faulty Liver a Cough is easily moved and the Belly is hard If the Belly be loose and moist without ease the parts as the veins about the small guts are affected with a hectick heat and are the cause of ît In which case purgatives are often mortal If it follow melancholick diseases it cometh from fault of the Spleen They that are in an agony hope well which is wonderful it is sooner cured in servants then Masters young men then old men Those that have their bowels sound they in the beginning are freed of the disease by vomit scowring sweat urine The Cure 1. The remedies must be varied 2. They must abstain for some daies between from Physick 3. We must not proceed to stronger remedies unless the milder be in vain 4. Let the form be rather dry The continent cause is evacuated by purging feldom by vomit If it wander in the Abdomen and the Mesentery by sweat and urine if it be on this side the Liver Purgatives are besides the common the juyce of the root or middle shell of the dwarf Elder pressed forth not boyled with Barley water or Raysins for should it be boyled it vanisheth The Dose is one ounce Oyl is pressed forth of the berries of Elders as out of Linseed it is given to one dram The extract of the berries of dwarf Elder The grain or seed of Ricinus one or two hulled they are called grana Tilli gutta gummi which some think to be the juyce of Ricinus The juyce of our Orris with Honey Raysins Gum traganth for given by itself it burneth the Throat The juyce of wild Cucumber is not so vehement as they commonly report Mucilages are added to it The golden Spirit of life of Rul which many say is nothing else then the essence of Trochis Alhandal For. commendeth or prescribeth these that follow Take the species of the lesser Indi one dram and half root of Mechoacan four scruples roots of Elecampane Burnet of each half a scruple make a powder give a third part with wine Or Take roots of Orris dwarf Elder Parsley Smallage Kneeholme Elecampane fern of each one darm Hysop Centory Wormwood leaves of Elder which are the best Savory Finger-ferne dodder of each one handful the middle barks of Elder Gratiola Betony of each half a handful Madder roots sweet Cane sliced of each two drams Anniseed and wild Carrot seed of each one dram and half seeds of wild Saffron bruised half an ounce leaves of Senna one ounce and half Polypod of the oak half an ounce Broom flowers half a handful Juniper berries one dram Sea cole half a handful Raysins one ounce Liccoris scraped half an ounce Cinger Cinamon of each one dram boil all in sufficient water to one pound and half to the straind liquor add syrup Bizantine or Eupatory and Calamine of each one ounce make a decoction Or Take Senna leaves half an ounce Anniseed one dram leaves of Mountain Pepper half a dram Roots of green Orris a little bruised three drams and half Sea cole half a dram infuse them in nine ounces of whey boyl them and presse them out add honey of Roses two ounces for to take at twice being first strained If there be a Feaver For. puts for Mountain Pepper 4 drams and half of Rheubarb Spicknard one scruple Or Take juyce of Orris half an ounce whey two ounces and half raw Honey one ounce and half boyl them and strain them add Spicknard half a scruple Cinamon one scruple Diagridium three grains Apply purgative Topicals Liverwort and juyce of Scurvey-grasse taken daily to one ounce strengthen well Crato Ep. 123. gives with great successe the extract of the root of Orris He puts Henbane under the feet in the same Epistle For. with the only use of Garlick cured many Topicalls are Take unguent of Agrippa two ounces juyce of dwarf Elder or Elder 1 ounce boyl them to consumption of the juyce make an ointment for the Belly and the Feet If there be a Scirrhus apply emollients A certain old woman cast Frogs called land-roads alive into a pot and boyled them with oyl of Olives she annointed the Belly Feet with that miraculously This following is a secret of For. Take of the roots of dwarf Elder green six handfuls roots of Briany one pound outward bark of Elder four handfuls leaves of wild Cucumbers two handfuls Red cole six handfuls Mallow leaves two handfuls Marsh mallow leaves three handfuls grosse Bran five handfuls Camomil flowers three handfuls Mellilot flowers two handfuls dry Wormwood three handfuls boyl them sufficiently in sufficient quantity of water beat together add unguent Agri three ounces Barly meal half a pound make a Cataplasm for the Legs unto the Knees Or take juyce of Orris juyce of the roots of dwarf Elder and of Elder juyce of Briony of each one ounce unguent of Agrippa three ounces boyl them for a soft ointment A woman died by a Vesicatory applyed to her Feet Fab. obs 49. c. r. Gradus saith that it wonderfully draweth watery humours to it if living Frogs be put into an artificial Bath Paracentesis hath only place when the forces are strong and the Bowells safe otherwise the Belly quickly swelleth and other remedies are but vain when the Navel is lifted up into a large and light bladder Sanctorius saith That the Vessels of the Navel may be so dilated with an Instrument that they may void out the water If it swell not below the Navel on the right side if the Liver be ill on the left if the Spleen let it be cut three or four fingers from the White line and put in a Pipe closed with linnen that nothing may come forth but by little and little when the Physitian pleases as in Empyema The Scrotum is conveniently 〈◊〉 as is taught of Feb. cent 1. obs 48. In an that are Hydropical Rondelet saw the Pancreas hardened Sweat unlesse Nature brings it to that of its own accord will hardly profit Internals are and insensibly take away water Theriacal salts for to sweat Let Steel topical Resolvers and Fomentations alone A spunge steeped in Wine wherein Salt Bran and Mugwort are boyled Thirst is not taken away by water but by Oxycratum If there be a Feaver mingle cold things with hot burnt braffe made up in Pills from one dram to one dram and half Above the Ankle four days skin is profitably opened with a penknife a little deeper then when a Vein is opened and it must be rubbed with salt least the blood grow together and so the water is happily let forth Put Henbane leaves under the Feet A Dropsy from melting comes in a hot burning Feaver from burning heat it is cured by things that cool heat and by such as void water The Dropsy Tympanites it scarce differs from Ascites for you shall seldom find wind without water so contrarily It is also called a dry Dropsy The Cause is wind shut up in the Abdomen and also in the Intestins
effect is called Die Breun it cometh with shaking As led by the Hand they shew the pain of the stomach and cannot endure to be touched there for it is hard There is an unquenchable thirst and a delirium They almost all fall into deasnesse and swelling behind the Ears The Cure If it come by contagion giving a gentle remedy to bring forth the dung give presently an Antidote but if there be pain of the stomach anguish heat nauseating those humours must first be taken away by purging or vomiting with Agarick Senna leaves Diaphaenicon Rosarum Mesves c. Vomits here are often the most profitable The humours being voided or if there were no such the first or second day open a Vein though the first day the spots should appear so there be strength Almost all who neglected bleeding at the first died If there be Vomiting or Scowring it is more safely let alone Open the Liver or Medias of a Vein in the Foot which is most commodious of all chiefly in women Also it may be done on the third day After the third day Vomits Purges for opening a Vein is mortal Cupping glasses instead of opening a Vein may be set to the lower parts then we must fight with Antidotes yet with such as do not increase the Feaver One dram of Species liberantis Bezar stone Harts horne flowers of Brimstone Amber Zedoans all things of a Pome-citron The roots a part and Bezar a part are all most effectual Afterwards Diureticks may be given The drink must be neither wine nor beer let it be the decoction of Harts-horn with spirit of Vitriol or Barly water with juyce of Lemmons Symptoms of Feavers Pain of the Head is cured by general means by Topicals Many commend a Radish root cut in slices and laid to the feet first washed with Salt and Vinegar Juyce of Housleek and Alces of America For Housleek on houses is full of juyce in the greatest heat but flags in a cloudy aire because it draweth the dryer vapours for its nourishment The root of Rhodia is commended one ounce with Rose water half a pound boyl them apply the decoction with a linnen cloth to the Head The unguent of Alabaster with Populeum must be anoynted on the Coronal suture Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone and moystners that are of the strongest as with the water or juyce of Housleek Sal prunella spirit of Vitriol Barley water Thirst if it be from heat of the Lungs the Mouth is dry they can hardly speak which cannot be quenched with drink but it will presently come again Here it is better to take in the coldest Aire than to drink It is good to hold cold water in the Mouth preserved Cherries Lettice leaves Purslane preserved or sprinkled with cold water Oxycratum pieces of Pome-citrons conserves of Sorrel pieces of Cucumbers Gourds first sprinkled with Sugar Crystal Tamarinds Strawberries garden Currence to hold in the Mouth The decoction of the Roots of Sorrel which will look like red Wine Give drink in the vigour If the cause be in the stomach the humour must be voided namely that is hot and sharp The white Feaver is a disease or a symptome with a pale colour of the Face languishing of the Forces heavinesse of the limbs loathing of meat panting of the heart difficulty of breathing sadnesse a flegmatick swelling of the Face Hands and Feet from depraved nourishment and plenty of crude humours proceeding from an ill disposition of the Bowels Liver Spleen Stomach and so from obstruction of the Vessels about the Womb and the Bowels that are neer and from thence the Courses being stopped The cure is the same as for Leucâ—phlegmatia yet so that the Womb must be regarded as in the stopping of the Courses yet so that the Bowels must be looked too A lenitive opening a Vein unlesse the disease be inveterate the Blood and Forces being corrupted Purgatives Aperients Diaphoreticks Marriage unlesse the Cacochymia be too great are good cheifly Steel after general Remedies The root of Scorsonera taken any way Bezar stone A FICUS cancerated Fab. obs 1. c. 1. A cancerated Ficus in the right Ey A fit Dyet being prescribed a Clyster given water of Borrage Sorrel Betony being drunk with syrup of the juyce of Lemmons and Pomegranates a Vein being opened and Leeches set behind the Ears on the same side and cupping glasses applyed to the Shoulders an infusion of Rheubarb and Senna being given made of waters of Betony Eybright Agrimony with syrup of Roses and the Feet being washed in the decoction of hot things he washed the Ey with distilled water against the Cancer and applyed an Intercipient to the fore-head Yet the Tumor increasing when out of it at once there flew 73. ounces of blood and a half by Chirurgery he took out the Eye The fear of the Patient stopped the Flux of blood and a painful Ligature about his Limbs wherefore a Lenitive drink is ordered and a Cordial or water of Buglors Roses Violets balm of each one ounce syrup of Citron pills and Sorrel of each one dram confectio Alkermes one dram Powder of Diamber half a dram and to the Heart was â—aid an Epitoeme sowed between of flowers leaves seeds cordial powders made up with Cotton on red Sarsnet The stomach was annointed with a stomach ointment The Chirurgical part being done a powder of the Author to stay blood with the white of an Egg was plentifully cast on A defensative was laid to the Fore-head and a Digestive to the wound And lest nature should again send the humours thither he set a Settace between the first and third Spondiâ— A FISSURA on the Nipples or Chaps It proceeds from violent sucking and a cholerick humour It is not credible that it comes from drinesse here as it doth in other parts It is prevented if in the three last Moneths or the last Moneth only two cups of wax like to Acorn cups or Fox gloves be made and filled with Rosin of the Firr tree and laid to the Nipples and held there with linnen cloths when the Rosin is spent we must put in more Topicals must be emolient also the juyce of Crab-fish with Cream If they cause pain when the Child sucketh lay on the Nipples a cup of pewter or silver peirced through and covered with the Dug of a Cow new killed for so the Child will suck and yet not touch the Nipple with his Lips General remedies are Coolers and such as purge choler The same way all other Chaps are cured A FISTULA is a winding Ulcer white straight callous from dried fleam and oft times is without pain Signs Prognosticks Fistulaes with notable rottennesse of the bones as of the Huckle and the Hip-bone which pierce to the Bowels which are in a part that hath principal Nerves the Body being weak are to be left by Prognosticks Signs Diagnostick Prove them by a leaden Probe a wax Candle If there be
rather fight with medicamentary aliments then with Medicaments POYSON must alwaies be brought out the same way it went into the Body Opening a Vein purging have no place before the third day All unctuous things as Oyl Butter c. are good So Causticks will not ulcerate the part anointed with Oyl If it were taken by the Mouth the first care is to cast it forth by Vomit with fat things adding Antidotes against Poyson If it be got to the Intestins then cast in fat Clysters or give Purgatives with Antidotes as Scorzonera Citrons Sorrel Agarick Aloes Lastly give Specificals Outwardly on the Arteries beating anoint the oyl of Caravita often proved the Basis is Hypericon and Scorpions hide it in a hot carcase Sweaters Milk for meat If it were communicated outwardly let it be cured as these that follow so if one have taken Cantharides sublimate or the like use injections drinks decoctions Baths Topicals and all Internals must be Coolers Moystners If it be the biting of a mad dog close not the wound before fourty days but as often as it would cicatrice keep it open with ashes of a Vine or Fig-tree First of all make hard Ligature above the wound that the poyson spread no further Secondly Call it forth wherefore let the blood run out largely scarify the wound and enlarge it by cutting set Cupping glasses to it also other Artractives to which always add Theriac juyce of Hypericon c. as Doves-dung Urine Pickle Ducks-grease Aqua vitae Wine Vinegat Salt old Treacle Mustard Wash it with most forcible Chafing Garlick Onions Leeks Rue Germander hot Fowls dissected laid on hot but nothing doth so much good as an actual Cautery so the Poyson be not sunk too deep into the Body The Eschar scarified deep must not be removed by oyly means because they hinder transpiration Fab. obs 87. cent 1. old Treacle dissolved in Aqua vitae surpasseth all Remedies Par. with this wash the part strongly and let linnen cloths wet therein be laid to it on which lay attractives Sorrel sharp Docks beaten and laid on the juyce the decoction is good Use these till the pain and various colour cease and laudable quitter be made 3. Specificals also Coolers must be given as cause shall be With Galen above all is the ashes of burnt river Crabs two spoonfuls with one spoonful of the powder of Gentian root and strong Wine Cauteries after the third or the seventh day will not do good An Issue is profitably made on the place affected If it pierce to the inward parts we must purge forcibly by Hellebour also by Antimony saith Paraeus Wash all the Pulses every six hours with oyl of Caravita which they of old called the oyl of the great Duke of Hetruria or with the oyl of Scorpions of Mathiolus Pliny above all commends the root of the Eglantine Eat Garlick Diaphoreticks are most profitable Bird-lime of the Oke the wood is most effectual taken or applyed If madness be at hand lay Sinapisms to the Arms and Thigns Give Antidots in a double Dose whether they will or not Sleep must be avoided till the force of the poyson be broke Let them eat their fill They that come to fear the water are past cure unless they know themselves in a glass A mad Dog seeing the water is afraid of it other dogs fly away If they be taken they fawn on him If a house-Dog refuse to eat or smell to a piece of Bread sineared with the filth of the wound the Dog that bit was mad RENUNCIATIO is called a great wound 1. For the greatness of dissolved unity 2. For the principallity of the part 3. For the ill custome of the Body hurt Let the Chirurgion suspend his judgment until the ninth day lest he be deceived RINGING in the Ears The cause is some matter sticking in the Ear that moveth the Faculty Oft times it is wind lifted up from divers parts The Cure varieth Generals premised some bid take the Fume of Hemlock-seed boyled in Vinegar Fumes of Vinegar and the vapour of it with one Gall. Some apply hot bread sprinkled with Spirit of Wine to the Far resolâ—ing oyls sneezing before supper and in the morning apply Topicals for when they are fed the head is filled STONE of the Reins The cause is Tartar a andy and stony constitution of the Reins Fernelius faith a driness of the Reins Platerus heat Also Venery exercise presently after meat Meat Ayre Drink Concoction hurt Signs diagnostick A burning and painful making of water snotty Urine Belly stopt Fab. obs 63. c. 1 Sense of pain in the Glans obs 66. c. 1. Astonishment of the Leg on the side affected because the Muscle Psoas is pressed or the Nerve of it there is Nauseating and Vomiting from the Nerve of the sixth conjugation It is distinguished from the Colick pain 1. Because in the Colick the pain is most acute because the pain is extended above the Reins 2. Pain of the Colick is moveable of the stone fast 3. In the Colick rather the Belly in the Stone the water is stopt 4. The Nephritick pain by reason of the Ureters descends oft times to the Testicles but in the Colick not so 5. The Colick is most commonly sharpest on the left side by the straightness of the Colon there The cure In the Paroxysm cast in an emollient Clyster evacuant or give such a Potion of Bolus c. 2. If the Body be Plethorick open a Vein in the Arm but if it flow to the part affected in the Ankle 3. We must use all emollient internal means and external as a Cataplasm of the leaves of Pellitary Mallows beaten and boyled with the Mucilage of Linseed Fenugrec a Bath of Marshmallows and a Semicupium of softning things Internals are syrup De Althaea Fernel Also that of Eorestus so much approved Take seeds of mallows Marsh-mallows of each 3 drams red Chiches 3 drams the four great cold seeds of each 2 drams hulled Barley 2 ounces far Figs 12 Sebestens 7 scraped Licoris 1 dram boyl all in four pound of water to two pound Crato applyed Crab-fish boyled in Milk Milk with crumbs of Bread or Take juyce of Purslane thickned one dram Gum Arabick half a dram make Pills The Passages thus loosned give Diureticks to the Patient sitting in a Bath that the Stone may be moved Crato used this that followeth Take Marsh-mallows 2 drams great Raysins stoned 3 drams Veronica and ground Ivy of each one Pugil boyl them and give a draught thereof Or another of Turpentine c. If this be in vain give such things will break the Stone as blood of a Goat or of a Kid hot applyed outwardly also oyl of Scorpions The Patient must ride two miles upon a trotting horse or must go up many stairs till he be weary having taken a Diuretick or chafe him from above nether-wards with oyl of sweet Almonds set on a dry Cupping glasse to his Reins then a little lower then one
whence worms like Cantharides are brought forth Sometimes the whole matter lyeth upon one part whence the whole body is freed from pain an Impostume groweth which endeth in a Fistula 2. Without swelling this often causeth learnesse with weaknesse of the joynts Diagnostick signs There are wandring fierce pains all the body over especially in the back and the Loyns First It seaseth on one part only then suddenly it fasteneth on the next the most are bound in their bellies their Urine is like to those that are well but that sometimes little worms like those thar breed in rotten cheese swim in the bottom of the urinal and are mingled with the excrements of the belly Some have a good stomach others not Prognostick The cure often extends to some weeks The Cure Empiricalls are Earth-worms provided divers wayes Some give the ashes of a quick Mole burnt with wine at the decrease of the Moon Dogmaticalls Take Serna powder 2. drams infuse this 12 hours in Betanywater 6 ounces strain it hard adde Diacarthamum half an ounce mingle it Take roots of Devils-bit 1 ounce round Birthwort 3. drams Sage Betany of each one handful Southernwood Rue Perwinkle Savin of each 1 pugil boyl all in fair water with 4 ounces of this decoction for a dose passe through a colender 5 Earth-worms thrice washed in wine powdered then mingle Treacle half a dram cinamon in powder 1 scruple Sugar what may suffice drink it and sweat upon it repeat this for some dayes together The Impostume is broke with Plantane and salt beaten in a mortar and applyed the Impostume being broken some lay on a Cataplasm of Salomons seal with Ale with the roots of the Oke-fern Others do strew on the powder of a Mole H. de Bra. ASTHMA is the hurt of Breathing without a Feaver with a noise and frequency of breathing from the straightness of the wind-pipe if it be taken properly the disease is stubborne and long The Cause use increased by the straightnesse of the wind-pipe obstructions from the plenty of the humours the thicknesse stone hard swelling that matter is seldom sent from the head it is often collected by degrees it is most commonly sent by the vein-artery or the arterious vein for should it flow often from the head there would be a cough because those that are asthmatical are commonly Cachecticall and their feet swell because it often ceaseth without expectorating because by suppression of the Emrods ariseth constipation from some swelling humour compression by sinking down and growing together constriction by grosse vapours rising from the womb Whatsoever is troublesome to the instruments of breathing if it cannot easily be removed it causeth one to Cough if hardly it causeth Asthma for there is not strength enough to cough it out but if more hardly it causeth Orthopnoea and if it cannot be cast out it is a strangling Catarrh Diagnostick signs If it come from a thick cause bred by leisure an Asthma comes by degrees and it is continual If it floweth thither it increaseth at sometimes an in Autumn winter in the night If it come from the Brain there be signs of a Catarrh If it come from the Liver there is a swelling of the Feet and an ill habit If a thick humour stop the Wine-pipe there is a Cough with a noise it is bred by degrees there is Catarrh the Patient is sound If the fleam stick in the stomach there is a Cough with a sound and seldom any thing is expectorated and the disease being obstinate and lasting long killeth a man If it proceed from the drinesse of the Lungs so Heurnius saw a mans Lungs so dry that they were like a dry Apple there is no spittle the whole body is lean Prognostick It strangleth children old folk cannot be cured Aph. 40. s 2. young people hardly It is dangerous in a sharp Feaver It is sometimes changed into Peripneumonia a Dropfy and an ill habit of the body The cure In the Paroxism the cause must be pulled back by chafings Ligatures Cupping-glasses Clysters and opening a vein if the forces will admit if the humour be thin they must purge Topicals must be emollient and resolving When the Paroxysm is extended beyond the fourth day Vesicatories must be laid ro the Back against the region of the Lungs Out of the Paroxysm the matter prepared must be evacuated then expectoratir â—eans must be given The Breast muâ—â— be annointed If it come from a Catarrh the Brain must be purged The Catarrh must be hindered Use of old Treacle is excellent as of Diacalaminth as of Aqua vitae with Elecampane then dry the matter with a decoction of Guaiacum let the diet be attenuating the drink thin wine water and honey motion before meat must not be sudden or vehement for so many have been choked APHTHAE The cause is sometime a fault in the Mouth when humours are collected in it or of the whole Body as in malignant acute Feavers or of some part as of the Head Lungs Liver Spleen Belly Matrix in children sharp milk corroding the Tongue also milk corrupting which sendeth forth sharp vapours The difference Some are new some old some malignant some not some are on the Tongue some come on the Palate some from Blood some from choler Signs diagnostick Little swellings are seen sometimes red sometimes black sometimes white sometimes black and stinking Prognosticks Stinking black ulcerated crusty inveterated in children are mortal because you cannot apply means to them by reason the parts are soft moyst whence they easily corrupt corruption of the bone in those that are of years is dangerous If they happen in acute pestilent Feavers they are deadly The cure For children take away the sharpnesse of Milk from the Nurse by general and Topical means Give the child a draught of Honey of Roses Diamoron with Oxymel First give astringent Syrups then add discussers if the Milk concoct ill suckle it not so often If that be in vain bring them to suppuration laying Figs on them or boyl Bran in water til it grow clammy strain it and add Honey to the liquor or with Milk or Mucilage or syrup of Juleps or Gargarisms or Pills to hold under the Tongue and Lohocks for Infants Where the Patient is of years the humours must first be temperd 2. The conineut cause first requires astringents and then Resolvers If they be malignant Actius prescribes the Green water or Aegyptiac or to dip the Probe in scalding Oyl or in Aqua fort is which is not strong enough to work on mettals this following repelleth Take water of Honey suckle Plantaine Nuts of each 3 ounces Flowers of dry red Roses 1. pugil strain it and dissolve in it syrup of Pomegranats and Diamâ—ron of each 1. ounce mingle them The Spirit of Vitriol 2 drops and of Honey 1 ounce is good Crato Ep. 183. For inveterate Aphthae the ashes of Fennel-root burnt either alone or mixed with Honey are most profitable Least they should proceed
the corrption is poured into the Chest The worst of all is ulceration Rupture is a lesse evil an opening is easily cured An ulcer of the Brest is curable but not of the Lungs The Cure If it come by rupture or opening the only Indication is to stop the blood and to heal it Therefore if a Vein be broken by coughing let the Catarrhs be stopt by all means See for the Catarrhs After that the blood must be stopt by all kinds of revulsion the quality of the blood that exceeds must be tempered the Choler must be purged by mild remedies Aloes and Scammony must be for born let Honey be mixed with all medicaments because it openeth the Passages Then we must consolidate with Syrup of Comfrey Fennel which see in Senn. Take for six days every morning 4 ounces of juyce of Nettles 1 dram of blood-stone with the water or juyce of Knotgrasse Trallianus giveth 4 Scruples It is given in Roles Electuaries infusion until the liquor be red See bleeding at the nose If all be in vain you must give Laudanum opiatum or some other Narcotick The continual use of Germander is most profitable Crato ep 184. Rul Nettle-seed Manard commendeth the Roots of the sharp Dock If matter run out by corroding of a Vein in the Brest or else spittle with blood it is cured as a Consumption which commeth from the Lungs being corroded BLEEDING at the Nose The cause is either the mouths of the Veins opened or plenty of blood and there are signs of plethory of some urging of the expulsive faculty by some sharp humour and then there are signs of Cacochimia or the weaknesse of the Retentive faculty and then often at times and for very small causes the Nose bleeds or from outward causes as provocation tickling anointing with hot things or from diairesis or diapedesis if the blood be watery if flegmatick Cacochymia do trouble the Patient Differences It either comes from the Veins of the Nose or of the thick membranes of the third sinus and then for revulsion Banhinus admonisheth that Topicals must be applyed to the hinder part of the Head oft times it cometh forth of the Artery If it be critical it must not be stopped Prognostical Melancholick and flegmatick People endure it the worst The Cure If it come by the mouth of the Veins opened by Plethory that must be taken away and the blood must be pulled back from the Nostrils by opening a Vein on the same side and make a narrow Orifice draw away at times one ounce or two or sometimes four by cuppings ventoses must be applyed to the Liver They stop it better if they be applyed to the Foot on the same side and to both Feet if blood run out at both Nostrils Yet this caution must be used that they must not stay long on the same place but before they cause fainting they must be taken off Forest will have them with scarification to the Legs and Shoulders painful Ligatures must be made to the Limbs Use chafings with Salt and Vineger You must not stop the blood by internals and topicals until revulsion be made Internals are good in any form For. gave Hogs dung mixt with Bole Armenick that it might not be discerned for this oft times stops an uncurable bleeding at the Nose Take seeds of Purflane Plantain Sorril Endive white Poppey of each one dram Roots of great comfrey ounce boyl these in sufficient water to nine ounces to the strained liquor add the syrup of Myâ—â—ils Pomegranates Poppey water Lillies of each half an ounce mingle them the juyce of Nettles and the seed blood stone The last help Narcoticks These that follow Heurnius holds for secrets Take white Poppey seed half a dram of white Henbane one scruple blood Stone one scruple red Coral one dram mingle them make a powder and with Conserve of Roses six drams for one Dose Also water of Nettles one ounce powder of Mans Skull one scruple mingle them the juyce of Nettles Purslane Plantain Yarrow By Topicals Hogs dung applyed to the Nose cold water poured upon the Wrists if there be a Feaver Let the Mouth be kept full of cold water if any thing be drawn up into the Nose this serveth at all times Juyce of Nettles and Plantain must be put into the Nose Also glutinous medicaments and Epithems and Fomentations the ashes of white paper burnt must be put into the Nose A piece of chalk held in the ring finger on the same side The Testicles must be fomented with cold water a spunge wet in Oxicratum must be put under the Arm-pits a Prony root must be held under the Tongue the Stone of a Carp held in the Mouth the root of Nigella chewed held to the Nose a Bank doller must be bound close between the Eye-brows with bands the flowers of the lesser Dasie must be held in the Hand The same taken inwardly do suddenly dissolve clotted blood Moss water of Frogs spawn If it come from Acrimony of the matter the Choler must be purged out and temperd If it proceed from diapedesis the watery humours must be purged use the decoction of Guaiacum the meats must be thickning c. Heurnius useth first Cupping glasses and Ventoses to the Feet and Liver afterwards to the second spondil of the Neck then he useth chafings Ligatures after that blood-letting then Internals and Topicals that Moss which is called Crepituslupi BLEEDING of Wounds This proceeds from solution of continuity of the Veins and Arteries It is more hardly cured if the Artery be cut long or overthwart-waies then if it be cut crosse in two for oft times Physicians perswade that if the blood cannot be stopt the Artery shall be cut crosse asunder The cure Those things being used we said before first the Orifice of the Wound or rather of the Vessel must be stopt either by pressing of the Fingers till it clots or when this in Arteries hath no place in which the blood congealeth not and but seldome in Veins the Vessel must be stopt with the Fingers or with medicaments The most convenient is that Toad-stool which is called a Fuss or that Matter beaten Intercipients must be laid upon the part affected If in vain Par. bids to take and bind the mouth of the Vessel toward the root with a needle or a thread with as much of the flesh as the part will suffer for which end we are sometimes constrained to divide the skin that covereth that part and to be long before we unbind it But if the condition of the part will not admit of this we must apply Causticks that may make a crust which Sen. alloweth not cooÌ„mends rather in the place of them Vitriol which is not escharotick but when it is burnt but when it is Crude it binds vehemently and burns but little Some strew on it powder of Crude Vitriol Others conveniently dissolve it in liquor and apply it unlesse Nerves be undet Sometimes we are forced to cut
the Vessel in sunder being brought to light that the heat of the parts may compress the end of it Some when the Spring comes that Frogs first cast forth their spawn take a coorse linnen cloth so much as may serve and wash it often in this spawn and lay it in the Sun to dry and this they repeat three or four times and so the cloth being dryed at the time they need it they cut a piece off twice greater then the wound and lay it on the wound BARRENNES For. prescribed this that followeth Take Saffron long Pepper Cardamnum Pellatoty of Spain of each half a dram tails of Scincus with the Reins 2 scruples Galanga 4 Scruples Rape seed Parsnip seed Rocket seed Nettle seed ash-keys of each one dram Leeks white Ginger choise Cinamon of each 2 drams Electuary diasatyrion of Mesues description 6 drams with syrup of preserved Ginger make an Electuary keep it in a Vessel of glasse Take one hour before supper the quantity of a Nut and drink a cup of wine upon it Let the Patient take about bed time one dram of this following powder with wine Take white Ginger 1 dram Gallinga 2 drams Bulls pisle 3 drams make a powder Root of Egyptian Bean raw or boyled eaten Oyl of Marjoram with Hares runnet and a little Musch The secret of Lobelius Schrekevos commends this following as revealed by God Take yolks of Eggs fresh butter Bulls pisle Chiches Galanga Satyrian Zedoary Ginger preserved Mints Cocks and Wolfs testicles of each 1 dram Rocket seed Cloves Ginger Pepper long white and black Anniseed Ash keys Cinamon of each half a dram brains of Pigeons and Sparrows well boyled and roasted of each half a pound the heart of the Indian Nut Pine kernels cleansed Fistich nuts sweet Almonds cleansed Mallow seed Mercury Hasle-nuts shaled Dates of each 2 drams boyl all in sheeps milk and water bruise them strongly and add Tailes of Scinci half a dram make a Confection with Honey of Roses or Sugar what may suffice boyl all at a soft fire for an Electuary Helidaus holds this for a secret Take Pennyroyal Origanum of each two handfuls boyl them in Malligo wine adding musk three grains let both be perfumed Also the fume of Sage boyled received The same Author giveth one or at most three grains of Amber in a rear Egg in the morning shavings of Ivory and powder of Sage of each alike the decoction of Eringo roots in wine CACHEXIA is a cold and moist distemper of the body with a symptome of the colour changed and a disease of magnitude by the swelling of the Feet The Cause is a watery Flegmatick raw blood the fault is of the Liver the Spleen of the stomach of the Brain an nicer of the Reins because the wheyish humour running back hath infected the blood stopping of the Courses too much glutting and craming themselves Signs Diagnostick A pale leady colour a soft tumour about the Eyes Cheeks Feet Hands Prognostick It often afflicts children by too much greediness old men and women It may be cured unlesse it come from an incurable disease The Cure The vicious matter must be evacuated The cause must be removed The distemper must be taken away by general remedies and topicals The Powder called Cachectical is profitable as some other powder of filings of Steel steeled wine Senn. l. 3. p. 6. s 2. c. 2. Fer. l. 9. A CANCER is a hard Tumor sharp unequal round unmoveable wan sticking deep in the Veins that swell with a black humour and are spread in the body like to a Crab. The Cause is black choler Heurnius in Aph. 38. s 6. saith there is a double poyson one putrifying which is enraged by suppurating remedies another corroding that is enraged by Cleansers Signs Diagnostick The Tumor is hot and painful and is ulcerated The Ulcer is foul and stinking the lips of it are swolne thick wan Prognostick Aph. 38. s 6. by hidden Cancers are understood such as are not ulcerated Senn. Fabr. cent 3. obs 87. No Cancers though they be of the Breasts are cured by cutting off but they will grow again Cancers of the Lips How they must be extirpated Pareus teacheth l. 6. c. 29. The Cure It is performed by exact cutting away The increasing of an ulcerated Cancer must be hindered and of one that is not ulcerated that it come not to ulceration Palliative is made 1. By Diet. 2. By evacuatives and alteratives 3. By revulsion and derivation by Issues 4. By Topicals The juyce and decoction of Nightshade Endive the flesh of Snails boyld River Crabs green Frogs Oyl of Frogs See Senn. l. p. 1. c. 20. ashes of Crabs Senn. Scabious heath Robert Chervil Dill Honey-suckles Mans dung in powder For. l. 17. ashes of Mullens of the lesser Celandine of Robert Oyl of Eggs and wan mixed in a leaden Mortar with water of Night-shade with a leaden pestle Asses milk is good and Treacle Wild Cresses bruised or in fomentation also blood-suckers laying on of Cats and young Whelps divided Powder of Galls of burnt Crabs mingled with Oyl of Roses and laid on with Lint Pareus his Plate of Lead anointed with Quick-silver is excellent and an Antidote for all malignant Ulcers but because it keepeth in vapours Forestus liketh it not Par. l. 8 bids that it be made full of holes Crato Ep. 59. Crabs eys ground small on a Marble taken in broth or wine can do much in the greatest pains of a Cancer Aegyptiac is mortal for cancerous Ulcers Fabr. l. 3. obs 86. An old woman cured a Cancer laying on Sage chewed with her Teeth For. l. c. The Cure of that is ulcerated is done by Minerals with Unguent of Tutty Diapampholigos or juyce of Nightshade clarified and stirred in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestle 8 ounces of common Tutty ten times washed in Night-shade water 2 drams of burnt lead washed likewise 1 dram Oyl of Roses half an ounce juyce of Nightshade what may suffice make a Liniment in a leaden Mortar with a leaden Pestle Some lay on daily a Hen which the Cancer eats For. l. c. Emplaister of Ceruss it is truly cured either by Section or burning or burning means If there be good blood and matter that runs from it the cure is perfect See Senn. l. c. No Atractives or Digestives profit nor Oyls or fat things except Juyces white wax and Goats suet For. l. 28. A small Cancerous push growing slowly about the Chin Mouth Nose is called Nolime tangere A Cancer in the Legs and Shanks is called a a Wolf Senn. l. c. Blood is sometimes commodiously drawn by distance of time The hearb Carduns benedictus and also the Eys of Crabs Magistral is given succesfully in water Arsemart Senn. l. 4. p. 3. s 1. c. 7. See there the manner of Section See what must be looked to concerning the Muscle of the Brest in the Anatomists A Hen cut through the middle is excellent to lay on being every day renewed Famous
pains it is best to commit them to Nature rather then to open them Great effusions of blood are from the outward Vein The Cure The blind Piles if they swell we must take care to void out the blood Chafing with sharp things with leaves of Mercury Pellitary Borrage cold with juyce of Beets Sowbread Centory the lesse yet lest the pain should increase we must add Anodyns Oyl of Elder and the liquor that is made of the flowers of Mullens in a glasse set in the Sun is great help if you anoint them with it Pilewort the lesser Celandine inwardly outwardly worketh marvelously But if the pain be great and there be fear of Inflammation open a vein in the Arm after that in the Ankle if the pain cease not After the opening of a Vein set on Leeches when they are fallen off let the blood run till it stop of it self or let the sick sit over a Bath of hot water by the vapour whereof the blood is moved let a vessel swim in the water to receive the blood or let it be drawn with a Cornicula The pain is appeased with cooling Axodyns both injected applyed Also with Moistners chiefly oyl of Violets injected to one ounce A certain woman applyed the ashes of burnt Cork with the yolk of an Egg oyl of Roses mingled and it was miraculous Section is not safe because it will easily ulcerate Purging by Hiera will provoke heat and Tumors in the Fundament and the Piles Solen Also Chafing of the neather part Fume of Mother-wort boyld in Wine the same But if they were never wont to run nor there be hoeps that they will run we must use means premising Generals Purgatives of the second sort For. that they may dry up by digestives and driers as with Bole-armenick Mulleus Pilewort Plantain Yarrow Hypericon Scabious Dogs-tongue root of the lesser Celandine in Fomentations Insessions Vapours the smoke of Brimstone Onions boyled with Butter Amatus when all other remedies failed took an Orange made hollow filled with oyl of Roses and Lavender-seed upon hot embers and laid it on hot and oft times renewed it If they run but little the ways must be softned and Aloes must be given If they run too much the cure must be with Revulsives Alteratives Astringents Prevention is by Purgatives c. Rulandus stopt them on himself with little red bags applyed by turns filled with Acorns beaten or Oke leaves boyld a long time in Wine Senn. observed so did Plat. and Fern. that oft times without blood or pain snotty and whitish filth which some falsly take for putrefaction was sent forth for a long time after long melancholick diseases riding The matter is made of corrupt blood as the Whites in women are like to whites of Eggs. See Topicalls PILES of the Matrix As in the Fundament so in the neck of the Womb Piles are found if the Veins in those parts are extended they are found out by Speculum The Cure Generals premised the pain must be abated every way by Insession c. If the pain be not or abated if they bleed not but swell the Ancients did only Scarify them but rather let them be dryed by Generals and by Driers If they swell much we must use means to evacuate them by Softners in form of vapour and by Chafing setting on of Leeches The last means is Incision which yet is dangerous They are painful and by their pain alone are they known from the Courses FRENCH-POX is an occult disease of the Liver and the other parts whether it be cold or hot with plenty of naughty humours it is bred from unclean copulation Fiorav saith it was bred from eating mans flesh Leoninus from the Stars and moisture in the year 1493. Others say from a Leprous man lying with a whore Hurtenus l. 6. de Guai thinks it was brought from Spaniola It is cured 1. By Guaicum China roots which want smell and cast and are not hot Sarsoparilla leaves of Saponariad as Take bark of the wood one ounce pour on water six pound Zwinger op 234. or Take shavings of the wood one pound the bark one ounce infuse them in ten pound of pure water boyl them till three parts be wasted Laur. With the froth kept anoint the Fore-head the Temples c. Drink every morning eight ounces To the reliques add of the wood two ounces water twelve pound boyl all to five pound for drink Boyl the dregs again to wash the Hands c Fore-head 2. By Quick-silver which Senn. thinks to be hot See Fern Laur. Par. who acknowledgeth two parts to be in Quicksilver which thing Senn. rejecteth It is poyson though quick it doth lesse harm because it soon runs through It is pressed through a Rams skin then it is given to a Dog who shits it forth it is cooked in Vinegar with hearbs for the Nerves Senn. thinks this profits little with Hogs grease c. Let them stay on the skin and not peirce so deep to the bottom Take Hogs grease six ounces fresh Butter three ounces oyl of Worms and of a Fox of each one ounce and half boyl in these Sage Rosemary c. Quicksilver prepared six ounces Wax what may suffice anoint the insides of the Feet Hands and the Joynts and back lest spitting should cause Ulcers in the Mouth For. prevents that with a Gargarism of oyl of sweet Almonds When you are anointed hold a gold Ring in your Mouth give Pills of gold dust so the reliques of the Quick-silver will stick to the gold Mercury doth not cure the disease but taketh away the cause by a Purgative quality 3. By Plaisters 4. By Fumes which way is the most dangerous as Take Vermilion one ounce Mastick Mace Tutty of each two drams Benioni Myrrh Storax Frankinsence of each half an ounce make them up with Turpentine and take a fume of it If an Infant be affected the Nurse for five days must preserve her self with Treacle water let her alwaies wash her Nipple The pushes of the child must be anointed with Unguent of Elecampane and a little Mercury Paercus for the Plague and spotted Feavers used an ointment with Mercury If they refuse the decoction of the wood Take Sarsaparilla three ounces Bark of Guaicum one ounce Cinamon one dram and half Senna leaves half an ounce Sugar six ounces make a powder the Dose is half a dram The quantity of Senna is variable Let him sweat in the morning upon it own hour and beware the North wind Monav. cp 242. and Zac. l. 1. bist 72. holds the Spanish disease to be well known and to proceed from too much Venery Unguent of Mercury must be new made for by fermenting it looseth its Porces Par. l. 20. c. 5. holds that the Pox is poyson by it moisture only Let not the diet be thin to lessen the Forces because the disease is chronical only in acute diseases which are short a thin diet is profitable Small Wine is allowed
Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the flâ—sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
dissolved in oyl and Vinegar of Roses with an expulsive swath-band Take oyl of Turpentine one ounce Aquae vitae one dram a little Euphorbium may be added or Take Venice Turpentine one ounce oyl that is old one ounce Aqua vitae a little After that they cured the Tumor the pain with a Cataplasm Take Barley-meal and of Orobus of each two ounces flowers of Camomil and Melilot of each two pugils new Butter without salt one ounce and half Barbers Ly what may suffice If the pain ceased not with these either he cut off the whole Nerve or poured on it scalding oyl and dipping a linnen cloth in it bound to the end of a Spatula he would touch the bottom three or four times A WOUND of the Ligaments the Joynts The Cure is the same as for the Nerves only the Joynts require more drying and the Ligaments more then they Par. Balsom is profitable if the Dose of the powder be augmented we must diligently take heed of the cold the Ayre lay on things actually hot If the wound be on the forepart of the shoulder we must put a thick or double linnen clorh under the Arm-pit and the Arm must be carried in a scarff If the Wrist or the hollow of the Finger be half bent it must be sustained with props diligently brought about it for so they may always be drawn in If it be the Hip or Thigh-bone we must not let it stir a Nails breadth from the hollow of the Thigh which is performed by Swathes and lying down on the Back-bone when the Scar is made move it for fear of being crooked In a wound of the Joyne the Leg must be placed out right Signs of a Bone parting are 1. When more matter commeth forth 2. When the Bone is exposed to the Aire for that parteth 3. If it will not unite again and soster flesh is bred A WOUND made by bullets is not venemous nor alwaies bruised It is ill scorched with oyl of Elders It is hardly cured by reason of the contusion and circular Figure A sign is a small eruption of blood from the wound for the Lips swell presently First if it be necessary and possible the wound must be enlarged The ball must suddenly be taken out of the wound with an Instrument Fab. cent 1. obs 88. then we must suppurate besides Generals as with oyl of Whelps but if the part be dry we must take more Turpentine and lesse oyl If there be putrefaction add Mercury praecipitat or Aegyptiac oyl of Linseed Hemp-seed of Hypericon of Eggs. Those Setons whereby the wound is cleansed by drawing them here and there are not profitable since the same thing may be done by Pensils At the beginning let it be bound but once a day when the matter beginneth to run twice a day also thrice a day and afterwards but twice then again but once The matter in these wounds come forth slowly Vulnerary drinks To take forth the Splinters this that follows hath been long approved Take roots of Orris of Florence opopanac Cappars of each two drams round Birthwort Manna Frankinsence of each one dram with Honey of Roses and Turpentine of each two ounces make it up A certain Man cured these desperate wounds with a suppurative made of melted Lard the yolk of an Egg Turpentine and a little Saffron After suppuration use detergents A WOUND of the Eye First lay on a Repulsive all things warm to the Temples Narcoticks are Lungs of a Weather and the Caule boyld in Milk and laid on hot Womans Milk the suckling being a daughter Turtles blood or of Pigeons or Hens a Vein being opened under their wings If these profit not we must come to stronger Remedies Detergents for the Eys are Galls of a Thorn-back Hare Partridge in waters of Ey-bright Fennel Sugar-Candy Saffron This that follows is sarcotical Take the Mucilage of the Gums of Olibanum Arabicum Tragacanthum and Sarcocolla drawn with Barly water of each two drams Aloes thrice washed in Rose water one dram Ceruss burnt washt Tutty prepar'd of each half a dram make a Collirium A scar is made with Ey-bright water Sugar and Tutty prepared If the Flux cannot be stopped use the Seton To open a Vein is most profitable at the beginning A WOUND of the Tongue endureth no stitching but make Lohocks and give syrup of dry Roses Honey of Roses strained c. or a Gargarism For. Take a raw yolk of an Egg boyle it a little that it may harden a little add one ounce of syrup of dry Roses make an ointment afterwards Take waters of Plantain Honey-Suckles of each four ounces syrup of dry Roses infusion of Roses of each one ounce and half make a Lotion for the Mouth let him hold in his mouth sugar of Roses syrup of Quinces Paraeus addeth a Suture whilst the Assistant holdeth the Tongue in a soft cloth of linnen A WOUND of the Ear will not endure heavy oyly Cataplasms but dry glutinatives If suture must be made let not the Needle touch the grisle for it will Gangrene A WOUND of the Thorax If it hath penetrated into the Cavity the breath will come forth at the wound if you stop the Mouth and Nostrils the sick can scarce take his breath it is tried by a Probe Let the sick be set in the same posture he was when he received the wound That blood is fallen into the Cavity of the Thorax it is known if there be a Feaver if the weight of the Diaphragma difficulty of breathing be troublesome If blood be sent forth If nothing have run into the hollow of the Chest we must make all haste to consolidate for fear of a Fistula If blood stick in the Thorax keep the wound long open by Tents Therefore when you undertake to cure such a wound you shall not shut it up the first dressing but must hold it open two or three dayes when then you observe that the sick hath no pain weight Feaver nor to spit blood take out the Tent and heal it up so fast as you can If there be a Feaver weight c. besides Generals stop the blood by inward and outward means also by opening a Vein The Tents and all Topicalls must not be too long lest they offend the Lungs Also let them be fastned to the double cloths with a Thread lest they fall into the Chest Let them have a pretty thick head let the sickly on the part affected Blood is cleansed out of the Chest by an Jnjection of Paraus made of the decocoction of Barley six ounces Honey of Roses two ounces which the sick his body reclining his wind comming forth at the wound will return back in greater quantity then it was injected let this be done so long till the clots of blood be voided Cast in nothing that is bitter Senn. draweth it out by a great Syringe If a wound being received the blood stay in the Chest and commeth not forth of the wound let the sick hold I grain of Musk under his Tongue for so it will run forth A pipe of Gold Silver or Lead may be put into it that hath many holes through it fenced with covering or bound back with thongs fitted with a great Spunge wet in Wine and Aquavitae wrung out set to the Orifice that the filth may run first through that To dissolve the clotted blood A mixture of Honey may be injected which shall consist of one part Honey two parts water boiled to thirds dissolved in Egrimony water c. Let internall expectorating means be given warme A WOUND of the Lungs Signs besides those before is a casting forth of frothy blood at the mouth with a Cough red frothing blood runing forth of the brest without pain The Veins of the neck swell but when the flesh of the Lungs is wounded there is no Cough for the blood falls on the Diaphragma and presseth it but sometimes there is cold somtimes heat and frequent change of the countenance A vein must be opened for fear of inflammation unlesse blood hath run out very much If the wound be narrow it must be enlarged that the matter may come forth Apply a repelling Astringent some things may be injected that are liquid Senn. strews in a Powder the Lungs being puffed up by drawing in of breaths Vulnerary drinks Let the sick use Emplastick meats Let him avoid all Motion It may be cured if the wound be not too great if there be no Inflammation nor Cough It is scoured by Lohocks of Milk with a little Honey cheifly with Sugar of Roses c. L. D. FINIS
or black choler Signs Diagnostick It begins from a smal push or from many pricking going before in a short time by way of fluxion it alwaies increaseth with extream heat and pain especially toward the evening then followeth a Feaver and a Troup of most naughty symptoms Prognostick That is most pernicious pestelential black wan which vanisheth away which is fastened near a principal part which had a Feaver going before it That which is red small not pestilent is the safest The Cure The first Indicant is a cooling of the blood by general means as Diet opening of a vein alteratives but not purgatives 2. The heart must be freed from the malignity by internals and topicals chiefly by the urine or water or decoction of Scabious 3. The cause that is joyned with it must be voided with scarification deep enough with cupping glasses Leeches yet if the humour flow thither too much lay plantain boyld with bran upon the Carbuncle to repel especially if it be neer a noble part and then wash the wound with salt water Lay not on the scarified place emollients but dryers and such as resist putrefaction as Egyptiac or meal of Orobus with oxymel or scabious or divels bit green brayed with old hogs grease the yolk of an egg and salt Pareus l. 21. hath proved often this following Take Sâ—ot 4 ounces Common salt 2 ounces 2 yolks of eggs mingle them Radish roots cut in pieces draw the poyson mightily Paracelsus If all be fruitlesse lay on a caustick for the sense is lost The Eschar must not be taken away by emollients or when the Carbuncle it self makes a crust Senn. had rather use roots of Scabious and Comfrey Radish Treacle Soot Mithridate Leaven Figs Rue wallnuts that are old vitriol c. and with these remove the crust if it impostumate round about and there appear a red circle it is a sign of future safety for the crust being taken away the ulcer will be cleansed with honey of Roses and juyce of Smallage c. The Cure of a pestilent Anthrax differs For a vein must not be opened unlesse perhaps under the Carbuncle for evacuation alwaies attractions must be applyed as Pigeons dung Sope Doves-foot Onions roasted under the embers and the uppermost of them Some say if a circle be made about a Carbuncle with a Saphire that will stop it from spreading any farther and quench the poyson Senn. l. 5. p. 1. ch 11. APOPLEXIE is a symptome whereby all the animal actions perish The cause is not obstruction of the ventricles of the brain for they breed no animal spirits experience is against it in those that are opened nor do those fall into this disease that are sick of water in their head in whom only the ventricles of the forepart are obstructed but first fleam or a melancholick humour stopping the beginning of the marrow of the back as it is demonstrated in the Varolian Section 2. Blood either running forth by a stroke or some other way and stopping that part 3. A flegmatick disposition where in the vessels of the brain extended by plethory presse upon that part 4. If a contusion of the skull presse on that part of the brain 5. From a narcotick vapour whence ariseth stupidnesse in those that are cured 6. A wound of the brain from thence an effusion or troubling of the spirits Aph. 58. s 7. Differences The strongest iâ— wherein breathing ceaseth and there is neither froth nor snorting the weaker is where there is froth with snorting The weakest where breathing is violent unequal with intermission Weakest of all when breathing is ordinate Signs Diagnostick It differs from a Lethargie because such as are in a Lethargie may be wakened and fall asleep again there is a Feaver with it Those that have an Apoplexie cannot be awakened but when they are wakened they fall into a Palsie without a Feaver This differs from Carus for in Carus breathing is entire it creepeth on by degrees being pricked they feel but it is otherwise in an Apoplexie It differs from the suffocation of the mother because in this the colour of the face is changed and made more wan but not in an Apoplexy in this the power of feeling often remaineth nor is the breathing hurt and if breathing should be hurt the pulse would be hurt also but not in an Apoplexy It differs from swooning because in swooning the colour of the face is changed the teeth the mouth the hands are fastned but they are loose in an Apoplexy in swooning there is no breathing and no pulse it differs from a strangling distillation because this strangleth a man that is sound in his sense and motion Prognostick An Apoplexy of the first and second degree is mortal Aph. 43. s 2. An Apoplexy is from the first cause which Hippocrates meaneth Aph. 42. s 2. An Apoplexy which comes from the third and fourth cause is easily cured Apoplecticks must not be buried before 72 hours be past because all the humours are moved within that time The Cure The first indicant is freeing from obstruction which is done if they can be awakened The second is the fortifying of the brain head powders described by Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 2. If it come from the first cause means to awaken them being premised if the forces will bear it and there be plenty of blood in summer spring and the party be young a vein must be opened by turns in the arm with a large orifice Or if we may not do this cupping glasses with scarification must be applyed to the Legs Arms Loyns Shoulders but not to the back part of the Thorax After this by general and by topical means the matter must be derived and voided from the head yet vomits must not be given because they would put the party in danger to be choked Strong purgations must be administred as Pills dissolved if he can swallow them 2. The brain must be fortified but if it come from the second cause there is need to open a vein or to apply cupping glasses with scarification and to use diversion evacuation and strengthening Question Whether repulsives may be used Galen useth them Forest us denyeth because this disease hastneth most quickly to its state because there is no defluxion Sen. distinguisheth and saith that it belongs to an Apoplex from the third cause ARTHRITIS is a pain or swelling with a pain of the joynts from a sharp watery humour which partly by extending partly by sharpness doth rend the membranous parts and causeth them to endure pain The Cause is a watery sharp salt lactaceous humour as is collected by the pain the hard swellings and the indisposition of them to come to suppuration heat and driness of the Liver and Spleen the diet an Arthritical disposition for though there be the same temperatenesse in diet yet one man will be Arthritical another not A suppression of urine and of sweat which alwaies almost gooth before the paroxisime Pareus l. 17. saith
It is a malignant matter because the pains are sharper then in an ulcerated Cancer because when remedies are applyed it is often more violent Galen prescribeth Theriac Signs Prognostical Arthritis preserveth from many diseases Aph. 49. s 6. Swelling or melancholy veins appearing are good If it return not again it is mortal They that are costive can never be cured of it It is taken away either being dissolved or else it is changed into bloody watery matter or to hard knots or is carried to the principal parts Laur. saith it is sometimes brought to suppuration if the humour by ligature be pressed forth into the fleshy parts The Cure 1. Revulsions must be applied as if there be plethory feavers and strength a vein must be opened of the same side or if the hand be ill in the opposite hand by cupping glasses with scarification blood-suckers by chasings ligatures 2. Means to evacuate After that give one purgative at the beginning before meat whilst the forces stand of such things that are indifferent strong Whilst the purge worketh the foot or part affected must be laid higher or must be guarded with defensatives Vomits are excellent Then diaphoreticks at first and colder diureticks as Harts-horn and the root of the Clot burr 3. Topicals that are Anodyns Forestus praiseth Duck-weed and flowers of Camomill with Barley meal boyld in milk that they are wonderful good Spiegelius commends the distilled water of the roots and flowers of Meedsweet Fat things are hurtful we must often proceed to Narcoticks See Aph. 25. s 5. First use resolvers and moderately repecussives of Plaintain Frog-spawn water Housleeke Purslane Roses with moderate resolvers in any form but the repellers must be cold and moyst Resolvers are the water of the flowers and leaves of Mullens Earth-worms decoction of Mugwort roots in sea or salt water Spiegetius commends the Urine of men salt of Urine and the spirit of salt tempered with water of Meede-sweet anointed on the part with a feather The liquor of Snails resolved with salt in a copper vessel or boyld in vinegar and oyl of Roses Resolving suffumes are profitable Pigeons dung boyld in vinegar is good and nettles boyld in wine Hard humours are cured with softning cataplasmes of old cheese juyce of Tobacco and by Fumes Rotten cheese with the broth of a gammon of bacon Scal. addeth the powder of a fire-stone burnt See Senn. concerning Arthritis Storks-dung boyled in Hogs-grease Schrekevos The Sciatica requireth only resolvers and attractives If the pain be stretching forth if the part will not retain the print of the finger pressing it wind with fleam doth seem to be a true Arthritis Some unexperienced Chirurgians supposing matter to be under have opened it with great hurt to the patient Fabr Cent. 1. obs 79. Cent. 4. obs 84. saw the Gowt cured by torture The Physitian is oft times deceived thinking the cause to be hor. 1. If he say He is helped with hot means therefore it is cold whereas by opening the pores hot things may be cooled 2. The pain is asswaged by cold things therefore it is hot because cold things take away the sense but not the cause 3. The pain is intense therefore it is hot since cold things by a malignant poyson can do the same 4 The colour is yellow therefore it comes of choler because much fleam is died with a very little choler 5. There is a Fever and fiery coloured Urine therefore but by reason of watchings and pain a Feaver may arise Pareus l. 17. Rulandus cured it by purging sweating with the roots of Afarum 2 ounces Centory the lesse two handfuls a lath of Juniper wood 1 pound Juniper berry half a pound Preservation is made by diet dunghil cocks and capons must be avoided for they are gouty by eating sand Senn. Fat things must be eschewed and things that are fried all must be seasoned with Mugwort as it is wont to be done and Parsley To ride and walk overmuch is very hurtful The feet must be put into new hot liquor of grapes prest out Some every moneth open a vein in the great toes or the feet others every month before the ful moon set cupping glasses to the soles of the feet without scarification one may purge Medicaments against the Gowt are profitable which see in Senn. The joynts must be strengthened many wayes Question What is the cause Fernelius saith that the antecedent cause is without the Scull 1. Because many Veins end there and there is heavinesse of the head 2. Because the excrement gathered in the brain is purged forth by the nostrils the palate Laur. and Senn. argue against this But should it be collected within the scull and should run from thence by the palate alwaies nauseating vomiting a cough should go before Arthritis If it come from the Heart or Liver bubo's in the groins and arm-holes should go before it for there are properly the emunctories Fernelius will have the matter descend not by the vessels but under the skin Laur. denieth it 1. Because Feavers end in Arthritis whose causes are in the veins 2. It is often cured by opening a vein 3. Because before the paroxysme the veins swell and are red 4. It should cause shivering Fernelius will have fleam to be the cause it is not blood for that without the vessels would corrupt and putrefie not melancholly for that would go to a scirrhus nor would it suddenly affect us not choler for that would turn to matter not salt fleam for that would exulcerate 2. Whether every pain of the joynts be Arthritis I deny it for so disjonting and pains of the pox and pains of the hips in maids and women in child-birth also a humour bred by degrees in the joynts should be Arthritis which is false for as oedematous humours is rather caused by it then Arthritis so by the drying up of humours in the joynts there groweth pain in the joynts Aph. 16. s 3. yet not Arthritis 3. Whether may we purge when the pain is Crato denyeth it Ep. 167. also he denyeth that causticks are convenient in the feet because we may not evacuate the part affected whence Erastus saith that the Leprosie is ill cured by diaphoreticks and Crato saith the same of a dysenterie by Clysters but Pareus calls it an opinion full of errour l. 17. Hollerius Arthritis that is vagrant is Scorbutical and a pain of divers parts The Cause It is a thin watery matter of all the humours swelling and malignant The parts affected are the Nerves because it is very luxuriant in the back and the loins by reason of the marrow of the back that lyeth under because the action of the nutritive faculty is hurt because it is cured with remedies good for the Nerves The kinds 1. It hath Tumors about the joynts which if they last long they bring forth spots as in the Scurvey which sometimes coming to suppuration are turned unto a malignant ulcer chiefly about the feet
is the Receipt of Antonius Fuchsius an Italian which see in Senn. l. c. the excellent water of Fab. and many more see Senn. l. c. CARUS is a deep sleep with losse of sence and motion the spirits being hindered yet the breathings remain free The Cause is the compression of the Scull and the Brain So Fern. saw a man for three moneths in a Carus not remembring that the Scull must be opened Forestus cured one that lay in a Carus fourteen days Obstruction of the Brain overcooling concussion motion troubling the animal spirits by a stroke or fall hurting the temporal muscle and the Carotick Arteries Narcotick force worms the Matrix the fume of coles the Moon beams Signs Diagnostick Deep sleep if pricked they feel draw themselves in If there be a Feaver it followeth the fits It differs from an Apoplex and Swooning as before from a Catoche because in Carus the Eyes are shut nor doth a man abide in the same stare he was taken From a Lethargy because a Lethargy is alwaies with a Feaver In a Carus ask questions and the sick will not answer Prognostick Carus coming upon a Feaver is mortal The Cure If it come from the first cause it is cured as a depression of the scull If from the second as an Apoplex and flegmatick Head-ach If from the third as a commotion of the Brain If from the fourth it is cured according as the hurt is If from the fifth it is cured by Antidotes as poysons are but they must be raysed the common way A vein must not be opened There is no better remedy then the eating of Cresses in saller either boyled or leasoned Forest CATALEPSIS The sick remain stiff in the same fashion they were taken yet sometimes they hear a little see remember and tell it afterwards if any thing be put into their Mouths they swallow it and go if they be driven by force The Souldiers in the siege at Mets held their Spears in their Hands the Horsmen followed the Troop both of them no lesse then almost quite frosen The Cause is a freezing vapour fixing rising from Minerals in the ground or from a melancholick humour fixing the spirits not those which already are flowen to the part but such as are subservient to the imagination in the Brain but the cold Aire brings not a Catoche but a Sphacelus and stupidity The Cure First they must be raysed 2. It is cured as head melancholy Vinegar must not be mingled in Topicals for that fixeth them also A vein may be opened if there be Indications Senn. Forest A CATARRH is a Symptome in things put forth whether it be taken generally for any kind of defluxion or specially for a defluxion upon the Lung The The Cause of the defluxion is known yet the pain draweth not but by the weaknesse of the part it cannot discusse it Lau. de Catarr The humours are things natural not natural and preternatural a hot Liver a cold Brain which is often the cause of a hot defluxion when salt steam is gathered in it and so contrarily The chief difference is from the place whence so it may arise from the Spleen or otherwise by consent and then many medicaments are in vain laid to the Head It is with or without a Feaver Signs Diagnostick or the causes are proper and collected by concourse as colour tast motion heat pain sostness of the part affected or that sends the matter If it come from the Brain it afflicteth easily long and continually If there be Intermission and if there be signs of some other part affected as the belly or Courses stopped they are caused from some other part The Cure If it come by consent that part must first be respected Revulsives draw not from the Head but pull from the part first affected yet the Brain must be strengthned If it proceed from a proper passion of the Brain and fall with force upon the Brest things that derive and stay are useful If not the 1. cause must be evacuated by generals then by topicals Also in a cold Catarrh a Vein may be opened if the Liver be hot 2. The humour prepared being evacuated the Head must be dryed by Internals and Topicals Also in a cold Catarrh conserve of Roses is commodiously mingled with hot Cephalicks Revulsion must be made by setaces chafings cupping glasses Gallen layeth on a plaster of new Pigeons dung for three hours left it should burn too much upon the place shaved for it heats and dryes wonderfully One grain of the whitest Frankincense taken at bed time is a secret The decoction of Guaiacum wood drying Cephalick powders Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 11. Med. Pract. If the Catarrh be hot give a purge a Vein must be opened Purgatives after preparatiues must be administred and Topicals that dry and corroborate must be applyed If there be danger of choaking we must draw it back by all our might with Pigeons dung Causticks Clysters Lotions Ligatures Chafings Cuppings Vesicatories Errhins Topicals and Generals We must stop it by internals also by Laudanum opiatum and Narcoticks Let the diet be drying the supper little sleep sparingly change his manner of lying if we will hold the Catarrh in the Head let the Head lye backward if it do more harme in the Head then in the Breast let the Head be lifted higher Laur. de Cat. For. Senn. CHOLERICK Passion moist is a continual and immoderate casting forth of a naughty humour both upward and downward The Cause is a sharp humour corrupted strugling about the stomach and Spleen and mesentery and Veins or poyson taken Signs diagnostick There is no Feaver but pain Inflation vomiting purging Prognostick It kills in three or four days if it end in 18. hours it hath been often healthful The Cure 1. If the vomiting be little it must be furthered by drinking much warm water for a little will turn to choler Decoction of hulled barley with Sugar or syrup of Roses Goats whey or of Cows with syrup of Roses 2. If vomiting be immoderate the belly must be moved therefore give whey or broth with Manna or syrup of Roses solutive Cast in a Clyster emollient and cooling with Diacatholicon Cassia If the belly purge too much cause vomiting 3. If they void too much Revulsives are profitable as Ligatures of the upper parts if they vomit of the lower parts if they purge too much Also the matter must be temperd by internal and topical means A most present remedy is half a dram of Crystal alone or mixt with other things laudanum opiatum must be given often if we fear swooning 4 The Forces must be strenthened by Internalls and Topicals CHOLERICK dry Passion is the casting forth of a windy vapour above and beneath with Inflation of the Belly and noise with the pain of the sides and loyns The Cause is the weaknesse of the stomach which breedeth winds or a clammy tenacious humour with a strong heat of the stomach and Intestins which
from the dry hearb Gall of Patridge with equal part of oyl of Amber Water of an Ash with its salt is specifical Querc Crato Ep. 59. Carduus benedictus four handfuls infuse them twice in two pound of Carduus water distil it after 24 hours infusion he puts a clout into the Ear dipped in that water Water of bread It is seldom cured after six Moneths An old woman put one or two grains of musk into the Ear succesfully with cotten Another used the oyl of young mice steeped newly littred miraculously Juyce of Iâ—y clarified dropt in with wine Juyce of Onions with some convenient liquor Oyls of bitter Almonds Marjoram of yolks of Eggs of Hempseed of Turpentine Wax Juniper Mustard-seed Guaicum juyce of Tobacco Let all be warm put in no new till the former be well purged to which end serveth coughing sneezing three or four drops of the medicament is enough to drop in at once let the sick ly on the sound Ear. Stop the Ears with cotton Avoid unctuous things as much as is possible ECSTASIS is either true as when the mind is drawn away to contemplate heavenly things or Demoniacal as the dancing of witches to which belongeth the Ecstasis of Cardan and those of Lapland Or Natural whereby men think their dreams were so indeed and that they saw quires of Angels ELIPHANTIASIS of the Greeks or a Leprosy of the Arabians is a Cancer of the whole Body or a disease in augmented magnitude from a hot dry distemper and solution of continuity The cause is black malignant Choler the remote is Conception whilst the Terms flow a hot and dry distemper of the Liver and the Spleen Signs Diagnostick A Nose wan red Cheeks cleaving of the Nails a shrill voice stupidnesse in the Legs and the whole Body that they can scarse feel the prick of a needle If some grains of salt be cast on the blood of a Leprous person the salt dissolveth if the blood swim on clear water he is infected If the Ashes of burnt Lead swim on his water he is Leprous Lemn Prognostick It is not cured but at first The Cure Diet is prescribed opening of a Vein purging Cordials Baths after bathing give the Ashes of a Kites Head Feet and Bowels burnt in a pot but the flesh must be eaten for three days together which some hold for a secret That the use of Vipers will not suffice Palmarius observed Fernelius Erastus That it is sufficient and whereby Gisb. Horst said He cured himself and many others See Vidius Schenkius Palmarius his greatest hopes lieth in Quicksilver ELEPHANTIASIS of the Arabians is a swelling of the Foot wan and looks like an Elephants Foot It is cured at the beginning but old cannot be cured Senn. often observed that the Hands also will swell so that pressed by ones Fingers they leave pits like Oedema It is cured as before EMPYEMA is a collection of Matter in the hollow of the Brest The Cause It followeth chiefly the inflammation of the Tonsils or the Pleura of the Lungs c. Signs diagnostick If such an Inflammation went before which could not be cured there is a weight about the Diaphragma fluctuation when men change the side they lye on At last a Feaver cometh softly which is partly putrid partly hectick about the evening and morning it is fiercest A continual Cough bloody spittle if they lie hid in the right side there is felt heat and weight Hippocrates bids to lay a wet cloth to both sides where it is soonest dried there lyeth the matter Prognostick Thirst lost-Appetite loose Belly stinking spittle are deadly Oft times it degenerates to a Consumption then the Temples are mightily extenuated the Feet swell the Nails are crooked If the matter lye on the left side it is the more danger Aph. 44. s 7. 27. s 6. The Cure The matter must be let forth where Nature carryeth it For. gave a Clyster of a decoction of Barley and honey of Roses anointed the Brest with oyls of Camomil Lillies Cats grease Whelps grease using an emollient fomentation then he gave Cassia and when the urine grew thick Diureticals then a Purgative with these the Patient was cured If there be a Cough expectorating things must do it as juyce of Ivy four ounces thrice or four times in a day If all be in vain Incision must be made whilst the Forces last If the Lungs be not ulcerated cut between the four and five or five and six Rib of that side where the greatest pain is EPILEPSIE either is essential to the Brain or by Sympathy from the Stomach Marrix Worms outward parts in children and those that are of age Differences There are three degrees 1. The fall is felt before hand they fome not it lasteth not long and the sick after the paroxysm remembers all in a great Epilepsie it is worse in a mean it is betwixt both The Cure Let the sick be freed from the paroxysm which is done if so soon as the fit cometh you give one Pill of laudanum opiatum with a fourth part of oyl of Camphir or the Antepileptick Pill of the roots of Piony mans scull or oyl of Amber The Head must be laid higher a wedge must be put into the Mouth the sick must not be moved violently but not at all for the fit is prolonged by it Let him be raysed After the fit he is cured as Head-ach from fleam or melancholy by preparatives evacuatives for some time even continued for a whole moneth by Sweatings and other general means by Topicals that are proper A Partridge Liver powdered at the fire in a por and distilled with water of Yarrow in a glasse vessel Crato Ep. 104. Syrup of juyce of Carduus with the extract of sweet Cane Ep. 140. Mans blood is allowed by Zac. l. 1. hist. 23. because milk is good alwaies hang on an Amulet as Take Piony root half an ounce seeds of Male-piony one dram and half also roots of Briony Diet. Goats blood Heart of a Goat of a she Goat of an Eel are the worst eating of Turrles the best Quails are naught the Feet must be kept hot drunken people beget such as are troubled with Epilepsies If the disease be proper to the Brain the fit is more violent it comes about the new and full Moon there are signs of the Brain affected the other are well Setaces are principle good applyed to the Neck If an infant be affected it may be prevented if as soon almost as it is born you give it the Epileptick powder with milk if after milk you procure vomit which is done by pressing down the childs Tongue and put a feather anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds or some other in the Throat The Nurse must be cured as though she were sick of the Falling sickness The infant must be purged with honey or Raysins Holl. In the paroxysm they must be cured as elder people If it be from worms they must be killed and driven forth
ERYSIPELAS The Rose or Holy fire it is made not of pure Choler for that exulcerates and it would become the Shingles but from the Cholerick or more hot part of the blood Signs A Feaver with quaking shivering great pain and heat a Rose colour It is distinguished from Phlegmone 1. Because if you lay your Finger on the Rose the part groweth white the blood flying away it is not so in Phlegmone unlesse the part be pressed 2. The heat pain and Feaver are greater so that the part is often lifted up into a little bladder 3. The colour of Phlegmone seemeth blackish but of Erysipelas yellowish Prognostick Aph. 26. s 6 7 2. The Cure If there be Plethora the antecedent cause must be evacuated by opening a Vein and purging aster that the endeavour of nature must be furthered by sweating Antidotes with water of flowers and Rob. of Elders Theriac c. Some roast a Nutmeg wrapped in Flax or Hemp in the Embers and with Colambine seed so roasted they give it with Scabious water for an excellent Antidote Commonly they lay on a linnen or woollen red cloth or Barly meal The common people abhor moyst things yet a linnen cloth wet in Elder water and strongly wrung forth is fitly laid warm to it Topicals as for Scaldings if they be cold they easily cause a Gangreen better therefore is the oyl of Elders which they call golden milk then the water of Elder flowers also the water of all flowers lean bran Wierus writes for a secret That the Gall of a Carp anointed warm with a Feather upon the part affected and then a dry linnen cloth laid over it will do it If you will use cold things use them so long till the heat be something abated which the Patient will declare The Diet must be cold and moyst which also serveth for Preservatives The EYES Affected either the Coats Adnata and Cornea are affected as EYES inflamed which if it be but light from smoke heat of the Sun drinking of Wine it is called Taraxis if it be very great so that the white swell above the black it is called Châ—mosis if it proceed from Plethory or Choler only that is known by the signs it is cured by Generals by those that pull back the precedent cause first being removed The temporal Veins must be tyed Letting blood is good in the Arm of the same side though it come from Choler the Choler altered must be purged Open the Vein of the Forehead A Setace is most effectual for a long disease These first done you must come to Topicals Most often it is taken away by Generals alone Mercurial Galen Mercatus warn us that we do not apply Topicals in the begining to an Inflammation of the Eys for many have been blinded with multitude of remedies Apply them very sparingly yet to the Fore-head and Temples Repellers are safely applyed at the first Milk dropped into the Eys corrupteth and groweth sharp unlesse it be changed every hour Alwaies add to Repellers Scowrers as to Milk Saffron Sarcocolla Opiats thicken the optick Spirits let them be seldom used Alwaies mingle such things that are proper for the Eys Cold things are good for a sound Eye for preservation warm things inclining to cold if you would repel to heat if you would discusse You must not at the same time apply a Repeller to the Eye and to the Temples For. dropped into the Eys the white collyrium of Rhasis without opium half an ounce dissolved sometimes in Milk sometimes in Rose-water also with opium in extream pain In the declination Sarcocolla alone soaked in Milk to one dram or dissolved in water of Fennel Ey-bright oyl made of the flowers of Succory or Blew bottles made by setting them in the Sun An Emulsion of Poppy seed Saffron Opium of each three grains with a Cataplasm Fon. commendeth Crocus metallorum Ruland with Ey-bright water Hipp. commends Wine But Zwinger in his Theater reports that P. Ramus at Paris by too much watching fell into an Ophthalmy who when as J. Sylvius bad him to drink wine according to the Aphorism the disease increased mightily that he grew almost blind Gallen commends a Bath after Universals Sarcocolla is soaked in milk often and sparingly powred on lest it grow sowre If Chemosis be made beat the yolk of an Egg with the flesh of a Fly and with a clout lay it on Gal. EYES inflamed being dry if it be without pricking it is with hardnesse of the Ey-lids it is called Sclerophthalmia If the Eys itch with pain and swell not but are red it is called Xeropthalmia If they itch with a little flux it is called Psorophthalmia It is cured with Generals softning Topicals One gave counsel to his Patient to lay the white of an Egg with Rose-water to the Eye Roots of Celandine bruised laid on with leaven and the leaves roots bruised to be laid to the Soles of the Feet In all Inflamations of the Eys that are very great that which followeth is profitable before other Remedies Take white lead washed one ounce white Starch six drams Gum Traganth Sarcocolla Tutty prepared of each half an ounce Camphir Opium of Thebes of each one dram Rose-water what may suffice make a Mass Dissolve a little of it in Rose-water and drop it into the Eye with a Feather Infinite have been cured with it A HAW in the EYE is a little nail it is a nervous membrane commonly rising from the inward corner sticking close to the Coat adnata sometimes stretched forth to the Apple of the Eye rising from Ophthalmia the small Pox or some continual Flux The Skin is not membranous but something made up of the swelling Veins It is often Cancerous it is discerned from the weeping flesh because the roots of the Nail ever inclineth most to whitenesse Prognostick If there be a beginning of suffusion the nail may not be cured that which toucheth the pupil of the Eye should it be taken away by Chirurgery yet the scar will hinder the sight Those that are white and with narrow bottoms are more easily cured The cure Besides Generals and Astringents Topicals applyed to the Temples must be first emollient then detergent The powder of Egg-shells soaked in Vinegar and dryed are effectual if you strew the powder into the Eys For. saith there is a red nail that is moveable He prescribed first of all this that followeth Take Mallow leaves four handfuls Night shade two handfuls by reason of the Inflammation if there be any Violets water Lillies flowers of red Roses of each one handful make two little baggs boyl them in the water wring them out and moderately hot lay them to the Eye four times After this Take Camomil flowers Melilot of each one handful Fenygrec seed three ounces make two little bags five times in a day foment the Eys with them After fomentation a Collyrium was still dropped in of the juyce of Mallowes Fennel Rue very well clarified Purging was continual with
decoction of Mallows Fennel Rue Ey-bright Fumitory Rheubarb Senna made like Claret After softning detergents as juyce of Mallows Fennel Rue clarified with the Gall of an Eel and Sugar-candy afterwards also a little white Vitriol was added After that juyce of Rue and Celandine double of Fennel lesse of Vitriol one dram and half Verdigrease five grains and the party was cured A certain Matron cured the poor with this following water Take the Entrals of a Pike and together with the Gall Liver Bowels cut them small in pieces add one handfull of Fennel and distill them The juyce crushed forth of Pismires The green of brasse corrodeth lesse when it is burned then unburned That which Covers the whole Pupil the Chirurgion must not meddle with Par. A Cloud wherein the sick seem to look through smoak is from a humor compacted in the Cornea A white spot is made either from a scar and it is incurable or from fleam collected between the Cornea They are cured by Generalls Topicals emollient and detergent with the juyce of Pimpernel with a blew flower and first with Rosemary flower water water of Honey if it cannot be cured the white colour is taken away with the juyce of sweet Pomegranates If a yellow colour in the Jaundies seize on the Cornea receive the vapour of Vinegar cast on a burning tile by the Eys the decoction of Rheubarb if Choler of Agarick if fleam drop into the Eye snuff up into your Nostrils Blood-shot is an effusion of blood in the Adnata and Cornea from a stroke a fall It is cured if it be greater with topicals revulsives repelling then with discutients alone With the decoction of Fenygrec exactly cleansed or in the form of a fomentation Pigeons blood Colewort leaves boyld and applyed new Cheese If it be old it requireth stronger means tops of Hysop beaten tied in a sinnen cloth let down into boyling water laid warm to the Eye takes out the blood that it will stick to the cloth Root of Devils-bit Root of Solomons seal Vine water Hypopion is when Matter is gathered under the Cornea there went Blood-shot before running of the Eyes inflammation Fern. cureth that as the Haw Galen Paraeus by opening the Cornea to the Iris Or they affect Vvea as The falling down of the Vvea by reason of the unity of the Cornea disolved If a small part of the Vvea fall down it is called Myocephalus if a greater part Staphyloma the greatest is called Clavus when it is grown a Callous No man hath cured Staphyloma but a little pipe artificially drawn may derive them by Channels If it be from an Ulcer of the Cornea it is curable if it come from a Rupture or wound it is also cured Dilatation of the Pupil called Mydriasis when the Apple is greater then it should be It is either natural or cometh from extension from dryness or flowing thither of humours from a stroke a fall too much holding their breath in women with child All things seem lesse to these men but the humour doth not affect the whole Vvea otherwise the Apple would be made lesse for the weight of the Vvea would contract it but the Pupil The same is to be said of drinesse If it come from drinesse it must be softned if from a humour it must be evacuated revulsed resolved by Topicals it must be restrained Fern. useth this following Take dry Roses dry Mints Spicknard of each two drams Bark of Frankincense Mirrh of each half a dram Saffron one scruple Pompholyx Acacia Spodius all of them washed one dram washed Aloes half a dram powder them sift them make Trochis with Gum Traganth dissolve one of them in Rose water A Cataract Suffusion is the obstruction of the Pupil by a humour Paraeus saith by a skin It groweth between that space that is between the Cornea and the Crystaline humour It is counted counterfeit by the Ancients The black is incurable Copulation makes for this about the break of day they see clearest because a few spirits are dispersed by a great light by a lesse they are collected It is made also from the subtilty of the spirits from the finenesse of the Body from Dilatation of the Pupil Generals premised Revulsives Topicals resolving the hot breath of one that eateth Fennel must be often received the Eys being gently rubbed with the Fingers If it be old see first if it be ripe the sign where of is if he can see nothing but light can distinguish nothing Those are incurable that are not dilated by rubbing the Ey-lids so That which is with a consumption of the Eys that which followeth great diseases those that are green black yellow wan plaister-colour Contrarily those that are chest-nut colour sky colour sea green are curable 2. Let the Moon decrease let it be two or three days after the full let her not be in Aries let there be no pain of the Head nauseating Cough Let the Needle be of iron let the sick look with his Eys toward his Nostrils then the needle must be thrust in the middle space between the lesser Cornea and the Iris avoiding the Veins and the Cataract must be thrust down from above downwards laying on the white of an Egg with Rose water Let the Eys stay bound up to the eighth day Or they affect the weeping piece of flesh as Excathis which is a Tumour of that flesh from blood It is cured by Topicals corroding by Generals with the Iron Rhyas is a diminishing of it which followeth other diseases It is cured by Sarcotick remedies Squinting comes from a Convulsion of the Muscles It is either natural or from a faulty situation of the Crystalline Or without any manifest cause they hurt the sight as Amblyopia which is called Gutta serena wherein the Eye and the Apple remaining clear the sight is depraved Myopia is when they see only what is before their Eys Nyctalopia is when men see nothing in the night sometimes well These are cured by Generals rather then Topicals If the cause be in the Brain the other senses suffer with it If it began suddenly it is obstruction If by degrees it is either distemper or restraint It begets too great light in the Eye by the heat reflected and so hurts A white colour is by dilating of the Pupil Topicals are the secret of Maximilian the Emperor namely distilled water of fresh Goose dung a Goats Liver eaten roasted the vapour of it boyled the liquor droping from it in roasting it must be anointed Rondelet found this to be more effectual if the leaves of Fennel Celandine Rue be stuck into it The powder is strued into the Eye The meats must be seasoned with salt of Eybright Saphyr water called so from the colour See Sennertus the species of Occonis c. also the Collirium or Sieff that follows is useful Take water of Fennel and Ey-bright of each four ounces Tutty prepared one ounce and half the best Aloes one scruple infuse them
rubbing them with the green leaves of Cherry-tree or with Rose-water wherein Camphir hath been dissolved Others use Cherrytree-gum dissolved in Vinegar with a little Oate-meal Or from an inward cause as in women with Child in Maids from their Courses stopt eating of roots of red Beets c. The spots are swart sometimes as broad as ones Hand they are cured by an emulsion of Hemp-seed and the juyce of Bugloss root pressed out A FELLON Is a swelling at the ends of the Fingers with inflammation pain a Feaver tossing from a venomous humour it is held incurable Pareus often made Incision in the inward part of the Finger even to the Bone according to the length of the first Joynt it is effectual so it be done before it be ripe Let much blood run forth Then the Finger must presently be thrust into strong and hot Vinegar wherein Treacle is dissolved to call out the venome to asswage the pain Fab. obs 97. c. 1. In the beginning very often cut by degrees the only Superficies of the Skin when spots appeared which being cut the watery blood ran forth he laid on Aqua vitae with Treacle and he cured all GANGLIUM is a Tumor about the Bones of the Joynts which are covered only with skin The Cause is the weaknesse of a Nerve or a Tendon from a stroke or labour so that it cannot concoct its nourishment It belongs to Scirrhus Tumors not to Oedema as Scrofulous Tumors do It differs from Atheroma by the inequality and resisting of the Tumor It is cured by Generals The Topicals must be emollient then apply heat to it to discusse the Ganglium or break the Bladder with your hands lay on a Plate of Lead cut or burn it if you may on the Joynts you may not Bring it to suppuration if the rest be in vain A GANGRENE The hot fire as a Sphaecelus is a cold fire It is first made by too much cold 2. From a venemous quality 3. Transpiration being hindered or from superfluity of humors as in Inflamation 4. From too much outward heat 5. For want of nourishment and influence of heat which causes exstinguish al natural heat Signs If it come from the 1. cause there proceedeth a pricking pain rednesse then coldnesse numnesse If from the 2. there is swooning a continual Feaver a delirium If from the 3. the pain and pulsation is diminished without any resolution or suppuration of the Matter the colour is wan and it stinketh The part if it be black is colder then a Marble-stone and most soft If it neither move nor feel at all if it stink much and green corruption floweth it is a Sphacelus yet oft times some motion is perceived even in a Sphacelus namely when the head of the Muscle is not hurt it moveth the benummed Tendon wee must beware we be not deceived by it The Cure Evacuate the humour if there be any prescribe a Diet. The Heart must alwaies be corroborated by inward and outward means If it be from cold and the Gangrene be not yet either rub the frozen part with Snow Senn. of a Gangrene afterwards give Theriac with wine to make him sweat when the cold is something abated gentle Chafings with oyl of bitter Almonds and with Milk of the decoction of Rosemary are profitable But if a Gangrene be you must rather scarify as in that which followeth c. If it come from the second cause besides Generals opening a Vein Purgatives not violent sweating means and Cordials take place And 1. Incisions must be made if it pierce to the bone eschewing Vessels or scarification will suffice or we must burn it 2. The Incisions must be washed with a sharp decoction that is detergent of Scordium which is principally good here roots of Angelica 3. Put in Aegyptiac with Tents into the cuts so often untill the dead flesh be consumed to be cut off with a rasor which the smell colour sense of the part will shew 4. Apply over the whole part a Cataplasm that is drying and resolving 5. Upon the part affected an Astringent If it be from the 5. cause repelling means have no place unlesse there be a manifest Gangrene If there be a Sphacelus some make incision in the sound part some in the dead because in this there is no fear of symptoms or bleeding Senn. distinguisheth If the putrefaction spread no farther but ceaseth which when it falleth out there appeareth a Circle exactly red and very tender about the part affected let the incision be made in the dead part otherwise not Senn. likes Pareus his way how he stoppeth the blood See Senn. Oft times the sick many days after complain of the pain of their Foot that was cut off Also there is a Gangreen Scorbutical which beginneth commonly from an internal cause without any manifest cause about the end of the Foot with black and blew spots with a crusty dry Ulcer that yields no matter It lasteth sometimes above six Months It seizeth on the Tendons which do not so soon corrupt as the flesh it is with most bitter pains GONORRHEA comes either from the retentive Faculty hurt from a cold and moyst distemper or from watery sharp Seed provoking the expulsive Faculty It is insensible If it be from distemper it is corrected by contraries chiefly with the water and juyce of Mints Astringent Baths Driers by Generals and Topicals yet we must distinguish well whether it be Seed or a flegmatick humour that runs forth It maketh a consumption of the Back which alwayes accompanyeth Gonorrhea GONORRHEA Venereous is an inflammation of the Parastatis from unclean copulation with sharp matter pain heat of the urine extension of the Yard which may last at the least ten years The Cure At first you must cool and moisten by Clysters Lenitives opening of a Vein Generals Topicals In the declination use Resolvents as Turpentine If in making water the heat be intollerable let the Patient make water with his Yard put into a Pot full of warm Milk or water If there be an Ulcer cast in detergent means as Barly water syrup of Roses Plantain water Honey of Roses Pareus oft times addeth a little Aegyptiac Make it cicatrise with a drying and an Astringent injection If in vain then make recourse to Guaiacum GUTTA Rosacea Sometimes it is a preternatural rednesse without Pustules Bladders or Ulcers Sometimes with Pustuls and Bladders Sometimes with an Ulcer which lastly also is called Noli me tangere It infects the Nose chiefly The Cause is hot thick Blood bred from the fault of the Liver which by its thicknesse can neither go back nor be discussed It is hard to be cured The Cure The blood must be cooled by Diet opening of a Vein Cupping glasses with scarification and general means as purging the cholerick humour the Topicals are the water of all flowers which is distilled from Ox dung first let the Face be softned with the vapour of warm water Lac Virginis water of
of Eggs another with the liquor of Snails strewed with salt the place being first rubbed with a sharp cloth he cured with oyl of Nuts decoction of Southern wood Mugwort oyl of Juniper Conies-fat Goats dung ashes of Walnut shells Mouse ashes with Honey Fat of green Frogs dried first using the Ly of the ashes of Frogs produceth hairs every where even in those that are Lepers ashes of Nigella with goldsmiths water cured one that was bald by Quick-silver For. used Goats milk and nervous things hot urine The fat of a Pike the froth of lean flesh Monav. Ep. 284. commends Ladanum chiefly HAIRS are made black by the decoction of astringent things by Internals purging fleam By Topicals the green shells of Wal-nuts Cypress-nuts Galls boyld oyl of Nuts Cadmia a Ly wherein Coliquintida is boyled Myrobolans as well inwardly as applyed outwardly Cloves Bean-stalks They are made yellow if they be washed with Ly of the Ashes of the old Cole-worts adding Barley straw Some to that Ly add green wheat Liccoris shavings of Box or put Saffron in the Ly the decoction of Broom flowers Mullens with yellow flower Citron Pills water and oyl of Honey They are made to curle if you wash them in the decoction of the root of dwarf Elder or anoint them with Harts-horn and oyl of Olives The ends of the Hairs cleave from a burnt humour It is cured by a cooling Diet by purging black choler by an emollient fomentation Worms which shorten the Hair are described by few they can scarce be seen by the Eyes they eat the ends They are killed by Vinegar of the infusion of Nettle-seed also by Scabious Southern-wood Centory c. Platting of the Hair Die Mahrflechten it troubles Men and Horses It began in Poland It is hereditary springing from the water and aire If the platting be cut off the poyson slips in again and makes dangerous affects Opening a Vein and purging are useless here HICKOP The Cause is the rending of the upper orifice which proceedeth from humours vapours rising from the Womb Hypochondres driness inflammation of the Liver a Wound of the Membranes of the Brain The cure The Ancients held their breath held cold water in their Mouth they sneezed If it be vehement Hickop cure the symptom neglecting the cause by Narcoticks as by syrup of Violets Poppeys or this following of For Take seeds of Dill or Carways one dram white Poppey seed two scruples Manus Christi with Pearls one ounce make a Nodulus infuse it in small Beer If it be by consent take away the cause if from cold by heaters if from wind likewise If it be from too much evacuation it is cured by sharp moistners If it be from plenty of meat evacuate it If it be from poyson first give a Detergent then Specifical to drink If from worms drive them out Castoreum Cumin bound to the left Wrist For. anointed the Back-bone against the Region of the Stomach with oyl of Violets he gave syrup of Violets to moisten and syrup of Mints to strengthen Astringents of syrup of Mints Wormwood are not good till the matter be evacuated YELLOW JAUNDIES is a spreading of the Gall. If it come from the straightness of the Passages or from the Vessel of the Gall the Excrements of the Belly are white there is no Feaver but heavinesse it cometh suddenly without losse of strength If effectual remedies do not profit the straightnesse proceeds from the stone If there be signs of the Liver affected that is affected If it lasteth long it threatneth a Dropsy The cure First we must open and chiefly by Dodder than which there is nothing better Saffron Agrimony Hore-hound Centory the lesse Germander Wormwood The yellow stone found in the Gall of a Bull is profitable One dram of Earth-worms with juyce of Succory roots of greater Celandine Elecampane Tartar Vitriolated Cremor Tartar dissolved in steeled Wine spirit of Salt A decoction of Straw-berries 3 handfuls Raysins four ounces Hore-hound half a handful For Children seeds of Columbines Openers and Purgatives may be mingled After that we must evacuate Galâ—l de vi purg denieth here to open a Vein For. useth it in Plethorick Bodies The Purgatives may be strong For. gave a woman with child that had the Jaundies half an ounce of Electrary of the juyce of Roses Rheubarb one scruple Diagridium one grain Spicknard three grains with water of Balm Hops Fennel of each one ounce at once It is a sign the obstruction is opened when the excrements of the Belly are again yellow coloured and the urine is not so yellow as it was If it proceed from the Colick when the Passage for Choler is stopped by stâ—am and winds it is cured as the Colick From the Colick come the Jaundies from the Jaundies the Colick If it come from heat of the Liver without a Fever here is too great quantity of choler from thence groweth a Feaver the Urine and dung are yellow the hands and Feet are hot The Cure Opening a Vein is convenient if there be Plethory the distemper must be corrected and the cause evacuated If it be critical the urine and dung hold their natural colour it must not be cured If it be symptomatical on a day that is not critical the matter not concocted invadeth It is taken away the Feaver being cured If it come from inflammation of the Liver it is cured as an inflammation of blood If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes Rondeletius promiseth health to women with child if these things following be laid to their Wrists and Feet Take the leaves of Missleto of the Oke two handfuls Celandine Hore-hound of each half a handful beat them in a mortar with a little wine Par. useth this that followeth Take goose dung two drams white wine three ounces drink it two hours before meat Querc gives Goose dung one dram or half a dram or dung of a white Hen half a dram for four days BLACK JAUNDIES It is commonly thought to come from the Spleen when the melancholick humor is not attracted Platerus saith preternatural Choler is the cause of it which is collected in the Vessel of the Gall and is corrupted in the meseraique Veins and gets a green and black colour from corruption Because in the Spleen there is no cavity no hollownesse nor can it be carried to the hollow Vein because it invadeth suddenly It is cured as the Yellow Jaundies by steel c. If the colour cease not it must be discussed by sweaters also by a dry Bath and after the Bath rub the Body with emulsion of Hempseed A Tench cut through the back layd to the Abdomen or Soles of the Feet draws forth the yellow and black humour The ILIACK Passion is the motion of the Guts turned wherein the Chylus is not rightly distributed and the dung is retained and at last are cast forth at the Mouth The cause is said commonly to be the inflammation of the Intestins from the hardnesse
warm Milk oyls of Roses Violets Saffron To wipe away Honey of Roses is good and water of Honey put in by a Tunnel Also Orris root Myrrh Saffron All um melted in wine Inflammation of the Tonsils is cured by Repulsives as by syrup of dry Roses The Ligature of the Tongue is often loosned by Mid-wives with their nails or the edge of money but they do this oft times where there is no need be it as safe as it wil it hath been sometimes mortal Oft times there is no need of Incision Nothing of flesh is cut but only what is Nerves If it grow again together it must be cut again Faâ—r cured his own brother that was dumb to 〈◊〉 years old by cutting the string so that he ever spake plain Cent. 3. obs 28. The Catarrh is cured if Diet be observed give the Nurse a Pectoral decoction to the Child a Clyster or Suppository or a Vomit with oyl of sweet Almonds give expectorating means Anoint the Stomach cause sneezing c. Gripings of the Belly Heurnius in the first spoonful of pap gave one scruple of Anniseed very profitably Clysters Solutives Topicals are good The decoction of water of the hearb Cardiaca is given by Mid-wives for gripings of wind and that very well for that hearb mightily helps the pain of the Heart whence it hath the name Scowring when they breed Teeth proceeds from a Feaver watchings pain The heat of the Feaver troubleth the humours It is cured as Diarrhea Maw-Worms Signs The Mouth is full of spittle sleep is troubled they scratch their Noses they chew often there is a dry Cough Preservation is by Diet. Before meat give the decoction of Sebestens or roles of Diaturbith with Rheubarb decoction of grasse roots Mous-ear juyce of Lemmons Citrons two drops of spirit of Vitriol Infants cannot away with bitter things They are cured with Corallina Worm-seed Roots of white Dittany Harts-horn the water and decoction of grasse roots Remedies against the Epilepsy are fitly mingled with them If there be a Feaver we must give cold things as juyce of Lemmons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts-horn Bezar a Clyster of Milk Apply bitter things outwardly Heurnius commendeth this that followeth for Children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb from two drams to half an ounce water of grass one ounce it is given for one Dose every other day See Worms Little Dragon Because they are like little dragons the Indians are troubled with on Midsummer day Senn. saith they are true Worms with heads like black hairs Their back is pricked as with a Needle they toss themselves up and down and wax lean Heurnius saith you must rub their Back-bone and Shoulders till they wax red next only with skin pulled from fat Bacon and the hairs will appear Paraeus cured them with a fomentation of warm water afterwards with anointing with Honey and Barley meal The heads that peep forth must be pulled out with Pullers Dudith Ep. 27. cured his Children from them with a Bath into which he cast crums of Bread rubbed out one handful and a little ashes The Children being washed with the strained water the Bread shewed forth innumerable hairs the second day fewer then he anointed the shoulders with meal mingled with Vinegar which being washed away there appeared little swellings which being scraped away with a knife they were called little dragons but unless they were presently scraped off they hid themselves within they are thought by old women in Poland to be little worms INFLAMMATION is Phlegmone a swelling with heat rednesse stretching out from abundance with resistance and pulsation which are the marks to discern it from Erisipelas It is either Resolved or comes to suppuration or grows to a Scirrhus or a Gangrene The Cure The antecedent cause namely blood must be altered evacuated revulsed intercepted It must be altered by cold and moist things by reason of a Feaver It must be evacuated by hunger opening a Vein purging if there be Cacochymia it must be revulsed by opening a Vein Cupping Ligature it must be intercepted by Astringents laid on the part and a thickning Diet. If it flow from heat and pain this must be asswaged that discussed Topicals at first must be Repellers in the increase add Resolvers yet so that the other may bear the sway In the state let the Forces of Repellers and Resolvers be equal in the declination use only Resolvers Also consider the temper of the part affected for it must be cured in the flesh one way in the Nerve another the dignity so the heart must not be tryed by vehement remedies Situation so things lying deep require stronger means The shortest way must alwaies be chosen Morning sleep is allowed for then the blood moveth which by sleep is called inward If the blood neither change to matter nor be resolved Scarifications are very necessary if it come to suppuration cure it as suppuration INFLAMMATION of the Brain or Frensy comes from Inflammation of the Brain or of the Membranes or both it proceeds from cholerick blood sometimes the memory is hurt sometimes the Phantasie alone Signs A continual Feaver delirium virulent vomiting insensibilitly sharpness of the Tongue breathing great and rare urine sometimes fiery sometimes white In a bastard Frensy the breathing is sometime little there is a stretching forth of the Diaphragma there were no signs that foreshewed a Frensy If the Brain only be affected all the Animal actions are abolished except most violent motion Prognostick It often degenerates into a Lethargy also into Convulsion and Dysentery Clear urine and white dung are deadly If they were mad before and suddenly grow quiet as if they slept they dy We must not sit neer to Frantick or mad people or to those that are sick of the Plague nor let them put their Fingers to our mouths For. saith that Lud. was so hurt by mad people Fab. cent 1. obs 84. telleth how he was bitten by a Frantick woman The Cure The cause must be pulled back by opening the Liver Vein then the median-Vein it must be derived by opening the Veins of the Fore-head Nostrils under the Tongue The Orifice must be made straight Also after the third day if there be strength to endure it For. used Cuppings with Scarifications Ligatures c. Iutercipients must be applyed to the Temples We must evacuate by true Purgatives when the disease is sharpest and the matter swelleth If there be Cacochymia it must be altered by such means as prepare Choler Topicals at first must be Repellers sor strong people in Summer they must be cold otherwise warm in the augmentation we must add Resolvers c. Lay cold Epithems to the Liver and Heart Let sleep be carefully provoked by sleeping remedies The Chymists commend the Spirits of Terra sigillata distilled without any addition being yellow and sowre it is given to one scruple They must be admonished to make water The Secrets must be fomented with the decoction of Pellitory c. If the sick
be offended with light he must be laid in a dark place and so on the contrary INFLAMMATION of the Wind-Pipe Gorgareon is a pendulous kernel which if it be swollen below and small above it is called the Uvula If it swel long-waies above and beneath it is called Columella Prognosticks The Chirurgion must not meddle with it if it be blackish If you cut it there is notable danger of bleeding If you cut it our there is fear of a Consumption The Cure Generals being premised the first Topicals must be repellers yet Honey may alwaies be added in the declination add Resolvers and softners Outward means before the Flux must be Astringents laid to the sides of the sharp Artery When the Flux is made you must soften outwardly yet the Gargarisms at first must be Repellers c. If it suppurate it must be helped forward by a Gargarism If it open not of it self it must be opened with an Instrument And if a Gangrene be neer Aegyptiac is good If it be in vain the Uvula that swelleth no longer must be cut out by the Hand which is the last remedy Before and after the Gargarisms must be Astringents When it waxeth red it threatneth choaking by bleeding or let it be tied every day straight with an Instrument and a thread The bleeding is hindered by a Cautery Rul makes a fume of one dram of white Amber to take at the Mouth and layeth on the Head one ounce of old leaven by day and another at night Cherries eaten cause this Inflammation INFLAMMATION of the Jaws is the first kind of Quinsey when the inward compasse of the Jaws is inflamed the Tumor appearing inwardly and outwardly 2. When the outward muscles of the Jaws of the Neck of the forked bone of the Wesand are inflamed the Tumor spreading it self to the Brest 3. When the inward muscles of the Larynx are affected so that the Tumor appeareth neither without not within It causeth shortness of breath and the sick loll forth their Tongues like Dogs whence it is called Cynanche The second is called Paracynanche or the Mumps neither of these is the Quinsey with Dod The first is called Cynanche That which is made by the luxation of the Vertebras of the Neck is a bastard Quinsey Prognostick The mumps is the least then the Quinsey then Paracynanche which is the fourth kind when the outward muscles of the Throat are inflamed the Tumor appearing inwardly the worst in Cynanche An obscure voice froth about the Mouth a black Tongâ—e raw spittle are mortal The Cure Revulsives being premised and derivers as opening a Vein in the Arm and under the Tongue If a Feaver went before or invaded at once because the matter is wandring and swelleth experience teacheth us to purge If Inflammation went before and a Feaver follow it is not so convenient but this must be quickly done as in the morning open a Vein and purge at night for the fourth day it either suppurates or Resolves or kills but you must be very careful that the medicament move not vomit for there is fear of strangling wherefore Clysters are safer to be given Gargarisms must be Repellers at first as Take water of Honey-suckles Plantain Nuts of each three ounces flowers of dry Roses one pugil boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats and of Mulberies of each one ounce mingle them Forâ— for Children licking medicaments are good Fumes are not good The juyce of green Wal-nut shels clarified with Honey is commended by Galen We must begin from lighter Remedies The decoction of Oats leaves of Cherry-tree Physitians warn at the beginning to add at first some discutients least the humour should be thickned too much In the declination also Astringents must be added lest the part that is soft of it self should grow too soft For. in the declination prescribeth for a Gargarism one Swallows nest cut with the feathers Others hold for a secret ashes of Crab-fish or a Dogs dung or Hens dung anointed with Honey Alwaies mingle detergents In all Inflammations which are covered with a thin skin there sweats something through to be washed away with detergents Rondelet when the humour floweth thither cured himself and many more from the Quinsey and scrofulous swellings with Astringents which though it may be done where the body is clean and the Flux but small so in a great Flux it is mortal Topicals must be emollients after that discutients Apply Cupping glasses to the Chin or to the second and fourth Vertebra if the Jaws or their muscles be affected If it suppurate lay on ripeners afterward open the Impostume by crying aloud and the Head down-wards lest the corruption run upon the Lungs Some when the disease is desperate make deep scarification under the Chops or above the Neck by which the sick have been eased by blood or matter running forth Ivy wood is held to be specifical if you use a spoon or dish made of it The last remedy is cutting off the Larynx about the third or fourth ring Liquid nourishment is cast in by a Pipe put in the Throat and a Hogs bladder Erysipelas coming upon the Face is a good sign INFLAMMATION of the Lungs The Cause of this disease is also cholerick blood for though it be said by others to penetrate the Lungs by its thinness yet when Inflammation of the Lungs comes from a Pleuresy which often proceeds from cholerick blood it doth no hurt to it for as water sticketh in a spunge so doth this here but the cause of the Flux are as in other internal Inflammations il humours which when Nature sends away she drives forth blood also with them Signs Difficulty of breath is greater then in a Pluresy which Hippocrates calleth sublime The pain is burdning unlesse perhaps the Pleura be affected also which is often found The tongue is yellow covered with much clamminesse the Cheeks are red Thirst is great a Palsey is often made the matter flowing back into the Arteries between the sides that presse the Nerves The spittle is first coloured with matter and shortly after with blood with a kind of snoring Prognostick It is more dangerous then a Pleurisy There is no spittle or but little if it ease not the pain it is naught Aph. 16. s 6. Sneezings are ill The Cure Revulsives being premised if it proceed from the Quinsey a Vein must be opened diverse times then spitting must be procured by all means Oxymel mingled with the rest is the most convenient Topicals and other Remedies must be as for the Pluresy INFLAMMATION of the Pleura not alwaies but only when the upper part is affected hath Inflammation of the Lungs joyned with it Every pain of the side is not the Pleuresy as that which Heurnius puts us in mind of Quere c. 8. it grew from Worms in the Small-pox in the Scurvey from wind Now the Plurisy is an Inflammation of the side and Mediastinum from over hot blood with a pricking pain
Differences 1. When the Brain is primarily affected 2. By consent of the Heart and the whole Body 3. Hypochondriacal 4. From the Matrix That which comes from the Emroids the Spleen c. belongeth to the Hypochondriacal The first proceeds not from a bare distemper for else the actions should not be diminished and if it came from cold it would affect old men It comes from a humour in the Head that is too earthy Hitherto belongeth mad love or doting from too much care of the Mind hunger watchings anger The second is made from a melancholick humour either sticking in the branches of the hollow Vein and of the great Artery and from impure vital spirits whence it is almost continual there is present cold of the Heart with drynesse there went before it frights watchings c. The third is made of a Melancholick humour sticking in the Vena porta whence it afflicts by turns about the Liver the Caule the Spleen If the vapour be not communicated to the Brain it is a bare Hypochondriacal affection Hitherto conduceth rest and the Belly bound The fourth is made in Widdows that are lusty for men from stopt Courses and a melancholick humour Diagnosticks If it be the first there is a continual doting vehement the Hypochondres are well there is tinkling a Vertigo heaviness of the Head c. they trifle If it be from mad love they are merry If it be the second the whole Body is melancholick the delirium is not continual c. they easily fall into Madnesse Epilepsie c. The Cure The cause must be altered evacuated the distemper must be taken away at times the Head and Heart must be strengthned If it be mad love things that extinguish seed must be given they must change the Aire c. Vervin carried about exstinguish lust Also Mints whence grew the Proverb In time of war neither sowe nor eat Mints Opening a Vein is good Mingle with all medicaments moistners and strengthners Confectio Hamech is not so convenient Vomiting Whey in abundance for a little profiteth not Decoction of Wormwood Steel sowre waters mineral Baths baths wherewith Galen cured many Topicals laid to the Spleen and Heart the Diet must be moist Some use the Trepanum taught by chance For. cured many with a Lenitive after a decoction of Penny-royal and the lesser Centory Sometimes with syrup Byzantine some times with Mints sometimes Wormwood sometimes with Borrage Apples Bugloss easy Vomits easy Purgatives decoction of Wormwood and with Diureticks Aph 11. s 6. Scholtzius Ep. 241. where Monavius speaks of a certain noble Bohemian who died of a love potion If it be the fourth the pain is various chiefly on the left side on the Region of the Heart which sometimes seizeth on the whole Brest there is a manifest pulsation in the Back about the Diaphragma the Courses flow sparingly Let a Vein be opened in the Arm if there be Plethory If the time for the Courses be at hand in the Ankle Purge wandring melancholy which the Arabians call Kutubuth It chiefly troubleth men in February The sick cannot stay an hour in one place but wander alwaies not knowing whither they go It comes from the proper passion of the Brain they must be cured the ordinary way MEMORY It is weakned by a cold moist distemper It is cured as flegmatick Head-ach by alteratives Purgatives Strengthners Confectio Anacardina is good which is called a Confection of wise men whereby many have gained an admirable Memory the Dose is half a dram and less It drieth vehmently wherefore if any principal part be hot they get Memory indeed but they cannot live long It may be made without Castoreum that it may be more pleasant Every morning rub hard the hinder part of the Head and Nape with Ivy water distilled from the Tree three or four times in a glass Stil A secret oyl of Frankinsence Myrrh c. MEASLES They have alwaies a putrid Feaver with them sometimes Continual sometimes Intermitting The Cause is the menstrual blood the Aire the Diet. If the blood be thicker they are the Small-pox if thinner they are the Measles they break forth critically the fourth day Scowring straightness of the Breast bloody urine hoarsness are mortal For they either dy of a Quinsey or Swooning or scowring The Cure Before the Pox break forth in those that are not exceeding young if there be a continuall Feaver it is good to open a Vein otherwise not Give Lenitives or Clysters In the augmentation and the state Cordials and such things as expel Mitigaters are useful either temperate or cold as the nature of the Feaver requireth For. prescribed such a one Take Barley cleansed one pugil Liccoris scraped half an ounce red Chiches two drams all the great cold seeds of each half a dram Cordial flowers of each one pugil three fat Figs boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats half an ounce for two Doses Infants should according to For. be wrapt in red cloth yet so that it touch not their skin The decoction of Lintels is good but not in substance Turnep-seed Citron-seed Columbine Carduus Benedictus in form of emulsion Epithems have proved mortal Or never or cautiously must they be ripened Butter hath often done hurt They must not be opened unless they be very Malignant The ripe wheals must be anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds so they leave not filthy holes The eys are preserved with Rose-water and a little Saffron Afterwards you may add juyce of Fennel Rue Vervain Straw-berries A Saphir stone put to childrens Eys preserveth them Crat. Ep. 160. The Nostrils are preserved with Rose water with juyce of sowre Grapes Posca c. Into the Ears drop oyl of Roses Myrtils The Throat is wonderfully preserved by a Gargarism of Goats milk and Plantain water The Lungs with this following Take syrup of sweet Pomegranates two ounces Sugar Penidiate three ounces Syrup of the infusion of Roses Diamoron of each half an ounce Diatraganth frigid three drams Purest white Starch two scruples make an Electuary It is a secret Give children Figs with syrup of Pomegranates OBSTRUCTION of the Liver is made when the Veins and Arteries are stopped in the substance of the Liver Diagnosticks The sick feels heaviness and by and by after exercise or meat he feels pain in the Liver When he ascends a steep place he is pressed with an unusual difficulty of breathing the Excrements of the Belly are moist and plentiful If it be the hollow part there is thirst nauseating if the round part the Diaphragma is more pressed It commeth from a vapour and there is weight or from wind if the hollow part be affected it is more easily cured The Cure If there be Plethory opening a Vein is good that the use of aperients may be the safer all which are hot Purge the Body give aperient means be the cause hot or cold give openers as Succories Lettice the four great cold seeds with other
another obliquely even unto his Groins But when the pain is extream they must nor be used This must be done until the Stone fall into the Bladder Paraeus L. 16. For. Lib. 14. STONE of the Bladder When the Stone is fallen into the Bladder the pain abates Therefore then if the Forces will endure it the sick must ride or go a journey on soot also he must drink freely and forbear to make water after it as much as he can that the water being augmented the Stone may be driven forth with it In the mean while outwardly and inwardly Diureticks must be applyed When in is come into the Ureter we must be careful that it get not back but with the Fingers it must be brought to the utmost Glans the Passage being made slippery if it stay in the Glans it must be pulled out with Hooks if that be in vain it must be bored out with a piercer included in a Pipe But if it be far from the Glans and can by no Art be got out then the Yard must be cut on the side with a straight line nor above because of the Vessels not beneath for it is a Membranous part In the mean time the Ureter must be tyed with a Thread that it get not back again and the fore-skin must be drawn out as much as may be that it may cover the whole Glans Incision being made and the Stone taken forth the skin must be let go again that the whole skin may cover the Yard that is cut for so the uniting will be the easier The last remedy is cutting for the Stone See Senn. Paraeus Chirurgery I. 16 The extream means are Narcoticks but warily exhibited Crato ep 121. cured the greatest pains discussing the winds by Clyster the heat of the Bowels being increased he so anointed the Navel with oyl of Turpentine Juniper Nutmeg the Stomach with only oyl of Nurmegs he gave by the Mouth the decoction of Veronica with Wine or the decoction of Turneps with Sugar-Candy Butter or Oyle of sweet Almonds but the shell must be taken off and the water of the first boyling must be thrown away he anointed also with the water of whites of Eggs. Fernelius saith that all Stones of the bladder come from the Reins because al slimy matter is voided from the Bladder by-Urine wherefore every Stone of the Bladder if you break the shell there is a Kernel in it that was wrapped up by it it is of an ash colour and rough Fab. cent 4. obs 5. see Hist of Guilh. Laurembergius who cured a Stone of the Bladder with Medicaments Senn. l. 3. p. 8. s 1. c. 2. Waters sent to the Bladder by a Catheter can break a Stone there and one may make tryal of it by stones taken out of the Body The SHINGLES rise from yellow pure thin Choler it eateth because the choler is sharp it causeth small creeping Ulcers and excoriations that are not deep with wanness Some call it Formica but not properly The Cure is by Generals The continent cause must first be cooled as by Lettice c. It sheweth when the heat is abated digestives discussives which are useful If there be Pushes the Coolers must not be moist but dry as Willow leaves Knot grasse Aquapendens used this following Take the juyce of Tobacco three ounces yellow wax two ounces Rosin of the Pine-tree one ounce and half Turpentine one ounce oyl of Myrtils what may suffice make a Cerat For. applyed leaves of Colts-foot Paraeus found unguent of Elecampane with Mercury to be a sure remedy The oyl of Birch branches dried collected in a pewter vessel is commended If it spread daily touch the edges of the Ulcers with the oyl of Vitriol or with Aqua fortis So Pareus cured uncurable Ulcers Par. l. 6. SHIVERING It differs in degree from vehement cold The Subject is the Muscle The Cause the expulsive Faculty moved and so it belongeth to the Symptoms of the natural Faculty but because the animal faculty riseth up also to expel the mischief it is referred to animal Symptoms Gal. and others make the remote cause to be cooling and the motion of the influence of heat from the Center to the Circumference and contrarily but in vehement cold stirred up by Choler also where sharp things are put into an Ulcer or a spark falls upon the Body vehement shaking goeth before cooling Therefore the cause is some troublesome thing suddenly rending the sensitive parts in the circumference of the Body and stirring up the expulsive faculty The opinion of Galen is sometimes true In Feavers extream shaking cometh from the rending of the sensitive parts as of the stomach c. yet so that it draweth into consent the parts in the circumference of the Body as also by the vapours sent thither Cure particular is not requisite for this for it followeth other diâ—eases In Feavers the back must be anointed with hot things as with oyl of Camomil SPOTS natural according to Senn. are bred from imagination of the Mother Par. l. 23. they are made from a part of the menstruous blood sticking yet to the sides of the Matrix from a fresh Flux or from a kind of dew distilling out of the Veins before the time the greater sort incurable also those that are like Warts and wan they are to be washed with the blood of the secondine also with the Courses or the Mothers fasting spittle SPITTING often is of that spittle which is bred in the first concoction and in the third in the Brain and which falls upon the Tonsils it is concocted and voided by the Mouth sometimes it is sharp sometimes white c. The cause is fleam from the Brain or stomach chiefly falling in the morning it comes not alwaies from cold but oft times in diseases from burning heat It cometh also especially that which is made after meat from affection of the Hypochondres the Scurvy It oft times preserveth from diseases It is cured if the cause be taken away as the Catarrh by Dryers and Evacuaters SAHAFATI must not be cured in an Infant for it preserveth it from the Epilepsie yet if we must do something let the Nurse be purged gently wash the Head with decoction of Mallows Borrage Barley this being done lay on warm Cabbadge leaves anointed with Butter or of Ivy also the leaves of Orache anointed or roots of Marsh-mallows boyld in Boys urine Topicals are allowd or the juyce of Fumitory Scabious Elecampane Lytharge oyl of Nuts Hogs grease For. hath an infallible remedy for Boys and Infants Take the yolks of Eggs roasted hard sixteen Myrth one dram root of Cuckoe pint half a dram black Hellebour six grains fry them in an iron frying pan without flame until they froth then presse out the oyl and fry them so often and presse them out till they will froth no more cast away the dregs and keep the oyl in a close vessel for your use In those that are of years it is
cured by Digesters and chiefly by remedies that evacuate fleam and melancholy Till these be often used Topicals are not good which must be to soften the crusts afterwards the juyce or decoction of Fumitory sharp Dock Celandine Ivy leaves Scabious Bean-meal Galen only used burnt paper soaked in Vinegar and anointed the part affected and so cured many Urine Brine For. puts this following for a secret Take Salt butter Hogs grease of each one ounce Brimstone half an ounce Quicksilver killed with spittle one dram a certain Boy was killed by Quicksilver laid to his Head and Vitriol one scruple then Butter Hogs grease Brimstone must be melted a part in a Mortar then add the rest Cresses fried or beaten with Hogs grease Lastly it is cured as the Small-Pox with the the decoction of Guaicum fasting spittle with liquor dropping from green wood in burning Plum tree Gum things that expell the matter or Carduus Benedictus and Harts-horn are good Balsam of Peru or Turpentine boyled with water or juyce of Tobacco The SCAB A certain woman did happily cure all Scabs with juyce of Cresces and Goose grease SCIRRHUS is a Tumor which is made of melancholy or natural fleam dried by degrees in the part and is without pain Platerus saith that it may be made from nutrimental juyce thickned and hardned Diagnosticks It is hard and without pain though it be pressed The colour is wan if it be from melancholy it is cold Prognostick That which hath lost all feeling is past cure They are cured either by resolution or suppuration this is more rare and more dangerous It followeth Erysipelas Inflammation c. The Cure is wrought by Emollients we must never moysten or resolve alone but either by Courses it must be moistned and dried or together as the Ancients warn us A fume of Vinegar with a fire-stone resolveth excellently The antecedent cause must be evacuated A SCIRRHUS of the Liver followeth obstructions frequently It is seldom known there is an ill habit of the Body little Urine without a Feaver See the rest in Obstruction of the Liver It is cured as before ever adding Spicknard Saffron Mastick If the Convex part be so Topicals are principal Goose dung Sarsoparilla Fern root Succories Emollients Steel SCIRRHUS of the Spleen is known by the touch there is difficulty of breathing a wan colour weight on the left side when the Belly is full there is straightness about the Spleen If the Mouth stink the Gums be eaten Ulcers in the Legs will not be cured it is an old Scirrhus The Cure Lenitives premised Alteratives Evacuatives Opening of a Vein is seldome convenient Aperients are good to which add Vinegar and Oxymel Coolers are Succories four great Cold seeds c. chiefly Fern root Amatus denyeth Harts Tongue to be good for the Spleen We must purge by course For. exhibited this following opener for fifteen days after the use of Generals Take Fern roots half an ounce of Dodder two drams boyl them in eight ounces of White-wine and Beer to the wasting of a third part strain it and drink it at once The most effectual means is the decoction of the Tamarisk wood as Guaicum is wont to be boyled especially if it be boyled in steeled water Steel water of quick Lime Ammoniacum with Hemlock See Senn. Some tried waters natural others drink of the wood they were preserved from falling further but not cured these were made worse I think by too much drying For. values much the following Topical Take of oyl of Cappars one ounce oyl of Lillies sweet Almonds Camomil fresh Buttet of each half an ounce juyce of Bryony Sow-bread of each half an ounce boyl them to the wasting of the juyces adding Ammoniac dissolved in Vinegar two drams and half Hens grease Marrow of Calves Legs Mans fat of each half an ounce Powder of bark of the roots of Tamarisk Cappars Miltworst Fern root of each one dram Powder of the seeds of Agnus Castus Broom of each one scruple a little wax make an Unguent or a fomentation of water wherein fire-stone is quenched Fumes motion before meat is good If it be incurable they are kept alive by Diet and by purging in Spring and Autumn The SCURVEY Which in the year 1486 invaded Germany as Spangenb saith is an ill habit of the natural parts from a melancholik humour especially corrupted The Subject is that hollowness of Spiegelius into which the Liver Spleen Stomach unload their Excrements The fountaine is in the Liver the Spleen yet the Liver oft times and oft times the Spleen hath been safe The seat are the Veins and Arteries The Cause immediate is a tanateous humour bred from concoction hurt either of it self or by outward error a watery blood oft times mingled with other things if it become malignant is the next cause if it be not already the antecedent cause for it is malignant It is generated by reason of concoction hurt by things natural not natural preternatural and by the volatil salt that is in meats and ventilation wanting So Platerus determins that meat and drink may become blood under the form of vapours So it is cured by remedies full of volatil salt as by Scurvey-grasse out of which if either by length of time or by boyling the volatil salt should exhale they grow unprofitable Wherefore juyce and conserve are most profitable So meats that breed the Scurvey abound with fixed salt to be cured by volatil Vinegar makes for this and meats hardned by smoke Signs There preceeded grosse Dyet sorrow which if did precede there will be no disease but will be joyned with the Scurvey Signs at the beginning are willing laziness heavinesse of the Abdomen difficulty of breathing after exercise weaknesse of the Legs with pain the colour groweth wan a man seems to grow fat Afterwards happeneth an itching redness of the Gums a small Pulse the water sometimes clear sometimes troubled after this stinking of the Mouth a bloody swelling of the Gums the Teeth are loose the Legs have lead coloured spots and purple specks innumerable The appetire seldome fails The sick say they are sound some on certain days with and without a Feaver are more afflicted Some are boundin their Bellies others loose The Feet are spotted sometimes they swell are made lesse There are Ulcers on their Legs a crooked melancholy vein under the Tongue All symptoms of the animalfaculty Dropsy Gangrene oft times Scabs a bastard Pluresy bleeding at the Nose bloody stools opening of Veins in the Legs The Jaundies shortness of breath Wild-fire heat pain of the soles of the Feet noise of the Bones moved spongy flesh under the Ey-lids In hard breathing the sick shew the cause to be under the Diaphragma red little sands in their urine also Tartareous matter pain of the whole Body pains increasing about the Joynts pain of the Belly oft times with breach of the Peritonaeum That pain differs from the Colick because this when the Belly is loose vanisheth the
Riol Also oft times the Body ascending is known by the touch and is mistaken for the Womb. Three Symptoms urge swooning suffocation and Convulsion and sometimes this sometimes that sometimes lightly sometimes grievously torment them Signs Weariness precedeth a sad look they are easily taken with horror It is cured by putting stinking things to the Nostrils and sweet things to the secrets It differs from swooning because swooning is more sudden the Pulse is small in strangling as in swooning there is a cold sweat they are often joyned Swooning lasteth not long suffocation sometimes for three days They must not be buried before seventy two hours past for in that time all the humours absolve their motions put a feather to their Mouth a dish of water to their Heart or a glasse to their Mouth Sneezing Remedies are more certain Prognosticks It afflicts most in Winter sneezing is good cut them not up before seventy two hours Vesalius learned this by his own example witness Par. l. 23. 46. yet in his Ep. 30 and 31. he saith Vesalius dyed not of grief but when he had ended a sacred Voiage he died in the way of a burning Feaver The Cure Loosing all Ligatures raise the sick put stinking things to the Nostrils as fumes of feathers of Partridge Hairs Lether Horns Castoreum underneath sweet things chiefly a smoke of Horses warts dried Clysters for the Womb Pessaries outwardly oyl of Rue Treacle c. an unguent for the Nostrils and Ears oyl of Amber Sage c. pour in Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar and spread upon a round piece of leather apply to the Navel Make a nodulus of Asa foetida two scruples Castoreum one scruple Some are cured by only chewing Lovage seed and swallowing it down See Child-birth wine is hurtful Powder for the Muther is this Take Dittany root seeds of Carrots one dram choise Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Saffron oriental half a scruple fat Castoreum one scruple Dosis half or one dram with Beer or water of Camomil Treacle with Mugwort water root of Angelica juyce of Garlick rub upon the Navel with Aloes it is a secret put the leaves of Bur-dock under the Feet Fecula of Briony made in Pills to ten or twelve grains with a little Castoreum extract of Elder-berries dried made with Aqua vitae and spirit of Vitriol by distillation to one scruple Preservation is wrought by Generals and Specials of Balm Penny-royal Angelica roots c. SUPPURATION is not to be opened before it be ripe for it will turn to a Fistula in a part that wants blood as the Pleura and if the matter be malignant and sharp If it be from a cold matter it must not be opened before the concoction of the whole matter The Signs are if the pain heat tumour a Feaver be increased when the heat pain Feaver are remitted and the tumor is lifted up into a point the matter is concocted Suppurative medicaments are necessary when the humour is so impacted that it cannot be repelled either by reason of the nearnesse of some principal part or so thick that it cannot be resolved It must be opened on that part it riseth to a point according to the straightness of the Fibraes â—hat the matter may not run forth by heaps Suppuratives shut the Pores that the heat cannot breath forth and so they differ from Emollients It must be opened either with an Instrument oâ— a Medicament either with a hot iron seldom or cutting iron as in a Ring Medicaments are either potential Cauteries or more gentle as leaven Onions roasted in the Embers Garlick Pigeons dung black Sope Mustard-seed Salt Figs Diaquilon Dogs dung Nitre coughing crying sneezing vomiting Scabious Horehound Carduus benedictus Add some of these to ripening plaisters Give syrup of Hore-hound with water of Scabious STITCHING 1. A little Pipe with a little hole is put to receive the point of the Needle to hold the lips of the wound immoveable then make a knot yet the lips must not be wholly drawâ— together that the matter may come forth First give a stitch through the middle of the wound In great wounds take in much flesh 2. A dry stitch with a sticking plaister 3. That which belongeth to Hare-lips 4. Stitching of the Peltmongers which belongeth to the Intestins 5. Stitching of the Belly for wounds of the Peritonaeum SWOONING Is a sudden failing of the Forces by reason of the vitall spirits affluence denied or because they are not bred for want of matter or great heat or are consumed by heat malignity vacuatives grief or strangling by some crude humor as in a Feaver with Swooning or by frights c. Diagnosticks There preceeds a languishing Pulse and small the Face is pale the outward parts are cold they sweat in fainting there is no sweat and the Pulse remains It is distinguished by the Pulse from strangling of the Womb. Prognosticks Aph. 4â— s 2. The Cure The spirits must be preserved sprinkle the Face with Cinamon water Rose water Wine Vinegar For women alwaies use stinking things Apply Epithems to the Liver Heart little Bags Ointments Balm sprinkled with Wine that is pleasant heated on a hot tile give bread dipt in Wine chiefly chafings of the ends of the Fingers is most profitable and other Revulsives lying down Tormentil and other Cordials Take two Pome-Citrons pouring on Rose water and Sugar sprinkled on them boyl them to an Electuary If it be from wasting of the spirits Chafings c. are not fit but Rest So Take the best powdered Sugar what you please moisten it with the best Cinamon water that it may be a little fluid to which add some drops of spirit of Vitriol oyl of Cinamon four drops of Cloves two drops Mace Nutmegs Anniseeed of each three drops Give it in a spoon at pleasure TEETH rotten and black are made so by over-hot cold sweet sowre things or paintings of Mercury Preservation If after meat the Mouth be washed with wine and Cyprus or Mastick be put into the Teeth The cure If one every Morning hold a grain of Salt under his Tongue and when it is melted rub his Teeth with it The spirit and oyl of Vitriol mixt with water makes the Teeth very white A Pumex stone fired and quenched twice in white wine and the third time fired and so left until it be cold then powdered and washed makes the Teeth exceeding white also not fired For. l. 14. Some use only tosted bread Paraeus L. 16. Cuttle-bone Harts-horn Cinamon Coral Crabs-eys Egg-shells Snails shells the Jaw-bone of a Pike Mastick roots of Birthwort Orris Rosemary flowers Lavender Roses white sand most fine Some use only oyl of Vitriol with Honey of Roses The ashes of Rosemary branches Tobacco ashes TEETH are pulled out with Iron either by reason of extream pain or because they are rotten and make the breath to stink or if a tooth stand out of order great dexterity of the Hand must be used lest the Cheek-bone
be removed from its place or broken with the hole whence may follow a Flux of blood or the Bone may alwaies remain wrested that the sound be not pulled forth for the unsound The Tooth being taken out let the blood run freely wash the Mouth with Oxycratum and avoid the wind That Teeth may be pulled forth without violence put in Ivy Gum or the roots of wild Cucumber steeped in Vinegar three days Henbane seed or root of the same rosted must be laid hot to the root of the Tooth but touch not the Teeth that are neer Keep the Mouth open that the spittle may run forth but swallow it not TEETH astonished The cause is a sowre tast The Cure Purslane chewed the juyce of it is good bitter Almonds small Nuts Wal-nuts Mastick dry root of Liccoris Wine Salt TEETH Pain It proceeds from a hot or cold cause or Worms in the Teeth that watery humour flows thither from the Head or from some other part Signs Prognostick A Tumor after pain is good The Cure The cause must be evacuated pulled back and derived by all means the Veins behind the Ear may be cut by Vesicatories c. Astringents must be applyed to the Fore-head and the Temples Topicals in a hot cause Rose water with a third part of Vinegar juyce of Plantain Housleek of Lettice Sorrel c. Rul useth water of Night-shade with water of Vitriol If the Gums be affected also Vinegar must be left because of its acrimony unguent of Alabaster Senn. root of sharp Docks cut in pieces and put into the aking Tooth helps wonderfully also the decoction of the leaves of Bur-docks Fer. Paraeus with three remedies cured the greatest pains of the Teeth 1. Setting on Leeches the swelling Gums being gently scarified 2. Open a Vein under the Tongue 3. The Veins behind the Ears If it be from a cold cause Garlick rosted in the embers put into the aking Tooth Aqua vitae Pepper Juniper Gum half an ounce Rhenish Wine eight ounces boyl and strain them hold the strained liquor hot in the Mouth hot oyl of Juniper and smoke of Tobacco hath been often approved Senn. Take root of Fern Cinquefoil of each three drams Bistort two drams leaves of Rue Sage Betony flowers of red Roses of each half a handful boyl them in red Wine and water of each a sufficient quantity to wash the Mouth in any cause The last means are Narcoticks Rul puts in some oyl of Camphir or some drops of the Hazle-nut tree with Cotten The last remedy is pressing a hot iron to the roots of the Teeth or Narcoticks or drawing them out yet first use the milk of Spurge and Frankincense mingled with white Starch or touch the Tooth with the distilled water of salt Ammoniac We have seen the greatest pains of the Teeth cured so soon as the Patient hath Vomited Crato ep 182. TEETH loose It either comes from too much moisture or the Pox or anointing with Quick-silver or from the Scurvey The cure If from moisture premising general dryers use Topicals hot and astringent but forbear such as black the Teeth as Pomegranate shells Balaustia Galls Vitriol binding with a golden thread is often followed with Inflammation TOOTHING of Children is about the seventh Moneth The Cure The Nurse must be cured and if it be feaverish things actually cold must not be put into the Childs Mouth By all means the Gums must be softned with a Liccoris stick or with oyl of sweet Almonds or Hens grease or Butter For. stamps the Brain of a Hare and Honey together and rubs the Gums with it the Brains of Chickens and Birds also the juyce of live Crabs bruised is commended drawn forth with the water of the flowers of Beans if the Gums be washed with it Par. l. 23. c. 67. opened the Gums with a Pen-knife The right Dog tooth of Wolf is wont to be hanged on with a silver chain TETTERS of the Greeks is nothing but the Leprosy Gelsus also cals the Leprosy Tetters but with the Latins as Pliny Tetters or Ring-worms is a sharpnesse of the skin with dry pushes and great tickling creeping to the next parts Fern. makes four kinds of Tetters 1. Itching 2. Tetters 3. The Scab with Pustuls 4. The Leprosy The cause Fernel is Choler or corrupt fleam Senn. a thin and sharp juyce mingled with a thick The Cure is the same as in Saphatus Falling out of the TUEL It comes from too much straining in Child-bed from Acrimony as in a Dysentery weakness of the Sphincter from a moist distemper cold cutting for the Stone from a fall It is cured according as the cause is In old folks it is hardly curable it is put up either by the Hand of the sick or of the Chirurgion If there be a Tumor it must be discussed by Resolvers it must be continued by taking away the cause and by Astringents in the form of Fumes also and Insessions Aetius oft times somented the Tuel with only Brine Paraus applyeth a Sponge to the Tuel wet with an astringent decoction Let him stand to do his businesse for so it will not fall out Hipp. bids to shake the sick hanging of his Feet for so the Intestin will go up again Anoint it with the spawn of red Snails Falling out of the Womb is from the same cause It is cured if you first give a Clyster of Mallows and Oyl and the Bladder being emptied let it be put up either by the Hand of the sick or of the Midwife or of the Chirurgion let her be set as in cutting for the Stone If it swell it must be fomented that it may be done the more easily Let the Chirurgion hold a great actual Cautery in his Hand and fain as if he would burn the Matrix with it so by a fright it will reduce it self It is retained by taking away the cause also by Cupping glasses with much flame set to the Navel with sweet things to the Nostrils with a rotten Egg applyed to the parts Lay on Bur-leaves to the Head Vomiting is good Topicals must be astringent Pessaries Sarcoticks must be given inwardly and used outwardly fumes of an Eels-skin seasoned with Salt Fomentations let inward means be drying as roots of China Guaicum Note that at the time the Terms should flow Astringents must not be used See Pessaries in Senn. If it corrupt that must be cut off the rest must be burnt with a Cautery Of the Uvula Some cut a new hard Egg and strew it with Ginger laying it to the crown of the Head others Oke leaves with Honey others Wallnuts bruised with Aqua vitae others leaven others Mugwort others burnt Salt See Inflammation Of the pointed Grissle It is depressed not broken from a blow a Cough humours and so presseth the stomach Signs The meat is swallowed with some pain nausearing after meat they feel weight their appetite abateth There is difficulty of breathing after labour Cachexia Consumption Jaundies It is cured by
swath-bands Let the sick take up a heavy thing with his Hands it is retained by Cupping glasses and Astringents From hence may grow what the Germans call Dasz Wehe thun See Senn. of Dislocation TONGUE great or a Tumour sometime it is without pain from the plenty of profitable nourishment flowing to it sometimes from Cacochymia and then it is either Oedema or Cancer or Inflammation and sometime from the French-Pox from anointing with Quick-silver from biting or touching of some venemous creature The cure If it be from plenty of blood or Inflammation it must be pulled back and evacuated as in Phlegmone In Galen it was revealed to a Countrey-man in his dream to use a double cloth of linnen wet in juyce of Lertice If it be Oedema or from the French-Pox or Poyson it is cured as Oedema If it be a cancerous swelling it is incurable TERMS of women flowing It is made the same way as bleeding at the nose c. The signs are the same It is often incurable Diapedesis is most easy Anastomosis easy corroding is hard to cure The Cure We must by times make Revulsion by opening a Vein Cupping glasses set to the Brests 5. Aph. 50. Cholerick humours must be temperd purged We must bind by inward and outward means A certain old woman cured one that was incurable giving nine times one dram of powder of mens bones with red Wine If it be from ill humours we must not stop suddenly Guainerius giveth for a great experiment one dram of the ashes of Goats dung If such an irregular Flux follow child-bearing women use this secret they dry a Wal-nut and powder it and give it at thrice in red Wine or Martlemas flesh above a year old tosted and dried in an earthen dish For. used this that followeth with profit Take red Coral Bole Armenick Datestones of each half a dram give it at twice in a rear Egg. Let all Topicals be astringent Injections are good and the juyce of Yarrow Plantain Bloodwort c. Pessaries washing the Legs with cold water roots of Nigella held under the Tongue Blood-stone roots of Corn-Poppy Tree moss bound under the Arm-pits Sanicle and Straw-berry leaves bound under the Feet TERMS stopt It proceeds either from the fault or want of blood or from straightness of the Passages It differs from Conceiving because women with child for the most part keep their natural colour are merry but in Terms stopped it is contrary Symptoms that befall great-bellyed women at the beginning to grow lesse but not so here in great bellyed women the motion and situation of the child is perceived the third Moneth but not so here If it last fix Moneths Hipp. saith it cannot be cured Straightnesse procceds either from grosse humours or a swelling or an astringent Bath The Cure They are not to be provoked in starved Cachectical people who have but little blood They must be moved when they were wont to run before In the Inflammation or falling down of the Matrix move not the Courses If it come from Obstruction as it often doth and there be Plethora open a Vein in the Arm to take away Plethory for if that remain to cut a Vein in the Ankle will do no good for being that all blood is so drawn to the Womb one hindreth and detaineth another Contrary to this Zach. hist 76. l. 1. useth Cupping glasses with Scarification Ligatures Chafings of the lower parts Mercurialis mightily commends Causticks below the Knees which Sen. denieth because they derive other humours from the Womb. Afterwards we must purge alter and that often Lastly give things that move the Terms as the powder of Ladies Take seeds of broad Cummin Ammeos Cinamon of each two ounces and half Cumin seed three ounces seeds of Fennel Smallage Carways Nutmegs sweet Calamus Galanga of each one dram and half Ginger Mac̄e Cloves of each one dram Saffron three drams and half make a powder Let the Topicals be Emollients and such as move the Terms as Baths Oyls Fumes Evaporations Clysters Pessaries For. in the stopping of the Terms with Cachexia first exhibited Pils of Hiera with Mugwort water then a long Purgative decoction then a Purgative Potion Treacle one dram with two ounees of white wine the first decoction was repeated such a Potion Take Diacatholicon six drams Electuary Indum majus three ounces syrup of Maiden-hair and Mugwort of each half an ounce with three drams of the decoction of Mugwort Rennyroyal Balm for one Dose A Bath of things fit for the Matrix after the Bath he anointed the Thighs with an unguent Take oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Butter fresh Marrow of Calves Legs of each one ounce oyl of bitter Almonds Mucilage of Marsh-mallow seeds Linseed Fennygreck of each two drams juyce of Rue Mugwort of each half an ounce a little Wax make an unguent After give one dram of Treacle with one ounce of the broth of red Chichs When the first quarter of the Moon was at hand he opened the Saphena but when the Veins did not appear he set Cupping glasses with Scarification to the Legs and so cured it If these had not helped the Authour would have proceeded to the decoction of the wood mingling Dittany the force whereof Jacchinus often proved Savin Nigella seed one dram in the decoction or the meal of it bound in a woollen cloth and set under is excellent See Difficulty of Child-birth TERMS dropping This proceeds either from thickness and sharpness of blood straightness of the Passages and it causeth pain or from the weakness of the retentive Faculty and thinness of blood and it is without pain It is cured the sharpness being allayed the Faculty strengthned the straightness removed c. TENESMUS The next cause is something provoking the expulsive Faculty the remote cause is stone of the Bladder sharp Medicaments Worms salt humours a Dysentary an Ulcer of the Sphyncter long Hickop is deadly Dysentary The cure The humour must be softened with Clysters evacuated as the variety of the humour requireth they must be injected in small quantities The pain must be asswaged by Topicals Suppositories are profitable also fumes if from an Ulcer Dysentery it must be cured by fumigations under The TREPAN hath place only in three cases 1. When the Bone presseth the hard Membrane 2. When it pricketh 3. If matter be gathered within the Skull Never apply it to the Bone wholly broken but to the sound yet as near as may well be to the fracture It must not be used 1. In a Bone so broken that for the greatest part it is divided for so it would be pressed into the Membrane 2. On the sutures for then rather two or three small Trepanes should be applyed on both sides the future 3. On that Region of the Fore-head which is near the Ey-brow by reason of the hollow between both tables 4. To the lower parts of the skull lest the Brain fall out by the hole 5. To Childrens forepart of the Head 6.
plentiful and clammy If it be corrupt and that from too weak a Medicament there is a stink and the Ulcer appeareth whitish If it corrode there is pricking pain alwayes increasing It is cured by Generals Topicals detergent as with spirit of Wine Fleshy excrescence in Ulcers cometh either from too much blood or because Sarcoticks are laid-on that dry not sufficiently If the first the flesh is good if the latter loose spongy If the first it is cured by fasting c. The latter with greater Dryers Epuloticks and Corrosives without pain The green water is good which Senn. oftimes commends as Take raw Alum Verdigrease of each two drams boyl them in eighteen ounces of Wine till a fourth part be consumed strain it then add Camphir one dram dissolve it in spirit of Wine one ounce and add it to the former If the Ulcer be with a hard Circumference and the hardners will not yield to Emolients the hard and wan flesh is most fitly cut out to the quick flesh that scarifying may be made and strong Detergents used If the Ulcer be with a Tumor eating not only the Cucula but also the flesh it is called an eating-Ulcer It comes from a sharp humour not so thin as in Wild-fire nor so thick as in a Cancer It is cured as an Ulcer with tumor and distemper That Ulcer is very ill bound up three or four times a day unless it be by reason of extream pain Let there be an Ulcer within the Leg alittle above the Ankle afflicting with great pain that is hollow corrupt joyned with corruption of the Bone circular with brawny swollen Lips compassed with inflammation and swollen melancholly Veins Suppose this be propounded to be cured Generals first premised first of all you shall ease the pain taking away the cause of it by Softners Coolers Narcoticks so the pain with the Inflammation being asswaged wash away the rottenness In the mean time by the way you shall make the Ulcer corner-ways you shall cut off the brawny substance of it you shall correct the putrefaction you shall make the Bones scale the Ulcer being cleansed must be filled with flesh brought to cicatrise Par. Querc commendeth the Sugar of Saturn to be miraculous Vulnerary drinks An ULCER of the Eye is known by sight and if it be in the Cornea there preceedeth a white Push a little Ulcer the Cicatrix is made white if it be in the Adnata it will be red It is cured by Generals Revulsives Intercipients laid to the Temples Anodyns Detergents as with Sugar Honey Myrrh Saffron Frankincense water of Strawberries three parts Sugar one part distilled when they have been eight days in digestion in Balneo Rue Horehound Ey-bright water Infusion of Sarcocolla Aloes c. bound in a linnen clout and pressed forth Take Frankincense Mastick of each one scruple Myrrh Aloes Succotrine of each half a dram Tutty prepared one dram Sarcocolla infused half a dram powder them mingle them with the white of an Egg and juyce of Quinces make Troches to be dissolved in Fennel water Give internal means to restore the sight as Take Conserve of Ey-bright one ounce and half Betony Rosemary of each one ounce roots of Elecampane candied two drams Fennel candied half an ounce extract of Rue seed half a scruple the essence extract or spirit of Valerian roots half a scruple Siler mountain one dram Sage Rue Vervain of each half a scruple with syrup of Betony or Staechados make an Electuary let it be taken at Bed-time Strew salt of the powder of Ey-bright on their meats Montan. ep 75. relates that he saw one use it by the Nostrils because the Ulcer was not well cured Vitriol in small quantity dissolved in much Rose water serveth instead of all Detergents For. premising a Lenitive purgeth with Fennel Ey-bright Senna leaves Pillulae Lucis to one dram Opening a Vein Cupping Scarifying fomentation of Mallows two handfuls flowers of red Roses one dram and half Quince seeds one dram and half cleansed Barley one pugil boyl all in ten ounces of fountain water add water of Mallows Roses of each half an ounce soment it twice in a day he dropped in the Collyrium following Take Troches that are white of Rhasis for the Eys without opium two scruples Rose water two ounces mingle them and drop it in lay upon it a double linnen cloth wet in the former fomentation after that in the fomentation was infused Fenugrec seed exactly washed two drams and half of Quinces two drams in a Nodulus after that Ey-bright water half an ounce was added to the Ey water after that in the same Collirium was put a little Sarcacolla soaked in Brest milk then a little Frankincense Saffron with the Mucilage of Fenugree seed At first let the sick sleep on the opposite side until the matter break forth in the side affected Venatius for an Ulcer of the Eye ill cured was commanded to forsake Padua An ULCER of the weeping flesh namely an Aegylops For. because of the danger doth not willingly undertake the cure of it If it were not yet ulcerated after Generals there is need of repelling means after that add Discussives as rank nuts If it be suppurated open it in time cleanse it Verdigrease of it self is a secret If it be with rottennesse of the Bone there is need of a Canstick Fab. cured them with Setons An ULCER of the Ear. Signs are pain burning great pricking in the Ear matter This sometimes is sent forth from the Brain inflamed which is easily known Sometimes as in children from the impurity of the Brain without an Impostume in the Veins of the Brain and Passages of the Ears matter is bred and there is no pain and the matter once spent is heaped up again The cure By Generals Topicals Detergents as juyce of Betes Horehound oyl of bitter Almonds juyce of Onions with Honey of Roses or Mel Rosarum the side is anointed with unguent of Alabaster juyce of wake Robin Briony the matter that comes forth must be put-by with wooll with Honey-water afterwards with Wine then with Oxymel The Probe must be wrapped with Wool The pain is taken away with a piece of Frankincense infused in Milk till it be dissolved and drop'd in by drops If there be Plethory and the matter runneth not yet out of the Ulcer pain urging a Vein is fit to be opened Galen for old Ulcers ufeth scales of Iron powdred beaten with Vinegar and seven times dryed then with Vinegar it is boyled to the thickness of Honey The matter must be drawn forth by a great Syringe unless it come forth it self An ULCER of the Nostrils If it be new and stink not it is easily cured if old and stinking hardly it is called Ozaena which oft times gives suspition of a Cancer It is most difficult to cure it hath crusts The Cure Generals premised also the decoction of Guaicum and a vulnerary drink Let the Topicals be Astringents and Discussives mingled
The Head must be dryed by all means First of all let the Crust be removed by a vapour of warm water with Fat Butrer washed in Rose water the Crusts must be cast out by sneezing Afterwards Verjuyce with Honey is good juyce of Hore-hound Calamint juyce of Pomegranates boiled in a brasse vessel Mirrh Allum Rondel cured Ozaenas which neither French men nor Italians could cure by the fume of Candles made of red Wax lighted received at the Nostrils through a straight Tunnel Celsus commendeth juyce of Cresses with Allum The juyce of Calamints or Galens powder Some commend this that followeth Take red Roses Myrtils sweet Calamus Angelica Gentian Mace Cloves of each half a dram Camphir Ambergrease of each four grains Musk six grains make a powder If that fail Salt Armoniac with Vinegar An ULCER of the Stomach is cured by Generals as opening a Vein Lenitives Vomit is mortal With easy meats Raw Honey is detergent when you must glew together add Gum Traganth with an Astringent decoction without Acrimony Let the meat be moyst a decoction of Figs Dates Prunes Raysins milk yolks of Eggs drink Hydromel and a vulnerary Potion An ULCER of the Bladder comes also by Cantharides Yet Senn. though he had applyed them to all parts of the Body a hundred times never observed it Signs are pain in the Privities so oft as the sick maketh water matter blood a Tenesmus difficulty of urine Priapismus The matter is more tenacious and clammy then matter of the Reins It is cured by tempering the humors by Coolers and Moisiners then we must scowre by Internals and injections Principally the Troches of Gordonius are profitable See them Conserve of Roses Bole armenick Milk oglutinate Vulnerary drink ULCER of the Reins The urine is made without impediment matter is mixed with the urine it stinketh lesse See Aph. 76 77. 81. s 4. It is cured as an Ulcer of the Bladder Whey Make an Emulsion of the four cold seeds with Milk If the matter come forth sparingly glutinate use vulnerary drink WEARINESS One kind is not natural or drying which followeth labour another natural this is either ulcerating which makes a sense of pricking in the circumference of the Body from a sharp vapour or humour as from cholerick or black Choler or extensive from Plethory or any humour that is not sharp or from hot blood which they that feel complain that their parts are as it were bruised or broken and it ariseth from Plethory and Cacochymia together or of leannesse when motion is difficult by reason that the flesh and fat of the Muscles is consumed after long diseases The Cure When Wearinesse riseth from the humours about the Muscles and in the circumference of the Body they must be taken away If from Cacochymia that must removed by rest sleep spare diet and that breeds good juyce and by moderate drinking of Wine In ulcerating weariness Purging in extensive opening a Vein in Phlegmonodes both these are good if it be from labour it is not onely cured by rest but by labour but not-so-much WHEALES angry or Pimples of sweat rising in the Neck Brest Arms c. they proceed from cholerick sweat exasperating the skin of which see Aph. 21. s 3. WHEALS rising in the night that vex us in the night and are of divers colours It is never greater then a Bean it exulcerateth it is cured as the cause is WORMS A Lotion of bitter things kills Lice a shirt stayned with Saffron and worn a while wonderfully a washing with Lavender water Barly bread and Paper burnt of each a like quantity made up with Bores grease takes away Cyrones WORMS are either round or the Bots or broad these either Gourdfashion or lesse like to a Gourd Signs of round worms are pain and great prickings of broad worms an obscure pain other signs are common They are cured by things that kill worms as by Corallina to one dram in powder Tanfey seed roots of Primrose Wormwood Hore-hound Citron seeds Angelica bitter Almonds Powder of worms is suspected by Tabexnae Montanus Water of the decoction of Graffe Harts-horn shavings of Ivory juyce of Lemmons Plantain Purssain Endive Sorrel To children give grasse water one ounce with syrup of juyce of Lemmons or some grains of Salt are put into the Mouth Spirit of Vitriol Elixar proprietatis broad worms require stronger Medicaments as many Walnuts chiefly roots of Fern of which powder half a dram may be given to an Infant to those that are grown one dram or two drams Treacle dissolved in juyce of Lemmons Hiera Yet sweet things must be mingled here and Clysters that are sweet must be given to allure them downwards being killed cast them forth with Diaturpeth with Rheubarb in rouls Sebestens with a decoction of syrup of Peach flowers Aloes Agarick The Bots are cured by suppositories For anointed the Belly with this following Take oyl of Egs Lillies Oxgall juyce of Onions fried with new Butter of each two drams mingle them He gave this following Take Aloes half a dram red Coral or Diatraganth frigid ten grains with Scabious water make three Pills lest the Aloes should cause heat let him sup upon it one spoonful of juyce of Citrons He gave a child of three years old more then one scruple of burnt Harts-horn Those things that are applyed outwardly as Gall c. must not be laid to the stomach Heurn used this following for children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb two drams to half an ounce Grasse water one ounce for one Dose every other day For. cured a Boy that for one year was miserably afflicted with the decoction of Wormwood and little Centory to another he gave juyce of Pomegranates one spoonful oyl of Olives half a spoonful mingle them It is a secret of the French Queens The same gave what followeth for one Dose to a great bellyed woman in a Feaver Take Harts-horn burnt seeds of Zedoary Purssain of each half a scruple mingle them For children let Harts-horn burnt be put into Raysins without stones For the Bots the experiment of Aetius is good namely a Suppository made of old salt Bief the fat being taken off WARTS A Nail a swelling of the Fundament namely when a wrinkle of the skin groweth hard Thymus namely a Wart with a narrow bottom and a large supersicies of a colour reddish like Thyme flowers A Fig wart is a great Thymus a Crest from preposterous Venery These are oft times malignant The cause is thought to be a flegmatick melancholick humour Platerus takes it to be the moist nourishment of the skin and the Cuticula Warts are oft times contagious The Cure By Medicaments as Fallop commendeth the leaves and juyce of Willows Purstain stampt being wet with its juyce also leaves and flowers of Marigolds Figwort roots of Cuckoe pint Sow-bread fresh Celandine Nigella with urine The liquor that runs from the flowers of Mullens set in the Sun in a glasse of its own accord Gum Succory the juyce running from
the sharpness of the matter when parts are contracted beyond their extension they are dislocated distorted that they cannot again be extended Prognosticks In Hippocrates Aphorism a Convulsion growing suddenly if a loosnesse of the Belly or a Feaver come upon it it is ended If they escape four days they are well The cure If it be by consent the part that principally offends must be cured If it be by essence opening a Vein is good or cupping-glasses with scarifying If the Legs be drawn set them to the Hips if the Hands set them to the first Vertebra of the Thorax If the Tongue the Eye-lids set them to the first Spondils of the Neck Purging chasing sharp Clysters anointing of the Back bone are good Topicals must be resolvent beginning from the milder oyis of Camomil Dil c. Goole-grease c. Internals must be as in the Palfey The Mouth drawn awry must by no means be opened with Instruments If it be from a wound the soul matter must be wiped away and Inflamation must be cured If from eating Mushroms Galen gave Hens dung with Oxymel for a great secret The Nerves hardned by too great dryers cannot be cured CRISES Though they be imperfect the matter being not yet concocted yet are they good For. saw when a Crisis was often repeated yet the sick escaped so from an Apoplex a Palsey from a Lethargy swellings under the Ears is good Fern. l. 2. c. 1. saith that profitable Crises are not made by bleeding 1. Because alwaies red blood runs fresh 2. Because it pulls not away the root of the disease without an irregular flux See Aph. 25. s 4. Zach. answererh l. 1. histor 64. that that blood appeareth red because it droppeth out by drops so that the heat of it is taken away by the ambient aire wherefore the cold will not suffer the Heterogeneous parts to be separated from the good So the blood remaineth red In the Arm it floweth out by heaps so that the heat remaining the grosse parts are separated from the good CHILD-BIRTH In hard labour some have the bones of the privities stretched out Paraeus will have it that the bones without names are separated from the Os sacrum Also they may be distended with the Perinaeum and the bone of the Crouper Wherefore those that are in labour must not bear upon the Perinaeum And Topicals must be applyed to the Perinaeum and to the Crouper bone and of the Privities Signs A most greivous pain which if it cease suddenly the Child being not delivered the Mother dyeth The Cause Hard labour is either the fault of the Mother when the expulsive faculty is weak or of the Child when it is greater and not well postured or of the Passage namely when the membranes are too strong the Neck streight from ayre too hot or cold In women of the first Child from plenty of Excrements driness If the Child be dead or the Physitians hand put in not the Mother seeleth any motion the water runs forth If the Secondine be thrust forth before the Child If the pain be greater the breath stink the Perinaeum be cold If the Mouth of the Womb be soft and hot it is the Birth The cure The places must be softned by all means The Child-bed Woman must be placed in a Bed as in cutting of the Stone or in a stool that she may lean on the side of the Bed Let her hold her breath and not cry Cause her to sneeze give her Clysters sharp suppositories Put stinking things to her Nostrils Let her drink Beer with Butter and oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce Let her Belly be empty feed her sparingly anoint her with oyl of Amber Give her one drop of it with Vervain water Also let her take first of all Cinamon water or take white Dittany Amber of each one dram and half give half with hot wine Oyl of Cinamon oyl of Hasle-nut tree the powder of the Secondine torrified five or six berries of Juniper taken with Figs five times wonderfully helps forward delivery Dittany Cassia lignâ—a Myrrh Many have been delivered by taking half a dram or one dram of pills of Asa foetida Powder of Ladies Bind to the thigh an Eagles Stone which also draweth the Matrix to it wherefore use it not long Also Coral Roots of knot-grasse green Coriander bound to the soles of the Feet or to the Hips Use none of these till the Moon of the ninth moneth be past They that have broad shoulders bring forth great children with the Child let the Secondine be taken out gently or presently after lest the Matrix follow If there be many children so many Secondines there are If it stay behind it must be taken forth with medicaments or by the hand The Navel being tyed the Womb must be swathed with a swath-band The Secondine being drawn forth put in the Matrix It is a wonderful secret to drive out the Secondine for the Terms stopped strangling of the Matrix the dead child a Mola bruise the green leaves of Lovage and drink the juyce pressed out with wine or Mugwort water In the Winter give Lovage seed boyled with Mugwort water Also one scruple of the Trochis of Mirrh with two ounces of wine If it help not it must be taken forth with the hand see Paraeus or by incision The oyl of Hazle-nuts Bitter things kill the child If the after burden come sparingly away by chafings c. they must be drawn in the lower parts to the womb A vein must be opened in the Ankle Topicals Clysters must be emollients If some days after child-birth be past a Purge of Rheubarb Agarick are good Give things to attenuate the blood and the five opening Roots c. If they flow too much cure them as Diarrhaea Pains after child-birth are either in the belly or in the womb which are like to a Tenesmus when the force of expelling is prolonged They proceed either from the cold Ayr or clots of blood or blood too sharp Senn. cureth it by removing the cause he prescribes not purgatives but internal heaters and Topicals For. holds for a secret beer boyld with Camomil flowers or without purging the Ladies powder or the infusion of Camels meat Cinamon c. If the privy member be broken when it is cured again at every child bearing it must be opened with a rasour Feavers of one day continuing sometimes many days called Feavers of milk do commonly go away of themselves if they be really continual putrid Feavers they proceed from the suppression of the Terms or the vitious provision of the humours CHILD-BLANES are an inflamation of the Feet by the Winter cold Preservatives are socks wet in Aqua vita and keep them warm They are cured as Aples and Egs congealed if they be put into cold water or rubbed with snow So the cold being drawn forth which is known by the pricking pain abated the part must be fomented with milk boyld in Rosemary c. The
Feet and Hands must be bathed in water wherein Turnips especially frozen are boyled or anoint the part with oyl of wax or Bays also with Honey Turpentine If they be ulcerated anoint them with oyl of Roses boyled in the root of a Rape or Radish made hollow or with the ashes of Crab-fish with Honey and Oyl of Roses When the part is mortified it is cured as a Gangreen Child suffocated may be known if it were very well before if the Mouth and Nostrils be wet with froth if the Lungs diffected be frothy The COUGH The cause is 1. a naked distemper and then there preceeded Procatactick causes 2. A humour now what that is is known by by the spittle a Catarrh 3. Dissolved unity of the Lungs 4. Inflammation of the Liver Spleen Dropsy 5. Smoke dust sowre things and many external things Worms The cure The cause must be taken away and the Cough if it be from a Catarrh is cured as a Catarrh and by expectorating means If it come from a thin hot sharp matter after generals we must cool moisten thicken also this that followeth is good Take Honey Butter of each half an ounce Cummin-seed 1 dram mingle it give it by a spoon Forestus often prescribeth to short-winded people in a Consumption Take juyce of Colts-foot half a pound Mucilage of Marshmallowes drawn with barley water one ounce Sugar what may suffice make a Lohock fumes of leavs of Alchoof drawn up by a pipe are good 1. Generals being premised 2. If there be no Feaver 3. Whilst the forces remain 4. Fasting 5. Let it be first tried in the smallest quantity 6. If there follow difficulty of breathing it must be cured by moistnesse If there be fear lest by coughing a vein should break or the sick should be choaked or the Lungs corroded being forced to it we use Narcoticks especially if there be long watchings as syrup of Poppies Juyce of Hounds-tongue For. proved this that followeth often Take juyce of common Parsley half an ounce Womans milk one ounce powder of Cummin one scruple give it a boy to drink warm and anoint his stomach DIABETE The Cause is the retentive faculty or the Reins hurt either by plenty or by quantity of the Urines plenty of Urine is made from heat of the Liver Spleen melting the watry humour from the weaknesse of the stomach loosenesse of the passages It comes chiefly in burning and malignant Feavers Signs Diagnostick It beginneth by degrees that it can hardly be known there is heat in the bowels Prognostick It brings consumption and death if not cured at first The Cure Opening a Vein purging vomiting sweating are not good but internal and topical astringents and coroboratives which moderately cool Also Narcoticks may be used DIARRHOEA is a flux of the Belly caused by excrementitious humours The cause is the obstruction of the Veins of the Liver or weaknesse of the Liver or a preternatural disposition of the whole body with or without a Fever or a hectick Feaver burning Consumption Inflammation of the bowels whence followeth a Syntectick or melting flux or corrupt meat or worms or the Liver and choller or the Spleen and a melancholick humour or the Matrix or the Brain or hypercatharsis or toothing of Children Signs Diagnastick See the signs of obstruction and the weaknesse of the Liver If from corrupt meat such kind of meat was eaten or the stomach is weak If from the Liver or the Spleen there are signs of their infirmities and signs of any other part hurt are not Prognostick The Belly to be loose for one or some dayes is healthful so there be no Feaver and it stop in seven daies The cure If it come from obstruction first we must open by things that are good for the Liver then we must cleanse then we must bind and strengthen If it be from a sharp humour corrupt meat first we must cleanse and take off the acrimony of the humour as Take the decoction of unhulled Barley three ounces syrup of Roses one ounce Violets half an ounce A vein may be opened Then we must gently evacuate by Clysters Potions Pills of Rheubarb Mirobolans Mastick whereof make Pils which are safely given in all fluxes Take Citron and Chebul Mirobolans of each half a dram Mastick one scruple Spick fix grains with Honey of Roses make Pills Take first half a dram then I scruple not but when the greatest part of the matter is voided and if the Forces be much weakned In these two cases we must bind which is done within eight or twelve dayes first by Topicals and Diet after that by internals and all derivations as opening a vein and Ligatures to take away the flux If it come with a Feaver and be critical we must do nothing but prescribe Diet. Yet if it be too much the acrimony of the humour must be removed and we must bind and strengthen If it be more sparing we must help it forward If it be symptomical it must be cured as before If there be melting it must be cured by Restoratives and a little astringent also with Narcoticks as three heads of Poppy may be boyled in a Clyster If it happen to Children toothing it comes either from salt fleam flowing from the Head or from the Milk corrupted by a Feaver Give Honey syrup of Roses syrup of Succory with Rheubarb Then bind by Topicals DYSENTERY is an exulceration of the Intestins with a frequent bloody dejection and mattery with pain and torments of the Belly rising from a sharp eating matter peculiarly an enemy to the Intestins The Cause chiefly is a cholerick humour offensive to the Intestins by a hidden quality the remote cause eating of Grapes drinking sweet wine or cold water the humours being Coagulated and after that corrupting obs 46. cent 3. water running through leaden pipes that are old drank by reason of the plenty of Mercury and lead Ore Purgatives mingled with meat Poysons as Quicksilver Clouds malignant aire contagion Differences There are three degrees 1. Wherein are fat bodies mingled with a little moisture 2. Wherein are shavings of the Intestins 3. Wherein is the substance of the Intestins voided like peices of flesh The last of these is meant Aph. 26. s 4. Signs diagnostick They are known by the definition A Feaver is not alwayes joyned Aph. 3. s 6. It must be diligently distinguished from an Impostume in the Guts If the small Intestins be affected it makes a pricking pain blood is perfectly mixed with the dung or voided after it If the great guts either corruption swimeth above or sticketh outwardly unto them Prognostick These happen out chiefly about the Summer and beginning of Autumn Black spots behind the Ear with great thirst is mortal Women old men children are more greivously afflicted The Cure 1. The cause must be evacuated and tempered by opening a vein and purging by turns as with syrup of many infusions of damask Roses or rather first with simple infusions of Mirobolans Tamarinds Rheubarb