play in the Dark Thus we see that the Ignorant are the Quacks best Customers and who is there that hath read the Works of but one Learned Physician that would not tremble to put his Life into the Hands of a Mountebank These and divers other Considerations make me very inclinable to believe that if the greatest or at least the best part of Physical Books were put into such Languages as are commonly understood whatever particular and accidental Inconveniencies might possibly follow thereupon yet in the general both the Number and Credit of Quacks would be exceedingly diminished They would then be more easily discovered nor would they find so many Cullies Men would not fancy themselves able enough to be their own Physicians much less would they suffer themselves to be fooled by the Impudence of an Ignorant Impostor And of all the Books in the World this that I have taught to speak its Author's native Language seems to be one of the least dangerous to be read and understood by the Vnlearned 'T is true indeed that any Person that is Master of a tolerable Judgment and Capacity and shall read with Application any one Chapter of this Book especially of such as treat of Internal Diseases which are the Physicians peculiar Province will certainly be thereby very much improved in so important a Part of Knowledge But it is no less certain that this Improvement of his Knowledge will be equally for the Advantage of the Learned Physician and the Empiric ' Confusion as that which will enable him to discern the Skill and Sagacity of the Former and the Rashness and Ignorance of the Latter and consequently make him Love and Esteem the one as much as he will Detest and Contemn the other After all as I am confident that a honest and judicious Persons whether Phyâ—cians or others will ever Honor the Illustrioâ— Memory of my Author so neither am I altogether without Hopes that they will Excuse and perhaps also which is more than I either desire or pretend to deserve Thank The Translator The common Purging Potion TAke half an ounce of Tamarinds two drams of Sena Leaves one dram and a half of Rhubarb boil them in a sufficient quantity of spring-Spring-water to three ounces Then strain them and dissolve in the liquor Manna and solutive Syrup of Roses of each one ounce Mix them for a Potion The Common Vomit Take of the Water of Carduus Benedictus two ounces the Infusion of Crocus Metallorum one ounce Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers half an ounce mix them for a Vomit which is to be taken about four a Clock in the Afternoon drinking a large draught of Posset after every vomiting The Pearl Julep Take Black-cherry water Milk-water of each three ounces Barley Cinnamon-water â—e ounce Prepar'd Pearl a dram and an half â—ugar-candy as much as is sufficient add Daâ—ask-rose-water half a dram Mix them for a Julep Dose four or five spoonfuls in sickness for fainting fits The Cordial Julep Take Milk water Black-cherry water of each three ounces Plague water Syrup of Clove Gilliflowers Syrup of the Juice of Citrons of each half an ounce Mix them and make a Julep which is to be taken frequently The Decoction for a Diet-drink Take Roots of Sarsaparilla six ounces Sassafras and China of each two ounces Liquor ish one ounce boil them in two Gallons of Spring water for the space of half an hour after which let them stand in a close Vessel of hot ashes twelve hours then boil them again to the consumption of a third part of the water and assoon as you take the liquor from the fire infuse into it half an ounce of Anise seeds after it hath stood two hours more straâ— it and let it stand till it grow clear then poâ—â— off the liquor into Glass-bottles well stoppâ—â— and reserve it for use This is to be used fâ—â— ordinary drink and continued thirty days The Opening and Antiscorbutic Apozem Take the Roots of Grass Cichory Fenâ—â—â— and Asparagus of each one ounce Currans aâ—â— Raisins ston'd of each two ounces Leaves 〈◊〉 Liverwort Harts tongue and Maiden-hair 〈◊〉 each one handful Leaves of Brook-lime â—ded towards the end two handfuls boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring water to two pounds or a quart to which toward the end add half a pint of Rhenish Wine Then strain them and while the liquor is yet hot infuse in it for two hours in a close Vessel one handful of the Leaves of Garden Scurvygrass After which strain again and add Syrup of the five Roots Syrup of Orange juice of each two ounces Barley Cinnamon water one ounce Mix them and make an Apozem the Dose of which is half a pint every morning and at 5 in the afternoon for fourteen days together The thickening Eclegma or licking Medicine for a Cough Take Oil of Sweet Almonds one ounce Syrups of Red Poppy of Purslain and of Juâ—ubes and the licking Medicine call'd Lohor â—anum of each half an ounce Sugar-candy a sufficient quantity Mix them in a Marble Mortar for the space of an hour and make a perfectly mix'd Licking Medicine which is to be kept in a Galley-pot for use It is to be taken frequently licking it off of a Liquorish stick An Eclegma that thickens more powerfully Take Conserve of Red Roses Syrup of Violets and of Meconium of each one ounce White Poppy Seeds three drams Beat them together and strain them through a Hair Sieve then add express'd Oil of Nutmeg six grains Make an Eclegma In a thin Defluxion Take Conserve of Red Roses two ounces Syrup of Meconium and of Jujubes of each one ounce Olibanum Mastick and Amber of each one dram express'd Oil of Nutmegs six grains Mix them and make a Lohoch which is to be lick'd often You may take twice every day a spoonful of this Eclegma pouring into it Balsam of Sulphurs anisated from eight to twelve drops Purging Ale Take Polypody of the Oak one pound Roots of Monks Rheubarb Sena Leaves and ston'd Raisins of each half a pound Rheubarb slic'd and Horse Radish Roots of each three ounces Leaves of Garden Scurvy-grass and Sage of each four handfuls four Orenges slic'd Infuse them in five or six gallons of Ale not hopped while it is fermenting and when it is ripen'd use it instead of your ordinary drink for fourteen or one and twenty days especially drink a draught of it every morning The Hysterical Plaister Take Galbanum dissolv'd in Tincture of Castoreum and strain'd three drams Taramahac two drams Make a Plaister for the Navel A Purging Medicine for young Infants Take one small spoonful of Syrup of Cichory with Rheubarb The bitter Purging Decoction Take of the bitter Decoction prepar'd with a double quantity of Sena four ounces Syrup of Buckthorn one ounce Electuary of the juice of Roses two drams Mix them for a Potion Of the Disease called in Women the Hysterical in Men the Hypochondraical Passion When by any grievous accident the Soul is troubled
right Arm to the quantity of ten ounces and the next day take this Potion Take extracted Cassia one ounce Liquorish two drams four fat Figs Leaves of Sena two drams and a half Troches of Agaric one dram Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to four ounces then strain and dissolve in the liquor Manna one ounce solutive Syrup of Roses half an ounce But if he cannot take a Potion let him take two scruples of the Pills Cochiae the greater at four in the morning The day following let a Vein be open'd again and the same quantity of Blood extracted as formerly and the day after let the purging Medicine be again exhibited and afterwards repeated once in three days if the consideration of his strength do not require longer Intervals to be allow'd him Moreover if the Symptoms still continue he must be again let blood once twice or oftner interposing always some days as you see occasion but for the most part the second Letting of Blood will be sufficient In the mean time while this method is prosecuted let him use the Pectoral Decoction Eclegma and Oil of Sweet Almonds prescrib'd in the foregoing Chapter especially in the days that are free from Purgation Of the Rheumatism In this Disease they are first taken with coldness and shivering and the other symptoms of a Fever and after a day or two sometimes sooner they are seiz'd with a most sharp pain sometimes in one part and sometimes in another but especially in the Wrists Shoulders and Knees which it leaves and assaults by turns the part last affected remaining for some time after red and swoln The Fever wears off by degrees the pain still continuing yea and sometimes raging more cruelly than before In Rheumatic Aches of the Loins there is a most violent pain that remains fix'd about the region of the Loins and counterfeits the Stone only the sick person is not troubled with a desire to vomit He cannot lie in his Bed but either leaps out of it or sits upright in it perpetually tossing his body backwards and forwards The Blood is like that in a Pleurisie Let ten ounces of Blood be taken from the Arm of the side affected Take Water of Lettuce Purslain and Water-Lillies of each four ounces Syrup of Limons one ounce and a half Syrup of Violets one ounce Mix and make a Julep to be drunk at pleasure Prescribe an Emulsion of the four greater cold seeds and a Cataplasm of the Crums of white Bread and Milk ting'd with Saffron to be apply'd to the part affected The day after let the same quantity of Blood be taken away as before which must be repeated after a day or two and the same operation must be reiterated four times or oftner if need require Observing that after the second time there must still be greater intervals interpos'd In the days that are free from Phlebotomy let a Clyster of Sugared Milk be now and then injected or that which follows Take of the common Decoction for a Clyster one pound Syrup of Violets and Brown Sugar of each two ounces Mix them for a Clyster If the Patients Weakness will not permit the repeated taking away of his blood then after the second or third time the Cure is to be thus attempted Let him take the common Purging Potion every second day while his illness continues and the same nights a composing Draught of the Syrup of Meconium But if these Remedies prove ineffectual and the Feebleness of the Patient be such that he cannot bear any Evacuations let him use the Antiscorbutic Electuary and Water describ'd in the Chapter of the Scurvy which are also useful in the Scorbutic Rheumatism In young persons and such who are not much addicted to Wine the Rheumatism may be as happily cured by a very cooling and indifferently nourishing Diet as by repeated letting of blood which they cannot so well bear For example Let the Patient live only upon Whey four days together and afterwards besides his Whey he may once in the day instead of a Dinner eat a little Bread made of fine Flower till he perfectly recover Only during the last days of his Illness he may be allowed to eat another piece of Bread for his Supper After the ceasing of the Symptoms he may eat boil'd Chickens and other Meats of easy digestion observing every third day to feed only upon Whey till he be perfectly restor'd to his former Health Of the Erysipelatous Fever All the parts of the Body especially the Face are swoln red and full of pain The Face and Head are overspread with little thick Pimples which sometimes rise into Blisters the Eyes are hid under the Swelling Coldness Shivering and other signs of a Fever do also appear There is another species of this Disease caus'd by the drinking of attenuating Liquors in which there is a slight Fever accompanied with Wheals like the pushes that are caused by the pricking of Nettles which sometimes rise up into Blisters then immediately vanish and lurking under the skin where they occasion a very troublesome itching after scratching they appear again There is also another kind of Eruption which usually breaks out in the Breast and is a broad spot that hardly rises above the skin being scurfy and full of yellow Scales The Person affected with it is well so long as it continues but after its disappearing there follows a slight sickness and the Urine looks troubled and yellow It is cured with the same Remedies that are prescrib'd for a confirmed Itch. Let the Patient drink Wine and feed upon Meats of easy digestion Let a Vein be open'd in the Arm and nine or ten ounces of blood taken away The next day let the common purging Potion be exhibited Take of the Roots of Marsh-mallows and Lillies of each one ounce Leaves of Mallows Elder and Base Mullein Flowers of Cammomil and Melilot Tops of St. Johns-wort and Lesser Centory of each one handful Lin-seed Fennyreek seed of each half an ounce Boil them in a convenient quantity of water to three pounds strain out the Liquor and when you use it add to every pound two ounces of Spirit of Wine Dip pieces of Woollen Cloth in this Decoction and having squeez'd them apply them hot twice every day anointing the part affected after fomentation with the following mixture Take half a pound of Spirit of Wine Treacle of Andromachus two ounces powder of Long Pepper and Cloves of each two drams Make a Mixture in which dip a piece of Brown Paper and wrap about the part affected If the first Letting of Blood be not sufficient let it be repeated and if the Disease still continue the same must be reiterated yet once and again interposing always one day In the days that are free from letting of blood prescribe a Clyster of Milk with Syrup of Violets and cooling Emulsions and Juleps Of the raging Itch and other inveterate Diseases of the Skin which are not curable by Letting of Blood and Purging
scatter'd between the Pimples and little black Spots on the Tops of them subsiding in the middle pissing and spitting of Blood about the beginning of the Disease suppression of Urine The Separation and Febrile Ebullition are transacted in the first three or four days The Expulsion is perfected in the following days by means of little Abscesses arising in the skin Let a Vein be open'd in any of the three first days and nine or ten ounces of Blood taken away and afterwards exhibit a Vomit of an ounce or an ounce and a half of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum During the first days let the Blood be diluted by frequent draughts of Small Beer hopp'd Assoon as all the Pocks are come forth which is usually the sixth day of the Disease let an ounce of Syrup of Meconium be given at night which must afterwards be repeated every night to the tenth day after the invasion Let the Dose be augmented that night if the Pocks be of the running kind to an ounce and an half and one ounce in the morning and continued in like manner till the Patient be recovered from his Sickness If the Syrup of Meconium do not agree with him you may substitute Liquid Laudanum in its place viz. eighteen Drops for an ounce of the Syrup and five and twenty Drops for an ounce and an half In the mean while it is to be observed that if the Quieting Medicine given twice a day be not sufficient to allay the Commotion as it oftentimes happens about the end of the Disease when the Pocks run notably together in that case it ought to be repeated every eight hours or oftner if need require But when the Pocks are distinct it will suffice to exhibit a Composing Draught once every night after the full Eruption and also in a smaller Dose But of whatsoever kind the Pocks are and in whatsoever time of the Disease a Phrensy supervenes it is altogether necessary to curb the disorderly motion of the Spirits and therefore if the former Quieting Dose prove ineffectual it must be repeated again and again till the tumult be wholly asswag'd interposing always a convenient space between the Doses that we may be able to discern whether the last Dose hath already perform'd as much as we desire before we proceed to exhibit another If the Urine be totally supprest let the sick Person be taken out of his Bed and made to walk a little If the Spittle by reason of the Heat be so tough that it cannot be expectorated let a Gargarism be frequently injected into the Throat with a Syringe It may be made of Small Beer or Barley Water with Honey of Roses Or thus Take of the Bark of the Elm-tree six drams Liquorish Roots half an ounce twenty ston'd Raisins Red Roses two Pugils boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a Pint and an half in which being strained out dissolve Oxymel simple and Honey of Roses of each two ounces Mix them for a Gargarism If upon the eleventh or any other succeeding day the Secondary Fever with Unquietness Tossing of the Body and such like other Symptoms be so fierce and high that all the Pacific Medicines how often soever repeated are not able to put a stop to its Fury and Death seems to be at hand let a Vein be immediately open'd and Blood copiously extracted viz. to about twelve ounces and the same once or twice repeated in the following days if the consideration of the forementioned Symptoms require it but not otherwise And in this case after the Letting of Blood the Patient may be gently purg'd on the thirteenth or any other succeeding day and not before as for example let him take an ounce of the Lenitive Electuary dissolved in four ounces of Cichory or Milk Water But neither the Letting of Blood nor Purging doth forbid the use of Composing Medicines which these notwithstanding ought to be exhibited both largely and frequently if need be For after all we must constantly have recourse to them in this Disease When the Pocks are perfectly dried up let the Face be anointed with a Liniment made of equal parts of Oil of Sweet Almonds and Pomate two days and no longer On the twenty first day of the Disease let a Vein in the Arm be open'd and the day after let a Purging Medicine be exhibited and thrice repeated every second day As for the Government of the sick Person let him abstain from his Bed till the sixth day after the first Invasion of the Disease and afterwards keep his Bed till the seventeenth day being cover'd only as he was wont to be when in health Let him feed upon Oat-meal and Barley Broths boil'd Apples and Small Beer and after the eleventh day let him drink if he pleases foor or five spoonfuls of Spanish Wine twice every day If the Swelling in the Legs yield not to the Evacuations above prescrib'd it may be easily driven away with Fomentations of Mallows Base Mullein Elder and Laurel Leaves with Flowers of Chamomil and Melilote boiled in Milk If during the first days of the Disease the Patient spit or piss blood let the Powder and Tincture prescribed in the Chapter of Spitting Blood be carefully exhibited every sixth hour till these Symptoms entirely disappear In which case also large Doses of Composing Medicines must be given Of Saint Vitus's Dance 'T is a sort of Convulsion that infests Children from ten years old to the Age of Puberty It is known by their Limping or by the instability of one of their Legs which they draw after them after the manner of Fools If the Hand of the same side be laid upon the Breast or any other part of the Body they cannot keep it a moment in the same posture but it will be distorted by the Convulsion into another situation and place whatsoever efforts they make to the contrary Before one of these can put a Cup to his Mouth he useth a thousand ridiculous Gestures and Jugler-like Tricks For he doth not bring it to his mouth in a straight line but his Hand being strangely drawn aside by the Convulsion he tosses it a good while hither and thither till at last as it happens to come near to his Lips he suddenly throws the Liquor into his mouth and greedily swallows it down as if he intended to make Sport to the Spectators Let eight ounces of Blood be taken away more or less according to the Age of the Patient by opening a Vein in the Arm. The day following let him take one half of the Common Purging Potion or somewhat more with respect to his Age and at night the following draught Take Black Cherry water one ounce Langius his Epileptic water three drams Treacle of Andromachus one scruple liquid Laudanum eight drops for a draught Let the purging Potion with the pacific draught at night be thrice repeated every second day Afterwards let more Blood be taken away and the purging Potion repeated as before reiterating in this
wise the letting of Blood and Purgation to a third or fourth time and allowing always a convenient respite between the Evacuations that the Patient be not expos'd to any danger In the days that are free from Purgation prescribe as follows Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and of the yellow part of an Orenge of each one ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an ounce old Treacle of Andromachus and preserv'd Nutmeg of each three drams preserv'd Ginger one dram with as much as sufficeth of syrup of the juice of Citron make an Electuary Dose as much as a Nutmeg in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon drinking after every Dose five spoonfuls of the following Wine Take of the Roots of Peony Elicampane Masterwort and Angelica of each one ounce Leafs of Rue Sage Betony Germainder white Horehound and the tops of lesser Centory of each a handful Juniper Berries six drams the Pills of two Orenges Let all be slic'd and infus'd cold in three quarts of Canary Wine When you use it strain out so much as you intend to drink Take of Rue water four ounces Laugius his Epileptic water and compound Bryony water of each one ounce Syrup of Peony six drams mix and make a Julep Dose four spoonfuls every night at the time of going to Bed with eight drops of the spirit of Hartshorn Let a Plaister of Caranna be apply'd to the soles of the Feet The next year about the same time of the year that the Disease first appear'd let a Vein be again open'd and a purging Medicine exhibited some days for prevention of a Relapse It seemeth probable to me that the Falling Sickness in adult persons might be cur'd by this method which nevertheless I have not yet experienc'd But since it is accommodated to the tender Ages of those that are wont to be infested by Saint Vitus his Dance if it be apply'd to the Cure of Epilepsies in persons grown up both the quantity of the Blood that is to be taken away and the Doses of the purging Medicines ought to be augmented Of the Apoplexy It consists in a most profound Sleep and total privation of Sense and Motion excepting only Respiration which is still perform'd but with difficulty and snoring Let a Vein be instantly opened in the Arm and twelve ounces of Blood taken away and afterwards eight ounces more out of the Jugulars Immediately after exhibit a Vomit or an ounce and an half or two ounces of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum Let a large and sharp blistering Plaster be applied to the hinder part of the Neck While these things are doing let the sick person sit upright in his Bed not oppressed with too great a burthen of Cloaths Let Spirit of Sal Armoniac excellently rectified be held to his Nose After the operation of the Vomit is finished let three or four spoonfuls of the following Julep be from time to time exhibited Take Rue water four ounces compound Bryony water and Langius his Anti-epileptic water of each one ounce Spirit of Hartshorn twenty drops Sugar-candy as much as sufficeth make a Julep Or a spoonful of compound Spirit of Lavender may be given twice or thrice by it self during the Fit interposing the space of an hour or half an hour betwixt the Doses Observe heedfully that Cordials ought not to be exhibited too frequently and such as are too hot not at all as it is the custom to do For after all whatever specific vertue they may seem to be endued withal they do more mischief than good by melting the humors and consequently augmenting the Disease which inconvenience also is no less occasion'd by too great a burthen of Cloaths After the Paroxysm is over to prevent a Relapse let these things be prescribed Take of the pill Cochiae the greater two scruples for a Dose to be repeated six times every third day at Four of the clock in the morning sleeping after them Take Conserve of Sage Flowers and of Rosemary Flowers of each one ounce Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge six drams pre served Nutmeg and preserved Ginger of each half an ounce old Treacle of Andromachus two drams the powders of the Electuaries Diambrae and Diamoschu Dulcis of each one dram with a sufficient quantity of the syrup of Citron pickle make an Electuary Dose as much as a Chesnut every morning and evening drinking after it two spoonfuls of Langius his Epileptic water Take of Ambergris half a dram the distill'd Oils of Anise-seed Cinnamon and Nutmeg of each two drops Oil of Cloves one drop Sugar dissolv'd in Orenge-flower water as much as sufficeth to make Tablets according to Art Let the Patient eat one at his pleasure Let him abstain from all manner of strong Drink and eat Broths made of Barley Oats or of Chickens and sometimes even the flesh of Chickens and Lambs and such like Meats of easie digestion especially while purging Medicines are exhibited Of the Inflamation of the Eyes It is manifest of it self Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of a Vein in the Arm and the common purging Potion exhibited the next day and repeated two days after and once more reiterated after a like interval of time The same Nights let the Patient take a quieting draught of an ounce of the Syrup of Meconium Also let him drink four ounces of an emulsion of the greater cold Seeds and white poppy Seed three or four times every day that is free from purgation Take of Plantain water Red-Rose water and Frogs sperm water of each one ounce Powder of prepar'd Tutty one dram Make a mixture Pour a few drops of it into the Eye twice every day beginning after the first purgation If the Disease do not yield to these Remedies the Letting of Blood especially if it appear pleuritic and Purging must be repeated yet twice more Let the Patient abstain from the use of Wine and all sorts of strong Liquors from Meats also that are salt and hard of digestion and drink milk and water boil'd all the days that are free from purgation Note that it often happens that the setting of Blood and purging how often soever repeated are still found to be ineffectual In this case a composing draught of an ounce of Syrup of Meconium exhibited every night perfects the Cure without the help of any other Remedy Of the Falling down of the Womb. Take of the Bark of an Oak two ounces boil it in four quarts of Spring water till one half be consum'd adding towards the end the Rind of a Pomgranate beaten one ounce Red Roses and Pomgranate Flowers of each two handfuls then add half a pint of Red Wine Let the part affected be fomented with woollen Cloth dipt in the Liquor that is strain'd out two hours before the Patient rise every morning and at night when she is in her Bed till the Symptom disappear Of the Paroxysms of the Stone in the Kidneys The Signs are these A fix'd pain in the
of Amber half a dram mix them and tie them in a Bag. Or Take two drams of Spirit of Sal Armoniac and put it frequently to her Nose Of Suppression of the Loches The Signs are these A Swelling of the Belly a heavy Pain in the lower parts of the Belly the Loins and Groin redness of Face difficulty of breathing perturbation of the Eyes Shiverings acute Fevers Swoonings Cold Sweats a Sense of Beating and Burning heat in the Womb a Palsy of the lower parts and sometimes an Epilepsy Let her be instantly confin'd to her Bed and the Hysterical Plaister apply'd to her Navel then prescribe this Electuary Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and of Rue of each one ounce Troches of Myrrh two drams Castoreum English Saffron Volatil Salt of Amber Sal Armoniac and Asa Foetida of each half a dram Syrup of the five Roots as much as sufficeth to make an Electuary of which let her take the quantity of a Nutmeg every four hours drinking four or five spoonfuls of the following Julep after it Take of Rue water four ounces compound Bryony water two ounces Sugar-candy as much as is convenient Make a Julep Or let her take a scruple of Troches of Myrrh every four hours If after the prescrib'd quantity of these Remedies is consumed the Loches continue still to be supprest exhibit only one dose of Laudanum namely 14 drops of Laudanum Liquidum in compound Bryony water or one grain and an half of solid Laudanum made up into two Pills with half a scruple of Asa foetida If these suffice not let a Clyster of Sugar'd Milk be only once injected Of the Dropsie This Disease is first known by the Pits or Impression remaining in the lower parts of the Legs after you have thrust your Finger upon them which appear conspicuously at night but vanish in the morning especially if this sign be accompanied with a difficulty of Breathing though women with Child and such as are troubled with a suppression of their Courses and Men that are suddenly freed from an inveterate Asthma are also not unfrequently molested with swellings of a like nature The Feet and Legs being extremely swoln the Waters rush into the Abdomen and by degrees filling up its capacity stretch it forth to the uttermost till at last falling upon some of the more noble Entrals the sick person is drowned As the bulk of the parts affected increaseth the rest do proportionably grow more and more slender In the mean time there is a difficulty of Breathing and little Urine is voided This Disease doth commonly assault Men when they grow old and Women when they leave off Child-bearing The principal Scopes of the Cure are first the evacuations of the Waters and then by the restauration and strengthning of the Blood to prevent the new increase of the Waters Take of White-wine four ounces Jalap in fine powder one dram powder of Ginger half a Scruple Syrup of Buckthorn one ounce mix them for a Potion to be taken early in the morning and repeated every day or every second day according to the strength of the Patient till the Swelling be abated Or Take of Tamarinds half an ounce Senna Leafs two drams Rheubarb a dram and an half Boil them in a convenient quantity of water to three ounces dissolve in the straining of Manna and loosning Syrup of Roses of each one ounce Syrup of Buckthorn half an ounce the Electuary of the juice of Roses three drams mix them for a Potion to be taken as above Or Take of the Pills ex duobus one Scruple Elaterium three grains Chymical Oil of Cloves two drops Make three Pills to be taken early in the morning and repeated as the occasion shall require Or Take of Gambugia fifteen grains White-wine and cichory-Cichory-water of each one ounce and an half Syrup of Buckthorn half an ounce mix them for a Potion to be taken as above Or Take three handfuls of the inward Bark of the Elder boil them in a quart of milk and water equally mixt to a pint Let the Patient take one half of the strain'd liquor in the morning and the other in the evening every day till he be restored to his health But this Remedy is of no efficacy but only in those Bodies that are very easily moved by purging Medicines Concerning the use of Purges in this Disease three things are to be observed In the first place consider whether the Body of your Patient is wont to yield easily or difficultly to purging Medicines For one ounce of Syrup of Buckthorn being exhibited by it self to such as are easily wrought upon will evacuate the Waters very copiously whereas in others the strongest Purges above prescribed will hardly produce the desired effect Secondly Such Purges as are of slow operation do more mischief than good and therefore such as work strongly and even too strongly are always to be preferred before these that are too weak Thirdly The Waters ought to be evacuated with as much haste as the strength of the Patient can possibly bear lest by interposing too long Intervals between the several purgations we give occasion to the Waters to gather again There are some Cases in which all purging Medicines of whatsoever kind they be may and ought to be wholly omitted For when the sick person is of a weak constitution or a Woman subject to Vapours the Evacuation of the Waters is to be attempted only by Diuretics or Medicines that provoke Urine among which the most efficacious are those that are composed of lixivious Salts For Example Take a pound of Brome-ashes infuse them cold in four pints of Rhenish Wine strain the liquor through a piece of brown paper of which let the Patient drink three ounces in the morning at five in the afternoon and at night till the Humours be wholly evacuated Which being performed let such Medicines as heat and strengthen be exhibited as for Example Take the Roots of Horse-Radish Leaf of Garden-Scurvy-grass common Wormwood and Sage the Tops of lesser Centory and Brome infuse them in strong Ale for ordinary Drink which alone doth sometimes cure a beginning Dropsie without the help of purginâ— Medicines Or prescribe that which follows Take of the Conserve of Garden-Scurvy-grass and of Roman Wormwood of each one ounce extract of Gentian of common Wormwood and of lesser Centory of each three drams with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron Pill make an Electuary Dose as much as a large Nutmeg in the morning at five a clock in the afternoon and at night drinking four ounces of the following Infusion after it Take of Gentian Roots one ounce Brome tops and tops of lesser Centory and common Wormwood of each one handful Seeds of Fennel and Parsley of each two drams Chop them small and pour upon them four pints of Rhenish Wine let them stand together in a cold Infusion and strain out the Liquor when you use it Note That during the use of these corroborating Medicines you
must in no wise purge the Patient Which ought also to be observed when Lixivious Salts are exhibited during the use of which it is also convenient to give corroborating or strengthning Medicines Take of Horse-Radish roots three ounces Leaves of Garden Scurvy-grass common Wormwood and Sage Brome tops and tops of lesser Centory of each three handfuls three Orenges slic'd Infuse them in six Gallons of Strong Ale not hopp'd while it is fermenting Make use of it for ordinary drink Of the CLAP or virulent RUNNING of the REINS It begins with an unusual pain of the Genitals and a rolling of the Testicles If the Head or Nut of the Yard be still covered with the Fore-skin a spot like a Measle appears on the top of it immediately after liquid matter resembling Sperm begins to drops out which daily receding from the colour and consistence of Seed at length grows yellow and of a more dilute colour than the Yolk of an Egg. In the Venereal Pox that are risen to a higher degree of virulency the same is green and mixt with a watry humour tinged with Blood The forementioned Wheal at length degenerates into an Ulcer not unlike the Exulcerations in Children's Mouths which daily eateth deeper and wider the Orifice being beset with a Callus Those that are circumcised or have the Nut of the Yard stript bare are not troubled with an Ulcer therein but only with the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins Presently a violent pain is felt in the Yard as often as it is erected especially in the night when the sick person is hot in is Bed as if it were wrung hard with ones hand The Yard is bowed by the contraction of the part called the Bridle To these Signs may be added Scalding of the Urine which is scarce perceptible while the Urine is coming forth but after it is voided there is a sense of burning through the whole Urethra chiefly where it ends in the Glans or Nut of the Yard Sometimes little Excrescences of Flesh hinder the passage of the Urine and now and then there happens a pain and inflamation of the Scrotum or Cod. Take of the Mass of the Pills Cochiae the greater three drams Extract of Rudius one dram Rosin of Jalap and Diagridium or prepared Scammony of each half a dram Opobalsamum as much as sufficeth Make Pills six out of every dram of which let the Patient take four every morning till the Scalding of the Urine and the yellow colour of the Seed-like matter be much abated Afterwards let him take them every other day for two weeks together and at the last twice a week till the humour wholly cease to drop out If the sick Person cannot easily be mov'd by evacuating Medicines you may now and then interpose the common purging Potion between the Doses of Pills adding thereto of Syrup of Buckthorn and the Electuary of the juice of Roses of each two drams and if after all the Cure do not succeed according to your desire you may exhibit Turbith Mineral to eight grains for a Dose twice or thrice at the distance of four days or instead of the Turbith Take of the Pills ex duobus half a dram Mercurius dulcis one scruple with a sufficient quantity of Opobalsamum make four Pills to be taken early in the morning If the Patient utterly dislike this method of Purging after he hath taken the Pills that are first prescribed for three days together let the following Clyster be injected twice every day namely in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon but once or twice in a week the Clyster must be omitted and a purging Medicine prescribed Take of the Electuary of the juice of Roses six drams Venice Turpentine dissolv'd with the yolk of an Egg half an ounce dissolve them in a pint of Barley water and add to the straining two ounces of the Syrup of Violets mix them for a Clyster Every night let him take 25 drops of Opobalsamum or Balsam of Mecha in a piece of Sugar in default of this you may substitute Turpentine of Cyprus to the quantity of a Filberd Nut. Let him use Milk and Water for ordinary Drink and Small Beer at Meals Or you may follow this method Take of the Pills ex duobus half a dram Opobalsamum three drops make three Pills which are to be taken at four in the morning sleeping after them and repeated every second or third day In the intermediate days let the Clyster before described be injected in the morning and at five in the afternoon What method soever you follow the Patient must be let Blood once or twice about the middle of the Cure Prescribe also a cooling and thickning Diet and Medicines that are endu'd with the same Vertues as Milk and Water Emulsions of the cold Seeds c. If the Yard be swoln Take of the Roots of Marshmallows and Lillies of each one ounce and an half Leafs of Mallows Petty Mullein Elder Henbane Chamomil Flowers Melilote Flowers of each one handful Linseed and Fenngreek Seed of each half an ounce Boil them in spring-Spring-water for a Fomentation which must be apply'd to the part affected one whole hour twice or thrice a day After Fomentation anoint the part affected with Linseed Oil freshly drawn then spread a little of the Plaister of Mucilages upon Lambs Skin and wrap about the swoln Lips of the Prepuce But if there be an Ulcer in the Lips of the Fore-skin or in the Glans that lieth under them prescribe the following Liniment Take of the Ointment Basilicon six drams Ointment of Tobacco two drams Praecipitate wash'd in Rose-water and well laevigated half a dram Mix and make a Liniment Let it be apply'd to the Sore upon scrapings of linnen Cloth always after Fomentation If the Scrotum or God be swoln let a Vein be immediately open'd in the Arm and the prescrib'd Fomentation apply'd to the part affected twice every day adding to each Fomentation a Spoonful or two of Spirit of French Wine or instead of it apply a Cataplasm of Oxycrate and Bean Flower In the mean time the purging and cooling Medicines already describ'd must be given inwardly Of the FRENCH POX When by the long continuance of a Gâ—â—norrhaea or the undue use of astringent or binding Medicines the Blood is corrupted the Disease call'd the French Pox doth arise Bubo's or malignant Botches appear in the Groin The sick person is afflicted with a pain in the Head and in the spaces between the Joints chiefly when he grows hot in his Bed and divers parts of the Body are cover'd with a Scurf which is of a yellow colour like a Honey-comb and the more the Scab is diffus'd so much the less he is tormented with pain In the Skull Legs and Arms there are bony Excrescences Inflamations and Rottenness of the Bones and in divers parts eating Ulcers which for the most part appear first in the Jaws from whence creeping by degrees through the Palat to the
Region of the Loins bloody Urine the voiding of Sand or Stones the numness of the Leg on the side of the affected Kidney the retraction of the Testicle of the same side where the pain is felt a queasiness of Stomach and vomiting There is a near resemblance between this Disease and the Colick but they differ in some Symptoms an account of which you may read in the Chapter Of the Bilious Colick If the Patient be of a sanguine Constitution let ten ounces of Blood be taken from the Arm answering to the affected Kidney then let a Gallon of Posset in which two ounces of the Roots of Marshmallows have been boll'd be hastily swallow'd down and the following Clyster injected Take of the Roots of Marshmallows and Lillies of each one ounce the Leafs of Mallows Wall-Flower Brank-Ursine and Chamomil Flowers of each one handful Linseed and Fenngreek-seed of each half an ounce Boil them in a convenient quantity of water to a Pint and an half Make a Clyster After the rejection of the Vomit and Clyster let a large Dose of Liquid Laudanum be exhibited viz. to five and twenty drops or 15 or 16 grains of Matthew's Pills If the Patient be an old Man or one that is much weaken'd by the long continuance of the Disease or an old Woman subject to Vapours especially if at the beginning of the Paroxysm she void black and gravelly Urine then omit the letting of Blood but in all other things proceed according to the method above describ'd Of the Dysentery Diarrhaea and Tenesmus There is first a chilness and shivering then an universal Heat all over the Body which is shortly follow'd by Gripings of the Guts and these by a frequent voiding of slimy matter only sometimes some Stools of natural Excrements are interlac'd with tormenting pain and as it were a descending of all the Entrals with which the sick person is miserably afflicted as often as he goeth to Stool In the mean while the matter that is evacuated is intermixt with streaks of Blood though sometimes not the least mixture of Blood doth appear during the whole course of the Disease In an advanc'd Dysentery sometimes pure Blood is voided and the Entrals affected with an incurable Gangrene When the sick Person is in the prime of his age or heated by the use of Cordials he is taken with a high Fever his Tongue is somewhat white cover'd all over with a certain thick slime sometimes black and dry The strength of the Body is overthrown the Spirits are dissipated and the inward parts of the Mouth and Throat ulcerated more especially when the evacuation of the peccant matter is unseasonably stopt by astringent Medicines before that which nourisheth the Disease is expell'd by purgation Sometimes the Dysentery comes without a Fever and the Gripings of the Guts leading the Dance the rest of the Symptoms follow In a Diarrhaea Excrementitious Humours are voided without Blood or the ulceration of the Entrals In a Tenesmus there is a perpetual desire to go to Stool yet nothing is evacuated but a little bloody or purulent Slime Let a Vein be opened in the Arm as soon as may be the same night a composing draught exhibited and the next morning the common purging Potion which must be repeated to two other Doses every second day as also the pacific draught after the operation of the purging Medicine is over but in the intermediate days let it be given morning and evening After the Patient hath been let Blood and once purged through the whole course of the Disease let the following Cordial be exhibited Take of Black-cherry Water Strawberry Water of each three ounces Plague Water Compound Scordium Water and Barley Cinnamon Water of each one ounce prepared Pearl one dram and an half Sugar-candy as much as shall suffice add half an ounce of Damask Rose Water to give the Julep a grateful relish Let the Patient drink four or five spoonfuls of it in case of fainting or at his pleasure Let his ordinary Drink be Milk boiled with a treble quantity of Water or the white Decoction thus Take of Harts-horn burnt and Crums of a white Loaf of each two ounces make a Decoction in three Pints of Spring Water to two and sweeten it with a sufficient quantity of the best white Sugar Or if the Feebleness of the Patient require it boil two Pints of Spring Water with half a Pint of Canary Wine for his ordinary Drink to be taken cold After he hath been thrice purged the whole Cure-depends upon the use of Laudanum repeated twice or thrice every day only let a Clyster of half a Pint of Cows Milk and an ounce and an half of Treacle of Andromachus be now and then injected which is of excellent use in frequent Evacuations When the Flux of the Belly riseth no higher than a Diarrhaea omit the letting of Blood and Purging and prescribe the following Bolus to be taken every morning Take of Rheubarb in Powder half a dram more or less according to the Patient's strength with a sufficient quantity of Diascordium make a Bolus to which add two drops of Chymical Oil of Cinnamon Let a composing draught of an ounce of Barley Cinnamon Water and 14 drops of liquid Laudanum be exhibited every night If the sick Person be tormented with dry Gripings voiding nothing they are cured by washing with Whey being drunk cold and injected warm as in the Disease called the Cholera with Chicken Broth or Posset If this Disease last long so that all the force thereof fall upon the strait Gut with a perpetual desire to go to Stool let a restorative Diet be prescribed and some cordial Liquor to be drunk at pleasure that the Patient's strength may be re established which returning the Tenesmus instantly vanisheth Sometimes it falls out that after a Dysentery hath been ill cured the sick Person is for some years troubled with tormenting Pains but by the repeated letting of Blood he may be restored to his former health Note that in such Constitutions of the Air as are less favourable to this Distemper omitting all Evacuations it is cured by the alone use of Laudanum repeated every morning and evening till the Symptoms wholly disappear or if need be thrice in 24 hours Of the Bilious Colick It is a most fierce Pain in the Guts which begins with a Fever that lasts a few hours Either it wrings them as if they were girt with a Swathing-Band or being contracted into a Point bores them as it were with an Awger Sometimes it grants a Truce but presently returns to the Assault At the beginning it is not so certainly fixed in any one Point there is not so frequent a desire to vomit nor doth the Belly so stubbornly resist the force of purging Medicines but by degrees as the Pain is augmented it is also more obstinately fixed in a Point the desire to vomit grows more troublesom and frequent and the Belly more costive till at last the Colic degenerates
of each one Scruple with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary of which let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon drinking after it six Spoonfuls of the following Julep Take of the Water of Oak-buds and Plantane of each three ounces Barley Cinnamon Water and Syrup of dried Roses of each one ounce Spirit of Vitriol as much as sufficeth to give it a grateful sharpness Take of the Leafs of Plantane and Nettles of each a convenient quantity Beat them together and press out the Juice of which being clarified let her take four or five Spoonfuls now and then at her pleasure After the first Purgation let the following Plaister be apply'd to the Region of the Loins Take of Vermilion plaister and the plaister for a Rupture of each an equal quantity Spread them on a piece of Leather for a plaister to be applied to the Region of the Loins Of the Hysterical Colic It is a certain kind or rather a very notable and usual Symptom of the Hysterical Disease which is accompany'd with a most sharp pain about the pit of the Breast and vomiting of green Humours First that the glut of the corrupt Humours lodged in the Stomach may not obstruct the efficacy of the quieting Medicine let a large quantity of posset as for example a Gallon and an half be swallowed down and cast forth again by vomiting After which exhibit 25 drops of liquid Laudanum in an ounce of strong Cinnamon Water plague Water or any other convenient Vehicle Concerning the use of the composing Medicine it is to be observed that they ought to be constantly repeated till the Symptoms wholly disappear interposing a convenient space between the Doses that so we may be able to judge of the effect of one before another be exhibited If the patient be of a sanguine Constitution nor hath been formerly subject to this Symptom or weakned by it then let a Vein be first opened before the use of the prescribed Vomit The Disease called The Hysterical Clavus is also cured by the same method But if the Hysterical Colic continue a great while and come by Fits then let the following things be given in the Intervals between the paroxysms Take a Dram of Zedoary reduced to fine powder and make a Bolus with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron pickle to be taken every morning and evening for 30 days together drinking the following Infusion after it Take half an ounce of Zedoary cut into small pieces Infuse it cold in four ounces of Canary Wine and after it hath stood twelve hours strain it for your use Or take Balsam of Peru as it is prescribed in the Chapter of the Colic of the people of Poictiers What is here said of the Hysterical Colic ought to be applied to the Hypochondriacal Colick And this also is to be heedfully observed The nature of both these Distempers seems in a peculiar manner to require that we should essay several Medicines till that at last be found out to which the Disease naturally yields tho for the most part Steel is in this case most effectual This kind of Colic both in Hypochondriacal and Hysterical persons doth often degenerate into the Jaundice which by degrees vanisheth of it self But if it continue long let the following Apozem be exhibited Take of the Roots of Madder such as Dyers use Turmerick of each one ounce greater Celandine the whole plant Tops of lesser Centory of each one handful Boil them in equal parts of Rhenish Wine and Spring Water to a Quart In the strained Liquor dissolve two ounces of the Syrup of the five Roots Make an Apozeme Dose half a pint warm every morning and evening till the patient recover Of the Jaundice when it doth not come after the Colick It is known by the following Signs a yellow colour of the whole Body with which also all Objects appear ting'd to the sick persons and it is chiefly conspicuous in the White of the Eyes an Itching Laziness and Weariness Bitterness of the Tongue sometimes cholerick Vomitings Hiccoughs White Excrements the Urine is of a Saffron colour and dyeth Cloths that are dipt therein of the same colour Exhibit the common purging potion and then prescribe the things that are here subjoin'd during the use of which let the purging potion be repeated every fourth day Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge of each one ounce preserved Angelica preserved Nutmeg compound powder of Aron and Steel prepared with Vinegar of each half an ounce extract of lesser Centory extract of Gentian and Cream of Tartar of each two drams English Saffron powdered half a dram with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the five Roots make an Electuary of which let the patient take the bigness of a Nutmeg every morning and at five in the afternoon or instead of the Electuary you may give Chalybeat or Steel Pills drinking after the morning Dose four pints of mineral purging Waters and half a pint of the Apozeme prescribed in the Chapter of the Hysterical Colic after the Dose that is taken in the afternoon But if any Signs of a Dropsy appear let the patient use the Apozem both in the morning and evening But if the obstinacy of the Disease will not be overcome by the long continued use of these Remedies let the sick person have recourse to the Iron or Spaw Waters which ought to be drunk at the Fountain head Of the Preservation from Abortion Use the same things that are prescribed in the Chapter of the Immoderate Flux of the Courses omitting only Purgation and the Juices Of the immoderate Flux of the Loches or Child-bed Purgations There are three things required to constitute a natural flowing of the Loches First pure Blood flowing copiously for the first three days then watery Blood like Water wherein Flesh hath been washed continuing about four days after and last of all tough and clammy matter coming forth during the five or six days next following and so onward to the end of the month Now the immoderate Flux of the Loches is to be estimated from the decay of strength Swooning the coming forth of clotted Blood Loathing of Meat Pain in the Hypochondria or under the Ribs Distension of the Belly a weak and frequent Pulse Dimness of Sight Noise in the Ears and Convulsions Let a thickning Diet be prescribed and the following Potion added Take of Plantane Water and Red Wine of each one pint boil them together till a third part be consumed then sweeten the liquor with a convenient quantity of fine white Sugar and let the Patient drink half a pint of it cold twice or thrice a day In the mean time let some mild Hysterical Julep be now and then exhibited and the following Bag applied to her Nose Take of Galbanum and Asa Faetida of each two drams Castoreum a dram and an half Volatil Salt
of Angelica there described If she be not very weak purge her once or twice before she enter into this Course Of the Suppression of the Terms They loath Meat the Face is discoloured the whole Body is heavy the Forepart of the Head Loins Legs and Lower Belly are pain'd and the Feet are swoln Prescribe the same Remedies that are commended in the Chapter Of the Hysterical Passion but if these will not prevail proceed thus Every morning and at four a clock in the afternoon give five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep without Castoreum with twelve drops of Spirit of Hatts-horn and every night at her entrance into Bed let her take one scruple of the Troches of Myrrh made into a Bolus or Pills with Syrup of Mugwort Of Vomiting or Spitting of Blood Spitting of Blood is accompany'd with a Pain and Heat in the Breast and a certain Feebleness Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of the Right Arm. The next morning let the Patient take the common purging Potion and the same night a composing Draught of three ounces of Black-cherry Water and one ounce of Syrup of Meconium Then let him use the following Remedies Take of Bole-Armeniac one ounce Powder of Comfry Roots two drams seal'd Earth Blood-stone and Dragons Blood of each one dram fine white Sugar the weight of all the rest mix them and make a fine Powder of which let him take one dram in the morning at five a clock in the afternoon and at night drinking four ounces of the following Apozeme after it Take of the Leafs of Plantane wild Bramble Bush and Yarrow of each one handful Boil them in a convenient quantity of Water to a Pint and an half in the straining dissolve two ounces of syrup of Comfry mix and make an Apozeme or let him take six spoonfuls of the following Tincture Take of Red Rose Flowers six drams the inner Bark of the Oak half an ounce Plantane Seeds somewhat bruss'd three drams Spring Water one quart Spirit of Vitriol as much as sufficeth to give the whole a pleasant sharpness Infuse them four hours in a close Vessel with a gentle Heat To the straining add three ounces of Barley Cinnamon Water and as much fine white Sugar as is sufficient to make it pleasant to taste If the Patient have an aversion against Powders let him use the Electuary prescribed in the Chapter Of the Immoderate Flux of the Terms Prescribe a Clyster to be injected every day and Diacodium to be taken at night Moreover the Patient must be let Blood again once twice or thrice according to the necessity of his condition some days being interposed Also if need be let him once again repeat the purging Potion And observe a cooling and thickning Diet. Of the Pricking of a Tendon A watery Humour or thin Gleet doth perpetually drop out of the Orifice of the Vein that is cut Take of White Lilly Roots boil'd in Cows Milk till they grow tender and beaten four ounces Lin-seed flower and Oat-flower of each three drams Boil them to the consistence of a Cataplasm in the same Milk in which the Roots were boiled Apply it to the part affected every morning and evening Of Burning Foment the part affected with Clouts dipt in Spirit of Wine till the pain be asswaged then dip the Clout again and apply it three or four times in a day to the part affected Of Common Madness This Disease proceedeth from a too vivid and exalted Constitution of the Blood There is also another sort of Madness that comes after long intermitting Fevers and at length degenerates into Folly which is caused by the Weakness and Flatness of the Blood proceeding from a long Fermentation thereof You must therefore prescribe high Cordials such as Treacle of Andromachus the Electuary de Ovo the Countesses Powder Sir Walttr Rawleigh's Powder in Plague water Treacle water or some other convenient Vehicle And injoin a Restorative Diet. In young Persons let a Vein be opened in the Arm and eight or nine ounces of Blood taken away twice or thrice every fourth day Then let the Jugular Veins be once opened After which the whole Cure depends upon the use of the following purging Medicine which must be given every third or fourth day while the Disease lasts But in the mean time it is to be observed that after the Patient hath been purged eight or ten times the exhibition of the Evacuating Medicine must be omitted for a Week or two Take of the Domestic Medicine that is White Briony Roots in powder one dram Cows Milk four ounces Or Take of the same Roots half an ounce or six drams White Wine four ounces Infuse them a whole night In the strained Liquor dissolve one ounce of Syrup of Violets Mix them for a Potion Or Take of Gambugia fourteen grains Black-Cherry water three ounces Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers half an ounce Make a Potion Of Contusions or Bruises Let a Vein in the Arm of the side that is most affected be opened and ten ounces of Blood taken away The next morning exhibit the common purging Potion and thenceforward in like manner repeat Blood-letting and Purgation by turns till the Patient recover In the mean while if the inward parts are hurt let him use the following Remedies during the whole course of the Cure Take of the Pectoral Decoction a pint and an half Syrup of Violets and of Maiden-hair of each two ounces Mix them for an Apozem of which let him take half a pint thrice a day Exhibit also frequently a Spoonful of Oil of Sweet Almonds newly drawn Take of Oil of Sweet Almonds the Ointment Dialthaeae and Pomate of each one ounce Mix them for a Liniment with which anoint the part affected morning and evening laying over it a Cabbage Leaf Of Scurf or Scales in the Head Let the Common Purging Potion be twice exhibited Then Take of Oil of bitter Almonds Oil of Laurel the Ashes of Sothernwood leaves of each one ounce Mix them thoroughly for a Liniment with which anoint the whole Head every night rubbing it in diligently and then cover it with a Sow's Bladder But first let all the Hair be cut off and afterwards rub off the Scales by degrees every morning according as they are ready to fall away Of the Biting of a Mad Dog After 40 Days or more the Signs of Melancholy appear a Fever Thirst Hydrophobia or the Fear of Water and at length Convulsions of the extreme Parts Take of Spirit of Wine highly rectified four ounces Treacle of Andromachus one ounce make a mixture with which anoint the part that is hurt thrice every day laying over it a Clout dipt in the same mixture Of the Ulcer of the Bladder Stinking matter is voided or Blood and sometimes Scales or membranous Skins and as it were scurfy Crusts like Bran whereas when the Ulcer is in the Reins pieces of Flesh which sometimes are very big are voided with the Urine There is also a perpetual difficulty of
into the Iliac Passion It is thus distinguished from the Stone in the Kidneys 1. The Pain of the Stone is fixed in one of the Reins and from thence is stretched out to the Testicle according to the length of the Ureter But the Pains of the Colic are more unconstant and moveable compassing about the middle of the Belly as with a Girdle 2. The Colical Pains are increased after eating but the Nephritical or Pains of the Stone are rather mitigated 3. In the Colic the voiding of Excrements gives greater ease than in the Stone 4. The Urine of those that are troubled with the Stone is at the beginning of the Paroxysm clear and thin afterwards there appears some Sediment and at last Sand or little Stones are voided whereas in the Colic the Urine is thick from the beginning Let a considerable quantity of Blood be taken out of one of the Arms and three or four hours after an Anodyne exhibited the next day give a lenitive Purge to be repeated every other day to two Doses more But if the Disease was occasioned by gourmandizing or by soon perishing Fruits then first of all the Stomach ought to be washed with great and frequent draughts of Posset and after that is done an Anodyne given the next day order a Vein to be opened and afterwards proceed in the method above prescribed When this Disease having been unskilfully handled hath continued very long and the sick persons have been reduced to extreme Feebleness by it the liberal drinking of either Plague Water Aqua Mirabilis or any other with which they were wont to be most delighted while they were in health hath helped them beyond all expectation Of the Disease called Cholera It contains it self within the Bounds of the Month of August and scarcely maketh any Excursions into the first Weeks of September There is a Disease like unto it occasioned by Surfeiting and Gluttony which tho it be cured after the same manner is yet of another Form The Signs are enormous Vomiting and the voiding of corrupt Humours by Stool with great Trouble and Difficulty Vehement Pain Swelling up and Distension of the Belly and Entrals Gnawing at the Heart or Stomach Thirst the Pulse quick frequent small and unequal Heat and Anxiety a most troublesom Nauseousness or Loathing Sweating Contractions of the Legs and Arms Swooning Coldness of the Extreme Parts and such like Symptoms which kill the sick person in the space of 24 hours Let a tender Chicken be boiled in about three Gallons of Spring Water that there be scarce any taste of Flesh perceivable in the Liquor and let the sick person swallow down several large Cups of this Decoction lukewarm or for want of it of Posset whilst in the mean time Clysters of the same Liquor are successively injected And an ounce of the Syrups of Lettuce Violets Purslain and Water-Lillies or any of them may be now and then mixed both with the Draughts and Clysters The Business of Washing being finished which requires the space of three or four hours a composing Medicine puts an end to the Cure When the Physitian is not called till after the Patient is utterly spent and enfeebled by the Evacuations and the extreme parts are already cold recourse must immediately be had to liquid Laudanum and that in a large Dose viz. 25 drops of it in an ounce of Cinnamon Water which even after the ceasing of the Symptoms ought still to be repeated but in a lesser Dose till the sick Person be restored to his former health There is a sort of Cholera that usually troubleth Children and is often fatal to them which is occasioned by their Breeding of Teeth or Surfeiting Their tender Age will not bear the washing of their Stomach with large Draughts of Liquors much less the raising of a greater tumult in the Humours by purging Medicines and therefore the whole Cure is to be committed to the use of Laudanum Let two three four or more drops of it according to the Age of the Child be exhibited in a Spoonful of Small Beer or some convenient Water and repeated as the occasion shall require Of the Disease call'd Colica Pictonum or the Colic of the People of Poictiers 'T is a kind of Colic that usually degenerates into a Palsy and a total loss of motion in the Hands and Feet which under this name is mentioned by Riverius in his Chapter of the Palsy and is very well known in the Carribee Islands where multitudes of People are infested by it This most cruel Pain is cured with Balsam of Peru exhibited frequently and in great Doses thus Pour 20 30 or 40 drops of it into a Spoonful of the finest white Sugar and give it twice or thrice in the day But the Palsy yields not to this Remedy Of the Iliac Passion The Peristaltic Motion of the Guts is inverted purging Medicines and Clysters do immediately become Vomits the Excrements of the Belly are voided by the Mouth Let nine or ten ounces of Blood be taken out of the right Arm. After some hours exhibit the following Powder Take of Rosin of Scammony or in default of that Rosin of Jalap twelve Grains Torquets Calomel one Scruple mix and make a Powder to be taken in a Spoonful of Cows Milk drinking after it one or two Spoonfuls of the same Milk or if the Form of Pills be more acceptable to the Patient Take of the Pills de duobus half a dram Calomel one scruple with a sufficient quantity of Balsam of Peru make four Pills to be taken in a Spoonful of Syrup of Violets After the Operation of the Purge is ended let the Patient take the following Draught Take of strong Cinnamon Water one ounce liquid Laudanum 25 drops mix them for a Draught which must afterwards be repeated twice thrice or oftner every day till the Vomiting and Pain be asswaged and even after they disappear for the Confirmation of the Cure let the Patient continue the use of the same Composing Draught for some time when he goes to Bed but in a lesser Dose Of the immoderate Flux of the Terms The Monthly Courses of a Woman flowing naturally may fill the Capacity of the Shell of a Goose-egg The immoderate Flux of them is known by the Patient 's ill-bearing or uneasiness under it by the failing of her Strength want of Appetite ill Habit of Body ghastly colour of Face like that of a dead Carkass and swelling of the Feet Let a Vein be opened in the patient's Arm and eight ounces of Blood taken away The next morning let her take the common purging Potion and repeat it every other day to two Doses more drinking at night after every Purgation a composing draught of Syrup of Meconium In the intermediate Days let her take that which follows Take of Conserve of dry Roses two ounces Troches of Lemnian Earth one dram and an half Rind of Pomgranates Red Coral prepared Bole Armenick of each two Scruples Blood-stone and Dragons Blood
cartilaginous part of the Nose they quickly consume it and the Nose being thus robbed of its Prop falls down flat The Ulcers Rottenness and Pain increasing daily the Members perish by turns till at the last the mangled Carkass already grown burdensom to the living is buried out of sight Take of Hogs-lard two ounces crude Quick-silver one ounce mix them for a Liniment to be divided into three equal parts with one of which let the Patient anoint his Arms and Legs with his own hand for three nights together If within three days after the last anointing the Salivation doth not begin let eight Grains of Turbith Mineral be exhibited in Conserve of Red Roses or to those that are less robust one scruple of Mercurius dulcis Also if the Salivation already begun grow languid before the total disappearing of the Symptoms it must be quickned now and then with a like Dose of Mercurius dulcis The Salivation ought to be so moderated that the Patient may spit about four Pints in 24 hours But if it rise too high and be attended with too great an Inflamation and other Symptoms of that nature it ought to be represt with purging Medicines and kept in a due degree of moderation Immediately after the disappearing of the Symptoms let the Patient's Shirt and the Sheets of his Bed be changed and others put in their room which must be such as have been formerly used If the Patient be troubled with a Diarrhaea or Loosness which for the most part happens before the Salivation be much advanced it ought to be stopt by the use of Liquid Laudanum still augmenting and repeating the Dose till it hath produced the desired effect If the Mouth be ulcerated let it be washed with Damask-Rose-water or Milk and water mixt or with the following Decoction Take of Marshmallow Roots and cleansed Barley of each one ounce Quince-seeds half an ounce Boil them in a convenient quantity of waâ—er to a quart Mix and make a Gargarism which ought to be frequently used Let the Diet and Government of the sick Person be the same that is usually prescribed when purging Medicines are exhibited but during a few days in the beginning let him make use of Posset Barley and Oat-broths and small Beer warmed All these things being rightly performed though there be no appearance of any Symptom left and the Disease seem to be perfectly cured yet to secure the Patient from the danger of a Relapse let him once in a week take a scruple of Mercurius dulcis repeating it four or six times though he should be well enough to walk abroad and seem to be perfectly recovered Of the Whites or White Flux The Humour that flows out is sometimes white sometimeâ— pale yellow green or blackish it is sometimes sharp and corrosive and sometimes stinking and of a strong smell The Flux is accompanied with divers symptoms as Wanness of Face a pain in the Back-bone Want of Appetite Swelling of the Hands and Feet If that which comes forth be received upon a Clout it will manifest the Humor that causes the Flux after it hath been dried Let a Vein be opened in the Arm and eight ounces of Blood taken away Take of the Pills Cochiae the greater two scruples Castoreum two grains Balsam of Peru three drops Make four Pills which are to be taken at four a Clock in the morning sleeping after them and twice repeated every second or third day according to the strength of the Patient Take of Rue water four ounces compound Bryony water two ounces Sugar Candy as much as is sufficient Make a Julep of which let he take three or four spoonfuls in every languishment Afterwards let her use the Remedies that are here subjoined Take of Treacle of Andromachus one ounce and an half Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge two ounces Diascordium half an ounce preserv'd Ginger and preserv'd Nutmeg of each three drams Compound Powder of Crabs Claws one dram and a half the outward Rind of Pomgranates Roots of Spanish Angelica Red Coral prepar'd and Troches of Lemnian Earth of each one dram Bole Armenic two Scruples Gum Arabic half a dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of dry'd Roses make an Electuary of which let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the morning at five in the afternoon and at night every day for a whole month drinking six Spoonfuls of the following Infusion after every Dose Take of the Roots of Elicampane Masterwort Angelica Calamus Aromaticus of each half an ounce Leafs of Roman Wormwood White Horehound Lesser Centaury Common Calamint and Sage dry'd of each one handful Juniper Berries one ounce let them be chopt small and infus'd in four Pints of Canary Wine let them stand in a cold Infusion strain it only when you use it Let her eat Meats of easie digestion and abstain from all sorts of Pot-herbs and Fruits and at every Meal drink Spanish Wine Of the Diabetes The Juices that are brought into the Blood being crude and undigested seek a passage forth through the Urinary Ducts by which means the strength is by degrees wasted the Body is melted or dissolved and as it were the substance of it drain'd out through this Kennel This Disease is also attended with Thirst burning Heat of the Bowels Swelling of the Loins and Haunches and frequent spitting of frothy Matâ—er Prescribe the same things that are commended in the Chapter Of the Whites the â—etting of Blood and Purging being only â—mitted Of the Pain of the Haemorrhoids The sick Person is tormented with a most intense pain when he voideth Excrements the surface of which is also sprinkled with Blood Sometimes Tumours like Warts lurk inwardly in the Muscle call'd the Sphincter or appear in the Brims of the Fundament Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of the Right Arm. Take of the Seeds of Melons and Pompions of each half an ounce White Poppy Seeds two drams five sweet Almonds shell'd Beat them in a marble Mortar pouring in gradually of Barley Water above a Pint Rose Water two drams fine white Sugar as much as sufficeth Make an Emulsion according to Art of which let the Patient take three ounces frequently Take of Flowers of Brimstone Powder of Liquorish and Sage of each one dram with a sufficient quantity of Lucatella's Balsam make six Pills out of every dram of which let him take thrice a day drinking six spoonfuls of the Emulsion after them Take of Frogs Sperm Water four ounces dissolve in it of Litharge two drams Opium one scruple Apply a linnen Clout soak'd in a little of this mixture to the part affected or if the Tumour lurk inwardly inject three spoonfuls of the same mixture by way of a Clyster Let the Patient make use of Water boil'd with Milk or of Barley Water for ordinary Drink and abstain from Flesh Every night let him take Diacodium Of the immoderate Flux of the Haemorrhoids It is known by the Decay of Strength a
long and copious Flux of Blood foul colour of the Body tending to a Citron colour as in the Jaundice It brings an evil Habit of Body and afterwards the Dropsie The same things are profitable in this Case that are prescribed in the Chapter Of the immoderate Flux of the Courses omitting only Purgation Of the Epilepsy in Children Children are usually troubled with the Faling Sickness either during the first Month afâ—er a Loosness in which case Diacodium to â—he quantity of a Pepper Corn dissolved in Saxifrage Water or Mothers Milk and exhibited is a most excellent Remedy or about the time of their Breeding of Teeth from the seventh to the tenth Month it is accompany'd with a Cough or which is far worse with Vomiting and Loosness the Infant voiding green Excrements after the manner of Hysterical Women Sometimes the Fit cometh suddenly and unawares distorting the Mouth and Eyes overspreading the Face with Blackness and causing convulsive Motions in divers Limbs And otherwhile the coming of it is signify'd before-hand by the Contraction of the Fingers into the Fist and a setled and unusual unmoveableness of the Eyes The Fits are sometimes long and sometimes short sometimes they return at set-times and otherwhiles observe no certain period but when Death is at hand they come so thick that they seem to tread upon one anothers heels If at any time they grant a Truce the Child remains drowsie and prone to sleep till he be rous'd by a new Paroxysm Apply a Blistering Plaister as soon as may be to the hinder part of the Neck Take of Langius his Epileptic Water three drams Liquid Laudanum one two or more drops according to the Age of the Child Syrup of Peony one dram mix them for a Draught which must be instantly exhibited Take of Rue Water three ounces Langius his Epileptic Water and compound Bryony Water of each one ounce Syrup of Gilli-flowers half an ounce mix and make a Julep of which give a spoonful every hour if the Draught already prescribed hath not discust the Paroxysm Of the Rickets truly so called It is known by the Looseness Softness Feebleness Languishment Laziness Dulness and unequal nourishment of the parts viz. the Head is bigger than is meet the Face fuller and more florid the fleshy parts beneath the Head pine away the Joints are possest with Knotty Protuberances chiefly the Wrists but the Ankles not so much the Bones are bowed especially those of the Legs and next to them those of the Cubit between the Elbow and Wrist sometimes also the Shoulder and Thigh-bones the Teeth come forth slowly and with pain they are loose black and fall out the Breast is narrow toward the sides and high and sharp before Other signs are a stuffing of the Abdomen or Paunch distension of the Hypochondria or places under the short Ribs Coughing faultiness of the Lungs and an averseness from lying on one side which happens to be sometimes the Right side and otherwhiles the Left Take of the Leaves of common Wormwood lesser Centory White Hore-hound Germainder Scordium common Calamint Feverfew Meadow Saxifrage St. Johns wort Golden rod wild Time Mint Sage Rue Carduus Benedictus Penny-royal Southern-wood Camomil Tansy and Lilly of the Valley all freshly gather'd and chopt of each one handful Hogs Lard four pounds Sheeps Tallow two pounds Claret wine a quart Let them stand twelve hours soaking on hot ashes in an earthen Vessel then boil away the Moisture and afterwards strain them for a Liniment with which anoint the Belly and the parts under the short Ribs and also the Limbs every morning and evening for thirty or forty days or till the Child recover Take of each of the prescribed Ingredients two handfuls infuse them cold in four Gallons of Beer not hopp'd for ordinary drink When Tumors possess the Bellies of Children caused by excessive Evacuations Let the Blood and Bowels be strengthned with corroborating Herbs as in the Rickets properly so called Only let the Armpits be also anointed on both sides but not the Limbs Of Fevers proceeding from the Breeding of Teeth Let two three or four Drops of Spir it o Hartshorn according to the Age of the Child be exhibited every four hours in a spoonful or two of Black Cherry water or some other convenient Julep repeating it four or six times Of the Hectic Fever in Children They languish with a notable Heat and Dejection of Appetite the Trunk of the Body and the Limbs are extenuated Put two drams of Rheubarb sliced into a Glass Bottle capable of containing a Quart of Small Beer for ordinary Drink and after it is drunk up pour upon the same Rheubarb another Quart of Beer and so a third time But if the Drink be too strongly impregnated with a Purgative Vertue after one Pint is drunk up let another be immediately added to that which remains Of Bleeding at the Nose It is attended with Pain and Heat in the Forepart of the Head Let a Vein be frequently opened in the Arm and a cooling and thickening Diet injoined Prescribe also cooling and thickening Juleps and cooling Emulsions Let a cooling Clyster be injected every day and a composing Draught of Syrup of Meconium exhibited every night and prescribe the common purging Potion to be be taken once or twice Dip a piece of Linnen cloth four times doubled in cold water in which Sal Prunellae hath been dissolved and squeezing it a little apply it to the Neck behind and on both sides oftentimes in a day After the Evacuations apply the following Liquor Take of Hungarian Vitriol and Allum of each one ounce Flegm of Vitriol half a pound Boil them tâ—il the whole be dissolved then suffer the Liquor to grow cold and strain it through Brown Paper and separating it from the Crystals that now and then arise add to the remaining Liquor a twelfth part of Oil of Vitriol Or rather Take of Plantane Water four ounces Bole Armeniac in fine Powder half an ounce mix them thoroughly Dip a Tent made of the scrapings of Linnen in this Liquor and put it into the Nostril out of which the Blood flows where let it remain two days If these things do not prevail dissolve Roman Vitriol in common Water and dipping a Tent therein put it into the Nose Clouts dipt in this Liquor and apply'd do also stay Bleeding in any of the external Parts Of the Green-Sickness The Signs of this Disease are these Ill colour of Face and of the whole Body Swellings in the Face Eye-lids and Ankles Heaviness of the whole Body a stretching Weariness of the Legs and Feet difficult Breathing Feverish Pulse Sleepiness Pica or longing for things that ought not to be eaten and stoppage of the Courses Let the Patient take the Chalybeat Pills or Powder prescribed in the Chapter Of the Hysterical Passion more or less according to her Age drinking after them a Draught of any sort of Wine that pleaseth her or of the corroborating Infusion of the Roots
Urine and continual pain in those parts But in an Ulcer of the Reins the difficulty of Urine and Pain come by Fits and there are some Intervals of ease the Matter also that comes from the Reins is more abundant white thin and not stinking the Urine is voided like milk but after it hath stood long the Matter being separted falls to the bottom Take of the Plaister call'd Flos Unguenti a dram and an half make nine Pills of which let the Patient take three at the physical hours viz. at eight a clock in the morning and five in the afternoon drinking six spoonfuls of the following Water after them Take of the Roots of Comfrey Fennel Birthwort and Avens of each three ounces Leafs of Agrimony St. Johns Wort Bugle Sanicle and Plantane of each six handfuls chop them small and distil them in White-wine and Milk of each four Pints Draw off only four Pints for your use Take of the Powder of Comfrey Roots and Gum Arabic of each one ounce Sugar of Penides two ounces make a Powder of which let the Patient take a spoonful twice a day Of an Asthma or Difficulty of Breathing in Persons of a Sanguine Constitution Of this Disease there are three kinds Dyspnaea which is a difficult Breathing in which the Breath is drawn often and thick without noise or ratling arising from the stuffing of the Lungs Asthma or a great and frequent Breathing in which the Diaphragma or Midriff and intercostal Muscles as also the Muscles of the Abdomen are violently mov'd with a ratling noise and wheesing In the former kind the substance of the Lungs in the latter the Bronchia or Gristles are stopp'd And Orthopnaea which is the greatest difficulty of Breathing in which the sick person cannot breath but sitting and with his Neck stretch'd upright the Muscles also of the Breast and Shoulders are vehemently agitated Let ten ounces of Blood be taken from the Right Arm and the next day let the Patient take the common purging Potion and repeat the same every third day to two other Doses In the intermediate Days let him proceed thus Take two drams of Anniseed in fine powder and with a sufficient quantity of Lucatella's Balsam make twelve Pills of which let him take three in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon drinking after them four ounces of the bitter Decoction without the purging Ingredients warm If the Symptoms still remain let the whole Process be iterated afresh Of the Palsy Both the Faculties of Sense and Motion or either of them singly are entirely lost or at least diminished and vitiated in the parts affected Take of the Pills Cochiae the less two scruples let them be exhibited six times every other morning And afterwards let the Patient take the Antiscorbutic Electuary thrice a day for thirty days together See the Chapter Of the Scurvey Take of the Unguent call'd Nervinum three ounces compound Spirit of Lavender and Spirit of Garden-Scurvy-Grass of each an ounce and an half with which anoint the parts affected as the Back-bone c. every morning and evening The most part of the Reâ—â—â—ks there prescribed though they seem to be only adapted for the Cure of the Scurvy yet forasmuch as they are peculiarly qualify'd to volatize crude and fixt Humors they are also good against the Palsy Of the Cough and Pthisis or Consumption The Cough is evident of it self As for the Consumption it is to be observed that People are obnoxious to it from eighteen to thirty five years The Signs of it are these An Hectic Fever which is augmented after Meat as appears by the quickness of the Pulse and Redness of the Cheeks the Matter that is spit forth with Coughing is bloody or purulent that is mixt with Quittor being cast into the Fire it sendeth forth a noisom Smell and if it be put into a Vessel full of water it sinks to the bottom Sweating at Night Blueness of the Cheeks Paleness of Face and Sharpness of the Nostrils And the sinking of the Temples crookedness of the Nails falling off of the Hair and melting Flux of the Belly are the immediate Forerunners of Death When the Cough is of no long standing nor is yet accompany'd with a Fever or other Signs of a Bastard Peripneumonia nor came after a Pleurisy or Peripneumonia for want of sufficient Blood letting in such a Case it will be sufficient to caution the Patient against the use of Wine or Flesh for some days and to prescribe these or the like Remedies to be used by him at his pleasure Let him take ten drops of Balsam of Sulphur anisated in a spoonful of Sugar-candy twice or thrice every day and frequently eat one of the following Tablets which he ought always to carry about him Take a pound and an half of Sugar-candy boil it in a convenient quantity of Spring water till it stick to the ends of your Fingers then add to it of the Powder of Liquorish Elicampane Anniseed Angelica Seeds of each half an ounce Powder of Flower-de-luce of Florence and Brimstone of each two drams Chymical Oil of Annis two scruples Make Tablets according to Art which may be called Domestic Lozenges And in the mean time let the Patient use the following lambitive Medicine Take of Oil of Sweet Almonds two ounces Syrup of Maiden-hair and Violets of each one ounce Sugar-candy as much as sufficeth to make a Lohoch let the Patient lick thereof with a Liquorish Stick when the Cough surprizeth him In a thin Defluxion you may prescribe thickning Lohochs But if the Cough yield not to these Remedies more especially if it be attended with a Fever or came after a Pleurisy or Inflamation of the Lungs in that case it will be to no purpose to rely upon pectoral Medicines forasmuch as the Cure must be wrought by Blood-letting and Purging according to the method described in the Chapter Of the Bastard Peripneumonia If after all the Cough do not only continue to molest the Patient but by long and violent concussion of the Lungs hath exceedingly weakned them and thereby introduced a Pthisis or Consumption you must proceed thus Pour ten drops of Balsam of Peru into a spoonful of Syrup of Ground-Ivy or if the Patient dislike that of Sugar-candy and let him take it thrice a day drinking after it four ounces of the bitter Decoction prepared without the purging Ingredients or if that doth occasion a Looseness of his Belly let him diminish the Dose to three ounces But of all the Remedies that hitherto have been invented the most excellent and efficacious is for the Patient to take long and far Journies on Horse-back It is moreover to be observed thar Men or such as have already past the years of their Youth must spend more time in this exercise than if they were Boys or Young-men And truly the Peruvian Bark is not a mucn more certain Remedy for intermitting Fevers than in this Age Riding is for a Consumption Of