nitre The pain ceased within three or four hours and within six or eight days he was perfectly cured onely with Butter of Saturn and Yelks of Eggs. And the Butter is made thus Of red or white Lead or Litharge well boiled in Vinegar that Vinegar filtred is joined with Oil of Violets oâ— of Yelks of Eggs and these two with much shaking are converted into a Butter which is called Butter of Saturn It is a secret for all burns ¶ The earth of Quick-lime deprived of all its Salt Joan. Petrus Faber by many washings is a very effectual Remedy if it be mixt with Oil of Violets 9. A Boy of mine being sick of the Small Pox fell in the fire and burnt his eyes but after I had made a Mucilage of Quince Seeds in Rose-water and anointed his eyes often with it the Child recovered to a miracle without any mark of burning Forestus Which Remedy I have also used with success in others 10. Oil of St. John's wort mixt with washed Lime is a most effectual Remedy in any Burn though it be with Gunpowder ¶ If the hands or feet be scalded hold them a good while in strong Vinegar or apply Linen-clothes dipt in Vinegar and not strained out for it allayes pain and heat and hinders Blisters ¶ The Juice of Onions is reckoned also a most excellent Medicine or raw Onions pounded with Salt and applied but this must be done in the very beginning while the Skin is whole and not excoriated otherwise it would doe much harm ¶ If a Burn be caused by Shot Take of Litharge a quarter of a pint boil it gently in an Iron fryng-pan till the Vinegar tast sweet then separate it for use Take of this Water 1 ounce in which dissolve of Nitre 1 drachm Camphire 1 scruple Mix them make an Unguent which must be injected hot into the wound by a Syringe and a tent must be covered with this Balsam Take of Oil-Olive half a pound Turpentine 4 ounces best White-wine a pint and an half Flowers of St. John's-wort 3 handfulls Mullein a handfull and an half Red-roses Chamaemil each 1 handfull lesser Centaury 1 handfull and an half Celondine Flowers half an handfull Self-heal 1 handfull Draw off
taken with an Opisthotonos and then with a most grievous Tetanus so that he could neither open his mouth nor swallow any thing D. Brambachius orders Palmarius his Cordial Water to be forced down but his throat denies it passage He also prescribes Clysters he orders fumes of Sulphur thinking it an Alexipharmack for Quicksilver and Inunctions for the neck of proper things but all in vain for he died in twenty hours ¶ So a certain Goldsmith as he was gilding silver Corslets Ph. Salmutâ— cent 3. obs 39. and did not take care as he ought to have done of the fume was taken with a shaking in all his Limbs and was perfectly restored onely by the use of Stapedian Treacle-Water having tried other things in vain Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. In a Convulsion caused by a wound in the head this is a most excellent Remedy Take Oil of Snails Worms Sesamum each 1 ounce and an half Fat of a Wether a Fox each 1 ounce Spirit of Juniper Wine 4 ounces Mix them and stir them upon the coals Joh. Agricola till the Spirit be wasted then add Oil of Chamaemil Linseed each 2 drachms Oil of Amber 1 drachm Mix them make an Unguent wherewith anoint the neck ¶ It is very good to hold the bone of a Pheasant's-wing a while in the hand on that side where the Convulsion is 2. Castor is the most secure ready and effectual Remedy of all ¶ Goat's-piss also drunk with water fasting is very good Donat. ab Altomari ¶ Also if you take equal parts of Castor White-Pepper and Parsly and beat them together and take them in a Spoonfull of Honey and two or three spoonfulls of Water fasting It is an excellent remedy for them that have the Convulsion backwards and has been tried by often experience 3. In a Convulsion from repletion a drachm or two of Consectio Anacardina is commended above all other things Jul. Caes Claudinus if a Fever be to be raised ¶ Take a fat live Goose draw her let a Cat cut small some add an Eel also old Bacon Myrrhe Time Elder and Capital herbs be sowed in her belly then let her be rosted and let the second fat that drops be kept for an Ointment 4. This Unguent is good for the Cramp Take of fresh Goose-grease 4 ounces Oil of Cloves half a scruple Crato of Cinnamon 5 grains Mix them 5. Oil or Spirit of Turpentine applied both inward and outward takes away all Cramps and Convulsions with which the Spine the Navel and the other parts affected must be anointed ¶ Water-Lily with red and white flowers dried in the shade and hung on the bed Câ—aud Deodatus or the wall in a moment of time cures all Convulsions as Carichterus testifies 6. Take old Treacle Conserve of Rue each 2 drachms Oil of Box 10 grains Make an Electuary The dose is a small Pill twice a day It is a very profitable Medicine which has a Specifick quality Râ—deric a Fonseca and Oil of Box has a great prerogative in this disease yea and you may anoint the beginning of the Spine the Temples and the Wrist with the same Oil. 7. I learned of an excellent Swimmer that Beetles were admirable good for Cramps and Convulsions Kâ—rcherus who always anointed his nervous parts with Oil of Beetles 8. Take of Oil of Amber half an ounce Mucilage of Briony what is sufficient Oil of Cloves 6 grains Mix them anoint the place with the root of its Nerve Ber h. Penotus and it will presently be dissolved repeat it and presently wrap the part in a Wether's Skin new flain 9. Among Topical Medicines Oil or Balsam of Galbanum is an excellent one ¶ A Weezle rosted in the belly of a Goose as the Cat was is good ¶ Sulphureous Bathes are good ¶ This Electuary is highly commended Take of Castor Sagapenum Opoponax each 1 drachm Succus Cyreniacus 1 drachm and an half Acorus Scordium each 2 drachms three Peppers Schaenanth Caroway each 2 drachms Asarum a rosted Squill each 1 drachm Juice of Stoechas Arabica 1 ounce Honey what is sufficient let what ought be beaten and mixt with Honey of Rosemary Sennertus Make an Electuary The dose is half a drachm in Mede 10. The following Powder leaves a wonderfull effect Take of the Root of Swallow-wort Devils-bit Elecampane Poeony Mace Cloves each 1 drachm and an half Bay-berries half a drachm Rosemary-flowers Sage Mother of Time each 15 grains Spec. Pleres archon Diamoschi dulcis Diambr each half a Scruple Make a Powder The dose 1 drachm August Thonerus with Water of Poeony Black Cherries each 1 ounce and an half 11. For a Convulsion arising from the Head-ach I applyed this wonderfull efficacious and most usefull Ointment often tried by me in such cases which I have ever found sure in a Tetanus and in contractions of the Nerves Take of old Oil 4 pounds Betony Elder Sage each 1 handfull Roots of Marshmallow Acorus Aristolochia rotunda each 1 ounce Earth-worms washed in Wine 3 ounces Opoponax Castor each 3 drachms Flowers of Rosemary Stoechas each 1 Pugil Red-Wine half a pound Juice of Sage Betony each 2 ounces Let all boil to the consumption of the Wine and Juices Strain and press it hard Add of Fat of a Bull a Duck each 2 ounces the Marrow of a Calf's-Leg 4 ounces Mucilage of Faenugreek 3 ounces of both the Stoechas's Nutmeg Cloves each 2 drachms Franc. Valleriola Wax what is sufficient Mix them make an Unguent which I ordered to be applied hot over the Neck 12. This is an incomparable Cataplasm Take of Root of Marshmallow Bryony fresh each 2 ounces Mandrake 1 ounce Leaves of Green Henbane Mallows each 1 handfull Boil them in Milk To them mashed add of Linseed Psyllium and Quince-seed each half an ounce the Fat of a Dog a Goose each 1 ounce Oil of sweet Almonds fresh-Butter each half an ounce Bay-berries 2 drachms Arnold Weikardus Saffron half a drachm Make a Cataplasm Cordis Affectus or Diseases of the Heart See Palpitation Book 14. Swooning Book 17. and Book 19. Cordials The Contents In the Cure of a hot disease hot Medicines are convenient I. The Cure of Worms in the Heart II. A Medicine 1. ALthough in cold Diseases of the Heart Hot things are absolutely convenient yet in hot Diseases simply Cold things are no way expedient but things remissly hot The reason is because when we would change the hot complexion we are not content with coolers by reason the substance of the Heart consists of innate heat which must not be extinguished but coroborated And therefore for the present the conservation of strength is principally respected Because the Heart is the Workhouse of life and heat Therefore Conciliator Enucleatus Sect. 196. although in respect of a cold disease hot things be indicated nevertheless in respect of the part affected moderate and not excessive
and apply it to the aking tooth ¶ To preserve the teeth the inner rind of Barbery steeped in Water and to wash the mouth therein is very good in the morning ¶ Also Spirit of Vitriol mixt with Water is very much commended because it preserves the teeth from putrefaction and whitens them For a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol mixt with Sugar or Honey of Roses cleanseth the teeth wonderfully Joh. Crato and helps putrid teeth and gums and Ulcers of the mouth 10. Take Oil of Cloves half an ounce dissolve in it of Camphire half a drachm then add some Spirit of Turpentine four times rectified mix them A drop or two with a little Cotton put in the hollow tooth presently stops the Pain Osw Croâ—â—â—us Basâ—chym 11. The Salt of the fruit of the Fir-tree which is called the fixt Stone of the Jovial-tree is good for the Tooth-ach if it be dissolved in a little Vinegar and held a while in the mouth ¶ Take of Wild-poppy Hen-bane Sweet-williams Baum each a like quantity make of them a Crystal Salt put a few grains of it in a hollow tooth It is a certain Remedy Mich. Crugner 12. Take dried Hops rub them a little put them in strong Vinegar boil them a little and strain them Wash the mouth and gums with the Liquour for it is wonderfull Tob. Dorâ—crellius 13. The Quintessence of Coloquintida is a great Secret in curing and easing the Tooth-ach The Dose is half a drachm or a drachm in some Broth or Syrup Pet. Joh. Faber ¶ The chymical Salt of Lizards cures the Tooth-ach admirably 14. A Turnip rosted in the ashes and applied hot behind the Ears is held for a Secret Certainly it repells violently and cures the Tooth-ach effectually as I have had experience and can testifie also of others Fienus 15. Take the leg or thigh a Toad cleanse it from the flesh Leon Fioravantus Rub the aking teeth with the bone and the Pain ceases in a moment 16. The Tooth-ach vanishes when the Archaeus is mortified which is done by sharp Remedies as the root of Pellitory of Spain and of the Nettle with the red flower Franc. Oswald Grembs the white substance whereof being scraped and applied to the tooth wonderfully mortifies its raging 17. The Secret of the King of Poland In a clear day powder a Load-stone and calcine it in a glazed Pot till it wax green Of this with Meal Wine and Gum Tragacanth make Lozenges to put into the teeth which in a moment stop their aking ¶ Take a clove of Garlick Philip. Grulingius a little Treacle a clean Cobweb Mix them make a Plaster apply it for some hours to the median Vein on that side the teeth ake on the most violent Pain ceaseth and returns not in some years 18. If some Oil of Box in Cotton-wooll be put with a Probe into a hollow tooth J. Caldere de Heredia it presently takes away Pain 19. Fill a Womans Thimble full of Salt of Ashe and apply it to the temporal Arteries where you find them beat in a short time it makes a knot in the Artery Riolanus whereby the flux is intercepted IV. For Loosness of teeth 1. I have had frequent experience of this Take Pomegranate flowers unripe Galls dried Roses and Spurge with a little Alume boil them in Vinegar and harsh Wine till a third onely remain Hold the Decoction hot a long time in the mouth Alex. Benedictus 2. Take of Acorns 1 drachm Galls half a drachm burnt Alume Acacia each 2 scruples Red-rose flowers 1 handfull Berph Gordonius Boil them in a quart of Red-wine Let the teeth be often washed with this Decoction Arn. Villanovanus 3. Pimpernel-root chewed fastens the teeth wonderfully V. For Black Foul and Bleeding Teeth 1. There is not a better remedy than a Pumice-stone red hot and quenched in White-wine twice and the third time left till it be cold and then without any farther quenching beaten and washed If the teeth be rubbed therewith it makes them exceeding white Pet. Bayrus 2. Take of dried Rosemary powdered Whitebread powdered each 2 drachms red Coral prepared 1 drachm Alabaster half a drachm mix them make a Powder with which rub the teeth every day and wash the mouth with Rosemary-water In a short time you will find the admirable efficacy And. Libâ—vius VI. For Drawing of teeth 1. Dock-root heat in ashes and continually applied to the tooth draws it out in a short time ¶ Also burn Earth-worms and powder them and having scraped the tooth round about strew it on plentifully and in a day and a night it falls out of it self Therefore use it confidently for it is celebrated often as a Mystery Aetius 2. Clear the tooth a little from its place with a Pen-knife and then strew on it Powder of Euphorbium For this if any thing will draws out bones Or Juice of Spurge mixt with Meal may be put in the tooth and the rest fenced with Wax For Spurge-juice makes the teeth to swell After 2 or 3 days the tooth will be so loose that you may take it out with your fingers Joâ— Heurnâ—us or with an Instrument easily 3. To make the teeth fall onely gut a Lizard and drie it Octav. Horatianus and touch the tooth or the hollow of it with the Powder and it will presently drop out 4. Take a grain of Mastick or Frankincense fit for the hole stop it well carry it day and night but take it out in the morning and wash the mouth with Water something salted a Decoction of Sage or of burnt Harts-horn Put in another grain and continue it so long till the tooth fall out piece-meal Aâ—dr Libâ—vius and this is done without any hurt 5. Bastard Hellebore has a virtue beyond all other things to make teeth fall if you rub them with a bruised leaf Riverius but you must have a care what teeth you touch for they will all fall out 6. Gum of Ivy that grows on an Oak draws out any tooth ¶ Some affirm upon certain experience that if you take a Whelp 3 or 4 days old and cut off his left Ear and with the bloud anoint the teeth Joh. Stenâ— Sâ—robelâ—â—â—gâ—â—s all that are anointed will fall out in the night Diabetes or The Piss-pot Dropsie The Contents Bloud-letting is not proper I. When a Vomit is proper II. Purging is proper III. What Purgers are proper IV. Whether Diureticks be proper V. Sudorificks are suspected VI. Narcoticks are good VII Astringents are not always proper VIII Too much are hurtfull IX Sylvius his Cure X. It must be cured by restoring the tone to the bloud XI Sometimes it proceeds from a cold Liver XII The Cure of it in a young person XIII In a spurious one we must not cool XIV Quinces breed the Diabetes XV. Whether a Bath be proper XVI One quickly cured XVII We
Dysentery from Bile alone what way soever corrupted or made sharper by it self for after the lixivious Salt of the Bile is made extreme sharp then indeed it will any where else as well as in the small guts cause a Gangrene but never an Ulcer for an Ulcer is an effect of an acid not of a lixivial Therefore unless an acid and sharp humour be joined with the Bile it will never cause a Dysentery which onely an acid and sharp humour falling upon the Intestines can produce Hence because the abundance of this acid had its original sometimes from acid Medicines used preposterously and in too great quantity sometimes from the extreme sharpness of the Air in the Month of November these things conduced to its cure 1. The avoiding of the cold and sharp air 2. The use of Medicines that concentre and soak up an Acid as Coral Pearl Crabs eyes Chalk and for the quicker healing of the fretted Guts and Vessels Dragons-bloud Bloud-stone c. 3. The cleansing and healing of the fretted Guts by Clysters made of Cows-milk Venice Turpentine Yelks of Eggs and Honey of Roses given frequently and kept as long in the body Sylvius Append Tract 10. Sect. 296. 772. as conveniently they may that they may doe the Patient the more good For which purpose new Treacle Diascordium c. may be made use of XII In the opening of several Dysenterick persons Bloud has onely been observed in the thicker guts and not in the smaller And why onely in the thicker and not in the small I believe for no other reason than because the corroding humour easily passes from the upper Intestines wherefore no excoriation or corrosion can be caused there as it happens in the thicker especially in the Colon where especially the morbifick humour stagnating because of its turnings corrodes its coats unmeasurably Therefore I judged abstersive Clysters and Spaw-waters very good and I found them so with respect nevertheless to Pâ—naâ—â—lus Penâ—ic 1. obs 9. and not neglecting the morbifick cause XIII In the Bloudy-flux many at the very first use Clysters of a boiled Sheep's-head whereby no doubt the Ulcers grow foul which makes them worse It is better to begin with abstersives and by degrees proceed to astringent and glutinous Medicines for fat are made use of in respect onely of a Symptome that is Pain Galen takes notice of it 12 Meth. When the Stoâ—ls in a Bloudy-flux are very fretting we give a Clyster of juice of Tragum or Goat's Sewet or Ointment of Roses by which means certainly the exulceration in the Guts it self is not cured especially if there be any thing putrid in them but ease is given And this is to oppose the Symptome and neglect the disease for a while In which Discourse not onely they are reprehended that use mere fat things but they that mix Goat's-sewet with other things when there is no pain and they also that think Sewet dries ¶ Augerius Ferrerius Castigat c. 25. reckons Yelks of Eggs among fat things with which and with fat things any Inflammation is increased ¶ Crato in Analogismo gives a caution concerning Sewet that no Physician ever use it without Oil. XIV Astringent Clysters are not so safe as Potions wherefore no man may rashly mix astringent things in Clysters because by the use of them the things that fret the Guts stick closer to them and now and then make the exulceration and the Torment greater Mercatus XV. In all fluxes of the Belly much of the innate heat goes out with the excrements whence it comes to pass that the Stomach is cooled and the concoctive faculty spoiled Nor can it be doubted but that in a Bloudy-flux by frequent injection of cooling Clysters the Stomach also must be much cooled through its continuity with the Guts Which thing the multitude of flatulencies and crudity of Excrements declare Therefore the Ancients in the Bloudy-flux added to their astringents heating and concocting Medicines as Wormwood Mint Castor Mastick c. or such things as might preserve the innate heat from being extinguished with cold things Aug. Ferrerius XVI As a hasty and over-much use of Astringents is hurtfull the flux of the humours being unseasonably stopt and the body made costive whence a perpetual costiveness and driness thereof usually remains so a seasonable use of them is altogether necessary to the end the rheumatick disposition remaining may be taken away and the retentive faculty the weakness whereof upholds the Flux may be strengthned But we must use them upon these conditions 1. According to Crato's advice before the seventh day they must neither be used inwardly nor outward till the Ulcers of the Guts be first well cleansed 2. Sometimes we must chuse cold things sometimes hot according to the nature of the Humour 3. Coolers must be corrected with things that are hot and help concoction for by the continual Flux the heat of the Stomach and Guts is diminished the crudity of the excrements is a sign of it 4. They must be given in a small dose but often first lest the Flux should be staid too soon and that the virtue of the Medicines may more easily be exerted by nature Next lest they should be washt away by the fluent humours before they exert their virtue 5. We must begin with the gentler and weaker sort as Syrup of Quinces or compound Marmalede of Quinces Hartman says we must observe in general that no Flux must be stopt on a sudden except in a Phthisick or Peripneumony XVII We must observe not to use dry things too liberally in dysenterick Clysters such as Dragon's-bloud Coral Trochisci albi Rhasis and de Spodio for they cause greater pain and oftentimes a new Flux But if any Man have a mind to use such things let him chuse Vnguentum album Rhasis Mercatus de in â— câ—t l. 1. c. 31. or Vnguentum ex Pompholyge or such things as are dry and clammy as Bole Armenick Terra Sigillata Starch c. XVIII Some put Opiates in dysenterick Clysters but amiss for Minadous Frid. Hofmannus 〈◊〉 l. 1. c. 10. a Doctour of Padua observed that all those who by the advice of their Physicians used opiate Clysters died The reason is Because Ulcers of the Guts are rendred more putrid and filthy by Opiates XIX There be three degrees of detersive Clysters The first is of such as are made of Wine and Honey with Barly-water and Honey of Roses 2. Gal. 12. Mâ—th 1. Of salt-salt-water with Sal Gem and Honey of Roses 3. Of Brine adding some Aegyptiacum also if the Ulcer be foul and spreading And although the use of Brine may be questioned considering the example of that Physician who cured all dysenteries by the use of Onions and Clysters of brine and killed them with Convulsions for he was without method yet in a spreading and putrid Ulcer not onely Brine but even Causticks are convenient as Galen advises 9 per loca if it be also
bilious humours must be procured which is of such efficacy in curing a dysentery that it put Amatus into admiration how a certain young Man in a dysentery could be cured onely by a draught of cold Water which he drank without the advice of his Physician But we may cease our admiration if we observe that Celsus 4. 15. proposes cold Water as the best remedy for a Bloudy-flux But here decoctions of Herbs and Juices Whey Spaw-waters and Milk are proper Take of the Decoction of Endive Lettuce Violets Plantain Purslane 5 ounces of clarified Juice of Plantain Purslane each 1 ounce Mix them Give it for five or six days or Take of Water of Lettuce Water-Lily Plantain each 2 ounces Seeds of White Popies 2 drachms Make an Emulsion to which add of Juice of Quinces 1 ounce Fortis consult 93. cent 2. Diamargariton frigidum 1 scruple Mix them For we must abstain from Sugar as also from Honey XXVII Galen against Herodotus declares sufficiently what harm the unseasonable use of astringents does It is suppressed indeed in the declension of the disease and lest the matter being turned upon some noble part should injure it astringents are ordered with Spices mixt therewith and things that provoke Urine for so the humour being diverted to the ways of Urine the Ulcers may heal the sooner And as far as I could ever learn by experience I have observed some upon stopping a dysentery unseasonably fall into an Epilepsie others into a Pleurisie And one Hollerius in Conces having the matter turned to his hands had them full of filthy thick scabs Some were so bound with astringent Medicines and their Guts so dried that afterwards they scarce went to stool once in four days ¶ In the year 1659 there was an Epidemick Dysentery up and down Switzerland one Bedoz his Wife was taken with it in the Village Courcelles in the Province of Newemburgh she had recourse immediately to astringents by the use whereof it was stopt but the humours falling back upon her right knee it continued swollen to her dying day XXVIII A very painfull dysentery had afflicted two well-grown Virgins for several days at divers times by reason of the Guts being exulcerated with yellow choler mixt with salt phlegm At first they had large frequent liquid and various stools mixt afterwards with a sort of Fat which were followed by caruncles or bits as it were of flesh plainly to be seen in their Excrements Yet both of them escaped by my assistence Among other things liquid Balsam of Peru was very successfull mixt in Clysters to defend the exulcerated Guts from the sharp and putrid excrements and to heal them I have also experienced the singular virtue of this most noble exotick liquour as well in immoderate Diarrhoeas as in Bloudy-stools when other things would doe little good And truely the effect of it was admirable in a young Man who was most barbarously tormented with most cruel Gripes a sanious stinking Matter coming out with the Excrements an argument of an Ulcer in the Guts And these Gripes could no ways be mitigated till I ordered the following Clyster to be given him and moreover half a scruple of the same Balsam mixt with Pine-Nuts adding of Syrup of Orange-Pill 2 drachms and refined Sugar half an ounce This was the Clyster Take of the root of Tormentil Comfrey each half an ounce Leaves of Plantain Shepherds-purse Horse-tail red Mint each half an handfull Flowers of Red-Rose Pomegranate Rose-mary each 1 pugil Seeds of Sumach 2 drachms Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water Lucas Scroeckius Ephem Germ. ann 3. p. 126. In 7 ounces of the Colature dissolve of Sugar half an ounce Balsam of Peru dissolved with the Yelk of an Egg 1 drachm Juice of Plantain fresh drawn 1 ounce When the Patient found present ease two hours after I ordered it to be repeated XXIX Since some commend the use of Milk and others forbid it it is certain that it has been given sometimes with good success sometimes with bad For Amatus cur 44. cent 2. says he once accounted it poison Hippocrates 5. aph 64. affirms it is hurtfull to several persons Saxonia on the contrary in prael pr. affirms that he has not onely taken away pains but has cured Dysenteries at the first without any other help Nor are reasons wanting for Milk especially allays the heat of Choler takes off Acrimony and asswages the heat of the bowels As it purges downwards it carries off cholerick filth But this or that preparation or this or that constitution of a disease renders it wholsome or unwholsome Milk consists of three substances of Cheese whereby especially it nourishes and plasters the Ulcerated Guts Of Butter whereby it eases pain digests anoints the Guts and fences them against sharp humours Of Whey whereby it is abstersive and cleansing In many respects therefore it is proper as it serves the turn both for food and physick Yet the use of it must be circumscribed with several cautions In the first days therefore it must be used raw and new milked that the choler may be drawn downwards so Aetius advises in the progress of the disease that the flux may be stopt it stands in need of preparation and the Whey which has the detersive faculty useless at that time must be consumed by boiling Gold in it or quenching Flints and Steel therein so also the fat and igneous parts prone to turn into choler or to purge are dissipated But if the prohibiting Symptomes proposed by Hippocrates 5. aph 64. attend a dysentery as Head-ach Thundring Hypochondriack Meteors a high Fever a flood of Choler flowing in abundance we must abstain from Milk or a fourth part of rain-Rain-water must be added and given after it has boiled a little mixt with a little Honey left it corrupt on the stomach Thus prepared it may according to the opinion of several be given innocently when these impediments are present Note the greatest part of the Cacochymie must be carried off by Purges before the use of it ¶ Hor. Augenius says that is the safest way of giving it and one that never fails which Aetius proposes which nevertheless he uses not for purging in the first days because we have other very sate Purgers much safer than the use of Milk But he commends it in the progress of the disease pouring into it as it boiles a fourth part of Water and that for three days For the next three days he boils the Milk a third part or half away when there is a Fever with it he says all inconvenience may be corrected by mixing Rain-water with it ¶ Milk may be given notwithstanding bilious stools or a Fever if so be most part of the choler be purged away onely the inconvenience must be taken away by boiling it with Plantain-water or by quenching red-hot stones or Gad's of Steel in it for it is imbued with a faculty that dries and resists corruption Fortis consult 93. cent 2.
Patient elderly then I would bore a hole in a Rib with a Gimlet and this operation would be safer than any other for the Vessels that arise from the lower part would suffer nothing because the hole should be in the middle of the Rib and the matter might go out freely and there would be no danger of a Fistula though the matter should run for a whole year and then the Lungs and Chest would suffer less from the external Air. Hippocrates lib. de in t affect intimates that this operation is very safe Epiphanius Ferdinandus hist 32. because no flux of bloud can be feared XVIII The Readers must take notice that this operation is often performed according to art and yet no egress of Pus perceived J. van Horne Microtechn p. 2. sect 18. because it sticks not floting upon the diaphragm but enclosed in a bag made by the connexion of the Lungs with the succingent membrane ¶ One had been long ill of an Empyema at length sagacious nature seeking an out-let for the Pus produced a Tumour on the side which once perceived the Physician ordered the opening of it nothing run contrary to expectation wherefore the Patient was left to regain strength he slept upon his sore side because they cannot lye upon their sound side by reason of the abundance of Pus that lies upon the Mediastinum but in his sleep all the Pus ran out And when he was asserting that he was cured Petrus Borell oâ—s 72. cent 1. because he could breath better he died suddenly Here Chirurgeons may be admonished never to leave abscesses open without a Tent because although nothing burst out of them in the operation yet because they reach not the matter the Pus seeking a passage for it self finds the next hole and so for want of a Tent runs all out and sudden death follows ¶ If the wound be narrower than you would have had it or the matter be thicker then it must either be sufficiently dilated with a crooked incision Knife that has a Silver button at the end of it or the matter must be attenuated by injection of Honey and Wine with a Syringe and drawn out Yet in extreme danger of suffocation I should prefer dilatation of the Wound which is done quickly and safely far before injection of Wine and Honey which must needs increase straitness of Breast Scultetus Tab. 35. the matter not being diminished before XIX When nothing would doe good and I was thinking of opening the Breast and when the thirtieth day was over since the breaking of the Imposthume I proceeded to smoaking of Tobacco after the usual manner in a Pipe and to take the decoction of it hot with Sugar upon which there followed a wonderfull excretion of Pus by cough and in great quantity and it was onely used twice Take of Leaves of Tobacco 1 ounce boil them in 2 pound of sweet water till half be consumed add in the end some Leaves of Mallow Epiph. Ferdinandus Branc ursin and Violets Strain it and give it often XX. The Mediastinum in Man has not so great a cavity as in Dogs and other Creatures It happens sometimes that purulent matter is gathered within its two membranes after an Inflammation which cannot be cast out by the Lungs Therefore we are forced to pierce the Sternum with a Trepan that so when a hole is made the Pus may be got out by the help of Tents Sponges and other Instruments Barbette Chirurg XXI Here also we must observe that sometimes an Empyema is contained in its proper coat and so it comes to pass that it bewrays it self outwardly by its Swelling and then it is called by the Latines Vomica pulmonis i. e. an Imposthume of the Lungs In which case do not expect the coat should break of it self for afterwards the Pus running all about is drawn with more difficulty out of the Breast but the first opportunity you have open it and chuse no other place than the most prominent part of the Tumour Idem XXII Although this that I propose be a hazardous Remedy yet if we would leave talking it is a most excellent one The intercostal Muscles of the Thorax must have a potential Cautery applied to them upon the diaphragm between the fourth and fifth Rib till an Eschar large enough do arise which will be in about three hours time then it must be opened with a wound wide enough and this is therefore needfull lest if Incision should be made without such a Cautery the wound should close sooner than it ought for it is necessary the lips of the wound should be a good distance one from another which in a round wound is most certainly true that the outlet for the Pus and filth may be the freer But care must be taken that the Pus run not all out at once with respect to the Patient's strength I have seen some cured this way Bontius Med. Indor c. 13. to a wonder Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. I have cured several who have been given over for dead with this Juice Take the reddest Leaves of a fresh Cabbage chop them put the Milk in a Pot boil it close covered Joh. Heurnius This Liquour may be given morning and evening with Sugar 2. This Decoction has an admirable virtue in breaking an Imposthume in the Lungs Take of Hyssopleaves 2 handfulls Squill 1 ounce boil them well then take of the Decoction 5 ounces Syrup of Horehound 1 ounce Oxymel of Squills half an ounce ¶ Also Horse-dung mixt with Honey or Oxymel of Squills and applied to the Breast is very good Hier. Mercurialis 3. Two drachms of Venice Turpentine washt in Barley water mixt with Liquorish powder is very good But it must be ripened Riverius discussed and cleansed 4. When the Imposthume is broken that the matter may be raised by spittle and the Ulcer cleansed Honey and Water wherein Turpentine has been washed or an Emulsion of Turpentine Sennertus is very good Epilepsia or The Falling-sickness The Contents Whether Bloud may be let in the Paroxysm I. A cruel one cured by plentifull Bleeding II. One stopt by the running of the Haemorrhoids III. Cured by opening an Artery IV. When Issues Blisters c. are proper V. Cured by the help of a Seton VI. Of an Issue in the Arm. VII Cured by trepanning the Skull VIII Rubbing good in an Epilepsie IX Shaking and rubbing must not be too violent X. We must use repeated Purges XI A Vomit sometimes does good XII Whether it may be given in the Paroxysm XIII If Vomiting cannot be caused by reason of present Convulsions what must be done XIV For what Diureticks are proper XV. A Fever coming upon it not always to be extinguished XVI Sneezing proper in the Paroxysm XVII Fumes must be used with Caution XVIII Whether Narcoticks be proper XIX If it come from the Womb sweet-smelling things must not
Joh. Hartmannus comment in Crollium such as are Magistery of Pearl Coral Man's Skull and our Antepileptick Lozenges The famous Hofman likewise highly commends this 18. There is an admirable Water distilled off Daffodil-flowers which is a present remedy for the Epilepsie if the Nape of the Neck and the whole Head be washed with it hot Pet Laurembergius but the Oil is much more effectual which is drawn off the Flowers with the Water by Chymical Artifice 19. For Fits of the Mother let Issues be made in the Legs which remedy I have ever so much valued and it hath succeeded so happily that I have freed several Women thereby from most grievous accidents Lud. Mercatus and such as would give way to no other remedies 20. How black Hellebore cures the Epilepsie Take green Roots of black Hellebore extract them with Spirit of Wine draw it off that the Essence may remain If Misletoe Pellitory of Spain and Seeds of Poeony be added Pâ—racelsus it is more effectual 21. Montagnana's Electuary excells all others in Efficacy by benefit whereof many Epileptick persons have been cured Take of the Roots of Male-Poeony Cassidony Costus each 10 drachms Agarick 5 ounces Pellitory of Spain Caroway Dill-seed Assa foetida Aristolochia rotunda each 2 drachms and an half juice of Squills and the best Honey each 1 pound and 2 ounces Let the Squill and Honey be boiled over the fire to a consistency then add the Powders â—iverius and make an Electuary The dose is 2 3 or 4 drachms continuing to take it for 20 or 30 days Epiphora or involuntary Tears The Contents We must not use things to stop the Tears before we Purge the Head I. Collyries must want all asperity II. A Blister drawn on the Forehead of what efficacy III. It must not be cured after the same manner if it be carried by the outer Vessels as if it were carried by the inner IV. Where a Seton must be fâ—ct V. By the use of Oil of Vitriol one turned into a Cancrous Encanthis VI. Medicines I. WE must not use stopping Medicines while there is a great and plentifull flux of humours for then the abundance of humour being intercepted by virtue of the Medicine and stuffed as it were it either through its acrimony causes greater pain or exulceration They must therefore be used when either the humour is in a great measure evacuated or the Flux of it is not great otherwise they will doe what Galen 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 writes Washt Pompholyx Rubeus in Celsum as also Spodium and Starch may both moderately dry up the humours and also hinder the superfluous moisture which is contained in the Veins from being evacuated through the tunicles II. Collyries must have no roughness in them for things that are of this nature although they be ground never so finely cannot lose their nature for they are never diluted like a Juice but when they are even brought to their highest fineness they must of necessity continue a kind of Powder which as it were pierce the parts of the Eyes and raise a more troublesome Epiphora if they be used at the beginning But when one has been vext several days and there has been a perseverance of the humour and the Phlegm is rendred more glutinous by the heat of the Eyes then Collyries of metallick things will doe good Heurnius for the Eyes will then bear them more easily so they be void of exulceration III. In a stubborn Disease a Vesicatory applied to the forehead does good Forestus obs 11. l. 11. tells of an old Woman whose Eyes were bleared weeping full of water painfull and itching and was cured onely by application of a Vesicatory made of Spanish Flies Leven and Honey I had a Matron of about sixty under cure who had had sore Eyes for six months and when no Remedies would doe good she was cured in twenty four hours by applying Schroderus his chephalick Plaster to her Forehead But she would not abstain from Wine through the whole course of her Disease IV. Fernelius derives the original of the Flux of Tears from the Forehead and Crown of the Head in which he reckons the humour is gathered without the Skull and under the Skin which he will have to fall from the Peritranium upon the adhering Membrane and so break out at the Eyes from without But we must believe that the Flux of the Eyes often derives its original from within which Paulus has expressed and Rhases says that this Flux may easily be cured if it be fed by the outer Veins but very difficultly Plempius if the Tears come by the inner Veins V. In Defluxions and Weepings of the Eyes all men agree there is no Remedy more powerfull than a Seton in the Neck Now Hildanus would have it made between the second and third or even between the fourth and fifth Vertebra of the Neck I think the custome of Aquapendent and the Italians should be followed who make it between the second and first Vertebra For that which is made lower puts one to pain because of the rubbing upon it by the Band and the Doublet VI. One upon the unseasonable stopping of a lachrymal Flux by the Oil of Vitriol had so luxuriant a Gland upon the corner of his Eye next his Nose that the excrescence of it did not onely cover his whole Cheek but it degenerated also into a most pernicious Carcinoma which a Chirurgeon tried indeed to take hold on by a thred and to cut it off conveniently with a Knife but then the tumour had acquired that malignity that it could scarce be touched but it would immediately gush out with Bloud and therefore there was a necessity onely to use Lenients by which the destruction of the Patient was deferred rather than removed Let them therefore consider that so frequently use sharp Medicines how easily an errour may be committed Tulpius obs l. 1. c. 29. which by no Art can ever after be rectified Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. In Weeping the Juice of Grass of Parnassus squeezed out of the green herb is very good as likewise the distilled water of Tormentil Crato 2. Onely the Juice of Pomegranates boiled half away cures hot Tears Forestus 3. Some commend a piece of raw Veal well beaten with tearing it which they steep in Rose-water in a stone vessel often pouring on fresh water and they apply this Flesh to the Eyes Franc. Osw Grembs as the party goes to bed 4. Take of Rose-water 2 ounces and an half prepared Tutty 1 drachm Saccharum Saturni Lapis Calaminaris Phil. Grulingius each 1 scruple mix them Drop it into the Eyes 5. This Powder is very excellent Take of burnt Hearts horn twice washt in Rose-water Guaiacum Costus red Coral Antimony each equal parts Musk the fourth of one of those parts Make a very fine Powder which we may use and with Wine make a Collyry
¶ Also a Sponge wet in water wherein the greater Pine-nuts bruised have been boiled Joh. Manardus is very good if the face be washt therewith 6. A piece of white Vitriol dissolved in such a quantity of water as the Eyes may bear may be used with success ¶ This Ointment is accounted singular for an Epiphora Take of Verdigriece 12 grains Camphire 1 drachm prepared Tutty half an ounce fresh Butter which must be melted with Rose-water and boiled a little 6 drachms Mix them make an Unguent put a piece about as big as a Pease into the greater corner of the Eye and let the Eye-lids be slightly anointed Platerus 7. In this Disease especially if it arise from a cold humour Water of Golden-rod wherein burning Frankincense has been extinguished is commended Sennertus 8. This Powder wonderfully restrains Tears Take the Shell of Citrine Myrobalans infuse them in rose-Rose-water for two days dry them and powder them infuse them again three or four times in rose-Rose-water Keep it ¶ Take dried Rue boil it in Honey and Vinegar strain it through a linen Cloth when it is strained anoint the Eyes with it it will most certainly restrain Tears ¶ This is a singular Remedy Burn some Frankincense and extinguish it often in Rose-water Joh Stâ—â—herus Drop it into the Eyes 9. This is a most experienced thing Wash the Eyes three or four times a day with Water wherein Gold smiths quench their Gold and Silver or their Tongs This will be better if a little Frankincense Mastick Aloes and Litharge be first boiled in it ¶ And this is an admirable thing Take of Juice of Fenil Pomegranate Sorrel Celandine purified Honey each 1 ounce Beat them together in a Brass vessel and let them stand in dung for 2 days Lapis Calaminaris and Antimony each half an ounce may be added Make a Collyry Erysipelas or St. Anthony's-Fire The Contents Respect must be had to the malignant quality joined with it I. Bloud must be let II. Purging is convenient onely towards the end III. We must use topical Medicines with caution IV. It refuses Suppuraters in soft parts V. Sleep must be avoided if it seize the face VI. When Coriander is proper VII An experienced Topick VIII Leeches good in an ulcerous one IX An ulcerous one in the Leg cured by anointing it with Spirit of Vitriol X. The Cure of the Pustules by pricking XI One that came often in the Face cured by an Issue in the Arm. XII One anointed with Oil caused a Gangrene XIII The Cure of an exulcerated one XIV How Frog spawn water may be used XV. Medicines I. IT is commonly believed it has its rise from yellow Choler but some of the Moderns rather derive it from thin bloud for 1. The Colour is a token rather of bloud than bile which is red when it ought to be pale or yellow as is manifest in the Jaundice 2. Although the Colour be vehement enough yet it is not so sharp as in Diseases arising from yellow Choler wherefore it is not so frequently exulcerated as Ring-worms and other Tumours caused by bile and when it is exulcerated it is not so much from its own nature as from the alteration of it 3. They are seldom obnoxious to it that are of a hot and dry constitution lean brown or black which is most suitable to breed yellow Choler but they rather that are sanguine fat fleshy and red 4. The fleshy parts the Thighs Legs Face Neck Breasts and the like are oftner affected than others 5. This Disease comes most between thirty and forty years of age about which time there is most bloud in the body But yet the cause must not be ascribed simply to fulness but rather to a depraved and peculiar quality of the bloud which proceeds from the putrefaction and corruption of its thinner part for Nature being stimulated by that malignant quality drives the vitious humour to the outside of the body A sign whereof is that this Disease seizes one like the Pestilence so that they who never had it before think they are taken with the Plague till the Disease shew it self in some part Hence it is the common practice when the Paroxysm comes and the Rose appears to take Medicines which help Nature's motion and drive the matter from the inner parts to the outer as Treacle Mithridate Water or Rob of Elder These Medicines taken in the beginning are approved on where plenty of humours is not urgent Sennertus otherwise it is safer to remove the antecedent cause II. Celsus especially commends Bloud-letting whom Paulus lib. 4. follows Galen 14. meth 2. ad Glauconem seems averse to it But I follow Reason rather than Authority for it is an acute Disease which must quickly be opposed a kind of Inflammation from the thinner Bloud or at least its Ichor and the hottest of it But in such a Heat who dare omit Bleeding or fly to other Remedies and neglect it since it draws from the part where the fluxion is evacuates helps transpiration and readily draws out the bilious bloud as it lies in the Veins If a sincere Erysipelas occur arising from Bile alone such as Galen supposes and if a bilious Cacochymie redound in the habit of body then Bleeding may be let alone for fear of the ebullition of cholerick humours III. Although Galen 13. m. m. seem to approve of Purging yet we must proceed to it with great caution and not till the declension lest the humours being stirred run to the part affected Wherefore after the seventh day Electuary of Juice of Roses with Cassia may be given and after it some pounds of Whey Fortis IV. The Ancients and most Writers of Chirurgery do very much use Coolers even Water it self the coldest of all yea they also mix with them Astringents and Stupefiers as Henbane Mandrake Opium Hemlock But the Modern reprehend this common Cure not without the suffrage of reason and experience for since the sharp matter exciting the Rose is not without malignity if its going out be hindred by these very cooling binding and repellent things it returns inwards and seizes the nobler and inner parts to the hazard of life hence a Phrenzy comes from an Erysipelas in the Head struck in Finally by these things the matter is shut up in the part affected whence putrefaction and suppuration which is often attended by a Gangrene Which thing since it often happens from the cure of the Greeks and Arabians they admonish us that the part may be so far cooled as that the heat may remit and the Patient confess himself not to feel so great a heat with the turning of the red colour into a livid But it may easily fall out that before sufficient caution can be used in this case such dangers may already be at hand Wherefore the case seems not to differ much from that of Burns For if a burnt part be dipt in cold water it does but
continuance of the Fever that as long as Medicines are given so long the Fever will continue for Nature is wearied which gathering strength again concocts the cause of the disease and expells it when concocted ¶ If a right fermentation of the bloud have gone before the despumation of the morbifick matter will be wholly made within the usual time But if cooling Medicines or Clysters have been given too late the Fever will run out a great deal longer especially in elderly Men that have been ill looked after To whom I being sometimes called after they had been sick of a Fever forty days and above have tried every thing that I might bring a despumation on the bloud but the bloud has been so weakned partly by Age partly by Clysters and cooling Medicines that I could never attain my end either by Cordials or any other strengthning things but either the strength of the Fever remained firm or though the Fever seemed to be gone the Patient's strength was very low and well nigh dead And being deprived of success in other Medicines I was glad to turn my counsel another way with no common success namely by applying the lively and brisk heat of young persons to the Sick Nor is there any reason that any one should wonder why the Patient should be so much strengthened by this method though unusual and debilitated Nature-helped so that she may discharge her self of the relicks of the matter to be separated and discharged since one may easily imagine that good store of brisk effluvia is transfused from a sound and lively body into the exhausted body of the Sick Nor could I ever find that the repeated application of warm clothes was in any measureable to doe that which the method now prescribed did perform where the heat applied is more connatural to Man's body and also gentle moist equal and lasting And this way of transmitting Spirits and Vapours it may be Balsamick ones into the Sick Man's Body from the very time when I made use of it although at first it seemed strange has been made use of by others with great success Sydenhâ—m XXIX In the cure of very acute and pernicious Fevers we must take diligent notice of this that they are seldom caused without some inward and peculiar disaffection of some of the Inwards and often with an Inflammation Wherefore the cure of the Hypochondria Head Breast Womb Kidneys and Bladder Riverius must never be omitted that by some means or other we may find out which of these parts is remarkably ill and may help it as much as may be ¶ As soon as I find a great burning in people in a Fever if signs of an inward inflammation which I diligently inquire do not appear yet I think of some such disaffection and I direct the course of my cure thither c. Scarce ever any one of those Fevers appears that burn violently so as to have the tongue burnt or wherein the Belly voids adust stuff but some of the inner Bowels especially suffers an inflammation Eryfipelas or at least some over-heating And they are perceived by some remarkable hardness swelling pain or heat in that region where the inward part is seated Vallesius XXX But if by reason of much loss of bloud which the Patient has sustained in the method of his cure or through often Vomiting or going to Stool or because for the present the Fever is quite off or because of his weakness or of the age of the Fever already declining there now remains no more danger of raising an Ebullition for the future then setting aside all fear instead of a Paregorick draught I give a pretty large dose of Diascordium either without any thing else or mixt with some Cordial-water It is certainly an excellent Medicine Sydenham if it be given in such a quantity as may make up a Medicine rather than an empty title XXXI To the constitution of a Continual Fever we require that its Cause be either in the Vessels that carry the Bloud and so in the Bloud it self and the multifarious parts of it or such other part of the Body as has continual commerce with the Bloud and so with the Heart it self but so as that it cannot be hindred or interrupted unless wholly nor be restored again at certain times which usually happens in Agues by internal causes We add that the Bloud may be so affected sometimes by external sometimes by internal causes that it may produce a continual Fever Among the external causes of this Epidemick Fever I observed the Air was then very hot and it penetrating as well the skin on all hands and therefore the Bloud it self as being drawn into the Lungs and there joined to the Bloud did not kindly temper it again as it was in a ferment according to Nature but by communicating to it its fiery and saline volatile parts it dissolved melted and rarefied it too much and so it greatly vitiated the vital Effervescency in the heart with its additional heat and produced a continual Fever Among internal causes I blamed Bile bred of the same fiery and saline-volatile parts of the Air but made more sharp volatile and abundant by the sharp ones and therefore causing a vitious effervescency as well in the small Guts as the Heart it self and indeed joined with notable heat and therefore without doubt a Fever The various and in many respects vitious humours which must of necessity be produced by the whole mass of Bloud being by little and little corrupted could not so well be called the cause of the Continual Fever that was then so rise as of the various Symptoms which did many ways vex divers Patients The Cure therefore of the Continual Fever as such ought to consist 1. In avoiding or correcting the bad Air. 2. In tempering the sharp Bile fixing the volatile and diminishing the abundance of it 3. In moderating stopping and reducing to its natural temper the vitious effervescency that is indeed joined with a notable and troublesome heat 4. In gently coagulating the Bloud too much dissolved condensating the too much rarefied and cooling it when over-hot or reducing it to a laudable integrity Fr. Sylvius when it is otherwise vitiated ¶ But though in the cure of our Fever we made no mention of Bloud-letting because we could very well want it and several have been happily cured without it yet it is not to be contemned since especially it is usefull to temper the heat of the Bloud and to prevent Suffocation in Plethorick persons Therefore it may be usefull for Plethorick persons for young people for those that are used to it for those that are sensible of much heat for those that desire it and for those who Idem in their imagination conceive great benefit from it XXXII Hippocrates in a Legitimate Burning-fever allows as much Water and Honey boiled there must be store of Water as the Patient shall desire and he carries the Patient with
scarce be laid by drinking a great quantity of cold water at one draught Therefore in continent Fevers it is to be feared lest a Diet of these very cooling Herbs cause either Death or an ill crisis by indisposing both the body and humours of the sick for Bleeding at the Nose and Sweating Idem c. â— XLI Avicenna says there are some who will allow Jujubes and Vetches with Vinegar and with Pomegranates and with Sumach when they have an intention to thicken the Bloud or when Nature is too soft And he subjoins And if any of these things be feared because of their binding lest namely it should make the Belly costive its Astriction may be broken with Prunes or some such thing and he may then be fed with Meat made of Gourds and Sorrel And a cold Sallet is good made of Sorrel Endive and Lettuce But it may be some one may object What advantage of any moment can follow the thickning of the Bloud in a continent Fever that for its sake he durst mix Sumach in Sallets in such a Fever Yet he seems to have allowed it for a twofold reason namely either for thickning or on account of a Symptome as when the Belly is looser than it should But for the thickning of the Bloud I think it by no means proper For it seems not the part of a prudent Physician in a Flux that comes either from the whole or from some one part unto another to tâ—icken the bilious Bloud with things that are very astringent lest perhaps we detain a superfluous humour when it is on motion in some part of greater moment or lest we fix that firmer which is in the part affected already Now in a continent Fever the boiling Bloud swells high like Water boiling in a Pot you may abate the heat of this and not take away the fire if you slacken the fiery quality from the water and this you may doe either by pouring in cold water or by uncovering the Pot that it may be cooled by the Air. So also in a continent Fever we may either abate the hot humour by drinking cold Water or we must endeavour that the boiling fumes may freely transpire through the pores of the body and this is the surer way to health for a remission of the Fever may be caused by the transpiration of the fermenting humours which may be done two ways either when the pores of the whole are opened or the humours are equally diminished as Galen in m. m. teaches But Astringents among which Sumach is a very violent one they are so far from making perspiration free that they hinder it by stopping the body for of the three causes that hinder transpiration stopping of the body is one Therefore from these things it is manifest that Sumach and other Astringents are too much enemies to continual Fevers because they hinder transpiration which is a cause of the remission of Fevers We may use such as are moderate upon the account of a Symptome XLII Some give Pullets Livers rosted after Broth to them that are sick of a continual Fever which I do not at all approve For Meat stays a long time in the Stomachs of sick people which is no small occasion why it is corrupted Besides a rosted Liver must be reckoned among drying Meats wherefore it is not proper for one in a Fever an argument whereof is Thirst Ibid. which it causes Febris intermittens in genere or An Ague in general The Contents The times of the Fits must be distinguished I. Vernal differ from Autumnal ones in their nature and their cure II. The nature of Vernal Agues III. Their manner of Cure IV. Autumnal ones are stubborn V. Indications for Cure VI. In tender Age the cure of Autumnal Agues must be committed to Nature VII The way of curing them in elder years VIII When is the time for Vomits IX When the Ague is over although Purging be necessary we must not doe it hastily X. Vomiting Purging and Bleeding in what manner they doe good XI Whether we may stop the Fit XII Sylvius his method of Cure XIII Whether Bloud-letting be always necessary in them XIV The necessity of moving Sweat XV. In the Cure we must look rather upon the obstructing Phlegm and the fault of the Pancreatick Juice than upon the diversity of Humours XVI The Empirical Cure by Febrifuges and the Jesuites Bark XVII XVIII The Cure by Specifick Purgatives XIX The Febrile Effervescence is stopt divers ways XX. Willis his Indications for Cure XXI Whether one may bleed in the cold Fit XXII A Purge given before the Fit comes hastens the Cure of the Ague XXIII Whether an Indication for Bleeding and Purging can be rightly taken from the Vrine XXIV At what time we may breath a Vein XXV Antimonial and Mercurial Medicines doe a great deal of good XXVI We must purge exactly in Autumnal Agues XXVII Some cured by giving Wine and Salt XXVIII By Laudanum Opiatum in the beginning of a Fit XXIX I. THAT we may make at least some conjecture about the Nature and Disposition of Agues we must take notice that these three things ought to be considered in a Fit 1. The time of Shaking 2. Of Ebullition 3. Of Despumation As to Shaking I think it arises hence because the febrile matter which being not as yet turgent was after a sort assimilated by the mass of bloud is now at length not onely useless but become an enemy to Nature does in a manner exagitate and provoke it whence it comes to pass that being irritated by a certain natural sense and as it were endeavouring flight it raises a Shivering and Shaking in the body a true Witness of its Aversation Just as purging Potions taken by squeamish Persons or Poisons swallowed unawares use presently to cause a Shivering and other Symptomes of that nature Nature therefore being irritated in this manner that I may come to the time of Ebullition that she may the more easily keep this enemy from her Throat falls upon Fermentation namely an usual Engine which it is accustomed to make use of in Fevers and some other acute Diseases when it endeavours to free the mass of bloud from inbred enemies for the disjoined parts of this peccant matter which were equally mixt with the bloud do by the benefit of this Effervescency begin in some sort to be gathered together and so may the more easily be wrought upon so as to become fit for Despumation By the name of Despumation I would have nothing else understood than the Expulsion or Separation of the febrile matter now brought under and as it were conquered And what is separated has the nature partly as we may observe in other Liquours of Yeast and partly of Lees. But the Fit returns because the febrile matter is not as yet all gone but as young Bees grow up insensibly at set times so this latent matter according to the nature of the Fits Sydenham Tract de Febribus p. 69.
and fitter for cooling fly away with the Sulphur into the Air and if this conflagration last long nothing else at length will remain but a bitter fixt and porous Salt endued with a heating and drying quality a thing which it will not be difficult for them to divine who have learned to get out the Spirit of this Chymical Cerberus by injection of Particles of Sulphur Therefore all the skill lies in purging of this Salt and in the right way of giving of it Take therefore a sufficient quantity of the purest Salt-Petre melt it in a crucible in a moderate fire Afterwards cast it into a good quantity of common Barber's Ly but however let it be hot otherwise it would flie in your face let it dissolve in it filtre and evaporate it half away then set it in a cold place and most pure Crystals will be gathered at the bottom which in goodness and fineness far excell the second and third that will follow separate them and then dissolve them in Rose-water On the other hand also dissolve as much Sugar in some Cordial-water or in the same mix these Solutions and boil them according to Art that the Crystals may be gathered in a Cellar the use of which will be about half a drachm or 2 scruples in Ptisan or Pectoral Decoction for so they escape the sense of the Palate Otherwise if you give Mineral Crystal in distilled-waters you will find an Urinous and biting Taste G. Horstius in Proâ— which will create trouble to the Stomach XXI I never advised any one to Bleed under the Tongue though Barber-Chirurgeons sometimes perswade to it And what this can doe especially when there is no Quinsey but onely the Tongue rough and black through heat in the Bowels I do not see Sennerâ—es Ep. 2â— câ—m 1. Let the heat in the Bowels be taken away this Symptome will easily cease ¶ Yet Franc. de le Boë Sylvius admits it Prax. l. 1. c. 30. A Fever saith he accompanied with a purple-black colour and a dry heat in the Tongue and Jaws will be cured if besides universals convenient for such a high Burning fever those things in particular be used which have been observed to doe good to this heat driness and ill colour of the parts of the mouth among which Gargarisms are especially commended of a decoction of Self-heal which had its name Prunella as they say from curing this disease which is called by the same name Opening the Veins under the Tongue is good also and especially when they are observed to swell and yield some sign of a Quinzy at hand or there already for it is no new thing for a Quinzy to be joined with this Symptome XXII Cold water is a thing which conquers thirst most of all others In the second place is Barley-water In the third is Syrup of Violets diluted with store of Water Our Moderns often use Water and Sugar But we ought diligently to consider that we may not use it nor any Abstersive in an exceeding driness of the Tongue or of the whole Body for such things make the Body drier as experience hath formerly taught me In England I visited a Spanish Boy of a thin and exceeding squalid habit of Body His Tongue was beyond measure rough and dry so that he could scarce speak and he had an insatiable thirst I thought good to give this Boy cold water and I put some Sugar in it to correct the grossness of the water And when his thirst was not abated by drinking cold water I attributing it to the fault of the water gave him distilled Bugloss-water because there could be nothing gross in it with Sugar and when upon plentifull and frequent drinking of it he still grew drier at length I understood that in an exceeding driness things which have an abstersive faculty are not proper because they render the body and humours drier For to make use of abstersives onely is just as if you should laboriously rub foul Linen with Soap without Water to get the dirt out for the more Soap you use the less good you will doe and you will onely rub the filth more in for you should first steep your Linen in Water that the filth which you would get out may be moistned So Women first suffer their Linen to be steept long in Water use shewing them the way When therefore Mens bodies are very much parched Abstergents must be avoided for then the humours are not to be cleansed but rather to be moistned yet when you have made them moist enough you may securely use Abstersives as Hippocrates lib. 1. de vict Acut. instructs us The quantity of Broth to be given must be observed in this manner to wit if the Disease be drier than one would think we must not give much but give Water and Honey or Wine before the Broth as shall be most convenient Galen in his Exposition recounting the signs by which we may know a dry Disease writes thus And truely Brudus de vict Febr. c. 28. saith he to void none of the Superfluities is a sign of a dry Disease Therefore Hippocrates does not without reason order some moistning thing to be taken before Ptisan XXIII And not onely Abstergents must be avoided in such a Disposition but also all manner of Meat and Broth. For we must use onely moistning drink for them whose Tongue and whole Body are beyond measure dry Because if you should give them Broth part of the Broth which is of a thicker substance sticking to the coats of the Stomach because of their exceeding driness would be rather burnt by the febrile heat than concocted just as Meat sticking to the pot is burnt when it wants moisture And this was Hippocrates his mind in the place before quoted where he orders Patients to drink Honey and Water or Wine before their Broth when the Disease is beyond measure dry Meaning that in such a Disease the Sick must be first nourished with moistning Drink till the driness be over and then they may proceed to Broths Idem XXIV But I know this for certain that the driness which comes upon the Tongue and the whole Body from the quality of Burning Choler is much stronger than that which proceeds onely from the thickness of the humours Wherefore it was well remembred above Paragraph XXII that Water and Sugar must be avoided and all Abstersives and that moistning Drink must onely be used Idem XXV It happens sometimes especially in old Men when the Fever is cured and the Body has been sufficiently purged that the Patient notwithstanding is very weak and expectorates great store of glutinous and viscous Phlegm sometimes by coughing and sometimes by hawking Which Symptome not onely strikes terrour into the Patient but has imposed on the Physician also especially the less wary and made him believe as if this affection were the fore-runner of a Consumption although I have observed the thing is not so dangerous In this also I
much the more easily a Colliquation of his body will follow while the Heat seizes and wasts the solid parts of the body And Sweat also which takes its matter from Drink is by this means hindred which might have been promoted by cold and plentifull drinking Platerus XXXVI There are four sorts of Drink of which Hippocrates treats lib. de vict Acut. Barley-water Water and Honey Wine Vinegar and Honey In a dry Disease he neither makes mention of Oxymel nor Barley-water not of the first because an over cutting thing is not proper for a dry Disease not of the latter because it being drink nourishes but little because of its thinness But he mentions Honey and Water and Wine as things that nourish and moisten And he leaves the choice of either to the Physician as if he apprehended that sometimes in a dry Disease one of them might doe hurt and the other might doe good for if a dry Disease come from a cholerick humour by reason of its furious quality Water and Honey must be avoided by all means and Wine must be given because it moistens and administers strength to Nature with an Abstersion or Incision But if a dry Disease come from an over thick humour that resists the concoctive faculty Water and Honey must be rather given than Wine as well to extenuate the grossness of the humour as to moisten the Body for Water and Honey moistens more than Vinegar and Honey Brudus XXXVII In Fevers which have their original from a hot Cause without a mixture of Phlegm especially in Summer time the use of common Water is to be chosen But it must not be concealed that wherever we desire concoction of a crude humour of a phlegmatick kind Drink of distilled Water does more harm than that of natural Water The former indeed if it be given cold cools on a double account actually and potentially Besides it pierces more into the inner parts of the body upon the account of its fiery quality Whence it is manifest that the innate heat suffers more from this sort of Waters than from what is natural Wherefore in a cold Cause and in those that labour under a Weakness of any of their inward parts I think distilled Waters should be avoided Idem XXXVIII Since natural Sleep in the beginning of an Ague fit is hurtfull it is queried Whether we must think the same of it caused by Art See Agues in general Paragr XXIX XXXIX Sleep in the beginning of a fit may seem proper to some because it is a refresher of Mens bodies and a renewer of strength for it is said to be the Authour of good digestion But at the very time of the fit more intense and stouter strength is required because at that time when the peccant matter is moved it must be attenuated dissolved and discussed that it being at last by this means consumed the end of the fit may the sooner follow But the Negative should rather be held for Men should be waking in the very fit because the bloud and spirits and therefore the innate heat in Sleep move inwards yet this motion is contrary to that whereby the natural virtue endeavours to discuss the matter in the fit and remove it outwards For the Heat concentrated in Sleep may make the inward effervescency of the Humours greater and so the Fever more violent Yet when the fit is ended Sleep is not dissallowed when afterwards it egregiously relieves the strength weakned by the battle betwixt the Disease and Nature Horstius XL. If a Physician be consulted whether it be expedient for a sick Man who begins to sweat to be covered with clothes and sweat quiet or on the contrary whether he should not hinder sweating by fanning and motion And considering the Sweat is hot and that it begins to run from the whole body and is yet doubtfull as it is of the beginning of the Disease and of the day and the Disease be not known let him bid the Patient keep himself quiet neither laying on more nor taking away any clothes and let him sweat a while When he is dubious he must visit the Patient again and observe whether he be very restless or whether he begin to breathe hard or whether the Pulse be a little languid If any such thing follow let him order him to be removed and sanned with a fan If none of these things appear and he say that he is rather relieved than oppressed let him proceed not onely one or two but several hours taking in the mean time if the business be protracted long some Broth for his refection If on the contrary he be not onely restless and his Pulse argue weakness but he faint also or look thin in the Face he must not onely prevent it by fanning but also anoint the body with some Astringent as with Oil of Myrtle strowing on Powder of Mirtle and Pomegranate-flowers c. And the signs of a spending and fainting Sweat are said and lastly for it to be cold and to gather in great drops about his Forehead and Neck for his Eyes to be hollow his Face and Nails livid When these things appear Fainting and Death is not afar off Vallesius XLI It frequently happened that they who were upon the recovery from Fevers they especially whom the Fever had macerated a long time and had not left them till after long and plenteous evacuation especially if they were of a weakly habit of body it happened I say that they assoon as they began to be warm in bed were presently all over in a Sweat whereby some were grievously weakned and recovered their strength but slowly and others were cast into a Consumption Because I thought this could arise from nothing else but the bloud being so far depauperated and weakned by the contumacy of the Disease that it could not assimilate with Juices which were newly brought to it it endeavoured to cast them off by Sweat I always persuaded them that were thus affected to take three or four spoonfulls of old Malaga-wine by the use of which their strength returned ever and their Sweats vanished Sydenham XLII In Autumn 1675. dysenterick stools came upon an epidemick Fever and sometimes a Diarrhaea I presently perceived they were symptomatick to this Fever and not as in some Constitutions original and primarily arising Which notwithstanding seeing the cause of the Disease was included in the mass of bloud it did indicate bloud-letting which indeed giving a Narcotick twice after it was sufficient to conquer this Symptome Idem XLIII It often happens that the Patient is vexed through the whole course of the Fever with a troublesome Cough that is the tumultuous mass of bloud being evidently moved and all things now looking towards a Sedition it so falls out that some loose and diffluent humours are carried out of the mass of bloud through the Vessels of the Lungs or by diapedesis into the inner membrane of the Windpipe which is
must often give such things as restore the ferments of the bloud and bowels and correct their dyscrasies Wherefore fixt Salts of herbs their extracts acid mineral Spirits and sometimes preparations of Steel are very good Concerning these means there lies a different task since because of the manifold evil many things must be done at once yet because of the assiduity of the Ague-fit the Patient has but time to use few of them In these complicated distempers though the form of method require us first to remove impediments and then to cure the Disease yet I have known such an Ague in a cacochymick body accompanied with several other illnesses has been cured a methodically and in an Empirical manner That is after a little provision for the whole they first eased the Ague-fit by applying febrifuges outwardly that an opportunity might be taken of curing the rest better afterwards I visited a Gentlewoman who had long been of a cachectick habit of body she was taken a month after her Lying-in with a languid Quotidian-ague after six or seven Fits whereby she was brought so low that she could not rise from her bed nor take the least nourishment but great trouble was created thereby to her Stomach Moreover the region of her Stomach and her left Hypochondrium was beset with an hard renitent and exceeding painfull swelling all over besides the use of Clysters there was no room for evacuation because of the lowness of strength Her Stomach loathed any the most gratefull Medicines In this difficult case which was circumscribed within narrow bounds of cure I advised these few things namely twice a day to take two ounces of Aqua magistralis lumbricorum with six drops of Elixir proprietatis in it Moreover I ordered a fomentation to be applied to her Stomach of leaves of Pontick Wormwood Centaury Southernwood with Roots of Gentian boiled in a Pot well covered and after that a Tost of Bread dipt in the same liquour to be applied upon the region of the Stomach Besides I ordered febrifuge Plasters to be applied to her Wrists And by these remedies onely she mist her Fit the third day and remained free from it afterwards Willis e. g. l. de feb and then in a short time she perfectly recovered by the use of chalybeate Medicines II. The Illustrious Veslingius and I several times visited Andrew Argol the famous Mathematician when he was very old and lying ill of a kind of Quotidian ague with long destillations yet not customary to him when the Spring was far come on of which he recovered not so much by Medicines as by abstinence concoction of the humours and strengthning of the innate heat being procured thereby For he took nothing but Aloëtick Pills called Aloephangini and Cichory Broth. A rare example in our times but very conformable to the Prescriptions of the Ancients Velschius obs 5. with whom such Abstinence and observations of a Diatritaios were very usual III. In a Latick Ague we must have a care of Purges or they must be very gentle and given with great caution for the humour that is the cause of the Ague is dipersed through the whole to the minime parts after the manner of the natural moisture the coction and separation whereof Nature regards not but because of its mixtion in minime parts with the natural humidity she keeps it Wherefore I have not known such persons cured either by Purging or Bleeding Nay if the Belly be loose either of it self or with Physick they grow worse and the good being evacuated with the bad before separation be made they dye wherefore we must proceed rather with a good course of Diet than with Medicines IV. In a Phlegmatick Ague which the Arabians call Latick or Latent much of the innate heat is spent therefore we must give food that nourishes much The Body is troubled with a moistning and laxative humidity from a cold and moist humour but because of putrefaction turned hot and dry Wherefore the body is affected with this Fever as if some part were put in boiling water wherefore some have called this the Ebullient Ague The proper food for such as are taken with this disease must be actually cold and dry but potentially moist And this is that it may dry up the moistning humidity and that it may restore the body deprived of the innate moisture and harden the lax members Now this is difficult to find in a Simple wherefore you must thus make a Sorbition Boil a Pheasant or Partridge or a Kid for these are the best of Flesh with Roots and Rinds of Citron and leaves of Artichoaks boil them to a Broth make a Sorbition with Bread The Artichoak removes the moistning and laxative humidity hardens a lax part and that without the wasting of the innate moisture Besides it opens and provokes Urine and penetrates deep which is required to the cure of this Fever because the humour is dispersed to the minime parts of the body Whence any one may reasonably gather that a thick and plentifull Urine and Sweat are two remedies of this Ague Brudus de victis febricit l. 3. c. 10. Nor must it be omitted that above all Humorary Fevers this Quotidian Ague requires a Diet that may strengthen Body much Brudus de victu febricit l. 3. c. 10. after the manner of a Hectick to which it is very like V. Nor must I pass by in silence that for them who are thus sick it is very good to boil Garlick especially for such as are used to it in their Meat and Broths for it has a prerogative in strengthning the natural faculties and repairing the damages therein which arise from the excess of two qualities that is cold and moisture moreover it corrects the faults of the putrid humour when it is dispersed all the body over it has also the faculty of driving from the centre to the circumference Nevertheless because of its heat and acrimony but little of it must be mixt with Broths Idem and it must be first steeped in Sorrel juice VI. The proper drink for them is Whitewine small defaecate and clear of which take two parts Pomegranate juice of a middle taste half of one part Water wherein fresh Maiden hair has been boiled one part Mix them But you must take care that the Wine be very weak which you give them Idem otherwise it will doe them no small harm VII We must take very great care that they be not loose in their Bellies but rather on the contrary we must endeavour to make the Body costive by things that open the pores of the Skin and provoke Sweat Idem VIII Trallianus lib. 12. cap. 17. in Quotidian Agues when the Liver and mouth of the Stomach are cooled and there is a Vomiting of Phlegm approves of pickled things and other hot things for a cold and moist Stomach bears all extenuaters without harm I ventured says he once to give a certain Man who
be free from that infection 5. This powder was used with great success in the Plague and is given by many but erroneously as a common cure for Fevers Take Sugar-Candy 3 drachms Ginger 2 drachms Camphire 1 drachm Mix them The dose 1 drachm in Water and Vinegar in which Tansie has been boiled especially when the season is not hot ¶ I could also prove the efficacy of this Electuary by good witnesses it is made also of Camphire Take of Scordium 3 drachms Tormentil White Dittany Zedoary Gentian Angelica Cloves each 1 drachm Saffron Camphire each 2 scruples Mix them Make a powder sprinkle it with Water of Carduus in which are dissolved of Treacle 2 drachms and with Syrup of Juice of Carduus and of Scordium make an Electuary The dose 1 drachm or more in Carduus-water ¶ Nothing is better to preserve children from the Plague than Bole-Armenick with a little Tormentil and Citron-pill powdered which may be strewed on their Meat ¶ In a Pestilential fever the following Water is a truely royal Medicine and is highly commended Take Spirit of Malmsey-wine eight times distilled 8 Measures put to it of root of Tormentil Serpentaria each 1 ounce Angelica Zedoary each half an ounce Citron-peel Cinamon each 1 drachm let them stand 3 days in a glass stopt and in a warm place then these things being cast away and strained out first pour this Elixir again into a glass and let these things tied up in Linen be put into it Take of fresh Sperma Ceti Ambergrise best Rheubarb each 2 drachms Musk half a drachm let the Vessel be well stopt keep it One drop of it in Summer time is taken with Sugar of Roses for preservation to those that are infected one ounce may be given with Water of Carduus Benedictus Scabious or Scordium adding 1 drachm of this Powder Take of Hartshorn Unicorns-horn each 1 scruple Terra sigillata half a drachm Pearl Emerald each half a scruple Camphire 7 grains 5 grains of Bezoar-stone may be added and every 3 hours 1 scruple of this powder may be given with Water of Water-lily Sorel c. and when the Patient has taken it let him Sweat ¶ I have learned by certain experience that to pour some Spirit of Malmsey-wine upon Amber and keep the Glass close stopt and every morning to take a few drops with Bread Crato is an excellent preservative from the Plague 5. Elixir Alliatum is reckoned a great Preservative from the Plague it is made thus Take twenty heads of Garlick cleansed bruise them put them in an Alembick pour to them rectified Spirit of Wine till it stand four inches above distill it in Balneo by cohobations always putting in new Garlick in the last distillation add of Camphire tied in a rag and hung in the nose of the Alembick 1 drachm distill it as before ¶ There is a most secret virtue against the Plague in the herb Milfoil whole with its Flowers Deodatus with which onely the Buriers use to guard themselves in the greatest Plagues 6. A compound Oil is made of Scorpions and is much celebrated amongst Chymists it is commonly called Oleum Clementis it shews wonderfull effects in Poison and in all Pestilential Diseases reviving them that are half dead which Oil I highly commend in this case if the Arteries Pet. Salius Diversus and the region of the heart be anointed onely with it 7. A Salt is made of the ashes of a burnt Toad with Water of Carduus Benedictus or Meadow-sweet The dose half a drachm in Carduus Benedictus Water for a Sweat in the Plague which it powerfully promotes Faber and it is very good to cast the Plague out thereby 8. I take Earth-Toads and hang them up and dry them in the Air then I lay them on a hot Tile to make them dry I powder them but first I anoint the Pestil and Mortar with Oil of Scorpions that the Powder may not get into my Nose and hurt my brain with its poisonous quality I take of this Powder 1 ounce sowre Leven 4 ounces the best Treacle 1 ounce leaves of green Rue 1 handfull I mix all these things well with Honey and apply it to the Bubo twice or thrice a day This Plaster draws the Poison out of the body wonderfully to it self a whole Toad dried Guilh. Frabricius and applied to a Bubo does the same 9. This is a most noble Bezoardick Tincture Take of Mistura simplex 3 ounces Berries of the herb One berry 3 drachms Scorzonera-Root 4 scruples Make an Infusion and digest them J. Mich. Febr. The Dose 1 scruple to 2 scruples 10. Hier. Fabricius I especially commend Flammula Jovis to be applied to a Bubo because it draws much and raises blisters by which the Poison is purged out 11. This Plaster is commended above all others for Swellings and Pestilential Buboes Take a Frog and a Toad dried powder them add thereto of Gum Opoponax Frankincense each 2 ounces Galbanum 1 ounce Serapinum 4 ounces Bdellium 3 drachms pour to them Rose-vinegar what is sufficient boil and dissolve the Gums add of Camphire Oil of Sulphur each 1 ounce Fry them in a Frying-pan into the form of a Pultess and apply it hot to the Swelling repeating it every six hours ¶ This is very good to anoint Carbuncles Take of Vnguentum Basilicon 1 ounce fat of Vipers 1 ounce extract of Scordium 3 drachms Treacle 2 drachms Juice of Lemons Oil of Scorpions each half an ounce Mix them Make an Unguent Anoint the Carbuncles ¶ Above all other things which by experience are found good to preserve from the Plague Vitriol is the thing To the stronger sort it may be given to 1 drachm dissolved with Honey and Water for the weak it is prepared with rose-Rose-water and ground very fine at least four times and so half a drachm of it may be given with Wine or Honey ¶ In a Malignant Spotted Fever this Cordial-water of mine is most excellent Take of Juice of Goat's Rue Sorrel Scordium Citron each 1 pound Mix them Add 1 ounce of Treacle Infuse them in warm Water then distill them in Balneo The dose half an ounce morning and evening ¶ This is a most excellent Powder which preserves from and cures the Plague Take of White Vitriol it is first powdered and infused in water then it is dried and this is done three or four times adding a little Camphire of White Dittany Tormentil-root each 2 drachms Make a Powder Rod. à Fonseca The Dose is 1 drachm in Water of Plantain or Roses or Sorrel 12. This Powder of mine was very good Take of Root of Dittany Tormentil Bole Armenick prepared Terra sigillata each 3 drachms Roots of Gentian Butter-bur Tunica each 2 drachms red Sanders 1 drachm shavings of Ivory Citron-Pill red Coral Bone of a Stag's heart Root of Zedoary each half a drachm prepared Pearl both the Behens each 2 drachms Amber Unicorn each half a
scruple I applied dry Lint till it was healed up with firm flesh I deterged the Ulcer every day by strowing on some powder of white Sugar which mitigates Bile every day and I cicatrized it with Diapalma Plaster For the hardness remaining Emplastrum Oxelaeum was applied with a Linen-cloth three double strained out of a decoction of strengthning things in Wine making convenient ligature that the relicks might be discussed Scultetus Armom obs 51. and a new afflux of humours might be hindred Thus within a month and 14 days the Patient was cured IX A young Man 18 years old had a hard Swelling in his right side which came to suppuration Being ill treated it turned into a callous Sinus or fistula Universals premised to search the quantity and quality of it I dilated the extreme narrow orifice with the pith of Elder very much writhen so that it would admit a round Probe with which gently put in through the corruption I touched a rough edge of the rib To consume the Callus I put in a tent of lint writhen anointed with this Ointment Take of powder of Henbane Seed 1 scruple burnt Alume burnt Vitriol each 1 scruple and an half Butter washt in Plantain water what is sufficient Mix them When the Callus was extirpated 1 put in a â—ent of Lint the top whereof wet in Decoctum divinum I strewed with powder of Euphorbium to correct the Caries of the rib but the rest of the tent that I might prevent the regeneration of callus I anointed with this Unguent Take of Vnguentum de Betonica 1 ounce Vnguentum Aegyptiacum 2 drachms I put it in every day till the corrupted rib after 2 months cast off some skales which being taken out I applied every day a less tent dipt in Ointment of Betony Idem obs 41. till the Ulcer being filled up with solid flesh was cicatrized by benefit of Ceratum divinum X. When an Ulcer is old and fistulous we must have recourse to that admirable magisterial Syrup described by the most excellent Fallopius lib. de Vulnerib c. 38. which does good with the greatest success in any inveterate fistula's of the breast whereof this is a description to which we also add China Take of Root of Marshmallow Leaves of Mislefoil Horehound Mugwort Dock Coleworts very green Burnet Bramble tops Roots of Madder with Leaves of Aristolochia rotunda Feaver-few lesser Centaury Honey-suckle each half an handfull Olibanum half a drachm Sarcocolla 1 ounce Seeds of Anise Plantain Fenil Hemp each half an ounce Saffron Rheubarb greater Centaury each 2 ounces odoriferous White-wine what is sufficient China 6 drachms Bruise the Ingredients infuse them in the Wine for 24 hours boil them without Water and strain them Epiphanius Ferdinaâ—dus Hist 32. add of the best Honey 4 pounds Let this Decoction boil up one ebullition with the Honey The Dose is 5 ounces in the morning XI Some order the Fistula to be filled with Hellebore and that it must be done for three days but when I did it once in a Fistula of the Spina dorsi near the region of the Heart the Patient fell into frequent Swoonings Therefore I' think it no safe Remedy especially if the Fistula be in any part of the Breast Chalmetaeus XII A Matron had been long troubled with a Defluxion upon her Teeth in her nether Jaw and when she had not taken care to get the Tooth pulled out upon which the Defluxion fell at length after an Inflammation and great Pain had risen about the roots of it an Abscess gathered which breaking outwardly the Pain abated The Ulcer degenerated into a Fistula which remained even for fourteen years Having undertaken the Cure I found the upper part of the Tooth at the Root whereof the Fistula was eaten away almost to the Alveolus I drew out the Root of the Tooth afterwards I applied a Tent anointed with my Ointment to waste the Callosity when the Callosity was eroded I strewed every day some Powder of precipitate upon it and applied Diapalma Plaster nor did I alter the Medicines before the Ulcer was perfectly cured which was within a month And the Root of the Tooth was eroded unequal and covered with a stony matter lying on it in manner of Scales Hildanus cent 3. obs 33. XIII A Lying-in Woman had an Inflammation in her right Breast from concretion of Milk which being too much hardned with Dissolvents turned to an Abscess then into a deep Fistula with a Callus of a narrow orifice Her Body being purged I sufficiently dilated the narrow orifice of the Fistula with tents of Gentian afterwards I wasted the Callus by once putting in a tent of Lint smeared with the following Ointment Take of Mercury precipitate burnt Alume Verdigreece salt Nitre each equal parts Mix them with Whites of Eggs beaten as much as is sufficient It quickly extirpates the Callus of Fistula's but in the nervous parts especially and such as are endued with an exquisite sense not so pleasantly and safely When the Callus was consumed the Ulcer was cleansed with Vnguentum Aegyptiacum incarnated with Vnguentum de Betonica consolidated with Ceratum divinum and the reliques of the hard tumour were dissolved with Ceratum oxaeleon Scultetus Armam obs 43. Emplastrum ex spermate Ceti Mynsichti cures hard Swellings from curdled Milk XIV When a Fistula in ano reaches to the Gut the finger anointed with Oil of Roses must be put into the anus and also a falceolus or a crooked Incision-knife with it and when the finger is thus put in the falceolus must be so guided that it do not err in cutting into the callous substance that it may also cut the haemorrhoid Veins I approve rather of Incision than of Detraction of the Callus which is made by ligature But we must take notice that the Callus must not reach above four inches lengthways into the Gut Otherwise we must use onely a palliative Cure or when it reaches to the bladder or the os sacrum proceeding beyond the sphincter because the sphincter would be cut and an involuntary excretion of the faeces would follow Then therefore it must be twice every day fomented with a Decoction of Mullein Chalmetaeus and the Decoction must be injected XV. Celsus l. 7. c. 4. and his Followers do cut a Fistula in ano which does not penetrate by breaking through the bottom of it they gather both ends of it with a twisted silken thread yet red silk single because of its tenuity and tincture cuts and eats in sooner and so straining it very hard with a little piece of a stick transverse they cut the whole sinus or the Interstice of both holes But Aquapendent deservedly rejects this Incision of Fistulae in ano by a thread because it is too slow and puts a Man to continual pain And he says it must never be used but when People are afraid of the Knife Scultetus Fab. 45. propounds a new way
of Cure by the edge of a Syringotomus and a thread which joins the opinions of Celsus and of the later Chirurgeons XVI Yet Fistulae in ano in old Men deriving their original from some old Fluxion as from the Haemorrhoids of long continuance cannot safely be cured unless before the Wound be healed an Issue be made in the Thigh three or four inches above the Knee for evacuation of the matter daily gathered which used to be evacuated by the old Fistula Sâ—ultetus XVII Penetrating Fistulae are very easily and safely cured without an actual Cautery which some commend to consume the Callus in Fistulae if when the Syringotomus is passed through the Bloud be stopt and Haemorrhagie prevented and the Callus wasted with this Medicine Take of Mercury precipitate half a drachm Honey of Roses half an ounce For the sphincter according to Hippocrates lib. de Haemorrh may safely be cut any way without prejudicing its office if but an eighth part of it be left untouched otherwise an involuntary excretion of the faeces would follow and then most certain Death Idem Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. I have seen Fistulae of the Feet often cured with this Remedy First wash them with a Lye of Vine-ashes then use an Unguent made of Sugar Oil-olive Mercury and Wine each equal parts Borelâ—us 2. This wonderfully cures Fistulae if they be often washed and the hollow of them filled with an Arcanum mixt with Tincture of Aristolochia rotunda drawn with Spirit of Wine Faber 3. The Bulb of Cornflag mixt with Starch Vinegar and Foxes grease cures Fistulae and running Sores most effectually Laurembergius 4. This is highly commended by many Authours especially for drying up and healing a Fistula Take of Water of the Vine 2 ounces Malmsey wine 1 ounce Honey of Roses 10 drachms Myrrh root of Peucedanum each 2 drachms Sarcocolla Aloe Epatica each 1 ounce and an half Mix them Let them boil up onely once moderately and let it be injected by a Syringe into the Fistula Pâ—câ—ettius 5. A wonderfull Water for Fistulae Take of green Shells of Wall-nuts let them stand in the shade distill them Take of the distilled Water 7 pounds distill it again add of Honey 2 pounds distill it again and keep it for use Praevotius 6. After Universals are used some commend this Potion Take of Sanicle Mugwort Speedwell Saracene's Consound Winter-green each 1 ounce Savine 1 ounce and an half Horse-tail half a drachm Boil them in White-wine Make a Potion which if you would have more effectual in every Dose mix of prepared Crabs-eyes half a scruple For Savine and Crabs-eyes are very good to expell Bones Pus broken Veins and the like Senner 7. This is a most secret Medicine Take of Tops of lesser Centaury 3 handfulls Roots of greater Plantain fresh 1 pugil Leaves of Germander Scabious each 1 handfull New-wine 3 pounds and an half Boil them to half Let the Herbs and Roots be well pounded and strained out hard then boil them on a gentle Fire to the consistency of Honey and keep it Stokkerus 8. This is an approved Medicine for a Fistula Take of Leaves of red Cabbage and the Seeds of the same Roots of Madder each equal parts Bruise them in some Wine and boil them to a third strain out the Liquour and boil them to the consistency of Honey Give two spoonfulls morning and evening every day ¶ Filipendula and the Grains found at the end of its Root are good for the same Tulpius Fluor Muliebris or Womens Whites The Contents How it may be known from a Gonorrhoea I. The blame must not always be laid upon the Womb. II. Bleeding is sometimes good III. Cured within a month by taking a loosning Ptisan IV. Whether Diureticks be proper V. Whether they be always good VI. Every one must not be cured by a Sudorifick Diet. VII Astringents and Strengthners must be seasonably used VIII Issues in the Legs are good IX Sometimes it is caused by the use of Catharticks and Baths X. Those Women that have a dry Nose are usually subject to it XI The Womb must be strengthned XII A Malignant one imposes upon the Physician XIII Medicines I. SOme Women that are ill of a virulent Gonorrhoea hiding their fault under an innocent name pretend they are ill of the Whites because in both cases abundance of filth is voided But the Chirurgeon may easily distinguish the Whites from a Gonorrhoea and he may satisfie himself a Gonorrhoea will never be cured without Salivation Paraeus II. The cause which continually breeds the corrupt humour is sometimes in the Womb sometimes in other principal parts They are therefore grievously mistaken who ascribe the cause of all that comes from the Womb and of the suppression of the Menses to the Womb alone For in what Women cold Bowels or obstructed or scirrhous have caused Crudities an ill Habit or Dropsie the corrupted humour being poured into several parts of the body often falls upon the Womb and tending that way purges the Body which is done in some others by urine or stool Fernelius III. Seeing the Whites depend upon a Cacochymie and it being drawn to the Veins by Phlebotomy may infect the mass of Bloud there seems no room for Phlebotomy Besides since in this chronical Disease strength decays much and the Body is often brought to a consumption it appears it ought not to be farther wasted by Bleeding and be deprived of its Aliment Yet it is thus determined that if this Flux be not solitary and pure but be mixt with a little bloud and look red then bloud may be let As also if there be any great heat in the Liver or acrimony of the bilious juice joined with this Flux But in other cases especially when the case is grown inveterate it is better to abstain from Bleeding Rivâ—rius IV. A Woman of forty had been long troubled with the Whites after many Medicines tried in vain she was perfectly cured with taking a laxative Ptisan every day for a month The Composition was this Take of cleansed Senna 1 drachm Coriander-seed prepared and scraped Liquorice each 1 drachm and an half Spring-water wherein three drachms of Tamarinds and 1 drachm of Mastich-wood have been boiled one glass Infuse them cold for one night and let her take the colature two hours in the morning before she eat Idem V. There is no small difficulty to tell whether Diureticks be proper for they do not onely provoke urine but the menstrua by heating and attenuating the humours contained in the Veins Yet they are approved by all Authours and by Galen himself who used them in Boëthius his Wife The reason is because Diureticks provoke urine primarily and the menses secondarily and as it were by accident then the Kidneys draw the serous matter continually the Womb onely receives it Wherefore it is likely that
lower part it may safely be cut off yet so as that onely what is preternaturally eminent may be cut off Not long since I saw a Chirurgeon press the Columella with an Instrument called a Crow's Bill the Patient's Mouth being opened very wide then with the other hand he clipt off that part of the Columella which was below the Instrument and no pain Enchir. Med. Pract. no Inflammation or Haemorrhagie followed upon it V. A Priest had an Imposthume in his Vvula another Priest clipt off his whole Vvula with a pair of Scissers which being cut off and the Patient's Body being very plethorick the bloud and humours fell in such a quantity on the Breast and so great a straitness of Breast and Lungs followed that the Patient could scarce breathe and finally he could neither spit Valeseus c. 5. l. 3. nor raise from his Breast and the third day he was choaked and died VI. Although Gargarisms ought to be the same in the relaxation of the Vvula as in Ulcers of the Gums and Jaws in the beginning astringent and repellent afterwards resolvent and exsiccant yet where no inflammation is the use of Powders is more effectual for so the astriction and drying is more powerfull Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians I. For falling down of the Uvula 1. Take green Nuts and Date-stones and when you have a mind burn them sufficiently and take equal parts of them and powder them dry You may use them so Aetius They are very discussive 2. This is an excellent Plaster if Bayberries Penniroyal wild Marjoram Alex. Benedictus Horse-mint and Savine be bruised and boiled in Honey and applied to the Head shaven 3. I have often tried this Powder does excell most Medicines Take of Pepper Cinnamon each half a scruple Bark of Frankincense-Tree Galls each 1 scruple red Roses 2 drachms Codronchius Make a Powder wherewith the Vvula must be touched 4. Let the Kernels of Wallnuts be beaten with Spirit of Wine Crato and applied to the Coronal Suture 5. For Children a clean Paper four times double wet in equal parts of the Mother's Milk and Rue water applied to the Crown of the Head Johnstonus is good 6. For a loose Vvula to dry up the humidity this is a certain experiment if a little Saffron be put in Man's Urine Kunrad and one gargle with it 7. If the matter be small and the Head not very full of Excrements it is cured onely by touching it with long Pepper It is beaten very fine and the end of the Vvula is touched with it which being touched twice or thrice they spit Phlegm Rondeletius and it is quickly contracted and made shorter 8. For the falling of the Vvula Take long Pepper Ginger each half a drachm Granes of Paradise 1 drachm Pellitory of Spain Alume each half a drachm Album Graecum 2 drachms Mix them Rulandus Make a Powder which raises the Vvula 9. Hemp-seed boiled a little in Posca Stokkerus strained and used for a Gargarism scarce ever fails 10. Water of Spleenwort is admirable in a sore Throat 11. An excellent Powder is made of Album Graecum dried mixt with other things Welkarduâ— if it be applied to a lax Columella II. For Exulceration and Inflammation 1. This is an excellent Medicine for an Inflammation of the Vvula both in the beginning and in the height Take of Rhus Culinarium 1 ounce Flowers of Roses half an ounce Saffron half a drachm bruise them and powder them Take half a Spoonfull of this and dissolve it in three ounces of Water and Honey Aetius and make a Gargarism 2. Some reckon this as a secret and believe me in Ulcers of the Tongue Mouth and Vvula it does wonders Take of common water two ounces and an half Powder of Sublimate half a drachm Let them boil till the Sublimate be melted Cortilio and strain it wherewith touch the ulcerated places Morning and Evening 3. This is a most generous Decoction to stop the Defluxion Take Galls Rhus Culinarium and coriarium Fruits of both the Tamarisks Flowers and Rind of Pomegranate All or any one of these boiled in Water Nicol. Piso may be given to gargle withall 4. I have tried this Take of Pepper half a drachm Powder of Venetian Orrice 2 drachms Juice of Liquorice 1 drachm and an half Sugar-candy 2 drachms Honey 1 ounce Mix them Rondeleâ—ius Make a Lohoch and lick it A GUIDE TO The Practical Physician BOOK VIII Of Diseases beginning with the Letter H. Habitus Corporis vitia Cutanei Affectus or Diseases of the Habit of the Body Diseases of the Skin See Scabies BOOK XVI and Cosmetica BOOK XIX The Contents The habit of the body may be vitiated when the Bowels are not hurt I. Bloud must be let sparingly II. A grievous Itch requires a cure like that of the Pox. III. Striking of it in must be avoided IV. When we must use Repellents V. Cured by setting Leeches to the part VI. A Palsie arising upon striking in of Pimples in the face VII A pertinacious redness in the face cured by opening a vein in the Forehead VIII Whether Spaw-waters be good for a Pimpled Face IX Whether a Sweat be good for a Ring-worm X. Whether Bleeding or Purging be good for Exanthemata XI Blackness of the fingers cured by a Fume XII We must have a care how we stop Sweating of the feet XIII In external Pains ascribed to a Catarrh bloud letting is convenient though the cause be cold XIV I. A Peculiar Republick and Regiment is constituted for the habit of the Body it has also its Diseases not depending upon the interiour regiment Hippocrates and Galen call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or The bulk of the whole body The Arteries and Veins that reach to the Muscles and Skin belong to it A cutaneous Itch often arises when the Bowels offend not at all which also is cured onely with externals It happens also Rolfincciuâ— Dissâ—rt Anaâ— p. 1283. that a Scabies ferina infests the Skin while the Arteries run dreadfull putrefaction and administer matter to it as they carry impure faeculencies with the bloud and they not being received nor carried back by the Veins are left in the Pores II. Hippocrates lib. de Humor although he order Revulsion in an opposite part does yet except the Humours poured out into the Skin which he forbids to be drawn inwards because the inner parts are more noble than the outer Besides because humours once poured out to the Skin get a bad quality so that if they once go inwards they ever prove pernicious Let Physicians have this rule before their eyes while they are upon the cure of Diseases that infest the outer Skin that they let not bloud in such a quantity as to make revulsion to the inner parts lest perhaps it happen as it did to reverend N. who labouring of the Itch would have 4 pounds of
So Leonides advises us to doe when some of the vessels which feed the Testicle are varicous for if all of them be so the Testicle must be taken together with them lest when it wants nourishment it should corrupt This Rupture also may be cured with a potential Cautery unless the Varication be too great If therefore it be more in the ambient Veins of the Testicle than in the Scrotum for then an excessive haemorrhagy might be feared from the corrosion of those large Veins the Cautery must be applied in greater plenty that it may not onely burn and waste these Veins but the Testicle also for so the crust will be stronger and thicker Geiger Chelegr c. 13. which will hinder any excessive haemorrhage XXXI Because it may be feared a Vein may grow varicous in the Scrotum Fortis therefore the Scrotum must be anointed with Oleum Saturni XXXII Since the matter of a varicous Rupture is melancholick Bloud poured from the upper parts upon the Scrotum either by critical transmutation of the melancholick matter or the termination of some Sickness Or it is caused by a Spleen weak in drawing melancholick dregs from the Liver or the Liver not expelling the melancholick Bloud as it ought besides external causes which multiply melancholick Bloud That it may be rightly cured we must abstain from such causes then when the common excrements are discharged Bloud must be let out of some lienary Vein for usually such ruptured persons have an obstruction in their Spleen and find a pain in their left hypochondrium then we must use Decoctions to purifie the Bloud and remove obstructions of the Spleen Geiger Chelegr c. 14. Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. This is admirable for a Rupture of the Guts which we have tried and so cured that others have admired Let Paper lye three days in Water till it have soaked up the moisture like a Sponge Make a Ball of it and when the Gut is put up apply it to the Groin bind it on with some convenient Ligature Aetius and do not remove it for three days 2. When because of the Swelling the Guts cannot be put up again Boil some Oats in a sufficient quantity of Water then add half a pound of fresh Butter boil it again Then let the boiled Oats be put in two Bags and by turns let one of the Bags be put into the Water and so foment the part and put up the slipt Guts gently with the Bag. This Remedy has been found very beneficial Loyse Bourgois 3. This is admirable good in all Ruptures Take of root of white Carline Thistle Dove's-foot dryed boil these two in red styptick Wine give a draught of the Wine sometimes in the morning Brendelius 4. A Plaster of Hare's-down burnt with Powder of Comfrey mixt with Oil of unripe Roses and Pitch Claudinus is excellent 5. In the month of May there are Bladders found upon Elm-leaves full of Water which is peculiarly good for Wounds and Ruptures The round things which hang upon Oak-leaves gathered in the month of May and exposed to the Sun in a Glass do dissolve of themselves into Water which anointed on the Rupture Crollius is good 6. Ruptures are cured with the depurated Juice of Rupture-wort which is mixed with Bean-flower and applied to the part for 15 days the Patient keeping his Bed all the time ¶ Spirit of common Salt and Sal Gemm if 3 or 4 drops of it be taken in the morning with Flix-wood or Comfrey-water Faber is a great Secret for curing a Rupture 7. I have had great experience and much success of this After the Gut is put up let the Patient for 20 days take of prepared Steel 1 scruple mixt with 2 scruples of Sugar and drink a little Malmsey-Wine upon it Fallopius 8. A Man of fifty had a Rupture which grew as big as one's Head and hard which could be softned by no Fomentations nor put up I gave him a draught of Wine just boiled up once with some Anise Caroway and Fenil-seeds bruised and the Hardness immediately was softned and the Rupture was put up Van Helmont 9. Let a Load-stone powdered be given in Pottage then let the Groin through which the Gut slips be anointed with Honey and fine filings of Steel strewed upon it this Remedy must be used for several days and the part affected must be carefully kept up with a Truss Hofmannus 10. It is evident from infallible experience that the Root of Wake-Robin has a singular Virtue against Ruptures About a drachm or a little less given in some convenient liquour not onely draws back the Procidency but heals the Rupture of the Peritonaeum if either the Patients lye on their backs in bed Laurenbergius or if they use a Truss 11. In a windy Rupture I have often experienced this Emplastrum de Vigo cum Mercurio and Emplast Diachalciteos dissolved into generous Malmsey-wine with Oil of Bayes Paraeus 12. Greater Ants distilled with Bread if every day in the morning carnous Ruptures be anointed therewith Petraeus or a little of the Water be taken doe good 13. Some commend this as a most certain Cure Take of white Cichory gathered about St. James Tide 3 pugils Pasque-flower 2 pugils Seed of Thorow-wax 2 pugils Make a Powder The Dose as much as one can take up with his three fingers in some flesh broth at Dinner and Supper till the Patient recover 2. Take roots of Elecampane Sanicle Comfrey Saracen's Consound each what is sufficient make a Decoction in Water to the Consumption of half In this Decoction hot wet Cloths and let the place affected be often fomented and afterwards anointed with the following Unguent Take Oil of Eggs and Tormentill-powder Mix them Make an Unguent Sennertus Hydrophobia Rabies Fear of Water Biting of a Mad Dog The Contents Whether a Vein must be breathed I. When it may be breathed II. Whether we must purge III. At what time IV. With what we may purge and with what we may not V. Throwing into the Sea is good VI. The bitten part must not presently be cut off VII An Example of a happy cure VIII Medicines I. SOme think Venaesection not at all proper for the Biting of a Mad Dog because it draws the Poison through the whole Body into the Veins yet Avicenna l. 4. sen 6. tr 4. c. 9. writes that bloud must be let after the fourth day and that not onely once but twice especially when a Man has not been bled immediately after the Bite and when Bloud abounds Yet some modern Physicians after the Biting of a Mad Dog to prevent Madness are so abhorrent from Bloud-letting that they maintain it must be avoided as a thing which by emptying the Veins causes the Poison to penetrate deeper But these Men seem to think that the Venom of a Mad Dog is not dispersed all over the Body till
necessary seeing the venom of a Mad Dog is not of such speedy activity as the poison of an Asp or Viper and may well enough be evacuated otherways Sennertus VIII At Venice I saw a Mother and her Son bit by a house dog at one and the same time in Summer He bit the Son's thumb and forefinger of his Right-hand and the Mother's Arm a little above her Wrist and I found signs of Madness in the Dog he was leaner than ordinary his eyes red his tail hanging foaming at the mouth his tongue hanging out tinged as it were with yellow bile running up and down disorderly and then stopping on a sudden he would neither eat nor drink though his panting shewed his great thirst Thus being sure of the Madness of the Dog I went to cure my Patients 1. By intercepting recalling and extracting the venom 2. By hindring the venom from creeping to the inner parts and from diffusing it self through the whole body 3. By opposing the quality of the poison with Alexipharmacks Immediately therefore Deligation was made above the part affected an Astringent being applied underneath made of a binding Powder white of an Egg and Rose-water which we applied to the Boy while we were curing the Mother Then I ordered the lips of the wound to be scarified round about and then a great Cupping-glass to be applied with much flame Then the Wound being first washed with all Wine warm because water is very hurtfull I ordered a Plaster to be applied of Onions and Garlick bruised adding some Wallnut Rue Leven Salt and Honey In the mean time I ordered the Dog to be killed the Liver to be taken out and washed with Wine and the Medicine described by Galen 3. K. T. cap. 5. to be made and of all them that used this he never saw one dye Take of Pitch 1 pound sharpest Vinegar 8 ounces Opoponax 3 ounces Mix them according to Art to this I ordered to be added half an ounce of the Powder of the said Liver which by a specifick property draws out the Canine poison But to the Boy who had a wound in his Thumb and Finger because he would not endure Cupping Scarifying or Burning I ordered several Leeches about the Wounds and then applied the same Plaster that his Mother had I prescribed both of them a Decoction of Alysson or Madwort and Gentian in distilled Carduus-water adding half an ounce of Cinnamon-water having first given a Bolus of Treacle to the Mother and of Mithridate to the Son reformed with the Powder of Terra-sigillata vera I ordered their Pulses in their Temples Arms and Legs to be anointed every three or four hours with Oleum M. Ducis Hetruriae and de Scorpion Matthiol mixt together I did not forbid them Wine but I forbad them Sleep till night The next day I found the Mother had done all that I ordered her and the Son nothing so that the little wounds were almost healed up and seemed to be slighted nevertheless I applied Galen's Medicine to them both and ordered them the same internal things again In the mean time for the third Intention letting alone dubious things I had recourse to true Alexipharmacks the Powder of River-Crabs which are brought from Arno a River of Florence hither Take of Powder of River-Crabs 10 drachms Gentian 10 drachms Frankincense 1 drachm Mix them The Dose a great spoonfull to two I would have them prepared for the whole year And the Crabs must never be burnt before the rise of the Dog-star but when the Sun is in Leo and the Moon 18 days old in a Platter of red brass which Galen gave for 40 days They took these things for 7 days after this they began to take the Powder of Crabs in Scorzonera and Carduus benedictus water and in the mean time the Chirurgeon treated the Wounds like others yet he hindred healing of them and kept them wide open above 40 days But as the Mother was observant in all things who took Powder of Crabs 40 days kept the Wound open 50 applying in the mean time bruised Wallnuts frequently to the Wound which at the first day being given to Hens killed two after the seventh they were harmless and had no sign of poison in them so the Son was delinquent in all whom his Mother observed to be thirsty in the first days and to drink beyond his custome and out of reason who notwithstanding about the twentieth day began to abstain from drink and to be pensive and silent he began to talk strange things to loath his Meat to have the Hickup and at length having had some convulsive motions on the twenty seventh he died Fortis cent 1. cons 20. but his Mother recovered Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. The Rennet of a Whelp is extolled by Aetius in an Hydrophobia For if it be but once taken in Vinegar he says they presently desire Water In this Disease nothing is more wholesome than to drink Water which ceasing Death is at hand ¶ The onely Remedy against the Bite of a Mad Dog is root of wild Rose-tree Baricellus 2. This Electuary of Palmarius is highly commended by the Moderns Take of leaves of Rue Vervain Sage Plantain Mint Polypody Wormwood Mugwort Balm Betony lesser Centaury S. John's-wort each equal parts Mix them Make a Powder The Dose 1 drachm and an half in broth every day in the morning before Meat Blasius 3. In this Disease we may also use the Liver of the Mad Dog which is more approved when applied than given inwardly Hildesheim 4. One says that Burnet taken for several days in the morning certainly cures an Hydrophobia Maroldus 5. Dioscoridis Alyssum or Mad-wort is highly commended by all Men as is also a Decoction and Ashes of River-Crabs Sennertus mixt with good store of Dill. Hydrops Pectoris or A Dropsie of the Breast The Contents We must be cautious how we purge I. The Efficacy of Calomelanos II. Cured with Sudorificks III. Whether Tapping be good IV. The Cure by boring a hole in the Rib. V. The benefit of Diureticks VI. An Example of an happy Cure VII I. THIS must be carefully observed that when the Disease is confirmed and great store of serous humour is gathered in the Breast if a violent Purge be given these humours are much disturbed whence a great Suffocation comes upon the Patient which quickly carries him off Therefore we must act cautiously and Medicines must be given by repeated turns and they must be mixt with strong Aperients and Diureticks that the passages may also be opened and part of the ferous matter carried to the ways of Urine Among Hydrogogues those that are made of Minerals are most proper in this Disease such as Mercurius dulcis and Mercurius vitae so corrected as to evacuate onely by the lower parts Rivetius II. A Man of fifty had been ill of a great difficulty of Breathing for three months nor was
aperitivi are given on purpose with Stomachicks and Aromaticks So we use to prepare our cachectick Powder of Pulvis stomachicus Quercetani of root of Aron Crocus Martis and Oil of Cinnamon For they correct Mars and help Nature to conquer him But sulphurate especially causes belching as being cruder therefore we use not to give Crocus Martis so much prepared the crude way as we give it first freed from the Atoms of Sulphur by a new calcination which is better more subtile and obedient to the heat of the Stomach a thing which must principally be observed in Hypochondriacks who are delicate and of a rare texture for these belchings swell like rotten eggs Septalius lib. 9. cant 58. commends this made into a Powder and prepared with Vinegar Wedelius XLIX We must have a care that we promote not the fermentation of the humours by Emulsions and consequently lest while we would cure Thirst Weakness c. we doe more harm than good Therefore in general whenever the orgasmus of the humours is in the lower Belly it is adviseable to abstain from them for as Hippocrates says unequal things ferment Wherefore in Hystericks where it concerns us to quiet the Symptoms and also in Hypochondriacks they cannot be proper Idem L. The quieting of the Paroxysms and of the most urgent Symptoms consists especially in checking the effervescence of the humours in discussion of the rising exhalations asswaging of Pain The effervescence will be stopt chiefly with Medicines that correct the acrimony of both humours the Acid pituitous and the Bilious which is owing to fat and spirituous things but variously mixt with other things according to the various manner of effervescence in each person Wherefore that Medicine which does one Man good often does another harm And it must be a temperate Medicine which must consist of much water and little oil but that so mixt with a volatile salt that it may mix with the water For all the skill lies here I repeat it The temperate Medicine must consist of much water as being a thing which by it self and a lixivious salt is fit to dilute an acid spirit and so infringe its strength To this water oil but a little must be added as being apt to temper both the lixivious salt and the acid spirit And because oil cannot be mixt with water but by means of a Lixivial Salt this must be there also but corrected and volatilized with a volatile Spirit because the same and a volatile spirit use to temper a lixivious salt and an acid spirit In such a Medicine therefore so tempered there occurr three things Water Oil and Volatile Spirit tempering the two Sharps Sylvius de le Boë the lixivious Salt and the acid Spirit LI. Among the Symptoms of this Disease I have observed that a sense and fear of Suffocation and Strangling is not onely peculiar to Women though it take them oftner than Men. I think this grievance has its rise from various exhalations and especially austere ones rising from the small gut to the upper mouth of the Stomach and so to the Gullet and causing a sense of Suffocation and Strangling in these parts But whenever part of these exhalations tends by the lacteal Veins to the thoracick Duct penetrates into the right ventricle of the Heart and into the Lungs and sticking there causes shortness of Breath no wonder if then either through want of proper Medicines or abundance of Exhalations the Patients are sometime suffocated and choaked which I remember once happened to one of my Patients abundance of austere Exhalations being translated to the Lungs with a violent hypochondriack Suffocation as the most urgent Symptome then and returning with such violence every Paroxysm that it would give way to no Medicines but caused Death And this Evil had been neglected at the beginning so much does it concern us to cure all things in time Certainly this Ail is often too much neglected not being sufficiently known to several Physicians and therefore the seldomer cured For curing of this volatile Salts are very good and amongst them Spirit of Sal Ammoniack which if it had no other virtues yet in regard to this Ail it ought to be esteemed by all Physicians Except in this case I do not remember any Patient of mine ever died of an hypochondriack Suffocation to whom I use in time to prescribe and inculcate volatile Salts which all persons may easily use even in their ordinary drink Whereas Castor which many use with good success is an ingratefull thing and is loathed by many The Cure of this multifarious Disease is performed first of all by discussion and suppression of all manner of Exhalations Secondly by correction of the humours whence they arise Thirdly And by the diminution of them where they exceed All volatile Salts and Aromaticks and especially oleous ones discuss all manner of Vapours Among which also Castor it self may be reckoned seeing it is part of an Animal or an Excrement which is the same thing seeing all the parts and each of an Animal abound with a volatile Salt And every particular humour as it offends in divers qualities must in a divers manner be corrected and diminished with its Purgatives But as often as a manifest sense of Strangling is urgent upon the Patient besides this Spirit of Sal Ammoniak Castor is also convenient and its Tincture as also distilled Oil of Mace and Amber if one two or three drops thereof be taken When these Exhalations are more glutinous or also more sharp then besides volatile Salts sweet Spirit of Nitre Oil of Orange Pill c. may be used When they are more watry and there is rather a faintness of Spirits than sense of Strangling then to the volatile Salts there may profitably be added aromatick Tinctures of Cinnamon Saffron Nutmeg Mace c. made with rectified Spirit of Wine not neglecting the taking of Hydragogues now and then to abate the watry humours Idem LII And Difficulty of Breathing comes in for its share which is grievous enough to many the chief cause whereof is various Winds and Vapours often produced by humours in the small Gut which being carried by the lacteal Veins and thoracick duct to the right ventricle of the Heart and so to the Lungs and tarrying there awhile so they both distend the Lungs and keep them distended and so hinder the playing of them and consequently respiration and therefore must be discussed with the same Medicines Idem Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Tartarus vitriolatus with extract of Fern and some convenient Water is an excellent deoppilative ¶ Take of Gumm Ammoniack 2 ounces and an half dissolved in Vinegar of Squills to the consistency of Honey Add of Powder of Spleen-wort Dodder each 1 ounce Oil of Capers 2 ounces of Violets 1 ounce of Bricks and Wax what is sufficient Make a Plaster and apply it Agricola 2. Diaspoliticum in hypochondriack melancholy
There are several Medicines 9. χ. Ï„. too violent for young Children Therefore I rather commend Galen's advice 3. Euporist that is to use Smith's-water Idem and Powder of burnt Snails XVIII The same Galen 2. de Simpl. writes that several have written that a Torpedo applied is good for the falling of the Arse-gut But he subjoyns that he had tried that remedy in vain Powder of a Serpent's slough is also very good Idem XIX But if these Medicines will not perfectly cure it the followers of the Arabians commend the making of two cauteries in the end of the Spine that is near the Rump one on each side Which remedy nevertheless I would advise onely to be used in adult ones and when other things will doe no good XX. It is often hindred from going back into its place by the Mucus wherewith it is covered which you must absterge not with brine as some have advised because the sense of the part will not bear it but with sugâ—red-Sugâ—red-water especially with rain-Rain-water or with Water of Honey much diluted which you must doe often and wrap up the Anus in clothes wet with water Aphthae or A Thrush XXI Because a Thrush is usually attended with great Inflammation and consequently draws the humours from the body and increases the disease thereby Therefore it will be good to apply Cupping-glasses but to the buttocks or the end of the back by which one may evacuate as much bloud as the age and habit of the body will bear Mercurialis XXII If the Thrush be malignant we must oppose the pravity but we must have regard to the Age and the tenderness of the body We may not therefore in this age use those remedies which an elder might bear And the Medicine may be such Take of Scordium finely powdered 1 drachm Pomegranate Pills finely powdered 2 scruples burnt Alume 1 scruple Honey what is sufficient Mix them Idem XXIII But we must observe whether powders or whatever else be given it is necessary that it be mixt with some thing that is gratefull to the palate for there the Gustatory faculty is placed and we must have great regard to the Taste Wherefore as may be seen in Galen 6. de Med. local the Ancients made up their Medicines for the Thrush either with Sapa or Honey Idem XXIV If the Child be big because it is very material to have the pravity checkt presently lest it grow to spreading Ulcers we must endeavour to take away all malignity immediately with strong Medicines which the juice of Pomegranates and especially of sowre ones does admirably Which Theophrastus says does in a wonderfull manner preserve from putrefaction And though the Pomegranate by Dioscorides be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet we must not say with Ruellius it is hurtfull to the mouth which is very false but that it is ungratefull It appears indeed from experience that it is unpleasant and ungratefull nevertheless it is very good to stop a putrid Thrush Idem XXV But it often so happens that this Medicine does not suffice wherefore we must proceed to stronger In which case in those of elder years we may use either Aqua Aluminis magistralis or Vnguentum Aegyptiacum or flos aeris corrected with Diamoron all which things must not be used but upon great necessity The reason is because according to Galen 6. χ. Ï„. in the palate there are two wide passages one of which goes to the Lungs the other to the Stomach wherefore it is very dangerous if any poisonous Medicine get into these parts Therefore he said that Vitriol must not be used in Medicines for the Mouth because of the imminent danger if any part of such a Medicine should get either into the Stomach or Lungs Besides when we must use some such Medicines it will be best to use them in such a form as cannot go farther than the Palate as when a malignant Thrush is touched with Oil of Vitriol or of Sulphur or with Sublimate water XXVI Whether is Butter good for a Thrush Idem It is good in the beginning but it may be questioned 1. Because fat things make Ulcers foul 2. By its heat it might increase the Inflammation 3. It does not at all agree with other Medicines which must be used in the progress of the Disease I answer 1. The argument holds good in deep Ulcers which must be deterged 2. Fresh Butter is reckoned temperate because of the serous humidity mixt with it 3. Nor does it hinder that other Medicines are of other qualities because in the progress we dry and deterge more XXVII Horstius A Boy about four years old had a very sharp Fluxion upon his Tongue and Jaws so that he had an infinite number of white Ulcers very painfull with a great inflammation he could swallow nothing he had no sleep but roared continually he was lean and almost quite consumed Honey of Roses with Spirit of Vitriol which did others good did him none He had a plentifull Loosness with much porraceous bile A Bliâ—er did him much good but his pain and roaring continued and a serous sharp humour ran out of his mouth continually the pain and inflammation drawing more and more At length I gave 1 grain of Laudanum in broth whereby the pain was eased a gentle sleep procured which afterwards continued moderate and came at due hours Then his fluxion into his mouth ceased and he began to recover Riverius Atrophia or want of Nourishment XXVIII There are four causes of Leanness in Câ—ildren First Ineptitude of Aliment Secondly Want of Heat whose office it is to concoct it Thirdly Obstruction of the passages by which the Aliment passes to its elaboratories or whereby it is carried from them to the parts to be nourished Fourthly Any cause that is able to waste dissipate and melt the fat and flesh To the ineptitude of Aliment the condition of the Milk belongs which is either afforded in far less quantity than it should or is so thin that it is dissipated by the heat or of its own nature it is of little Aliment because it has but little of the butyrous substance and much of the other Or when it is bitter salt c. which Nature is therefore averse to So want of Innate Heat causes an Atrophy a thousand ways because it is able neither to concoct laudable Aliment or if it be it does not distribute it or does not assimilate it when distributed c. Thus Childrens bodies are also emaciated because the ways chanels and pores of the Elaboratories and the Flesh are obstructed corrugated fallen flat compressed or some way or other straitned Of which cause we must have a great care Then the cause which wastes the fat and flesh is either internal or external internal whatever is unable to contain the substance that should nourish as it happens in fluxes of bloud or of any other good substance or it dissipates by sweat
insensible transpiration by Urine or Stool But these are seldom seen in Children for in them the dissipating heat or consuming drought usually waste the humidity that should nourish The external cause is either the aestuating dissipating heat or the violent cold extinguishing the heat or the use of Salt meats XXIX If the heat appear as it were extinct by a cold disease or humour then indeed Children are usually very hungry although sometimes their stomachs are squeamish that is when Phlegm putrefies or becomes mucilaginous and the more they cram the leaner they grow Moreover they are of a white colour and though their body be extenuated their eyes face and feet swell being forerunners of another mischief You cannot heal this disease by change or increase of diet but by such things as waste and concoct the Phlegm and make the heat more brisk In which case it is good for Children when they are weaâ—â—ed to take a very little Wine with Biscoct-bread or in drink so it be much diluted for it concocts phlegm and crude juices corrects the cold intemperature and excites the heat Aromaticks are also good which if they cannot be given a sucking Child you mix them in all the Nurses victuals for they thin the Milk and make it pass easily XXX There is a Disease very frequent in these Countries in which Children that suck and those that are weaned are consumed with an Atrophy to a Skeleton onely the Belly as if there were a soft Parenchyma lying underneath being swelled and so far like the Rickets but that there is not such a tension of the joints and for the rest it comes without any concourse of Worms or of any other cause but onely through some fault in the lacteal ducts and glands For the method and cure of the common Consumption turning to an Ascites of a Tympany and the like Diseases sometimes used in this case has not been sufficient Nor yet afterwards have the remedies usually prescribed in a more accurate method for Schirrhi and abscesses of the mesentery wâ—ich indeed are rather the products of the inveterate Disease Laxatives Purgatives Aperients and Strengthners and external Anointings Bathings c. been found to satisfie expectation or to hinder those that are so held from being carried off at last by an Hectick with a supervening Epilepsie colliquative Flux Lientery and other Symptoms Within these few years a little Daughter of N. was brought to me than whom in all my practice I have not seen one more Consumptive she had taken an infinite number of Medicines Being much intreated and the case being desperate after I had given the Prognostick I happened I know not how upon Tinctura Martis aperitiva Vitriolata and upon Arcanum duplicatum which it may be might go nearer to the root of the Disease than any usual things for all their known energy Therefore we gave for the first week every day and for the next every other day in the morninâ— 2 drops of the Tincture for every year of her age and at 4 a clock in the afternoon likewise for every year of her age 1 grain of the Arcanum And so in a few days she began to be better in plight and in a short time after Nature recollecting her self of her own accord she was perfectly restored and is at this day brisk and corpulent enough After which Observation being farther confirmed by reason I have after that to this very day cured several in the same manner without the help almost of any other Remedies And this Martial Tincture is made of Vitriol of Mars made with Spirit of Wine and of the Acid of Tartar each 4 ounces boiled sufficiently in 3 pounds of Steel water and insensibly exhaled in stirring to the thickness of Honey which by pouring on 3 pounds of Spirit of Wine is dissolved by digesting little sediment if all things have been done as they ought being left And so the liquour is saturated and after little or no abstraction or exhalation is set by for use and it may be farther tinctured if you please with essence of red Popy Dan Ludovâ—â—i Eâ—â—emâ—r Câ—â—â—m aâ— 3. obs 251. You may have Arcanum duplicatum in Schroder Pharmac l. 3. p. 474. and Hofman in Clavi p. 344. XXXI A Boy two years old was brought to me Anno 1567. the Son of Mr. David Merveilleux Counsellour to the most Serene Prince of Longeville my intimate Friend consumed with a great Atrophy together with a Loosness His Breast was diaphanous if it were held to a Candle He was given over by all especially by a City Pastor who practised Physick I believed he was not desperate because he had a liveliness in his eyes And he was recovered by taking Milk in which red-hot Flints had been quenched adding Sugar of Roses and a little terra sigillata Within a month he throve upon it now he is a lusty Man and follows the Wars XXXII Sometimes Childrens Atrophy comes from Worms which are bred under the Skin in fleshy parts of corrupt nutriment This is an approved cure Take 1 ounce or 2 of Bryony-root boil it in Lye of Oakashes till it grow like pap Anoint the Body of the Child with this either in a stove or in some warm place then the Worms put out their heads at the pores and then presently tâ—e Skin must be shaven with a Razour for so the heads are cut off the Worms and the cause of deficieâ—t nutrition is removed And this operation must be performed once and again namely till it be evident that all the worms are gone Then the Children must be bathed often in Bathes of a decoction of a Sheep's-head and Feet Mallow Marsh-mallow Pellitory and Linseed c. XXXIII And there are not wanting some who affirm that Women witches suck children lean In which matter which I leave for others to discuss it is enough to know that they are emaciated because we find children are bewitched because perhaps they are infected with the Touch Sight and Breath of some infected maleficious Body For their tender bodies are easily made worse by any thing But how comes it to pass that a beautifull and healthy child presently grows worse discoloured and lean You must know that such a sudden change may happen in children either because the child by its innate principles is at the very perfection of health according to the indigence of its Age beyond which it cannot go one degree nor continue in the same then it must needs go into a worse state At which time I think we should use no Remedy but it may be hoped that by a good moderation of life and diet he may be brought to the utmost extent of Age which he is able to live while Nature grows stronger and the body arrives at a more solid state by the same action of Nature For so it happens to us all while we commit no errour in our life otherwise that alteration is a fore-runner of some Disease at hand Or again
about the Heart oftentimes the Stomach sympathizes and casts all up that is in it by Vomit Nay I have known in some young Children that this Disease has fallen now and then on other parts and has raised Convulsive motions in the Face Eyes and Limbs and sometimes has proved mortal The Disease is difficult and usually very long in cure The principal indications will be to purge the serous and sharp humours drowning the Lungs out of the bloud and bowels that their tendency to the Brain and sometimes to the Breast may be prevented And to strengthen the Parts that they may not easily admit the superfluities of the estuating Serum To these ends Vomits and gentle Purges are almost always good and sometimes must be repeated Blisters are often usefull yea if the Disease be stubborn an Issue may be made in the Neck or Arm or about the Armpits Drink and liquid Aliment must then be taken in less quantity than usual and instead thereof a Diet-drink of Sarsa China Sanders shavings of Hartshorn and diuretick and antispasmodick ingredients may be used In this case some remedies are cried up as Specificks such as Cup-moss given in Powder or boiled in Milk and so given frequently every day A decoction or Syrup of Castor and Saffron Decoctions of Root of Poeony Misletoe of the Oak and Hyssop have done good to many Water of Black Cherries Saxifrage and Water of Snails distilled with Whey Willis and proper ingredients are often given with success CIII Whether in Childrens Cough may the Breast be anointed The Negative seems probable 1. Because all Anointing stops the Pores of the Skin 2. And the virtue of the Ointment reaches not to the inner parts 3. By rubbing of the Ointment on hot the fluxion to the part affected is greater But I hold the Affirmative because such Liniments have an emollient digesting and dissipating faculty Therefore I answer to the first That Anointing actually cold stops the Pores of the Skin but not that which is actually and potentially hot 2. It is sufficient to help Nature and to promote the discharge of the peccant matter outwardly by occult transpiration 3. It is granted that some attraction is made but it is to the exteriour and sound part Horstius CIV In Childrens Coughs which our Country people call the Hooping Cough Bloud-letting gives great relief Sydenham and far exceeds all pectoral Medicines Varae Tibiae or Crooked Legs CV Oftentimes Children about two years old when they begin to go are crook-legged for which their carefull Mothers take the advice of Chirurgeons and they try to set their Legs and Thighs streight with divers Engines but to no purpose because naturally and of their own accord when they are three or four years old Formius obs 30. the Legs and Muscles grow strong and the Parts return to their natural state Ventris Dolor Tumor Pain or Swelling in the Belly CVI. What remains of the Navel-string after cutting mortifies and in four or five days time falls off of it self And hence unless you put a linen rag three or four times double about the part which contracts great Cold pains in the Belly arise which are ascribed to other causes It is a sign this is the cause for they abate and cease by applying heating things CVII Children are often troubled with inflammation of the Belly from crude Milk which is neither well Purged by Vomit nor Stool It is indeed Crudity proceeding from abundance of Food which exceeds the strength of the Stomach which unless it be quickly prevented degenerates either into tedious fevers or into a loosness reaching and vomiting watching and restlesness There attends this Disease a gentle Fever or celerity of Pulse shortness of Breath a leaden or pale colour of the Face and swelling of the Eyes and Face In which case we must be more solicitous for discharging the abundance than for strengthning the Stomach or alteration I indeed endeavour to diminish the matter by Clysters Suppositories and parsimony of Milk or of other Food If the Disease go not off presently we must not stand dodging but give a gentle purging potion After which I order such things to be applied to the Belly as have a virtue to attenuate incide and make lax what is in the Belly that it may the more easily go off Mercatus CVIII In children yea and in grown people there is often a hardness and inflation of the Belly the cause whereof is the hardness of the Mesaraick Glands and so there is onely passage for the thinner Chyle to the great lacteal Vein upon which the flesh of the Muscles grows limber the Body is rendred heavy and tiresome yea and at length a Fever and Consumption arises I use to remove the Disease by this Liniment without any trouble Take of Vnguent Altb. compos 1 ounce Arthanit Martiat each 2 drachms Oil of white Lilies Chamaemil each 2 drachms Mix them It is good to chew these Trochiscs all the time of the Disease Take of Steel prepared Crabs-eyes prepared each 1 scruple Tartarum vitriolatum half a drachm Lapis Prunellae 16 grains Spec. Aromat Rosat 1 scruple white Sugar 2 ounces Mix them Make Trochiscs Purging in this case must be celebrated onely with Cassia Cream of Tartar and laxative Syrups for the Glands will not bear stronger Purgatives Barbette Vermes or Worms CIX According to Galen's judgment 4. Meth. the principal scope in curing of Worms is to get them out of the Body But because they cannot easily be got out while they are alive therefore it is necessary first to kill them or so to stony them that they cannot resist the Medicines And the things that kill or stony them are all bitter sharp inciding astringent things and sharp and oily ones Mercurialis CX Because these Animals must be cheated and are delighted with sweet things the onely way is always to mix delectable things with such as kill them and therefore they doe very ill who give bitter or sowre things alone for the Worms will not suck plain Poison But if the Poison be mixt with sweet things ludificantur lumbrici as Lucretius says of children and therefore they draw the Poison with Honey and sweet things Wherefore Medicines that are given for the Worms must always be mixt with Sugar Milk Honey or Honey and Water For my children at home I order an Oxymel to be made of the Decoction of Honey the sharpest Vinegar and Wormwood For such an Oxymel admirably preserves children from the Worms Idem CXI In those Medicines that are given by way of Clyster always sweet things must either be given alone or must prevail above the rest The reason is because these Animals being drawn by the sweetness come down to the lower parts On the contrary in Medicines that are taken by the mouth the sharp or bitter things must prevail over the sweet The reason is because if there were more sweet than bitter these Animals might
be frequently stirred which is not necessary when the matter is not fixt And he orders burning upon the Joint which has no place in the case preceding except when the Pain fixes pertinaciously in some one place Nor does he reckon it always necessary upon the joint but where the pain fixes and it flies sometimes in one place sometimes in another And he burns with raw Flax and Fungi Idem Ibid. Concerning which see Book XIX Tit. de Cauteriis XI Mr. N. was tormented with a cruel and almost incurable pain of the Sciatica in his right Hip. Divers and very violent Purges were given him Blisters were drawn Opiates given a Vein opened in the Foot but all in vain supposing the pain arose from a cold cause and thick phlegmatick humours But observing that his Stools were very cholerick and that there was a pulsatil pain and inflammation in the Abdomen I altered my method of cure betook my self to coolers and advised drinking of the Waters hereupon the cure went on with great success so that in two days the inflammation was gone though the pain was not quite abated And when I observed the pain was vagrant that it sometimes caused a straitness about the Mesentery and sometimes fell from the Hip into the Leg I supposed the Disease came from abundance of thick and hot bloud which trying to get out and not being able to doe it creates so great trouble therefore I advised and the rather because I understood that he had formerly been subject to the Piles the applying of Leeches My advice was followed five Leeches were set to the haemorrhoid veins which when they were full of bloud being besprinkled with Salt and Ashes they discharged about six ounces of bloud The bloud looked red and very thick Aug. Thonetus void of all Serum After this the great pain invincible by other things vanished XII The Sciatica is sometimes bred of Bile and hot Humours which indeed may be known when the Pain is very sharp and pricking and the fits are sharper every other day the party is lean of a cholerick constitution young the Countrey and season hot the pain is exasperated by hot things and bilious diseases have preceded Then Medicines must be directed for Bile and a hot intemperature Therefore then there will be convenient Phlebotomy Purges for Choler sometimes gentle sometimes strong adding Diagrydiates that the morbifick matter may be carried off cooling Juleps emollient and cooling Clysters Milk Bathing c. Always taking care to avoid aperients Incrassaters should rather be chosen Riverius such as are proposed in a hot and thin Catarrh Narcoticks Laudanum given both at the Mouth and in Clysters XIII Hippocrates lib. de affect mentions a Sciatica from the driness of the Joint By Driness do not understand a dry intemperature of the solid parts constituent of the Joint it self but a consumption of its glutinous humidity whereby it is naturally nourished and made supple for better motion If it happen that this humidity be dried up by any cause then the motion is hindred with pain Hippocrates l. 3. aph 16. tells us that such Diseases come in dry constitutions He that will cure these Diseases every external and preceding cause being removed let him endeavour the restitution of the natural humidity let him prescribe a Diet actually and potentially cooling a Bath of Water with Sheep's Head and Feet Mallow Marshmallow c. boiled in it P. Salius Diversus walking gently and emollient Ointments Let all sorts of evacuation be avoided XIV A Porter in violent cold weather stood with his Legs in Water for several hours upon which a violent pain reaching from his Hip down his Thigh and Leg took him so that he could not go After a Clyster had been given him he was bled in the Arm on the same side the next day he took a strong Purge for three days following he took every morning of Spiritus Theriacalis 8 drops in Carduus Benedictus Water Riverius which Sweat him violently and his pain was taken away Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Aegineta The Herb Sciatica Cresses perfectly cures this Disease 2. One was afflicted with an intolerable Sciatica he applied Nettles boiled in Beer for a Cataplasm Fornanus and he was rid of his pain to a miracle 3. I have not found a better Medicine than a Plaster of Pitch and Brimstone ¶ Rub the place with Juice of Onion then strow on it Powder of Pepper and Nitre and tie on a Sponge Forestuâ— wet in a Decoction of Cumin and Calamint in Wine 4. This is experienced Whip the place with a Nettle till it be red and wash it with Spirit of Wine Hoëâ—erus 5. St. John's-wort drunk for forty days cures the Sciatica admirably and if two drachms of its seed be drunk it Purges the Belly and cures the Pain Marquardus 6. Root of Reed bruised and applied to the pained place is admirable good as also Ashes of Reed Mercurialis 7. Cowes Dung made hot and applied does much good Vatignana Ischuria or Stoppage of Vrine The Contents In a legitimate one which is best to use a Catheter Section or an Escharotick I. One arising from an Inflammation of the Perinaeum does not admit of a Catheter II. Giving of Clysters sometimes cures it III. The Catheter must be dextrously put in IV. It is hurtfull where the Bladder is inflamed V. When it is inflamed we must use coolers and repellents sparingly VI. The cure of one coming from a Tumour of the Bladder caused by a Catarrh VII Cured by pricking the Bladder VIII A Narcotick proved mortal IX Whether the putting in of a Silver Wire with Cotton Wool be to be approved of X. Diureticks are hurtfull XI Sometimes a large Catheter goes in more easily than a less XII Cured by making Incision in the neck of the Bladder XIII The cure of one coming from a Caruncle in the Urethra XIV From a Stone sticking in the end of the Penis XV. In a desperate one the Cure of Cantharides is safe XVI Cured by large Bloud-letting XVII The use of a Wax Candle to get out Vrine XVIII Sometimes it is stopt through some fault in the bloud the Organs being unhurt XIX The removing of a little Stone which stops the mouth of the Bladder XX. How a Stone got into the Orifice of the Vreter may be removed XXI The virtue of Volatile Salts in a bastard Ischury XXII Medicines I. IF a stoppage of Urine can be removed by no safe Remedy but see it be proper that is that the stoppage be not made above the Bladder there arises a Question Whether a Catheter must be forcibly put in or the place must be cut as for the Stone or an Escharotick Medicine must be applied and then a hole made For always in deplorable cases any way though not safe if there be any hopes in it may better be tried than the
be gummatous Tumours or great Ulcers Sarsa is proper Thus according to the constitution of the Patient and the nature of the conjunct Diseases sometimes we must use one Alexipharmack sometimes another and sometimes it is good to put them all in in a greater or smaller quantity Sennertus VII We must not try Evacuation by the Skin before the Body be discharged of the excrements lest there should be an attraction of more than can be evacuated by the Skin Which if it be done the Disease will either not be cured or come again quickly or grow worse I have known several who after Inunction and Diet-drinks have had either Pains or Exostoses because the matter was attenuated melted and drawn to the out parts but not evacuated Wherefore I reckon these bodies must be much or frequently evacuated in the beginning But if we may not evacuate so much certainly a Purge must be given after three times Anointing that what is dissolved may be evacuated Rondeletius VIII Some reckon that Guaiacum best which is white because the younger it is the whiter it is the elder it is the blacker it is and the elder the drier but what is not so old is moister and abounds more with Juice But since there is a twofold moisture in living Creatures one primigenial the subject of the innate heat or spirit and apt to take flame another alimentary watry and not so apt to take flame the Virtues of this Wood are not to be estimated from the alimentary and watry moisture but from the innate heat and primigenial moisture Which in the first age both in Infants and in Plants since it is drowned in much moisture many actions are weak in the first age which afterwards when that moisture is a little wasted and the heat made more lively do in the progress of their age grow stronger and this Heat the principal Instrument of all actions uses to continue in full force till the flower of their age and their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore though in Guaiacum the innate heat and radical moisture be always the same upon which its Virtues do depend yet because in the young Wood the virtue is drowned as it were and checkt with the abundance of moisture the young Wood is not so effectual as that which is well grown and of a confirmed age And therefore for the Cure of this Disease you must not chuse the Wood that is yellowish or of a Box colour and is either not ripe or is cut from the boughs and not so efficacious but the black must rather be chosen as being the most resinous and abounding in that fat and balsamick faculty in which the virtue which is adverse to the venereal Virulence does most reside It is good therefore to distinguish the age of this Wood that the most effectual way be taken For that which is black within but is cloven lengthways as with Lines of a brown colour running round is effectual indeed but it is either cut from boughs of the Trees or it is not come to full maturity and therefore not so efficacious For the reason why such Lines appear is because the fat substance that resides most in the middle of the Trunk of the tree does not yet so abound as to fill all the inner parts of the Wood. But that which is all black in the inside and white onely in the superficies if it be sound ponderous and odoriferous and if it vellicate the Tongue with a small acrimony and be intersected with no Lines or with such as are full of Resin Therefore when it burns beside the gratefull scent it has it gives also a black Resin This at its full maturity is cut from the Trunk of the tree and therefore is very effectual But if it be full of Lines and Holes and be good neither in smell weight nor acrimony nor when it is burnt sweats a Resin it is a sign that it is old and its Virtues are grown dull Sennertus IX L. Septalius lib. 7. Animadv numero 204. reprehends them that deny a Decoction of the Wood may be made in Wine alone because nothing is fitter to extract the virtues of Medicines than Wine it self and its Spirit And therefore he makes a Decoction with Wine which he uses in an inveterate Pox with an ill habit and cold matter predominant But admit Wine be very proper to extract the virtues of Vegetables yet this cannot be denied that the strength of the Wine wasts in boiling and when the Spirit is exhaled a nauseous Phlegm not so good as simple water it self is left I am of opinion therefore that the Wood should be boiled in Water and towards the latter end of the decoction the Wine must be added Or the Wood at least must be infused a long time in the Wine or it must be boiled in a double vessel that nothing waste but by no means to a consumption of the third part Idem X. There is a different proportion of the Wood to the Water observed according to the age constitution of body and time of the year And there are taken to twelve pounds of Water from three to twelve ounces of Wood. For if the season of the year and the body be hot it is the safest to take a less quantity of Wood and to be the longer in performing the Cure with safety rather than to doe injury with a strong Medicine especially the first days of the Cure and before the superfluous humours be abated and the Sweat begin to come with ease and the Patient be used to the Decoction And Eustachius Rhudius lib. de Morbis occultis cap. 13. writes that he has seen Patients who through this errour to wit giving too great a quantity of the Wood the first days have fallen into a Fever that afterwards they have been forced to abstain from the Decoction to their great damage Idem XI Fallopius lib. de Lue cap. 46. reprehends them that reckon a Decoction made in Balneo Mariae is too dilute and weak And that a Decoction in Balneo is better than that which is made in an open fire he endeavours to prove by instancing in distilled Waters which are made very good in Balneo seeing there is no adustion in such but the greater eliquation which is made in heat and moisture makes the decoction more excellent But Experience teaches a quite contrary thing to what Reason proves For though the best Waters may be made in Balneo of some moist Plants as Roses Violets Lily Conval and the like when they are fresh whose virtue consists in a volatile Salt without putting any Water to them yet in hotter Plants especially Roots and Woods whose virtue consists in the oily part their virtue can never be got out by the too gentle heat of a balneum The case is the same in many Seeds But it is necessary to distill by a Copper by which with the vehicle of the waters the more
both at once XIV Sometimes very strong Medicines are required XV. Rheubarb sometimes does harm XVIII Wormseed often does harm XIX The Cure when there is a Fever is different from that where no Fever is XX. Purgatives are useless to kill broad Worms XXI When we must use sweet and when bitter things XXII Acid things are not always proper XXIII Medicines I. ANthelminthicks doe their work chiefly either 1. By killing the Worms and they are things that resist Poison For whether we consider them as things that are bred by equivocal generation by means of putrefaction or of an animated character and seed or Egg yet it is certain they are fed in and with putrefaction Therefore such things are 1. bitter and balsamick for as they do excellently defend the body from Putrefaction so also they are the principal things in this case and all bitter things are Anthelminthick as among compounds Elixir proprietatis Pilulae Rufi c. And 2. Acids as Vinegar especially acid Spirits as of Vitriol c. not onely because they resist putrefaction but because they destroy the motion and heat of the Worms And therefore are good especially to be taken inwardly Thus onely a vitriolated tincture of Violets did excellently in a Boy who was almost killed with the Worms Thus also all Nitrous things kill the Worms because they are bitter resist putrefaction and because of an Acid Salt that is eminent in them Therefore Soldiers put Gunpowder to their Shirts to prevent Lice And 3. Sharp things pregnant either with a Volatile Salt alone or with Oil. Wherefore Garlick is reputed to be famous for the Worm in the Heart If any one carry Camphire about him he is never troubled with Lice also Spirit and Volatile Salt of Hartshorn powerfully kill Worms And these things do not onely kill Worms by irritating them but because of their exceeding Penetration whereby they are adverse to their Life and to putrefaction And 4. Terreous Alkaline and other Lixivial fixt Salts as Coral-wort the Powder of which Empiricks sprinkle on Earthworms and so kill them burnt Hartshorn Salt of Wormwood and Carduus Benedictus though they doe it not so powerfully yet nevertheless they belong to this class G. W. Wedelius 5. Watry things give onely a vehicle to the rest unless they be signed with some Mercurial Character All these things destroy the animated seminary annihilate and greatly resist it II. Or 2. By Suffocating they hindring transpiration wherein the life of Worms and Insects consists Such are all oily and fat things which obstruct the Pores and check Ventilation and so as it were suffocate such as Oil olive of sweet and bitter Almonds And though these be commonly too weak and we cannot so well trust these alone for killing of Worms yet they are of excellent use to make other things work better Idem III. Or by Melting and Destroying Such things as dissolve annihilate and corrupt the mucous and glutinous substance of them and also by their acrimony are as a kind of Poison to them Such are especially Mercurials Nothing under the Sun is so much an Enemy to Worms and to every animated Seminary as they are for they consume their aliment and as it were kill them in an Ideal antidote at least as appears in the decoction of Quicksilver For it is not onely adverse to them in Substance though crude it does not so easily expell them because it easily passes them by Wherefore it may be ground with twice as much Sugar in a glass Mortar very fine Also Mercurius dulcis may very fitly be given And also which is Helmont's experiment water whether simple or specifick boiled with Mercury as if it were influenced by some Mercurial Star though by the boiling the Mercury loose nothing it is very effectual against Worms But we must take notice that Glauberus p. 2. fumi Philos p. 79. condemns shaking of Quicksilver with water or beer and especially because it is said that the water is irradiated not corporally but onely virtually intimating that the subtile particles of the Mercury are by the shaking confounded with the Sulphur and that this may be demonstrated by the settling He adds also that he never saw a good operation whether from Infusion or from Mercurius dulcis But this virtue cannot be denied it though it must be acknowledged that Mercury is better at killing than expelling of Worms So also Cinnabarines kill Worms wherefore though not so well some go so high as to affirm that Cinnabar of Antimony if there be any antepileptick virtue in it it is onely in a Sympathick Epilepsie arising from Worms Idem IV. Or throwing them off by disturbing them Wherefore it is certain that all Purgatives properly so called are Anthelminthicks especially those they call Cholagogues These because they act in a twofold manner not onely as they are bitter sharp and resinous all which things are enemies to the Worms but also as Evacuaters and as they irritate their exit they are the best and the noblest Medicines of all to drive Worms out of the Body especially Aloes Coloquintida or Trochiscs of Alhandal Rheubarb Spec. Diaturbith cum rheo which Heer observat 26. writes very well that they are most excellent Medicines Wherefore if there be any instances of great Worms being voided all or most of them at least Idem were performed by Purging V. There are yet two other Anthelminthicks which we cannot safely nor ought to trust to be added to these ordinary ones which are yet sufficiently commended by grave Authours 1. Sweet thiâ—gs which though as a surfeiting Food they may kill Worms accidentally by repletion yet these things do not hinder the breeding of them anew So some give raisins to Children troubled with Worms and Sennertus says a Decoction of Sebesten is a most experienced Medicine if it be given to Children every day before meat So they hold that Honey and other sweet things doe no harm but good in Worms because they easily turn to Choler and so are rather enemies to Worms But it is evident that sweet things do not turn to Bile equally in all so that they doe no good in Worms unless by cheating them and insnaring them so as they may suck in Gall and Poison instead of Honey Idem VI. Whatever divers affirm that Earth-worms dried and given do by a certain property expell the microcosmick Worms which might be deduced from the mucilaginousness that is in them and from transpiration being hindred by consequence or from their volatile Salt yet to say nothing that sufficient experiments are yet wanting it is uncertain whether Worms that were voided out of the Body when they are prepared and taken again do expell those of their own kind nay the quite contrary may be produced seeing it is certain that Seeds of Worms are by this means propagated and Worms are rather bred according to the experience of many Authours notwithstanding that upon taking such a Powder
delivered Bayrus let it be taken off immediately that the Matrix fall not out 3. If a Woman before her Travel drink Oyl Olive it vvill prove easie Borellus and she will not be troubled vvith after-pains They say Water of Adders-Tongue does the same 4. To cause Pain for the more easie delivery Take of vvarm Water 2 ounces Claudinus Honey vvhat is sufficient Mix them Give this Dose at any time vvhen there is occasion 5. This vvas communicated to me for an Infallible Secret Take Nettle-Roots boil them in Wine Corbaeus and in a draught of that Wine put of povvdered Cinnamon 2 drachms Saffron 1 scruple Let her drink it 6. This is an excellent Secret and never fails in hard Travel Take of the Seed of Lavender half a drachm Plantain Endive Simon Paâ—â— of each tvvo scruples Pepper one scruple Make a Povvder Take it in the Water of Endive and Woodbine of each four drachms 7. This has been found to be excellent by long Experience Take of the Bark of Cassia Fistula Asarum of each one drachm Cinnamon Saffron Savine of each halâ— a drachm Make a Powder Eustach Rhudius The Dose is one drachm in Chicken or Pigeon Broth. 8. Ol. ligni Heraclini 16 drops were given to a Woman in Labour and a dead Child with the After-burthen came away within an hour the Mother who had hard Labour being safe Rulandus 9. This Powder has been tried by Experience Take of White Dâ—ttany Amber of each one drachm and an half Sennertus Mâ—ke a Powder Give half of it in White Wine for one Dose Pectoris Pulmonum vitia in genere or Diseases of the Breast and Lungs in general See Thoracicks Book XIX The Contents Blood is not to be let to Swooning I. 'T is profitable to open the Hemorrhoids II. Whether Purgers be hurtful III. Whether Manna be friendly IV. Vomiting is not always hurtful V. Antimony is both the Medicine and Poison of the Lungs VI. Purging Clysters hinder Expectoration VII Things that incide too much do sometimes hinder it VIII Eclegma's or Lambitives sometimes rather hinder than promote it IX They are not good if a Fever be present X. When they are to be prescribed XI The too much use of them hurts the Stomach and Liver XII Sweet things hinder Expectoration in Cholerick Distempers XIII Astringents are profitably added to Expectoraters XIV The excellency of the Decoction of Turnips XV. The efficacy of Suffumigations XVI Whether the Smoak of Tobaco be profitable XVII When Diureticks are proper XVIII Those things which pass into the Lungs by the Wind-Pipe act more effectually than such as are swallow'd XIX Whether sweet or harsh Wine be best XX. Anointings of the Breast are oft hurtful XXI The correction of the Flowers of Sulphur XXII When Sulphureous Waters may be drunk for strengthening the Lungs XXIII Whether the Origin of Fluxions be always from the Head XXIV When Lambitives are hurtful XXV They are unfit to astringe XXVI Simple Flowers of Brimstone are better than the Compound XXVII Acids are to be temper'd with sweet things XXVIII How the Serum when it is too Acrimonious is to be temper'd XXIX The Serum must be thickened that it may be expectorated XXX The Correction of an Humour offending in Acidity XXXI I. THough Galen says 1. Aph. 23. That in great Inflammations and especially burning Fevers Blood is to be let to Swooning away yet it is very dangerous to Bleed to that degree in Diseases of the Spiritual Parts Wherefore though we ought to Bleed plentifully and even almost to fainting away yet we must not proceed so far as till the Patient swoon which the skiâ—ful Physician will understand by feeling the Pulse P. Salius Diversus com in lib. 1. Hip. de Morb. t. 60. Fortis cons 50. cent 2. II. Evacuation out of the Hemorrhoidal Veins has great consent with the Breast III. I do not approve of Evacuations in Pectoral Diseases from a Catarrh and those Physicians who are but indifferently learned and verst in the practice of Physick know the Reasons For what good do Evacuations do as to the Concoction or Evacuation of the Matter out of the Breast What do they do towards derivation seeing they move and roil it the more What do they do as to the strengthning of the Head and Stomach What towards the Correcting of the Temperature of the Liver I know something may be said against me but I have found by Experience that in Pectoral Diseases it is most profitable to abstain from Purging Medicines Thus Crato in Scholtzius cons 4. yet he uses them in difficulty of breathing from a Catarrh ¶ Fortis cons 7. cent 2. writes thus Let strong Purgation follow Lenients and Preparatives for it is not to be queried whether Purgers draw from the Breast or no for besides that they may draw forth Humours by the Vena sine pari whilst the whole Body is purged part after part the Breast it self is also purged for there is one and the same Conflux one Conspiracy all things consenting ¶ Indeed though they be not proper in respect of the Matter that is passed out of the Vessels yet they bring forth the antecedent Matter at least whether it flow from the Brain seeing 't is manifest that the stronger Purgatives draw from thence or through the Pulmonary Artery into the Lungs which has conveyed thither the Cacochymie mixt with the Mass of Blood IV. Their Opinion ought to be rejected who understanding that Manna is friendly to the Breast give it to those who have their Breast loaden with Crudities not seeing that Crude Humours are made more thick and unapt for Concoction when the Serum is discharged I have often observed such to be thrown into a very bad state by the giving of Manna Nature desires that thick Humours should be made fluid but those who give Manna or Scammony separate the Ichors Sanctor method l. 5. c. 10. Martian 4. de acut victâ— or watry part and make the remainders of the Humours thicker Johan Baptista Montanus considering this gives Manna with the Cream of Tartar for the bringing forth of the thicker Humours I lately saw the efficacy of Manna given after that manner in an Asthmatical Woman whose Lungs being turgent with Serum she was cured the same day a great quantity of Serous Humours being carried off V. Vomiting is not good if there be a solution of Continuity in the Lungs but if they be full of thick and Viscid Humours only 't is an excellent Remedy Hence 't is false That Vomiting is hurtful in every Disease of the Breast It often happens that a slimy tough Matter lies a Fingers breadth thick upon the upper side of the Midriff which kills the Patient unless it be taken away by Vomit So died a certain Landâ—grave of Hessen Walaeus m. m. p. 56. in whose dead Body being opened there was found such a Matter ¶ When an Empyema follows a
method I also cure Wounds of the Breast that only penetrate the Muscles thereof though an Hands breadth long ¶ Penetrating Wounds made in the upper part of the Breast so that the Matter that is collected within cannot so conveniently be discharged forth degenerate into an Empyema according to the general Opinion On which account I have made Incision in some betwixt the fifth and sixth Rib and thereby have evacuated the Matter and cured several See Instances in Scultetus obs 43. 59. ¶ I have observed that as oft as the Matter is quickly discharged namely in a days time at furthest the Patients presently recover the Matter flowing no longer out by the Wound and which is strange the Fever moreover ceasing which is continual while the Matter stays in the Cavity of the Breast Yea this is thought to be a Pathognomonick Sign That when the Patients are free from a Fever there is no Matter in the Breast and does indicate that the Wound is to be presently closed up Whereas on the contrary when the Matter issues out by little and little all such die because by its delay the Internal Parts are Ulcerated Pus is increased and the Ulcers and Fever grow daily worse and worse Which therefore must be marked by those that are employed in these Cures namely that if the Pus be not evacuated in a short space of time they see to drain it forth as quickly as they can by Medicines for which purpose I give either Barley-Water or Water and Honey which deterge it by little and little and make it fit for Evacuation not without the help of Nature expelling it which Remedy the more strong need not who in a few days discharge all the Purulent Matter and are cured unless this Evacuation be prolonged and then they dye See Pareus Scult obs 43. lib. 9. c. 31. Nic. Massa tom 2. Epist 11. III. Felix Wirths a Surgeon utterly rejects Tents in Wounds of the Breast and determines That Pus it self Blood or other Matter collected in the Breast may be fitly evacuated by Sweat Urine Stool or other ways But though I deny not that Patients are in great danger when unskilful Surgeons tie not the Tents with a Threed to hinder them from slipping into the Cavity of the Breast yet I see no reason why the use of them is utterly to be rejected seeing otherwise Nature Hoâ—st ap Hildan cent 3. obs 36. which expects assistance from Art cannot discharge the Superfluities IV. Cosmus Slotanus a very good Surgeon wholly abstained from Injections that are made by a Syringe which he bids us observe in all Wounds and Ulcers either in the Breast or lower Belly for some part of the Injection might easily glide into the vacuity of the Breast or Belly and grievous Symptoms with great danger to the Patient might be raised thereby Fabr. Hild. cent 1. obs 63. Yet Sculicius used them with very good success as appears from his 51 and 56 Observations V. One being wounded in his Breast when I had poured into the Wound a very deterging Injection of Wormwood Centaury and Aloes there rose up such a bitterness into his Mouth with a Nausea that he could no longer endure it Then I called to mind what once I had observed in one who had a Fistula upon his Breast Therefore when I consider'd that such bitter things are apt to be received into the Lungs and to rise from thence up into the Wind-Pipe Throat and Mouth I declared that I would never more administer such bitter things to my Patients for there proceeds far greater trouble than fruit and benefit therefrom A. Pareus l. 9. c. 30. VI. One was wounded in his Back the Sword penetrating as far as to the left Pap and though a great deal of Blood issued out of the Wound yet on the third day he breathed difficultly and had a very great pain near his Midriff Therefore his Breast was opened betwixt the third and fourth Rib that the Matter contain'd in his Breast might be evacuated When the Perforation was made there flow'd out of the Wound but three or four drops of Blood Which I would have to be therefore noted because some say that a great flux of Blood is caused through cutting the Intercostal Vessels Yet I will not deny that sometimes especially in the Cholerick there follows such a flux of Blood into the Cavity when a Vein or Artery is cut which yet may be easily avoided by such a Knife as Celsus and Paulus call a Spatha Suppose an Intercostal Vein or Artery be hurt what matters it for little or no Blood can be retained because of the Perforation that is made there and if it should be retained Scoltet obs 43. the next day it will flow out again when the Wound is drest VII When no Blood issues forth in Wounds of the Breast that it may not flow into the Cavity put into the Mouth under the Tongue one grain of Mosch and the Blood will presently issue forth of the Wound which is reputed a Secret says Sennertus lib. 2. pract From whence collect that Mosch is to be avoided in any Hemorrhage where we would stanch the Blood Hoefer Het Medic. lib. 2. c. 3. VIII Seeing the dignity of the Heart is very great as being a principal part 't is manifest that Wounds in the Breast are more dangerous than others whence a doubt arises whether the same be to be treated like others and like them be to be closed up as soon as may be Some are pleased with the affirmative because of the nobleness of the part in regard whereof we must have singular care that the fountain of heat be not hurt by being exposed to External Injuries and therefore they endeavour to close up such Wounds with all the Art that may be But seeing Wounds of the Breast pour out daily such a deal of Matter as we hardly observe to issue from the Wounds of any other part because Nature both for preservation of the Part and because of the Pain sends daily very much Blood thither which being tainted with malignity and filth or not altered through the weakness of the Part is quickly corrupted I say on this account I am of opinion that such Wounds ought to be kept long open that there may lie open an exit for the corrupted Blood and Matter for the Blood being retained preternaturally or any corrupt Humour will become the cause of greater mischief Whence Pareus lib. 2. cap. 31. adds for a decision of this Case that the former Opinion is true when no Preternatural Humour is contained any longer in the Breast but the later when the Cavity of the Breast is filled with Matter and Clods of Blood Horst Dec. 5. probl 5. IX The opening of a Vomica or Imposthume is not to be deferred Chalmet Enchir. p. 147. lest there arise a Fistulous Ulcer or rottenness in the Bones which I have oft seen happen to many Pedum
Head which was followed by a Catarrh upon the left side and a weakness of the same It is certain this Disease came through the abuse of Mercury Hildanus Cent. 5. Obs 93. which carried the Humours from the lower parts of the Body to the Head ¶ But Petraeus in Nosolog Harmonic tom 1. p. 395. sayes that Mercurial Unguents may be safely and successfully used in a contumacious Itch if Universals be premised and the unprofitable and hurtful juice be exterminated the Body yet such Topicks must not be made up of a mass of infinite Medicines for so they will work with better success and quicker effect These Mercurial Medicines rightly prepared and outwardly applied are so far from hindring Nature's motion that they rather precipitate the verminous putrid salt and briny humours which is the reason why of Mercury Sublimate and live Mercury there comes Mercurius dulcis because it has a virtue of changing the temper of precipitating and also edulcorating corrosive Salts And if any Symptomes arise at any time they do not so much proceed from the Mercury as from the mass of ill Humours and Remedies applied amiss Therefore Th. Bartholinus his Countrey Fellow cured all them with his Girdle that had got their Bodies clear by the frequent use of Medicines but he could not save the Cacochymick from death This Rustick tempered Mercury with distilled Oyl of Juniper and made it into a Mass he spread it on a Girdle and commended it for all Malignant affections Cancers malignant Ulcers and Pains in the Limbs In some places it is a Custome to mix Arcanum Corallinum with Oyntment of Roses in the Pox and they account the same an Arcanum in a contumacious Itch. XII A filthy Itch troubled a young Man with felons frequently breaking out of which Ails he could not be cured by Bleeding and several Purges for Six Months time At length I gave him 1 scruple of Mercurius dulcis with half a scruple of Diagridium Riverius Cent. 1. Obs 62. which purged him very well and within a few dayes he was clear XIII A Reverend Father had contracted a filthy Itch all over his Body for 5 or 6 years for which he had tried infinite Medicines to no purpose I in so contumacious a Disease used only the Flesh of Vipers sometimes he eat them boyled in water with a little Salt and drank the Broth after them sometimes he had them baked and turned to a Powder which Powder he used with his Meat together with Sugar Cinnamon or other things In the whole Summer he eat above 160 Vipers Whereby his Skin was renewed and he became wholly as it were another Man And he that once appeared a very old Man became as it were young again that is stronger then usual and fitter to do any business P. Poterius Cent. 3. Obs 81. The use of Vipers is scarce ever beneficial under a long time XIV There is a sort of Itch which Fallopius calls Volatick because it seems to fly all over the Skin It has been certainly observed that one has over-run the whole Body in one Night It is usually accounted by Physicians for an Efflorescence of the Blood How truly the Cure does show which they are so far from Curing that on the contrary the Evil has grown stronger and stronger to death refusing all Medicines In this case necessary purges and sweats being premised there is a desired Secret in the Blood which comes just after delivery from the Womb together with the after-burthen where all or only some part of it if namely the place affected be washed therewith This Remedy is of so great efficacy that it is seldom necessary to repeat it and presently the volatick Itch falls off dead I have with this cured infinite People J. Hartmannus who have been infected with a dangerous Itch. Unctions are here not at all convenient Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. This is very proper which I experienced in a young man Aetius who had a great inveterate Itch and very rough about his Legs which reached from his Knees to the tip of his Toes Take Linseed beat it with water lay it on thick and use it constantly 2. An excellent Oyntment of Salt of Saturn against the Itch J. Agricola Take of Sal Saturni 1 ounce Mastich half an ounce Allum 1 drachm Oyl Olive what is sufficient Mix them make an Unguent It quickly heals and dries up the Itch. 3. The Itch is easily and pleasantly cured with this Take of Oyl of Ben 3 drachms Spirit of Salt half a drachm Petr. Borellus Musk 2 grains Wax what is sufficient Make an Unguent 4. A wonderful Oyntment for the Itch Take of Turpentine washed in Rose water 3 ounces Oyl of Roses 6 drachms the juice of 3 Oranges the Yolks of 3 Eggs. Make an Unguent Tobias Dorncrelliuâ— it has been experienced in an old and dry Itch It may also be allowed to be admirable because it expells the Itch by Urine and makes a Man piss black Urine every Morning 5. Take of live Sulphur 2 ounces Gum Juniper which Booksellers use root of white Hellebore powdered each 2 drachms juice of Spurge Oyl of Linseed each 1 ounce Beat what should be beaten very fine boyl them over the fire into the form of an Unguent and strain them out cast away the dregs and keep the rest for use After Bathing anoint the Hams the inside of the bending of the Arm Rodera Fonseca the Palms of the Hands and Wrists under the Arm-pits and Soles of the Feet rubbing those places with store of Oyntment and then go into a warm Bed for an hour or two and let him be anoynted 3 times every other day I have experienced this Itch in the worst old Itch that could be 6. This is an excellent Remedy for the Itch Take Salt of Tartar purified with Spirit of wine and dissolved in a Cellar Franc. Oâ—â— wald Grembs joyn it with Sal Ammoniac and it cures the Itch. If it be mixt with the Tartar till it grow red it will become more effectual to cure the Itch. 7. Take of green Elecampane half a pound Hogs-lard 5 ounces Beat them together Boyl them on a gentle fire Make an Unguent Amat Lusiaan with which the Pustules may be anointed This Unguent is of admirable vertue so that it operates like an Inchantment 8. When a certain Matron laboured of a contumacious Itch which she had contracted by Contagion I ordered her to take the small twiggs of Birch in defect of the leaves and cut them into short pieces but to hew the greater boughs into chips and to boyl Bark and all in such a quantity of water as that she might sit in a Tub full of it up to her Neck wherein I mixt 2 parts of crude Tartar and one part of Nitre Simon Pâ—â— with which by God's blessing after her Body had been first well prepared she was wholly delivered from
are convenient 3. That the Scorbutick Dyscrasie of the Blood may be amended by Phlebotomy and Specifick Remedies Wherefore that the whole of preservatory Indication may be reduced in short I shall comprehend the Pharmaceutick apparatus in narrow terms that is as it consists of Catharticks Digestives and Antiscorbuticks to which Phlebotomy may be added as there shall be occasion And I shall give some forms or prescriptions and also the manner of using them If the Stomach as it is usually being loaden with a sower or nidorous viscid matter have an inclination to throw off the filth thereof by reaching and vomiting and if the Patient have been able formerly to bear such evacuation well enough nothing hinders so the strength be not too much wasted the giving of a Vomit To the stronger an infusion of Crocus Metallorum or Mercurius vitae or Tartarus emeticus Mynsichti or Sulphur Antimonii Glauberi may be given They that are of a weak constitution and tender may take vinum scilliticum or Gilla Theophrasti upon which given in a small dose they may drink a large quantity of whey and when the Stomach is filled till they reach they may put their Finger or a Feather in their Throat and they will vomit easily and it may be repeated as often as they list By this way of vomiting the mere contents of the Stomach being cleansed from its folds are discharged nor are painful or convulsive twitchings or swooning which are usually caused by Stybiates raised in the Bowels thereabout or in the Membranes I have advised them whose Stomach because of bad digestion easily gathers a load of Phlegm or of some other degenerate matter and often with good success to take such a Vomit once a Month as being both safe and wholsome Where there is no room for a Vomit we must begin with purging at least after the interposition of a few days this evacuation must succeed the former What is commonly inculcated by Authors concerning preparation of the Humours I either reckon it needless or the circulation of the Blood being not understood wholly erroneous but instead of this intention things that restore the ferments of the Bowels and alter the frame of the Blood may be used in their stead so as in the mean time the filth of the first ways and the recrementitious superfluities of both the Sanguineous and Nervous Liquor may be discharged First a gentle purge may be given and afterwards according to the strength of the Patient it may either be repeated once a Week or oftener or seldomer and the strength of the Medicine may be proportioned according to the success of the first Dose If the constitution of the Patient be hot and the Scurvy appear to be founded in an adust that is a Sulphureo-saline Dyscrasy of the Blood all aloëticks and diagrydiates must be avoided and only more temperate Medicines made of Senna Rheubarb and such like which do not disturb the Blood and Humours must be given For Pills Take of leaves of Senna 1 ounce Rheubarb 6 drachms Dodder of time 3 drachms Root of Polypody of the Oak English Rheubarb dried each half an ounce yellow Saunders 2 drachms Celtick Spike half a drachm Salt of Wormwood 2 drachms Being shred and bruised let them be digested in a body in sand with White wine and Fumitory water each 1 pound or with 2 pounds of our magisterial Antiscorbutick water for 2 days let the clear colature be evaporated in a gentle heat in Balneo to the consistence of Honey then add of the powder of leaves of Senna Rheubarb each 1 drachm and an half Species diatriωn santalωn 1 drachm Cream of Tartar 1 drachm and an half Make a mass for Pills The dose from half a drachm to a whole one Or such an infusion may be made and evaporated with a gentle heat to the consistency of a Syrup adding towards the latter end of clarified Manna and whitest Sugar each 2 drachms Make a Syrup The Dose is a spoonful or two in some convenient vehicle Or 4 or 6 drachms of the said Tincture may be given for a Dose adding cream of Tartar half a drachm and if it want sweetning Syrup of Apples 3 drachms Or 6 drachms of pickt Corinths may be put in the foresaid Tincture let them be digested hot till the Corinths swell which being taken out the Liquor may be evaporated to the consistency of a Syrup adding of Sugar and clarified Manna each 1 ounce and a half Then put in the Corinths again and keep the Medicine in a Glass bottle well stopt The Dose is a spoonful or two Or to the foresaid Tincture evaporated half away add of fresh Cassia Pulp of Tamarinds drawn with antiscorbutick water each 3 ounces conserve of Violets Damask Roses each 2 ounces Pulvis sennae compositus major 1 drachm powder of Rheubarb half an ounce Cream of Tartar Species diatriωn Santalωn each 2 drachms Let them be well mixt in a Mortar till they be reduced into the form of an Electuary The Dose is about the quantity of a Walnut more or less according to the success in Operation They whose queazy Stomach does not admit Medicines but in a small quantity and an elegant form may take this Take of Resine of Scammony from 4 grains to 8 Cream of Tartar half a scruple Celtick Spike 6 grains mix them make a powder Give it in a spoonful of Panada or make it into Pills If they that are sick of the Scurvy be of a cold constitution and the Disease appear to be founded in a nitro-sulphureous disposition like roapy Wines sharp Catharticks and such as have hot particles may be given them Take of Pil. Stomach cum Gum. 2 drachms resine of Jalap 20 grains Tartarum vitâ—iolatum 16 grains Oyl of Juniper half a scruple With a sufficient quantity of Gum Ammoniac dissolved in aqua lumbricorum make 16 Pills Take 4 at a time once in a Week Or Take of Pilul Tartar Bontii 1 drachm and an half Resin of Jalap 12 grains Salt of Tartar half a scruple with a sufficient quantity of Syrupus Augustanus make 12 Pills Or Take of Extract Pil. Ruffi 1 drachm Extract of black Hellebore 1 scruple Salt of Tartar half a drachm with a sufficient quantity of Gum Ammoniack dissolved make 9 Pills Take 3 for a Dose Take of leaves of Senna 1 ounce Rheubarb 6 drachms Mechoacan Turbith Gum each half an ounce fibres of black Hellebore 3 drachms Salt of Tartar 2 ounces yellow Sanders 1 drachm and an half Winter bark 2 drachms Being shred and bruised let them be digested in 2 pounds of white Wine for 2 days Make a clear colature without expression and either let 6 ounces of it be taken by it self or let it be reduced into an Extract or Syrup or Electuary as the Tincture described above adding of Pulvis Arthriticus or Diasenna a sufficient quantity c. Or such a Tincture as this may be made which may be given to strong men to the quantity
Medicines is about the quantity of a Nutmeg drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it For Country people and the poorer sort who desire Medicines easie to be had and cheap I prescribe in this manner Take of leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime each 4 ounces the whitest Sugar 8 ounces Pound them together in a Mortar adding of powder of Winter's bark half an ounce Tartar calcined with Nitre three drachms With a sufficient quantity of Canary make an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Walnut every day twice drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it Take of Leaves of Scurvy-grass 1 pound stoned Raisins the whitest Sugar each half a pound faecula of Horse-rhadish root 2 drachms Pound them together in a Mortar and reduce them into the form of an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Walnut twice or thrice a day CONFECTIONS Take of Pulvis Ari Compositus 1 ounce powder of Winter's bark half an ounce Species diatriωn santalωn trochiscs of Capers each 2 drachms salt of Wormwood Scurvy-grass each 1 drachm and an half candied Orange Peel 3 ounces Pound them together in a Mortar Then add of the whitest Sugar dissolved in a sufficient quantity of aqua lumbricorum 3 ounces Make a Confection according to Art Take of candied Eringo and Scorzonera root each 2 drachms preserved Walnuts Myrobalans each No. 2. Electuary of Sassaphras 6 drachms powder of Cubebs Cardamum each 2 drachms powder of root of Zedoary Angelica each 1 drachm and an half Salt of Wormwood 2 drachms With a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Walnuts make a Confection Take of the powder of root of China wood of Sassaphras each half an ounce yellow and white Sanders each 2 drachms seed of Rocket Cubebs Cresses Granes of Paradise each 1 drachm and an half Species Dialaccae powder of Cinnamon Orrice lesser Galangale each 1 drachm salt of Wormwood 2 drachms Conserve of the yellow of Orange and Saccharum anthosatum dissolved in a sufficient quantity of Snail-water 3 drachms Make a Confection according to Art The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it In some cases of the Scurvy where the use of steel is indicated either 3 drachms of Steel prepared with Sulphur or 2 drachms of Vitriol of Mars may be added to any of these prescriptions either Confection or Electuary and after taking the Medicine once or twice a day the Body may be exercised according to its strength POWDERS Take of Pulvis Ari Compositus 1 ounce and an half Winter's Bark half an ounce Cubebs Granes of Paradise Cardamome each 2 drachms Salt of Wormwood 3 drachms Lozenges of Oranges 3 ounces Make a powder according to Art The Dose 1 drachm in an appropriate Liquor To the foresaid powder add of the Kernel of the Indian Nut Cacao half a pound Reduce it into a Mass or Paste in a hot Mortar The Dose is about two drachms as you take Chocolate that is boyled in Spring water wherein Rosemary leaves or Scorzonera root or shavings of Ivory or Hartshorn have been boyled PILLS They that like Medicines in a small Dose and in the form of a Pill Take of root of Virginian Snakeweed Contrayerva each 2 drachms Winter's Bark Cubebs Rocket seed each 3 drachms salt of Wormwood Scurvy-grass each 1 drachm and an half extract or Rob of Juniper half an ounce With as much Syrup of Nutmeg as is sufficient make it into Pills The Dose is 4 Pills twice a day with some appropriate Liquor LOZENGES For the more delicate Lozenges or Sweet meats may be prescribed in this manner Take of powder of Winter's Bark Crabs Eyes each 1 drachm and an half powder of Pearl half a drachm whitest Sugar dissolved in a sufficient quantity of aqua lumbricorum and boyled up for Lozenges 6 ounces Spirit of Scurvy-grass 2 drachms Make Lozenges according to Art each of which must weigh half a drachm Let him take about 1 drachm drinking some appropriate Liquor upon it Oraâ—ge Lozenges sold by the Apothecaries in OXFORD Take of Peel of Oranges Lemons Citrons candied each 1 ounce Eringo root candied half an ounce Pine and Pistachio Nuts each No. 20. Sweet Almonds blanched No. 10. Powder of Anniseed half an ounce candied Ginger 2 ounces Species Aromat Rosat Nutmeg each 1 drachm and an half Root of Galangale 1 drachm Cloves No. 10. Ambergrease 4 grains Musk Civet each 2 grains the whitest Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boyled up for Lozenges 1 pound and an half Make Lozenges according to Art Thus much for Medicines that use to be given to Scorbutick Persons in a solid form or a thick substance And that they may do the more good and be carried more easily into the Mass of Blood liquid Medicines for the most part are prescribed to be drunk upon them the most usual forms whereof follow 1. Decoctions Although Decoctions be the most familiar sort of Medicine yet they are rarely used in the Scurvy because Simples which are especially proper for this Disease as Scurvy-grass Brooklime c. lose their virtue which they receive from their volatil Salt by boyling Nevertheless because Medicines are easily and quickly prepared this way they may sometime be admitted And besides experience testifies that some of them have been effectual This easie Medicine is commended by several Authors for Country People and the poor Take of leaves of Water Cresses 3 handfuls the lesser Sorrel 2 handfuls Let them be shred and steeped in 6 pounds of Milk and boyled to the consumption of a third Part. Let 6 or 8 ounces be taken twice a day The Decoction of Wormwood is commended by Eugalenus and others I have often tried the following Remedy with good success Take of tops of Broom 3 handfuls let them be cut small and boyled in three pounds of strong Beer to half Let 2 or 3 ounces be given twice a day 2. Infusions An Infusion added to the Decoction makes a most excellent Medicine Take of root of Scorzonera Chervil each 1 ounce leaves of Agrimony Ground-pine each half an handful burnt Harts-horn 2 drachms Raisins half an handful boyl them in 3 pounds of Spring-water to the consumption of a third part Add of Rhenish Wine half a pound and presently strain it into a Glass Vessel to which put leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime bruised each half a handful Orange peel candied and cut small half an ounce Make a close and warm Infusion for 6 hours Let the Colature be kept in Bottles stopt The Dose is 6 ounces twice a day after a solid Medicine Take of Whey made with white Wine or Sider 1 pound and an half let there be boyled in it of Burdock root Eringo root candied each 6 drachms preserved Juniper berries half an ounce Let the Liquor be boyled to the consumption of a third part and strained into a Flagon in which put leaves of Scurvy-grass Brooklime each 1 handful Make a hot and close Infusion for 6 hours The Dose is half a pound twice
Applications of other kind which ease pain may be outwardly applied Of the wandring Scorbutick Gout Concerning this affection Eugalenus Wierus Medicus Campensis and Gregorius Horstius have writ on purpose It is said to be very frequent in the North-parts of Holland of which they take a certain sign by applying a live Worm to the place pained for it begins immediately to leap wriggle and slide off and usually dies which indeed I have often by experience observed in this Disease among our own Country-men The reason of which experiment as I think is this we make the cause of the Pain and Swelling in the part affected to be because Saline or lixivial Feculencies that are left by the Blood and also by the Nervous Liquor in the same place do mutually ferment just as Spirit of Vitriol mixt with deliquated Salt of Tartar moreover as from such struggling and agitation of dissimilar particles Pain and Swelling are caused so indeed very sharp and as it were corrosive effluvia do plentifully fly out which kill the Worm when it is applied to the pained place just as if it were hung over these ebullient Liquors Because of the effect of this experiment the Cure of the Disease is managed by Worms that is by Medicines made of them which yet I know not whether taken inwardly they will as certainly cure the Disease as they applied outwardly are killed by the Disease However Worms as also Snails Sows and other exanguous Animals inasmuch as they abound with a volatil Salt so they often yield a Medicine effectual enough Henricus Petraeus tells of two Remedies for this Disease much used in Westphalia 1. Take 9 Worms bruised with 2 spoonfuls of Wine in a Mortar and strained through a Cloth to these add half a pint of Wine Take 3 spoonfuls Morning Noon and Night for several dayes 2. Take 2 or 3 sprigs of Savine Virgin Honey 2 spoonfuls Boyl them in a pint of Wine till it sink 2 Inches Let 4 or 5 spoonfuls of the colature be taken thrice a day A certain vulgar potion cited by Horstius is near of kin to the first Medicine it is called Potio Monasteriensis Take of Sage Betony Rue each 5 Leaves a little Savine and two roots of Devils bit Bruise them with water of Elder flowers and let the juice strained out be given to cause a Sweat The like prescription also is propounded by Medicus Campensis in Forestus Certainly in this Disease Aqua lumbricorum magistralis set down in the London Dispensatory is excellent good I have often used Spirit and Salt of Harts horn Spirit of Blood and flowers of Sal Ammoniac with good success Moreover Testaceous powders to wit of Crabs Eyes Corals Pearl and Vegetables which are reckoned Antidotes for the Gout as Root of Birthwort Leaves of Ground pine Germander and the like joyned with Antiscorbuticks are good for the cure of this Disease Beside outward Anodynes to asswage the pain which are used in form of Liniment Fomentation or Cataplasm oyl of Worms Frogs and Toads are often very beneficial I had it from an excellent Person who was very subject to this Disease that a water distilled off the Contents in the Stomach of an Ox newly killed and taken out and applied warm with Clothes in manner of a Fomentation does give most certain relief Of Convulsive and Paralytick Affections that usually come upon the Scurvy If at any time the Scorbutick Infection break into the Brain and Nervous kind and very much infect the irrugious Liquor of either Province for this reason indeed divers affections and especially Paralytick and Spasmodick ones usually arise namely according as the Morbifick matter brought by the regiment is either narcotick or explosive Which sort of affections although in this case they be Symptomatick yet when they grow worse they challenge to themselves both the name and better part of the Cure so that the Patient may be rather said to be sick of the Palsie or Convulsion than of the Scurvy Medicines also proper for these Diseases should be preferred before all other at that time however requisite for other intentions To cure such Diseases brought upon the Scurvy we should make it our business that Remedies appropriate to them may be rightly complicated with Antiscorbuticks Of an Atrophy and also the Scorbutick Fever which is either the cause or effect of it There are 3 kinds of causing depending in a certain order of one or more of which a Scorbutick Atrophy without a Consumption of the Lungs is usually produced to wit either the Chyle is perverted through the fault of the first wayes so that either not enough or not good is carried to the Blood Or secondly when it is brought thither yet by the fault of the Blood it is not rightly changed into Blood and nutritious juice Or thirdly the nutritious juice being rightly prepared in the mass of Blood through the fault of the Nervous Liquor is not rightly assimilated to the solid parts Remedies proper for this Symptome either respect the emendation of the first wayes or of the foresaid Humours As to the former it sometimes happens that through the broken tone or vitiated ferment of the Stomach what food is taken is not rightly concocted but turns into an useless putrilage For such ails gentle Catharticks Digestives and Strengthners may be used Yet the work of Chylification is oftner hindred by a Scirrhous Tumor rising sometimes in the Stomach sometimes in the Mesentery and other Parts thereabout In this case opening and dissolving things are proper the use of Spaws is before any other Remedy Moreover Fomentations Liniments or Plaisters must be outwardly applied Furthermore sometimes it happens that without any Tumor arising in the Bowels the lacteal Vessels are so much obstructed with a thick viscid matter settled in them that a sufficient store of Chyle though made laudable and with plenty sufficient cannot be carried to the Blood In this case the Belly is for the most part very loose the stools are white and like curdled Milk and not tinged with bile or stinking like other Peoples Excrements The reason whereof is because the depauperated Blood breeds but little yellow bile from the pouring out of which in the Guts the colour and stink of the Excrements proceed In this case Spaws are chiefly proper and when openers are given inwardly Liniments Fomentations and Bathings may be used outwardly For a Marasmus arising from the Blood 's degenerating from its frame these things are good Asses or Cows Milk diluted with Barley water or some proper distilled water often do good Broth or Milk with Snails boyled in them Moreover Waters distilled off Milk or Whey with Snails and temperate Antiscorbutick Herbs are very good in this case for this purpose also Decoctions of vulnerary and Antiscorbutick Herbs are taken with good success In the mean time frictions to the out parts may be used every day with Clothes bedewed with unguentum resumptivum or fresh Oyl of sweet Almonds and
of the antecedent causes IV. Rhenish Wine alwayes did me good in the Strangury caused by drinking new Beer If I could not get Wine and was forced to drink new Beer I was eased of my trouble by taking Nutmeg When some had fallen into that mischief they cured themselves only by anointing their Navil with the fat of a Candle Others cured themselves by taking only a spoonful of Oxymel But I have experienced that the smell of the leaves of black Currant Trees and much more a Decoction of them mends this fault Forestus V. If you find that no Remedies will do in this sort of Strangury you must make an Issue in one Leg by which the Phlegm imbibed by those parts may run out Mercatus which uses to be a present Remedy Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. One drachm of the flesh of a Hedge-hog dried in the Sun and given in Wine brings away much Urine without trouble Aetius 2. Salt of Antimony is a secret in the dysury and Strangury De Bry. 3. Spirit of Turpentine quickly takes away all difficulty of Urine The Dose is from 9 or 10 drops to 12 in Cinnamon water Grembs 4. I have often seen them that were Sick of the Strangury relieved of a violent pain by taking a drachm of the powder of Crabs Eyes in White Wine 5. A little fat of a Goat put into the Navil easily cures the Strangury ¶ Oyl of Mastich dropt warm into the Navil takes it away quickly ¶ Amber especially the white powdered and given in Wine or boyled in Beer is good for the Stone and Strangury for it presently opens the passages and expels the calculous matter ¶ Several have been cured in the manner following Grulingius Take rose-Rose-water beat up with the white of an Egg and give it to drink 6. I have learned this that Spirit of Spanish Salt drawn in the extreme Heat of a reverberatory with Potters clay taken in white Wine that was drawn out of the Vessel a day before does not only take away the mortal Stranguries of old Men and because it is wholly diuretick hath cured several but moreover they that have had an extraordinary Stone fall out of the Kidney and stayed some Months in the Bladder have at length voided it in small pieces by Urine And it is made of Salt first melted and then freed by the Fire from its superfluity then the Salt is beaten and dissolved among slices of Radish and then dried again Van Helmon and then distilled with as much Potters Earth in a violent Fire of reverberatory having a care that nothing expire Hooferus 7. To anoint the Belly with Beef tallow takes away the Strangury caused by drinking Beer 8. A glass of the clarified juice of Pellitory of the Wall is admirable if it be from a Stone or thick matter 9. Rulandus his certain experiment for the Strangury Take Sheeps Wool carded and made into the form of a Plaster to which add some Goats dung mixt with a Boy 's Urine apply it below the Navil it never fails 10. Outwardly to temper the Acrimony of the Humours and heat of the Bowels a Bath of sweet water is very good in the Morning before Dinner Sennertus especially with leaves of Violet water Lilly Lettuce Mallows Nightshade c. 11. This is excellent good against difficulty in making water Stokkerus Take 2 ounces of Privet water Morning and Evening 12. One found great benefit by 6 drops of rectified oyl of Amber in 3 spoonfuls of Parsly water Thonâ—ruâ— or Cock broth 13. I successfully cured the Strangury through the resolution of the Muscle in the Neck of the Bladder by putting a Woman in hot Oyl in which the leaves of Laurel Betony Sage Rosemary wild Marjoram Penny-royal Flowers of Chamomil and Cassidony were boyled after she had sate in it I made her an admirable Oyntment of Oyl of Worms Lily and Fox in which fat Whelps were boyled till the Flesh came from the Bone when I had strained it I put in Styrax Calamita Benzoin Oâ—oponax Olibanum Mace Nutmeg rectified aqua vitae Valleriola Goose grease and Wax which when she had used some Months she was cured Welkardus 14. Powder of dryed Acorns given in Wine is a present Remedy for the Strangury Strumae Scrofulae or the Kings-Evil or Scroffles The Contents How it may be distinguished from hardned Glands I. What sort of Purging is proper II. Whether a Vomit be proper III. The efficacy of Vesicatories applied to the Head IV. Whether Repellents are proper V. In what Sudorificks should be used VI. Narcoticks and Frictions waste it VII Wasted by a potential Cautery VIII What gives way to Suppuraters IX Dispersed in the Neck by Medicines X. The Cure by cutting out XI Upon what the difficulty of the Cure depends XII When it is Cured it nevertheless returns XIII Inward Medicines that consume them XIV Medicines I. BEcause there is a great likeness between the Kings-Evil and hardned Glands for they are alike both in place and matter therefore we must do our endeavour to distinguish the one from the other They differ first because the matter of the Glands is more subtil and thin of the Kings Evil more gross and viscid and more contumacious and hence it is that whenever a thin and subtil matter is incrassated of Glands they become the Kings-Evil Which is Galen's meaning 1. de loc aff 3. when he sayes that Glands sometimes turn into the Kings-Evil Secondly because indurated Glands are more separable from the adjoyning Flesh so that by the touch you may easily know it from the Glands But the Kings-Evil is so propagated into the adjoyning Flesh that it is a very hard thing to distinguish it 3. Because the Kings-Evil has a Coat but the Glands are alwayes without one Rogerius the Surgeon advises to take Ivy Leaves and Citron and pound them together and lay them to the Swelling and if the Swelling fall in 3 dayes time he says it is a sign they are Glands and not the Kings-Evil but if they grow worse with the application Mercurialis l. 1. c. 5. so as to be red and ake it is a sign they are not Glands but the Kings-Evil II. We must observe concerning Purging of Children since Infancy is very infirm it must be treated with very gentle Medicines and it is my advice rather to Purge often gently than to give strong Medicines For so I Cured a Noble Boy of the Kings-Evil Therefore they that commend Pilulae foetidae de Euphorbio and such Medicines for Children are not to be heeded I confess they are tolerable in grown People Idem ¶ Physicians for the most part accommodate their usual Purges in the Kings-Evil to Phlegmatick defluxions whence they reckon it arises not only if it be in the Neck but in any other part of the Body and direct them chiefly to purge Phlegm But as
tough by the preceeding heat that the Patient be almost strangled which is not usual on the eleventh day a Gargarism must of necessity be used and order must be given to Syringe the Throat often with it Night and Day Let it be made either of Small Beer or Barley water with Honey of Roses But if the Patient have been treated as he ought Salivation even when it begins to abate will do its office so well that there will be no need of this Remedy And truly when it is come to this that the Patient is in danger of being choaked every moment quite dulled and his Breath almost gone we cannot safely trust this Remedy When the Patient is thus at his last cast I have sometimes very seasonably and successfully given a Vomit of Infusion of Crocus Metallorum but in something a larger dose to wit 1 ounce and an half because by reason of the extraordinary stupidity which the Patient labours under a less dose will not work at all and in the mean time by disturbing the Humours which it cannot carry off Idâ—m p. 210. will put the Patient in great danger of his Life XXX By this same tempering of the Blood I have seen purple spots removed but neither by this nor any other Method could I ever see either pissing of Blood or a violent eruption of it from the Lungs stopt as yet but both these Haemorrhagies as far as I could hitherto observe Idem p. 211. do undoubtedly presage death XXXI In suppression of Urine which sometimes takes the younger and brisker sort from the great confusion to wit and disorder of the Spirits which serve for the voiding of it by reason the Blood and Humours are disturbed with too great heat I have taken all the tribes of Diureticks to my assistance but nothing succeeded so well with me as to take the Patient out of his Bed who being supported by some that were by Idem ibid. when he had walked twice or thrice cross the Room presently made store of Urine to his great relief XXXII But the Symptomes which proceed from repercussion of the Variolous matter by external cold or evacuation unduly made they must be removed by the use of Cordials and a regiment conformable which yet must not be continued beyond the time that the Symptomes continue The chief of them are depression or falling in of the Pustules and a Loosness in the distinct Small Pox For in the Confluent neither does the depression of the Pustules forebode any ill because it is the nature of the Disease Nor a Loosness in Children that are sick of them because it causes health and no danger In both these cases a Cordial Potion of some proper destilled waters with Diascordium Laudanum liquidum c. may very well be given and that not only to remove the foresaid Symptomes but at any time of the Disease if the Patient complain of a pain at his Heart and sickness And indeed I think the redness which is so much upon the often striking in of the Pustules arises hence because they who have observed the depression of them in the Confluent sort have taken it for a recess of the Variolous matter upon taking cold when it is nothing but the nature of the Disease And they suspect the same in the distinct kind because to wit they expect the coming out and increase of the Pustules before their time Idem p. 212. whereas they have not taken notice of the time when Nature uses to bring this fruit to maturity XXXIII When the Patient is upon recovery and the Pustules are falling when the Patient has eaten Flesh a few dayes namely about the 21th day I reckon he may be bled in the Arm if the Disease have been violent since the Inflammation which the Small Pox has impressed on the Blood whether the Patient be old or young does no less indicate Blood-letting than the filth which has then been gathered does purging which is evident enough both from the colour of the Blood which when taken after a violent Small Pox is like that of Pleuriticks and also from those great Inflammations which after this Disease fall upon the Eyes and also from other dire effects of Blood over heated and depraved by this Disease Which is the reason that they who lived very well in health all their time before do all the rest of their Life after conflict with hot and sharp Humours falling upon the Lungs or on some other part But if the Pustules be few Idem p. 213. there will be no need of Bleeding After Bleeding I give two or three Purges XXXIV The Epidemick Measles which came in the year 1670 and they that were abroad in the year 1674. introduced black Small Pox whose Pustules were as black as soot that is when they fluxed and the Patient died not till they came to maturity for before they were ripe they were only of a brown colour Moreover the Pustules were very small if they were numerous for when they were but few they were not less than in other kinds of Small Pox and very seldom Black A great Putrefaction was latent in both of a thick and incoctil nature When they were ripe they smelled very ill so that when People were very bad of them a man could not come near them for stench They finished their course slowly and stuck longer on than any that I ever yet saw This is worth observation that how much more gentle the Disease is so much the sooner the Pustules ripen and the Disease comes to an end So in the regular sort of Confluent Small Pox which came in the year 1667. the 11th day was the most dangerous which once over there was no further fear usually of the Patient In the irregular sort of the Confluent next following which came in the beginning of the year 1670 the Patient was in greatest danger on the 14th or at furthest the 17th day which if the Patient got over he was safe But in this sort of Confluent Small Pox the Patient died even after the 20th day And sometimes if he did recover not only his Legs swelled which indeed is usual with some in the Confluent Small Pox but his Arms moreover Shoulders Thighs and other parts which Swellings begun the Tragedy with intolerable pain just like that of Rheumatick Persons afterwards they often suppurated and ended in great Sinuses and Imposthumes of the Muscular parts And these Small Pox seem to me a new kind arising out of the former then grown old Although the Black Small Pox which in the beginning of the year 1670 first showed themselves according to the disposition of the Air which made it Epidemical did go on towards the height yet like the relapse of some Disease the old matter fermenting again the Air which inclined to the production of the Small Pox drew them out of their old store which Disease indeed gathering strength anew seemed as it were
If the Small Pox come of hot Humors they must be cured only with cooling and incrassating things for unless the immoderate ebullition and heat of the Blood be stopt the Patients hasten to their end therefore we must then use things that check and moderately cool As will appear from the example following whence likewise it will appear in what cases the Cure must be varied Altarasius his Boy was taken with the Small Pox some of which ran so that in two dayes they left the poor wretches Body all excoriated as I have also seen it happen in other Children Against which I began thus First of all because this matter was too thin I endeavored to thicken it not only by taking it off but the ill quality also of the Liver and inner Parts that no more new might be bred And this I did with cooling Medicines as Syrup of Roses of Cichory simple of Endive and Violets mixing them with the like Waters His Liver was anointed outwardly with Vnguentum Santalinum But his Diet conduced much to it which inclined to cooling and moistning Amat Lufiâ—on cur 18. cent 3. By all which means the Matter was made thick and the Small Pox begin to appear thick and large ¶ In the latter end of Summer 1655. the Small Pox were abroad in our City many Children had them but few died for they were kindly At the same time two Greenland Women were taken with them to whom when several sorts of drink which had done good to others as well for driving out the Small Pox as to cool the febrile Heat were profered them they refused all denying to take so much as boyled Water But by making signs they so earnestly desired cold spring Water Bartholinus cent 3. hist 89. that they signified they should dye if it were denied them and when it was granted them they recovered LVI Lentills are rejected by some Neotericks because they have an astringent Faculty and so hinder the coming out of the Small Pox But the Authority of so many and so great Worthies ought not rashly to be rejected but rather it must be concluded that with the highest reason Lentils either excorticated or a little boyled are added to things that drive out to the Skin inasmuch namely as by their astringent and incrassating faculty they restrain the too great heat of the Humours and hinder their running into some noble part to which end also Tragacanth is added This is taken from Galen who 1. de Alim fac c. 18. holds that Lentils twice boyled strengthen the natural parts and by the astriction wherewith they are endued do stop a Loosness Therefore they may be prescribed or omitted by the Physician who has the cure in hand according as he shall find the necessity to attenuate the Humours and to drive them out to the Skin to be more or less urgent For if the matter be subtil and the ebullition great they may be usefully prescribed for the foresaid intentions But if the matter seem thick and Nature drive it slowly to the Skin then they yea and Tragacanth also must be omitted and other things that are attenuating and diaphoretick must be put in Riverius LVII Having made evacuation of the whole Body unless the Small Pox come plentifully out it will be good to abate in Meat those things that bind and to put in some things which may open as Leaves of Smallage and Parsly Nor indeed do I approve of giving of dry Figs for I condemn it for that very reason for which Physicians commend it They say indeed that Figs drive the matter from within to without but truly their experience fails them for Figs do not this because they drive bad Humours from within but because by over-heating them they give them a kind of ebullition which is usually very grievous and therefore the common People hold that Figs cause the Scab and Itch yet they are good for old Men if they should chance to have this Disease whose Blood naturally is not so hot as in Children And it will not be amiss here to enquire what is the reason that Salt fish are good for them that are sick of the Measles For Aristotle sayes that vulgar report is not alwayes without cause yet there is reason We find by dayly experience that Salt fish causes the Itch because it raises an ebullition in the Blood Now it is found that in every ebullition thick Humours are made thin thin turn into Fumes and Fumes go to the Skin Whence it is made out that without doubt Salt Fish are sometimes proper in these Diseases to wit when Nature goes lazily about the work of expulsion especially when the wayes are narrow and the Humours thick and inept when there is any one or all of these Reason demonstrates that Salt Fish are good When therefore in a body naturally cold the Small Pox come not well out for any of the three aforesaid reasons I think notwithstanding the Febrile heat we may with the People in Portugal with whom this is usual give Salt Fish but otherwise by no means And this must be done with premeditation for the Fish must be steeped a whole day in juice of Sorrel But if it should so happen that Pustules should come within truly you can by no one Medicine more effectually break them purge the Sanies nor dry up the Putrefaction that comes from them And you can by no means sooner give a check that so the Body may take no further corruption and at last you can by no other means preserve the sound Particles safe from being affected with the contagion of the running corruption then by Salt Fish And it will not be amiss whan they come out within to advise first of all to eat dry Figs for ripening of them and then to use Salt Fish But we must remember that we must have a care of using Salt Fish in the Measles rather than in the Small Pox and in such as are of a hot and dry constitution Brudus de victu febricir l. 3. c. 22. 23. LVIII To preserve the Face some wash it with Rose water and other astringent things which I cannot approve of because the greatest share of the impurities is driven to it for its Skin is lax and soft and so fittest to receive excrements Wherefore if those impurities which are sent by Nature to the Face be repelled from it when they are retained within they may do much mischief Riverius and therefore Nature's motion must by no means be hindred LIX I must not omit that several teach that the Small Pox when they are brought to maturity must be prickt with a Golden or Silver pin lest the pus abiding longer there leave Scars in the part Which nevertheless is now in a manner out of use since experience has shown that the Small Pox when prickt are cured more slowly and keep their Scabs longer on by reason of the weakness of the innate heat which is
of it self so that the Pustules came out very thick all over his Body Whey with Marygold flowers and other things usually boyled in it also Juleps and all Cordials though temperate which cause but a gentle breathing did most certainly set him a bleeding Wherefore I prescribe such a course of Diet as I did before § LXXIII upon which he was better However at the very height of his Disease for when the Small Pox are fully come out a Fever usually returns in all People because transpiration is stopt this Sick man fell into plentiful Bleeding so that after a large profusion of Blood the Small Pox began to grow flat After he had in vain tried many Remedies to stop Bleeding at length a bag with a Toad in it that was dried in the Sun and bruised was hung about his Neck and at the very first he immediately found benefit by it for his Bleeding was presently stopt and it returning no more for he carried this Epitheme constantly ever after in his Bosome the Patient still continuing his cooling diet Idem perfectly recovered LXXV I visited a young Gentlewoman of a florid countenance and hot constitution when she was 4 Months gone with Child she was troubled with grievous Vomiting a most violent pain in her back and extream heat and thirst Her Pulse was very quick strong and vehement Although the Small Pox were no where thereabout yet these Symptomes gave me no small suspicion of this Disease However the excessive effervescency of the Blood did indicate the letting of it therefore I presently took away about 6 ounces then the heat abated a little yet the Vomiting and pain in her back continued still At the hour of Sleep I gave her a Cordial Bolus with half a grain of our Laudanum upon which quiet Sleep succeeded with a pleasant Breathing and a ceasing of all the Symptomes The next Morning the Small Pox came out which although she had them very full yet she recovered without any dangerous sickness or fear of miscarriage and went her full time Idem LXXVI A Woman was brought to Bed and the same day her Children in the same House were taken with the Small Pox and she her self as it seems had taken the Infection for the second day after her delivery they began to come out with a Fever and pain in her Loins which indeed in 3 dayes her Lochia flowing moderately did rise well Although she cleansed well all that time she was very full of the Small Pox all over her Body and not only upon the out side of her Body but they filled her Mouth and Throat so that she could scarce speak or swallow The sixth day after she was brought to Bed her Lochia flowed immoderately upon which the Small Pox immediately growing flat she was taken with Swooning frequent Convulsions and other ill favored Symptomes which threatned sudden death I prescribed her half a drachm of this powder to be taken constantly once in 3 hours in a spoonful of the following Julep that is Take of Tormentil root powdered 2 drachms Bole Armenick 1 drachm Species de hyacintho half a drachm Make a Powder Take of Aqua Scordii composita water of Dragons Meadow-sweet each 3 ounces Treacle Vinegar 1 ounce Syrup of Corals 2 ounces burn Harts-horn half a drachm Make a Julep I ordered also Tormentil root to be boyled in all her Broths and drink by these Remedies her Uterine Purgation wholly stopt and the Small Pox ripened by degrees without any more grievous Symptome and fell off This was a difficult case indeed and was managed with great hazard to wit it was dangerous to keep in either the Lochia or the Small Pox and yet a full eruption of either one of them hindered the others motion As long as they both proceeded moderately the case being left to Nature was moderate But when one exceeded the help of Art was required Thus it was convenient to use the curb to the Lochia and the spur to the Small Pox. Idem LXXVII As to meat the Arabians teach that no Flesh no not a Chicken is proper in this Disease yea they condemn yolks of Eggs before the Fever be over and the Pustules be suppurated and scale off Which seems to be a bad rule for Children are often Sick who according to Hippocrates want much nourishment Besides before they begin to scale off 10 or 14 dayes are usually over But to keep Children so long a time without some good food were very pernicious Wherefore I can by no means follow the Arabians advice But when I see the Sick are out of all danger I use to feed them more liberally so as their strength may be supported and the solid parts restored and then I give them yolks of Eggs in broth with Verjuice or juice of Lemons And by this way of cure I can attest Mercurialiâ— not one has died in my Hands since I practised Physick LXXVIII The Measles and Small Pox agree in this that the Pustules in each are caused by the ebullition of the Blood while Nature separates the bad from the pure and forces it out to the Skin wherefore one may easily gather that Nature must not at that time be diverted from such expulsion by gross or much food or that is hard of digestion But that Nature may do her work the better and may drive the noxious Humours from within towards the Skin more conveniently and lest some Humour might be detained in some of the inner parts we must give them meat that is a little cooling and gently astringent for such as this strengthens the parts that they can more strongly drive out what is troublesome besides it has a virtue to repel hot Humours Wherefore the broth of Spanish Lentils with the herb Sorel green Coriander Oyl Vinegar and Salt is very good Also Gourd boyled with Purslane Oyl Vinegar and Salt Ptisan as we prepared it in colliquating Fevers is very good for them All things must be avoided Bâ—â—dus de victu febricit l. 3. c. 22. which increase Blood or add to its ebullition Wherefore in the beginning while they have strength chicken broth and all sweet and unctuous things must be avoided LXXIX But when they begin to go off it is good to mix such things in meat as loosen the Belly as Prunes Violets Borage and the like But Prunes that have an Astringent Faculty as French and Spanish may be used all the time boyled with black Maiden-hair or Purslane or Plantain And let the drink of such as have the Small Pox or Measles Idem be Barly water boyled with black Maiden-hair and Pomegranate LXXX There are some who give Lettuce boyled in Vinegar and the pulp of Citrul and water-Melon And some give water of water-Melon to drink But as I think these Meats do more hurt than good Because they hinder Nature's expulsion and by their excessive coldness retard the comeing out of the Pustules for such expulsions as
these from within to the Skin are made by Nature the matter inclining that way because it is then turned to Vapors being of a thin substance Wherefore as the ebullition must not be encreased by hot Idem fuming things so neither may it be extinguished by excessive cooling things LXXXI Whenever the Small Pox are epidemical and have grievous and dangerous Symptomes attending them we must take care quickly to remove Children and the younger sort who have not yet had the Small Pox into a more wholesome Air where no Small Pox reign and to keep them there till they either cease or grow more kindly But on the contrary if they be kindly and well conditioned that is if most People have but few if they come quickly and easily to suppuration and if they fall off without any notable disfiguring then I am so far from perswading you to avoid the Air that breeds the Small Pox that on the contrary I think it advisable to let the Children that are yet well Sylvius de le Boâ— be in the same Chamber with the Sick to the end they may have the Small Pox while they are gentle Of the Measles see more BOOK XI Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. In the Small Pox and Measles Oyl of Gold is very good ¶ The use of Mercurius vitae is good for Children Joh. Agricola when you fear they will have the Small Pox. ¶ Mercurius vitae fixus is very good in the Small Pox. 2. This is admirable good for a scar in the Eyes left by the Small Pox Take of juice of Dasy clarified 2 ounces juice of red Poppy 1 ounce water of Honey 6 drachms Mix them Augenius Drop a little into the corner of the Eye 3. This is very good to take out the pitting of the Small Pox Take of Oyl Olive 1 ounce and an half juices of Lemon 6 ounces washt Litharge ashes of burnt Snail each half an ounce fat of an Hen half an ounce Mix them for a Liniment Claudinus after which the Face may be washed with a Decoction of Lupins 4. To drive out the Small Pox give Avicenna's decoction of Figs excorticated Lentils and tragacanth Take it 4 or 5 times Morning and Evening Crato ¶ A draught also of Fenil water Morning and Evening is good 5. I ordered one that had the Small Pox in his Throat continually to gargle with Goats Milk and Plantain water mixt together warm which miraculously preserved him For the same purpose I ordered him often to swallow Syrup of Pomegranates by degrees because I had often tried the admirable benefit of it in the like case ¶ Among things that drive out some commend water destilled off Lime flowers as a thing very good for it 6. I have found the following powder admirable good in the Small Pox and in all contagious Diseases Take of Salt of Ash 8 or 10 Grains Bezoardicum minerale from 5 grains to 10. Mix them with Aqua cornu cervi citrata and Angelica water Joh. Lud. 2 Frundekk It is a most effectual Antilemick Diaphoretick drink 7. To bring out the Measles and Small Pox this is highly commended Take juice of Fenil and Parsly wet a cloth in them warm and so let the Children be wrapt up therein warm Or Take Parsly and Fenil water wet a double Linnen Cloth in them wrap the Child up in it warm Dav. Lipselius repeating it often it brings out the Small Pox powerfully 8. To take off the ill colour of the Skin Take of Lupines Beans Barly each 1 pugil and an half pound them after a gross manner boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water till the water grow as thick as Pap. Mercurialis Wash the Face and Hands Morning and Evening 9. I can attest that by giving half a drachm or a drachm of Columbine Seed in powder with Mede or the distilled water of Fumitory Carduus Benedictus or Harts-horn I have saved several Children in the Measles from the Grave Simon Pauli 10. The Oyl of Tender Harts-horn and the Skull Eustachius Rhudius may serve Children instead of Bezoar especially in the Small Pox and Measles 11. The red Oyntment for Children which is most Famous in the Small Pox and Measles when you fear them for the benefit of it is unspeakable if a little of it be given a Child or a grown Person in small Wine and then the Patient be covered with Clothes till he sweat by which Remedy whatever corruption is within it will break out at the Skin all over It is made thus Take of new fresh Butter that was never salted 2 pounds Alcanna root 2 ounces red Wine 1 pound Castor 6 drachms let the roots bruised be steeped in the Wine for a day then add the Bâ—tter and boyl them on a gentle Fire till the Wine be consumed strain it and then put in the Castor ¶ Oyl and Balsame of Rosemary are approved Joh. Steph. Strobelbergerus in taking out the Pits of the Small Pox and restoring the Face to its former Beauty Venena or Poysons The Contents They act not by occult qualities I. Many lies are told by Authors concerning them II. The Physician must well consider their several differences III. Whether they may ever serve instead of Medicines IV. Whether two Poysons one destroy the other V. Whether a Vein may be opened VI. Purging is proper VII Poyson cured by Vomiting VIII How when Poyson is taken inwardly it may be got out by Vomiting IX Bezoarticks either respect the Blood and resist Putrefaction X. Or they hinder the Ichorescence resolution and rare faction of it XI Or they respect the Serum in promoting its motion and hindring coagulation XII No Alexipharmack resists all Poysons alike XIII The promiscuous use of them is not convenient XIV In the beginning there is most need of Volatils XV. For whom the temperate and mild are most proper XVI Poyson is not removed only by Sweat XVII We must not trust too much to things made of Serpents and Vipers nor to Bezoar XVIII Suspected Alexipharmacks must not be used XIX Taken betimes before one go to Sleep more efficacious XX. Volatils are not so proper for Cacochymick Persons XXI We must not mind the first qualities in Alexipharmacks too much XXII The malignity contracted from Poysonous Metallick Fumes must be cured by mineral Medicines XXIII Alexitericks outwardly applied are good for Venomous stings XXIV Whether they may be taken for preservation sake XXV Whether every venomous Creature carry its Antidote with it XXVI Whether from once or the repeated taking of the Viperine or Serpentine powder one can be ever after safe from the biting of Serpents XXVII The Antidote of a Scorpion XXVIII Acids correct most vegetable Poysons XXIX Vomits are not good after eating Mushromes XXX Hemlock is not mortal because of its coldness XXXI Nor Henbane XXXII The cure of each when taken XXXIII Whether Wine be the Antidote of
only be made by a Syringe as is done commonly but a Cathaeter must be put into the Bladder and the Syringe Riverius must be fitted so the Injection is carried to the part affected V. Injections to dry up Ulcers must be made of driers with little astriction For things too astringent stop the Urine which causes much pain Seing a sharp Urine when it comes through a narrow passage Rondeletius causes more pain than if it came through a larger VI. An injection of a decoction of Comfrey roots is proper in this Disease because it heals and has a certain Mucilage which is necessary to make the Medicine stick and mollifie the asperity of the part Horse-tail Plantain Ceterach may be added for it dries much 〈◊〉 St. Johns wort especially in the Stone with an Ulcer in the Bladder because it breaks the Stone and heals the Ulcer Litharge powdered and boyled a good while and strained through a filtre is good Things also may be added which are reckoned to heal the Nerves because it is a part more Nervous than Carnous Root of Narcissus is good Idem because of its Mucilage Trochices must be finely ground as for Collyries VII A Woman who was troubled with a foul and sharp Ulcer in her Bladder when Cyprus Turpentine lignum nephriticum Steel and other drying and cleansing things would do no good betook her self to the Spaw-waters Tulpius by continual taking of which sheover came the deplorable Ulcer VIII I much question whether there be any hope of curing an Ulcer in the Kidneys I do not remember that either I or any body else ever cured one Yet something may be used to give ease and keep it from growing worse for which purpose I find nothing better than Balsame of Sulphur as well anisatus as succinatus juniperinus and terebinthinatus by which although their strength be much wasted before they come to the Kidneys yet the Breeding of much pus is hindred and the encrease of the Ulcer is stopt The same may be said in the Ulcer of the Bladder in which case Balsamus Sulphuris anâ—satus does Wonders Sylvius de â—e 〈◊〉 And there is more hope here because it may immediately be injected into the Bladder Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. When the Inflammation is laid if it be exulcerated or there be Pustules it may be cleansed with half a pound of Hydromel with 2 ounces of juice of Smallage with 1 drachm of Myrrhe powdered Crato for this is an excellent cleansing Medicine 2. A decoction of Strawberry leaves drunk will ease the most violent pain of an Ulcer in the Bladder Dornerellius 3. Terra sigillata or Bole Armenick taken in Milk of Almonds or their Oyl or in Asses or Goats milk is a peculiar Remedy for it purges the Poyson and dries the part and the Ulcer without pain and stops blood Nic. Piso if the Ulcer come from Cantharides 4. Liquorish taken any way is wonderful good in Ulcers or Excoriations of the Bladder for it cleanses dries moderately heals Solenander and tempers the Acrimony of the Humours 5. Take of the Seeds of Alkekengi 3 drachms seeds of Citron Cucumber Gourd each 3 drachms and an half bole Armenick Frankincense Dragons Blood white Poppy seeds bitter Almonds juice of Liquorish bark of the Frankincense Tree each equal parts finely powdered let them be mixt a long time with the white of an Egg in a leaden Mortar with a leaden Pestil Varignana let it be injected with a Syringe 6. Two scruples or 1 drachm of Trochices of Alkekengi in Endive water heal Ulcers in the Kidneys and Bladder admirably Chr. à Vega. 7. For a scab in the Bladder The drinking and injection into the Blaâ—der of Whey Mercurialii especially if Mastich tree Scabious Pomegranate Peel or Plantain have been infused or boyled therein Ulcera or Vlcers The Contents Bathes not alwayes proper for inveterate Vlcers I. Lapis Medicamentosus Crollii not alwayes safe II. Alume water hurtful in cancrous ones III. They are not cured as long as the Blood is impure IV. How to cure those that are difficult of cure V. Dysepuloticks cured by means of Fire VI. When they arise of themselves and are the cure of some other Disease they must not be healed up VII For cure the bilious Sulphur must be checkt VIII The cure of them depends upon the correction of acid Pus IX The healing up of some is difficult because of the thinness of the adjacent skin X. Sometimes they are full of Worms XI If the Glands be disaffected they are difficultly cured XII Why difficult in the Glands XIII The cure of an eating one XIV The cure of an cancrous one XV. The cure of inveterate ones by cutting out the Veins in the Legs XVI The cure of putrid ones by cutting out XVII Occult ones or such as do not shew themselves outwardly must be cut out XVIII In Chronical ones Issues are very available XIX How hard and callous Lips must be cured XX. A dry intemperature is sometimes an Impediment to the Cure XXI An Vlcer that revives often gives suspicion of the Bone being corrupted XXII An Vlcer with a great caries of the Bone can only be cured by Chirurgery XXIII Sometimes only curable by burning XXIV The cure of a malignant Vlcer with Varices XXV XXVI The caries of the Bone is often an hindrance to the cure XXVII What such Sarcoticks ought to be XXVIII What must be washed with water XXIX An Vlcer cured by fluxing with Mercury XXX The cure of one with a dry Intemperature XXXI Of one with Pain XXXII Of one with Fluxion XXXIII Of one with an Hypersarcosis XXXIV Of one with Caries in the Bones XXXV Of a Sinuous one XXXVI The Efficacy of Ceruss of Antimony for the cure of pertinacious ones inward and outward XXXVII When a Vomit is good XXXVIII The Cure of a Sinus with two holes XXXIX An Vlcer in the Jaw cured by an internal Medicine XL. One in the Chin cured by pulling out a Tooth XLI An old one in the Leg cured by drinking medical waters XLII The cure of Vlcers in the Feet XLIII The cure must not be hasty XLIV An inveterate Vlcer in the Toe cured by cutting out the Nail XLV A stiffness of the joynt incurable after an ichor and meliceria XLVI Vlcerous Persons must use a spare Diet. XLVII How such may be found out as have offended in their Diet XLVIII Whether much Meat but not moist may be given XLIX Whether Wine may be allowed L. Whether Flesh and Eggs be proper LI. Cooling Broths are improper LII Medicines I. SInce for the most part Bathes consist of Sulphur Alume Vitriol Iron Copper and other Metals which cleanse and dry extreamly and therefore are used with success in Ulcers Itch c. at last they are abused so that they are usually the extream refuge in desperate cases But it often so happens that
when diseased Persons are sent hither without any regard had to the Patient or his Disease their end is hastened I have seen it several times especially in a Matron of seventy who had been several years ill of a painful and contumacious Ulcer with a perishing of the Bone about the juncture of her left Foot wherefore she went to Neuhausen Bathes near Berne and found benefit for her pain asswaged and the Ulcer healed up Yet not long after she grew ill again and her Ulcer broke a new The next year she used them again but then she was taken with a dangerous Fever wherefore I advised her for the future to abstain from the Bathes but to no purpose for she went again to the Bathes at Blumenstein which she had no sooner entred but she was so weak that she scarce could recover it Do you ask the Reason The putrid matter that is in the musculous parts about the Ulcer or in the Bone growes hot with the heat of the Bathe becomes sharp acquires a Malignity and makes the Ulcer more painful Wherefore Humours flow continually from the whole to the part affected and with the rest of the foresaid Humours inclosed in the part do corrupt Besides the matter grows hot in the Vessels which the heat of the Bathe turns into Vapors which go to the Liver Heart and Brain whence proceeds an Infection of all the Spirits Hildanus Cent. 5. Obs 90. and other grievous Symptomes II. Beware that you do not take all that Crollius has told of his Lapis Medicamentosus for oracle For sometimes a Theorist writes many things with a feather of Icarus and extols them to the Sky which when they touch the Sun of experience melt and turn to nothing If you examine the ingredients of this Stone you will find it hot and dry with great acrimony Nor can I see how it should possess those innumerable virtues Crollius ascribes to it and how it can be applied in so many Diseases without damage He writes that it cures all Ulcers in the exterior parts quickly But have a care you do not try it in Ulcers of the Nervous parts that are full of pain and Inflammation especially in delicate bilious and cacochymick Bodies for it immediately causes pain inflammation watching disquiet and other Symptomes I saw this formerly in a young Man who I remember upon the application of it after a violent pain fell into a Swoon Have a care also that you do not apply it in cancers or cancrous Ulcers of any part Idem Obs 91. for you will immediately find the aâ—l grow worse III. Aluminous water also is suspected in cancrous Ulcers M. N. was ill of an Ulcer at the root of his Tongue of a cancrous nature It was exasperated by the application of the said water prescribed by a Physician Wherefore I perswaded him to wash his Mouth with water of Frogs Craw-fish and Plantain with Honey of Roses and to strow powder of Frogs and Craw-fish burnt upon the Ulcer Idem after this the Malignity of the Ulcer abated quickly to the admiration of them all IV. Ulcers seeing they have cacochymie and faults in the Humours for their causes do also require purging therefore Hippocrates seeing and well considering the necessity of it in this case mentions it lib. de Vlcer which he uses not to do in other such cases We have two sorts of purges in Ulcers and other external Ails the one Catholick drawing from the whole Body which we seldome use the other contrary to this which draws neither from the whole Body nor all Humours Each of them must be used with great care always The former indeed is more simple because of more frequent use the latter more compound because it is given for compound diseases This is commonly threefold Purging of Phlegm Choler or Melancholy But we propound another both absolutely necessary and especially for our purpose which is properly the purging of the Blood by its repeated use This is not only omitted but seems not so much as to be known by its name The Blood has 4 Hypostases of different natures that is bile phlegm and melancholy and Blood in all mens judgment is the legitimate Humour the fourth substance of the mass the purest part of the nutrient Humours Now every one of these distinctly taken has its peculiar Ichores that is moist superfluities depending on them When Ichores and Humours may corrupt and putrefy contrary to Nature's law both joyntly and severally of which there is a numerous conjugation Therefore either all the Blood and Ichors and Humours are in fault as in the small Pox and Leprosy and with some of these as in lesser Cacochymies Or all the Blood is polluted absolutely as much as it can be as in the small-Pox and Measles Although we ought to restore and correct all these Modes of putrid Blood with Physick yet this Mode of Corruption especially comes under our consideration which is not in a total and perfect corruption Blood therefore receeds from its nature two ways either the most part of it or but a little But the farther the recess is the greater industry and stronger Medicines are required And the measure of the Putrefaction can be no way better known than by observation of the Blood as it is drawn out of the Veins Or if we cannot do that from the discolouring especially of the Eyes Lips Gums Teeth Hair Nails also from their strength especially compared with their feeding or fasting from the quality of the excrements and other affections appearing in the body When you have searched out these things then you must proceed to make up proper Medicines which may purge the Blood several wayes by abstersing opening obstructions ventilating provoking Sweat and Urine by giving a stool by attenuating and qualifiing their second or third qualities But among all things they are chief which act by peculiar property Among purgers the chief is Hellebore either black or white which Hippocrates therefore used so much because he knew it had a singular faculty to purge the Blood Nor need we be so abhorrent from this Medicine nor be so fearfull because the Diseases wherein they are used are more frightfull and proceed from black Choler wherefore Galen lib. de atra bile writes That in Diseases proceeding from a melancholick Humour you must at the very first stop the growth of it by Melanagogues As for the safe preparation of it see Salius l. de Aff. part cap. 19. and others Also Senna Coloquintida and Turpeth are strong weaker than these are dodder of Time root of Fern Fumitory Hops Agrimony Cichory Ground pine Speedwell Strawberry leaves Maiden-hair Asparagus Parsley which according to Montuus Purges the Blood by Urine Among Compounds Treacle is the chief which by reason of the Viper it has in it has the divine faculty of Purging the blood and humors Trochises and Salts of Vipers and infinite things out of Hermes his Elaboratory To which you may reckon
altogether on the influx of the animal Spirits by a wonderful consent and co-action betwixt each Portion of the Soul is most exactly proportioned according to the accension of the Blood Wherefore accordingly as the Blood doth intend or remit its effervescency or aestus by the Medicines that are taken presently the animal Spirits that move the Heart exactly obeying its condition cause the Heart to beat more quickly or slowly and also if the animal Spirits be affected by the same Medicine the Pulse is likewise on that account rendred more or less strong or vehement whilst in the mean time the vertue of that Medicine reaches no more to the Heart it self than to the Hands or Feet or any other Muscle Therefore that the first rank of Cordials whereby the Enormities of the Blood are cured may be rightly ordered it will be fitting to consider how many and by what ways its liquor both as to its accension and its Crasis or mixture is wont to be perverted or depraved and moreover what sort of Medicines vulgarly reputed Cordials are required for each of its disorders First therefore the Blood is sometimes not accended enough nor circulated with vigour as we may observe in many languishing People namely such as lie long Sick or have suffer'd great Hemorrhagies or other immoderate Evacuations or are worn out with old Age who namely together with a weak Pulse and decayed Strength have their extreme Parts for the most part cold and pale the reason whereof is because the Blood is become almost vappid and effete through the too great wasting and depression of the Sulphureous Particles and therefore it is accended very sparingly in the Lungs To which is often added that the animal Regiment failing also the Heart being destitute of a plentiful influx of Spirits does not enough exagitate the Blood that it may effervesce and be accended the more briskly The Remedies to be used in this case are generous Wines Strong or Burning Waters or such as are more mild distill'd with Spices or Aromata Aromatick Powders Species and Confections Chymical Oils and Spirits Tinctures Elixirs and other things endued with sulphureous and spirituous Particles to wit such as may exagitate the Blood more and make it more inflammable and turgid and seeing the same do withal exsuscitate and comfort the animal Spirits they therefore make the Heart beat more briskly and strongly Secondly The Blood through its sulphureous Particles being too much loosed and driven into a fervor is often too much accended and disperses an over-intense and very troublesom heat through the whole Body wherefore that it being so much rarefied and flagrant may be kept within the Vessels and also eventilated the Heart beating vehemently and quickly drives the Blood about with great labour and endeavour Therefore in this case cold and attemperating Cordials are to be used which may bridle and allay the fervour of the Blood and also kindly recruit the animal Spirits that they may now perform the more difficult tasks of life For which ends the distilled Waters of Borage c. the juices of Sorrel Citron c. are wont to be used to which Opiats are often added with profit for the impetus of the Heart being a little bridled the Blood does more happily and sooner remit its effervescence But the Blood is not only depraved and perverted as to its too much or too little accension but diversly also through its Crasis or mixture Nor are Cordials presently requisite in all its Dyscrasies but only in those which being excited in Fevers seeing they are sudden and outragious threaten a total Corruption to the mass of Blood The Blood effervescing feverishly is in danger as to its Crasis two ways chiefly namely 1. Either the Band of the mixture is too strait so that all the Particles are so complicated and combin'd with one another that the Excrementitious cannot be extricated from the Profitable and the thin from the thick as it happens in some continual and putrid Fevers which although they be but little or not at all Malignant yet because they can have no Crisis either by Sweat or Perspiration sometimes end in Death Or 2. The Blood in Fevers has its Crasis perverted the contrary way namely by a too great Laxity of its Particles in which case Cordials of another sort viz. Alexipharmacks are required For it often happens that its Compages is too much loosened and pulled asunder as to its Crasis by heterogeneous Particles either bred within it self or pour'd into it from somewhere else so that the common band of its mixture being dissolved its Parts every where fall asunder and then the Portions of the coagulated extravasated or stagnating Blood being fixed here and there putrefie and are corrupted and at length the whole mass is so much vitiated that it is no longer fit for continuing the vital Flame or for extilling the animal Spirits into the Brain wherefore all the Functions must then needs flag by degrees and life perish at last The Cordials requisite in this case must consist of such Particles as being conveyed into the Blood and circulated with it persist still unconquered but yet are withal benign which while they enter into all the Pores and Passages of the mass of Blood do everywhere exagitate the other malignant Particles pull them from their Concretions and at length either subdue them or drive them forth by which means the Blood being freed from its poysonous mixture and withal from all its private Coagulations and being again divided into its smallest and elementary Particles recovers in short time its former salutiferous mixture Moreover that it may appear more plainly in what manner Alexeteries preserve the Blood and Juices of our Body from afflatus or taints or free them from corruption when they are already touched therewith we must consider how other Liquors that are liable to Putrefaction are preserved or when they are seis'd upon thereby may be restored Therefore concerning Beer we may observe that being of its own nature soon apt to grow sowr it is made durable by boiling Hops in it likewise that common Water which otherwise would soon putrefie continues a great while unalter'd by boiling or infusing bitter Vegetables in it of which sort there are also Alexipharmacks Moreover that the juices of Herbs and some other Liquors being already grown musty if they be smoaked by burning of Sulphur recover their former vigour Besides that Wine Beer and other kinds of Drink being grown almost dead and good for nothing do often revive by exciting a fermentation in them anew The reason whereof is that seeing the corruption of any thing consists in the exsolution of the elementary Particles and in their departing from one another whatsoever detains them in motion and perfect mixture while they tend to flight and confusion preserves that Concrete so long safe and sound Moreover if any thing do again bring together the Elements that were loosed and going to depart from one another and
and the Patient gets leisure to recruit himself and to recollect his Spirits that he may thence forward more strongly bear up against the fluxion and that Remedy is chiefly convenient when the weakness of the faculties hindreth revulsion or derivation by venesection and on this account Cupping-glasses are called the Deputies of Venesection Franc. Bayle probl Med. 15. especially when they are applied with scarification Cupping-glasses may be also profitable on other accounts though they draw none of the poisonous infection away XII If dry Cupping-glasses be applied with a large flame there must needs be a strong attraction as they commonly speak or rather a compulsion of the Humours because of the Cupping-glasses and the flesh must be raised into a great Tumour under the Glasses and thereupon the Skin must be vehemently distended and the capillary Vessels spread through it distracted and their Mouths loosened their Sides broken the Blood contained in them poured out and when it is out of the Vessels contract a blackness seeing in a warm place by the contact of the Air by little and little it coagulates These things happen not only to the Sick but to the most Healthful Therefore the blackish Spots that are bred of the Blood poured out in this manner under the Skin do not denote the malignity but the strong drawing of the Glasses by using a great flame Nevertheless those Spots are more easily raised in some through the thinness of their Blood the softness of their Vessels the laxity of the Parts c. of which the Physician ought to judge from the different Circumstances Idem Probl. 14. The Diet of Sick Persons in general The Contents Whence the institution of Diet is to be taken I. In the beginning of the Disease a more liberal Diet is not always to be allowed II. Whether it be worse to offend in a thin or a thick Diet. III. Solid Meat in a small quantity is not the same with Spoon-meat in a great IV. Whether detraction of Meat be therefore necessary because there is a necessity of evacuation V. What such Diet is to be prescribed before the Crisis VI. The Diet must be thinner and thinner VII Whether it be worse to offend in Meat or Drink VIII Whether where there are many corrupt Humours there be need of much Aliment IX In the number of Meals regard is to be had to custom X. A more liberal Diet is not presently to be granted to those who have sustained some evacuation XI We must not depart altogether from the accustomed Diet. XII In the universal beginning of a Disease sometimes a thinner Diet and in the state a fuller is convenient XIII Nexious Aliments especially if craved sometimes help XIV Their emendation for the use of those that cannot abstain from such Aliments XV. The cure of Diseases is not to be expected from Diet alone without other Remedies XVI Yet it alone sometimes suffices for the cure of some Diseases XVII At what time the Pain is more troublesome Meat is not to be given XVIII Whether Ptisan be the best Diet of all XIX It is not alike good for all Sick Persons XX. What water is best XXI Its Vertues XXII How it moves excreation XXIII How it is bilious XXIV Its hurts when given unseasonably XXV Whether raw or boiled water be best XXVI Eggs are not good in fluid Affections XXVII The eating of Fish is not always to be rejected XXVIII The distillation of Flesh is unfit for Nutrition XXIX How to prepare Restoratives XXX Emulsions alone supply not the place of Aliments XXXI Fructus horarii are most wholsom when eaten actually cold XXXII Whether it be wholsom to eat Fruits XXXIII Whether it be wholsom to eat Olera and Herbs XXXIV Or Salads XXXV All Wine does not dry XXXVI Water is good to drink in a drying Diet. XXXVII Snow-water is not alwayes unwholsom XXXVIII A crowd of People is to be kept out of the Patients Chamber XXXIX The Patient's Linen is to be changed often XL. Respect is to be had to the foregoing life and custom of the Sick XLI The benefits of Sleep procured by Art XLII I. THere are two chief Scopes upon which the Eyes of the Physician are fixed The Faculty and the Disease the former requires to be preserved the latter to be removed the Faculty requires Meat by which it self is preserved but the Disease encreased the Disease requires Remedies whereby the Faculty is weakened But because the Business cannot be done without both a Diet is to be found out with Method whereby the Patient may hold out till the crisis of the Disease Now it is clear that the more Meat a man needs the less can be bear the subtraction of it And that one man stands more in need of Meat than another happens either from the Disease or from the Man or from Externals And in the Disease it self either from its Constitution or its Species From the Constitution because the longer it will be the thicker Diet is necessary namely that it may suffice for many days Therefore he that would prescribe a right Diet to his Patients must learn the Art of foreknowing the constitution of every Disease and then must know also that the longer the Disease is like to be he must be the more indulgent from the beginning Otherwise than improvident Physicians do who having no foresight of future things and observing that in acute Diseases the Faculty is sooner and greatlier affected and urged with more frequent Symptoms being afraid of the Faculty begin presently to cram their Patients and on the contrary in the beginning of Chronical Distempers being affrighted with no Symptoms and seeing but a small dissolution of the Faculties they dare too much extenuate the Diet And afterwards when they see the Diseases continue longer than they had reckoned upon fearing the length of Abstinence they are forced to encrease the Diet first indeed by the subtraction suffering the Faculties to be debilitated before the time and then by the addition hindring the concoction of the Humours Whereas they should do on the contrary I mean in the beginning of the Disease they should allow a fuller Diet but when concoction is proceeding and the Disease passing to a crisis they should withdraw it by degrees with the same swiftness whereby the duration of the Disease it self is contracted For those parts of the Disease wherein the concoctions do more employ Nature do more forbid a full Diet Therefore because of the alterations of the Humours the beginnings of Diseases when Nature has not yet entred upon concoction permit to give more meat than their increasings and these than their heights Nor must we act as we have said only because of the concoction of the Humours but in respect to the Faculty it self because this is in so much the greater danger by subtracting Victuals in the beginning than afterwards by how much the more remains to be transacted The Faculty therefore alone requires that Meat
most of all cast down the vigour of the Body so that neither does the Stomach concoct aright nor the Liver or Veins turn it aright into Blood neither moreover is the distribution apposition expulsion of excrements or any of the natural actions performed duly because of the pain hurting the actions and especially for that Nature being intent upon that which grieves her sends the Blood and Spirits which are the common instrument for all actions to the place of the pain whence it comes to pass that the parts appointed for concoction suffer a want of them which is a cause that the Meat is ill concocted in the Stomach Liver and Veins and easily acquires thence a foreign or preternatural heat at length becomes a cause of the encrease of the pain When therefore the parts appointed for concoction suffer a want of the influent heat and the object on which it is to work remains on that account liable to a foreign heat Nature being intent upon another work Physicians do advisedly to let Blood in a great pain that as much as Nature fails of her wonted care so much the Blood may be lessened Nor is Blood to be let only that we may preserve the Humour that is in the Liver and Veins safe from a preternatural heat but we advise provokers to vomit for the meat that is in the Stomach It would be mad advice therefore to administer meat at that time wherein the emptying of it out of the Stomach is a Remedy for the pain But seeing there are many differences of pain so that some invade and remit by turns some torment continually and of these some have got such a vehemence as to bring the Patient into watchings and others into inquietudes the same course of diet is not to be taken in them all Whosoever are disquieted with continual pains and watchings must abstain from all Meat and Drink for the Disease to which a continual inquietation is joined is terminated within four dayes for its vehemence and therefore a total abstinence is convenient Those pains indeed are the most vehement that bring the Patients into inquietude Hence Galen l. 1. Those that are ill of pains are often without a pulse and fall into faintings and can be moved no manner of way The like things to these happen from the acuteness of a Disease But there are some whose faculty is not affected hereby but through an evacuation of the vessels made some manner of way Whether therefore it be through an excretion manifest to sense or by perspiration or through fasting these indeed need nourishment and refreshment quickly But on the contrary if it be through pain or acuteness of the Disease they stand more need of some evacuation than addition yea he that gives food to these does them the greatest mischief From Galen's words a strong argument is taken that no food is to be given to one labouring under a vehement pain with strength of the faculties seeing he writes that it does much mischief to those who are made very weak through pain so that they are without pulse and are taken with swooning In those pains that are next to the most vehement the Patients can keep one posture of lying but can take no sleep wherefore such a Diet is to be granted to these as we said was convenient for those Diseases that terminate on the seventh day for continual watchings are one of the three Symptomes that terminate a Disease on the 7th day For those therefore who through pain endure continual watchings such sustenance as is to be drunk is convenient So Hippocrates But we must use Drink if there be any pain vinegar and Honey or oxymel hot in the Winter and cold in the Summer but if there be much thirst Water and Honey and Water alone In which place Hippocrates hath defined the form of Diet from the reason of the two Symptomes from pain and much thirst whence gather Brudus de victu Febricit lib. 3. c. 27. that when there is any pain we must use something to drink for our food and that there is no place for such things as we use to sup XIX Hippocrates sayes Ptisan or Barley-broth seems to me to be rightly preferred before all food made of Bread-corn in these acute Diseases and indeed I commend those who prefer it for its lentor or clammy glibness is smooth and continued and pleasant slippery and indifferently moist c. Note that Hippocrates does not say that Ptisan is better than all other food but that it is deservedly preferred before all other food made of Bread-corn Therefore every Physician will prescribe to his Patients that are ill of Fevers rather Ptisan of Barley than of Wheat or any pulse yet it is not therefore worse to give them Hen or Chicken broth boiling such things therein as are proper for the Fever viz. cooling Diureticks c. And not this only but there are other things that are every whit as good as potcht Eggs and small Fish that live in clear stony Rivers for the Diet of Feverish Persons is not defined by any certain matter but that it be thin and moist easie of concoction and of good juice The most ancient that were not far removed from the first Men lived more upon pulse fruits and herbs and were not so accustomed to Flesh and therefore Physicians used rather Ptisans in acute Diseases than Flesh But now Men are such eaters of Flesh Valles comm in l. 1. in v. Acut. that from the indication of custom Physicians have deservedly turned to thin flesh and omitted Ptisans ¶ The Marrow or crumb of a white loaf boil'd in broth is a frequent dish in our dayes whether it ought to be had in the number of meats or Spoon-meat is not clear for Hippocrates lib. de Affect hath placed it among meats when he commands it should not be given to Persons in Fevers We give it to such instead of Spoon-meat and if such crumb by long boiling in broth be reduced to smoothness so as it may be supt it is placed in the rank of Spoon-meats and may be given to Persons in Fevers And this is it which we commonly use and vulgarly call Pap. If the said crumb be only wet in Broth Martian comm in v. 25. l. de Affect it ought to be ranked amongst meats in which form Hippocrates will not give it to Feverish Persons ¶ The many benefits that are ascribed to Ptisan agree to this yet that heat which it acquires from the ferment seemeth to be somewhat contrary so that upon this account it is hotter and drier But according to some Mens opinion it is not unprofitable to wash the Bread once or twice in pure water and then to boil it in good broth especially that of a Chicken which attemperates all the Humours and brings them to an equality long boiling is to be added which procures equality of substance as to Ptisan so to Bread so that it becomes most easie
nothing is more known by experience than that by drinking water the bitterness is increased in their Mouths that abound with too much Choler namely the Choler being diluted floats even to the Mouth and therefore in such Idem thirst will be irritated by Water XXV In the same place Hippocrates speaks thus of water Neither does it quench thirst but encreases it for it is of a bilious Nature as was said before and is naught and very bad for the Hypochondres and does greaty cast down the faculties when it enters into the vacuum and encreaseth the Spleen and Liver when they are scorched and it fluctuates and swims atop for it is of a slow passage because it is coldish and crude That is it is very bad for the Hypochondres because it is very cholerick and encreaseth the cacochymie And if it slide into the vacuum that is there betwixt the Bowels and Peritonaeum it casts down the faculties as in hydropical persons and swell the Liver and Spleen when they are scorched because it passes not through but fluctuates there and swims atop and those viscera swell from the water that abides in or upon them especially when they are hot with much choler which the water increases and it passes not through because it is cold and crude for those things that are such are of slow motion For this cause it neither provokes to stool nor Urine because it stays long and it does some hurt on this account because Nature is without excrements it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which term some think is given it because it causes no dejection but I think it rather signifies either the Intestin that wanteth excrement or the food of which no dung is made here it is spoken of water and therefore it signifies that no Dung is bred of water and that for this reason it does some hurt But what can the hurt be that it is without Dung Galen interprets it that to be without Dung is not to cause dejections as if Hippocrates by these words should give a reason why it causeth not dejection but it s not causing of dejections is but a weak argument that it self is without Dung for many things have more Dung and yet cause dejections less than even water as black and thick Wine Therefore I supppose that as he said before that oxymel does greater harm to the Intestin when it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is void of excrements because these fence the Intestins so water hurts something because it is without faeces more than it would do if it bred some for these would fence the Intestins But Hippocrates will seem to affirm falsly that it causes no dejections because many mens bellies happen to be loosened by drinking of water but that happens not from any loosening quality that is in the water but because by cooling and moistning it hurts the retentive faculty in the Guts Idem XXVI The ignorant vulgar suppose that all waters are to be boiled for sick persons to make them thinner and purer but the Nature of the thing is otherwise for by insensible halitus or steams what is thin transpires from the waters in boiling and that which is thick remains besides that waters are thereby rendred less grateful to the taste by a certain ineffable and musty relish But they defend themselves with the authority of Aristotle who 4. Meteor teaches That all things wax thick by boiling except water which because it is simple its parts can by no means be separated by boiling as they may in other things that consist of mixture But I question not but if water be long boiled it will grow thick after a sort for it is not altogether pure and sincere so that with making a resolution of it by boiling it cannot be made more sincere and by consequence thicker its aereal and thin part whereby it looked thinner and clearer being resolved For as it is made worse when it is frozen by the strength of the cold so also by the strength of heat which Hippocrates proves l. de aere aq and locis where he says that all waters from Snow and Ice are bad because what is clear light and sweet in them is separated and lost Wherefore it seems to me safer to allow to sick persons very clear pure and long-kept water than to make it perhaps worse by boiling But that I may not seem to depart from the received custom I say those only are to be boiled that have some fault in them which may be amended by boiling Thus we observe that boiling is good for three sorts of faulty waters 1. for the fenny and muddy which Galen commands to boil because when they grow cold they lose their ill savour their earthy part subsiding which before was confused with the whole 2. That water which displeaseth neither by its taste nor smell but by its stay in the Stomach is grievous to it and the hypochondres if it should not be boiled ought however to be heated according to Galens precept as having some fault from the mixture of corrupt air or containing something that proceeds from an unknown cause for that is very well put to flight by the vertue of the fire 3. The last sâ—rt is the crude for as we prepare many yea most other things that are fit to eat in like manner we change some waters also into a better Nature by boiling Mercat de Indic Med. lib. 1. c. 2 Hippocrates calls such untamed as having the sun averse from them and are taken out of wells c. XXVII Seeing Hippocrates 1. de morb mul. sect 2. grants the use of Eggs to Child-bed Women when their purgations flow immoderately it is a plain argument that they have a faculty to stay or stop so that the purgations may be suppressed by them Hence gather that they are unfit in those Diseases wherein 't is fitting that the passages of the Body should be open and wherein the Humours are prepared for an exit And moreover gather that their astringent vertue is not obtained by boiling only seeing Hippocrates in the place quoted uses rear Eggs and not hard ones for astringing So 4. Acut. v. 390. he prescribes Eggs that are not hard but betwixt hard and soft for those who are troubled with a loosness But the indifferent parts which an Egg consists of are to be noted the Yelk whether it be given raw or roasted or potcht does always bridle the motion of the Humours and astringe by incrassating but the white whilst it is taken liquid whether it be boiled till it become like milk or be raw does loosen the Belly for by the vertue of the white potcht Eggs do loosen the Belly in some Hippocrates uses a raw one out of water in a burning Fever 3. de morb because as he says it cools and loosens the Belly Pr. Martian comm in l. c. p. 202. Wherefore those do not well for their Patients in Fevers that throw away
some to one some to another for neither are the sweet nor the bitter agreeable to all nor can all drink the same Hipp. ibid. For those sick of a burning Fever do not always require the same way of cure seeing some want greater cooling as being of an hard and dense habit of Body others less as being of a soft and rare habit the same coolers are not fitting for all but one must be given to one and another to another with respect to the Disease and according to the diversity of the habit and other circumstances Which opinion of Hippocrates if those that commonly practise Physick would attend unto they would not always inculcate the same things in the same Diseases to all Patients but when the poor Patients from their proper Nature do often refuse either sweet things or sharp or sowr and are set against them they should lay aside their pertinacy and indulge their Patients Nature and will with variety of pleasing Medicines Amongst the various drinks prescribed by Hippocrates this is remarkable Put three or four whites of Eggs in a gallon of water and having shak't it well use it for Drink it cools greatly and inclines the Patient to stool Perhaps these whites of Eggs do the same thing here as they do in Wines when they become too thick and putting off their proper Nature grow vappid for if Eggs being well beat in a good deal of Water be poured to such Wines at first they notably raresie and attenuate them and restore them to their pristin Nature namely being put into the Wine they cool it and by drawing the thicker parts to the bottom of the Vessel they attenuate it The like whereto I suppose to be done in a burning Fever because they cool by contemperating and by drawing down the excrements to the lower parts they loosen the Belly P. Sal. Divers comm in lib. 3. de Morb. p. 339. and 347. but let them be crude for the boiled have less of the foresaid faculty XX. I know the use of Barly water is condemned by some very famous Physicians affirming it to be the invention not of the Greeks but Arabians that it is windy and offensive to the Stomach 'T is apparent such are little versed in reading Greek Authors from lib. 3. de morbis where Hippocrates advises to take about a pint of large and full Achillean Barley and when it is dried to take off the hawns and wash it well then to put a gallon of water to it which must be boiled half away and when it is cold given to drink It is not true that this drink is windy seeing the flatus are in the substance of the Barly which being not well concocted reserves its flatus and not in the water but the water and not the substance of the Barley is given and if there were any fault before in the water it loses it in boiling for boiling takes away the malignity of many things Whereas it is said to be offensive to the Stomach it is not so to all Stomachs but only to those which are more cold but it will not be hurtful to others but rather a safeguard and shield when the febrile heat abounds and is fervent wherefore such offence will not be on the part of the water but of the Physician that administers it without distinction and has no respect to the Stomach of the Patient I declare that I have found the use of this water profitable in our art and have given it plentifully but not to all alike and without distinction I have given it in burning Fevers when signs of concoction appeared cold when the Stomach was strong warm when languid and in great plenty even as long as they would drink it In other bilious Fevers in the last part of the state more willingly in the beginning of the declension P. Sal. Div. 3. de Morb. p. 242. especially if the Intermissions come every third day XXI I wonder what some mean in giving Water in Fevers when they order it to be boiled long and much seeing as Galen testifies which sense also confirms by long boiling it acquires a Saltness and at length like other things a bitterness whence it will happpen that the febrile heat will not be extinguished A â—errer castigaâ— cap. xi but rather encreased by it XXII Those err who grant Water through the whole course of the Disease for then it hinders the concoction of the Humours it is difficultly concocted and stays long in the Belly before it be distributed it neither cuts nor cleanseth nor of it self loosens nor provokes Urine therefore it is not to be granted sâ—ve in the acute Sennert lib. de febr c. 9. in the state when concoction is finished XXIII 'T is a doubt whether the Sick should be nourished more in Winter than in Summer For Hippocrates 1. aph 18. and 3. de diaeta hath expresly taught that febricitant Persons do easily endure Meat in the Winter not so well in the Spring least of all in the Summer and Autumn In the Summer namely the Sick do worst of all endure Meat because not only the Belly is rendred more sluggish in respect of its office through the driness of the Disease but the natural heat is then at a low ebb but in the Winter most easily for though the Belly be then also rendred sluggish the Disease remaining dry even then yet the natural heat is increased whence Meat may be more easily endured in the Winter than in the Summer and Autumn On the contrary Avicen 1. 4. Cap. de cibat aegrorum says that the Sick are to be fed in the Winter but more in the Summer he gives a reason because in the Summer there are greater resolutions whence consequently for the restauration of what is lost there is need of more Aliment To resolve this we must note from Mercurialis l. 5. de febr c. 8. That Aliment may be said two ways to be more or less either as to its vertue or as to its bulk In the Winter indeed our Bodies should be nourish'd more as to the vertue and strength of the Aliment but more in the Summer as to its bulk The reason is Because the substance of the natural heat is greater in the Winter and less in the Summer 1. Aph. 8. because then much Pituita or Phlegm is collected which is the Aliment of the Blood and natural heat Hence Galen hath placed the substance of the natural heat in the Blood and Phlegm I. de placit Hipp. Gal. therefore strong Aliment is fitter in Winter than in Summer But in the Summer when the preternatural heat is greater than the natural and upon that account there are great resolutions of the Body it comes to pass that it needs Meat indeed for the recruiting of the wasted strength but that Meat ought in no wise to be so strong Which when Galen saw 1. Aph. 18. he said that our Meat was to be divided into
diuretick capillary herbs the cold Seeds c. they are unseasonably administred in the beginning and augment of a Fever and they are given at no other time now a days whereas Diureticks should never be administred in these but when the matter is concocted and the Disease in its declination Besides it is ridiculous with so great labour and cost to prepare a Remedy that is unpleasant and of an uncertain effect when we may with great security and freedom use with an easie boiling and light expences those things that have been approved by the Ancients and confirmed by the Moderns Omitting those therefore let us use Mead Oxymel c. Oxymel alone is commended as resisting putrefaction attenuating thickness exterging clamminess penetrating to the Skin and not encreasing the Fever nor will it rake the Guts or cause coughing or affect the Nerves if you lessen the Vinegar and increase the Honey In the Melancholick and in Hysterical women Mead is to be made use of and if it seem to turn to choler Augere Ferrer castigat â—ap 14. make it very dilute of the waters of Endive Succory c. or instead of Honey use Sugar c. XVI Those plainly doat that order a great quantity of Herbs Roots c. to be boiled in the water of Barley thoroughly boiled for a thorough Decoction of Barley is Ptisan and it has too solid a consistence to admit the consistence of so many things And if you boil it more slightly the water will be flatulent and it will also make that promiscuous decoction soon apt to corrupt ¶ Martian denies that a slight Decoction of Barley is flatulent Idem cap. 28. XVII Those that in acute Diseases continue laxative Apozems enervate the strength and deviate quite from the true way of curing which commands that at the beginning we should lessen the matter afterwards incide the thick things that obstruct Idem ibid. and deterge the clammy and open the obstructions themselves XVIII The Body will be soluble or slippery if on the day before the Patient is to take an Infusion of Senna or other Purge he take a Clyster of the Decoction of Fluellin mixed with Capon or Cock broth and a little Sugar added Johan Crato Consil 37. apud Scholtzium this will do more good than if he weaken his Stomach for many dayes with Syrups XVIII By the long use of Apozems that dissolve Phlegm the Phlegm which plentifully stagnated in soft Bodies especially of Women and Cachectick Persons is first attenuated then dissolved into water which descending by its weight fills the capacity of the lower Belly which we see happen through the unwary giving of Purgers whereby the Belly is so swelled that all think there is a Dropsie Wherefore that Patients that are full of thick Phlegm may not incur this danger let the Skilful Physician daily before he gives his Apozems premise a little of the troches of Wormwood of Capers of Maudlin c. That some have faln into a Dropsie by Syrups that have been too inciding is noted by Averroes 7. Collig Henric. ab Heer 's Spadacr cap. 10. Heurn Meth. l. 3. c. 7. and l. 2. c. 17. XIX There is a new but wholsome way of infusing Herbs in Fevers where there are great obstructions for Infusions pass into the Veins more easily than either decoctions or distillations Now this infusion is twofold one when the Medicine is put into hot water and the Vessel presently shut and we set it upon warm ashes to continue the warmth of the water and then it is strongly strained out the other is more ineffectual when we put it into water that is not hot Heurn meth m. l. 1. and let it stand therein for a Night c. XX. All distilled waters are cold even the water that is distilled from the hottest simple as suppose from Calamint which bites the Tongue like Pepper and yet heats not but cools And I have seen some that have been inflamed by drinking the decoction of the Indian wood Montan. consult 42. to be greatly cooled by Calamint water ¶ As much as may be let us abstain from distilled waters as from those things that are very offensive to the Stomach Claud. l 2. de integr c. 6. XXI The Ancients gave tedious decoctions long Infusions and Apozems the Moderns consulting for tâ—e delicate and curing per compendium prefer before these digestive powders of Magisteries Salâ—s Essences and divers other preparations Horstius tom 2. p. 193. in the Hypochondriack Melancholy prâ—sâ—ribes this for a digestive Take of the Magistery of red Corals a scruple of the Magistery of the Sponge-stone half a scruple mix them Give this in a decoction of Turnips with the rinds on that through the bitterness of these the decoction may open Hoâ—fer Here. med l. 3. c. 3. penetrate and incide the more powerfully ¶ If any that is taught to understand more than the vulgar shall bend his mind to Chymical preparations and more effectual Remedies and therefore more safe if so be they be rightly administred we will commend to him both Tinctures and Extracts and also Oils prepared by art likewise Volatil Salts but chiefly oleous to be got by art out of most parts of Animals and convenient for use Which being generally less ungrateful than the vulgar Medicines and taken in a far less quantity and operating more quickly and kindly and also more effectually than they are deservedly desired by the sick that are afflicted enough of themselves so that it is unbecoming a Physician that would be esteemed compassionate yea it is inhumane not to be willing to help when he can the infirmity loathing and nausea of the Sick by a more grateful Medicine but to chuse rather to be continually adding affliction to the afflicted Wherefore I think the more kind are to be preferred before those surly Physicians Fr. Sylv. Pract. l. 1. c. 34. §. 103. and a compliance is to be made both by the Physician and his Medicines to the natural infirmity and sometimes peevishness of the Sick c. XXII Those err who for cooling Alteratives give those things that are very commonly eat as Succory and Lettuce I say they err because Nature being used to them has contracted such a friendship and familiarity with them that there is no strife betwixt them and consequently no benefit to be expected For some when they are well will eat a whole Plate full of Lettuce or Succory every day and therefore 't is an idle thing to believe that Men who have for a long time been nourished by Lettuce and Succory Sanctor meth l. 4. c. 13. can be cooled by two or three leaves XXIII J. B. Sylvaticus Contr. 46. rejects the use of the Spirit of Vitriol in Fevers because it may colliquate the tender flesh and pâ—ejudice the substance of the part by dissolving the primigenial moisture 1. Because Galen and Dioscor say that it partakes of a corroding and septick quality I
answer In the preparation many parts of the Vitriol are separated from the Spirit whence we cannot observe all the effects in the Spirit that are seen in the Vitriol intire and some may be seen in the first that are not taken notice of in the latter Vitriol vomits the Spirit stays vomiting So Sulphur is inflammable its Spirit not so yea it rather resisteth a flame The Spirit of Vitriol hath an eroding faculty if given alone but that is common to it with other Liquors as Vinegar the juice of Citron c. Your Acidulae or Mineral Waters are drunk with profit that have their vertue from Vitriolick Spirits It is safely given in convenient Liquors It s hotness is corrected while its particles are severed by a mixture with Water or other Liquors in that proportion that an hundred particles or atoms of Water are mixed with ten or twelve of the Spirit 2. The Medicine was not known to Antiquity yea * x. m. c. 2. 11. c. 9. Galen suspects the use of Vitriolate waters in putrid Fevers because being applied to the Skin they both cause an astriction of its pores and too much heat the Body Answ We must not therefore reject it because it was not known to Antiquity Galen disallows of the external use of Vitriolate Waters because they constringe the Skin 3. He says there are safer Medicines Answ The Spirit of Vitriol is safer if it be taken in a due quantity That it has done good in Fevers there are innumerable witnesses few say that it has done â—urt It does not as yet appear that there are safer Medicines 4. The too great astriction that was in the Vitriol is also in the oyl now astringents do harm in putrid Fevers Answ The astriction in the Spirit is not so great as to do harm there rather seems to be none in it all acids do not astringe yea they attenuate deterge take away obstructions loosen the Belly it cures the flux of the Belly not by binding but by strengthning and condensating there proceed indeed effects from densation that are like to astriction but are not astringents and acids are different But suppose it astringe there is no danger from thence for the inciding attenuating and opening parts are by far the more powerful 5. Viâ—riol is poyson according to Dioscorides Answ It is Poyson in a large sense in which all things that kill by their quantity are called deleteries c. Rolfinc Ep. de febr c. 136. where more objections are made ¶ Spirit of Vitriol being given indecently and too long puts on the nature rather of a Poyson than a Medicine Being added to Humours that boil already enough of themselves just as if you mix this Spirit with the Gall of some Animal Rolfinc cons 2. l. 4. p. 405. it causes greater disturbance and procures a quicker ascent of vapours XXIV Chymists make Universal and general Digestives of Tartar as 1. It s cream and Crystals 2. The magistery of Tartar vitriolate 3. Misiura simplex But these are not truly such it is safer to rank them in the number of particular Digestives They are not good in a bilious Cacochymie and for salt sowr and acrimonious humours In those they may increase the ebullition and do harm They are more profitable for a simple cacochymical melancholy but not so good for a Pontick and Acrimonious which has the seeds of fire in it As much as they avail to incide thickness so much they irritate fervid and adust humours and hurt by inflaming Rolfinc meth gener c. p. 477. They are in some sort good for phlegmatick humors XXV The Cream and Crystal of Tartar absterge incide thick and tartareous Humours open obstructions and loosen the Belly and either of them is a pleasant Medicine if a drachm thereof be given in the broth of flesh or in boyled water with a little butter in it with three four or five grains of Diagridium or extract of Scammony it will give the liquor a somewhat acid taste The Crystals are not so acid nor so diuretick as the Cream and therefore they are safelier given when the body is not purged Sennert Epist 28. cent 1. the dose is from a scruple to a drachm XXVI As to the Crystal of Tartar let the younger Physicians note that it is of greater efficacy than is commonly believed seeing we seldome make use of it in our practice through the carelesness of Apothecaries and deceit of Pseudochymists or those common distillers that sell chymical Medicines to Apothecaries none whereof almost is sincere but all adulterate The carelesness of Apothecaries is for the most part so great that they chuse rather to buy the Crystal of Tartar of those distillers than make it themselves though no preparation of Medicines in the whole art be easier because it is sold them at a low price whereas it would stand them dearer to make it Now the cheat lies in this that those Impostors put in their decoctions but a little Tartar and a great deal of Alum not that Tartar is dearer than Alum but because Tartar yields but a little quantity of Crystals whereas Alum will all of it run into them Hereby are Physicians disappointed of their end seeing Alum is indued with an astringent vertue that is contrary to the opening faculty that is desired by them And another hurt is done this Medicine that this sort of Crystals is drawn out by decoctions made in Brass pots whereby the malignant quality of the Brass is imprinted upon the Medicine For it is a very well known and vulgar precept of pharmacy that acids be not boyled in brass vessels because they easily penetrate and draw a certain tincture from the brass that is very hurtful But the Crystals of Tartar are very acid and by some are named Acidum Tartari And yet this errour is very commonly committed even by the Apothecaries themselves for almost all that make these Crystals with their own hands use brass vessels so that I have seen some Apothecaries have Crystals of Tartar of a Sea-green colour from the Verdegriese that had been drawn from the Vessel wherein they had been made Therefore Physicians will consult for their own conscience for their esteem and the health of their Patients if they make Apothecaries make the crystal of Tartar with their own hand and in Glass Iron or earthen Vessels River pract l. 11. c. 4. XXVII Though I leave every one to his own judgment and experience in the use of Tartar yet by long use I have found that there is more of an opening and loosening faculty in Tartar it self than in its cream or crystals drawn by the solicitous hands and thoughts of Chymists seeing in boiling and by so many washings its purgative vertue that rests chiefly in its earthy and saline parts does most of it vanish inâ—o the thin air I prescribe opening herbs that are defin'd for the Spleen or Liver to be boiled in pottage
inflammation It is reckoned among poysons by Avicen 64. tr 1. cap. 48. But that is to be understood of that which is not corrected or is not given seasonably and in a moderate dose Wherefore I have always thought it more adviseable to mix with it things that may increase its vertue that have a similitude with the part affected and may correct its hurtful quality in the number of which are Treacle Idem ibid. Mithridate Diarrhodon Abbatis Aromaticum rosatum c. XL. The Body should be well purged before the use of Steel especially in the Spring time which is the fittest season to give it in seeing the faculties are then strongest and the Organs best disposed or else take it in the Autumn if the cure cannot be deferred till spring not in Summer for though through the heat the Medicine may then be sooner distributed yet the faculties languish and by the requisite exercise a Fever may be kindled In Winter the Humours are concrete the pipes straitned Idem p. 484. and there is no place for exercise because of the coldness of the ambient air XLI It is commonly enough known that the Salt of Nitre cools the Blood and powerfully provokes Urine but the reason of both effects appears not so plainly because Nitre is so far from containing in it self cooling particles that on the contrary nothing is more igniparous or productive of fire as we see in Gun-powder and if it be distill'd there seems to pass forth into the receiver rather a flame than a vapour or smoak moreover the liquor that is distilled burns and corrodes all the Bodies it touches like actual fire Nor is it less wonderful how this whose nature is so very fiery should so dilute the Blood and fuse it into aquosities for provoking Urine That I may propose my conjectures about these matters I say that Nitre does contribute to these effects in a twofold respect viz. both as it is a Salt something of kin with both a fixed and volatil and as it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fiery thing As to the first I have observed that Nitre as also fixed and volatil Salts being put into Milk does either hinder or take away its coagulation in like manner hot Blood being poured upon it no less than upon them is preserved from coagulation and discoloration Wherefore inasmuch as the particles of the Nitre taken inwardly do preserve or restore an intire mixture to the Blood they will therefore prevent or remove the fusions and coagulations of the same from which heat and stoppage of Urine do very often arise But besides Nitre as it is fiery being taken inwardly cools the hot Blood and provokes Urine inasmuch as it kindles the flame of the Blood more that was before turbid and mixed with smoak and makes it more clear and pure and therefore more mild and seeing thus the Blood while it it is made to burn clearer by the Nitre is more loosened in its consistence the serous particles extricate themselves more easily and depart more plentifully from the thicker Willis XLII The use of Oxymel and Hydromel was in far greater repute among the Ancients than now among us The Arabians who first brought in the use of Sugar are the cause that divers kinds of them have been turned into Syrups of which there is a great number but that which is urged for establishing the use of these viz. that they may be kept longer and are more grateful to the palate wants to be proved But it is without all doubt that all the kinds of Hydromel and especially of oxymel but chiefly that which is called Melicratum when Water Honey and sometimes Vinegar are mixt together are far more profitable convenient yea fitter for all curative intentions than Syrups are seeing Sugar is a certain sweet Salt indued with not a little heat to which a certain obstructing glutinating quality is joined whence it may be esteemed not so fitting for preparation alteration mitigation of Humours and excretion of them for which purpose syrups are composed Add hereto that in cholerick naturally lean Bodies like other sweet things they easily turn to choler whence there happens more harm than benefit to such You will object the sweetness of Honey we will admit that but this is far more defecate and pure and endued with a Nature that is more aereal celestial and approaching toward a quintessence than Sugar which though it be superficially sweet yet inwardly it abounds with an Acrimony and no little blackness as those know well and find that have made any progress in the inward and vital Anatomy of things Which was noted and diligently observed by Galen and after by Oribasius medic collig l. 5. c. 24. who while he extols the faculties of oxymel that are acid and vitriolate prefers it before Hydromel which for its sweetness is not so agreeable for hot temperaments and more fervid natures because it is easily turned into choler Seeing says he the faculty of Melicratum has all other things that are good for acute Diseases yet in one only it is contrary to them that being over-heated it is turned into choler the mixing of Vinegar with it hindring this change of it Querc pharm dogm c. 76. makes it an excellent Medicine and so much Vinegar is to be put in the Melicratum as may be sufficient to correct its aptness to turn to choler XLIII Galen l. 6. de Med. Simpl. Chap. of Plantain says that its leaves and roots being dryed avail to open Obstructions of the Liver and Kidneys for Plantain being dried abstergeth and discusseth as the green represseth Sanctor met vit error l. 13. c. 3. Hence let the errour of those be noted that in the Winter use dryed Herbs instead of green which differ very much in nature and qualities XLIV Young Physicians are to be admonished that in correcting glutinous Phlegm they be careful not to use much Sugar or very sugared Medicines Fr. Sylvius Pract. l. 1. c. 34. seeing the Phlegm is not so much corrected and dissolved thereby as made every day more glutinous XLV It is well known that Wormwood cleanses the Blood brings forth Choler and provokes Urine and evacuates almost all the Recrements of the Body insensibly But that the too great use of it is hurtful appears by this example A certain man in the Spring and Autumn used daily to devour several whole leaves without any nausea for many days At length in the Spring eating too much he fell into a cholerick loosness without trouble which stayed of it self In the Autumn following betaking himself again to it as to a Panacea and eating it as plentifully as before he fell into a difficulty of Urine with great heat in making of it and he made a muddy J. Udalr Râ—mler Obs 41. thick and stinking Urine and that often Being bid to refrain he grew well in a few days XLVI Common Wormwood is astringent bitter acrimonious heating
odoriferous sweet meat XVI It often arises from the Obstruction of the Arteries of the Spleen and then the use of Martial Spaws is good The Wife of Consul N. 39 years old her Menses flowing well complained of her being troubled with vomiting every day either before Dinner or Supper with a dull pain in her left Hypochondrium Head-ache and a great anxiety of Heart Various humors were brought up by Vomiting First of all she was Vomited then Purged and outwardly strengthning Balsams were applied but all in vain Frid. Hofmannus At length she recovered upon taking Martial Spaw-waters in a Decoction of Apples XVII A strong Man otherwise well enough had of a long time been ill of frequent Vomiting he often used to cast up immediately what he had eaten At length being above all Remedies the Disease grew to that pass that he eat with a good Appetite till the Oesophagus was full to his mouth and then nothing getting into his Stomach he immediately Vomited up what he had eaten crude When therefore he was every day in danger of perishing I made him an Instrument like a rod of Whale-bone with a button of Sponge fastned to the end of it The Patient presently after he had eaten and drunk thrust the food down into the asophagus having opened the Mouth of the Stomach which would otherwise have restagnated And he has taken his food every day these 16 years by the help of it and yet uses the same Instrument Undoubtedly in this case the Mouth of the Stomach being alwayes shut either by a Tumour or a Palsy will admit nothing into the Stomach Willis unless it be forced open with violence XVIII In a most violent Vomiting let 3 grains of Laudanum and 2 scruples and an half of Pil. coch be given The Vomiting will stop and five hours after the Patient will purge downwards A pretty large quantity of Purgatives is given because the Purgative virtue is infringed by the Laudanum Riverius l. 9. c. 7. which must therefore be mixt with diagrydiates and colocynthiates XIX Because Plasters operate slowly Unguents or Liniments or Inunctions must be made upon which we strew powders adding a good quantity of Vinegar All Inunctions must be made in the beginning with hot things in the end with cold for all hot and cold things are astringent the warm are laxative and we must anoynt without much rubbing but only fomenting it lightly for all agitation or motion about the Mouth of the Stomach provokes to Vomit Rondeletius XX. Plasters above any other forms of Topical Medicines should in this case be applied to the Stomach Platerus lest by rubbing the Stomach with Oyntments Vomiting be sometimes caused XXI When the Stomach utterly refuses Medicines which must of necessity be used before you give the Patient any thing apply such a Plaster Take Oyl of Mastich Quinces each half an ounce crust of baked Bread steeped 2 hours in strong Vinegar 2 ounces Spodium Mastich Mint red Coral prepared Sanders white and red each 1 drachm Barly flower what is sufficient to make them up Dolorifick ligatures of the extreme parts are good and a dry Cupping-glass applied to the bottom of the Stomach Crato XXII Vomiting is cured by Vomits if the strength be good which very thing Hippocrates lib. de Loc. confirms because the cause of the Vomiting is carried off So a certain Soldier was taken with a burning Fever and vomited up whatever he took to whom on the fifth day when he asked my advice I gave him half a drachm of Sal Martis in Beer pretty warm after which he cast up a load of vitious Humours and then he kept well whatever he took Thus is it confirmed that Vomiting is cured by a Vomit Such Symptomatical Vomits often proceed from Humours that irritate the Stomach Frid. Hofmanâ—us yet the Vomits must be such as have an Astriction and strengthen the Stomach XXIII According to Avicenna's advice let not them that Vomit eat till they be very hungry XXIV In a Symptomatick Vomiting the conjunct cause is either in the Stomach which produces this Idiopathick affection or being fixt in other parts it causes Spasms in them and by communication by the Nerves emetick perturbations in the Stomach as it happens in Fits of the Stone Colick Mother in the Vertigo and other Diseases the cure of such a Sympathick Vomiting depends on the cure of the primary Disease And the emetick matter residing in the Stomach is either poured into it from some where else or is bred there through defect or depravation of concoction In either case the present load must first be discharged and then all further product of it must be prevented Therefore that the impure filth of the viscous matter may be cleared from the Stomach a gentle vomit may be given with Carduus posset drink or Oxymel or Wine of Squills or with a Decoction of Camomil flowers or Agrimony roots or a Solution of Salt of Vitriol or the like Then the remainder of the matter must be carried off by Clysters or Purging with Pilul Mastich Stomach cum gum or Tinctura Sacra or a gentle Infusion of Rheubarb Moreover since the impure or rancid Blood does often afford a new stock of incongruous matter either by the Arteries or Choledochal Vessels and breeds an emetick disposition Phlebotomy often does good And therefore the Vomiting of Women with Child is often cured by this means See Tit. Praegnant BOOK XIV Furthermore those things are proper which temper the Blood so that adust recrements are not bred in them Therefore drinking of Whey Medical Waters Juices of Herbs Sal Prunellae and the like in as much as they put the Blood in fusion and carry the recrements another way do often remove this vomitive disposition Such Medicines will also be of use if frequent and dayly vomiting proceed from the meeting and strife of the bilary Humour and the pancreatick juices and their regurgitation into the Stomach Willis XXV The Vomiting is more frequent and difficult of cure which proceeds from some incongruous matter bred within the Stomach in as much namely as all that is eaten degenerates into an irritative putrilage because of the vitiated ferment of this part Wherefore in this case after the filth of the Stomach is cleansed by gentle evacuaters Medicines vulgarly called Digestives are of use which according as the fermentative juice of the Stomach is for the most part of a saline nature sometimes of a Sulphureous and is in a various state of fixity fluidity or adustion are various and sometimes one sometimes another does good In Belching and an acid Vomit the following Medicines may be tried and the method may be taken from the juvantia Take of Pulvis Ari Compositus 1 ounce and an half Salt of Wormwood 2 drachms Sugar of Roses 3 drachms Make a powder Give 1 drachm of it morning and at 5 a Clock in the Afternoon in a draught of Beer boyled with
Mace and a crust of bread or in distilled water or Tincture of Pontick Wormwood Take of powder of Ivory Crabs-Eyes red Coral each 2 drachms Coral calcined 1 drachm red Sanders Cinnamon each half a drachm Make a powder The Dose half a drachm in the same manner Take of the Tincture of Salt of Tartar 1 ounce The Dose 1 scruple to half a drachm twice a day in some appropriate distilled water Idem XXVI In Vomiting from a sharp and hot matter Medicines endued with a sowre and vitriolick Salt are more convenient That famous one of Riverius is proper in this place Take of Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple give it in a spoonful of juice of Lemons Take of Coral prepared two drachms Salt of Wormwood one drachm and an half juice of Lemons four ounces Let them stand in a capacious Glass Add of strong Cinnamon water 2 ounces The Dose a spoonful or two twice a day first shaking the Glass Take of powder of Ivory Coral each 2 drachms Vitriol of Mars 1 drachm Sugar Candy 1 drachm Mix them Divide it into 6 or 8 parts let 1 be taken twice a day in some convenient Vehicle In this case mineral purging waters which have much Nitre in them Idem and Iron Waters use to do abundance of good XXVII If when the Stomach perverts most it takes into a bitter and bilious putrilage as it often does it be therefore incliâ—ed to frequent vomitings Medicines both Acid and Bitter are proper Take of Elixir proprietatis 1 ounce take 1 scruple twice a day in some convenient Vehicle Take of Rheubarb in powder xxv grains Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple Cinnamon water half an ounce juice of Lemons 1 ounce Mix them Take this either by it self or in some convenient Liquor Take of powder of Crabs-Eyes half an ounce Tartar Chalybâ—â—te 2 drachms Sugar Candy 1 drachm Make a powder Idem The Dose half a drachm with some convenient Liquor twice a day XXVIII The cause of a frequent and habitual Vomiting is oftentimes not so much any matter irritating the Stomach as a weakness of its Nervous fibres and it s too great propensity to irritation inasmuch namely as they being very tender and infirm can neither concoct what is taken nor bear the burthen or load of it but are presently irritated by any thing that lies upon them and therefore put the carnous Fibres into emetick Spasms that they may throw off what is troublesome In this Affection there are 2 cases to wit Either a weakness of the Stomach implanted in the very Fibres is contracted from some inordinate courses as Surfeiting dayly and immoderate drinking frequent drinking of Wine or hot Waters and other Errors in Diet inasmuch as these Fibres being distended beyond measure or too much heated or as it were rosted cannot admit or contain animal Spirits in a quantity sufficient Or Secondly these Fibres although of themselves they be well enough yet because of Nerves somewhere obstructed they are deprived of a due afflux of Spirits and thereupon being languid and flaccid they cannot bear what is taken but being oppressed they force it back by Vomit Thus I have known several who without any impurity of Stomach or languor contracted from disorder have been taken as it were with a Palsy in that part and lost their appetite and have been subject to frequent Vomiting In the first case such Remedies are indicated as may by their Stypticity make the too much distended and thin Fibres to corrugate and contract into a narrower room and such as may by their pleasantness draw spirits more plentifully thither and refresh what are languid Take of Conserve of red Roses vitriolate 4 ounces preserved Myrobalanes 6 drachms Ginger preserved in India half an ounce Species de Hyacintho 2 drachms the reddest Crocus Martis 1 drachm Syrup of Corals what is sufficient Make an Electuary The Dose 1 drachm twice a day drinking a draught of distilled water upon it In a weakness of the Stomach or resolution caused by some Nerves being somewhere obstructed Antiparalytick Remedies joyned with Stomachicks will be of great use Take of Elixir proprietatis Paracelsi 1 drachm The Dose 1 scruple twice a day in the following water Take of Cypress tops 6 handfuls leaves of Clary 4 handfuls the outer rind of 12 Oranges Cinnamon Mace each 1 ounce roots of Cyperus lesser Galangale each half an ounce When they are cut and bruised pour to them of Brunswick Mum 8 pounds distill them in common Vessels Tincture of Coral Tartar or Antimony may be used in the same manner In this case Spiritus Salis dulcis also Spirit of Sal Ammoniac or its flowers Willis ibid. give great help Moreover Vomits and Purges and Sweats are often given with benefit I have known this Disease several times happily cured by Bathing in the Bath at Bathe XXIX In Vomiting and the Disease Cholera Laudâ—num may be given with Syrup or Tincture of Roses or with sapa of Quinces and let a Cupping-Glass be immediately applied to the region of the Stomach Mâ—yerne traâ—t de Laudanâ— M. S. and make a Cataplasm of Leaven powder of Mint and Orange Peal with some juice of Mint Medicines especially made use of by eminent Physicians 1. Let this Plaster be applied for it does wonders Take of Mastich Cinnamon Lignum Aloes Zâ—doary Galangale Cloves Anniseeds Marathrum each 3 drachms Mix them Make a powder Mix the powder with Oyl of Mastich and Balm And then with leaves of Wormwood and Mint and baked Bread boyled in Wine make a Plaster â—ordonâ—â— and apply it warm 2. This following applied is found to stop Vomiting presently Take of sower leven 2 drachms dried Mint powdered Mastich powdered each 2 drachms and an half powder of Cloves 1 drachm a little Vinegar Mix them and spread them on a Cloth and apply it warm Grulingius it does excellently well 3. Water cooled in Snow stops a pertinacious bilious Vomiting above all things De Heredia As I have found by experience 4. This is a most excellent Remedy for all Vomiting Take of Cloves grossly beaten half a drachm Roses 1 Pugil red Wine half a Pound Boyl half away Joel The Dose 2 Spoonfuls after meat 5. If enormous Vomiting follow the taking of Antimonial Medicines take 4 drops of Oyl of Cinnamon in Cinnamon-water Kunrad and the Vomiting will presently stop 6. This is admirable good Take Yolks of Eggs fry them in a Frying pan with Oyl of Mastich adding powder of Mastich and Coral till they become a soft cake Rhudius Apply them hot to the Mouth of the Stomach 7. I have learned by experience that Water and Vinegar of Roses with the Yolk of an Egg and a little Salt without any Butter Rosenbergius presently stops Vomiting 8. A crust of Bread dipt in Malmsey Wine or Mint water and sprinkled with powder of Mint Mace Cloves Cinnamon or Spec. Aromat rosat and applied to the Stomach is