Maidenhair of each one handful Sage and Rosemary Flowers of each half a handful smal Raisons three ounces Spanish Liquoris half an ounce Mace two scruples Boyl them in six pound of Fountain Water take three pound of the Decoction and ad unto it three ounces of the Syrup of Maidenhair mingle them and make your Apozem Let the Child take a draught of it every morning another at four a clock in the afternoon and a third in the night if he then call for Drink yea if it pleas him let him take it for his ordinary Drink This is most proper for those who are sadly afflicted with the Rachites complicated with a cough and an obstruction of the Lungues Take the Leaves of Royal Osmond Hartstongue Liverwort Ceterach the Flowers of Tamerisk the Roots of the Male Fernbrake of each a handful Raisons two ounces white and red Sanders Sassafras Wood of each two drachms Coriander Seeds one drachm Mace one scruple Sage Leaves half a handful boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain Water according to art to three pound Let the Decoction be sweetned with Sugar or Honey for ordinary Drink This is best for such whose Liver is most afflicted Take Sasaperilla cut and beaten three ounces the Roots of China cut into little pieces two ounces Infuse and boyl them according to art in seven pound of fountain water to four and a half then ad two drams of Sassafras roots the roots of Osmond royal the leaves of Hartstongue Ceterach Maidenhair Archangel of each half an handful Spanish Liquoris two drams Mace a dram boyl them to three pound To the Decoction ad Honey or Sugar three ounces Mingle them for ordinary drink This is most conducible where there is suspition of the French Pox as also in Strumatical Affects Take the Flowers of Tamaris one handful the male Pauls Betony half an handful bruis them gently and infuse them in two pound of common Beer cold in a stone or glass Flaggon well stopt with Cork for the ordinary drink Take Sarsaperilla eight ounces China two ounces Sassafras half an ounce Ivory an ounce Osmond royal Palus Betony Hartstongue Ceterach Maidenhair Liverwort tops of dead Nettles of each two handfuls cut them and bruis according to art and boyl them in four gallons of new Ale till one be consumed then when you have taken it from the fire ad another gallon of the same Ale to it and when you have added it stir it up and down with a stick and when you have done so strain it and when you have strained it put the Ingredients in a Boulting-bag and put a piece of Iron into them and ad a bit of Leaven to it and hang it into the Ale with a string and let the Child drink it for its ordinary Drink so soon as it hath drunk half of it draw out the rest and stop it close in stone Bottles for the Childs use Take Wine of Sâ—â—ll half an ounce Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb two drams let the sick drink of it every morning for five or seven daies or longer unless some loosness of the Bowels or debility of the Stomach do advise a prohibition in which case instead of Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb take Syrup of dried Roses Broaths and Panadaes Take Hartstongue and Cetrach Liverwort Maiden-hair Sage of each half an handful the Bark of Tamaris red Sanders of each two drams Put them into the Belly of a Cock-Chicken or Hen or an old Cock Sew up the Belly and boyl it with two ounces of Malaga Raisins in a sufficient quantity of Fountain water adding also a sufficient quantity of pure Oatmeal flower Make your Broath and let it be soundly boyled Take the roots of China cut into smal bits two ounces white and medulous Sarsaperilla sliced and well beaten three ounces Infuse them for a night in ten pound of fountain water In the morning after a gentle bubling strain it and to the Decoction ad Harts-tongue and Pauls Betony of each an handful Mace half a dram Currance an ounce and with Mutton Veal or a Capon adding Oatmeal make your Broath according to art But if thinner Broths be more desired you may boyl a crust of Bread instead of the Oatmeal and if you would have it thicker you may mingle with it the yolks of Egs and grated Bread Moreover to help a weak concoction you may somtimes ad a few spoonfuls of Wine Panadaes also may be made of the same Broth strained and boyled again with grated Bread adding at length a little Butter and Sugar The same likewise may be made of the Decoctions even now prescribed unless peradventure they contain some bitter and unpleasing mixture Morrover the Panadaes and ordinary Broths may be altered with these ensuing Pouders and by consequence apropriated to the cure of this Affect if the Child desire Milk most let them be made in Milk if the Child desire it thick you may make it thick either with Flower or Oatmeal and if you mix a little Saffron with it it will be the better But if any thing in the Pouders do nausiate and offend the tast let them be omitted and substitute som other things that may be more acceptable to the Palat. Pouders and Electuaries Take the Roots but rather the Buds of the male Fernbrake scarce sprong out of the Earth and dried in a shady place the spike of Royal Osmond of each two drams Mace Anniseeds of each half a scruple Saffron half a grain make a Pouder The dose from half a scruple to a scruple in Milk or Posset drink some Decoction Broth or Panadaes Take the medulous part of the Root of Sarsaperilla two drams the Roots of China one dram the Root of Sassafras one scruple the seeds of Caraway and Coriander of each half a scruple the Roots of the male Fernbrake Osmond royal of each two scruples Mingle them and make a Pouder to be used as the former Take Wood-lice or as some Countries cal them Sows washed first in water and then in White-Wine afterwards calcined in a Crucible Bread dried as much as you pleas make them into a Pouder The dose is from half a scruple to a scruple either in Broth or any thing els In the same manner you may if you pleas prepare the Livers either of Frogs or yong Ravens We gave you the manner before Take of Flower of Brimstone two drams Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatrion santalon of each half a scruple Saffron half a grain refined Sugar three ounces All of them being made into very fine Pouder make them into a Past with a sufficient quantity of Rose water Dry them and when you pleas you may beat them into Pouder and give a dram of them at a time Take Conserv of Red Roses one ounce and an half Conserv of the flowers of Borage Archangel Sage Rosemary of each half an ounce Steel prepared one dram Cinnamon Spanish Liquoris of each half a dram Saffron half a scruple Red Sanders a scruple
faculty another of the Vessels of the Liver which is don by opening clensing and somewhat astringent Medicaments A third of the Vessels of the Lungs which is most succesfully wrought by Lenient and Maturant Remedies somtimes perhaps according to the nature of the matter Medicins incident or atenuant being administred or on the contrary Administrations making thick and such as have a vertue to arrest and avert the flux Thirdly Those parts wherein the vicious humors principally flow or are lodged require the admixture of Medicaments peculiarly apropriated unto them And as this or that part is more or less affected somtimes choice must be made of Cephalicals somtimes Hepaticals and somtimes Pectoral Preparations Moreover that we may comprehend together most if not all of the qualities of Preparatory Remedies required in this Affect we say That these Remedies prescribed by Art ought to be moderatly hot unless there be a Feaver present also attenuant incident and opening in like manner that by a peculiar right they must have respect to the Liver the Lungs and the Head which parts for the most part are commonly in this Affect oppressed with a plenitude of humors Again That there are some things specifically apropriated to this Affect and if such things are not in Readiness which are regestred in the number of things preparatory and dedicated to the Diseas than at least other specificals ought to be mingled with the Preparatory Medicines These things being premised we judged it expedient to set down such Simple and Compound Medicines as are usually sold in the Shops and also some examples of decompounded Preparatory Remedies Yet we forbid the expectation of all Simples or perhaps of any one that should comprehend all the qualities which even now we attributed to those exquisite and apropriate Remedies for then there would be no need of any Composition and we shall reckon up such and so many that a prudent Physitian may select and contemper them among themselves which being discreetly intermingled they may be correspondent to all the fore recited qualities The Simples and Compounds prepared in the Shops in readiness are these All the Capillary Herbs especially Tricumanes Rhue of the Wall Spica Roots of Osâ—â—â—ed royal the Buds of the male Fernbrake newly sprung up Polipodium of the wall Hartstongue Liverword Ceâ—â—â—ach Agrimony Doddar Scabious Betony the Leaves and Bark of Tamarisk the Bark of the Root of the Caper tree the Roots of Succory Endive Grass Sparagus Myrobalans Liquoris Raisons Primes Damsens the Seeds of Annis sweet Fennel Coriander Caraway Dill Syrup of Maidenhair and Botâ—ny Simple and Compound Syrupus Bizantinus Syrup of Succery Eupatory the five Roots Sâ—aechadis and Horstongue Out of these according to present Emergencies divers others may be Decompounded As take the little Buds or Gems of the Roots of the male Fernbrake five in number boyl them in half a pound of Milk to three ounes let him drink the Decoction in a morning upon an empty Stomach This is most agreable to yong Children that are tied to Milk Or Take of the Buds of male Fernbrake newly budded out of the Earth one handful male Betony Hartstongue Liverwort of each half an handful Flowers of Tamaris one pugil Raisons one ounce and an half One Chicken the Guts pulled out and with a sufficient quantity of Oatmeal make your Broath according to art Let the Child take three or four ounces in the morning and at four of the Clock in the afternoon adding if you pleas ten grains of the Cremor of Tartar Or Take Maidenhair Liverwort Agrimony Doddor of each half a handful the Roots of male Fernbrake Grass Sparagus of each half an ounce Flowers of Tamaris one pugil Raisons one ounce White Tartar prepared one dram Liquoris half a dram Mace one scruple Boyl them in two pints of Fountain water To one pound of the Decoction ad 3 ounces of white or Rhenish Wine Syrup of Hartstongue one ounce and an half Mingle them and make your Decoction wherof let the Child take a draught every morning and at four of the Clock in the afternoon This is most prevalent and effectual against pertinacious obstructions in the Mesentery Liver c. Or Take of Coltsfoot Maiden-hair Hartstongue Liverwort of each half an handful the Roots of sweet Chervil and Sparagus of each half an ounce Spanish Liquoris two drams Mace a scruple Raisins of the Sun stoned an ounce Jujubes by number six Sebestens eight two Figs cut in peices boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Barly-water and to a pound of the Decoction ad Syrup of Maiden-hair an ounce and an half Mingle them together and this is a very good Drink for such as are troubled with an obstruction in the Lungs Take of sweet Wort two pound Liver-wort Maiden-hair Hartstongue Scabious Coltsfoot Featherfew of each an handful blue Figs cut in pieces Raisins of the Sun of each half a pound Liquoris Anniseeds of each two drams boyl them over a gentle fire nine hours strain it and keep it for your use It 's good for that the former was Take Salsaperilla cut and well beaten three ounces the Roots of China Hartshorn shavings Ivory of each one ounce the Leaves of male Betony Liverwort Scabious of each three handfuls the Buds of the Root called Royal Osmond and Fernbrake of each two ounces Boyl them in four gallons and a pottle of new Ale four or five hours over a gentle fire Then after som hours respit strain it thorow an Hair-Sieve afterwards put in of the Juyces of Scurvigrass and Brook-lime of each half a pound a sufficient quantity of Barm or Yeast Let it work according to the usual manner put it into a little vessel and drawn out for the ordinary drink This is most conducible where there is any suspition of the Scurvy or Venerious Pox being complicated with the Rachites CHAP. XXXII Remedies Electively evacuant THe matter of the Diseas being prepared and the passages opened to facilitate the evacuation the next thing is To consider what remedies wil electively expel the peccant humors in particular Now these Medicines do partly concern the humors and partly the parts wherein they are lodged but in each of them a du regard must be had to the Spirits The violent must be either totally prohibited or else exhibited after a du correction or a circumspect diminution of the dose and for yonger Children and such as are weak they must be the less in quantity and the more gentle in quality for great and lusty Children you may prepare stronger remedies and in a larger dose provided that they exceed not the strength of the Child In both causes it is safer to favor and go less then the strength wil bear than to transcend it in the least degree and in this affect it is altogether better to proceed by an Epichrasis then together and at once to attempt the ful evacuation of the peccant humors Moreover the predominant humors in the Body
require proper and peculiar remedies as Choler Medicines purging Choler Flegm Medicines purging flegm Melancholy Medicines purging Melancholy and waterish humors such as purge water Again If the Liver be oppressed with humors more than the other parts such Catharticks must be chosen as peculiarly belong to the Liver In like manner the Lungs being vehemently infested or the Brain and the other parts such remedies must be chosen as are appropriated to those parts But if there be not a ready supply of purging Simples peculiarly dedicated to those parts that defect must be made good by a prudent commixture of such ingredients as are familiar to those parts Lastly You must endeavor as much as possibly you can to make choice of such purgers as are directly opposite to the Essence of the Diseas In this respect we commend Rhubarb above al other simples For it is a Medicament moderatly hot and dry very familiar to the inherent Spirits of all the parts it gently dispelleth the stupefaction of the parts and strengthneth the softness loosness of the parts somwhat correcteth the internal slipperiness summons the Puls to the Arteries and encreaseth the heat of the outward parts and finally it cherisheth the vigor and activity of the inner parts and especially of those which are subservient to nourishment Ad in a word That it exceeding rarely provided that you give it in a just dose causeth superpurgation for it is a Medicament safe for all ages and every Complexion These things being premised we shal propound som simple purgative Medicines and som examples of the Compound For nothing hindreth but that many of the prerecited lenitives may be commodiously referred hither though in a different respect For there they are considered as quickners of the lenitives which of themselvs are somwhat dul But here rather as they qualify and attemper the violence of the strong Simple and Compound purging Medicines which are sold in the shops Manna Cassia fistula Tamarinds all the sorts of Myrobalans Rhubarb Aloes Syr. of Roses solut syr of Cichory with a double quantity of Rhubarb syrup Augustanus Scammony Agarick the seeds of bastard Saffron Mechoacan Jalap Turbith sweet Mercury syrup of Roses solutive with Agarick Epythymum Polypody of the oak Senna Syrup Magistralis against Melancholy syr of Apples of King Sapor Diabalzemer Electar lenitivum de prunis solut Electar passidat Diacatholicon Confectio Hamech Benedicta Lexativa Som Examples of extemporary Compounds Take syrrup Augustan one ounce syrrup of Roses solutive two drams Succhory water half an ounce to dissolv the syrrups make a potion to be administred in the morning upon an empty stomach Take the best Rhubarb beaten to pouder eighteen grains syrrup of Succhory with a double quantity of Rhubarb six drams syr ros solutive two drams water of the leavs of Fernbrake six drams mingle them for a potion this agreeth best with Cholerick Constitutions and such whose Livers are distempered Take the leavs of Senna Polypody of the Oak Epithymum of each a dram Rhubarb one scruple Christal of Tartar Fennel seeds of each a scrupel make an infusion in a sufficient quantity of fumitory water to the strayned infusion ad syrrup Magistralis six drams Cinnamon-Water seven drops els Langius his Antipeleptical Water half a scruple mingle them for a potion accomodated to Melancholy Constitutions Take the leavs of Senna two drams the pulp of Tamarinds six drams the seeds of Aniss Liquorice of each half a dram cremor of Tartar half a scruple make an infusion in a sufficient quantity of fountain water for the space of a night with three ounces of the strained infusion make an emulsion according to art with sweet Almonds blanched half an ounce The four greater cold seeds of each two scruples for two doses adding to each dose syrrup of succhory with a fourfold quantity of Rhubarb and the best Manna of each three drams This qualifieth and evacuateth sharp and adust humors Take lenitive electuary three drams Rhubarb a scruple Cremor Tartar and Anni-seeds of each half a scruple the flower of Burrage and Rosemary of each half a Pugil Fumatory water as much as is sufficient after you have infused them certain hours strain it through a thick Cloth And to an ounce and half of the infusion ad syrup of Apples of King Sapor half an ounce mix them together for a potion Take Elder flowers a pugil Rhubarb two scruples Jalap Mechoacan of each a scruple Cremor Tartar half a scruple Nutmegs fifteen grains first infuse them then boyl them gently in the water of broom flowers Rhennish Wine of each so much as is sufficient strain it And to an ounce and an half of the decoction ad syrup of Roses solutive half an ounce or six drams mix them together and make of them a potion which will be very agreable for such Bodies as are troubled with flegmatick or dropsical humors or a Cachexia Take of the leavs of senna a dram and an half Rhubarb two scruples Agrick trochiscated one scruple Tamarinds two drams Anni-seeds Cremor Tartar of each a scruple Rosemary flowers a pugil make an infusion in a sufficient quantity of fountain water and after a very gentle boyling to an ounce an half of the decoction ad syrup of Roses solutive with Agrick Magisterial syrup against Melancholy of each three drams mix them together for a potion to clense the Body of mixt humors Take the leavs of senna one dram and an half or two drams Agarick trochisc half a dram Fennel seeds half a dram flowrs of Chamomel ten in number Boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain water and to ten drams or an ounce and an half of the decoction ad half an ounce or six drams of syrrup of Roses solutive with Agarick Manna three drams mingle them for a Potton dedicated to evacuate thick and Flegmatick Humors Take sweet Mercury fifteen grains conserv of violets one dram powder of Gum Dragon one grain Mingle them and make them into a Bolus with syrups of violets to be given in the morning drinking after it an ounce of syrup of Roses solutive dissolving a draught of posset drink This is most proper for such Children as are troubled as well with the Rachites as the worms and on the contrary also for such as have the French Pox complicate with the Rachites also to such as are troubled with a Struma Take sweet Mercury twelve grains Jalap eleven grains Nutmegs half a grain the pulp of Raisins a dram Mingle them and with syrup of Violets make a Bolus to be taken in the morning Instead of Jalap you may make use of Diagrydium to three or four grains This is proper for Children that are afflicted with Strumatical Affects and such as are suspected to have the French Pox and such as are difficultly purged and are averse from Remedies of an ungrateful tast Take of sweet Mercury a dram gummy Jallop half a scruple white sugar dissolved in Betony water three drams or half
beat such things as are reducible to pouder make an Electuary according to art with syrup of Succory with Rhubarb a sufficient quantity Let the Sick take half a dram two scruples or a dram every morning either by it self or in a spoonful of Posset-Ale or som appropriated Syrup or else in Wine Take Conserv of Archangel flowers one ounce the flowers of Sage Clove-Gilliflowers Rosemary-flowers Myrobalans candied in India Citron Pills candied of each half an ounce red Sanders Cinnamon Spanish Liquoris of each half a dram Salt of Steel or els Saffron half a scruple with a sufficient quantity of syrup of Wormwood make your Electuary The dose and manner of using it is the same with the former CHAP. XXXIV Remedies that correct the Symptoms SOme Symptoms supervening upon this Affect do somtimes anticipate the legitamat Method of Cure and require a particular manner of proceeding Of this sort are the flux of the Belly the Lask wherwith somwhat of a Lientery is frequently joyned profuse Sweats laborious and painful breeding Teeth and the Toothach The flux of the Belly doth very much follow this Affect which if it persevere for any long time it is either very violent and easily watereth the Spirits consumeth the solid parts manifestly puts on the nature of a caus and as a caus indicates it s own correction A Bloody-flux rarely hapneth with this Diseas But a Lask with exulcerations in the Guts or complicated with a Lientery is very useful For in respect of the debility to the parts subservient to digestion a Lask or a Lyentery may easily supervene but not a Bloudy-flux Yet there is a frequent concurrence of other causes as of the indigested nourishment vicious either in quantity or quality som feaver watchings worms painful breeding Teeth c. al which things do likewise easily occasion a Lask or Lyentery rather than a Bloudy-flux As for the Cure it is partly perfected by Purgations partly by astringent Remedies partly by such as open and partly by such as strengthen the parts These Purgers are most proper which leave behind an evident binding after evacuation as Rhubarb Senna Tamarinds Myrobalans c. out of which for the most part we frame a Bolus or Potions becaus they are most easily swallowed under those forms As Take Conserv of Red Roses half an ounce Rhubarb in Pouder twelve grains with a sufficient quantity of syrup of Coral make a Bolus to be given in the morning Take of the Pulp of Tamarinds one dram Rhubarb in Pouder seven grains Sugar of Roses half a dram with a sufficient quantity of syrup of Quinces make your Bolus Instead of this Syrup you may use syrup of Coral or syrup of Mint or syrup of Myrtles or syrup of Pomgranats Take Senna half a dram Rhubarb one scruple Tamarinds a dram and an half Anniseeds bruised ten grains Infuse them in a sufficient quantity of fountain water boyl them very gently and to an ounce and an half of the Decoction ad syrup of dried Roses half an ounce mingle them together for a Potion Take Plantan or Succory water or Saxifrage water one ounce Rhubarb in pouder ten grains syrup Augustan syrup of dried Roses of each two drams Mingle them and make your Potion It must be observed That a more full evacuation is somtimes requisit namly when the flux hath not been immoderat or of long continuance and in the mean time the matter offending hath bin copiously collected in the Body In which case in lieu of the Syrup of dried Roses you may take som drams of syrup of Roses solutive syr Augustan or of Succory with Rhubarb or Manna But commonly the safest way is to augment the dose of Rhubarb or els of Senna not omitting the syrup of dried Roses In the evening after the Purgation you may administer ten grains of Diascordium boyled in Wine with Cloves and a little Cinnamon and mixed with a third part of Erratick Poppy water and some cordial Syrups as Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers to strengthen the Spirits and to stay the Flux or if the Flux be stubborn you may mingle two drams of Diacodium for a dose instead of the Syrup aforesaid Or Take of Posset-drink made with white-Wine the Curd being taken off aromatize it with a little Saffron tied up in a rag crushing it gently between your Fingers Confectio Alkermes one scruple Pomgranat Pils in pouder seven grains Diacodium two drams mix them together to be taken when the Child is minded to sleep Or Take Laudanum according to the London Dispensatory half a grain Magister of Coral twelve grains Conserve of Clove-Gilliflowers or Red Roses one scruple with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make a Bolus to be taken at bed-time If there be obstructions you may prescribe Crocus Mâ—rtis or Salt of Steel to be taken in the morning As Take Conserve of Roses one ounce the Roots of Succory preserved Myrobalans preserved in India of each half an ounce Salt of Steel half a scruple or Crocus Martis one scruple Cinnamon Liquoris red Coral of each eighteen grains Saffron a grain and a half Syrup of Succory without Rhubarb a sufficient quantity make your Electuary according to art wherof let the Child take half a dram each morning Red hot Iron may be quenched to the same purpose in its ordinary drink If the Child be troubled with a violent flux you may give it som binding Conserves imagin Conserve of Sloes and mix it with such things as the Child delights to eat but in so doing be sure you pleas its Palat. Somtimes a profuse and excessive sweating find a peculiar business for the Physitian in this affect for it very much wasts the Spirits and retards the cure of the diseas Yet caution must be used not to restrain it rashly if perhaps there be a Feaver or if any feaverish fit or immoderat heat hath gon before For in these cases it may be upon a critical time or at least it may bring more advantage to the Body by the mitigation of the Feaver than damage by the loss of the Spirits For we know not whether any thing doth more potently or indeed more sweetly expel the feaverish heat thaÌ„ sweating In the interim when it floweth inordinately and causlesly it argueth that the Body is oppressed with obstructions with crude juyces and unprofitable superfluities which whilst Nature striveth to master and to subdu by that very labor the openness of the pores withal concurring it is evaporated by sweat and indeed an unprofitable one very laborious and such as wasteth the Spirits which therfore as soon as possible must be corrected This Hippocrates meant where he adviseth That that sweat which floweth away without cause requireth purgation For what can more commodiously diminish and dissipate these superfluities Again this motion is contrary to sweating wherfore it meriteth the preheminence among the remedies opposed to this Sympton and seing that it clears the way for Medicines aperient and such as strengthen
vomiting remedies but presupposing both a fitness of the Body and Humors to this evacuation as is required in the first and second Caution even gentle vomits may expel such humors as are seated in the first passages The thing must be said of the strong being prudently corrected and sparingly applied For by reason of the correction and diminute quantity they do not much shake and discompose the Body or provoke Nature and again through the proclivity of the Stomach and Humors they are sufficient to reward this Scope with a laudable success We will now subjoyn some few Examples Take the tops of Groundsel half an handful Raisons one ounce boyl them in a pound of Ale to the consumption of one half To three ounces of Colature ad half an ounce of Syr. Acetos simpl Mingle them drink them luke-warm Or Take the Infusion of Crocus-metallorum in Spanish Wine made in a cold place and well purified by subsidence one dram a dram and an half or two drams according to the age and strength of the sick half a dram of Syr. Acetos simp Posset-drink an ounce and an half Cinamon Water ten drops or instead therof if there be any fear of Convulsions one scruple of Aq. Antepilept Lang. Mingle them and drink it warm Take the Juyce of the Leaves of Asarabacca half a dram two scruples or a dram Syrup Acetos simp two drams Mingle them with a sufficient quantity of Posset-drink Take Salt of Vitriol from five to ten grains Give it in Posset drink Lenitive Catharticks These Evacuant Medicines produce their Effects without tumult and therfore they requir not so great circumspection as Vomiting Compositions or such as are electively Purgant Yet three things must be considered in the Use of them 1. That they do not nausiat the Ventricle with such an ingrateful tast and favor as may render an abhorrence from all future Medicaments 2. That they oppress not the Stomach by an immoderat quantity 3. That the potion drunk be not presently vomited up To prevent this last danger it will be a good way presently to bedew and moisten the Mouth with some pleasant and agreable Liquor or with candid Cherries or preserv'd Barberries 3 or to temper the juyce of Orenges or the like These Lenitives may be divided into Simple Compound and these again into such as are sold in the Shops and such as are newly made and accomodated to the present scope of the Physitian There are found very few Simples that of themselvs wil satisfie this scope as Manna Cassia fistula Aloe soccatrina Tamarinds Polypodium of the Oak But very ineffectually unless they be compounded with other Purgative Ingredients more follow as Jujubes Sebestens sweet Prunes and Damascens Figs Dates the Pap or Pulp of rosted Apples the Flowers of Mallows Violets Pellatory of the wall Mercury the Roots of Marshmallous Liquoris the four greater cold Seeds the Seeds of Mallows sweet Almonds rare Egs Fatty substances Butter Oyl of Olives Oyl of Almonds Whey and the like These although of themselves they are of smal efficacy yet by the commixture of other Catharticks they require a gentle purgative quality not to be contemned The Lenitive compound Catharticks which are sold in Shops are these Cassia extracted with or without Senna Diacassia Electuarium Lenitivum Diaprunum lenitivum Electuarium passulatum A common Decoction for a Medicine A Decoction of Flowers Fruits Syrup and Honey of Violets Syrup of Roses solutive Honey of Mercury Honey of Raisons Conserve of damask Roses Of the Flowers of Mallows of Violets To these may be subjoyned som extempory forms As Take of the best Calabrian Manna six drams Cremor of Tartar seven grains Posset-Ale in which a few Aniseeds have been boyled an ounce and an half Mingle and give them in the morning Take of Polypodium of the Oak two ounces White Tartar prepared two drams sweet Apples twelve handfuls Raisons of the Sun stoned one ounce Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a pound In the Decoction infuse all night long Choice Senna an ounce and an half Rhubarb two drams Pulp of Cassia new drawn half an ounce Tamarinds an ounce Liquoris the Seeds of Annis and Coriander of each a dram and an half The next morning strain it through a linnen Cloth and to eight ounces of the Decoction ad White Sugar six ounces Boyl it a little and when you have don so ad to it Manna dissolved in Syrup of Roses of each two ounces Syrup of Violets one ounce Make of them a Lenitive Syrup Let the diseased Child take an ounce either in Succory Water or Water of Pellitory of the wall with a dram of the Juyce of Lemmons Take of Lenitive Electuary one dram and an half or two drams Syrup of Roses solutive two drams and an half Cremor of Tartar ten grains Posset-ale a sufficient quantity Mingle and administer them early in the morning Take of Aloes washt or Aromatical Pils seven grains Make two Pills with Syrup af Roses solutive put them into two Candid Cherries the skius being pulled off and let them be swallowed whol lest the tast be offensive about sleeping time in the evening In the morning give to drink after them one ounce of Syrup of Roses solutive in Posset Ale Or Take of Syrup of Roses solutive six drams Violets half an ounce Juyce of Lemons one dram Electuarium Passulatum one dram Mingle them with Succory or Pellitory Water and give them in the morning fasting Thus much of those Medicines as clear the first passages CHAP. XXXI Remedies Preparatory and their Vse THese Remedies partly relate to the preparation of the Humors partly to the waies thorow which they are to be expelled and partly to the passages themselvs wherin they are contained Now it must be known That the Evacuation which is perfected by Vomits doth least of any pre-requir any preparation but that which is accomplished by Catharticks or Medicins Purging doth most of all exact it First The Humors in general to be prepared are either Flegmatick namly cold which must be qualified and tempered with hot thick and must be attenuated viscous and must be cut and opened or Cholerick namly sharp bitter burning corrosive which are to be mitigated with lenifying and aswaging Medicins or Melancholly namly earthy feculent tartarous which by a benignity of application must be rendred fluxible or lastly serous and waterish which must be disposed and as it were manuducted either to the Urinary passages as by pissing or to the Belly as by siege or to the parts near the Skin that they may with the more facility evaporate by Sweating Secondly The waies thorow which the Evacuation must be effected ought also to be made fit and prepared and not only the common but also the special by which the peccant matter in particular is conveyed to those common Channels For there is one preparation of the Vessels of the Kidnies which is chiefly expedited by Medicins of a slippery and loosning
the skin and move forward concoction which perfect the last part of the cure it ought in al right to be premised before them Purgative Medicines hitherto belonging are those that are observed to be friendly and agreable to Nature and withal such as open obstructions and strengthen the Bowels al which things whither any Simple can perform so wel as Rubarb we very much doubt Yet al those Simpl and Compound Medicaments proposed above in the Chapter of Remedies Electively evacuant may according to the Condition of the Patient and the Prudence of the Physitian be transplanted hither Som very much commend Beer in this case medicated with Rubarb Take Rubarb cut into any smal peeces two Drams Raisins stoned and slit one ounce smal Bear two pound put them into a Glass or stone flagon stopt with the best Cork set it in a very cold place and stir it very often but before you use it let it settle again a whol day then draw out the liquor for your ordinary drink When the flagon is empty fil it again with beer but put not in a new quantity of Rhubarb Moreover The most noble Aperients which both help concoction and repress unprofitable sweating are French Wine and Rhennish Wine But if there be any fear of their heat in this tender age they may be tempered with rosted Apples Borage or red Rose-water adding a little Sugar and grated Nutmeg let them be also taken in a lesser quantity and only at meals They are likewise the most effectual Aperients which do not only help concoction but also strengthen the Tone of al the parts especially of the Bowels Among which we chiefly commend things made with steel as wine made with steel and the Electuary before named and the like Now although steel doth indeed effectually perform those things which we have said yet because it doth not in all respects answer to som other scopes of great moment in this affect but doth more hurt sometimes in one particular than it doth good in another we thought it expedient to subjoyn these following Cautions concerning the use therof First Seing that Steel is an enemy to the Lungs and doth easily stir a cruel flux of flegmatick matter in tender Bodies therfore you must totally abstain from the use therof where there is any Cathar Cough obstruction of the Lungs and much more if there be any Inflamation Pleurisie Blood-spitting or a proness of disposition to any of these affects Secondly Becaus Steel contributes little or nothing to the operation of the Blood but on the contrary however it may attenuat the tough and flegmatick part thereof doth rather expedit the separation therof from the other mass of Blood by reason of the tart quality that is predominent in it it cannot be admitted but with circumspection especially that inequality of the Blood being so importunat and urgent Thirdly Seing that the attenuating cutting and opening faculty in Steel is conjoyned with an apparent and extream driness and binding and therfore perhaps doth more compact those humors than dissolve and scatter them the use therof ought to be refrained at least suspected in any considerable Alogotrophy of the parts For the fear is lest it should bind too close and consolidate the short parts of the Bones those that are too scantily nourished wherby afterwards they may becom less prompt and apt to grow in length but the parts sticking out as also the convex sides of the Bones which are liberally nourished it cannot dissolve and then there may be a jealousie that it will too much confirm them and make them stubborn namly by an extream thickning and hardning of them Fourthly In all acute Feavers the use of Steel is hurtful because it over-dryeth and bindeth the Parts yea for that very regard that it restraineth Sweating and makes the humors more fierce and sharp These Cautions being rightly observed we admit the use of Steel in this Affect but becaus Mountebanks and Quacks cannot distinguish between the use and the abuse we would not perswade any to make tryal of this noble Medicine without the advise and counsel of some prudent and knowing Physitian becaus if it be not circumspectly administred the danger is very great Some other Aperients of less note may serve this scope as the Roots of Succhory or Borrage or Conserve of their Flowers the Roots of Grass Sparagus Fernbrake Madder the Leaves of Ceterach Spleenwort Maidenhair c. Among the Compounds Species Diatr santal Diarrhod abbat c. Or Take of the best Sugar three ounces dissolve it in Rose Water and boyl it a little beyond the consistence of a Syrup then ad Conserv of Barberies one ounce Diatri Santal and Diarrhod Abbat of each one dram pouder of Saffron one grain mingle them and make your Electuary The painful breeding and the aching of the Teeth are the familiar Symptoms of the Rachites and becaus they breed Feavers unquietness watchings and other evils they also deserve a peculiar mitigation if the Tooth therfore as it is working through the Gum puts the Child to very much pain you must without delay unless it were done before appoint some universal evacuation as a Vomit which is thought to be a potent remedy against the Toothach Now that may be moved by the only tickling of the Throat putting in a Feather or the Nurses Finger into the Childs mouth or else with rubbing the Tooth that is breaking forth with a Tobacco Leaf wrapped about the Nurses Finger and a little moistned with Beer or lastly by giving some vomiting draught above described But this remedy is forbidden reiteration in regard that it too much may weaken the Stomach The day following the pain persisting or returning some Cathartick Potion or Bolus among those above rehersed or like unto those must be administred After this universal Evacuation you must descend to Topical Remidies Nurses are wont to rub the Gums with Corral polished for that purpose But the Physitians do rather commend the Root of Marsh Mallows which do mollifie and loosen the Gums that they may obtain the more easie passage Others report it for a great secret to rub the aching Tooth with the Root of the sharpest Sorrel Others very much commend the rubbing of that Gum where the Tooth is coming out with a Cocks Comb newley cut off or with the hot Blood distilling from that Wound We have had no experience of those things which they use to instill into the Ears in like manner neither the Plaisters of Mastich Olibanum or red Lead which in those of full growth are observed to stop the Rhewm Others apply small Epispastick Plaisters behind the Ears which perhaps compel back the matter that breeds the pain in the Teeth But neither do we interpose our judgment concerning these things Only when Universals are unavailable we have recours to Hypnotical Remedies which indeed by outward application profit little but being taken inwards they are very helpful especially being rightly prepared and
Belly or of the Abdomen and the Hypochondries somtimes lifting up the Bowels somtimes depressing them somtimes removing them towards the right somtimes towards the left hand and somtimes thrusting in the tops of the Fingers under the Bastard Ribs And Physitians hope and not without reason that by this action they may deliver the Liver from any preternatural growing with the Peritoneum if any such should chance to be And here we note by the way that such growing of that Bowel may easily happen in this affect by reason of the greatness of the Liver and the stretching of the Hypochondriacal parts wherupon the Peritoneum and the Membrane of the Liver are are most neerly and strictly conjoyned and being conjoyned may remain long in the same Position and so by the help of time they may easily grow together This growing together in as much as it dependeth as we have said upon the stretching of the Hypochondries and the bigness of the Liver it may not incongruously be referred to the secondary Essence of this Diseas namely to the organical parts viciated among which it deserves to be reckoned although above we chanced to omit it in its proper place and therfore we thought good to mention it here Thus much of Exercises now follow the External Applications CHAP. XXXVI Things to be Externally Applied THese remedies as we have said do not only prerequire Friction but for the most part they are administred with a gentle Friction Now they are either General or Universal respecting all parts alike or Particular and dedicated to certain Regions of the Body The matter of the Universals is almost the same with that which we have propounded above in the Chapterof Specifical Alterant Remedies but the matter of the particulars must be distinguished according to the variety of the Regions of the Body unto which they are applied The forms of either kind seem to be common and they are five in number Liquors Oyls Liniments Oyntments Playsters although Plaisters are dedicated rather to certain parts and never are at once applied to the whol Body Liquors that have been commended by long experience in this Affect are almost all kinds of Wine but especially Muskadine But some do prefer the Pruisian Beer which indeed may help much to strengthen and consolidate the Parts but very little or nothing at all to effect the equation of the Blood or an equal distribution of it The same judgment is also to be made of Aligant as also of red Wine Some instead of Wine use ordinary Aqua vitae which is beleeved to be nothing inferior to Wine Decoctions also may be prepared for the same use As Take the Roots of Royal Osmond the Leaves of Sage the Flowers of Marigolds the Leaves of Bay-tree Pauls Betony Hartstongue of each half an handful Rosemary red Roses dried of each one pugil boyl them in Fountain Water and ordinary Aqua vitae of each a pound to the consumption of the third part strain it and keep for your use Or Take the roots of the male Fernbrake one ounce the leaves of royal Osmond Clary Bay tree Sage Pauls Betony of each half a handful infuse them in some Wine and keep the strained liquor for your use But these Liquors are seldom or never administred alone but must be mixt with equal parts of Oyls Liniments or Ointments and indeed they must be used before a warm fire and rubbed on with a hot hand til they be dry Compound Oyls such as are approved in this Affect are very few and those ineffectual but there are many Simple Oyls as Oyl of Earth-worms Chamamile Marygold flowers Pauls Betony Neats-foot Oyl unto which you may also ad Oyl of Foxes Oyl of Whelps Oyl of Swallows provided that these last be prepared Simply by themselves without any commixture of extream hot ingredients Oyl of Exeter although some Practitioners use it and though it be a little hotter then is fit to be used alone to so tender an age as is troubled with this Diseas and so are other things which are vulgarly used as Oyl of Castoreum or Jacobi de Manliis and Ung. Antiparalyticis and other Ointments as de Nervino Martiato Aregon and the like And the reason is because such a numness afflicts not these as it doth such as are Paralitical nor the same Defect of Vital Spirits nor the same unequal distribution of nourishment But because this is a new Diseas if any desire Oyls Ointments or Liniments proper to the Evil let him make use of a right Method an able Physitian a specifical way either of Oyls or Ointments as we shal shew you by these examples Take the leaves of red Sage Betony Pimpernel Marygold flowrs of each two handfuls the roots of royal Osmund six ounces May Butter three pound white Wine half a pound cut the Herbs bruise the Roots and boil them according to art til the Wine be consumed Afterwards strain them being yet hot and put to them oyl of Nutmegs drawn by expression one ounce and an half mingl them diligently and after setling casting away the dregs make your Ointment which you may reserve in a glass Vessel for your use Or Take the leaves of Brooklime Chamomile Watercresses garden Scurvygrass Pauls Betony Motherwort Maiden-hair Hartstongue Ceterach Bayleavs the tops of Mint red Sage Rosemary Ivy-berries of each half a handful the Roots of royal Osmund four ounces Muscadale half a pound May Butuer three pound cut the Leaves bruis the Berries and boil them all to the consumption of the Wine strain it whilst it is hot and separating the pure substance from the setlings make an Ointment according to art Or Take the leavs of red Sage Pauls Betony Hartstongue stinking Gladon of each two handfuls the roots of royal Osmond six ounces the tops of Lavender Rosemary Bay-leavs of each a handful common Aquae vilae one pound Oyl of Neats-feet and Foxes of each half a pound Deers-suet or the suet of an Ox Oyl of Worms of each one pound boil them to the consumption of the Aquae vitae strain out the Ointment whilst it is hot and making a seperation of the dregs keep it for your use Fourthly Take the green leavs of royal Osmond six handfuls Pimpernels Morigold-flowrs the leavs of red Sage Clary Mother-wort Brook-lime Watercresses of each a handful the leavs of Rosemary Bay of each half a handful chop them together very smal and beat them diligently in a Marble or Wooden Morter with a wooden Pestle with six pound of unsalted Butter and so let them stand fourteen days then melt them gently in a Bath and as soon as they begin to be hot strain them and then put in a new quantity of Herbs as before at length strain and purify your Ointment and keep it for occasions To these general external Remedies som particular ones relating to som certain parts of the Body may be sub-joyned as if the region of the Abdomen especially the Hypocondria be stretched hard and