what is received into the brain or what is nigh unto it For the most part once bleeding wil not be sufficient in this Disease but twice or thrice or oftener in the beginning or encrease of the Disease you may adventure upon it according to the condition or plenty of the Humor the age temper and strength of the patient If a Phrenzy taketh one that hath a constant Feaver as it is often in the encrease of Feavers or in the state of them when nature is out of order and disturbed by the malignity of that matter which causeth the Disease sendeth Chollerick humors to the head you must again let blood though you have done it before in respect of the Feaver but you must do it sparingly because the strength is abated by the Feaver and former bleeding Therefore at that time open the Head vein or if strength wil not bear that open the Saphena in one foot or both which is approved in such Diseases neither is it less beneficial to open the Hemorrhoid veins by Leeches But in all Bleedings which are made in time of a Delirium you must observe this that the Orifice be not large for then it wil quickly heal and you must bind it up carefully lest the Patient being unruly cause it to bleed again as also 't is very good for the sudden Cure of it to lay a plaister of Aloes white of an Eg and the hair of a Hare After Bleeding provoke sleep For if after bleeding there comes watchfulness the Humors wiâ— be again inflamed and the patient grow worse Sleep is caused by repelling Medicines laid to the forehead which are cooling and narcotick or causing sleep which we shal mention hereafter When you cannot conveniently let blood apply Cupping Glasâ—es with deep Scarrifications first to the lower than to the upper parts and also to the Thighs and other parts without Scarrification Use Frictions in the same parts and use Ligatures to the Legs for reuulsion Apply Vesicatories to the Shoulders and Arms. Give every day a Clyster made of cold and moist things For by these the Acrimony of the Humors is qualified and they are put downwards And they are thus made Take of Marsh-mallow Roots one ounce the Leaves of Mallows Violets Lettice Pellitory Beets of each one handful the flowers of Water-lillies and tops of Dill of each one pugil Prunes six boyl them in Barly water to one pint of the straining ad of Cassia newly drawn and Diaprunes simple of each six drams red Sugar one ounce make a Clyster Use no Oyls in these kind of Clysters because they wil then inflame You must not Purge in a primary Phrenzy such a one as comes not from another Disease but it is good somtimes to Purge when the Phrenzy comes upon a continual Feaver For if there be an evil digestion or ill juyce in the Body and the Phrenzy begin then the matter is wandering and is taken for that which is called Turgent or abounding And therefore by the Counsel of Hippocrates Aphor. 22. Sect. 1. is to be presently evacuated But the Purge must be made of cold things with gentle as Senna Rhubarb Cassia Tamarinds Catholicon and Syrup of Roses Presently after blood letting you must use repelling Medicines which hinder the assent of humors and cool the head as Vinegar of Roses made of Oyl of Roses and Vinegar in time past but now we use distilled Waters and Juyces of Herbs with it and we repel and cool more or less as there is a greater or less flux of humors and inflamation which we must diligently observe Therefore we wil lay down many forms that in particular cases we may chuse those which are most fit Take of Oyl of Roses three ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce Rose and Plantane Water of each two ounces lay them on the forehead shaven and with four-folded cloaths Or Take of Rose water four ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Vinegar of Roses half an ounce two whites of Egs mix them together Or Take of Oyl of Violets and Water-lillies of each half an ounce Rose Lettice and Housleeâ— Water of each two ounces Vinegar half an ounce Or Take of the Juyce of Lettice Purslain Night-shade Penny-grass or Venus-navil of each two ounces Oyl of Roses three ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce Or Take of Oyl Olive in which Roses are infused one ounce and an half new Poplar Oyntment for the old inflameth one ounce Vinegar of Roses half an ounce one white of an Eg Beat them together and apply them with Flax. The Milk of a Woman which hath brought forth a Girl with the Juyce of Lettice and Oyl of Roses is very excellent Concerning these cooling Medicines you must observe that they be administred warily and with judgment because the Brain is of its own Nature cold and a principal Member therefore it is to be feared left the Patient by too much use thereof should fall into a contrary Disease as a Coma or the like especially if he be weak or old and although they are used somtimes more sometimes less yet the extent of the time of their usage ought not to be above three daies Moreover Those Medicines do stick to the face and eyes therefore you must lay about them a cloth or a little wool in the fore part of the head you must apply them to the middle of the forehead in the sides of the head above the ears in the hinder part about the nape of the neck and towards the crown of the head and these are in Winter to be applied hot in Summer cold as Galen saith 2. de comp med cap. 2. But it is best in old and weak people never to apply them actually cold If the Inflamation cometh to the Skin as it somtimes doth then we must avoid repelling Medicines especially those that are strong lest the matter driven to the Brain should augment the Disease You must apply cloths wet in Rose-water and Vinegar to the neck to hinder the humors from flying into the head Causticks applied to the Legs do very well for revulsion or drawing down of the humor to the inferior parts While these things are doing you must use al those things which do cool the whol Body especially the principal parts both internally and externally Inwardly you must use Juleps Emulsions and Electuaries Take of the distilled Waters of Lettice Purslain Roses and wild Poppies of each three ounces Syrup of Violets and Pomegranates of each one ounce and an half Sal Prunellae three drams Make a Julep for three Doses to be taken twice or thrice in a day Or Take of Lettice Purslain and Plantane of each two handfuls Water Lillies and Violet flowers of each a pugil Boyl them in Barley Water to one pint and being strained dissolve in it Syrup of Violets three ounces Sal Prunellae three drams Make a Julep for three doses or draughts It is very good to put to your Juleps besides the Sal prunellae the spirit of
the Medicine then you must dip lint in the same Medicine and lay it to the Hole of the ear and round about In the state of the Disease you must mix gently resolving Oyls with Anodines thus Take of Oyl of Chamomel sweet Almonds and Violets of each one ounce the Oyl of Lillies half an ounce Mix them But these Fomentations and Fumigations which are made of the following Decoction do resolve more powerfully Take of Marsh-Mallow-Roots one ounce Mallows Nightshade St. Johns-Wort of each one handful Linseed half an ounce the seeds of Mallows Maâ—sh â—allows and white Poppies of each two drams the Flowers of Chamomel Dill and Roses of each one pugil make a Decoction in Water and Milk for a Fomentation and Fumâ—gation â—ateâ— taken out of Ashen sticks being dropt into the Ears easeth pain and dissolveth the cause of it You must put green Ashen sticks in to the fire and take the Water that comes from both ends If the Tumor cannot be dissolved but it seems to tend to suppuration which you may perceive by the encrease of pain by greater Pulsation and a stronger Feâ—ver You must help the motion of Nature and apply this following Cataplasm Take the faeces of the former Decoction made for a Fomentation and Fumigation and put to them of Dâ—cks and Hens-grease Marrow oâ— Veaâ— and the Mucilage of Fleabane and Foenugreek-seeds of each one ounce the Oyl of Chamomel and Vâ—olets of each â—nâ— ounce Fresh Buâ—ter one ounce and an half Saffron half a dram Make a Caâ—aâ—lasm A Cataplasm oâ— Crums of Bread is also very good for it aâ—â—wâ—geâ—h paâ—ns and furthers suppâ—ration gently without inflamation and therefore it is very proper in al Phlegmous or hoâ— Tumors you must make it thus Take of the Crums of white Bread one pound boyl it in Goats Milk to a Pultis then ad of the two Yolks of Eggs the Oyl of Roses two ounces Saffron one scruple Make a Cataplasm The Cataplasm made of an Onyon is much commended of Victorius Faventinus Made thus Take one Onyon Fresh Butter two ounces Oyl of Chamomel and Roses of each one ounce Saffron one scruple Make a Cataplasm apply it warm The Suppuration being made the Imposthume breaketh and the Matter comes forth either by the Membrane of the Ear made thin or else corroded and then the Patient must lie upon the Ear that is pained that the quittour may come forth and you must drop such things into it as may clense Take of the Decoction of Barley four ounces Honey of Roses one ounce drop this warm into the Ears at several times If an Ulcer come from sharpness of Matter you must have a peculiar way of Cure such as is used to an Ulcer caused from a Defluxion of Humors And first because according to the opinion of Galen 4. de comp Med. sec loc we may not apply Topicks to any part except the whol Body be first often purged we must use ordinary Evacuations by Bleeding and Purging according to the nature and temper of the Patient and these must be repeated through the whol time of Cure as often as need requireth Then we must apply Drying and Clenâ—ing Topicks or Medicines to the place affected beginning with the mildest first The Examples of which are these Take of the best Honey and old white Wine of each three ounces boyl them and skim them drop of this into the Ear and stop it with Cotton dipt in the same After that it may be stronger mix the juyce of Horehound Smallage Wormwood and the lesser Centaury or of Sowbread with Honey boyl them gently and drop thereof into the Ear. Or Take of the Juyce of Beets one ounce Horehound half an ounce the best Honey six drams â—oyl these a little then ad of the Syrup of Wormwood two drams Mix them You may make a stronger Medicine thus Take of the Juyce of Sowbread one ounce Myrrh one dram Saffron half a scruple Frankinsence one scruple Verdegreece half a scruple old Wine one ounce and an half boyl them gently till the Wine be consumed drop of this twice or thrice in a day into the Ear. Observe Before you drop any liquor into the Ear you wash the ear in warm Hydromel or water and Honey and wipe it wel with lint upon a Probe armed When the Ulcer is sufficiently Clensed you must come to Cicatrizing Thus. Take of Round Birthwort Pomâ—granate peels and Galls of each half an ounce boyl them in equal parts of Wine and smiths-forge-Smiths-forge-water to half a pint when it is strained ad to it of the juyce of Plantane and Poligonum of each one ounce Honey of Roses two drams mix them and drop of this into the Ear. Or Take of Frankinsence and Myrrh of each one dram Gum of Juniper half a dram Sarcocol and Labdanum of each one scruple Make a Pouder of them and mix it with Turpentine into Balls which you must lay upon the Coals so that the Patient may take the Fume into his Ear by a funnel Or You may mix that Pouder with some of the aforesaid Juyces and drop thereof into the Ear. Or You may mix burnt Allum with white Wine for this hath a very great Drying quality If the Ulcer be stubborn and old it is nourished by a Defluxion which you must labor to remove by usual Purges Diets of Lignum vitae and Sarsa by Errhins Masticatories Cauteries and other Remedies that wil divert Then must you use stronger Medicines to dry the Ulcer such as we prescribed of juyce of Sowbread Myrrh and Verdegreece Or this following Medicine of Valescus with which he saith that he Cured a Priest that had an Ulcer in his Ear from the eighth yeer of his age Take of Honey ten drams Vinegar eight drams boyl them take off the scum and put to one dram of Verdegreece Mix them These must be dropt morning and evening into the Ear after it is washed with this Decoction Take of Wormwood Marsh Mallows and Agrimony of each one handful boyl them in equal parts of water and white Wine put to it towards the conclusion to half a pint Dissolve in the strained Liquor Oximel simple one ounce and an half Allum poudered one dram wash the ear with this warmed and after dry it with an armed Probe If the pain come from sharp Medicines drop in the Oyl of sweet or bitter Almonds with Myrrh Aloes and Saffron and if it be violent mix a little Opium or drop in the Oyl made of yolks of Eggs in a leaden Mortar If the Ulcer be very foul you must use Aegypâ—iacum Dissolved in the aforesaid Juyces Lastly Galen Aerius and Others both Greeks and Arabians do much Commend the Rust of Iron for the drying of Ulcers in the Ear. Galen 3. de comp med sec loc useth Scales of Iron ground or boyled with the sharpest Vinegar Hollerius in his Comment upon that Chapter doth prefer the Arrabian Preparation for they first grind the Iron with Vinegar then they dry it
Nose because like those of the Fundament This flesh is soft somtimes white somtimes red and blew and if it grow big it hangeth out of the Nose but if it grow in the highest part of the Nose it somtimes hangeth down to the Pallat and stops the common passages and may easily be seen behind the Uvuâ—a In Southernly weather and at the full Moon it is much swelled But in a Northernly dry time and at new Moon it is leâ—s It differs from Sarcoma in this Sarcoma groweth chiefly in the lowest part of the Nose where it is â—â—â—shy but Pol pus grows in the highest part by the Root of the Nose The Cause of both is a gross slimy humor coming from the Brain mixed with blood somtimes with melancholly and then you may fear a Cancer Sarcoma oâ—ten cometh from the supâ—râ—luous nourishment of the Nose turned into proud flesh and therefore is more easily cured The knowledg of these Diseases is eaâ—ie by what hath been â—aid they being appâ—rent to the Eyes The Prognostick is thus made A Sarcoma is easily cured for the most part but Polypus hardly But that which is soft white or red or white and red is more easily cured but that which is hard and livid or blew is diâ—â—icultly cured and is like to be a Cancer Also that Polipus whicâ— groweth low or in the middle of the nostril is more curable than that which is rooted high because Remedies will not so well reach it Both are cured with the same Medicines which are to be â—o ordered that the superfluous flesh may be taken away but first you must remove the antecedent Cause that is the slimy humor which cometh from the Head which you must do by a drying and attenuating Diet general purging by Revulsion derivation and drying of the head all which may be done by those Remedies which are prescribed in the cure oâ— the cold distemper of the Brain being diâ—creeâ—ly used and although many Authors commend the Decoction of Guajacum with a drying diet you must take heed lest by so doing you mix the flegm with not humors and â—o it turn into a Cancer After this you must take off the superfluous flesh with Causticks or with Cissers made purposely and tâ—en cicatrize But in the beginning of this disease it may be cured with only strong dryers and astringents and constantly you must apply such kind of Medicines first before you come to stronger First of all try the Medicine made of the three sorts of Pomegranates prescribed by Galen lib. 3. de comp med sec loc cap. 3. thus Take three Pomegranates one sowr another sweet and the other of the middle sort let them be ripe bruise them in a â—ortar then take the Juyce and boyl it to a Limment dip a tent therein and often put it into the Nose This dryeth and astringeth without sharpness and consumeth the Excrement This following Water doth it more powerfully Take of unripe Grapes three pound Pomegranate peels and flowers and Sumach of each two pound macerate them in Vineger and distil them then put to it Allum one pound Vitriol three ounces then distil them all together again and touch the part affected often with that Water If these things will not do you must uâ—e stronger by putting Sandarach and Orpiment to the aforesaid Water Or you may mix the Spirit of Vitriol or the Water for separating Gold commonly called the second Water with Plantane Water and touch the Polypus often therewith Or with the Mercury Water prescribed in the Cure of the Ulcer in the Nose Or you may put in a tent dipped in the juyce of Cuckoo-pintle roots and if it be too sharp mix it with Plantane Water Mercury Precipitate which is red is accounted the best Medicine to consume proud flesh without pain if it be often washed This Pouder is to be mixed with Honey of Roses and applied with a â—ent There are also Plaisters of the same vertue to consume a Polypus without pain as this Take the Emplaister de Mucilaginibus half an ounce the pouder of Savin two drams Incorporate them and put thereof into the Nostrils Or Take of Verdegreece Orpiment Vitriol and Allum of each one ounce and an half Antimony six drams Steep them in Vinegar then beat them fine then dry them thus beaten and steeped eight times let them be steeped in Plantane Water and then dried Then take of Oyl of Roses four ounces Litharge two ounces Boyl them and about the conclusion ad two drams of the said pouder Make a stiff Plaister thereof of which make tents In the use of Causticks first you must observe that before they be applied you defend the Nostrils with the cooling Oyntment of Galen or with Nutritum or Populeon or white of an Eg beaten with Oyl of Roses and the like Secondly lest the Causticks should hurt the Nostrils they must be applyed through a silver pipe so that it may compass the Polipus and the Medicines may be conveyed to it without touching the Nostrils Thirdly You must observe that these Medicines are to be used in the decrease of the Moon for the tumor then is less and therefore Medicines may easily be conveyed to the root Lastly If Polypus cannot be taken off with Medicines you must come to Chyrurgery or Manual operation which is described in Paulus Aegineta Cornelius Celsus Jerom Fabricius de Aquapendente and other Modern Writers Chap. 3. Of the loss of Smelling THe Sence of Smelling is hindered and hurt three waies as other Actions are that is by diminishing abolishing and depraving The Causes are the same that diminish and abolish the Smelling only they differ in degrees namely distemper obstruction and astriction A cold and moist distemper joyned with flegm as it can easily make any sence dull so doth it especially hinder the Smelling or abolish it hence it is that the Smelling is often hurt when there is a Catarrh or a Coryza for cold doth either diminish or abolish the sence because it doth dull and weâ—ken the Natural heat which is the producer of every action Obstruction comes also from flegm which fills the sensible Passages as the Nostrils and also the insensible as the pores of the Brain and the processus of the Temples called Mamillares so that the scents and smels cannot come to the parts it may also come of a Sarcoma Polypus or other cause filling and stopping the Nostrils Astriction somtimes may come from flegm gathered in the fore part of the Brain and compressing the Processus Mamillares as we said of the diminishing of sight from the astriction of the Optick Nerves This astriction may also come from the Natural shape of the Nostrils when they are so straight that there is no free passage for the Scents The Cause of Smelling depraved is a stink alwaies coming to the Nostrils either from an Ulcer there or from stinking flegm in the Nostrils and Os Etâ—moides for those things which putrifie either in the very sence
at some distance apply often those Cupping-glasses to the Hypochondria or under the Ribs And let him take the following Julep thrice every day Take of Plantane and Poppy Water of each two ounces Syrup of dried Roses one ounce Lapis Prunellae one dram Mix them for a Julep Lastly You must often purge the serous and Chollerick humors which make the blood more thin and fluid with Medicines that have an astringent Vertue As Take of Rhubarb one dram yellow Myrobolans half a dram Tamarinds half an ounce Infuse them in Plantane Water strain it and dissolve in it Pouder of Rhubarb half a dram Syrup of dried Roses one ounce Make a Potion Then give Medicines that close the Orifices of the Vessels by an astringent quality but such as will not retain the blood in the Breast by too much astriction therefore mix somtimes with them such as dissolve and expectorate the congealed blood which is out of the Vessels Of all which these following are the best Take of Bole-Armenick Terra Sigillata both sorts of Coral Blood-stone of each half a dram Sugar of Roses half an ounce With one white of an Egg well beaten with Rose Water make a Lohoch Or you may make one more speedily and more pleasant thus Take of the Water of the white of an Egg well beaten two drams Sugar of Roses one ounce white Starch three drams Mix them for a Lohoch Or Take of Conserve of Roses and the greater Comfry of each one ounce Bole-Armenick and Terra Sigillata of each one dram With the Syrup of dried Roses make an Opiate to be often held in the mouth and swallowed by degrees Take of Conserve of dried Roses Troches of Amber and of sealed Earth of each half a dram prepared Pearls one scruple Sugar of Roses as much as of all the rest Mix them and let him take a spoonful thereof one hour before meat Take of the Juyce of Purslain twelve ounces Sugar eight ounces Boyl them to a Syrup of which let him often lick This is the best for spitting of blood And if you want Purslain you may take Plantane The Syrup of Comfry according to Fernelius prescribed by Bauderon is good for the same Take of Yarrow with the white Flower and yellow Flower of each two handfuls Green Roots of Tormentil with the Leaves if they may be had otherwise of the dry one ounce the greater Burnet one handful Conserve of red Roses half a pound spring Water sixteen pints put them in a glassed pot covered and luted that the vapors may not come forth then boyl them in Balneo Mariae sixteen hours keep the straining in a glass and take six ounces thereof every morning noon and night Take of the Troches of Amber one dram Plantane and Rose Water of each one ounce and an half Syrup of Mirtles and dried Roses of each half an ounce Mix them for a Julep Take of Spirit of Vitriol half a scruple Plantane Water four ounces Mix them for a Potion This presently stops blood coming either by Cough or Vomiting Two spoonfuls of Syrup of Coral taken every day is good against all manner of bleeding But the Tincture of Coral drawn with Juyce of Lemmons is more powerful Quercetan in his Dispensatory prescribeth this following Water against spitting of blood which is very excellent Take of the Roots of Snakeweed Comfry and Tormentil of each one ounce Knotgrass Yarrow Veronica Winter-Green Sanicle Shepheards-purse with the Roots of each one handful Bramble tops and Mastich wood of each half a handful Sumach and Myrtle berries the seeds of Plantane Barberries and white Poppies of each six drams the flowers of Water Lillies Guords Quinces and red Roses of each two pugils Bruise them and mix them then steep them four daies at the fire in the Juyces of Plantane Purslain Sorrel and Agrimony of each two pints then strain them well and put to them Acacia and Hypocistis or Conserve of sloes of each two ounces sealed Earth Bole-Armenick of each half an ounce the Electuary of Diatragacanth frigid two drams then macerate them again four daies and distill them Take two or three spoonfuls of this Water alone or with some proper Syrup The Chymical Oyl of Amber doth pierce astringe and dry powerfully if you give two drops thereof in Plantane Water As Cesalpinus teacheth in his Speculum Artis Medicae Mercurialis in his consultations doth highly commâ—nd the seeds of white Poppies or white Heâ—ane to be tak en every morning in the quantity of a dram with Sugar of Roses and Syrup of Purâ—â—ane So you may also use the white Diacodium or Syrup of Poppies prescribed in the Cure of the Phrenzy Amatus Lucitanus doth highly commend the Juyce of Nettles in these words They which have vomited blood after they have been given over by Physitians have been cured only by the juyce of Nettles drunk five or six daies fasting in the quantity of four ounces and by Nettle Broth. Sanguis Draconis doth wonderfully conglutinate all inward Veins if you give half a dram thereof with Plantane Water or other proper Liquor or Medicine The usual Pills to hold under the Tongue may be made thus Take of the Mucilage of Gum Arabick and Tragacanth drawn with Plantane Water of each two drams Mummy and Mastich of each one dram Sugar of Roses as much as will make Pills of which let him hold one continually in his mouth And take this following Pouder in his Broths Take of red Coral and prepared Pearl of each half a dram Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each two drams Make a Pouder Or boyl white Poppy seeds and Sumach tied in a clout in his Broth. Narcoticks are good in this case and you must use them thus Take of Syrup of Poppies Jujubes and dried Roses of each one ounce Mix them and take a spoonful every night Or Take of Syrup of Poppies and Purslain of each three drams Terra Sigillata half a dram Purslain and Plantane Water of each one ounce and an half Make a Potion to be taken at night Or Take of Syrup of Myrtles and Poppies of each one ounce Bole-Armenick half a dram mix them to be taken at night Somtimes you may give Treacle of four months old as Galen teacheth 5. Method cap. 13. or Philonium Romanum or Laudanum Platerus reports that he cured one only with the Troches of Winter Cherries with Opium dissolved in Goats milk taken some daies and also that he cured a Woman with one ounce and an half of Manna given in Broth and with blood and the use of the Tablets following morning and evening for many daies Take of the Seeds of white Henbane poudered finely two scruples red Coral half a dram Gum Arabick one scruple new Violets ten the Juyce of Barberries two drams Sugar dissolved in Rose and Plantane Water two ounces Make Tablets Trallianus lib. 7. cap. 1. doth highly commend the Blood-stone by which he saith that he cured many giving it to four scruples with
alwaies offended Hence comes weak motion without hurt of the Brain Nerves or Muscles but from the defect of Vital Spirits which are not so sufficiently sent to the Head that they may be made Animal The immediate Cause of Weakness is Defect of the natural heat and spirits from which the life and strength of the parts do depend And this Defect is in every part from the Defect of Vital Spirits and heat flowing from the heart Now the Vital Spirits are Defective either because they are not bred many or because they are dissipated after they are Bred or Corrupted or Suffocated as we said in a Syncope where there is this difference That in a Syncope the Causes of Defect of Spirits do suddenly produce their effect but in Weakness they operate by degrees And therefore in Syncopes and Leipothymia al the Vital Spirits almost do suddenly fail but in this there are fewer then ought to be communicated to every part Moreover When the Natural heat wants not only adventitious heat but also radical moisture to feed upon if this moisture be wanting and diminished the natural heat must be less and the strength abated Now the Causes which hinder the spirits from being Generated or maketh them disperse themselves or Corrupt or Suffocate them are propounded in the Treatise of a Syncope The Diagnosis of this Disease needs no Explication because it is manifest and the Patients do complain of their Weakness But the signs of the Causes were Propounded in the Syncope The Prognostick depends upon the various disposition of Causes for as they are greater or less there is more or less danger The Cure of this Disease is to be directed to two things To the taking away of the Cause and the Restauration of the Heart and vital spirits The Causes are almost al great Diseases in which either Nature yeilds to or resisteth with difficulty therefore the taking away of the Cause belongs to the Cure of almost al Diseases which you must take from their proper Chapters But the strengthning of the Heart and restoring of the vital spirits are to be here declared somtimes to be preferred before the Cure of the Cause when death seems to be at hand but we must alwayes take heed least when we encrease the strength we encrease the Cause of the Disease and therefore in a hot Disease you must use more temperate Cordials but in a Cold Disease those that are more hot First then mix Cordials in his nourishment as Confectio Alkermes or Confectio de Hyacyntho in Broths or with pleasant Wine or Cinnamon Water if there be great weakness Boyl also between two Dishes a piece of a Leg of Mutton after the skin and fat is taken off and after that let the Patient drink the Broth being strained at one daught Or Take the Flesh of a Capon after the skin and fat is taken away cut it in pieces and put it in a glassed Pot well Luted and set it in Balneo Martae to boyl for five hours then let the Patient take two or three spoonfuls of the Liquor in all his Broths Or you may make a distilled Water thus Take a Capon or an Hen after the skin is taken off and the fat cut it in pieces then powr upon it Water of Bugloss Borrage Sorrel Roses and Orange Flowers of each half a pound the Pouder of three Sanders Aromaticum Rosatum and Cinnamen of each half an ounce yellow Sanders one ounce Lemmons sliced three Distill them according to art which must be given every hour by the spoonful The Juyce of Legs of Mutton only is of much use Half roast a Leg of Mutton and slash it upon the Spit take the Juyce and boyl it a little in the dish and give it either alone or with Broth or with Yolks of Eggs. Valeriola doth much commend the Juyce taken out of Sheeps Hearts And Zacutus Lucitanus confirms it by his Experience saying That he with this only Medicine a mouth continued cured a rich man who often swouned through weakness of the Vital Faculty and resolution of the Blood and Spirits when many other Medicines had been used in vain The Juyce is thus taken forth Slit the Heart of a Sheep or Goat in the middle then wash it well and last wash it with Rose Water then cut it in slices and put it in a glassed Vassel with a few Cloves and no other Liquor And after the Pot is well luted put it into the Oven after it is drawn till the Juyce come forth Give this to the Patient to drink The Italians use Caudles of Yolks of Eggs Wine Sugar and Cinnamon which is very restorative Zacutus Lucitanus makes a fine dish of twenty Yolks of Eggs as you may see in the 107. Observation Lib. 2. of his Admirable Practice You may make Cordial Juleps thus Take of the Water of Bugloss Roses and Orange flowers of each one ounce Syrup of Apples and Lemmons of each half an ounce Confectio Alkermes one dram Cinnamon Water two drams Make a Julep Or make this following mixture Take of white Sugar two ounces moisten it well with the best Cinnamon Water then put to it as much Spirit of Vitriol as is sufficient to make it sharp then ad of the Essence of Cinnamon four drops the Essence of Mace Nutmegs and Annis seeds of each three drops the Essence of Cloves two drops Mix them and take it either by it self or in Broth. You may also make a restoring Opiate thus Take of Conserve of Roses Bugloss Borrage and Clove gilli-flowers of each one ounce Citron Barks and Nutmegs candied of each three drams one candied Myrobalan Confectio Alkermes half an ounce the Spirit of Roses and Essence of Citrons of each half a dram the Essence of Cinnamon six drops With the Syrup of Apples make an Opiate take it often This Water following is excellent Take of the Jelly of Harts-horn drawn with white Wine four pints the Blood of a Lamb and a Calf clensed with the hands from all fibres of each two pints Muschadel Canary and Malago Wine of each three pints of Calfs Hearts cut in pieces four Crums of new white Bread dipped in Milk two pound and an half the Juyce of Balm one pint and an half Rose and Orange Flower Water of each one pint great Citrons sliced three Cinnamon four ounces Mace one ounce Put them in a large glass Still and still them in Balneo Mariae You may make a most excellent and precious Cordial Water after this manner Take of Amber-greese two drams Musk two scruples Lignum Aloes one dram and an half the white part of Benjamin three drams after they are bruised and mixed put them into Spirit of Wine and setting them upon a gentle fire draw out the Tincture fully and then filter off the Liquor and draw off half the spirit with an Alembick upon the ashes with a very gentle fire keep the Liquor close stopped in a Glass with a Cork waxed over and a
one ounce Oyl of Sulphur twelve drops mix them to be taken now and then a spoonful Clarret Water is usual and it is made thus Take of Cinnamon grosly poudered two ounces steep them in one pint of Aqua Vitae in a glass in another glass put six ounces of sugar with half a pint of Rose water let these Glasses stand two or three dayes every day shaking them often then mix them both together and strain them by filtration keep the Liquor in a Glass close stopt and let the Patient take a spoonful or two Fasting In Paris the Syrup of Wormwood made by Pena is highly esteemed made thus Take half a pound of candied Citron barks sliced boyl them in equal parts of the Waters of Succory and Agrimony make a strong expression and put to it the juyce of Quinces and Wormwood water of each half a pint in which infuse for four dayes four ounces of Schoenanth in a close vessel well glassed and set upon the Embers dissolve in the straining as much sugar as is needful then boyl them to a syrup in which when it is hot dissolve one dram of ash-coloured Amber keep it in a close Glass Cinnamon Water alone is excellent good in a Cold Stomach or with other Medicines as Syrup of Wormwood Mints or Coral to which you may also put Amber-greece The Syrup of Cinnamon made with Aqua Vitae according to Quercitanus Dispensatory is no less powerful And Cinnamon Water distilled with Juyce of Quinces And also the Spirit of Mastich made thus Take three ounces of Mastich one ounce of Galangal half a pint of spirit of Wine digest them and distil them The Elixir Proprietatis described by Crollius is good if you give twelve or fifteen drops in Wine they wonderfully strengthen the Stomach You may make Tablets for the same purpose thus Take of the pulp of Rinds of fresh Oranges and Aromaticum Rosatum of each two drams white Sugar dissolved in Orange flower water four ounces Make Lozenges Tablets of Aromaticum Rosatum Opiata Solomonis and old Treacle are good for the same A Decoction of Guajacum or Sassaphras taken many dayes togâ—ther with a little sweating or without in weak people is very good in this Disease being oâ— long continuance Also Sulphurous and Nitrous Baths as our Bellilucanae being taken in great quantity many dayes do powerfully clense the Stomach and Gutts from al slimy filth Take of Agrimony Centaury the less and common Wormwood of each half an handful boyl them to half a pint and ad one ounce of sugar drink it either in a cold or hot Cause Hartman exceedingly commends the use of Zeadoary in these words The often use of Zedoary doth so strengthen the stomach as nothing more therefore we may commend it having tryed it often and never missed you must eate it often Costaeus Commends hot Wine thus Hot Wine drunk ordinarily doth amâ—nd the imbecillity of the stomach It is usually observed that they who have been continually vexed with Wind and Pain from an evil Concoction when they have begun to drink warm drink have been cured and lived after a long time more comfortably You must give him Wine in Water wherein Coriander hath been boyled for his ordinary Drink But observe That if a hot distemper of the Liver meet with that of a cold stomach as often it doth you must give hot Medicines warily and rather those that are temperate Zechius Commends this Bolus following in these words That the stomach may be warmed gently and not dryed you can use no Medicine inwardly more powerfull Take of washed Turpentine two drams Pouder of Mastich half a dram Aromaticum rosatum haâ—f a scruple make a Bolus to be taken two hours before meat This digestive Pouder is usual to help Concoction Take of Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce sweet Fennel seed and Annis seed of each two drams Cinnamon and Cloves of each half a dram Sugar twice as much as the rest make a Pouder of which let him take one spoonful after every meal The Ballom of Peru is good if you give a few drops in Wine one hour before meat Or in form of a Pill one or two drops in sugar for many dayes There are some ordinary Medicines for this Hippocras Wine a Decoction of Annis Coriander and Cinnamon mixed with sugar for ordinary drink The Dukes Pouder commonly so called made of two parts of Sugar and one of Cinnamon to sprinkle upon al meats A Salt to be eaten with meat made of Coriander Annis seeds long Pepper Galangal and Nutmegg mixed with an equal proportion of Common salt Some Grains of Pepper whol or beaten taken fasting Acrons stuck with Cloves and Cinnamon and candied with Sugar Citron and Orange peels candied together Annis seeds Fennel Coriander and Cinnamon infrosted with Sugar al these men may use as they please Citron Peels are more pleasant than the rest but because it wil grow so dry that it wil hardly be chewed we are often constrained to make it up in a Mortar with Rose Water in the form of an Opiate Candied Myrobalans and Nutmegs may be used for the same and be made up as the former though they are not so apt to grow hard The Essences of Annis Cinnamon Citron peels Nutmegs and Olives are excellent to strengthen the stomach and they must be used as above in the Diseases of the Heart Of Meats They which are Salt do most provoke Appetite and Sharp things in a smal quantity and mixed with other things lest they cool the Stomach Outwardly apply Liniments Fomentations and Emplaisters thus made Take of Cypress Roots Galangal Flower-de-luce and dried Citron peels of each two ounces Mints Hysop Sage Rosemary and Marjoram of each one handful Annis seeds Bay-berries Nutmegs Cloves and Cinnamon of each three drams the flowers of Stoechas Schoenanth and Rosemary of each one pugil slice those that must be sliced and bruise those that must â—e bruised according to art and put them into two Bags with holes pricked through and steep them in strong Wine and lay them warm to the stomach one after another Take of the Oyl of Wormwood Mints and Spike of each half an ounce Oyl of Nutmegs two drams Wood of Aloes Mace and Cinnamon of each one scruple with a little Wax make a Liniment which will be better if you ad six drops of Oyl of Cloves and of Musk and Ambergreece of each eight grains Also there is a Liniment of Oyl of Nutmegs Balsom of Peru or of Oyl of Wormwood Mastich and Balsom of Peru. Take of the Emplaister of Mastich one ounce Aromaticum Rosatum one dram Oyl of Nutmegs as much as is fit to make a Plaister like a Buckler for the Stomach Crato doth wonderfully commend this following Plaister Take of Labdanum two ounces Wax four ounces Oyl of Nutmegs three drams Make an Emplaister Galen adviseth 7. meth not to keep these Plaisters long upon the part for at length they will dissolve the heat
like Quittor which comes only from the distemper of the part and the depravation of the Homiosis or quality by which it makes Nourishment like it self The same befals men in Asthma or Ptisick and other Diseases of the Lungs for their Lungs being distempered do il concoct their own Nourishment but turn it into an Excrement like Quittor which is expelled by coughing and yet they have no Ulcer in their Lungs as many learned Physitians wil conclude when they see the Matter The External Causes of a Dysentery are al things that produce sharp and evil Humors or give them being produced a disposition to cause a Dysentery The Principal are sharp Meats or very subject to putrefaction as Fruits soon rotten and al unripe things Waters that are drunk ordinarily wherein there is Crudity or a Mineral and Medicines which are deadly qualified and evil Air as Hipp. Aph. 11. Sect. 3. when the Winter is too cold or dry the Spring too wet and too full of South winds then there wil be Dysenteries in the Summer And Aph. 12. Sect. 3. If the South wind blow much in Winter and it rain much but if it be dry and the North wind blow much in the Spring those seasons produce Dysenteries But the proper Distemper of the Air to produce a Dysentery is known in a contagious or Epidemical Dysentery which somtimes is more dangerous then others As also there is an Infection in the Excrements of those that have this Disease to them that smel them and if thâ—y be cast into the Privy they infect most of the Family that sit over them The Signs of a Dysentery are taken out of the Definition mentioned an often bloody Evacuation with pain and torments of the Belly and somtimes a Feaver watching thirst loathing of Meat and other Signs common to many Diseases But it is hard to know whether the thick or thin Guts are ulcerated Usually if the pain be above the Navil they say it is in the thin Guts and if below in the thick but this is contrary to reason because both the thin and thick Guts are carried both to the superior and inferior parts Therefore this sign is rather to be taken from the quality of the pain and the excrements For if the thin Guts are affected there is vehement pain like pins pricking because they are more Membranous and of more exquisite sence As also they go not to stool presently after the pain and there is blood in every stool for because the Blood and purulent Matter comes far before it be voided it is more mixed with the Dung but if the thick Guts are affected the pain is less vehement and lasting there is presently after a going to stool the Blood and Matter swim upon the excrement or are very little mixed and in a great Ulceration there are as it were little pieces of flesh The Signs of the Causes are taken especially from the Colour of the Excrements when they are yellow green white or black to which you may ad the Signs of Humors abounding from the Age Temperament time of the yeer and course of Life The Prognostick is thus made If the Thin Guts are Ulcerated there is more danger for they are more Nervous and being neerer the Liver they receive more pure Choller Dysenteries coming from black Choller or Melancholly are deadly Hippocrates aph 24. sect 4. because the Ulcer grows Cancerous which is seldom Cured outwardly in the body But if this Melancholly comes by Crisis of Judgement it is not so dangerous But you must beware least you take Congealed blood for Melancholly A Dysentery from Choller or sharp Diet is easily Cured from salt Flegm it is worse than from Choller because by reason of the Clamminess it stayes longer in the Guts to ulcerate In long Diseases of the Guts Loathing of Meat is evil and worse with a Feaver Hippocrates Aph. 3. Sect. 6. If in a Dysentery there be as it were little pieces of Flesh voided it is deadly Aphor. 26. Sect. 4. for it signifieth a deep Ulcer which takes away pieces of the guts Much Watching Stools without mixture of Humors black stinking much blood a Lientery coming after Hickets Chollerick Vomits pain of the Liver Midriff great thirst do commonly declare that it is deadly A Dysentery coming to those which have the Gout or a Disease in the Spleen is good Hippocrates 2. progn aph 46. sect 6. but this is rather a simple Diarrhoea which sends forth the matter of those Diseases Old Men and Children more commonly in this Disease than Men of middle Age Hipp. 2. progn Children because of their tenderness and their not observing rules Old Men because their strength is spent and because there is a great overthrow of their natural state thereby for they do not easily produce excrements that are fit to cause a Dysentery The Cure of this Disease is wrought by Medicines that asswage clense and evacuate sharp humors that Consolidate and dry Ulcers and stop the flux At first you must evacuate the Humor offending least it do more mischief and you must Purge often and it you think it not safe to purge every day or every other day do it every third or fourth day Rhubarb is the best for purpose either given in substance with Broth or made into a Potion as in Diarrhoea Or thus Take of Plantane half an handful Liquoris scraped and whole Raisons of each three drams Red Roses one pugil Tamarinds six drams yellow Myrobalans rub'd with Oyl of sweet Almonds two drams boyl them to three ounces Dissolve in the straining of Rhubarb infused with Lavender in Plantane Water one dram Syrup of Quinces one ounce Make a Potion Or Take of Tamarinds half an ounce Citron Myrobalans two drams boyl them in Barley and Plantane Water infuse in the straining of Rhubarb one dram and an half yellow Saunders half a scruple to four ounces of the straining ad one ounce of the syrup of Roses solutive make a Potion The Decoction of Myrobalans made thus and given in many Draughts is Commended of many Take of the rinds of Myrobalans Chebs ten drams Citron Myrobalans five drams Currans two ounces boyl them in twenty six Pints of Water to the Consumption of the third part strain them and adde ten drams of Sugar clarifie it and put to it half an ounce of Cinnamon Penotus Commends the following Potion as good against both Dysentery and Diarrhoea Take of the Bark of Guajacum beaten two ounces boyl them to halfs in a sufficient quantity of Water adding of red Roses Pomegranate Flowers and Plantane of each two drams boyl them for an hour and then adde to the straining of poudered Rhubarb one dram Diacatholicon three drams make a Potion Many give Parched or Torrified Rhubarb that the Purging Quality may partly be taken away But Amatus Lusitanus takes the second Infusion of Rhubarb and saith That in the first Infusion al his sharpness is taken away and it is better so than Parched
following Clyster Boyl a Sheeps Head cloven in two till the flesh come from the bones add to the Broth strained of the tops of St. Johns Wort two or three handfuls Tormentil Roots grosly bruised two ounces Infuse them three or four hours upon the Embers Let the straining be twice or thrice given as a Clyster The Juyce of Plantane alone or with the Milk or Barley Water is good Gum Traganth two drams or the Infusion of it in Rose or Plantane Water is good to put in Clysters or it makes a very good one if it be mixed with Juyce of Plantane and Goats Suet instead of Gum Traganth Or with it you may with profit use Gum Arabick Frankinsence Mastich and Sarcocol All which being dissolved in the aforesaid Liquors do work by glewing neither do they exasperate the Ulcer as the strong Astringents Amaâ—us Lucitanus doth much approve Clysters made of them because they do cover as with a Plaister the internal Superficies of the Guts against the gnawing of the Matter he makes them thus Take of Barley Water ten ounces one white of an Egg well beaten Gum Arabick and Goats Grease of each half an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces Bole-Armenick and Gum Traganth of each one dram mix them for a Clyster But lest those Emplastick Clysters should fasten the sharp Matter and shut it up by their clamminess you must use clensing Clysters also which must not be long retained and you must somtimes use clensing Clysters intermixed with astringent In the astringent you may put Acacia Hypocistis or Conserve of Sloes Sanguis Draconis Blood-stone the Juyce of Maddir taken out with Rose or Plantane Water Bole Armenick Terra Sigillata or sealed Earth the Troches of Amber and the white Troches of Rhasis to one or two drams Other Pouders are hurtful because they settle in the Liquor and provoke the part to pain And it is better to infuse the aforesaid Pouders in Liquor or in a Decoction and to give them strained While you give Clysters you must give at the Mouth Medicines of the same Nature and that oftener when the upper Guts are ulcerated to which the Clysters cannot reach If there be no Feaver you may profitably when you intend to clense give Goats Milk and when you intend to glurinate Cows Milk both with Sugar of Roses But Chalybeat Milk that is Steel infused doth knit or glutinate better three ounces thereof with Juyce of Plantane and Sugar of Roses of each one ounce make an excellent Medicine Or boyl Comphry Roots in Steeled Milk Or make Bread of the finest Barley with Yolks of Eggs and set it into the Oven after the Bread is drawn Crum Milk and Sugar there with til it is as thick as a Pultis of which let him take five or six spoonfuls twice or thrice in a day Veal broth boyled very long doth asswage pain in the Ulcers And Cream of Rice doth heal them up Lerius reports in his History That many troubled with Dysenterles in a long voyage almost starved and were cured with Rice boyled in Milk with Yolks of Eggs and Juyce of Ground Ivy. Also you may boyl Rice in Almond Milk in which Gold hath been quenched Cream of Barley with Sugar doth clese and cool Broth made of Burnet with Butter given three daies together morning and evening doth much further the Cure and the more if the Decoction of Burnet at the same time be given for ordinary Drink The Rinds of two greenish Oranges boyled in eight pints of Water for ordinary Drink doth half the Cure Of the Pouder of a dead-mans Skul one dram twice or thrice given in Broth or other convenient Liquor doth quickly cure perfectly Two spoonfuls of the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth drawn with Rose Water or Gum Arabick half a dram may be dissolved in al his Broths as also one spoonful of the Gelly of Harts-horn is good After the Body is wel Clensed give astringent Decoction to compleat the Cure which must be made of the Roots of Snake-weed Tormentil Comfry Plantane Leaves Yarrow Shepherds-Purse Horse-tail Mouse-ear Agrimony Plantane and Sorrel Seeds Sumach Grape-stones Red Roses c. in Cystern Water dissolving therein the Syrup of Quinces Myrtles or of dried Roses as also somtimes Acacia Hypocistis Conserve of Sloes Bole Armenick Spodium or burnt Ivory The Juyce of Quinces boyled to the consistence of a Syrup or Rob without an addition given a spoonful or two often is very profitable The like Juyces may be made of Pears Cornel or Dog-tree Berries and other sharp Fruits Take the Fat Guts of a Sheep boyl them till the Liquor come to half a Porringer then put a little sweet Oyl thereto and let him drink it if the Dysentery be not very stubborn it cureth it at the first or second draught Oyl and Rose Water given in equal parts do the same Let two yolks of hard Egs and mixed with Rose Water be taken with Sugar and a little Nutmeg twice or thrice The Juyce of Plantane only given three or four ounces at a time or mixed with other proper things is excellent and if there be an inflamation it allayeth it Hollerius saith That the Juyce of Ground-lvy taken hath saved many a mans life Juleps of Waters or Decoctions and Astringent Syrups are to be often given Syrup of Coral as also the Tincture and Magistery thereof are very good which must be taken often in a spoon Or these following Take of syrup of Grapes Myriles and of Juyce of Plantane Quinces and dried Roses and syrup of the Juyce of Purslain of each one ounce mix them for the use aforesaid In the end of a Dysentery the suyce of Wormwood and Mints wel purified and made into a Syrup with Sugar is very available For Mints mixed with Wormwood hath great force to strengthen the Stomach And it the Dysentery came by eating much Fruit in the beginning Syrup of Wormwood with Cinnamon or Treacle Water is excellent if you at the same time use Fomentations and Emplaisters to strengthen the Stomach A Quince made hollow and filled with the shavings of Virgins Wax roasted under the Embers given for some few days together is a most proper Remedy Quercetanus makes the same Medicine of pomum Curtipendulum made hollow and filled with Gum Arabick and Wax of each one dram then roasted and after'tis eaten let him drink a draught of astringent Decoction Others roast a yong Pidgeon stuft with Wax and give it for a dinner The use of Medlers according to Forestus cures old Dysenteries lib. 22. obs 1. which we mentioned in Diarrhoca Bruyerinus lib. 8. de recibaria cap. 12. writes that he was Cured of a desperate Dysentery by eating raw Service-berries by the advice of an Old Woman Nor let us omit the Oak Grape mentioned by Martin Ruland which he saith is under the Earth upon the Roots of an Oak in Spring time of a binding taste outwardly like Purple inwardly white and like Milk which dieth in Summer and
to strengthen the Liver as also this following Opiate Take of Conserve of Succory Roots one ounce Conserve of old Roses half an ounce the pulp of Currans six drams Crocus Martis one dram prepared Coral shavings of Ivory and Harts-horn of each one scruple with the Syrup of dried Roses make an Opiate adding half a scruple of Spirit of Vitriol of which let him take the bigness of a Chesnut three hours before meat You may also add the Liver of a Wolf prepared which is a specifical proper Medicine according to divers Authors Raisons of the Sun because they are good for the Liver are commended in this disease therefore you may eat them in great plenty with their stones which that they may be better taken may be beaten first in a Marble Mortar Or make a Rob or Syrup of Raisons boyling them in red Wine if it be not too hot and then straining out the Juyce and boyling it again til it is thick which you may use alone or in some of an Opiate with these following Take of Currans half a pound boyl them to the thickness of a Pultis in old Wine pass them through a sieve and mix with the straining candied Citron peels half an ounce the pouder of the three Sanders and Diamargariton frigid of each one dram Coral prepared and red Roses of each four scruples the Liver of a Wolf prepared three drams make an Opiate The Syrup of Coral is very excellent to strengthen the Liver and stay the flux thereof but the Tincture thereof is far better As also the Extract or Magistery given in Plantane Water The Juyce of yong Nettle tops given either by it self to two ounces or with Water and Vinegar every morning for three daies together stops the flux and purifieth the corrupt blood But because in this Disease the Body is much consumed a restoring distilled Water that wil also stay a flux either must be given often by it self or with all other Drinks Take a fat Capon and a Partridg and pulling of the Feathers and the Guts ouâ— â—ill their Bellies with Succory Agrimony and Snails of each one handful Conserve of Roâ—es three ounces Plantane and Coriander seeds prepared of each two drams Citron Myrobalans one dram Blood-wort half a handful the Troches of Amber and of Spodium of each four scruples the pouder of the Electuary de Gemmis or precious Stones the three Sanders and Dâ—amargariton frigid of each one dram Sprinkle them all with astringent Wine and putting them into the bellies of the Fowls boyl them in a close vessel in four pints of Water til half be consumed then put them al into a glass Limbeck with three ounces of good Wine distil them in Balneo Mariae for the use aforesaid For Drink let the Patient take the Tincture of Roses or the Decoction of Succory and Dogs-tooth with Syrup of Quinces and some few drops of Spirit of Vitriol Things made of Barley Almonds and Rice are best in his Meats Outwardly to his Belly apply those things which were prescribed in the Cure of Dysentery with some things for the Liver as Wormwood Roses all the Sanders Spodium or burnt Ivory c. Which anointings of the Belly must reach to the region of the Liver You may al o apply the following Epitheme to the Liver Take of Endive and Succory of each one handful Dodder and both sorts of Wormwood of each half a handful red Roses one pugil red Sanders one dram and an half Spodium two scruples boyl them to one pint and an half and dissolve in the straining two ounces of Rose Vinegar boyl them again gently and make an Epitheme Let the same part be anointed with the following Oyntment Take of Cerat of Sanders two ounces Oyl of Quinces and of Wormwood of each three drams Mix them for a Liniment Lastly If the Patient be troubled for want of sleep as is usual because this kind of flux is most in the night you must use Narcoticks such as were propounded for the former fluxes Chap. 9. Of the Worms ALthough Worms breed in divers parts of the Body yet because they are more usual in the Gut than in other parts therefore we wil speak only of those By some it is questioned to what kind of Disease that is preternatural the Worms are to be referred But we can take away al occasion of doubting by saying that after a divers consideration they may refer to all kinds of Diseases for as they prick and pull the Guts or obstruct them and produce other diseases they may be said to be causes of diseases But as they are substances added to those which ought naturally to be contained in the Guts they are reckoned by Galen in the number of those Diseases which are in the number encreased wholly against Nature as the stone also And lastly as they are sent out preternaturally by the belly or the mouth they are to be referred to the fault in Excretion or sending forth Galen in his Comment upon the Aphorisms Aph. 26. Sect. 3. propounds three kinds of Worms The round Worms which are often bred in the Guts and get often up into the Stomach the Ascarides or little Worms like smal thrids which use to lie in the inferior part of the thick Intestines and over against the Sphincter Muscle and the broad Worms called Fascia because they are long and broad like Childrens Swathing bands This kind is more rare to be seen than the rest and a Physitian shall scarce see them in his practice twice or thrice in a yeer yet there are great Controversies among Authors about them some say it is one Worm only some that it is made of many united which they call Cucurbitinos or Gourd Worms and say that they are parts of the broad Worm others make a fourth kind containing the Gourd Worms but we do not intend here to shew their Reasons and several Experiences they have so much boasted of the curious Reader may search for his better satisfaction Rondoletius Platerus Sennertus and many others Moreover There is a great Controversie of the Causes of Worms some say they come of putrid heat others from the Natural others say that both concur for the production of them The first say That all Infects or Vermine come from corruption according to Aristotle The second say That putriu heat is strong â—iery and destructive and therefore is not fit to produce a live body The third â—ort to reconcile the former say that the Matter is disposed by the putrid heat to generate Worms and the Natural heat doth turn it so prepared into worms by way of Concoction But this Reconciliation wil not hold because according to the axiome in Physicks it is the property of the same thing to dispose the matter and bring in the form and therefore the preparation of the matter and the introduction of the form ought to be from the same agent besides Worms breed in Carkasses where there is no native heat we may
of the Chollerick Humor the Excrements of the Belly are high colored and also the Urine especially if it follow a putrid Feaver when the Jaundice is a Symptome and then after the coming of the Jaundice the Feaver remains but if it be critical the Feaver ceaseth and the Excrements with the Urine are wel colored The External Causes as Poyson and venemous bitings may be declared by the Patient and those about him The Prognostick of the Jaundice is various according to the variety of Causes That is more Curable which comes from the Obstruction of the Bag containing the Gall because its passages are neerer the Guts and the Matter cleaving thereto is easily sent into them provided that the Obstruction come not from a stone which because it cannot be dissolved renders the Disease incurable The Jaundice coming from an Inflamation or Schirrus of the Liver is most dangerous for one commonly ends in an Imposthume the other in a Dropsie They who in a Feaver have the Jaundice before the seventh day are desperate Hipp. Aph. 62. Sect. 4. against which Aphorism there is another of Hippocrates opposed which is in 4. de victus ratione in acutis in these words In a Chollerick Feaver if the Jaundice come before the seventh day with chillness the Disease is cured but if it come without chillness it is deadly There is Reason for what he saith for when in the third fourth and fifth day the Crisis or ground of Judgment is healthful if it be by Sweat Urine or Stool why should not a Critical Jaundice fall upon those daies And Experience from many allowed Authors doth testifie that the Jaundice doth often happen with safety before the seventh day Now these Authors do interpret the aforesaid Aphorism thus namely That Hippocrates by the seventh day understands any Critical day and he mentioneth the seventh as the most noble day and to be taken for all the rest But that is a true Critical Day of Judgment afore which a ful Concoction of the Matter causing the Feaver did appear The Cure of the Jauudice is by taking away of the Causes For if it come from a hot distemper of the Liver or a Tumor in that part you must consult with the Chapters afore mentioned for the Cure of them But that which comes upon acute Feavers if it be Critical needs no Cure Yet if it be Symptomatical the Cure of it depends upon the Cure of the Disease upon which it depends That which comes from the Obstruction of the Cystis or Bag of the Gall is cured by taking away of the Obstruction which may be conveniently done by the Remedies mentioned in the former Chapter To which we may add these as more proper First take away part of the Humor with this following Bolus Take of the Electuary of the Juyce of Roses and Diaprunis solutive of each three drams the pouder of Rhubarb one dram Saffron half a scruple With Sugar make a Bolus which you may give once or twice if the Body be of a very ill habit As for Phlebotomy though Galen denyeth it as unprofitable yet if you perceive abundance of Blood it is very good to abate it After general Medicines this following Infusion used six or seven daies doth commonly pluck this Disease up by the Roots if it be but yong Take of Madder Roots half an ounce the greater Celandine one handful the tops of Sea Wormwood and of the lesser Centaury of each one pugil Cinnamon half a dram Saffron half a scruple Infuse them a whol night in eight ounces of white Wine and add to the straining half an ounce of white Sugar Let him take it in the morning three hours before dinner Or you may make this Decoction following Take of Celandine Roots and Leaves one handful the Leaves and Flowers of St. Johns wort of each half a handful the shavings of Ivory and poudered Goose dung of each three drams Saffron half a dram Put the Pouder of Goose dung and the Saffron in a clout and boyl them all in equal parts of white Wine and Wormwood Water to one pint and when it is strained add one ounce of Sugar Give it for three morning draughts and repeat it if you think sit Quercetan commends for this purpose the Dung of a green Goose that eats Grass in the Spring and the dried white Dung of an Hen given or divers daies to the quantity of half a dram or a dram and he saith that the Dung of these Aerial Creatures is full of Nitre and Sulphur and hath a wonderful Faculty to cut attenuate and dissolve Dioscorides commends the Juyce of Horehound for this Disease and since his time others and especially Forestus who reports that some were only cured by the use of the Syrup of the Juyce of Horehound when other means failed Gesner commends the Nettle Root thus prepared Take of Nettle Roots one pound Saffron one scruple beat them wel and take out their Juyce with white Wine and let the Patient take four ounces every morning for four or five daies and cover himself to sweat after it While inward Medicines are given let the Region of the Liver be anointed with this following Oyntment Take of the Juyce of Smallage Parsley and Succory of each one ounce white Wine Vinegar half an ounce the Oyl of Tamarisk two ounces boyl them til the Juyces and Vinegar be consumed then add of yellow Sanders and Spicknard of each one dram Wax as much as will make a Liniment After the Obstructions are taken away the yellow colour will presently vanish by the strength of Natural Heat which will discusse the Humor from the Skin But that it may sooner be gone make a Bath of warm VVater and rub the Body therein with a Bag of Earley and Bean Meal Chap. 5. Of the Scirrhus of the Liver THe Scirrhus of the Liver is a hard Tumor without pain bred of a thick Humor fastened and hardened upon the Liver This Scirrhus is Two-fold either it is Exquisite or Perfect or Imperfect That which is a perfect Scirrhus is laid down in the Definition propounded which is without Pain or Sence That which is not exquisite or perfect hath some kind of pain and comes from a Matter less hardened in a word it is a Scirrhus beginning and not confirmed but that which is exquisite is confirmed so that they only differ in Degrees A Scirrhus breeds in the Liver two waies either from Defluxion or Congestion of a thick and glutinous Humor upon the part or from Inflamation which dissolveth the thin Humors and leaveth the thick The Matter of the former is Flegm or Melancholly either sent from other parts or bred in the substance of the Liver by an evil Concoction For the producing of this Humor evil diet is a main cause if it be of thick cold and viscous or clammy Nourishment as also a Flegmatick or Melanchollick Constitution and a Natural straightness of the Liver From whence Galen saith 13. Meth. That a
Leaves dried three pugils juyce of Plantane a pound the Roots of the larger Comfry being green and braised two ounces the Herb Hors-tail or Shave-grass one handful the pulp Choak-â—ears and Quinces of each two ounces Purslain two handfuls Bole Armonick one ounce Balaustians and the three sorts of Sanders of each half an ounce Let all these be distilled in an Alembick Let Patient take of this Water three ounces mixed with half an ounce of Syrup of Purslain or of dried Roses For the more tender sort of Women Broths may be made of Calves feet with Plantane Leaves or Bloodwort Or to thicken the Blood a Broth may be made of red Rose-Water alone and the Yolks of new laid Eggs. Likewise Conserve of Bramble Roses is good for them being often used especially if their Liver be distempered with heat In all Fluxes of Blood Practitioners do use to administer Water and Vinegar in a large quantity to be drunk down But in this Flux of the Courses it is to be feared as an Enemy to the Womb which is a Menbranous Part. Among the Specifick or appropriated Medicines are reckoned Filipendula Roots with the outer Rind of the Mulberry-tree Root whose Pouders are administred to the quantity of a dram in some convenient Liquor The Flowers of the Nut-trees are gathered when they are ripe and ready to fall and poudered and adram given in a Cup of Wine warmed in the mornings for divers daies together Solenander witnesseth that all are cured with this Medicament Also it hath a peculiar propriety to help fits of the Mother Spicknard in very fine Pouder and taken to a dram in some convenient Liquor stops the Courses Also being conveighed into the Womb in Lint Wool Cotton rude Silk c. Milk in which red hot Steel hath been quenched being drunk many daies together is very effectuâ—lin an old flux of the Courses for it the sharpness of the Humors and thickens them it nourisheth the Body and stops the Flux Avicenna Rhasis and the rest of the Arabian Physitians extol this Medicine to the Skies and so doth Horatius Augenius a noted Italian Phylitian Yet it is not to be used if we suspect the Body is not yet cleer of the vicious Humors The Acid Mineral Springs whether they have their Tincture from Vitriol Iron or Allum Mines do much conduce to the stoppage of immoderate Courses both by removing the Causes and by strengthening the Bowels affected The Chymists do much commend the Tincture of Coral and Vitriolum Martis Vitriolated Steel and many other Medicines which you shall find in their Books Let the Patient use to drink the Decoction of Mastich Yarrow or of the dried Lentisch or Mastich tree Also the Lentisch or Mastich Wood may be steeped in black harsh Wine which doth very much strengthen the Bowels and stop defluxions It must be diligently remembred That in an old Flux very astringent and thickening Medicaments are not to be used long together For it is to be feared lest they should fill straighten and shut up the secret passages of the Body and so breed Obstructions and very much hurt the principal Bowels which are wont to suffer very much in this Disease But it is much better to persist in the use of such things as strengthen the Liver which have some astriction but so moderate as can do no harm Ludovicus Septalius in his Medicinal Animadversions in the 144. Article gives such commendations of the Decoction of Orange Peels as of a Medicine that never fails that it will worth our while to transcribe his very words When such Medicines as these quoth he have been judiciously administred in the next place such Medicines as havea thickening and astringing quality are to be used among which there is one which I cannot omit to set down wherewith I have cured almost an infinite Number of Women troubled with this Infirmity which I kept long as a Secret and afterwards communicated to some yong Students whom I did inform in the Art of practising Physick and now publish the same to the whol World for the good of Man-kind which Medicine hath scarce ever failed me when there was no Vessel of the Womb exulcerated that fed the Flux It is a Medicine easily gotten and easily made thus Take Seven pints of Water boyl therein the rinds of three sowr Orrenges not throughly ripe being cut into little thin bits or chips and boyl them till two parts of the Water be consumed Give eight or nine ounces of the strained Liquor to the Patient in the morning to drink If you would have it more effectual put an handful of Mous-ear into it when it is almost boyled And it will be yet more powerful if you boyl it in Tunbridg water or the like Medicinal Spring water or if you boyl the aforesaid Ingredients in eight pints of water till two third parts be consumed and then strain it and quench red hot Steel divers times therein Externally this flux may be stopped by Medicaments applied to the outward parts of the Patients Body And in the first place Fomentations may be thus made Take the Roots of Bistort Adder-wort Tormentil and the peels of Pomegranates of each one ounce The Leaves of Plantane Knot-grass Shepheards-purse and Hors-tail of each one handful Cypress Nuts Balaustians Myrtle-berries Sumach of each one ounce Boil them in Water that hath had Iron quenched in it and in red harsh Wine mixed together Strain out the liquor and Bath therewith the whole Share and Privy-parts warmish but not hot Also Boil a piece of Sea-sponge in strong Vinegar and lay it upon the Patients Share and Privities and it wil powerfully stop the immoderate Flux of Courses A Bath made of the aforesaid Decoction the Dose Being augmented will be good for the Patient to sit in But care must be taken that it be not hot but only warmish otherwise it wil by it's heat the more open the Veins of the Womb. A Bath made of the Decoction of Allum is very effectual but it causeth barrenness After Fomenting and Bathing the Patient must be anointed upon her Loyns her Share and Privities and between the Water-gate and the Dung-gate which space is called Perinoeum and wants an English name with an Oyntment made as followeth Take Oyl of Mirtles of Mastich and of Quinces of each one ounce Bole-Armoniack Dragons-blood and Carabe of each one drachm Vinegar one spoonful Make all into an Oyntment Vnguentum Comitissa may also be used or Vnguentum de bolo newly made or this following Cerate which is very effectual Take Ship-pitch half anounce Male Frankinsence one ounce Mastich half an ounce Turpentine one ounce Dragons-blood Red Roses of each two drams Make thereof a Cerate to be applied to the Reins of the Back Plaisters are also profitably applied unto the Navil and Loyns made of the Mass of Plaister against Ruptures the Plaister against the Mother and of Mastich Plaister either alone or mingled together Or of the Plaister of Vigo
this manner Take Roots of Marsh-mallows and Water-lillies of each one ounce the long and round Birthwort of each three drams Leaves of Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory Mercury of each one handful Line seed and Fenugreek seed of each half an ounce Flowers of Chamomel and Elder of each two pugils Boyl all to a pint In the strained Liquor dissolve Oyl of Dill and Lillies of each one ounce Hiera simplex half an ounce Unguentum de Arthanita one dram Mix all into a Clyster Let her Thighs be rubbed downwards let the Toes of her Feet be tied till they ake again let divers Cupping-Glasses be fixed to her Groyns and Hips and let some of them be scarrified If these means suffice not open the Veins about the Knees or of both the Thighs or the Hemorrhoid Veins if Nature seem to incline that way If a Feaver be caused by suppression of these Purgations a Vein must be opened in the Arm as shall be said in the Diseases of Women in Child-bed This following Fomentation may be applied to her Belly beneath the Navel and to the Privy Parts Take Roots of Marsh-mallows Lillies Briony Angelica and Birthwort round and long of each an ounce Leaves of Mercury Mugwort Penyroyal Savine Calaminth of each one handful Lin-seeds and Fenugreek seeds of each an ounce Flowers of Chamomel Melilot Elder Tansie of each a pugil Beat them and cut them according to art and put them into two bags which boyl in Fountain Water and apply by course one after another After Fomentation anoint the foresaid Parts with Oyl of Lillies Sweet Almonds and Sesamum adding thereto a little Saffron Hereunto may be added such Pessaries and Fumigations as have been set down in our Chapter of Suppression of the Courses beginning with the most gentle Let her drunk a Decoction of opening Roots Cinnamon and red Vetches with a little Saffron Or Take Opening Roots of each two drams Leaves of Bettony Endive Maiden-hair of each a handful Schaenanth one pugil Annis seed and Fennel seed of each one scruple red Vetches a spoonful Boyl all to a pint and an half To the strained Liquor ad Cinnamon Water two drams Syrup of the five opening Roots three ounces Let her take four ounces twice a day Before the Feaver be encreased we may somtimes give Troches of Mirrh one dram with white Wine or Fennel water Forestus useth the following Decoction though there be a Feaver Take French Barley one handful Liquoris scraped half an ounce Schaenanth one dram and an half Boyl all to a pint for three Doses For the weaker he causeth one dram of Schaenanth to be boyled in Chicken Broth which he gives the Patient to drink Also a Purgation may be convenient seven or nine daies after she is delivered of the Infusion of Rhubarb Agarick or Senna or with a Laxative Broth made of opening Herbs and Roots with Senna or with an ounce and an half of Manna dissolved in Broth. Chap. 23. Of Gripings after Child-bearing GRipings do so frequently betide Women in Child-bed that very few Women are free from them But they are not wont to seek to the Physitian for these Pains because within two or three daies they go away But if they happen more sharp and of longer durance than ordinary they are forced to send for the Physitian who before he prescribe any thing must consider the Causes The chief Causes of Gripings and Pains after Child-birth are the plenty of Blood its thickness sharpness and narrowness of the Vessels For the Veins of the VVomb having for nine months forborn their usual evacuation of blood and the blood being gathered in great quantity and by its retention becoming thick and sharp while it goes through the narrow passages it causeth pains which return by fits as often as the womb endeavors a new expulsion of blood which being over they cease till such time as other blood doth seek its way forth Somtimes these gripings are caused by Winds or by Cold received into the Womb but not so often These Pains are differenced from others which are wont to afflict the Belly by their continuance and by the distances of holding up which they observe according to distant fits of the bloods issuing forth and the women themselves can easily distinguish these pains from all others Thick blood is known by clottering but the thin blood by its tenuity fresh color or yellowish If the Pain spring from wind it is more wandring being somtime in one part of the Belly and somtimes in another neither doth it observe the distances in which the Blood issues If cold Air have entred the Womb it may be known by a relation of what hath been acted about the sick woman These pains are not dangerous but for the most part exceeding troublesom therefore must be removed or mitigated as soon as may be The Cure of these Gripings ought to be directed to these ends viz. That the Vessels of the VVomb be made wider the Blood thinner and its sharpness mitigated All which may be accomplished by these following Medicaments And first of all let the Patients Belly be gently swathed that her womb may settle and not be moved this way and that way as often falls out after Child-birth by reason of the sudden evacuation Then give her three ounces of Oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn with an ounce and an half of Syrup of Violets and two ounces of Hippocras Let Clysters be cast in of Milk and Sugar with the Yolks of Eggs. Or they may be made of a Decoction of Chamomel flowers and Mugwort in Pullet Broth adding Oyl of Lillies and the Yolks of Egs. Anoint her Belly with Carminating or Wind-expelling and opening Oyls as Oyl of Dill Rue Jasmine or with this following which being of great efficacy ought to be made in time convenient and kept in the Apothecaries Shop for such occasions Take Roots of round Birthwort Orice and Peony of each one ounce Cypress Roots half an ounce dried Leaves of Mugwort Feaverfew Origanum Calaminth Penyroyal Dictamnus Cretensis Wormwood Savin Rue Bettony and Sage of each one handful Flowers of Rosemary Stoechados Lavender Chamomel Dill St. Johns wort and Elder of each half a handful Bay-berries and Juniper berries of each half an ounce Seeds of Cummin Rue Piony Carrots and Agnus Castus of each three drams Cloves Nutmeg Cinnamon Ginger of each two drams Storax and Mirrh of each one ounce Let all being beaten and cut be steeped in six pints of old Oyl adding a little white Wine And put them in an Earthen Vessel close stopped the space of a week and then boyl them over hot Embers the space of four oâ— five hours then let the Oyl be strained out and reserved for use If the foresaid Oyl be wansing upon occasion let the foresaid simples boyl in equal portions of Oyl and white Wine till the white Wine be consumed then let the Oyl be strained out Also a Fomentation may be made of the Decoction of Mugwort Bawm
Toe lay on this following Take two whites of Eggs a little Salt beaten to Pouder a few drops of Vinegar of Roses Mix all and apply it upon Tow or course Flax to the part affected Other Cataplasms are likewise made of greatest efficacy compounded on this manner Take Water of white Mullein and of Fern Root and Branch of each half a pint calcined Vitriol exquisitely poudered one ounce and an half Meal four ounces Saffron two drams Make all into a Pultiss Take Mallows leaves and Roots as much as you please Boyl them in a new Earthen Vessel with equal parts of Wine and Vinegar till a third part be consumed then ad as much course Rye Bran as will make it into a Pultiss which being well wrought together and spread upon a Linnen Cloth let it be applied to the parts pained as hot as the Patient can endure it Solenander doth exceedingly commend this Pultiss Forestus relates that a Cataplasm made of Duck-weed and Chamomel Flowers boyled in Milk adding a little Barley Meal wil do miracles Montagnana affirms this following to be most excellent in extream pains Take the Yolks of ten Eggs beat them in a Frying Pan with half a pound of Oyl of Roses Let them boyl gently till they grow thick adding two drams of Saffron and lay it on hot In the beginning of the Flux many lay on a Cataplasm of Salt and Soot wrought into a Body with whites of Eggs. Or of two ounces of Chamomel Flowers red Rose Leaves one ounce and an half Mullein flowers half an ounce Pouder them and boyl them in sweet Milk to the stiffness of a Pultiss adding three or four Yolks of Egs. Or of Barley Meal and Bean Meal of each one handful Flowers of Chamomel and Roses of each half a handful Mullein Water and Willow Water or Plantane Water and Wine of each as much as shal suffice Incorporate all together in form of a Pultiss Also divers Fomentations may be made to be applied to the place affected after this manner Take of the Leaves of Mullein six pounds red Wine a Quart Beat the Leaves and stâ—ep them in the Wine for three daies Distil them and bathe and foment the parts affected therewitâ— warm with Linnen Cloaths dipped therein Or Take Flowers of Mullein as much as you please fill a glass Bottle therewith and stop the mouth and set it in the Sun for so they will turn to Liquor which being applied to the part affected with Linnen mitigates the pain Salsaturni that is Salt of Lead dissolved in subtil Spirit of Wine easeth pains wonderfully Frog-spawn-Water stilled in May applied to the parts pained doth wonderfully asswage the pains and tempers the Inflamation and redness of the part These following Simples may profitably be mingled therewith Take Frog-spawn-Water Water of Tapsus Barbatus or of Mullein and of Fern of each one pound and an half Infuse therein Lapis tutiae and Litharge of Gold of each two ounces Vitriol calcined and Allum of each one ounce Foment the pained Parts herewith warm An Infusion of Litharge made in Vinegar the Vinegar being a little evaporated till it grow sweetish doth much good to an hot Gout Oyl of Calves Feet is excellent to allay the pains of the Gout and it is thus prepared Let the Calves Feet be beaten and the Bones broken then boyl them all to a Pap. Take the Oyl which swims on the top of the Water mingle it with Aqua vitae and Salt and therewith bath or anoint the parts pained Also Oyls and Fat 's are by many used But seeing the Inflamation which befals those Members which are troubled with the Gout doth draw very neer the Nature of an Erysipelas or red fiery swelling oftentimes those fat things may do more hurt than good for by stopping the pores they may keep in the Humor and so encrease the pain According as Sennertus makes relation of a man troubled with the Gout who found great good by very new Sheeps-milk Cheese laid upon the pained part for as soon as the Cheese being heated by the pained part began to melt and shed its Butter the pains were encreased Yet in some Bodies Oyl of Roses and such like may do good especially mixed with other Medicaments because according to the different Natures of Mens Bodies several things do good to several persons And therefore we must be furnished with a mighty company of Medicaments that upon al occasions we may have change because there is scarce any one so effectual as to do good to al that are troubled Take these following for an Example or Pattern Take Crum of the whitest Manchet half a pound Boyl it in new Milk to the consistence of a Pultiss then ad of the Mucilage of Marsh-mallow seeds two ounces Meal of Line seed and Fenugreek seed of each two drams Flowers of Chamomel and of Melilot poudered of each one ounce Saffron one dram Oyl of Roses one ounce Mix all into a Cataplasm Or to the Cataplasm of white Bread Crum before described Oyl of Roses may be added Also Liniments and Oyntments are wont to be made to mitigate pain Take Yolks of Eggs two or three dissolve them with Oyl of Roses or Violets or Wine and apply them luke-warm Balsamum Saturni prepared with Oyl of Roses or Violets allaies pain most effectually Take Ceruss two ounces dissolve it in Endive Water and a little Vinegar make thereof a Liquid Oyntment Of the said Ceruss is made a Plaister of great efficacy which may be laid on in the beginning of the Disease even whiles the Tumor and Inflamation is present It s composition is thus Take Common Oyl one pound Wine a pint and an half Boyl them till half the Wine be consumed Then ad a pound of Ceruss finely Poudered and two drams of Camphire Boyl them to the Consistence of an Emplaister When there is great Inflamation Vinegar must be used instead of Wine Spread this plaister upon Linnen Cloathes that it may the more commodiously be wrapped about the Parts affected A Living whelp laid to the pained Part doth very much asswage the pain When the pain rages extreamly we may have recourse to Narcoticks howbeit they must not lie long upon the Part because they are adverse unto the naturall heat and to the nerves Take Henbane Leaves two Handfuls Nightshade and Housleek of each one Handful Garden Poppy-Head one pugil Mandrak Roots one ounce Chamomel Flowers and violet Flowers of each one pugil make a Decoction in Water or Milk with which let the Part be bathed Beat the residue after the Liquor is strained out and add of the Flower of Lin-Seed one ounce and an half Wheat meal two ounces Oyl of chamomel three ounces and make a Pultis Or Take Spirit of Wine somwhat Yellow by infusion of Saffron four ounces camphire one scruple Boyl them a little then dissolve therein one dram of Opium With that Liquor let the pained Part be bathed It is a safe and most effectual Medicine
a wet spunge Secondly A special care is to be had of Diet for as Hippocrates saith in his Book of Humane Nature Diseases are partly from Diet and partly from the Air wherein we breath Therefore let the Diet be of good Juyce easie concoction neither cold nor over nourishing Therefore Mutton Kid Veal are to be used and which are better young Pidgeons Chickens Capons Hens Partridges Black-birds Thrushes and all kind of Mountain Fowl and Yolks of new laid Egs roast Meats are better than boyled Take heed of hard flesh and of hard concoction as Beef Pork Venison Hares Geese Ducks and Sea Fowl as also of the Heads Entrals and Appurtinances of Beasts Eat Fish but seldom and make choyce of those which have solid Flesh coming out of swift Rivers and stony places boyl them in Wine adding Vinegar Butter and Spice which Sawce is to be allowed with other meat unless the Liver be over hot of which principally use Nutmeg Cloves Cinnamon never or seldom eat cold and moist Herbs as Lettice Purslain Spinage but in Summer time we can allow a moderate use of Herbs which are gently cooling and drying for the strengthening of the Body and fixing the Blood that it may not evaporate as Endive Succory Sorrel but they must be taken boyled not raw Roots of Parsly Carrots Parsnips Mints Hysop Water-cresses are very good But you must avoid all things that easily disturb the Head and fill it with vapors and they are of two sorts Either they are such as discuss and melt the Humors with their sharpness as Onions Garlick Mustard Rocker Rhadishes or such as fill the Head with gross vapors as Milk and all Milk meats All manner of Pulse as Beans Pease c. of which the red Pease are the least hurtful by reason of their opening and abstersive nature therefore the broth of them is allowed You must avoid all green raw Fruit which are not lasting especially and those which are very moist dryed Fruits may be used at second or last courses as Raisons Almonds Pine-nuts Dates and the like but you must use them sparingly for they are for the most part hard of concoction Pears boyled and Sugared Citron Rinds Candied Lemmon and Orange Pills Candied may be eaten at the last course but it is much better to take one spoonful of digestive Pouder after meat whose Aromatical sweet vapor ascending with the vapor of what is eaten doth strengthen and dry the Brain It is made of Coriander Fruit Annis seeds Cinnamon Nutmeg with a double quantity of Sugar of Roses Let your Bread be of the best Wheat wel baked and leavened and made with Salt and Annis seeds in a great distemper Bisket is best Let your drink be thin wine of smal strength which wil not fill the Head with many vapors wel mixed with Water and also it is profitable one hour before meat to mix wine and water that the vapors may be allayed and to boyl a little Coriander seed in the water that it may better strengthen both Stomach and Brain in stronger Diseases use Hydromel or Water and Honey This is a good Rule in all Diet To eat moderately and to let the Supper be less and lighter than the Dinner Sobriety as in all Diseases so especially in Head-Diseases is of great concernment for the Head by much food is filled with Humors and Vapors and contrarily by little and slender Diet it is emptied of them Thirdly You must use moderate Exercise and every day continue it for too much rest weakens the Natural heat and makes it so dull that it cannot well concoct and fills the Body full of Excrements On the other side Motion and Exercise stir up the Natural heat help Concoction expel Excrements and cheereth the Spirits and purifieth them but you must exercise before meat and after meat rest for an hour or two or at least move very easily Fourthly Use a mean in sleep and waking for as with moderate sleep the strength is repaired so with too long the Body is made cold burdened with excrements especially the Brain but too much watching makes the Body thin spends the Spirits and feeds upon the sound parts of the Body Let not therefore sleep be too long but according to custom commonly seven hours are allowed but more or less may be taken according as age and custom shall require if you offend in either extream it is better to offend in too much waking than in too much sleep You must not sleep straight after meat but two hours after at least having taken a gentle walk You must sleep with your head high and upon one side lying on the back is not allowed Fifthly Al the Excrements of the Body are to be evacuated in their season of the Brain especially therefore every morning hawk from the Pallat blow the Nose comb and rub the Head with a course cloth or spunge which will fetch the superfluities of the Brain through the sutures or seams of the Skull The Belly must be kept open and if it will not otherwise use a Suppository or a Clyster or some gentle Lenitive at the Mouth For the Excrements are not only taken away by so doing but also by degrees somthing is fetcht from the Brain or at least somthing is reteined and derived thereby from the Head which was or would have been sent thither as to the weakest part Lastly You must have special care of the Passions of the Mind from which our bodies are many times wonderfully altered and disturbed especially of Anger and Sorrow Sorrow diminisheth the Natural heat wounds the Spirits whence comes smal concoction and many Excrements Anger makes a great boyling of the Blood and motion of the Spirits by which the Humors are diffused and dissolved and then if there be any Excrements in the Brain presently they are sent to the weak and infirm parts from whence arise many dangerous Diseases The other two Means for Cure namely Chyrurgery and Physick may be used as followeth In almost all Diseases which come of the Humors we use to make a general Evacuation by Blood-letting and Purging Blood-letting is not agreeable with Flegmatick Diseases but if in other parts of the Body Blood do abound the Liver be inflamed and the age of the Patient be flourishing and consistent with it we may then let blood for so will the ascention of vapors into the head be hindred and superfluous Nourishment taken away that Nature afterwards may more easily concoct what is raw and waterish in the blood and then purging Medicines may be given more safe But if Plethora or two great repletion do not Constrain it is better before blood-letting to give a purge for Flegm by way of Potion Bolus Pills or Pouder The Forms whereof are as followeth Take of Senna half an ounce Annis seeds and Cloves of each half a dram Leaves of Mints and Bettony of each half a handful of the tops of Time half a pugil Boyl them to a quarter of a
pint in Spring Water strain it and infuse in it two scruples of the best Agarick Trochiscated of Cinnamon half a scruple strain it again and dissolve in it three drams of Diaphoenicon and one ounce of Syrup of Roses Let this be the Potion to be given with safe Government Or Take Diacatholicon and Diaphoenicon of each half an ounce make it into a Bolus with a little Sugar You may ad two drams of Diacarthamum and take away as much of the Diaphoenicon or you may make it of equal parts of Diacarthamum and Diaphoenicon without the Diacatholicon Or Take Pill Cochie the less two scruples with the Water of Bettony make them into five or six Pills gilded which let him take early in the morning having eaten but a light supper over night The Pills of Agarick and of Cochie the greater are very fit for this purpose For a Pouder Take Senna Turbith Hermodacts of each a scruple Diagridium half a scruple one Clove Give this pouder in Broth fasting After Blood-letting if it be necessary we come to the preparation and purging of the Humors which may be done with the following Apozeme or opening Drink Take the Roots of Cyprus Flower-de-luce Angelica Zedoary and of Elicampane of each one ounce the Leaves of Bettony Marjoram Balm Penyroyal Organ Calaminth of each a handful of the tops of Time and Sage of each half a handful Annis seeds Seselis or broad Cummin Fennel seeds of each three drams Liquoris scraped and Raisons stoned of each one ounce the Leaves of Senna sprinkled with Aqua vitae two ounces Carthamus seeds bruised and fresh Polipody of the Oak of each one ounce Agarick trochiscated Turbith Hermodacts of each three drams Ginger and Cloves of Each one dram Stoechas Rosemary Sage and Lavender Flowers of each one Pugil or smal handful Boyl them in fair Water to two pints strain it and ad four ounces of white Sugar clarifie it and aromatize it that is make it sweet with two drams of Cinnamon let this be for four morning draughts In the first and last draught dissolve of Diacarthamum or Diaphoenicon three drams and let him drink it with Physical Regiment Or if you ad no Electuary to the last dose the day following you may give the purging Pills above mentioned After Purging that the Brain may be altered and strengthened and the Medicines purging not leave any offence the Patient may take this Bolus following Take of old Treacle one dram Conserve of Rosemary and Roses of each two scruples with Sugar make a Bolus which let him take in the morning two hours before meat and drink after a smal draught of smal Wine But because this is a stubborn Disease and will not alwaies yield to gentle Medicines we must fly to stronger And then after Purging we must use a sweating Diet which dries and warms the Brain and the whol Body concocts crude and raw humors makes the thick humors thin cuts those which are slimy and clammy clenseth those that are foul and dul and sends forth whatsoever is over moist by Urine Sweat or insensible transpiration For the effect of all which it is very good to use a slender Diet at the time of taking it This Diet drink may be made either of a Decoction of Guajacum or Lignum vitae only or by putting to it some Sassaphras or Roots of Sarsaparilla or those things which are most proper for the Head as the Prudent Physitian shall think fit that wil consider the divers tempers and constitutions of Bodies in respect of which he will prescribe a longer or shorter continuance of this Diet to fifteen twenty or thirty daies Now the Sweating drink is made as followeth Take of Chips of Guajacum and Roots of Sarsaparilla of each two ounces infuse them twenty four hours in four pints of Water upon warm â—mbers then boyl them gently without smoak to the consumption of half strain it through a Hippocras bag and keep it in a glass bottle and give half a pint warm in the morning covering him warm and provoking sweat Take of Sarsaparilla two ounces infuse them twelve hours in twelve pints of Spring Water then boyl them as before to the consumption of the fourth part strain as before adding Coriander seeds Liquoris Sugar or Cinnamon as much as will make it pleasant Use this for ordinary Table Drink at the time of the Diet eating Bisket made with Annis seeds roast Meat not boyled Almonds roasted Raisons Pinenuts Prunes boyled with Sugar and the like This is alwaies to be observed in the use of Sudorofick or Sweating Medicines You must give a Purge once a week and that day omit sweating by reason that sweating expels only the thinner matter leaving the thick which must be sent forth by stool Moreover because by the use of sweating Medicines the Body is often bound you must give a Clyster every third or fourth day If the Disease be not yet cured you may use these bags for the Head in the time of sweat Take of Annis seeds Fennel seeds Bay-berries poudered of each three ounces of Milium or Millet seed or Hyrse one pound of common Salt half a pound Fry them in a Pan powring by degrees a little strong Wine upon them With these fill two bags apply them hot one after another to the mold of the head being shaven do this presently after he hath taken the sweating Potion Then wipe off the sweat and clap this strengthening Plaister to the Head Take of cleer Amber Frankinsence Mastick of each one dram and an half Galbanum Opopanax of each one scruple of Misselto of the Oak two drams male Peony seeds half a dram Oyl of Nutmegs as much as is sufficient Make a Plaister of them in an oval form Or you may use the head strengthening Plaister in the Apothecaries Shops at Mountpelior not in the Dispensatory whose description followeth Take of Storax Benjamin Laudanum of each four ounces Peony roots Flower-de-luce roots Misselto of the Oak Mastich of each one ounce liquid Styrax as much as is sufficient to make a Plaister of which one ounce upon Leather in an oval form may be applied to the Coronal Suture If you desire a more drawing dissolving Plaister which is commonly called Epispastick thus you must make it Take of Emplaster de Mucilaginibus two ounces Flower-de-luce roots Hermodacts Pellitory of Spain Staphisagre Cubebs Pidgeons dung Mustard seed of each one ounce Nutmeg Cloves Cinnamon long Pepper and black Pepper of each half a scruple Liquid Styrax as much as is sufficient Make a Body of Plaister and spread a little upon Leather in an oval form for the mold of the head After General Evacuations you may come to Particulars which are made by Errhins or Juyces for the Nostrils sneezing pouders Apoplegmatisms or Medicines chewed in the Mouth Take Leaves of Marjoram Sage and Bettony of each one handful beat them in a Marble stone Mortar sprinkling by degrees Bettony Water and white Wine
of Wax Nutmeg and Sage of each two drams After you have anointed you must cover the part affected with a hot Sheeps skin and when it is cold iâ— you have not a fresh one make it warm again with the Oyl of Dill or the like hot Oyl We apply successfully to the part affected the hot Lungs of a Sheep as also yong Pidgeons Whelps and â—hickens slit in the middle Put the pâ—rt aâ—fected into an Ox or Sheeps Belly or other great Creatures newly killed and let it remain there â—hile it is warm Baths of Head herbs are good putting to them a third part of Oyl or anointing afterwards Some commend this Emplaster Take of Colopâ—ony two ounces Rozin and Pitch of each one ounce Frankinsence Mastich Ceruss of each haâ—f an ounce Sanguis Draconis common Salt Ammoniacum and Terepintine of each two drams new Wax two ounces white Vitriol two drams Mother of Pearl two ounces Load-stone half an ounce yellow Amber one dram and an half Oyl of Egs and Roses of each two drams Make a Plaister upon Leather Baths coming of Brimâ—tone are excellent especially in constant Convulsions Also dry Baths of the fume of the Decoction of Sage Rosemary Stoecnas Chamepitys or Ground-pine Origan and the like in white Wine sprâ—nkled upon stones fire hot or Iron It is very good to foment the hinder part of the Head and the Neck with hot Aqua vitae Penotus doth wonderfully extol the following Medicine for quite Curing of a Convulsion Take Oyl of Turpentine half an ounce Oyl of Cloves six drops of the Mucilage or slime of Briony so much as is sufficient to make a Limment Anoint the part affected and the root of the Nerve which comes unto it Others say they quickly cure a Member with the Oyl of Turpentine of Wax Chamomel and the like mingled with Spirit of Salt The following Liniment is very powerful Take old Butter and Bacon of each a quarter of a pound Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each one ounce Mirrh and Castor of each two drams Stoechas and Rosemary flowers of each one pugil Nutmeg and Cloves of each one dram a Kitten or yong Cat flead bowelled and cut in pieces Stuff a Goose with these and roast her cast away the first dripping which is watery the next which is fatty receive in a Vessel half full of Vinegar Anoint the parts affected and the backbone therewith Sometimes the pain is so intollerable that it must first be cured For which this is good Take of Oyl of Violets Lillies and Chamomel of each an ounce and an half Oyl of sweet Almonds Mastich and Roses of each one ounce If you wil have stronger make this Bath Take of Marsh-mallow Roots and Lillies of each one pound and an half of the Leaves of Origan Violets Mallows Sage and Wormwood of each two handfuls Linseeds and Fenugreek of each one pound Boyl them for a Bath in which let the party fit not long but come ouâ— as soon as he finds ease It is sufficient if the parts affected be only bathed therewith Others make Baths only of Oyl and if the Patient be rich they boyl a Fox or two in it While these are doing purge the Head with neesing and chewing described in the first Chapter As also you must strengthen with the Cephalick or Capital Opiate Apoplectick Water Treacle and the like Rondoletius speaks thus of his Water of Swallows A Water made of Swallows and Castor presently cureth a Convulsion coming of Repletion You may find the description of it in his Chapter of the Epilepsie CHAP. VII Of the Epilepsie or Falling-sickness THe Epilepsie is a Convulsion of the whol Body not continually but by fits with a hinderance both of the Mind and Sences The Word Convulsion is not here taken properly and strictly for a true Convulsion but improperly for a Convulsive Motion For an Epilepsy is a Convulsive Motion not a true Convulsion But we keep the name of Convulsion in imitation of Galen who calls an Epilepsy alwaies a Convulsion This Definition is taken out of Galen 3. de loc aff cap. 7. and lib. de diff sympt cap. 3. and defines a perfect Epilepsie in which all the Body is contracted and all the Sences both internal and external are abolished Yet there are imperfect Epilepsies in which only the Head or Arm Leg and Thigh or half the Body is only contracted There is also an Epilepsy in which the mind remains sound and the external sences and also the voluntary motion of some parts I saw a Nun which in her Epileptick fits had divers contractions somtimes of the Arms then of the Legs somtimes of the Head afterwards of the whol Body yet she saw those that stood by and spake nay she also endeavored a voluntary motion against the Convulsive so as she did in a manner diminish the involuntary motion somtimes she was in a smal fit only and walked about her Chamber but with a disorderly motion leaping and using strange antick postures by which she caused the rest of the Nuns to be very merry and she at that time laughed with them and spake when she pleased Every convulsive motion as I said in the former chapter cometh of provocation which proceedeth from the quantity or quality of the matter The quantity of matter which causeth the disease burdening Nature stirs her up to expel that which is troublesom to her Whence the Opinion of Galen is confirmed which is so disputed by late Physitians That an Epilepsy comes of an imperfect obstruction of the Ventricles of the Brain for if the humor obstructing or stopping is burdensom to Nature the Brain will labor to expel it In the quality there is no difference for all agree in this That the expulsive faculty is stirred up by sharpness and acrimony and by any quality which is offensive to Nature The Causes stirring up or provoking are either contained in the Brain and make a proper Epilepsy or come from other parts and so make an Epilepsy by consent or sympathy And that provoking or irritation makes an Epilepsy when the Brain laboring to expel that which is offensive shakes its self and by consequence all the Nerves which are adjoyned to it There is in Galen and almost all Authors a threefold Epilepsy The first is that which hurts the Brain in which the Disease is The second is that which hurts the Brain by consent from the Stomach The third is when the disease is sent from other parts of the Body to the head And these have their proper names The first as being chief is called Epilepsia the second Analepsia the third Catalepsia But by Galens leave that division is superfluous and in vain is that Epilepsy which comes from the Stomach separated from those which comes by sympathy from other parts when all ought to be called Sympathicae or Epilepsies by consent Neither is it sufficient to say that an Epilepsy from the Stomach is distinct from others because it is most frequent
Sulphur or Vitriol for those do much allay the heat of Choller Take of the four great cold Seeds six drams white Poppy seeds two drams Barley Water half a pint Lettice and Water-lilly Water of each two ounces Rose water one ounce Make an Emulsion according to art to two Doses putting thereto Syrup of Violets two ounces Take of Conserve of Violets and Roses of each one ounce Conserve of Water-lillies and candied Lettice stalks of each half an ounce the pouder of Diamargariton frigid half a dram With the Syrup of Violets make an Electuary You may also make an Electuary of white Poppy Seed beaten in a stone Mortar and mixt with Sugar this may be called Diacodium album this temperates sharp and hot humors and brings rest it is made of one ounce of Poppy seeds beaten with so much Rose water after put two ounces of Sugar to it Or make it of equal parts of each Outwardly you must apply cold Epithems to the Heart and Liver Take of Rose water three ounces Borrage Bugloss and Sorrel Water of each two ounces white Wine Vinegar half an ounce the pouder of three Sanders one dram and an half of burnt Ivory half a dram Wood of Aloes one scruple Saffron eight grains Camphire six grains Make an Epitheme for the Heart Take of Lettice and Rose Water of each three ounces Endive and Purslain Water of each two ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce white and red Sanders and burnt Ivory of each one scruple Camphire and Spicknard of each six grains the pouder of Diarrhodon one dram Make an Epitheme for the Liver Let the Liver and the Loyns be anointed with this Oyntment Take of the Vnguent of Roses one ounce and an half the cerate of Sanders one ounce the Juyce of Lettice and Oyl of Roses of each half an ounce Make a Liniment Let the Breast be anointed with supling Oyls as Oyl of Violets and the like Apply cloaths wet in Water and Vinegar to the Stones or Cods or which is better let them be wet with Rose water and Vinegar It is good to wash the feet with an actually hot decoction made of cold things for it will soften those parts by its hot moisture and make the humors descend and its potential coldness will be communicated to al the Body and to the Brain especially by the Nerves whereby sleep will be provoked It is made thus Take of Violets Mallows Willow Leaves Vine Leaves Water-lillies of each two handfuls the flowers of Roses and Water-lillies of each one handful Poppy heads ten Make a Decoction for the use aforesaid Fair Water may suffice to wash the Feet and if the feet of the sick man be put therein when it is a little warmed for three or four hours it frees him from his Delirium and makes him sleep The same effect is wrought by Housleek beaten into a Cataplasm and laid to the soals of the feet and also by Pompions or Guords beaten and so applied Sweet Scents often applied to the Nose cool the Brain they are prepared after this manner following Take of Violet flowers and Water-lillies of each one pugil of Roses two pugils yellow Sanders one scruple Tie them in a clout and dip it into Rose water and let the Patient smel to it often Or Take of yellow Sanders Roses and Water-lillies of each one dram Camphire half a scruple put them with Rose water into a narrow mouth'd Vessel Let them boyl over the fire and after let the Patient receive the vapor at his Nose But because watchings do chiefly trouble in this Disease you must use all your skill from the beginning of the Disease to provoke sleep For which the repelling Medicines before mentioned are very good especially if you anoint the head with Oyl of Violets cold before you apply Rose Vinegar which is good against watchings and Convulsions which come in this disease But the Medicines following will do it more powerfully Take of the heads of white Poppies with their seeds in number six the flowers of Water-lillies two pugils beat them together and with Rose and Lettice water make them like a pultiss which apply to the forehead between two cloaths Note that in Medicines to provoke sleep you must use but little Vinegar because it causeth watching Take of Lettice flowers one handful and an half Roses half a handful white poppy seeds half an ounce boyl them in water till they grow soft stamp them in Barley Meal and womans Milk of each haâ—f an ounce and a little Oyl of Violets Make a Frontal thereof Take of Oyl of Violets water-lillies and new Oyntment of Poplar of each three drams Opium and Oyl of Nutmegs of each three grains Mix them into a Liniment to anoint the Forehead and Temples Great Housleek bruised with Womans Milk and laid to the Forehead appeaseth a Phrenzy and provokes sleep But as soon as the Patient begins to sleep you must take it away lest he fall into a Coma or sleeping Disease Guords of Pompions do the same thing with less danger Penotus doth extol this Epitheme Take of Musk twelve grains Camphire twenty grains red Rose water in which Sanders hath been infused twenty ounces mix them Shave the head and wet double cloaths therein and apply them warm to all the Sutures of the head When they are dry wet them again and continue the application twenty four hours and so doing you shall provoke sleep strengthen the brain and wonderfully recover the Patient except the very substance of the brain be corrupted Inwardly you may give one ounce of Syrup of Poppies somtimes in his Juleps and Emulsions Or you may give four or five grains of Laudanum which also given in a Clyster doth provoke sufficiently to sleep and with more safety The Physitian must be wary in the use of Narcoticks or Medicines that provoke sleep for they must not be given if the Patient be very weak lest the Spirits and Natural heat be thereby extinguished Having sufficiently used Evacuations Revulsions Derivations and Interceptions we must come to the bringing forth of the matter And first we must open the forehead vein if it appear and may be taken not tying a Ligature about the Neck as usually they do for so the blood will be forced upwards But you may with most profit open the veins in the nostrils and if the Disease be any waies curable it will be cured thus You must bleed plentifully and betimes in the beginning of the Disease after you have made general Evacuations And they are opened with Bristles put up into the Nose and pricking often therewith Or you may draw blood from behind the Ears from the Nostrils Forehead Hemorrhoids with Hors-letches Apply to the Head things that resolve with things that repel in that proportion that first you use a little of the resolvers and as the disease declineth encrease the quantity so that at length you use only resolvers to discuss the reliques of the Disease For this end we use Oyl
or a Magistral syrup but give strong Purges only twice in a month letting blood constantly before as is before mentioned In the time of Intermission use Baths preparing Juleps or altering Broths as also strengthning Opiates Besides the vulgar Juleps this following made of Juyces is very profitable Take of the juyce of Borage Bugloss and Pairmains of each three ounces Fumitory and Succory water of each four ounces white Sugar six drams boyl clarifie and aromatize them with yellow Saunders and take six ounces thereof morning and evening You may make Opiats as followeth Take of Conserve of Roses Violets and Bugloss of each one ounce Conserve of Tamarisk-flowers Clove-gilli-flowers Candâ—ed Lettice-stalks and Citron-peels candâ—ed of each half an ounce one Emblick Myrobalon candied Confection of Alkermes and Hyacynths of each three drams the Pouder of the Electuary called Diamargariton Frigidum and Laetificans Galeni of each one dram Coral and Pearl prepared of each half a dram with the syrup of sweet-smelling Apples make an Opiate of which let him take the quantity of a Chesnut drinking after it a little oâ— his Julep or of some other proper liquor Tablets also may be made in this manner Take of Confectio Alkermâ—â— two drams Species de Gemmis and Diamargariton Frigidum of each half a dram Sugar dissolved in the juyce of Apples four ounces make Tablets of the weight of two drams and give one for a Dose Sometimes we may try Specifical Medicines and Amulets or things to be hanged about the Neck of which sort Sennertus hath many but we wil mention only one which is in a Noble Family of Montpelior is accounted as an Hereditary Secret which is this Take of Balm-flowers one handful chop them small and infuse them in four ounces of the spirit of Wine then ad of prepared Pearl half a dram mix them and give two spoonfuls at à time while you use these things you must with all possible art procure sleep by Medicines both internal and external such as you have for the Cure of the Phrenzie And besides external sleeping Medicines you must apply such Remedies outwardly to the head which may temper and allay the vehement heat and fury thereof And these must not only be cooling but also more moistning and in the beginning of the Disease repelling Therefore in the beginning Oyl of Roses Violets Dill and Chamomil are very good After you must leave out the Oyl of Roses but when you wil Cool more you must ad the Oyl of the Cold Seeds and Poppyes And lastly that they may be brought into the form of a Liniment you may ad Butter or the Mucilage of Linseed or Fenugreek An Epithem thus made is very good Take of the water of Water-Lillies one pint Sal. Prunella one ounce Camphire one scruple mix them and apply double cloaths dipped therein to the fore-part of the Head And Epithem of Sal. Saturni or Salt of Lead with Rose-water is very profitable As also that which is formerly mentioned made of Rose-water red Saunders being infused therein with Musk and Camphire The Chymists prefer the Balsom of Lead and anoint the Head therewith as with a Liniment But in the height of the Disease it is very necessary to apply some Creature newly killed or some part of it and especially a sheeps Lungs which must be warmed again in hot water after it is grown cold Some use stronger Discussients in the declination of the Disease and also in the vigor of it after sufficient evacuation this following Fomentation is of wonderful Vertue Take of the Head Herbs with their flowers as many as you think fit boyl them in Spring water then take of Bay-berries and the Roots of black Hellebore of each as much as will suffice beat them grosly and sew them into a long Bag and then let it boyl in the Decoction before mentioned Afterwards for Nine dayes together Take Two Pints of the Decoction and Foment the Head being shaved with double Cloatâ—s for the space of an hour after apply the Bag to the Coronal Suture binâ—ing it about with linnen Cloaths Let the Patient lie down and rest if he can then wil he Purge by al the Emunctuaries of the Brain and also somwhat by stool so wil the filth sticking to his Skul and Brain be wonderfully dissolved which few other Medicines can perform Lastly Apply a Cautery to the Coronal Suture which is much approved by Gordonius who confirms the benefit of it by the Hist of a certain Mad-man who had a wound in his Head with a Fracture of the Scull and was â—â—â—y wel as long as it was Open but still when it was Healed grew mad again Although the Brain be principally affected in this Disease yet other parts are to be altered especially the Heart and Liver with Epithems and Liniments prescribed in the Cure of the Phrenzy CHAP. XIV Of Melancholly MElancholly is a Doting or Delirium without a Feaver with fear and sadness It is distinguished from a Phrenzy by want of Feaver and from Madness by Fear and Sadness because that comes with Fury and Boldness We say this Disease hath no Feaver namely of its own nature of it self but a Feaver may Accidentally be joyned with it For nothing hindereth but a continual or intermitting Feaver may happen to one in this Disease but this Feaver wil not be essentially in it as in a Phrenzy where a Feaver is essential to the Disease But we may doubt how Fear and Sadness may be said to be of the essence of Melancholly when we perceive that in many Melancholick people there is much laughter and appearance of joy For some laugh some sing some think themselves to be very rich Kings and Monarchs We Answer That there are divers degrees of Melancholly and divers mixtures of Melanchollick humors with others from whence come varieties of Passions so that they who have much blood or flegm mixed with Melancholly may have joy and Cheerfulness but that Disease is not at that time a true Melancholly but is more like foolishness Also great variety of Doting ariseth from the various disposition of the Melanchollick humor Hence it is that some think themselves to be Kings Princes Prophets Others that they are made of Glass or Potters-Clay or that they are barely Corns ready to be devoured by the Hens Some think they are melting Wax and dare not approach the Fire Others That they are Dogs Cats Wolves Cuckows Nightingales or Cocks whose voyces they imitate Others fancy themselves dead and will neither eat nor drink Others dare not piss least they should drown the World by a second Deluge Some think they have lost their heads or some other Member or that they carry the world upon their fingers end or that they have Sparrows in their heads or Serpents Frogs Mice and other Creatures in their Bellies The immediate Cause of Melancholly that I may use the words of Galen is a dark spirit or vapor very black for when the Animal Spirits
but you must mix some thickning things that may constrain the humor as red Roses Mastich Coriander Nutmeg and other things which we shall declare more at large in the hot Catarrh You may make an Errhine for this purpose as followeth Take of Marjoram Water four ounces the Juyce of Bettony one ounce Nigella or Gith seeds poudered half a dram Nutmeg one scruple For rich people you may ad two grains of Musk and Amber-greece Or Take of Lignum vitae one ounce Spring Water one pint Infuse it all night upon warm embers then boyl it to the consumption of half adding in the conclusion sweet Marjoram and red Rose leaves of each two pugils So when the matter is but thin you may make a Masticatory either of Mastich alone or after this manner Take of Nutmeg one dram Mastich and Gum Arabick of each half a dram Pouder them with Rose water make Troches to chew The best Neesing is made of black Hellebore and Sugar equal parts The Extract of Tobacco made in Aqua vitae and held under the tongue in the bigness of a Pease brings forth abundance of Water but if you take too much or swallow it down it will cause violent vomiting We have shewed that Cauteries to the Arms hinder part of the Head and behind the Ears are very good as also to the nape of the Neck and Shoulders which are now adaies in great request But there is a new place found out by some namely in the Neck neer the Jugular veins between the Muscles And by this means two men have been cured of old Catarrhs which caused hoarsness Finally After convenient Evacuations things that strengthen the Brain and dry it are to be used both internally and externally as Opiates Pouders Bags Fumes described in the Cure of the cold distemper of the Head But you must remember to put unto them some Conserve of Roses Nutmeg or white Frankinsence when you cure a Catarrh The Decoction of Mastich Wood used as a Sudorifick dries the Brain and stops Defluxions For which the following things are good Take of Coriander seed prepared half an ounce Nutmeg and Frankinsence of each three drams Liquoris and Mastich of each two drams Cubebs one dram Conserve of red Roses one ounce white Sugar dissolved in Rose water ten ounces Make a Confection in little rolls weighing three drams Let him take one morning and evening These following Troches are much commended by Solenander Cons 10. Sect. 4. which he borrowed which he borrowed from both the Ancient Greeks and Arabians Take of the best Frankinsence and Juyce of Liquoris of each one dram Opium Saffron and Mirrh of each one scruple With Syrup of Poppies make Troches or Pills to be taken now and then two scruples or half a dram at a time These Tablets following are very good Take of Diambra and Diamoschi dulcis of each one dram white Amber one scruple Oyl of Annis seeds three drops Sugar dissolved in Lavender Water four ounces Make Tablets of two drams in weight take one morning and evening The Balsom for the Head prescribed in the Chapter for the cold distemper after the Opiate is excellent taken inwardly and into the nostrils Lac Sulphuris and the flower of Brimstone are commended by Chymists for the Cure of a Catarrh and the Galenists use it much in Tablets In a new Catarrh Water of Nuts with Hydromel given three nights together doth much hinder it Shave the fore part of the head and apply a Cataplasm of two ounces of Leaven and two drams of Amber But if the Patient will not permit his head to be shaved let it be cut and lay a bag of Chamepits or Groundpine mixt with Amber Besides the afore mentioned Fumes one made of Tacamahaca is excellent for it dries a Catarrh and hinders his Motion neither is the scent too strong but the Patient may shut it into his chamber without offence It is profitable to dry the Head with bags of Bran Gromwel and Salt Leaves of Sage Bettony French Lavender Annis seeds Fennel seeds and the like Lastly If the Disease be stubborn all those Medicines which are mentioned in the cold distemper of the head are to be used A hot Catarrh is Cured by Medicines which discharge the matter offending and which do thicken it and revel it as also by correcting the distemper of the parts sending and receiving it For this end first let blood if nothing hinder by which the humor flowing is revelled and the sharpness abated Then carry away part of the humor by a gentle Purge which may no waies stir violently the humors as followeth Take of the best Rhubarb four scruples Citrine Myrobalans rubbed with the Oyl of sweet Almonds half a dram yellow Sanders half a scruple Infuse them in Lettice and Purslain Water and strain it adding of Manna and Syrup of Roses Solutive of each one ounce Make a Potion Or instead of the Waters afore mentioned you may make a Decoction of cold Herbs and Tamarinds to which you may put your Purgatives Then you must alter and thicken the humor with convenient Juleps Take of Lettice Purslain and Plantane of each one handful the four great cold Seeds white Poppy seeds of each two drams Violets Water-lillies and red Poppies of each one pugil boyl them to a pint Dissolve in the straining the Syrup of Violets and dried Roses of each one ounce and an half Make a Julep for three draughts to be taken twice in a day Or instead of this Decoction use the distilled Waters of those Herbs or Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds After use a little stronger Purge putting to the former Senna or Catholicon or Diaprunes or the like A light sweet Medicine thickening and sweetening the humor is made of the Yolks of two new laid Egs dissolved in five or six ounces of spring Water with one ounce of Sugar heat them well and stir them upon the fire and take it as hot as you can morning and evening for three daies together And at last you must labor for a stronger restraning of the flux and thickning of the humor with this Syrup Take of Syrup of Violets and dried Roses of each one ounce Syrup of Poppies half an ounce Give an ounce at a time in a spoon at Bed time The following Opiate is good for the same purpose Take of old Conserve of Roses six drams the species of Diatragaganth frigid two drams Bole-armenick washt in Rose water two scruples With the Syrup of dried Roses make an Opiate Take the quantity of a smal nut at night This Barley Cream is very profitable Take of clensed Barley as much as is sufficient steep it six hours and then boyl it well and strain it then take three ounces of blanched sweet Almonds Pompion seeds husked one ounce and an half Melone seeds one ounce white Poppy and Lettice of each half an ounce Beat them together and with Barley Water take out the Milk which with two pound of the Pulp
white Troches of Rhasis with Opium one dram Make a Collyrium and drop it often into the Eyes If the pain be very great you may put to it Womans Milk and the Mucilages aforesaid This following Medicine doth powerfully resist inflamation and stay the flux Take of the white of an Eg beat it in a pewter dish with a piece of Allum very well till it come to the consistence of an Oyntment which you must spread upon a linnen cloth and apply it warm to the Eyes After two or three hours take it away left by its long continuance having an extraordinary astringent quality from the Allum it retain the humors in the Eyes Also the Water of Allum distilled in an Alembick laid to the Eye with a linnen clout doth allay the inflamation thereof The Salt of Lead dissolved in Rose Water or Wine Vinegar or mixed with Pomatum doth powerfully cool the inflamation In the encrease of the Disease you must mix digestives with Repelling Medicines and therfore you must put the Water of Eyebright Fennel Celondine and the Mucilage of Linseeds Althaeae oâ— Marsh-mallows and Foenugreek Gal. 13. Meth. commends especially the Decoction of Fenugreek because it digesteth concocteth and moderately repelleth but you must sift the Fenugreek to take out the dust and after wash it often in warm Water before you boyl it or make the Mucilage of it You may thus make a Collyrium Take of the Mucilage of the seed of Foenugreek and Quinces drawn with Rose and Eyebright Water of each one ounce and an half the white Troches of Rhasis with Opium one dram Tutty prepared half a dram Make a Collyrium When the Disease is at the height you may put Sarcocol to it which is of a more digestive quality but since it is apt to hurt the Eyes by its over dryness and sharpness it must first be steeped some few daies in Milk often changed and you must prepare but a little at one time for if it be long kept it wil grow sowr and hurt the Eyes You may use it thus Take of the flowers of Chamomel Melilot and red Roses of each one pugil the seeds of Foenugreek clensed one dram boyl them in Plantane Water Dissolve in four ounces of the straining Sarcocol one dram Tutty prepared and of the white Troches of Rhasis without Opium of each half a dram Make a Collyrium Authors do commend some Waters to be very powerful Quercetan commends the infusion of Crocus Metallorum made in Eyebright and Fennel Water which is strong enough and is no waies too sharrp for the Eyes as others are Crollius and the rest of the Chymicks do highly commend the Salt of Lead dissolved in Rose Water to which they put a few grains of Sul Armonick The manner is thus Take of the Salt of Lead twelve grains Sal Armonick three grains Rose Water three ounces Mix them and drop some into the Eye morning and evening There is also a Water made of calcined or burnt Lead or Litharge or Menium infused in Vinegar which laid to the Eye with a linnen clout presently cureth their inflamation The Water of white Vitriol is most common being dissolved in Rose or Plantane Water this mitigateth inflamations discusseth and hindereth defluxions Thus they are proportioned Take of white Vitriol one scruple Rose or Plantane Water four ounces Dissolve the Vitriol in it at the fire Strain the Water and drop it into the Eyes If it be too sharp you may qualifie it as you please with more Rose or Plantane Water This following Medicine is not so sharp and more dissolving Take of Flower-de-luce Roots and red Roses of each one scruple Rose and Plantane Water of each three ounces Boyl them to the third part with a gentle fire Ad to the straining white Vitriol poundered eight grains Make a Collyrium Many Oyntments also are used for the Eyes of which these three following are the best and somtimes do wonders The first is in Renodaeus his Dispensatory called Vnguentum Ophthalmium made thus Take of Bole-Armenick washed in Rose Water one ounce Lapis Calaminaris wash'd in Eyebright Water and Tutty prepared of each two drams Pearl finely poudered half a dram Camphire half a scruple Opium five grains Butter as much as will be sufficient to make an Oyntment according to art for to be applied to the corners of the Eyes and the Eye-lids The second is John Cratoes which is set down in his Physical Counsels gathered by Laurence Scholzius Cons 6. thus Take Butter made in May if you can get it or other that is fresh and well worked or the marrow of an Ox or Deers Shank and mix therewith as much of the fine pouder of Lapis Calaminar is as it will receive make an Oyntment The third is from Paenotus in denario thus made Take of Tutty prepared one ounce and an half Camphire one dram Verdegreece twelve grains Beat the Tutty with the Camphire together in a Mortar the Verdegreece by its self all very sine Then take of fresh Butter one ounce Rose water one dram boyl them gently together and then take them from the fire and first put in your Camphire with your Tutty then your Verdegreece by degrees stir them very well and reserve them in a glass Make an Oyntment and strain it through a Sarsenet anoint the inside of the Eye-lids especially about the corners and the Patient will soon recover This is a most approved Medicine against Inflamations both with matter and dry against itching of the Eyelids and weeping There is another very good though sharp and therefore must be only applied to the Eye-lids it is thus made And when al have failed this hath cured the most desperate Ophthalmy namely Of May Butter and Juyce of Tobacco boyled to an Oyntment which must be applied the Eye-lids being closed and in a darkroom as soon as the Patient opens his Eyes it will begin to bite and will certainly cure In the height of the disease you must apply more resolving than repelling Medicines therefore they which were prescribed in the encrease of it are good in the height or state of it if you encrease the quantity of the Resolvers and diminish the Repellers But especially these two following Oyntments may be used not only in the state and height but in the declination to the perfect cure of the Disease First Fomentations to discuss the matter are good in the height of the Disease made thus Take of the flowers of Chamomel Melilot and Roses of each one pugil Foenugreek seeds prepared as before shewed two drams Make a Decoction with which foment the Eyes with four-double clouts This is good in the end of the encrease and the beginning of the state of the Disease and in Winter you must use it hot in Summer only warm In the end of the state and declination you must make a more resolving Fomentation which is done by adding to the former Ingredients the Leaves of Eyebright Marjoram Bettony and a
the liquor by inclination without the dregs and if need be filter it One drop into the Eye takes away redness and defluxion and all spots or blemishes thereon and quickeneth the sight Solenander commends highly the Decoction of Quince Leaves which are to be gathered without breaking in the beginning of the spring and kept diligently that they neither be dusty nor musty nor otherwise defiled and when you use them boyl one handful of them in pure water and let the Eyes be often washed therewith It is a wonder saith he to see how it doth preserve clense and stop Rhewms in the Eyes Sometimes in aâ— inveterate Ophthalmy much filth like matter is gathered in the eyes which can scarcely be cured with Collyriums or other remedies but in this case fine Cotton dried at the fire and laid like a smal pillow upon the eye and rowled down is very good for the next morning you may take much filth away with it And with this Remedy used many nights together many eyes have been cured which could not otherwise and this kind of Medicine prevailes chiefly among Children that have sore eyes For a Conclusion of this Chapter it wil not be amiss to set down the experimental Medicines of Sacutus Lusitanus who cured an old Ophthalmy which would no otherwise be removed in a whol yeer with a Mercurial Unguent although there was no sign of the French Pox being perswaded by Mercurialis who in his Book of the French Pox saith When you see any Disease that will not be Cured by ordinary means imagine it to be the French Pox. He asked the Patient if ever he had the French Disease or ever lay with a foul bodied Woman He denied al but only confessed that he lay with one Man once in the bed whom he suspected to be Frenchified Upon this conjecture the Physitian prescribed a sudoriâ—â—ck diet of Sarâ—a for twenty dayes but to no end And though the Disease was chiefly in the upper parts so that it was to be feared least if he fluxed him at the mouth with Mercury that the humors should fal more into the eyes but in regard it was old and the force of the defluxion was attained he prescribed the Unguent of Mercury after his body was wel Purged and by it in seven dayes space after plentiful Salivation or Spitting his pains ceased that inflamation was gone the itching abated which was before in his eye-lids with much acrimony And so leaving him only an issue in his Arm to breath the Brain and prescribing a good diet which he kept the Patient returned to his former health The same Zacutus Lusitanus in his Praxis ad Hist commends that Water and Oyntment which we mentioned in the Cure of Suffusion for an old Ophthalmy Chap. 9. Of Hypopyo or Matter under the CORNEA WHen the Inflamations of the Eyes are great and swelling somtimes they cannot be resolved but they wil be suppurated which is much to be feared and to be prevented by al means For from thence Ulcers wil come and somtimes Matter is gathered under the Cornea which Disease is called Vpopuon and this comes often from a stroak or contusion blood-shotness somtimes it covereth al the Pupilla and hinders the sight somtimes it compasseth the circle of the Iris and is like the pairing of a nail and thence it is called Onux or Vnguis This Disease is known not only by the whiteness which is like Matter but also from the Inflamation and Blood-shot that went before for when the Eye is moved there appears a motion of the Pus or Matter urder the Cornea There is a redness in the Eye and Pulsation or at least went before it For the Cure first using universal Medicines if there remain any reliques of Inflamation you must take them away by the Remedies prescribed in the Ophthalmy then you must apply gently Discutients mixed with Emollients lest when the thin part is resolved the matter become thicker and less fit to be dissolved Therefore make your Fomentations of the Decoction of the flowers of Chamomel Melilot the seeds of Fleabane and Fenugreek to be used with Linnen or Bags You may ad the Leaves of Eye-bright Celandine and Fennel seed or use this following Collyrium Take of the Water of Vervain Rue Celandine Roses and Fennel of each half an ounce the best Aloes and Tuity prepared of each half a dram Sugar-candy one dram Pouder and mix them with a little Breast-milk make a Collyrium of which drop some into the Eyes twice or thrice in the day This following is excellent Take of Saffron Aloes and Mirrh of each one dram Wine three drams Honey six drams Dissolve the Saffron in the Wine then mix them with the Aloes and Marrh then put them to the Honey and anoint the Eyes Lastly Those Medicines which were prescribed in the declination of an Ophthalmy in the spots or Maculae of the Eyes and in Suffusion or Cataract are good here If the Matter cannot be discussed with Resolving Medicines you must seek others Gal. in 14 Meth. reports That there was one Justus an Oculist in his time that cured many of this Disease by shaking their heads for setting them straight upon a seat and taking hold on both sides of their head he shaked them till he perceived the matter to descend But if the matter which hindereth the sight cannot be thus cured neither Galen in the place cited flies to Manual Operation or Chyrurgery whom Aetius and others do follow which is done by pricking of the Eye which is used also in a Cataract Which operation as it is little used in our times so it requireth the hand of a most skilful Chyrurgion and it is much to be feared lest when the Cornea is opened the Watery Humor come forth with the matter Chap. 10. Of Phlyctaenae or Blisters in the Eyes IN the Cornea and the Adnata Tunica as in other parts of the Body there breed somtimes little blisters full with water like bubbles or bladders which come from the heat of the Humor Phlyctainai in Greek and called in Arabick Bothor and they are little tumors like Gromwel seeds coming from a sharp watery humor They are easily known They in the Adnata are red in the Cornea blackish if they be outward but white if they be in the inner part of it As to the Prognostick Pâ—lyctaenae which grow in the Adnata are less dangerous than they in the Cornea The more superficial these Pustles are the leâ—s dangerous they are the more inward the more danger for it is to be feared lest the whol thickness of the Cornea be eroded and so either the watery humor wil flow forth or else the Uvea wil start out The Cure consisteth wholly in the resolving of the matter conjoyned and the averting of the antecedent cause And we must take heed lest we bring these Pustles to suppuration lest they turn into Ulcers Therefore those Universal Evacuations Revulsions and Derivations which were declared in
For this end use the following Ceratum Take of Pomegranate-peels Acacia Pomegranate flowers Galls Cypress-nuts Roch-Alum Bole-Armenick of each one dram white Wax four ounces Turpentine three drams Make a Cerate After the use of Repercussives you must apply Resolvers to the part affected as this Decoction Take of pure Honey and Aloes of each two ounces Mirrh one ounce Saffron one dram and an half Water two pints Boyl them gently to the consumption of half dip a piece of soft Spunge therein squeeze it a little and apply it hot to the part bind it on and do thus often Amatus Lucitanus Curatione 68. Cent. 5. prescribes a Cerat against Aegylops which he highly commends which is this Take of the Pouder of Cockle shels two drams Mirrh washed Aloes and Frankinsence of each half an ounce Sarcocol Dragons blood and Ceruss of each three drams Opopanax dissolved in Wine Vinegar and Blood-stone of each one dram and an half Saffron two scruples Wax and Rozin of each three ounces Mix them according to art at the fire and make a Cerate to be applied to the corner of the Eye If the Tumor wil not be resolved with the former Medicines but wil come to suppuration you must help it forward with a Plaister of Simple Diachylon or if there be pain or inflamation you may apply a Cataplasm of Crums of Bread If it wil not break open it with a Lancet and delay not least the matter contained do corrode the parts and make an incurable Fistula Many open it with a hot Iron but the cold is best After the imposthume is opened you must clense the Ulcer and heal it as others But if it fistulate cure it thus First make a general Evacuation by bleeding and purging You must divert the defluxion from the Head by Cupping-glasses Vesicatories and Causticks applied to their proper places and then use the decoction of China or Sarsaparilla for many daies And at the same time dry the Brain with Fumes and Head Pouders as in a Catarrh Instead of a Cautery you may apply a Seton to the Neck for Fabricius Hildanus reports Obs 41. Cent. 1. that it hath done it alone without other means If the distemper of the Liver be the Cause of the defluxion as it often is you must have a special care to administer Medicines proper for that When you use Topicks open the orifice of the Ulcer and dilate it by degrees with a Tent made of an Elder pith a spunge made fit or a Gentian Root When it is large enough apply this following Medicine commended by Forestus Obs 17. Lib. 11. Take of Honey two ounces Verdegreece one dram Water of Rue four ounces Pouder the Verdegreece very fine and boyl it with the rest at a gentle fire till the third part be consumed and make a warm injection of the strained Liquor with a Syringe if this be too sharp wash the Vlcer every day with the Water of Rue and after apply a little Unguentum Apostolorum Continue this course for three weeks laying on some convenient Plaister and defending the Eye with Rose Water When the Ulcer is sufficiently purged use this following Collyrium to incarnate and cicatrize Take of Frankinsence Aloes Dragons blood Pomegranate flowers Allum and Antimony of each one dram Verdegreece five grains Pouder them fine and with Rue Water make a Collyrium to be dropt in with a stalk of Rue thrice in a day and put in a tent wet therewith laying upon it a Diapalma Plaister Lessen your Tent by degrees and at length take it quite out only washing the part with the aforesaid Collyrium and laying on Diapalma Forestus in the place cited saith that new fistulaes have been cured thus by a famous Chyrurgeon of his time If it appear that the bone be foul it must only be cured by an actual Cautery the manner of which is exactly described in Paraeus Fallopius and Aquapendente in their Works But Fabricus Hildanus Obs 22. Cent. 5. boasteth that he cured a Fistula lachrymalis with foulness at the Bone that was four yeers old and counted desperate in a child of thirteen yeers of age with Medicines alone dilating of it with prepared Spunges and after sprinkling Euphorbium into it and that very much and often and after applying only an Emplaister of Gum Elemi Having used these things diligently for the space of divers weeks he perceived a scale of the Bone which he drew forth and then with half a drop of Tolutan Balsom upon a little Lint once in a day conveyed into the Ulcer he perfectly consolidated the Fistula in a short time Chap. 16. Of Rhyas and Encanthis ANother Disease often followeth the Fistula Lachrymalis called Rhyas and this is the consuming or diminishing of the smal flesh in the great corner of the Eye from whence it is enlarged This comes also of other Causes as sharp humors falling upon the part or from clensing Medicines formerly misapplyed Encanthis is contrary to Rhyas which is the immoderate encrease and swelling of the Caruncle or little flesh in the great corner of the Eye and this comes from much blood flowing to the part and the not orderly curing and drying up of the Ulcer The Cure of Rhyas is by Incarnatives such as follow Take of red Roses one pugil Cypress Nuts and Myrtles of each two drams Aloes one dram and an half old Wine one pint Boyl them till the fourth part be consumed wash the part often with this Decoction Or Take of Aloes and Frankinsence of each one dram Dragons blood half a dram red Roses and seeds of Sumach of each one scruple Rose Water one pint boyl them to the consumption of the fourth part Make a Collyrium Encanthis is cured by taking away of the superfluous flesh growing in the corner of the Eye this is done with eating Medicines beginning with the mildest first therfore first use burnt Allum after proceed to Apostolorum Aegyptiacum or burnt Vitriol But if these will not do cut it out or burn it with an Iron But before you do these things you must prepare the Body with convenient Evacuations least you cause a new defluxion but in the cutting burning or consuming of this Caruncle with Medicines you must take heed that you take it not wholly away but only that which is superfluous otherwise it wil turn to Rhyas Chap 17 Of Epiphora THe word Epiphora signifieth any Defluxion into any part But through custom it is used especially for the defluxion of a thin Rhewm from the Eyes hence it is called involuntary weeping which flows dayly from the corners of the Eyes For the producing of which Humor flowing preternaturally there is an evil disposition in the part from whence it cometh and in the part receiving it the part that sends this humor is the Brain which when it is too hot or too cold gathereth a watery Humor and so sends it to the inferior parts which are fit to receive it The part receiving is the Glandle
which the hot distemper of the whol Body with the Liver in which Choller is made is amended Then purge the Humor with proper Medicines You may amend the hot distemper of the Liver with Juleps or cooling Broths with Whey of Goats milk with sharp Vitriolat Mineral Waters with hot Baths and the like And lastly All things are proper for it which are prescribed in the Cure of the Head from a hot cause But you may use cooling Topicks and Anodines that take away pain which we shall shew afterwards concerning the Inflamation Inflamation of the Ear is cured first by blood-letting according to the quantity of the humor for revulsion of it from the Ears first having given an emollient and cooling Clyster This must be done in great quantity at divers times for the greatness and violence of the Disease requires it You must open the Head Vein on that side the Ear is that is pained If you think it comes from stoppage of Terms or Hemorrhoids open the lower Veins first having let blood in the Arm. When the cause is not from thence it will do good for revulsion to apply Leeches Also you make good Revulsions by Frictions and Ligatures of the Arms and Thighs by cupping the Shoulders and Back with Scarrification or without Somtimes for Derivation it is good to apply Cupping glasses behind the Ears with Scarrification as Zacutus Lucitanus teacheth Obser 64. lib. 1. Praxis Admirandae in these words The Divine old man in his second Book Epid. Sect. 6. towards the end saith thus For pain in the Ear clap on a Cupping glass This worthy saying gave much help to a poor man which was in pain and when al things failed and he grew weak with watching and mad with a continual Feaver being ready to depart having opened a Vein and applied Cupping glasses to the Shoulders and Neck and taken revelling Clysters and purging and the like as also Anodines into his Ear without any profit he was cured only with a Cupping glass with Scarification applied by the Glandles of the Ears which drew much blood and took away the inflamation The same Zacutus Lucitanus in Praxi ad Historiâ—s commends four Hors-leeches applied behind the Ears which he saith gave much ease to a yong man which had a violent inflamation in his Ears The cutting of the Arteries in the Temples of the Forehead doth produce rare effects for the appeasing of the greatest pain in the Ears by taking away the hot and windy blood which produced that grievous symptome The way of doing it is set down by us in the Cure of the hot Head-ach A Purge against Choller is good for so the Choller mixed with Blood which by it is made so fluid is drawn down and sent forth Afterwards the whol mass of humors is to be tempered with cooling Juleps made of the Decoction of Lettice Purslain Plantane Sorrel and the like with Syrup of Lemmons Pomegranats or wild Poppies In the mean while these Medicines are given you must alwaies apply Topicks which must alwaies be Anodine by reason of the vehemency of the pain the mitigation whereof must be your chief intent and this will be more rationally done if in the beginning and the encrease of the Disease you mix things that do gently repel but in the state and declination things that resolve such as these following Take of new Breast-milk two ounces the white of an Egg beaten to Water half an ounce drop these mixed together warm into the Ear. Or Milk alone squirted into the Ear from the Breast this doth much asswage Take Plantane and Nightshade of each one handful the flowers of Chamomel and Melilot of each one pugil Make a Decoction and let the Patient receive the fume thereof into his Ear by a Funnel Take of the Oyl of Water-lillies and Roses of each one ounce Mix them and drop thereof into the Ear after the fume * Called â— Châ—sâ—ip or Kitchinbob with many feet which being touched gathereth it self round like a ball Sows infused in the aforesaid Oyls and strained are the best Anodines for these Creatures have especial force to appease pain and therefore are used in the toothach hemorrhoids and the like or take them asive and boyl them with Water in the Oyls til the Water be consumed If the burning be very violently you may mix cooling Juyces with the aforesaid Oyls thus Take of the Oyl of Water-lillies and Roses of each one ounce the Juyce of Nightshade and Plantane of each half an ounce Mix them and drop thereof into the Ear. Rose Vinegar is used of some Practitioners made of two parts of Oyl of Roses and one part of Vinegar which ought to be suspected as al strong repelling Medicines for there wil be danger lest the humor flowing thither should return to the Brain and it is a general Precept alwaies to be observed That you never lay repelling Medicines to inflamations which are neer unto noble parts but you may mix gentle Repellers with Anodines and Relaxers for â—o they wil moderately repress the Defluxion nor will they drive it far back Such are the afore mentioned to which you may ad this following Take of the Oyl of Roses and Water-lillies of each one ounce and an half Rose and Plantane Water of each half an ounce Breast-milk one ounce the Mucilage of the Seeds of Fleabane and Quinces drawn with Rose water of each six drams mix them Put some drops thereof warm into the Ears and bind clouts dipped in the same Liquor about the Ears In vehement pain we are constrained to fly to Narcoticks or Stupifactives but you must use them seldom and with much care because they offend the Brain Galen saith 3. de comp med sec loc I knew one who only with the use of Opium took away both speech and sence from his Patient that he could be cured neither with Opobalsam nor any other hot Medicine injected Therefore if necessity constrain thus they are to be prescribed Take of Oyl of Poppy-seeds one ounce and an half Camphire and Opium of each two grains mix them and drop them into the Ear. Take of the Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces the Juyce of Mallows half an ounce Myrrh half a dram Saffron half a scruple Opium three or four grains mix them for the use aforementioned In applying of Topicks the Rule of Galen is diligently to be observed which is in lib. 3. comp medic sec loc cap. 1. that an inflamed Ear be not touched but let the Medicines be injected by an instrument for to see into the Ear or a Probe armed with lint and dipt in the Medicines Then that you ask the Patient if he feel it warm and if he can endure it hotter and let it be used so hot as he can suffer You must put the Probe so armed gently into the Hole of the ear that the Medicine may soak from it into the ear you must do thus till the passage of the ear be â—illed with
concerning the Ulcer of the Nostrils and Ozaena The Second of Sarcoma and Polypus The Third of the loss of Smelling The Fourth of the Stink of the Nose The Fifth of Coryza The Sixth of Neezing The Seventh of Bleeding at the Nose Chap. 1. Of the Vlcer of the Nostrils and Ozaena THe Ulcer of the Nostrils is either New and Simple or Old and Stinking This last is called Ozaena The New Ulcer which is Simple either comes of External Cause as a Wound or Contusion Or from an Internal Cause as the sharpness of Humors flowing to the part especially salt Flegm coming from the Brain Ozaena cometh from a simple Ulcer neglected or from the Malignity and Acrimony of the Cause by which it becometh putrid and filthy The Diagnosis of both is this a Simple Ulcer Causeth little or no pain but only sends forth blood often especially when it is meddled or tampered withal otherwise is is covered with a dry black Scab which somtimes is cast forth But Ozaena Causeth great pain the Scab is fouler as also Stinking Matter cometh from it The Patient is not only annoyed therewith but noysom unto others and the Greeks cal it Ozaena from the stink Often this Ulcer creepeth or either eateth the Gristle of the Nose or the parts between or the tender Bones thereof and putrifieâ—h them and somtimes destroyeth the Pallat especially if it turn to a Cancer or if it come from the French Pox as it often doth or from an Elephantiasis As for the Prognostick Ulcers that are New and come from a gentle Humor that hath little Malignity are easily Cured but Old Ulcers that are sordid and putrid are hardly Cured and if they turn into a Cancer never If they come of the French Pox or Elephantiasis they cannot be Cured except those Diseases be first Cured For the Cure First you must appoint a good Diet which may asswage the sharpness of the Humors and hinder the breeding of them then you must Evacuate the whole Body by Bleeding convenient Purging and by Cupping Glasses with Scarrification And if the Defluxion of Humors into the Nostrils be very stubborn it must be derived by Vesicatories and Causticks applied to the hinder parts and then you must give things to strengthen the head After Universal Remedies you must come to Topicks And first take notice if the Ulcers be Crusty and Hard. and before you proceed take away that with a little warm water and fresh Butter or Gooâ—e greaâ—e or Hens grease Oyl of sweet Almonds or the like The Scabs being mollified must not presently be taken off by force lest the Ulcer be exasperated with a Defluxion but you must expect til they fal off of their own accord by blowing the nostrils or at last you may take them gently off with a little Oyl of sweet Almonds upon the tip of your â—inger After the Scab is off you must use astringent and drying Remedies In a Simple Ulcer it is sufficient to wash it with Barley water and Honey of Roses and then to anoint it with Ointment of Tutty or with the white Ointment of Rhasis or the Oyl of yolks of Egs which wil be of more sorce if it be made in a Leaden Mortar But for the Cure of Ozana you must prepare theâ—e following Medicines Take of Barley one pugil Agrimony Plantane Wormwood and the lesser Centaury of each one â—andful Red Roses half a pugil boyl them in forge-Forge-water in the straining dissolve of Honey of Roses four ounces Make an Errhine to be ofâ—en snuffed into the Nostrils After it is somwhat clean you must use this following Decoction Take of the Flowers and Rinds of Pomegranates of each two ounces Plantane Horstaile Fleabane and Rapture-wort of each one handful the Roots of Bistort or Snakeweed one 〈◊〉 Crude Allum one ounce and an half Make a Decoction Allum Water is also good as also those Remedies which shal after be prescribed for the Cure of Pâ—lypus in the following Chapter Aegyptiacum Dissolved in Barley Water is good for the same After this make Ointments which may Astâ—ing or Bind Clense and Dry exceedingly as of Pomâ—holygos with Allum Chalcitis and the Pomegranate Peels Or This following Take of Oyl Olive half an ounce Pomegranate Peels and Flowers of each three drams 〈◊〉 Allum Laâ—â—anum of each two drams Chalcitis Aloes Frankinsence of each one dram Oyl of Roses and Myrtles of each two ounces Red Wax as much as is sufficient Make an Ointment which apply to the Vcer or dissolve it in Wine Plantane Rose or Myrtle-water which fâ—en snuff â—nto the Nose the mouth being filled with Water If these things prevail not wash the Ulcer with sublimate Water twice thrice or four times in a day for it dryeth very much and clenâ—eth without any pain or biting You must make it thus Take of Plantane water four ounces Crude Sublimate Poudered twelve grains boyl them in a Glass to the Consumption of half you may encrease or diminish the quantity of the Sublimate as you desire to have it stronger or weaker When the Ulcer is wel Clensed you must proceed to the Drying of it up for which purpose the Poâ—der of Red Roses blown into it is very good Rondeletius witnesseth that there is nothing more efficacious for the drying of Ulcers after sufficient clensing than a Fumigation becauset it entreth deep into the parts and drieth and he saith it must be made of powerful dryers as of Orpiment and Cinnaber to which you must ad some sweet things from whence there will arise a fume or smâ—ak to dry the Ulcer as Mirrh Frankinsence Mastich â—enjamin and the like which may be brought into this form Take of the best Labdanum Hypocistis Mastich and Mirrh of each three drams red Storax and Styrax calamita Frankinsence bark Sandarach Orpine of each two drams Make them up with Turpentine into Troches with which let the Patient be fumed morning and evening in his Chamber It is excellent also to burn Candles of red Wax for the smoak of them will powerfully dry the Ulcers in the Nose especially if the Patient be kept in a close room And Rondeletius saith That we may perceive that the smoak of a Candle doth affect us by receiving it for if at any time we sit long in a little Study by Candle light our spittle and snot will appear afterwards black And by this means he saith he cured an Ulcer which neither Italian nor French Chyrurgeons could Cure Chap. 2. Of Sarcoma and Polypus SOmetimes there is not only an Ulcer but an excrescency of flesh in the Nose which maketh preternatural Humors called Polypus and Sarcoma Sarcoma is flesh growing in the Nostrils without any certain shape but like the proud flesh of an Ulcer But Polypus is an Excrescency of flesh growing with smal roots and spreading and hanging down to the lower part of the Nose like the fish called Polypus from whence it hath the name Rhasis calleth it the Hemorrhoids of the
a large evacuation of blood agreeable to the Plethory is the best remedy for all pains which we have found true by experience not only in the paine of the teeth but in other parts Let him purge the day following with that which is proper for the humor in the form of a Potion if a hot with Pills if a cold humor be the cause of pain After this if the pain continue apply Cupping-glasses to the Shoulders with scarrisication or one great one between the shoulders without scarrisication A Vesicatory applied to the neck or behind the Ears doth violently draw back the humors Also to hinder the defluxion apply astringents to the Temples as Emplaister of Gum Elemi or Mastich only upon a piece of Silk and heat with a brass pestle the Shop Emplaister of Mastich or that against Ruptures called ad berniam Or this following is good Take of Frankinsence Hypocistis Labdanum of each one dram and an half Pitch and Mastich of each one dram Opium half a scruple Oyl of Mastich as much as is sufficient Make a Mass of Emplaister The Root of Comfry fresh and bruised applied to the Temples doth intercept the defluxion very well There is also a good Plaister made of pouder of Allum and Galls mixed with Pitch Riverius the chief Physitian to Henry the Great had this Plaister as a Secret Take of Cyprus nuts red Roses Mustard seed torrefied or parched Mastich and Terra Sigillata of each one dram and an half Let them be steeped in Vinegar of Roses twenty four hours then dry them Opium dissolved in Aqua vitae three drams Pitch and Colophonia of each one dram yellow Wax melted in the expressed Oyls Henbane and white Poppy as much as is sufficient Make an Emplaister apply it to the Arteries and the part affected with pain And because the smal Veins by which nourishment is carried to the Teeth do run by the Ears you put Medicines into them for the Cure of the Tooth-ach as Oyl of bitter Almonds to the Ear on the same side or the fume of Vinegar in which Penyroyal and Origan have been boyled Others put Vinegar into the Ear by which the defluxion is mightily stayed especially if the flux be hot But in a cold defluxion the Juyce of Garlick mixt with Treacle and dropt warm into the Ear doth wonderfully asswage the pain of the Teeth A Clove also of Garlick peeld and put into the Ear is good Also astringents in the beginning of the defluxion may be applied to the part pained cold if the matter be hot but if it be cold you must put hot things with your repellers But in every cause if the pain be great you must mix Anodines with Repellers As Take of the Roots of Snakeweed Five-leaved-grass and Tormentil of each one ounce the Leaves of Vervain Plantane and Maudlin of each one bandful Cypress Nuts Galis and Acorn Cups of each two drams red Sanders and Crystal of each one dram and an half red Roses and Pomegranate Flowers of each one pugil boyl them in red Wine and Vinegar and wash the part grieved often therewith warm This may be used in the beginning of a hot defluxion but in a cold ad Cypress Roots Box Bark Ivy Leaves and the like A plainer Medicine is made of Plantane and Rose Water with as much Vinegar like an Oxycrate Or boyl Galls in Vinegar and wash the Teeth therewith Or Take of the Roots of Cinkfoyl half an ounce Willow Leaves half a handful Galls two drams boyl them in red Wine and wash the mouth This staies the defluxion and takes away pain Then you must use these Remedies which asswage pain and take away the cause of which there is in authors and vulgarly a multitude we will give you the best of which you must make your choyce with this judgment That those which do not only dissolve and discuss but also astringe and stop the flux be used in the beginning and the encrease of the pain but things that only discuss in the state and declination Take of the Juyce of Housleek and Nightshade of each two ounces Cow or Sheeps milk eight ounces Oyl of unripe Roses one ounce and an half Opium and Saffron of each three grains mix them and apply it warm with a cloth to the Jaw of the same side often Take the Papp of sweet Apples two ounces Bran steept in Vinegar three ounces Oyl of Roses one ounce Saffron half a scruple Opium two grains mix them for a Cataplasm to the part pained Or Take of Barley and Bean meal of each three ounces Oyl of Roses and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce the juyce of Housleek one ounce and an half Milk as much as is sufficient make a Cataplasm to be applied often warm to the part Or Take two whites of Eggs beat them with Rose Water and dip stuphs therein sprinkled with two drams of Pepper Poudered Apply them to the pained side over the whol Cheek But here observe That you apply not Astringents to the Jaws if they be swoln for it is to be seared That the Humor wil so be Repelled to the Throat and the Patient Choaked An Example of which Valesius de Taranta giveth of a Physitian troubled with the Tooth-Ach and Inflamation of the Jaws who applied only Oyl of Roses with Vinegar which brought him to a Squinzy and he died Other Waters may be made to wash the mouth Thus. Take of the best white Wine four ounces white Henbane Roots two drams let them boyl to the Consumption of the third part strain them and ad one ounce of Vinegar Varnish one dram let them boyl a heat and let the Mouth be washed often therewith The plain Decoction of Vervain is Commended of many for the same Also a Decoction of Guaiacum made with Wine or Water and a little salt Or Take of Arsmart and the barks of the Roots of Henbane of each equal parts boyl them in Rose Vinegar and wash the mouth And if the pain cometh from a Hot Cause only boyl a Henbane Root in Vinegar If the Arsmart be too sharp take a less quantity Nay you may leave it quite out in a Defluxion coming of a Hot Cause and put Persicaria Macutata instead of it which is Astringent and Cooling and his juyce may be given safely at the Mouth in al Defluxions that are sharp and Chollerick Also you may use the Leaves of Henbane instead of the Root Some use the Leaves of Henbane and Persicaria Maculata as a secret Magnetick Charm they boyl them in Vinegar they burn the Leaves being boyled with a gentle fire and wash their Teeth with the Vinegar and they say that as soon as the Leaves are burnt the pain wil be gone But I rather think it is Cured by the Vinegar with which the Teeth are washed In the aforesaid Decoctions if the Vinegar be so sharp that the Patient can scarcely endure it you may mix half Wine and in a Cold Cause make them of
a hot Catarrh If from a cold Cause you must take that course which is prescribed in the Cure of the cold distemper of the Brain but you must strengthen the Teeth with the Medicines in the Chapter following Chap. 2. Of the blackness and rottenness of the Teeth MAny times the Teeth do contract a black livid or yellow color from the evil Humors cleaving unto them which by long continuance do also corrode them and make them rotten and these Diseases come from filthy vapors that fly upwards and are engendered of evil nourishment or from the distemper of the stomach which corrupteth good nourishment Quick-silver doth black the Teeth whether it be used to the whol Body as in the Pox or only to the Face Hence it is that women which use Mercury to make them fair have black and ill color'd Teeth For the Cure you must first remove the antecedent Cause and if it comes from evil humors in the stomach they must be discharged and the distemper of the parts which produce them must be corrected and a good diet prescribed and those things forbidden which do corrupt the teeth especially sweet things Infinite Medicines are prescribed by Authors for making teeth white which may be experienced We are contented with one which presently makes them white clenseth them and keeps them from rotting namely the spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol in which you must dip a little stick and rub the teeth with the end thereof and then wipe them with a clout In a great foulness you may use the Oyls by themselves otherwise you must mix them with Honey of Roses or fair Water lest by the often use of them the Gums should be corroded Montanus consil 113. reports that he learned that at Rome of a Woman called Greek Mary to whom when he came when he was yong and she twenty yeers old and after when she was fifty he found her almost in the same condition and she confessed that her Beauty and strength was preserved by the Spirit of Vitriol and that her Teeth which were very bad in her youth were by that made very fair and firm and also her Gums and also that she perceived her self by the use thereof to seem more youthful and she used every day one drop or two to rub gently her Teeth and Gums The Ashes of Tobacco is very good also to clense and make white the Teeth For prevention and to preserve the Teeth first clense them with a Tooth-picker made of Mastich Wood or the like then wash the mouth with Wine and rub the Teeth with this Pouder Take of the Roots of Snakeweed Allum and white Coral of each one ounce Make a Pouder to rub the Teeth Or wash them with this Water Take of the fine Pouder of burnt Allum two drams whol Cinnamon half a dram Spring and Rose Water of each four ounces boyl them in a Glass upon hot Embers to the consuming of the third part Wash the Teeth therewith every morning with a cloth dipped therein Chap. 3. Of the Erosion or eating away and of the Exulceration of the Gums THe Gums are eaten away and exulcerated by sharp corroding humors which come unto them The parts from whence they come are the Brain Stomach Spleen and others Men that have Diseases in the Spleen are most subject to Ulcers in the Gums as in the Scurvy somtimes the erosion of the Gums comes from worms or the corrupt humors which cause worms so that it is a plain sign of worms when it continueth long So saith Fabricius Hildanus Obs 59. Centur. 1. the Son of a Citizen of Dusseldorp was long troubled with erosion of the Gums and died after the use of many internal Medicines and Topicks when he was opened we found abundance of worms which had eaten through his Guts and many in his Stomach The Cure is first to be directed to the antecedent cause and the vicious humors are to be evacuated by blood-letting and purging the sharp and hot humors are to be tempered with Apozemes Juleps and Physical Broths and the like The flux of the same is to be diverted by Cupping-glasses and Cauteries fitly applied And lastly the faults of the parts affected are to be corrected Afterwards you must use Topicks which are to be altered according to the greatness of the disease so that to a simple Erosion you must apply only those which astringe and dry as this Water following Take of unripe Galls Acorn Cups and Flowers of Pomegranates of each one ounce red Roses one pugil Allum three drams boyl them in two parts of forge-Forge-water and one part of old red Wine and wash the Gums often therewith If the Erosion be not taken away with that use this Opiate Take of Dragons blood three drams Lignum Aloes red Roses Spodium and burnt Harts-horn and Cypress nuts of each one dram Mirrh and Tobacco Ashes of each three scruples Allum one dram Make them into Pouder and mix them with Honey and a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur Make an Opiate which must be spread upon linnen cloth and laid to the Gums at night The Spirit of Vitriol and Sulphur as they clense and whiten the Teeth so they take away the rottenness of the Gums either alone or mixed with Honey of Roses or Water as in the former Chapter If the Ulcer be deep and foul anoint with this Take of choyce Mirrh and Sugar-candy of each equal parts pouder them and fill the white of an hard Egg cut in the midst therewith then tie it with a thrid and hang it in a Wine-Celler with a glass under it and there will come forth a Liquor or Balsom with which anoint often But if by the use of the aforesaid the disease be not cured if the Tooth neer the Ulcer be rotten you must pull it out and then it will be presently cured otherwise never Chap. 4. Of bleeding at the Gums SOmtimes abundance of blood flows from the Gums either Critically or Symptomatically although the former be very seldom yet it is somtimes so we may see by Experience and by reading So saith Dodonaeus Obs 14. A certain Quarrier having the smal Pox had a flux of blood from his Gums and being stopt it made the Urine bloody which being stopt it returned again to the Gums and there continued till he recovered of the smal Pox. Amatus Lucitanus Curat 5. Centur. 5. saies that some have had benefit by bleeding at the Gums and have been worse when it was stopped Also Zacutus Lucitanus obs 86. lib. 1. Praxis admir speaks of a Goldsmith who when he fell into a Feaver by laboring at the Furnace being of a strong constitution lost much blood by opening a Vein and amended so that the seventh day having had an itching of his Gums and a pain in the lower Lip the blood gushed from the Veins of his lower Gums for three daies in such a quantity that he lost above five pints more and the more he bled the more
of the Syrup of Hysop Take of the Oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn without fire six ounces Sugar Candy two ounces Mix them for a Lambitive Or Take of candied Elicampane three drams Sugar-candy half an ounce Syrup of Hysop and Horehound of each one ounce ammoniacum dissolved in Aqua vitae half a dram Mix them for a Lohoch Or Take of Conserve of Violets and Elicampane of each six drams the pouder of the Electuary Diatragacanth frigid Diaireos Solomonis of each one dram Syrup of Violets and Maidenhair of each as much as will make a Lohoch Take of Althaea Roots one pound Elicampane four ounces Quinces or Marmalet thereof sixteen ounces boyl them in Water till they are dry Beat them and strain them adding two pints of Honey boyl them again gently Take them from the fire and ad of Cinnamon one dram flower of Brimstone half an ounce Liquor is perfumed with Musk and Rose water two drams Make a soft Electuary of which let him hold now and then as much as a Hazel nut in his mouth 't is also very good to take half an ounce thereof morning and evening when the fit is off Also you must anoint the Breast with Mollifying and discussing Oyntments and Liniments thus made Take of the of Oyl of Chamomel Flowerdeluce and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce fresh Hens grease one dram the Pouder of Marsh-mallow roots and Flowerdeluce of each one dram the meal of Linseed and Foenugreek of each two drams Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Wine one dram and an half Wax as much as is sufficient Make a Liniment Or Take of the Mucilage of the seeds of Quinces Line and Foenugreek drawn with Scabious and Coltsfoot Water of each six drams the Pouder of Flower deluce root and Hysop of each half an ounce Saffron one scruple Oyl of Lillies and sweet Almonds of each two ounces Wax as much as will make a Liniment If the fit be long clap a Vesicatory to the hinder part of the head Out of the fit you must stop the Defluxion and also cut clense and expectorate that which hath fallen into the Lungs For staying the defluxion all those Remedies are good which were mentioned in the cure of the cold Catarrh But you must take a Caution concerning some of them First In Apozems Syrups or the like you must not make them two hot and dry which by consuming of the thin parts may make the remainder thicker and so the Disease will be worse But you must rather mix moisteners as Raisons Figs Liquoris Jujubes Secondly Instead of Head Medicines you must use things fit for the Breast above mentioned Thirdly For the Derivation of the Humors that abounds in the Head use Errhines Sternutatories Gargarisrus ar Apophlegmatisms Which last are not so proper by reason of the neerness of the part by which the humor runs to the Luâ—gs But Errhines and Sternutatories may be used safely Fourthly To strengthen the Head and dry it Fumigations are there commended which are not so proper in this especially if taken in at the mouth and nostrils because they make the breath shorter and bring the fit But with them you may air the Patients Caps without from the Chamber For to clense and expectorate the thick Humors that stick to the Bronchia of the Lungs the Medicines already mentioned or these following may be used Take of Elicampane root and Polypody of the Oak of each half an ounce the Leaves of Origan Calamints Hysop Savory Maidenbair Scabious and Coltsfoot of each one handful the seeds of Marsh-mallows and Cotton and Carthamus of each three drams Liquoris and Raisons stoned of each six drams Jujubes Sebestens and fat Figs of each five make a Decoction to a pint and a quarter of Hydromel dissolve in the straining a pound and a quarter of white Sugar make a Syrup well boyled for a Lambitive You may make a better and cheaper Syrup thus Take of Elicampane Roots three drams Spanish Tobacco one dram infuse them a whol nighâ— in six ounces of Aqua Vitae in the morning strain them and ad of the best Sugar four ounces stir it well upon the fire and ad of the syrup of Erysimum or Coltsfoot two ounces Oyl of Sulphuâ— as much as will make it sharp make a Lohoch These following are proper for to unstuffe and cleer the Lungs Take of Ammoniacum and Bdellium dissolved in Vinegar of Squills of each half an ounce Flower of Brimstone three drams the leaves of Coltsfoot and dryed Savory poudered Diaireos simple of each half a dram with syrup of Hysop and Oximel of Squills make a mass of Pills of a dram whereof make six Pills and let him take three of them two hours before supper twice in a week Or Take of Aloes Succatrine half an ounce Myrrh and Ammoniacum of each half a dram Saffron half a scruple Flower of Brimstone half a dram with the syrup of Coltsfoot make a mass of Pills of which let him take a dram two hours afore dinner for some dayes Let the Water which is taken out of a hollow Briony Root be distilled in Balneo Mariae to eight ounces whereof mix half an ounce of Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur let him take every day a spoonful fasting Take of Tobacco Leaves Hysop white Horehound and Maiden-hair of each two handfuls the Roots of Flower-de-luce and Liquoris of each half an ounce boyl them to a pint and an half dissolve in the straining of white Sugar one pound of the best Honey half a pound make a syrup well boyled clarified and perfumed with a little Saffron and Cinnamon let him take a spoonful or two every morning The Oximel and Syrup of Tobacco invented by Quercetan prescribed in his Dispensatory is of the same vertue The Tincture of dry Tobacco is drawn with Aqua Vitae a little thereof mixed with Honey and that held in the Mouth as big as a Pease or Bean swallowing it by degrees this draws Flegm in abundance from the Stomach and Lungs Hogs Lice called Millepedes or Aselli in number twelve put into a linnen Cloth are to be steepâ— in white Wine and then strained and so given to be drunk and do in a short time clense the Lungs Oleum Sacchari doth powerfully disâ—olve thick glutinous Humors in the Lungs and causeth expectoration But the Compound Oyl following is best Take of the Roots of Flower-de-luce and Elicampane poudered of each half an ounce the Pulp of Dates and Raisons of each three drams Citron and Orange peels of each one dram and an half Benjamin two drams Saffron one dram infuse them two dayes in the spirit of Wine well rectified then take of the liquor by inclination dissolve as much Sugar Candy poudered as you can therein then fire the spirit of Wine stirring them continually till it comes to a liquor as thick Oyl then mix as much Oyl of Sulphur as will sharpen iâ— A Decoction of Red Coleworts taken many dayes with a little
Sugar doth help the Asthma But the Juyce of Red Coleworts with Sugar of Roses or Syrup of Coltsfoot taken in form of a Julep for many dayes is better The Spirit of Sulphur doth dissolve slymy Flegm and open the Bronchia if four or five drops are taken in Broth or convenient Syrup Turpentine is much Commended for this use given often to two or three drams with the Oyl of sweet Almonds or Conserve of Violets or you may make it into the form of an Opiate thus Take of Turpentine well washed in Clotsfoot Water one pound fat Figgs half a pound Penides four ounces Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce mix them into an Opiate Saffron in Sawce is good for the Breast also a Junkeâ— made of Mustard seed and Honey doth expectorate Oxymel also with Agarick taken two spoonfuls in a morning doth purge the Lungs The flower of Brimstone made into Pills with fresh Butter given three daies together to one scruple doth much help the Asthma Lac Sulphuris doth the same better in â—ight grains which is the greatest dose Also these Tablets following are excellent Take of the pulp of Marsh-mallow roots and of the greater Comphry of each two ounces flower of Brimstone two drams the flower of Benjamin half a dram Sugar dissolved in white Lilly Water eight ounces make Tablets which let the Patient hold often in his mouth The Decoction of an old Cock is commended and it is thus made Take of the Roots of Elicampane and Flower deluce of each half an ounce Hysop and Horehound dried of each six drams Carthamus seeds one ounce Annis and Dill seed of each two drams Liquoris and Raisons stoned of each three drams the pouder of Fox Lungs prepared two drams Beat them and fill the belly of an old Cock therewith then boyl him in fifteen pints of Water till his flesh comes from his bones After it is well strained set it in a cold place that the thickest may settle and the thin may be taken off of which let the Patient take six ounces with one ounce of Oxymel simple If you will make it purging you may ad two or three drams of Senna for every dose or half an ounce of Manna Or if you will have it stronger you may somtimes put in some Electuary that purgeth flegm Platerus prefers the following Preparation of a Cock before the rest Take an old Cock kill him pull him and draw him stuff him with these things following Fox Lungs fresh or prepared and dried one ounce Raisons stoned and Figs of each two ounces Elicampane one dram Hysop Savory Horehound Thyme Calaminth Penyroyal dried of each one dram Fennel and Annis seed of each one dram Carthamus seeds bruised and Polypody of each half an ounce white Tartar one dram Salt half an ounce two yolks of Eggs fresh Butter half an ounce Cut them and bruise them and sew them into the Cock boyl him till his flesh comes from his bones in a large vessel with so much Water as you may need to ad no more then strain it and put to ten pints one pound of pure Honey that it may not quickly corrupt Let him take a Porrenger full every morning in which let him dissolve Manna and new drawn Cassia of each half an ounce continuing it for a month and longer which will be the better if presently after he take a dram of Turpentine with Penides in form of a Bolus or otherwise Ludovicus Septalius in his Practical Observations condemneth these Cock-broths as unprofitable or hurtful His Reasons are Because they do not answer Experience and have been used in vain by him and other Physitians of Millane For by long boyling the nitrous parts by which those Broths are thought most to profit do settle and are lost in the straining but the slimy glutinous thick and fatty from the skin feet wings musculous and nervous parts do remain Hence the matter is made thicker and less fit to be expectorated But Septalius his Experience must not be preferred before so many famous Physitians Experience both old and modern For if it did not profit some which he and others have cured many other things might hinder as namely the evil disposition of the Patient and contumacy of the disease or other things not well ordered which concerned the Cure or the Medicine it self not well made And whereas he saith that the nitrous parts do fall to the bottom by long boyling and are lost in the straining it is ridiculous for only the Earthy parts do settle but the nitrous part once taken into the liquor is never separated Hence it is that the longer you boyl Broth the Salter it is But this Salt doth cut extenuate and open it is so far from incrassating being salt Neither hath the flesh or other parts of a Cock such a glutinous substance as he imagineth as you may find in Neats feet or Calves feet but rather an attenuating quality because it is full of nitrous substance And if purging and altering Medicines be made according to the Precepts of Pharmacy and Art they do leave all their strength in the Decoction because dayly Experience teacheth us that such Broth of an old Cock doth purge And if we may oppose our Experience to that of Septalius we can truly say that we have found admirable effects of these Broths in violent Asthmaes and Chollicks But this we use to alter in these Broths We give many draughts in a day lest it should be spoiled by keeping But this is the Example of what we prescribe in this disease Take of the Roots of Elicampane and Flowerdeluce of each one dram and an half Hysop and Coltsfoot of each one handful Liquoris and Raisons stoned three drams fat Figs four Senna three drams Polipody of the Oak and Carthamus seeds bruised of each half an ounce Annis seeds one dram and an half Boyl them with the third or fourth part of an old Cock make a Broth for twelve or fifteen daies By this Purging Wine following Platerus cured a Woman of a Dyspnoea inclining to a Dropsie Take of Flower-de-luce-Roots one ounce Elicampane and Squills prepared of each half an ounce Horehound one handful Elder Bark and Danewort of each one dram Senna one ounce and an half Agarick two drams Ginger one dram shake them well together and ad of Wine four pints boyl them a little she drank hereof six dayes together when she went to Bed the Dyspnaea ceased the Tumor vanished and she was finely Cured But we must observe that we repeat Purging often in this Disease under divers formes lest nature should be used too much to one Medicine So Clensing Cutting and Expectorating Medicines and the rest are to be alterated for the same reason Chap. 2. Of Pleuritis or a Pleurisie APleurisie is either True or Spurious called a Bastard Pleurisie A True Pleurisie is the Inflamation of the Membrane that goeth about the Ribs of the internal intercostal Muscles But a Bastard Pleurisie is the Inflamation
pugil Liquoris scraped and Raisons stoned of each three drams Jujubes four the flowers of Bugloss and Violets of each half a pugil boyl them to three ounces In the straining dissolve Rhubarb infused in Scabious Water with yellow Sanders four scruples Manna one ounce Syrup of Roses half an ounce Make a Potion Or give two ounces of Manna with Chicken or ordinary Broth. Or make a Bolus of Cassia one ounce and one scruple of the pouder of Liquoris In the beginning you may give stronger purges for to draw down the salt and sharp Catarrh which is the chief Cause of the Ulcer such as are prescribed in a hot Catarrh Also before the body be too lean at the first you may let blood to allay the Feaver and the acrimony of the humor But in the beginning of the Cure you must stay and divert the Catarrh from the Breast otherwise all other things will be in vain And all those things which were prescribed for the Cure of a hot Catarrh are good in this case Besides a Seton to the Neck is very good And Fabricius Hildanus reports that he cured many by this way At length you must come to the Cure of the Ulcer for which give things that clense knit and expectorate Many there are of this nature But these following are the best Milk doth hit all intentions for Cure It clenseth with its serous parts it conglutinateth with its coagulating part and nourisheth and refresheth with its unctious part But there are divers kinds of Milk and Womans Milk is the best because it is more agreeable to our Natures especially if it be sucked from the breast Platerus affirms that he knew many cured by the use thereof and that one of them did not only recover but grew so strong that least his Nurse should want milk for him he got her with child again But because many will not endure that sort Asses Milk is commended which because it is very full of Whey doth easily pierce into the Veins and excellently clense the Ulcer the next to this is Goats Milk Let the Ass be fed with Plantane Vine Leaves Brambles Polyganon Grass Barley and Rye Let him drink it new milked warm therefore let the Ass be brought neer the Chamber and be milked into a warm Vessel First let him take it in a smal quantity three or four ounces that his Stomach may be used to it encreasing the quantity by degrees to eight or ten ounces or a pint and least it should grow sowr or curdle in the Stomach and that it may agree better with the Lungs put Sugar of Roses to it one ounce thereof to eight of milk let him not sleep after his Milk immediately but walk gently about the Chamber let him not eat before the Milk be concocted and he find a stomach and that it be more effectual You must not give it in a strong Feaver or when there is a pain in the Head or swelling in the Hypochondria or a Chollerick flux according to Hippocrates Aphor. 64. Sect. 5. Commonly it is taken only once in a day but it is better twice and best if the Patient live only upon it For besides that it doth work more powerfully in a great quantity there is a great profit by not mixing it with Broth and other meats for they will easily putrifie If therefore the Disease be very desperate give Milk after purging every six hours with Manus Christi of Pearl and Coral And least strength should fail let him intermix a restoring distilled Water Sugar of Roses is very profitable as also the Conserve by use whereof Avicen reports that he cured a Woman of a desperate Consumption so that she was not only sound but very fat afterwards Mesue also witnesseth that many have been recovered by the same and he directeth that the Conserve of Roses be new not above a yeer old taken in a great quantity and often with Medicines Meat and drink and also by it self at any hour But first give Clensers because it will otherwise astringe and retain the excrementitious matter in the Lungs But when breath begins to fail and the Patient cannot raise flegm let him take expectorating things as Syrup of Hysop and Coltsfoot and other Lohochs And if heat arise from drying too much give Syrup of Violets Jujubes the Mucilage of Fleabane and Quinces and the like Montanus Valeriola and Forestus say that they have seen some cured by taking Sugar of Roses in great quantities An Apothecary whom I knew in a Consumption made a great quantity of Sugar of Roses for himself and eat it constantly by which he was cured An Infusion of Yarrow Tormentil Burnet and Conserve of Roses made in Balneo Mariae is very good as it is described in the Chapter of spitting of blood if it be used twenty daies together The Decoction of Bugle in Mutton Broth doth excellent against a Consumption and inward ulcers it doth a little gently loosen the belly against the Nature of all the Consolidae Trallianus lib. 7. cap. 1. boasts that he cured many with Blood-stone The preparation and use whereof we have shewed in the Cure of spitting blood The Syrup of the Juyce of Ground Ivy is commended by Quercetan thus made Take of the Juyce of Ground Ivy two pound and an half let it be digested in Balneo Mariae To this Juyce well refined put Sugar of Roses one pound Penides four ounces Boyl them to Syrup to be taken now and then a spoonful He also addeth the flower of Brimstone to it to make it into a Lohoch of which he gives four times in a day and he boasteth that he hath therewith cured many The Syrup of the flowers of St. Johns wort made by Infusion in Balneo Mariae is very good in this Disease as also for all inward ulcers The Syrup of Comfry is excellent for it clenseth healeth and strengtheneth by astringing as also Comphry Roots boyled in Broth It is affirmed that many have been cured by this Hydromel Take of China Roots sliced six ounces Coltsfoot Roots three ounces Burdock and Avens Roots of each three ounces Elicampane Roots two ounces Lungwort Leaves and Scabious Leaves and Roots both the Veronicaes Vlmaria and Herb Two-pence of each two handfuls all the Capillar Herbs of each one handful the tops of Bugle Bettony Cowslip flowers and red Veronica of each four pugils Ground Ivy Leaves and Roots three handfuls Jujubes Dates Sebestens and Raisons stoned of each one ounce and an half Spanish Liquoris one ounce and an half Let them all being well sliced boyl in thirty two pints of spring Water till half be consumed with a little gentle fire ad to the Liquor being strained of the best Honey four pound Boyl it again and skim it then strain it through an Hippocras Bag putting thereto half an ounce of Cinnamon six drams of Coriander seeds Annis and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drams put the Liquor in a large Vessel and let it
few Grains of the best Mastich taken in the Morning is good to stay Vomitting Three Grains also of Balsom of Peru taken in a rear Egg or in Sugar like a Pill do it better Also a Decoction of Beans or Pease after the first Water is cast away with a little Vinegar is much Commended And the Crude Juyce of Quinces taken Two or Three spoonfuls at a time doth Wonders Camphire often smelt to or taken with a little Rose Water and a little Pouder of Diaâ—oscum is good for the same The Spirit of Vitriol mixed with Plantane or Spring Water to make it sharp doth also powerfully stay Vomiting If it be very violent make the Water sharper with Spirit of Vitriol or give it in Sack or rich Wine if you want Spirit of Vitriol use the strongest Vinegar without mixture one spoonful or two at a time One Scruple of Salt of Wormwood mixed with a spoonful of the Juyce of Lemons is a most Excellent Medicine especially in those Vomitings which happen in Malignant Feavers If the Patient grow very Weak with Vomiting give him Laudanum with Conserve of Quinces or Syrup of dried Roses and then apply a Cupping Glass to the Stomach and a Cataplasm of Leaven pouder of Wormwood and Orange peels made up with juyce of Mints Apply also outwardly a Fomentation to the region of the Stomach a new Spunge dipt in Rose-water and Rose-vinegar or let the Spunge boyl in strong Vinegar and apply it hot to the Stomach Or make a Fomentation of the Decoction of the Roots of Snake-weed Plantan-leaves Purslain Mints Bramble-tops and Willow-tops and then anoint it with this Oyntment Take of Acacia Hypocistis grains of Sumach and Myrtles of each two drams Mastich and grains of Kermes of each one dram Oyl of Myrtles two ounces Wax as much as is sufficient make an Oyntment or apply this following Cataplasm Take of Quinces boyled in Rose water and Vinegar or Marmalate thereof well beaten three ounces the pouder of Mastich Grains of Kermes and Myrtle berries and Plantane-seed of each two drams with the Juyce of Mints or Quinces or Syrup of Wormwood make a Cataplasm Or Steep a Crust of Bread in Rose Vinegar and sprinkle it with this pouder following Take of red Roses and Pomegranate flowers and Coriander seeds prepared of each one dram and an half Mastich red Coral Sorrel seeds Spodium of each half a dram yellow Saunders one scruple mix them into a pouder Or Apply this following Emplaister Take of Mastich plaister one ounce the pouder of Myrtles and Bistort-Roots of each half a dram with the Oyl of Mastich make an Emplaister in the form of a Buckler If the Vomiting be very violent and bring a Feaver Symptomatical and the Body very full it is good somtimes to let blood to prevent inflamation which may bâ— in the internal parts by reason of the violent straining and this must be done warily and but a little least the strength be abated Moreover It is good to apply Cupping Glasses to the Back and Navel and to rub and bind the extream parts You may bind about the Neck Linnen Clothes dipt in Oxycrate to repel the humors putting of the hands into cold Water doth stay al kinds of vomiting And Last When other things avail not use Narcoticks which do very quickly stop al Evacuations In a Flegmatick Vomiting if it wil not be staid with the aforesaid Vomits give Pills of Hiera with Rhubarb and Agarick or other fit Purges Then come to strengtheners for the Stomach such as were prescribed for the Cure of Want of Appetite to which ad this following Take of Conserve of Roses and Comfry Roots of each one ounce confection of Hyacinth three drams the pouder of Diambra and Aromaticum Rosatum of each half a dram Troches of Spodium terra Sigillata and grana Kermes of each one scruple with syrup of Quinces make an Opiate The Spirit of Vitriol with Wormwood water or Juyce of Mints doth mightily stay Vomiting and Strengthen the Stomach Or One or two spoonfuls of Aqua Imperialis given after Vomiting if the Stomach be very Cold. Apply these things following outwardly Take of Wormwood Mints and Balm of each three handfuls boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Vinegar and Wine to the consumption of the third Part make a Fomentation for the stomach After apply the Plaister afore-mentioned or the Cataplasm of Quinces using the Pouder of Nutmegs and Cloves instead of Myrtles and Plantane Or Take of Wormwood and green Mints of each one pound a Toast dipt in Rose-water weighing half a pound the Pulp of Quinces or Marmalat of the same two ounces Mastich half an ounce Mace and Nutmegs of each two drams beat them all well together with Oyl of Quinces and make an Emplaister Or Make a Cataplasm of Quinces boyled in strong Vinegar and then beaten with a little Mustard-seed and Pouder of Cloves Or Apply a Toast dipped in strong Wine and Juyce of Mints and sprinckled with pouder of Nutmeg Cloves Frankinsence Mastich and Graines of Kermes Villanovanus much Commends sharp Leaven which he applieth to the Stomach twice or thrice being steept in strong Vinegar and juyce of Mints this doth most certainly stop Vomiting after convenient Evacuations and Revulsions In a long Vomiting where the Stomach is very Weak you must use strong Astringents made thus Take of the Roots of Snakeweed and Tormentil Pomegranate peels and flowers and Hypocistis of each two drams Leavs of Mints and dried Wormwood of each half an handful Sumach and Myrtle berries of each one dram red Roses one pugil Cinnamon Cloves and Mastich of each half an ounce green Galls and Cypress Nuts of each two drams boyl them in Iron water and Red Wine in which dissolve a little Musk for sweet things do much asswage Vomiting of which let the Patient take two ounces every morning and Foment his stomach with the same After the Fomentation apply some Plaister or Cataplasm made as aforesaid Chap. 8. Of Vomiting Blood THis Disease is a casting forth of Blood from the Stomach by the Mouth And as al other Bleeding it comes from the Veins either by Anastomosis or opening of them by Diapedesis or Rarefaction by Rixis breaking or by Diabrosis corroding which Diseases of the Veins were shewed in the Cure of Spetting of Blood called Haemoptysis The Causes also are the same And First the Conjunct Cause Excess of Blood in quantity or quality Blood offending in Quantity wil break or open the mouths of the Veins and so comes Rixis or Anastomosis which happeneth in ful bodies If it offend in Quality as when it is too hot or thin it may cause an Anastomosis because heat doth open the Orifices and thinness makes it flow easily through The same Qualities may Cause a Diapedesis for heat doth make thin the Tunicles of the Vessels and thinness Causeth the Blood to pass through their pores Lastly Sharpness gnaweth and Ulcerateth the Tunicles of the Veins and so produceth a
Cardiogmos it is evil for it signifieth that there is a great Inflamation of the Stomach or abundance of bad Humors contained therein The pain of the Stomach coming from Worms or Wind is commonly least dangerous because the Cause is not so bad and not fixed to the part But somtimes from Worms ghawing in the Stomach great Symptomes happen of which the Patient suddenly dieth So when the distemper which begets wind is stubborn and habitual it is not without danger for it turneth to a dry dropsie Hippocrates Aphor. 11. Sect. 4. In a Cardialgia coldness of the extream parts signifieth death at hand The Cure of this Disease is to be varied according to the diversity of the Causes If it come from the Diseases of other parts you must cure them But if the Cause be in the Stomach alone the pain comes either from wind or sharp Humors and Chollerick or from Inflamation Imposthume or Ulcer That which comes from Wind is to be cured by Medicines that discuss and evacuate that flatulent Matter as also the flegm from whence it comes And first you must give a gentle Emollient Laxative Clyster and presently after another Carminative that is expelling wind and discussing of the Decoction of Origan Calamints Penyroyal Rue the lesser Centaury Annis seeds Fennel seeds Carrots and Cummin seeds and the like In which dissolve Benedicta Laxativa Oyl of Dil Rue and Honey of Rosemary If the pain continue you must make a Clyster of equal parts of Sack or Hippocras Oyl of Rue or of Nuts with two ounces of Aqua vitae Or make a Clyster of white Wine with Oyl of Juniper or eight drops of the Chymical Oyl of Cinnamon or Cloves which doth Miracles Then foment the Stomach with this Take of Cypress Roots Galangal Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Mints Origan Penyroyal Marjoram Hysop Sage of each one handful Annis Fennel Caraway and Carrot seeds and Bay berries of each half an ounce Chamomel Melilot Rosemary and Lavender flowwers of each one pugil beat them and slice them put them into two bags and boyl them in Sack then squeeze them and apply them one after another to the Stomach and all the Belly When the Matter is not so cold this Fomentation following may be prepared which is highly commended by Forestus because it hath presently cured when other things failed Take of Althaea Roots half an ounce red Roses Chamomel Flowers and tops of Wormwood of each one handful Boyl them in common Water and Chamomel Water to one pint and an half adding in the end a little Rhenish Wine Rose Water and Vinegar Make a Fomentation After Fomentation anoint with Oyl of Rue and Dill mixed with Aqua vitae and a little Chymical Oyl of Sage or Cloves After the anointing apply a Plaister of Bay-berries or instead thereof a Cataplasm of Honey and Cummin seed While these are doing if there be loathing you may provoke vomiting gently or give a Purge against flegm After Purging give Oyl of bitter Almonds newly drawn mixed with white Wine or Hippocras mixed with Aqua Clareta or Cinnamon Water This following Juleps is most admirable to asswage pain discuss wind and strengthen the Stomach Take of Wormwood Centuary the less and Agrimony of each half a handful boyl them to five ounces and ad to it being strained one ounce of Sugar Let him take it two mornings together Amatus Lucitanus commends highly the distilled Water of Chamomel flowers as a most excellent Remedy to asswage the pains of the Stomach and Entrals of which you must give three ounces warm Or in the defect of that you may make a Decoction of Chamomel flowers which is so much commended by Forestus who saith that he cured a Merchant with this only Decoction once only given of great pain of his Stomach which made him to roar which when he had drunk off he belched and fell into a sweat and all his pain vanished as by an Inchantment so that he needed no other help You may also make a Vomit at the beginning of the disease which by evacuation may abate the pain of this Decoction made with Dill seeds or Agarick or the Roots of Asarabacca dissolving therein Oxymel Syrup of Vinegar or of Roses Solutive Galen teacheth that a Cupping glass applied to the Stomach doth presently take away pain But you must use this Caution That no crude Humor or very little lie in the Stomach otherwise the pain will be encreased Also you may with good success apply Bread hot from the Oven cut in the middle either by it self or sprinkled with Spices Lastly If the pain continue violent you must use a bath of the Decoction of mollifying Herbs that are hot which is most safe and powerful for it takes away the pain by discussing the wind and sending it forth by the open pores which it will better do if you give some discussing Medicine to the Patient while he is in the Bath for both internal and external helps concurring the work will be done The Bath must be very hot that the wind may be the better discussed and the thick Humors melted If by reason of the vehement pain Clysters can neither be given nor retained you must give a Purge in the Bath and let him stay therein an hour or half an hour till the power of the Medicine touch the Stomach Somtimes when the violence of the pain threateneth danger you must give Narcoticks which being wisely given bring wonderful effects Some mix Narcoticks with their Purges that the pain may be allayed and the Matter evacuated such as the Medicine of Elidaeus commended by Forestus made thus Take of Diaphoenicon half an ounce Philonium Romanum two scruples with the Water or Decoction of Chamomel make a Potion After the pain is gone let them who are subject to this Disease be purged once or twice in a month to take away the immediate cause of wind And let them use strengtheners such as were prescribed in the Cure of Concoction hurt That pain which comes of Choller is to be cured by the evacuation thereof with a gentle vomit or Purge or with frequent Clysters that are emollient not sharp or hot Afterwards qualifie the sharpness of the Humors with cooling Juleps that thicken with Emulsions of the great cold Seeds new Milk new Oyl of sweet Almonds Yolks of Eggs and the like In the mean while omit not Opiates and other strengtheners prescribed in the former Cures And at last when need requireth use Narcoticks Apply outwardly a Cataplasm of Bread and Milk with yolks of Eggs and Saffron Or Bread from the Oven broken in the middle and dipt in Vinegar Or Foment the part with the Decoction of Chamomil-flowers Violets and Water Lillies or which is best put the Patient in a warm Bath for that is most proper After the pain is gone lest it should return let the Patient Purge twice every month and let the hot Distemper of his Belly be corrected with a
strain them Let him take two ounces twice or thrice in a day If the pain be great you may give the Syrup of Poppy Let his Drink be barley Water with Syrup of Violets taken cold In the progress of the Disease you must mix other Medicines with the aforesaid which may help to dissolve To this end you may prescribe these following Juleps Take of the Syrup of Water Lillies Apples and of the Juyce of Purslain of each one ounce Syrup of Sea Wormwood half an ounce Lettice Sorrel and Fennel Water of each three ounces the pouder of Diamargariton frigid one dram Make a Julep for three Doses to be taken twice in a day To these you may adrestoring Opiates Narcoticks and the like all which are to be varied many waies according to the Judgment and Wisdom of the Physitian Turpentine washed with Wormwood Water if it be given twice or thrice doth either dissolve or maturate the Imposthume of the Stomach Let this following Fomentation be applied in the beginning Take of Sorrel Roots two ounces Endive Succory and Mallows of each one handful Lettice and white Poppy seeds of each three drams white and red Sanders of each half a dram Violets and Water Lillies of each one pugil Make a Decoction adding a little Rose Vinegar Let the Stomach be fomented warm therewith Or make one with the distilled Waters of Lettice and Water Lillies with a little Vinegar and Pouder of Triasantalon After fomenting let the part be anointed with Oyl of Roses and Violets mixed or with this following Take of Oyl of Roses one ounce and an half Oyl of Violets and Rose Vinegar and of the Juyce of Sowthistle of each half an ounce Boyl them to the consumption of the Juyces then ad of red Sanders one dram red Roses half a dram Lavender and Camphire of each half a scruple as much Wax as will make an Oyntment Cataplasms in the beginning are not good because they burden the part with their weight and by retaining the heat encrease the Inflamation In the declination when the Tumor is resolved which is chiefly to be desired you may apply a dissolving Fomentation made thus Take of Flower deluce Roots two ounces the Leaves of Mints Marjoram Penyroyal Sea Wormwood of each one handful Annis and Foenugreek seeds of each two drams Grains of Kermes one dram the flowers of Stoechas Rosemary Chamomel of each one pugil Make a Decoction adding in the end a little white Wine With this foneent the Stomach After fomenting anoint the part with Oyl of Wormwood Nutineg Spike and the like of which you may make an Oyntment with a little Wax and Pouder Orris Root or Cinnamon But Emplasters and Cataplasms because they burden the part with their weight are not here good But if the Tumor tend to Suppuration foment the part with the Decoction of the Flowers of Chamomel and red Roses Then apply this following Cataplasm Take of Althoea Roots two ounces Brank Vrsine and Roses of each one handful Boyl them well and beat them together then ad of Barley meal Lin-seed Foenugreek and pouder of Chamomel of each half an ounce white and red Sanders of each two drams with Oyl of Roses and Chamomel With a little Hens Grease make a Cataplasin often to be renewed After the Imposthume is broken let the Ulcer be clensed with Hydromel given in a smal quantity To which you may ad the Manna of Frankinsence according to Galens Precept Or give it with Barley Water with Sugar of Roses in the beginning in time of heat When the Ulcer groweth old of what Cause soever it come either from sharp corroding Humors or burning Medicines or Poyson Broths of cool Herbs and drying of Barley Almonds and Sugar of Roses or new Milk with Sugar and a little Honey are very good At length Chalybeate Milk and Iron Water for ordinary drink or Water wherein a piece of Bole-Armenick or Terra Sigillata hath been steeped is very excellent To which you may put a little sharp Wine if there be but little heat in the part Then give this Apozeme Take of Barley one pugil Scabious Agrimany Burnet and Maiden-hair of each half a a handful Melone seeds two drams red Roses dried one pugil make a Decoction to one pint in which dissolve three ounces of Syrup of dried Roses Make an Apozeme for four doses to be reapted often Also the Decoction of China is excellent for internal Ulcers when there is no Feaver taken twenty daies or more sweating gently for so the Ulcer will be dried by degrees But if you fear a consumption boyl the China Root aforesaid in Chicken Broth or Pidgeon Broth with the aforesaid Herbs and Barley made clean In an old Ulcer the drinking of Mineral Waters either of Vitriol Iron or Allum for a Month together are very good In the whol time of the Disease to keep the Stomach clean use gentle Purges as Rhubarb Tamarinds Myrobalans Syrup of Roses and Diacatholicon taken once in a week Lastly To heal up the Wound use these following Take of Bole-armenick Terra Sigillata red Coral and Blood-stone wash'd all in Rose Water of each one dram Sanguis Draconis Gum Arabick and Traganth of each half a dram white Poppy seeds bruised and parched Hypocistis Frankinsence and Sarcocol of each one scruple Sugar of Roses one ounce Make a Pouder of which take a dram in Plantane Water or Conserve of Roses every day Or make an Opiate of the same Pouder with Conserve of Comphry and Roses Syrup of Quinces and Myrtles Or you may make Troches of the same Pouder with the Mucilage of Fleabane seeds or Gum Traganth All which the Patient may use by turns lest he grow weary of the same Outwardly to close the Ulcer you may apply to the Stomach a Fomentation of the Decoction of Wormwood Roses Pomegranate peels Galls Pomegranate Flowers Myrtles Frankinsence Mastich or the like And lastly anoint the part with an astringent Oyntment or apply an astringent Emplaster The End of the Ninth Book THE TENTH BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICK Of the Diseases of the Intestines or Guts The PREFACE THE Perfection of all Nourishment consists in these Three Operations to Ingest Digest and Egest that is To take in Concoct and send forth The first respects the Appetite The second the Concoction belongs to the Stomach But the third respects the Intestines whose office of Egestion or sending forth being moderate and according to the rules of Nature brings great benefit to the whol Body On the contrary if it be defective as in the binding of the Belly or abound as in divers Fluxes there arise divers greivous Diseases Moreover the reteining of superfluous things doth cause Chollicks Iliacks and Hemorrhoids And finally putrifactions in the Guts doth not only produce Fluxes but Worms That all these may be severally Explained this Book shall contain Eleven Chapters The First is of the Chollick The Second of the Iliack Passion The Third of binding of the Belly The
each one ounce boyl them to a pint Dissolve in the straining of white Sugar one ounce Yolks of Eggs two Make a Clyster After the Body is sufficiently emptyed you must give astringents and strengtheners both at the Mouth and by Clysters as also to the Belly the Forms whereof you may take out of the Cure of Dysentery Besides You may conveniently use these that follow Take of Chalybeat Vinegar one part Chalybeat Water two parts the Leaves and Fruit of Myrtles Quinces Medlars Cervices of each two handfuls Cypress Nuts six pair boyl to halfs Foment the Belly warm with the strained Liquor often Take of Oyl of Mastich Quinces and Myrtles of each one ounce Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence and Gum Traganth of each one dram Wax as much as will make an Vnguent to anoint after the Fomentation Or Take Crums of toasted Bread infused in Chalybeat Water and Quinces roasted in the Embers or Marmalade of each three ounces Frankinsence Mastich Sanguis Draconis of each two drams With Syrup of Quinces and Wormwood make a Cataplasm Take of Mastich two drams Boyl it in three pints of Water for ordinary drink Iron Water is also good but in a hot Disease it is good to use the Tincture of Roses or Conserve of Roses mixed with Spring Water or Water wherein Gold hath been quenched mixed with Syrup of Quinces Amatus Lusitanus reports of one that was cured of a Chollerick Diarrhoea by taking much cold Water in the Summer time We also once prescribed to a Sanguine man who was troubled with a Chollerick Diarrhoea in the midst of Summer with great thirst Sal Prunella in his ordinary drink and Juleps made of Lettice and Purslain Water to be taken thrice in a day and he was cured in twenty four hours If the Humor be very sharp and adust or burnt the Patient must be purged sparingly with mild Medicines otherwise the Disease will encrease and he is to be cooled and moistened as also to be blooded a little In the same case a warm Bath is very good the Example whereof is in our Observations Plantane boyled in Broth is excellent And least a Diarrhoea turn into a Dysentery you must give Clysters of Chalybeate Milk and Emulsions of the cold Seeds and of white Poppy Seeds to asswage the sharpness of the Humor As also this Syrup following Take of the Juyce of Quinces six ounces the Juyce of Endive and Sorrel of each three ounces Sorrel and Plantane Seeds of each two drams red Coral one dram Plantane Water four ounces Boyl them to the Consumption of half strain and press them well put to it as much Sugar to make a Syrup to be taken two drams first and last In al Diarrhoea's after universal Medicines this following Bolus is good Take of Conserve of old Roses half an ounce Candied Quinces one dram the pouder of Tormentil one scruple With Sugar make a Bolus to be often repeated Or if the Disease be old you may make an Opiate of the same or the like in a greater quantity to be taken at many times Or to astringe more powerfully give this Pouder Take of Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence Mastich Mummy Terra Sigillata Lapis Haematitis or Blood-stone Troches of Amber of each one dram true Bole three drams make a Pouder of which give two drams inconvenient Liquor Rhubarb twice infused and then twice or thrice washed in Rose Water and dried is good The Lozenges of the three Sanders with four times the quantity of Rhubarb given twice in a day the weight of two drams do take away the Matter and strengthen the Bowels The Leaves of Fleabane laid upon fire so that the smoak may be taken through a hollow Chair do stop the flux of the Belly by a specifical quality As also if the same Herb be beaten with Vinegar and applied to the Stomach Also the smoak of Mullin taken through a hollow Chair is excellent the example of which is in our Observations Syrup of Coral is excellent and much more the Tincture or Magistery of the same The Conserve of the wild Rose or sweet Bryar Rose is good against a Chollerick flux especially if it be mixed in astringent Opiates But when there is danger of weakness through a long and often flux you may give Laudanum with Mastich and Terra Sigillata When it is very violent a Clyster of Broth and new Treacle is excellent Pils of Bdellium taken twice or thrice in a week or every other day are good against al old fluxes For the same is the often use of Medlars as Forestus confirms by experience obs 1. lib. 22. in these words One that had a constant Flux and spent all he had upon Physitians came to me for counsel whom I advised to eat Medlars though green as many as he could by which he was speedily cured As it was with a Zeland Merchant that came to John Spirinchius a Physitian of Lovan who having been long sick and of a Dysentery at last and could not be cured by any was at length by his advice cured only with Medlars and gave the Physitian three hundred Crowns for his advice Thus Forestus But we must observe that the Body before the use of Medlars be clensed from Excrements In an old Diarrhoea the following Medicines are excellent Take of the shavings of Ivory three drams Confection Alkermes one dram Sugar dissolved in Rose Water four ounces Make Lozenges Take of Crocus Martis six grains Bezoard Mineral half a scruple Conserve of Roses two drams Spirit of Vitriol three drops Mix them in a Bolus to be given twice a day long after and before Meat Take of the Juyce of Persicaria Maculata and of the great Housleek of each three ounces boyl them till the third part be consumed and give them in the morning they do certainly cure any flux though very old Mercurius Diaphoreticus given some daies together twelve grains at a time taketh away all the impurities of the Body which use to beget fluxes The Decoction of Juniper Berries in Wine given three daies together is good and also one dram of the Pouder of Grashoppers given in white Wine These two by deriving the Matter of the flux to the Ureters The Decoction of Juniper is thus made Take of Juniper Berries one handful red Wine one pint and an half boyl them to the consumption of two thirds Let him take the straining three daies together The Water of Brimstone Mines cure an old Diarrhoea by purging the whol Body and by strengthening the Stomach Of which ther is an example in our observations If a Diarrhoea come from a Catarrh you must look to the Brain as the part that sends it with the Medicines prescribed in the Cure of a Catarrh But if it depend upon the Obstruction or weakness of the Liver or Spleen you must cure them as shal be shewed in their proper places and then there is little or no use of astringents Platerus in the Cure of the Hemorrhoids
4. Cap. 19. saith that a Tenesmus is easily cured and that of it self it never kils any yet Galen 5. de usu partium cap. 4. reckons it among the chiefest Diseases of the Belly and truly it may very wel be accounted grievous in respect of its troublesomness and long continuance yet it is not dangerous except it come of Melancholly for then it tends to a Cancer ulcerated besides it brings great inconveniences as Miscarriage or Abortion to Women So Hipp. Aph. 27. Sect. 7. saith If a Woman with Child have a Tenesmus she wil miscarry For the continual straining at stool doth much disturb the Womb which is so neer to the straight Gut Besides the same Muscles which serve to throw out the Excrements are imployed for delivery therefore when they daily compress the lower Belly they cause Abortion Lastly the Ulcers of the Rectum Intestinum being neer the Anus or Fundament if they contitue long turn to an incurable Fistula The Cure of a Tenesmus little differs from the Cure of a Dysentery And therefore first the sharp Humors that come from the Liver and other parts are to be purged with Medicines that leave an Astringent quality as chiefly Rhubarb which must be so often given till the Humor seem to be spent If there be an Inflamation which is chiefly known by a Feaver or if much blood you must open a Vein And in case it continue after bleeding and cause a strangury or difficulty of Urine as it often doth it is very good to open the Hemorrhoids with Hors-leeches Also you must use asswaging Clysters when there is much pain and clensing glutinating and astringent according as the Ulcer requireth the Forms whereof are to be found in the Cure of Dysentery But in the use of Clysters observe first that you give them often and in a smal quantity only half a pint because they wil be hardly kept any time by reason of the continual needing And the pipe must be warily conveyed in lest the pain be encreased And you must diligently apply Fomentations Insessions or Baths to sit in Fumigations Suppositories and Oyntments You may make a Fomentation thus Take of Mullein Wormwood of each six handfuls boyl them in new Milk and put them into two Bags which apply to the Anus and whol belly one after another very warm Or Take of Chamomel Flowers and Roses of each one handful Red Wine two Pints infuse them two hours upon hot Embers Foment the Fundament as hot as can be suffered with four times doubled cloathes After let the Patient sit upon a spunge dipped and straâ—ned from the same Liquor Or Fill two Bags with Barley Bran and boyl them in Vinegar Let the Patient sit one while upon one another while upon another as hot as he can If he void much Blood make the Fomentation thus Take of Mullein Leaves and Roots two handfuls Red Roses one pugil Pomegranate peels and Galls of each half an ounce boyl them in two parts of iron-Iron-Water and one of Red Wine for a Fomentation which you may make stronger if you ad half an ounce of Allum Insessus or Baths to sit in to asswage Pain are made of Emollients boyled in Water or Broth of Sheeps Heads and Feet to which you may ad Violets Nightshade Gourds and Mellons sliced but for healing of Ulcers you must make them of Astringents afore-mentioned Fumigations are good to dry the Ulcer made of Frankinsence burnt or the Decoction of Savin made in Oxycrate or other things mentioned in the Cure of a Dysentery the Fume whereof must be taken sitting in a hollow Chair But this following is Commended by Forestus Take of Mastich one dram Frankinsence one scruple Myrtles one dram and an half Red Roses two scruples make a Pouder for a Fumigation Suppositories are good in this Disease they must be gentle and mild least they exasperate the part which is so sensible They are fitly made of Goats Suet cut into the form of a Suppository for they appease the pain heal the Ulcer but they wil be better against Pain if you mix the seed finely poudered of Poppies or Henbane tye them in a knot in Paper like a Suppository But far best if you instead of these things put three drops of the Oyl pressed out of these Seeds to every Suppository or one grain of Opium dissolved in half a scruple of Oyl of sweet Almonds The Ulcer wil be sooner healed if you first dissolve the Suet either alone or with white Starch Gum Tragacanth beaten and first steeped in Plantane Water or else with some Narcoticks Or thus Take of Gum Tragacanth as much as is sufficient sprinkle it with Plantane Water that it may only swel and not dissolve then ad as much of the mucilage of Fleabane seeds or Quince seeds and mix them with the white of an Egg roasted then with melted Wax make them into a Suppository You may also ad Narcoticks as likewise to Cure the Vcer better the Pouders of Ceruss Tutty Bole Pomegranate Flowers and the like which dry without Acrimony and sharpness And these must be very finely Poudered and sifted least the Part be Exasperated You may apply Oyls and Oyntments as in a Dysentery to the Belly and Fundament As Oyntment of Roses Populeon or of the Mucilages of the whites of Eggs Oyl of Roses and the like to take away Pain and Inflamation and other things that shal be mentioned in the Chapter of Haemorrhoids or to Cure the Ulcer the white Oyntment of Rhasis or Pompholygos melted in Hydromel or in Honey and Water Lastly In a more desperate Condition use Narcoticks both inwardly and outwardly but three or four grains of Laudanum is best given with Mastich and Terra Sigillata or mixed in a Clyster made or a Decoction of the Flowers of Chamomel Chap. 8. Of Fluxus Hepaticus or Flux of the Liver A Flux of the Liver is that in which serous and bloody Humors like water wherein flesh hath been washed are voided This Disease is produced from the Liver being weak and out of tune by reason whereof it cannot breed good blood but turneth the Chylous Matter into thin and ferous blood which because it is not fit to nourish is sent by Nature into the Intestines from whence comes this flux of the Liver This weakness and disorder may come from any distemper For by the excess of any of the first qualities the native heat and its power to make blood is dejected Yet this hath a doubt rising from Experience because we see often that great distempers of the Liver and excess in the first qualities do produce other diseases and not this And again this flux is many times without the excess of the first qualities That therefore the Nature of this Disease may be declared we must say with wise Varandaeus my Master There is somthing more than an ordinary distemper for producing of this disease And it is occult or hidden consuming the radical moisture in
the Liver which also destroyeth the Natural heat This evil disposition and occult distemper may come by burning and swooning Feavers by a hot distemper of the Bowels which melteth the Oyly substance by occult corruption and corruption of Humors by a great coldness from flegm and Melancholly abounding which doth oppress and corrupt the Natural heat and it may come by outward Causes as great draughts of cold Water Snow or Ice extraordinary eating of raw Sallets Poyson and Medicines that purge too vehemently By drinking of too much new Wine salt sharp and peppered Meats and strong things which parch the substance of the Liver To these you may add al other Causes which by too much cooling or heating do dissolve the strength and tone or order of the Liver Hitherto is declared a true and proper flux of the Liver which hath this sign there are Liquid and ferous stools like washings of flesh from the weakness of the Liver which cannot sanguifie or make blood well or from a malignant distemper which spoileth the Natural heat and moisture There is also a bastard flux of the Liver which comes of a simple distemper without any fault of the radical moisture by which distemper the faculty is not hurt but the work hindered so that instead of pure blood there comes impure and corrupt or the good turns into evil when in a true of the Liver there is never any good blood in the Liver The Blood is corrupted either by the mixture of Choller or Melancholly or some other impure Matter or from its too long staying in the Liver and the parts adjacent by which it is made thicker or burnt or rotteth or from the fault of the Spleen which doth not suck away the drossie blood and in this bastard flux somtimes thick somtimes black and somtimes blood is voided mixed with Humors of divers colors The signs of this Disease may be gathered from what hath been said For in a true flux there appear moist stools like washings of flesh which is not in other bloody fluxes if in a Dysentery at any time it is seldom and then there is choller flegm and excrements of divers colors voided and in a Dysentery there is pain and torment of the belly but in this none The Signs of the Causes are known by their proper Characters For if the weakness of the Liver come from a hot distemper there went a burning and consuming Feaver before or there is green vomits or stools thirst and a Feaver foulness of Body and want of appetite and stinking Evacuations but if it come from a cold cause the stools are less stinking neither is there thirst or consumption the whol Body is colder and blewish Somtimes there comes a Feaver from the putrefaction of Humors which changeth the said symptomes but you must examine the Causes afore going which will declare both distempers Also in this cold distemper the Patients desire much strong Wine A moist and dry distemper are known by the contrary effects A moist causeth more and oftener stools very thin but a dry little and thicker stools but there is also great thirst Lastly The external Causes are known by the relation of the Patient and those that are with him A bastard flux of the Liver hath almost all signs of a Dysentery only there is no pain of the belly nor pieces of flesh in the stools as in a Dysentery The Prognostick of this Disease useth to be evil and deadly for when a principal part is very ill by consumption of the radical moisture whose reparation is scarce to be hoped for we can expect for the most part nothing but destruction especially when the Disease comes of heat When this disease comes in Feavers there presently follows a melting of the Body and great putrefaction which presently kils the party For in malignant and pestilent Feavers the danger is encreased according to the evil condition of the Cause But when this Disease comes of a cold distemper it useth to last longer and turn into an incurable Dropsie Lastly A bastard flux of the Liver although it be dangerous yet is it less than a true because it comes only from a simple distemper and evil disposition of the Humors the tone and strength of the Liver remaining sound and may be cured by taking away the Causes that defile the Blood The Cure of this Disease is wrought by Medicines that strengthen the Liver correct its distemper and stay the flux And because it comes oftenest of a hot distemper therefore we wil first speak of the Cure of that distemper because it comes seldom of a cold Cause and is to be cured as a Dropsie First therefore although Evacuations seem to be needless by reason of the greatnâ—ss of the flux you may give Rhubarb either alone or with Myrobalans as in the Cure of Dysentery because it doth strengthen the Liver and the rather if you sind any filth in the stools for many Patients have been cured by only one scruple of Rhubarb given many daies together in Conserve of Roses Clysters are here of little worth because the Liver is affected yet somtimes you may give one of chaly beat or steeled Milk or of a gentle astringent Decoction lest the Guts should be too much relaxed But you may make Juleps to strengthen the Liver and correct its distemper thus Take of Succory Graminis or Dogs Teeth and Sorrel Roots of each one ounce Endive Succory Plantane and Dodder of each one handful Sea-wormwood half a handful red Sanders one dram and an half the shavings of Ivory and Spodium of each two scruples Corâ—ander seeds prepared one dram red Roses one pugil boyl them to â—â—e pint and an half dissolve in the straining Syrup of Quinces and simple Syrup of Vinegar of each two ounces Make a Julep for four Doses to be taken morning and evening Or Take of Plantane Water four ounces Syrup of dried Roses one ounce Spirit of Vitriol aâ— much as will make it moderately sharp make a Julep to be repeated often He may also take of these Syrups following often in a spoon Take of Syrup of Myrtles Quinces and dried Roses of each one ounce the Syrup of Succâ—â—â— simple or compound with Rhubarb one ounce and an half mix them There is an excellent Syrup made of the Tincture of Roses made in Rose Water and with Sugar of Roses brought into a Syrup Also this following Pouder given to the quantity of half a dram or a dram once or twice in a day in a rear Egg Broth or other fit Liquor may be used with profit Take of Plantane and Soâ—rel seeds of each one dram Endive Purslane Dodder and Coriander seeds of each one scruple red Roses and Troches of Spodium Gum Tragacanth torrefied of each half a dram the inward skins of Hens Gizzards dried half a scruple make a very fine Pouder Or the Lozenges made of the three Sanders with a double quantity of Rhubarb given to two drams at a time are good
with it and so it wil be stronger Also Spring Water made sharp with some few drops of the Spirit of Virriol or Sulphur is of no less force For sharp things do properly kill VVorms and the Water is to be made more or less sharp according to the age of the Party The Decoction of Dog-tooth with Coriander seed prepared is used vulgarly for ordinary drink mixed with Syrup of Lemons or of pomegranats Or you may put Sugar and a little Vinegar in the Decoction While the aforesaid Remedies are used you must give Clysters often the whol time of the Disease first made of sweet things to attract and draw down the VVorms as at first we said which may be made not only of a Decoction of Liquoris Raisons and Figs but also of Chicken-broth and Sugar and Honey of Roses or of Milk if there be no Feaver otherwise it wil be easily Corrupted But if we conjecture that the VVorms are already in the thick Guts because then they can scarcely ascend into thin Guts you may give Clysters to kil them made thus Take of Dog-Tooth Roots one ounce Beets Mallows Pot Mercury and Purslain of each half an handful Coralline one pugil Coriander seeds prepared and Wormseed of each two drams boyl them in a Quart of Water in one Pint of the straining dissolve two ounces of Oyl of Roses Cassia newly drawn six drams Hiera Picra two drams Honey of Violets one ounce make a Clyster If you wil have stronger Take of Gentian Roots one ounce common Wormwood and Southernwood of each one handful the lesser Centaury half an handful Lupâ—nes half an ounce Wormseed two drams make a Decoction In as much of the straining as you think fit dissolve the Oyl of Wormwood one ounce and an half Salt one dram and an half â—â—ake a Clyster which must be repeated and in the last that the Worms may be brough forth after they are killed dâ—ssolve of Benedicta Laxativa and Hiera Picra of each three dramâ— or half an ounce If there be a Flux of the Belly give this following Clyster Take of Tormenâ—l Roots and of Round Buth-wort of each one ounce and and an half Pomegranate Peels and Myrcha ans of each one ounce Pease a smal handful Myrtle berries one dram Red Roses one pugil make a Decoction and dissolve in the straining of Oyl of Mints or of Wormwood one ounce make a Cryster Outwardly may divers Topicks be applied not only those that were mentioned but these following Take of Gentian Roots one ounce Birth-wort Roots six drams Orange Peels one ounce Coloquintida one dram burnt Harts-horn two drams Saffron half a dram make a Pouder which mix with Oyl of Wormwood or Bitter Almonds and with a little Wax make an Vnguent Also common Oyl boyled with the Pulp of Coloquintida is powerful Also Oyl of Wormwood and St. Johns-wort must be applied to the whol Belly morning and evening Take of Oyl of Wormwood Mints and bitter Almonds of each half an ounce the Juyce of Wormwood and Rue of each two ounces Tormentil white Dittany and Zedoary of each half a dram Ox Gall three drams Aloes one scruple Pouder them and with a little Wax make an Oynment Or Take of Coloquintida six drams Pouder it and with an Ox Gall lay it to the Navel by which both the Worms are killed and the belly kept loose Take of Murrh seven drams Mast ch eight ounces Aloes eighteen ounces common Salt one pound bruise them all and Distil them by a Retort with a gentle Fire and great diligence first you will have a Water than an Oyl with which if you anoint the Navel of a Child all putrefaction will be clensed which is in the Mysentery Also you may make a Cataplasm thus Take of the meal of Lupines two ounces Myrrh and Aloes of each two drams Ox Gall as much as is sitting Oyl of Wormwood two ounces make a Cataplasm for the Belly If a Loosness hath Continued long apply this following Cataplasm Take of Oyl of Quinces and Wormwood of each one ounce the Juyce of Purslain extracted with Vinegar one ounce and an half Peaseflowr an ounce Lupine flowr half an ounce Red Coral and burnt Harts-horn of each three drams mix them together with as much Turpentine as wil make a Cataplasm A Cataplasm also made of only Hiera Picra is most powerful Somtimes you may use Fomentations when there is a great stretching and puffing up of the Belly Made thus Take of Wormwood Southernwood Tansie Scordium Mallows and Violets of each one handful beaten Lupines half an ounce Centaury one pugil boyl them in Vinegar and Water and Foment the whol Belly hot therewith very often Finally For Flat VVorms and Ascarides or Ars-Worms Clysters made of bitter things are good to which you may ad the Purging things aforesaid while the filth of which they breed be purged away Chap. 10 Of the Immoderate Flux of the Hoemorrhoids ALthough the moderate Flux of the Hoemorrhoids be healthful and preserveth a man from many and grievous Diseases as Hippocrates taught in epidemii and in his Aphorisms as from a Pleurisie Peripneumonia or Inflamation of the Lungs nephritis or the Stone in the Kidneys Madness Melancholly and innumerable other Yet the immoderate Flux is most dangerous and brings other pernicious Diseases as Weakness of the whol Body Coolness of the Bowels and especially of the Liver an Atrophy or want of nourishment an evil Habit and Dropsie by the loss of Natural Heat by spending too much Blood which is the treasure of Life and the cheerisher of the whol Body And this Immoderate Flux hath the same Causes which use to provoke other sorts of Bleeding namely Blood offending in Quantity or Quality when it offendeth in Quantity and is brought in great plenty to the Haemorrhoid Veins it doth violently dilate them and open their Orifices by the strength of the Expulsive Faculty but somtimes too much Blood coming thither doth oppress the Retentive Faculty Hence it comes that she being Defective in her duty there is a great Flux which must be restrained by art But while Blood off ends in Quality as sharpness it stirs up the Expulsive Faculty to cast forth by those Veins not only the unprofitable but profitable Blood the Blood Causing this Flux is made sharper by a mixture of Choller or sharp Water This immoderate Flux is known by the loss of Strength and a Sense of Weakness coming from a long Flux and loss of Blood As also from an evil yellowish colour of the whol Body as if it were the Jaundice If the Disease come from Quantity of Blood there went before Causes of increase of Blood and the Patient bears it wel in the beginning and is more cheerful but afterwards the Flux continuing he grows weak and dejected But if it comes from sharpness and thinness of the Blood there went before Causes that breed cholet or sharp Water the body is of a Chollerick Constitution and burnt the blood floweth
violently and it is very red shining and as it were flaming when otherwise offending only in Quantity it useth to be black and Melancholly The Prognostick is gathered easily from what hath been said when we reckon up those grievous Diseases which come from this For the Cure The Blood must be stanched or moderated at least which must be done by Revulsives Derivatives Thickners and Astringents And first Phlebotomy is a Revulsive Remedy in every Flux of blood therefore in the Haemorrhoids thus flowing draw blood from the Arm and more plentifully if there be signs of fulness and much hath not been lost otherwise take but little and at divers times Also Frictions and Ligatures of the Superior parts do revel the blood as also Cupping Glasses applied to the Shoulders Breasts and Hypochondria which for the better Revulsion may have Scarrification in the Shoulders but they must be often applied to the places afore-mentioned Also a Gentle Purge doth derive the Chollerick Humors which make the blood so violent in the Guts and this must be made of Purging things that have an Astringent Quality as Rhubarb Myrobalans and Tamarinds such as were prescribed against Vomiting of Blood And Mercurialis teacheth That Tamarinds have an especial power to stop this kind of bleeding whether they be taken boyled or in substance Also sharp French Pruens which are somwhat like Tamarinds being often eaten afore meat are good and their use is convenient to keep the body loose and if these wil not suffice you may ad other things which were propounded for the Cure of a Belly bound because by use of Astringents the belly wil be bound and by straining to discharge the Excrements that are hard the Veins wil be more open and bleed more Afterwards you must use those things that thicken the Blood and astringe the loose Veins such as were prescribed for vomiting and spitting of blood in form of a Julep Pouder Opiate and the rest coming to Narcoticks as is there said if great need require And besides those Remedies the Pills of Bdellium are much commended by Authors which Rondeletius rejecteth because the Apothecaries have not true Bdellium and use Mirrh instead thereof which causeth bleeding But Solenander opposeth him saying by Experience that he hath found these Pills make of ordinary Bdellium so cleerly to produce their effect that he wil not doubt of the composition Except some should think that the Myrrh is made dull by drying things and astringents that are mixed therewith To this we may add what Bauderon in his Dispensatory and other Modern Writers say That we have true Bdellium brought from India at this day which is hard to be distinguished from Myrrh The use of these Pills is after this manner Take of Pills of Bdellium one dram the Troches of Amber and Terra sigillata of each one scruple With the Mucilage of Quince seeds extracted with Rose Water Make a mass of Pills of which let him take a scruple twice a day before Dinner and Supper At the same time you must use Topicks made after divers forms A Fomentation of Mullein boyled in Smiths VVater or astringent VVine is best for that Plant is proper for the pain and bleeding of the Hemorrhoids But you must diligently observe in the use of Fomentations that they be either cold or moderately hot A more compound Decoction may be made thus Take of Snakeweed Roots half a pound Plantane Mullein Bramble and Oak buds of each two handfuls and an half Sumach berries Pomegranate flowers green Galls and Pomegranate peels of each one handful Myrtles half a dram red Roses two pugils Allum one ounce boyl these in three parts of Forge water and one of old red Wine for a Fomentation Martin Ruland commends a Fomentation made of two bags applied hot by times made of red cloth and filled with beaten Acorns and Oak Leaves and boyled long in strong Vinegar Of the Decoction before mentioned with a greater quantity of every Simple you may make a Bath to sit in which the â—ick man must use somwhat cold as is said of a Fomentation Vnguentum Comitissae is very good if you anoint the Back and Hemorrhoids therewith or you may make for the present this following Take of Oyl of Roses Olives and Myrtles of each two ounces the Juyce of Plantane and Mullein of each one ounce and an half red Wine Vinegar one ounce boyl them till the juyces are consumed then add of Bole Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence and dross of Iron finely poudered of each one dram Wax as much as will make an Vnguent Rondoletius approves rather of those Oyntments which are made without Oyl because they are more astringent and they are thus made Take of the Juyce of Plantane Shepheards-purse and Mullein of each two ounces the simple Syrup of Vinegar three ounces boyl them gently then add of Bole Terra sigillata and Snakeweed Roots poudered of each one dram and an half Sanguis Draconis one ounce Ceruss washed two scruples mix them into the form of a Liniment If the Hemorrhoids be ulcerated you may make this following Take of Oyl of Roses two ounces Frankinsence and Aloes of each one dram Sarcocol Sanguis Draconis and Bole of each half a dram Spodium and Carabe of each one scruple white Starch three drams Juyce of Plantane one ounce Make an Vnguent The Fat of an Eel which comes out when it is roasted put to the Oyntments makes them better by a proper Vertue Also you may with profit apply a Cataplasm to the said parts made thus Take of Bole Aloes Mastich Frankinsence and Sanguis Draconis of each half an ounce the stones of Myrobalans and Galls of each one dram mix them with the white of an Egg and Juyce of Plantane Make a Cataplasm Or the Hairs of an Hare burnt and Spiders webs mixed with the white of an Egg will make a Cataplasm which you must apply to the Vein where it is open if it appears or put it gently in Suppositories are good for this use because they are put up into the part The Form of them is Take of Colophony and Frankinsence of each three drams Bole half an ounce Ceruss and burnt Lead of each one dram Acacia half a dram pouder them finely and make them into a Suppository with Goats Suet. Make Injections into the part by a Syringe of the Juyce of Plantane and other things mentioned for a Fomentation The blood of any Creature newly drawn and injected whiâ—e it is hot doth wonderfully restrain any flux of blood from the belly The Lungs of a Sheep being hot and bloody being sat upon have great power to stop this Blood Also Fumigations made of the Decoctions of the Fomentations aforesaid are good for the same end To which you may ad those things mentioned in a Dysentery As also this following Take of Frankinsence Aloes Mastich red Roses Myrtles and Wormwood of each half a dram Troches of Carabe one dram Make a grass Pouder to be
pure and strong Wine drunken plentifully To these you may ad the Heat of the Part adjacent as in strong Feavers the Liver waxeth Hot from the heat of the Heart The Signs of a Hot Distemper of the Liver are Loathing of Meat especially Flesh Thirst binding of the Belly vehement heat in the whol body especially in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet leanness of the whol body the Patient is worse for hot things and better for cold and if there be plenty of hot Humors there wil somtimes be Vomiting and purging of Choller there is a bitterness in the mouth and for the most part a Feaver As to the Prognostick A Hot Distemper of the Liver is not very dangerous because it is not much contrary to the Constitution of the Liver but it useth to be the Cause of many Diseases not only of the Liver but also of other parts It is hard of Cure especially when the Stomach is cold as often it is for those things which are given to Cool the Liver hurt the Stomach and enlarge its Distemper The Cure consists altogether in the correction of the Distemper by cooling Medicines and by the Evacuation of the Chollerick humors which comes from the Liver encreasing the Distemper and that Distemper it and is the Cause of other Diseases And first Opening of a Vein doth much cool the Liver takes away some of the Choller and opens the Obstructions which comes from Choller therefore you must open the Liver Vein of the Right Arm and let such a quantity of blood as is agreeable to the fulness and strength of the Patient either at once or divers times according to the greatness of the Disease and the continuance of it and that after a Clyster or Laxative Medicine hath been administred Then you must give a Medicine which doth gently Purge Choller and Repeat it often at distance or an Apozem for divers Doses or the Magistral Syrup or Syrup of Succory Compound with a four-fold proportion of Rhubarb which is most convenient because it doth innocently purge the Chollerick Humors cooleth the Liver strengthneth it and opens Obstructions The Forms of these Medicines are these that follow Take of clensed Senna and Tamarinds of each half an ounce Annis seeds one dram Succory and Sorrel of each one handful scraped Liquoris three drams the three Cordial Flowers of each half a pugil boyl them to three ounces and dissolve in the straining of Rhubarb infused with a little Lavender Spike in Succory Water one dram and an half double Catholicon three drams syrup of Roses one ounce make a Potion give it in the morning with due custody For the finer sort of People you may make Clarified Potions which are lately invented which are in form of a Julep but somwhat unpleasant to the taste and in them there is prescribed a double quantity of Purging Medicines because the much strength of them is lost in the Clarifying so that they do seldom work upon strong bodies especially in a dry Country where the Humors are less flowing and not so obedient to purges but in moist Countries these kind of Medicines work succesfully This following is an Example of Clarified Potions Take of clean Senna one ounce Annis seeds one dram Succory Leaves and Maiden-Hair of each one handful scraped Liquoris half an ounce boyl them to ten ounces and infuse in the straining two drams of Rhubarb Cassia new drawn and double Catholicon of each one ounce bruised Tamarinds half an ounce Coriander seeds prepared one dram syrup of Roses one ounce strain them and clarifie them according to art make a Potion An Apozeme to Purge Choller is thus made Take of Sorrel Dogs-tooth Succory and Dock Roots of each one ounce Endive Succory Dandelion and Maiden-hair of each one handful of the Four great seeds of each three drams scraped Liquoris one ounce Succory Bugloss and Violet flowers of each one pugil clean Senna two drams Tamarinds one ounce Mace and Cloves of each one dram boyl them to a Pint and a Quarter in the straining dissolve half an ounce of Rhubarb infused in the aforesaid Decoction with a little Cinnamon of compound syrup of Succory and Roses solutive of each two ounces make an Apozeme clarifie it and aromatize it with two drams of yellow Saunders for four mornings draughts A Magistral Syrup may be made of the ingredients of the former Apozeme with a treble quantity of Purgers and adding an equal proportion of Sugar to the Decoction A Syrup made of Juyces is most used amongst us it is of great power in Chronical Diseases which come from a Hot Distemper of the Liver and from yellow and burnt Choller And it is made thus Take of the new made Juyces from their Faeces of Endive Succory Sorrel Fumatory Burrage and Bugloss of each three Pints the Juyce of sweet Apples newly drawn and purified two Pints fresh Polypody of the Oak half a pound clean Senna eight ounces Dodder of Thyme three ounces Agarick newly Trochiscated half an ounce Mace and Cloves of each half a dram infuse them and boyl them according to art while there remains one Pint and an half of the straining in which dissolve of Rhubarb infused with a little Lavender in the aforesaid Juyces and strained one ounce white Sugar one pound and an half make a Syrup well boyled clarified and aromatized with two drams of Triasantalon keep this syrup in a Glass give two ounces at a time or three twice or thrice every month with Chicken Broth wherein Endivs Succory and Sorrel have been boyled or in Whey These things following are excellent to cool the Liver And first for ordinary Drink use the common Ptisan made of Barley Water and Liquoris or with Dog-tooth and Sorrel Roots Or mix such a Decoction with Syrup of Lemmons or Maiden-hair Or they who are more dainty may take only the simple Spring Water mixed with the aforesaid Syrups And if you desire to cool more you may put as much Spirit of Sulphur or of Vitriol as will make it a little sharp And when the heat is very vehement you may give a dram of Lapis Prunellae therewith There is also made a most pleasant Drink of Conserve of Roses mixed with Spring Water and strained to which you may ad some drops of Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol to make it sharp and red like VVine You may also make a Tincture of Roses thus Take of red Roses dried one ounce warm Water three pints Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol one dram and an half Infuse them three or four hours add to it being strained three quarters of a pound of white Sugar Keep it for your use The Alexandrine Julep for this purpose is made thus Take of Spring Water one pint Rose Water Juyce of Lemmons and white Sugar of each four ounces Boyl them with a gentle fire till they are skinned These two last Remedies are used two waies either for ordinary Drink or as a Julep twice
or thrice in a day Also divers Juleps to cool the Liver use to be prescribed of which the Forms following may be Examples Take of Sorrel Succory Dog-tooth and Dock Roots of each one ounce Endive Succory Sorrel and Maiden-hair of each one handful Succory Bugloss and Borrage Flowers of each one pugil boyl them to a pint In the straining dissolve Syrup of Lemmons three ounces â—â—ake a cleer Julep for three Doses to be taken twice in a day If you will make it cooler add a little Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol to every Dose to make it sharp And to make it colder yet add a dram of Sal prunellae VVhen Herbs are wanting you may make a Julep of stilled VVaters thus Take of Endive Succory and Sorrel Water of each three ounces Syrup of Lemmons and Pomegrantes of each one ounce and an half Make a Julep for three Doses You may also make Juleps that are good and pleasant of Juyces an Example of all which may be this that followeth Take of the Juyce of sweet Apples newly drawn and taken from the faeces four ounces the juyce of Lemmons three ounces Rose Water two ounces the Juyce of Pomegranates one ounce white Sugar half a pound Make a Julep for three Doses Instead of Juleps Physick Broth may be made for the dainty folk of the Herbs aforesaid boyled with a Chicken To which you may add one dram of Lapis Prunellae that it may cool the better or make it sharp with some drops of Spirit of Vitriol Blood of Succory and Germander brought into a Syrup as followeth are good to clense the blood open obstructions and cool the Liver Take of Succory Water made in Balneo Mariae as much as you please the Leaves of Succory two parts Germander one part Steep them together and digest them in Balneo Mariae three daies then strain them and add to the Liquor fresh Succory and Germander then digest them again three daies then strain them and let this way of Infusion be repeated eight or ten times The Liquor will turn red like blood to which you must put as much Sugar and make it into a Syrup Besides You may make Opiates and Tablets to cool the Liver and strengthen it thus Take of Conserve of the Flowers of Succory Violets Water-lillies and Bugloss of each one ounce the pouder of the three Sanders one dram and an half With Syrup of Lemmons make an Opiate to be taken often Take of the Lozenges of the three Sanders with a double quantity of Rhubarb four ounces Let him take every morning two hours before meat one of the weight of two drams Conserve of Hips of the Canker Rose well clensed and boyled with Sugar into the Form of a Marmalade doth powerfully cool the Liver if the Patient taketh it instead of the former Opiate The Tincture of Coral made with Juyce of Lemmons doth cool and strenthen the Liver if you give two spoonfuls thereof every day or twice in a week at the least A Bath of warm VVater used often doth more powerfully and profitably cool and moisten the Body than any other Remedy especially in lean folk VVhey is good for the same if it be used fifteen daies or more together It is made best by boyling the Milk and powring in a little Vinegar or Juyce of Lemmons and afterwards straining it Amatus Lusitanus prepareth it thus Take of Whey one pint very sharp Syrup of Vinegar three ounces Mix them and after a little boyling let it be taken as Mineral Waters twice or thrice and then walk upon it The Ancients took it five pints at a time Quercetan prepareth it thus Take of Whey two pints Juyce of Lemmons two ounces the new made Juyce of sweet Apples three ounces Clarifie them all together at the fire with the white of an Egg and put to them a little Sugar When it is strained take six or eight ounces every morning for fifteen or twenty daies together And if the Body be lean and consumed you may give Milk alone especially if it be of an Ass for many daies The Decoction of China prepared with the Juyce of Lemmons is also good for this purpose especially if there be Obstructions It is made thus Take of China Roots sliced one ounce Spring Water six pints the Juyce of Lemmons three ounces Steep them twenty four hours then boyl them till the third part be consumed then strain them through a Hippocras Bag and let him take six ounces thereof morning and evening and mix it with Wine when he pleaseth Lastly Mineral Waters that have Vitriol are good because they open and cool If the Disease continue after all this open the Hemorrhoids with Hors-leeches once or twice in a month And also use outwardly Epithems and cooling Oyntments to the Region of the Liver Make Epithems of Sorrel Succory Rose or Plantane Water or of Vinegar and Camphire to which for the strengthening of the part add a little Pouder of the three Sanders The Oyntments are Galens cooling Oyntment and the Cerat of Sanders Chap. 2. Of the Inflamation Imposthume and Vlcer of the Liver THe Inflamation of the Liver is a hot Tumor arising from Blood which is out of its Vessels and sent into the substance thereof And as the Blood is either pure or mixed with other Humors so doth it produce divers kinds of Tumors For if it be pure it makes a true Phlegmon but if it be mixed with Choller Flegm or Melancholly it produceth an Erysipelous Oedematous or Schirrous Phlegmon And if the said Humors predominate over the Blood there is a Phlegmonous Erysipelas oedema and schirrus There is another difference in respect of the place in which the Inflamation is it is either in the gibbous part or Cavity of the Liver Which is thus to be understood according to Galen 5. de locis aff cap. 7. An Inflamation cannot be in either part of the Liver distinct so that the other shal be free because the flesh in the part is contained in all parts and therefore when one part suffereth the other also suffereth in some measure Moreover That which Galen taught 13. Meth. Cap. 14. is worth observation When the hollow part of the Liver is offended it is necessary that the Inflamation reach to the Veins of the Mesentery which come from the Gate Vein And Experience teacheth that they who have died of this Inflamation have had not only an Imposthume in the Liver but also in the Mesentery VVe must also observe from Hippocrates Aph. 45. Sect. 7. That an Imposthume somtimes is only in the Membrane which covereth the Liver and somtimes in the substance or Parenchyma of it For saith he they who have a hot Liver suppurated if pure white quittor or matter flow from thence do escape for it is contained in the Tunicle But if it be like Lees of Oyl they die Galen in his Comment saith thus They who have matter in the Tunicle of their Liver and the substance not
Chapter aforementioned bewaring that they be not too sweet for by sweet things the Liver being inflamed grows larger as Trullian teacheth Lib. 4. Cap. 10. Let his Drink be the Decoction of Barley Dog-tooth with a little Liquoris Syrup of Violets or Maiden-hair In the Decoction you may ad to the former Juleps the Roots of Smallage and Parsley the Leaves of Agrimony Maiden-hair c. And afterwards Turpentine washed Agrimony or Parsley Water given twice or thrice takes away the reliques of the Disease But if the Disease be stubborn and last long you must prescribe an Apozeme of opening and loosening things thus Take of the Roots of Smallage and Parsley of each two ounces new Polypody of the Oak three ounces the Leaves of Agrimony Burnet Ceterach Maiden-hair of each one handful Annis Fennel and Parsley seeds of each one dram Chamomel and Violet flowers of each one pugil clean Senna one ounce Boyl them to a pint and a Quarter Dissolve in the straining Rhubarb infused with a little Lavender in Succory Water two drams simple Syrup of Vinegar four ounces Make an Apozeme for four Doses to be taken every other day Outwardly many Topicks are good to be used the whol time of the Disease And in the beginning Epithems Liniments and cooling Plaisters such as stop Fluxes made thus Take of Endive Succory Sorrel Plantane and Rose Water of each three ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce the pouder of the Electuary of the three Sanders one dram and an half Camphire half a scruple Make an Epithem to be applied warm to the Region of the Liver Or Take of the Leaves of both Endive Succory Plantane Bugloss Burrage and Water-lilly flowers of each one handful Roman Wormwood half a handful red Roses two pugils red and yellow Sanders of each two drams boyl them to one pint and an half Dissolve in the straining half a pint of Rose Water Rose Vinegar one ounce Camphire one scruple Make an Epithem If you desire to cool more you may ad the Juyces of the aforesaid Herbs Take of Oyl of Roses two ounces Oyl of Wormwood half an ounce mix them and wash them with Oxycrate and anoint the place therewith after the use of the Epithem Or Take of Oyl of Roses and of Myrtles of each two ounces the Juyce of Endive and Succory of each one ounce Vinegar half an ounce boyl them to the Consumption of the Juyces then add the pouder of red Sanders and Roses of each one dram as much Wax as will make an Vnguent Or you may use the Oyntment of Roses alone or Galens cooling Oyntment washed with Oxycrate In the progress of the Disease when the Feaver and pain decrease you must mix Dissolvers with Coolers either in equal or unequal proportion as the Disease grows neerer to the state or declination these must be wisely composed But that you may know what to make them of we wil shew you some Examples Take of Oyl of Roses two ounces Oyl of Wormwood one ounce Oyl of Chamomel half an ounce Pouder of the three Sanders one dram Spicknard half a dram Wax as much as will make a Liniment Take of clean Dates ten whol Raisons three ounces boyl them in Oxycrate then beat them with Chamomel Melilot and red Rose Flowers of each one pugil Spicknard and Schoenanth of each one dram Smallage and Parsley seeds of each half a dram Endâ—ve and Purslain of each one dram and an half Oyl of Wormwood and Roses of each one ounce Barley meal two ounces Make a Cataplasm Or you may make one not so hot thus Take of Barley meal three ounces red Sanders two ounces Oyl of Roses three ounces Mix them with the Decoction of Endive and Succory for a Cataplasm In the declination when the Feaver is gone you must use Dissolvers with Emollients lest any hardness should remain and some Astringents to strengthen the part Take of Marsh-mallow Roots three ounces Cypress Roots and Calamus Aromaticus of each half an ounce Mallows Violets and Agrimony of each one handful both the Wormwoods of each half a handful Foenugreek Annis Fennel and Line seed of each half an ounce Chamomel Melilot and Dill slowers of each one pugil Spicknard Schoenanth and Mastich of each one dram and an half Make a Decoction of them and foment the part affected with it somwhat hot Take of Oyl of Chamomel Lillies and sweet Almonds of each one ounce Oyl of Wormwood and Spike of each half an ounce the Pouder of Schoenanth Rosata Novella and Wormwood of each one dram Wax so much as will make a Liniment to be used in the declination of the Disease If the hardness of the part continue it will be good to add to the former Liniment Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar Or this Plaister Take of the Emplaister of Melilot and Diachylon with Flowerdeluce of each one ounce Mix them and spread them upon Leather cut like a half â—Moon to be laid to the part Or Take of Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar one ounce Labdanum and Mastich of each two drams Oyl of Wormwood and Wax of each as much as will make a Plaister If the Inflamation tend to suppuration which is known by encrease of the Feaver and the pain according to Hipp. Aph. 47. Lib. 2. there is great danger and few escape in this case Yet you must further the Suppuration with the aforesaid Emplaisters which will dissolve the Matter which will be dissolved and suppurate that which will be suppurated or ripened as also with mollifying Cataplasms and you must give inwardly Chicken Broth wherein Mallows Marsh-mallows Figgs and Prunes have been boyled After the Imposthume is broken if white Matter flow by stool or urine you must clense with Barley Water or Whey with Honey of Roses or with those Remedies which are prescribed for the Cure of the Ulcer of the Stomach But if the Suppuration tend outwardly you must open it with a red hot Incision Knife according to Hippocrates And if the Matter come forth white and concocted there is hope of Cure but if red filthy and stinking the Patient is neer death Chap. 3. Of the Stoppage or Obstruction of the Liver THe Obstruction of the Liver is a preternatural closing or straightness of the Branches of the Vena Porta and Cava that is of the Gate and Hollow Vein and somtimes of the substance of the Liver hindering the passage of Natural Humors and the distribution of the Nourishment coming from some Matter which filleth their Cavities Hence it is that Obstruction is an Organical Disease namely in the way and passage obstructed which hinders the distribution of Blood for the Nourishment of the parts These waies or passages are not only the Veins which are dispersed through the whol substance of the Liver but also the Pores and insensible Passages with which the whol substance of the Liver and also of other parts is very full which being shut up by a preternatural Humor neither can the heat of the
Senna Polypody of the Oak and the Kernels of Carthamus seeds of each two ounces Epythimum or Dodder of thyme one ounce Ginger and Cloves of each one dram the flowers of Tamarisk Marigolds and Red Fitches of each one pugil make a Decoction to a Pint and a quarter dissolve in the straining of the Syrup of the Five Roots and of Roses Solutive of each two ounces make an Apozeme clarified and aromatized with two drams of Cinnamon for four mornings draughts adding to every Dose one dram of Cream of Tartar salt of Wormwood and Tamarsk of each half a scruple In the last Dose if the first hath not sufficiently purged dissolve of the Electuary of Citrons Solutive and Diacarthamum of each one dram and an half Somtimes we put white Wine in the Decoction before mentioned Somtimes a little Vinegar according to the nature of the Patient If the Patient be dainty and will not take an Apozeme instead thereof you shal give these Broths Take of Smallage Parsley and Sparagus Roots of each half an ounce Agrimony Hysop Maidenhair of each one handful Cristal of Tartar one dram boyl them with a Chicken or a neck of Mutton make Broth for nine dayes together every morning The Cristal of Tartat dissolved in new made Broth and strained is better for when the Decoction is cold for the most part it congealeth again and is separated from it and when you give it in the Broth you must stir it about well with a Silver Spoon afore it be taken or you will leave the greater part in the bottom of the Dish Every other day infuse in his Broth half an ounce of Senna and one dram of Annis seeds As long as he taketh these Medicines and after as often as need requires let the Region of the Liver be somented every morning one hour before he taketh his Broth and every evening one hour before Supper with this following Fomentation Take of Marsh-mallow and Briony Roots of each one ounce and an half the Roots of Danewort Cypress Eryngus the Barks of the Roots of Capars and the middle rind of Tamarisk of each one ounce the Leaves of Mallows Marsh-mallows Violets Agrimony Germander Mints and Wormwood of each one handful Lin-seed Foenugreek and Juniper Berries of each half an ounce Coriander seeds and yellow Sanders of each three drams Broom Elder Chamomel and Melilot flowers of each one pugil boyl them all in two parts of Chalybeate Water and one of white Wine added in the end and when it is strained add half a pint of Vinegar Foment the part as aforesaid After the Fomentation let the part be anointed with the following Oyntment Take of Oyl of Lillies and Capars of each two ounces the Juyce of the Roots of Briony and Smallage of each three ounces Boyl them till the Juyces are consumed adding the Oyntment of Marsh-mallows and Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar and strained of each one ounce Carrot seeds and Spicknard of each one dram and an half yellow Wax as much as will make an Vnguent Vse it as aforesaid adding in the time of anointing a little Vinegar of Roses After the use of these Remedies this Opiate following is good to wear away the reliques of the Obstructions and recover strength to the part Take of Conserve of Wormwood Maiden-hair and the Flowers of Tamarisk of each one ounce the Conserve of Elicampane Roots and Citron peels candied of each half an ounce one candied Myrobalan candied Nutmegs three drams Confection Alkermes two drams the Pouder of Diarrhodon Abbatis one dram Salt of Wormwood and Tamarisk of each two scruples Saffron one scruple Amber-greece half a scruple with the Syrup of Citrons make an Opiate of which let him take the bigness of a Chesnut every morning two hours before meat and drinking after it a little Hippocras Warm Baths are also very good in which softening and opening things have boyled If the Obstructions are very stubborn these following Pills are very good Take of the best Aloes infused in the Joyce of Wormwood very well half an ounce Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar and strained three drams Myrrh dissolved in warm Wine and strained two drams the pouder of the three Sanders and Crystal of Tartar of each one scruple Agaricknewly made into Troches and of the best Rhubarb of each two drams the Salt of Wormwood and Tamarisk of each half a dram Saffron half a scruple With the Syrup of Roses solutive make a Moss of Pills of which let him take half a dram two hours before dinner twice in a week Instead of the Apozeme aforesaid you may make an old Cock Broth when the Obstructions are old and stubborn Take of Polypody of the Oak and Carthamus seeds of each one ounce and an half the tops of Time and Epithimum of each one pugil Annis Fennel and Caraway seeds of each two drams clean Senna two ounces Crystal of Tartar half an ounce beat them and fill the Belly of an old Cock therewith boyl them in three parts of Water and one of white Wine till the flesh of the Cock fall from the Bones Make Broth and let the Patient take it four mornings Or which is better make a Decoction for one draught every day of the fourth part of the Ingredients To this Broth you may ad Herbs and opening Roots in a smal quantity Quercetan commends exceedingly in his Dispensatory the Compound Pouder of the Root of Cuckoo-pintle to open Obstructions of which you may give two drams for divers daies together in a convenient Decoction But of all Remedies to take away old Obstructions Medicines made of Tartar Vitriol and Steel are the best Of Tartar there is made Crystal Salt and Spirit which are to be given in divers forms The use of Crystal of Tartar is formerly mentioned in the Apozeme and Physick Broths made either of a Chicken or old Cock Concerning this Medicien yong Physitians are to be admonished that it is of more-force than it is commonly supposed to be although we seldom observe it in Practice by reason of the negligence of Apothecaries the deceit of false Chymists and vulgar Distillars which still Chymical Medicines to the Apothecaries of which few are good but most adulterate The negligence of Apothecaries for the most part is That they had rather buy Crystal of Tartar of such fellows than make it themselves though it be the easiest of all because they sell it cheaper than they themselves can make it for those Impostors wil sell a pound for seven pence or eight pence from which alone the Apothecaries might argue deceit perceiving that they would be loosers in so selling if it were rightly made The deceit lieth here Those Impostors put a little Tartar and a great deal of Allum into their Decoctions not because Tartar is sold dearer but because it yields but a little Crystal but Allum will run all into Crystal Hence it is that the Physitians are deceived of their intentions because Allum is astringent which is
Scirrhus easily breedeth in the Liver Spleen and Reins In the Liver because the Passages are narrow and it is nourished with thick blood in the Spleen because it receiveth the thick blood and lastly in the Reins because they are nourished with thick blood The Causes of the latter Scirrhus which followeth other Humors is the immoderate use of discussing Medicines or of Repercussives which by cooling and binding do thicken the Matter and keep it from dissolving Besides the Matter of the Disease which is properly cold and thick and will not be dissolved or the weakness of the part which cannot help the breathing forth of the Humors And lastly a cooling and thickening Diet. The signs of a Scirrhus in the Liver are a hardness in the right Hypochondrion and that more than in an Obstruction next a heaviness in that part especially when there is violent breathing no Feaver nor pain by which it is distinguished from an Inflamation or there is but little pain as when the Schirrus is not exquisite or perfect There is less repose upon the left side because the Liver being hard and heavy doth then lie upon the Stomach and burden it the color of the Face is pale and and greenish because when the Liver is Schirrus there is no good Blood produced by it The whoI Body also is fallen away because there is neither Sanguification nor distribution of Nourishment as it ought to be The Prognostick of this Disease is given by Galen 2. ad Glaucum cap. 4. in these words An insensible Scirrus is incurable but that which is a little sensible is curable though with much difficulty Also Galen cap. 5. of the same Book saith We have cured a Schirrus of the Liver often in the beginning of it but when it hath been of long continuance neither could I nor any other that I ever heard of cure it An old inveterate Scirrhus turns to a Dropsie incurable of which some die sooner than others if they have a loosness of the Belly therewith of long continuance A Scirrhus which followeth the Jaundice or causeth the same is dangerous Whence Hippocrates Aph. 42. Sect. 6. saith that if the Liver grow hard in them who have the Jaundice it is an evil sign The Cure of a Scirrhus is first by the taking away of the Antecedent Cause by the Apozem which is prescribed in the Obstruction of the Liver To which you may add other Medicines proper to open Obstructions Afterwards you must discuss the hard Matter with mollifying and opening things For this end the Steel Pills above mentioned are excellent especially if you add thereto Bdellium Ammoniacum and Sagapenum But if the hardness be very great you must give these Pills following many daies together Take of Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and strained and again made thick two drams Bdellium and Storax of each four scruples mix them Take one dram every other day And in the daies between let him use the Opiate or strengthening and opening Lozenges prescribed in the Cure of Obstructions These following Pills have a wonderful Vertue to soften a Scirrhus and dissolve it Take of the best Aloes and Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar strained and again made thick of each half an ounce Mercurius dulcis two drams Diagridium one dram With Oxymel of Squils make a Mass of Pills of which let him take half a dram four hours before Dinner for twenty or thirty daies together Zacutus Lusitanus Obs 41. Lib. 1. Praxis Admir reports that there was a strong Scirrhus cured by the use of Conserve of Horehound forty daies together Some Practitioners commend the use of Turpentine thus prepared Take of Turpentine washed with white Wine one ounce and an half Sugar half an ounce Give one dram every day or every other day for it is an opening Medicine that provoketh Vrine and looseneth the Belly All the time of Cure let the Patient take white Wine or thin Claret steeled for his ordinary Drink Also the other Preparations of Steel before mentioned are very good Outwardly you must apply Fomentations Oyntments and Plaisters thus made Take of Marsh-mallow Roots Briony and Lilly Roots of each one ounce Mallows Violeâ—â— Pellitory of the Wall Wormwood and Agrimony of each one handful Linseed Foenugreek and Dill seed of each half a dram Chamomel Melilot and Rose flowers of each one pugil boyl them in three parts of Water and one of white Wine or in Water and Vinegar With the straining let the Region of the Liver be fomented every morning and evening If the Scirrhus be very great add to the Decoction Flowerdeluce wild Cucumers and Dwarf-Elder Roots and make the Decoction in Tripe Broth and white Wine Take of Oyl of Lillies Chamomel Melilot and sweet Almonds of each one ounce Oyl of Roses and Wormwood of each half an ounce Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar three drams Wax two drams make a Liniment with which anoint the part aforesaid after the Fomentation If you desire a stronger Liniment Take of the Juyce of Briony and wild Cucumer of each two ounces the Oyl of Capars and Tamarisk of each three ounces white Wine one ounce boyl them till the Juyce and the Wine be consumed then add two drams of Wormwood in pouder Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar half an ounce with a little Wax make a Liniment Take of the Emplaister de Mucilaginibus one ounce Melilot half an ounce Gum Ammoniack melted in the Juyce of Wormwood three drams soften them with a little Oyl of Wormwood 〈◊〉 Lillies and make a Plaister to be laid on after the Liniment The Leaves of Henbane boyled in Vinegar are good to be outwardly applied to the part made â—â— to the form of a Cataplasm or Pultiss with Oyl of bitter Almonds To these you may add Baths made of softening and digesting things and of strengtheners such as we prescribed for Fomentations and let the Patient use them by turns And finally Make an Issue in the right Leg that part of the Matter offending may be that way drawn forth Chap. 6. Of the Dropsie HIppocrates makes two kinds of Dropsies namely An Universal and a Particular An Universal Dropsie is that which is in the whol Body or over the whol Belly a Particular is that which is only in one part hence there is the Dropsie of the Head Breast and Womb of which here we shall not speak but only of the Universal Galen gives three kinds of this Universal Dropsie namely Ascites Tympanites and Anasarca or Leucophlegmasia Ascites is a swelling of the Belly caused of a serous Humor nor doth the Belly only swell but many times the Feet Legs Thighs and Cods Nay an Ascites somtimes begins with a swelling in the Feet which ascends after to the Legs and so to the Thighs and Belly This serous Humor as it is of the Nature of Water it is cold but as it is salt it hath in it heat which then is encreased by the neerness of the Bowels and more by
majus thus Take of Gromwel seeds husked two ounces spring Water half a pint boyl them till three or four ounces of water only remain which being strained mix it with as much Sack and give it warm it will sweat him plentifully if he be covered warm But those Medicines are best which purge by Urine and the Cure is commonly better this way One of the chief is two ounces of the Juyce of Chervil given every morning in Wine for many daies Opening Wines that purge by Urine are good in this case as this Take of Elicampane Smallage Fennel and Flowerdeluce Roots dried of each one ounce and an half Roots of Valerian Gentian Asarabacca and Squils or Sea Onions of each one dram the middle Bark of an Elder and Sassaphras of each six drams dried Wormwood Agrimony Germander and Maiden-hair of each two drams the tops of Centaury the less and Broom flowers of each one dram Parsley Annis and Dill seeds of each one dram and an half Cinnamon two drams Spicknard half a dram bruise them together and infuse them in white Wine some few daies and let him drink thereof every morning The steeled compound Wine prescribed in the Obstruction of the Liver is good for the same The Decoction of Juniper mentioned is to be reckoned among the Diureticks And if you fear it is too hot you may make it in Water and put a little Spirit of Vitriol to it Fonseca commends the use of Turpentine washed with Barley Water and he gives half an ounce thereof twice in a week And lastly The Spirit of Salt Tartar and Vitriol given in a true quantity with an Apozeme or other opening Decoction for some daies do wonders because they being very thin do run into all the parts of the Body and open them The Salts of Wormwood Juniper Bean Stalks and the like given in white Wine do the same Or in want of Salts you may make a Lee of the Ashes of the same which will be sufficient Mathiolus upon the 87. Chap. Lib. 1. of Dioscorides saith That a Lee made of Juniper Ashes with white Wine and four or five ounces thereof taken doth powerfully provoke Vrine so that I have seen some men cured of a Dropsie with it alone Moreover In the whol time of the Cure you must use strengtheners to the Liver for it is in vain to purge water if you do not hinder the encrease of it which you cannot do except you refresh the Liver and bring it to its former temper Among the chief Strengtheners is Cinnamon Water of which you may give one Spoonful every morning and before Supper But Galen in his Eight Book Kata Topous commends the Electuary called Cyphoides by the Arabians from the Wine whereof it is made of which you may give half an ounce in the morning according to Hollerius it is thus made Take of Curans clensed half a pound boyl them in old Sack to the consistence of a Pultis strain them after they are pounded and then ad of the conserve of Rosemary flowers Citron barkcandied and Cinnamon of each one dram the Pouder of Aromaticum Rosatum Diamargariton calidum and Diacinamom of each two scruples Lignum Aloes half a dram Saffron half a scruple mix them for a soft Electuary The Opiates prescribed for the Obstruction of the Liver are here very profitable The Conserve of Sea Wormwood is very good made of one part of the Leaves and three of Sugar with which Matthiolus in his Chapter of Wormwood saith some have been Cured Poterius makes an Opiate of Conserve of Roses Specificum Somachium and Crocus Martis and Oyl of Vitriol by which only Medicine he saith he hath Cured Dropsies The Specificum Stomachium is Antimony fixed The Cure of men in Dropsies lieth much in their drink therefore there must be care of that that he drink sparingly and endure thirst as much as may be for it is known that many have been Cured only with abstaining from drink and eating of dry meats without other means For Drink let him take Elicampane or Wormwood Juniper or Steeled Wine or let him use the aforesaid Steel Medicines Avicen forbids men in a Dropsie to see Waters But if you fear too much Heat or Driness or if the Patient be Abstemious he may use the Decoction of Juniper of Guajacum or Sassaphras or of Madder which provokes urin very much either alone or with white Wine But because he must abstain from Drink as we said and yet there is great Thirst it must be asswaged by Fits with washing the mouth with steeled Water and Vinegar or with often chewing Mastich or the like for it wil draw water to the mouth not only as some think out of the head alone but from the Stomach and Cavity of the Abdomen and therefore it will do much good Of Meats we say thus That he must chuse the Dryest and avoid Sweet meats as the Plague While you use Internals forget not Externals for they are of great force to discuss the Humor of the Belly as Fomentations â—ags Oyntments Pultisses and Plaisters The Chief are made thus Take of Marsh-mallow and Lilly Roots Cypress barks Capar barks middle barks of Ash Tamarisk dwarf-Elder the greater Snakeweed of each three ounces Wormwood Agrimony Marjoram Organ Calamints Peny-Royal Râ—e Ground-pine Southernwood and Elder of each one handful Parsley Dill and Cummin seeds of each one ounce Chamomel Melilot and Broom flowers of each three pugils Spickenard Schoenanth Nutmegs Cloves and Cinnamon of each half an ounce Salt and Allum of each half a pound boyl them all in a Lee made of Oak Ashes or branches with this Foment the whol Belly with Spunges dipt therein and strained Or Take the Vrine of a sound Boy four Pints Lapis Prunellae three ounces boyl them to the consuming of the third part for a Fomentation Aqua-pendens Commends Lime Water in which he dips a new Spunge which wil compass the whol Abdomen this he strains and binds on by which he affirmeth That the Waters that Cause the Dropsie are consumed the cold and moist distemper of the Bowels are taken away and the hardness of the Spleen dissolved Claudinus quencheth the Lime in a Salt Bath Water that is either of Brimstone or Salt-peter and bindeth close the Spunges dipped therein and strained with Rowlers to the Belly and keeps them there long and then changeth them You may make Bags of the ingredients of the former Fomentation boyled in white Wine and applied warm to the belly After the Fomentation let the belly be anointed with Oyl of Dill Rue or Flower-de-luce mixed with Pouder of ammoniacum Galangal Dill Bay-berries and the like It is also good to anoint with the Oyl of Scorpions according to Matthiolus and with a little Oyl of Rosemary Many do make Oyntments and Liniments of strong Purgers which draw VVater violently from the Dropsie and asswage the Swelling of the belly but they are dangerous for the Purging Quality getting between the Muscles
and the Membranes doth often stir up a deadly Looseness After Liniments or if they be omitted you may apply Cataplasms or Emplaisters This following is the best Take of the Roots of wild Cowcumbers well bruised and steeped twenty four hours in Vinegar of Squills one pound clarified Honey two Pints mix them and boyl them to the consistance of a Cerat and ad in the 〈◊〉 your ounces of the Pouder of Cumminseed make an Emplaister for the belly to be renewed evâ—â—y day Or Take of dryed Cow-dung one pound Brimstone and Cummin seeds Poudered of each two drams New Wine boyled called Sapa or of the Vrine of a Boy as much as will make a Cataplasm A Cataplasm of Rhadishes bruised and laid to the Navel and Reins doth provoke Stools and Urine Galen Commends a Cataplasm of Snails bruised with their Shells which must be kept to the belly till it fal off of its own accord it draws water forth violently Valeriola makes it in form of a Plaister thus Take of Cow-dung one pound Goats-dung half a pound boyl them in strong Vinegar and beat them in a Mortar with three ounces of Brimstone and one ounce of Allum the Juyce of Spurge and dwarf-Elder newly drawn of each three ounces Lupine and Orobus meal of each two ounces the Pouder of Soldanella Annis Fennel and Cummin of each two drams common parched Salt three drams Turpentine four ounces Pitch six ounces make a Plaister It is worth the Observation which Wierus and Varignana say they have found by Experience that a Toad found in the Woods cut through the belly and tyed to the Reins doth provoke Urine violently and when you wil evacuate more apply another Petraeus also reports that the Pouder of the same Toad dried and calcined in an Oven drunk half a dram in Wine or other Liquor doth wonderfully expel the Dropsie by Urine The first Inventor of which Experience desiring thereby to destroy himself was cured thereby contrary to expectation Also this following Cerat made of a Toad is excellent Take of Toads two pound the Juyce of dwarf Elder three Pints Oyl one pint Wax half a pound boyl them in a luted Pot to the consumption of half strain them for a Cerat spread this upon a Leather and lay it to the Spleen it evacuateth all waters All the time of the Cure you must strengthen the Liver and Stomach if the humor doth begin to abate or is not so great that it hinders the Vertue of outward Medicines from coming to the part Take of the Oyl of Orange flowers one ounce the Oyl of Spike three drams the Oyntment of Roses the stomach Cerot of Galen of each two drams distilled Oyl of Mastich two scruples the distilled Oyl of Wormwood one scruple Oyl of Nutmegs one dram and an half white Wax a little mix them for a Liniment to be applied to the stomach Take of Sea Wormwood three drams Horehound and Rosemary of each two drams Red Roses two pugills Ghamomil flowers and Bay Leaves of each half an handful Orange peels and sweet wood Aloes of each three drams Cypress Roots Schoenanth and Spikenard of each half an ounce with two parts of the best Wine and one part of Wormwood and Agrimony Water make a Decoction with which Foment the Region of the Liver with a spunge first washt in Wormwood Water Take of the Oyntment of Roses and Cerot of Sanders of each three ounces Red Roses Endive and Sorrel seed of each one dram Spikenard Schoenanth dryed Wormwood and Styrax Calamita of each four scruples Oyl of Mastich or Wormwood as much as will suffice to make a Liniment to be applied to the same part after the Fomentation For the most part in a Dropsie the Thighs Legs and Feet have a cold swelling and for the discussing of it a Lye is good in which the Roots of Dwarf Elder and Elicampane Rosemary Leaves Marjoram Thyme Bayes Organ Salt and Allum have been boyled Although the things aforesaid are chiefly used yet somtimes they are not necessary namely when the Dropsie comes in a hot and dry Constitution from hot causes which disperse the natural heat as in vehement Chollerick Feavers for then cold things for the Liver mixed with warm Openers are best such as are used in continual Feavers And the Magistral Syrup above mentioned made of the Juyce of Roses Succory and Agrimony For ordinary Drink give a Decoction of Succory Roots and Calcitrapa or white Chamelion which is not unpleasant or of other Openers but in a greater quantity than above which may quench thirst asswage the heat of the Liver and moisten the driness thereof It is not amiss to confirm this Doctrine by a famous example though it be allowed by Avicen Trallian and others because it seems strange to some and is of great Consequence Baptista Montanus reports Cons 263. in these words I saw saith he in Venice a certain Predicant Frier that was cured of an Ascites and Tympanites there were with me many famous Physitians namely Papiensis Eugubinus Trincavella and others He had as I said an Ascites with a Tympany and a Consumption with a Hectick Feaver therefore we were bound both to dry and moisten therefore we were in a great contention I was willing that he should drink much but things that Open because he had many obstructions and that moisten because he had a Consumption I prescribed the Syrup of Vinegar with all things that provoke Vrine Eugubinus would not allow him to drink and told a story of one who was cured by dry things Papiensis to end the controversie said That he should neither drink much nor at all we argued till night the Noblemen brought their Physitians to their Boats and there Papiensis said to a Nobleman what he had concealed formerly If you would have this man cured there is nothing to be done but what Baptista Montanus saith In this case also Medicines of Steel Tartar and Vitriol are excellent because they strongly Open and provoke Urine without any great heat But the tart Vitriol Mineral Waters are best because they powerfully open the Bowels provoke Urine and correct the Distemper of the Bowels whence experience sheweth us that many Dropsies are every yeer cured at the Spaw Avicen reports in the Chapter of the Cure of Ascites of a Woman which had a great Dropsie and eat an incredible number of Pomegranats whereby she was cured And Varignana reports out of Platearius That an Old Woman boyled the Juyce of Plantane to the Consumption of half and gave it to one that had a Dropsie from a Hot Cause every day and so Cured him By these Examples it is plain That somtimes a Dropsie is Cured with Cold things and to these we may ad the testimony of Christopher a Vega lib. 3. art med sect 8. cap. 12. who saith there We saw one that had a Tympany from the Hot Distemper of the Liver whom we cured with cold things laying upon the Liver the Juyce of Endive and
There is a heat in the Hypochondria and a certain Inflamation inward somtimes in one side somtimes in another from hot Humors contained therein especially when they are moved by inward or outward means so that the Face will grow hot and red from those vapors and somtimes there is an Ephemeral or Feaver for a day by those vapors sent through the whol Body The Urine is somtimes thick somtimes thin Thin when thick Humors stop the passages through which it is as it were strained thick red and troubled by reason of the mixture of the thick Matter which is very salt and therefore is called Materia Tartaria and it lies at the bottom of the Urinal like a thick Sediment Or some part of it sticks like red Sand to the sides which makes many fear the Stone without cause because this same is not bred in the Reins but in the Liver from a burnt and salt Humor and you may know this because it dissolves between the Fingers like Salt which will not when it comes from the Reins Somtimes there is a Palpitation or beating of the Heart by reason of the vapors ascending which while it labors to expel make it move violently and then the Patient thinks himself in great danger Somtimes there is a beating in the left Hypochondrion when hot Humors are there from whence vapors arise and make the Pulse or Systole and Diastole of the Arteries greater so that both the Patient and the standers by may feel it which is chiefly after heat with Anger motion or drinking of much Wine This beating is chiefly in the Coeliack Artery which is the chiefest in that part In an old Disease it is somtimes constant and this signifies an Habitual and incurable Disease An Aneurism somtimes followeth this great breathing from the enlarging of the Coeliack or some other Artery and from the hot blood in them which being very thin and full of many hot Spirits continually dilateth and stretcheth the Arteries while there is an Aneurism such as Fallopius observed Lib. de tum preter naturam cap. 14. in an old woman who being opened had an Aneurism in her Belly into which he put his fist From which mark by the way the great providence of Nature which fearing the breaking of an Artery through too much enlarging hath made the coat of it as hard as a bone as Fallopius observed in the same place Also Paraeus in his sixth Book Cap. 28. tels the like story of an Aneurism found not in the Belly but the Breast in the Venal Artery which was so stretched that it could contain his sist and also the inward Tunicle thereof was like a bone And we have seen the like about two yeers agone namely an Aneurism in the Breast by the dilatation of an Artery which would hold the fist of a Boy of fifteen yeers old and the Tunicle thereof was grown like a Gristle The evil vapors that ascend from the Hypochondria produce many Symptomes for being sent to the Pallat and Tongue they dry those parts and cause a thirst when they go to the Lungs and Midriff they cause shortness of breathing when to the Membranes of the Brain Head-ach when to the Brain noise in the Ears dimness of Sight Giddiness Fear and Sorrow and divers Melancholly Phansies And if they be malignant and very sharp they cause an Epilepsie or Falling-sickness if they come to the Nerves Convulsions and if they be stupifying they cause a Numbness and bastard Palsey Coma and Apoplexy if they get into the Brain But if these vapors be hot and dry they dry the Brain and cause watchings troublesom sleep and frightful Dreams and at first though they sleep well after Supper til midnight afterward they wake some three or four hours and some sleep again about three or four a clock others not at all The reason whereof is this Because while the Chyle is carried to the parts that serve for the second Concoction then the evil Humors lying in the Vessels are stirred and send up vapors which being sent by the Veins and Arteries to the Head cause watching and if they be quickly discussed they sleep again but if they continue long they watch the other part of the night We have formerly spoken of all these Symptomes and we say again That all are not in all men but more or sewer according to the variety of the Humors and parts affected This also is to be marked It is not Essential to Hypochondriack Melancholly that stretching hardness pain and swelling should be in the Hypochondria because the cause is for the most part in the Branches of the Gate Vein and Arteries adjoyning and sends from thence vapors to the Heart and Brain Oftentimes there is stretching in the Liver and Spleen which signifieth That the Humors stick in those parts but if there be no stretchings it is a sign that the evil Humors lie in the Veins of the Mesentery Caul Sweetbread and Stomach These proper Symptomes shew that the Stomach is affected with sowr belchings and stinking or loathing vomiting want of concoction and somtimes flux of the belly As for the Prognostick This Disease is not deadly for the most part but of long continuance many times the whol life therefore it is commonly called the disgrace of Physitians because they do seldom cure it and if the Patient seem to be cured it returns again in a few months it is also called the Scourge of Physitians because they who have it are continually asking new Medâ—câ—nes and presently satisfied therewith and dayly complain to the Physitian for others The Flux of the Hemorrhoids doth good in this Disease if it be moderate but if it continue long it is dangerous A thick Urine is better in this Disease than a thin and watery which shews that the thick Humors are detained in the Body Black Urine without a Feaver doth often Cure this Disease It s good in this Disease to have a loose Belly and bad to be bound Also Vomiting if the Patient be refreshed thereby is profitable but if it continue long it is dangerous A Giddiness and continual pain in the Head in this Disease ends in an Epilepsie Blindness or Apoplexy The Cure of this Disease is in three things chiefly first in opening Obstructions secondly in amending the distempers of the Bowels and in discharging of the peccant humor not omitting strengtheners For which a wise Physitian may use these following First give a Clyster then this Potion Take 〈◊〉 Senna half an ounce Annis seeds and Cream of Tartar of each one dram Borrage flowers Fumitory and Sorrel of each half a handful Liquoris three drams boyl them to three ounces Dissolve in the straining Rhubarb infused in Lavender Water one dram and an half double Catholicon three drams Compound Syrup of Succory one ounce Make a Potion to which you may well add in a strong Melancholly one dram of Confectio Alkermes The day following let Blood from the left side chiefly or
or drops in the Vrine and pain in the lower part of the Belly the Pecten or Perinaeum these have their disease from the Bladder If it come from the stone the signs thereof which are mentioned in its proper Chapter wil appear if they do not you must conclude that it comes from too much blood or sharpness thereof The abundance of blood wil be known by the signs of repletion and sharpness by the signs of Choller or Melancholly predominating also salt flegm in the Urine wil make a great stoppage of Urine and pissing of blood this hapneth often in old men that are very apt to be troubled with salt flegm And the pissing of blood from sharp humors is distinguished from that in the stone that in which there were first pains of the Reins and voiding of stones but not in the other whose Urine is cleer with no strange things therein And the Disease proceeds not only from immoderate Exercise which is ordinary to both causes but also from the passions of the mind when it comes from sharp humors which are much stirred up by passions so that they who are subject to this Disease after Anger and Sadness or great disturbance of the mind use commonly to piss blood As for the Prognostick A plentiful and often pissing of blood is very dangerous for it wil bring either a Consumption or a Dropsie And if it continue long it may cause an Ulcer in that part from whence the blood floweth if much blood flow at one time it wil cause a great stoppage of Urine in the Bladder or some other evil Symptomes as it encreaseth therein and grows evil qualified The Cure of this Disease is divers according to the variety of the cause And first if it come from blood abounding or from sharpness it must be first cured with Phlebotomy on the same side often and little for the better revulsion And by Cupping Friction and Ligatures in the upper parts and if blood flow violently Cupping-glasses must be applied to the Hypochondria For derivation let the Vein of the Ancle be opened and the Hemorrhoids When watery Chollerick Humors cause it let them be purged with Medicines mentioned in spitting of blood often repeated at distance To which also you may add these following at your discretion Take of the Pouder of torrefied Rhubarb one dram prepared Coral half a scruple Goats Whey or Plantane Water three ounces Make a Potion Take of Cassia newly drawn half an ounce the Pulp of Tamarinds six drams Eastern Bolearmenick half a scruple With Sugar make a Bolus After due Evacuations and Revulsions or at that time if need require you may use things to stop blood and knit the Veins And these are not presently to be used at the first left being stopped too suddenly it should grow cloddy in some part For this purpose the Juyce of Plantane newly drawn is much commended given four or five ounces in a morning and evening which is good for any kind of bleeding But if you fear it will cool the Stomach too much you may boyl it a little with Sugar Sheeps Milk is much commended by Forestus Lib. 24. Observ 13. Often saith he I have cured pissing of blood with only Sheeps Milk six ounces and one dram of Bole-armenick The same is an Experience of Gatinaria who also commands that none do sleep presently or exercise after it Also Hollerius and Duretus from Avicen and Hippocrates commend the same Also Decoctions of Knot-grass Horstail Purslain and Bramble tops are good for this adding the third part of the Juyce of sharp Pomegranates or Quinces Or to allay the heat of the Blood let him take the Apozeme following many times morning and evening Take of Lettice Purslain Plantane and Comphry of each one handful all the cold seeds of each one dram Jujubes three pair Liquoris half an ounce Water-lillies Violets and Roses of each one pugil boyl them to a pint and an half In the straining dissolve of Gum Traganth one dram and an half Syrup of Violets and dried Roses of each one ounce and an half Lapis prunellae half an ounce the Troches of Winter-cherries without Opium half a dram Make a Julep for four Doses To thicken and stop the blood more put one ounce of Syrup of Poppies thereto Also you may give the Pouders that stop blood as of red Coral Blood-stone Bole-armenick fealed Earth either with the Apozeme or with Rose or Plantane Water If the Disease continue give this Opiate Take of Conserve of Roses and Comphry Roots of each two ounces Sealed Earth Bole-armenick Sanguis Draconis red Coral Blood-stone and Troches of Amber of each one dram Hypocystis or Conserve of Sloes Kermes berries and Plantane seeds of each one scruple with Syrup of Poppies and Myrtles of each equal parts make an Opiate of which let him take the bigness of a Chesnut morning and evening drinking after a little Plantane Water If it yet continue it is good to give at distance the Decoction of Myrobalans in Whey or the like Hollerius affirms and Duâ—etus that the Troches of Gordonius are the best for it Christopher Vega commends the Troches of Amber given with Plantane Water and saith that he cured this Disease with giving them only once at night For ordinary Drink give the Infusion of Mastich wood in Wine made thus Take of sliced Mastich wood one ounce spring Water four ounces Infuse them in Balneo Mariae very warm in a close Vessel Keep the straining for your use But because clods of blood are often retained in the bladder which beget grievous Symptomes give warm Water and Vinegar or Mallow Water and sharp Vinegar warm Let the Vinegar be so little that it is scarce tasted Apply Topicks to the Loyns that cool and astringe Take of Snakeweed and Comphry Roots of each one ounce Plantane Purslain Hors-tail Knot-grass and Sbepheards-purse of each one handful Pomegranate peels half an ounce Sumach and Myrtle berries and Hypocystis of each two drams Acron Cups red and yellow Sanders of each one dram red Roses three pugils boyl them in Smiths Water and a little Vinegar With the straining let the Reins be fomented hot Of the same Decoction you may make a Bath to sit in adding more simples Take of Vnguentum Comitissae and refrigerans Galeni of each one ounce and an half wash it with Oxycrate and anoint the Loyns therewith Or to bind more Take of the Juyce of Plantane and Blood-wort of each two ounces Vinegar half an ounce Oyl Olive six ounces boyl them till the Juyces be consumed then add of Sanguis Draconis Mastich and Pomegranate peels of each two drams Camphire half a dram Vnguentum Comitissae four drams Wax as much as will make a Liniment put a little Vinegar to it when you use it Also a Plate of Lead ful of holes worn about the Reins is good You must guard the Liver when it comes from sharp Humors with Epithems and Oyntments When it comes from the
Melone Seeds with their Husks beaten of each half an ounce Winter Cherries six drams scraped Liquoris one ounce Barley one pugil boyl them to two pints Dissolve in the straining three ounces of Honey and two ounces of Sugar candy make a Julep Take eight ounces every morning for ten daies Those Medicines you give for the Reins or Womb must be given in great quantities least they lose their vertue before they come there Instead of them al you may use Mineral Waters of Allum and Iron by the constant use thereof the heat is corrected and the Ulcer mundified and healed Some commend the Decoction of China Sarsa or Sassaphras or of Guajacum given thirty daies or more together with a second Decoction thereof for ordinary Drink and a thin drying Diet and least the Bowels should thereby be too much inflamed they give cool Broths at night and anoint the Reins with cold Oyntments And this course is taken to dry up the matter to purge and clense especially in them that are flegmatick or have the French Pox and have neither Feaver nor Flux of Blood But in any case you may use with more safety this following Take of Sarsaparilla three ounces Shavings of Mastich Tree two ounces Sassaphras one ounce Shavings of Ivory and Harts-horn of each six drams Jujubes and Sebestens of each half an ounce Lignum Nephriticum four ounces Barley two ounces Infuse them twelve hours in five pints of spring Water boyl them to three pints for six draughts to be taken twice in a day aromatize them with two drams of Cinnamon After the use of Clensers when you see by the decrease of the quantity of Matter in the Urine that the Ulcer is clensed as when it is white and even and not filthy give drying astringing glutinating and heating things as these Troches following Take of Bole-armenick sealed Earth and red Coral of each three drams Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each half an ounce with Agrimony Water make Troches of two drams apiece Let him take one every morning with boyled Milk or the Decoction of Comphry The Troches of Gordonius are best of all because they asswage pain and heat Their Dose is two or three drams with Hydromel or Barley Water when you wil clense more or with Goats oâ— Sheeps Milk when you wil glutinate more For the same use this following Opiate Take of Conserve of old Roses three ounces Purslain and Plantane seeds Myrtle Berries Bole sealed Earth Sanguis Draconis of each one dram the shavings of Ivory and Troches of Winter Cherries of each half a dram with Syrup of dried Roses make an Opiate of which give the quantity of a Chesnutiwice in a day You may make knitting Juleps thus Take of Comphry Roots two ounces Plantane and Mous-ear of each one handful the tops of Mallows and Maiden-hair of each half a handful Liquoris half an ounce Starch and Gum Arabick Tragacanth and Bole of each one dram Lettice and Purslain seeds of each one dram and an half red Roses one pugiâ—â— boyl them in Rain Water to one pint and an half In the straining dissolve four ounces of Sugar of Penides two ounces make a Julep Give eight ounces in a morning for ten or twelve daies Also the following Pills are good Take of Turpentine washed in Plantane Water one dram Juyce of Liquoris and Gum Tragacanth of each two scruples Bole and Troches of Winter Cherries of each half a scruplr With the Juyce of Hors-tail make Pills Let him take half a dram morning and evening They are stronger made thus Take of Marsh-mallow Roots and Comphry dried of each two drams Gum Arabick Cherry and Plum-tree of each one dram Oliâ—amâ—â— and Myrrh of each four scruples white Poppy seeds and Winter Cherries of each one dram and an hâ—lf Camphire two scruples beat them finely 〈…〉 of the third part of them all of Antimonium Diaphoreticum and with 〈…〉 make a Mass Give one dram morning and evening long from meat and after it a little â—â— his ordinary drink If Turpentine cause pain give instead thereof Juyce of Liquoris dissolved in Pellitory Water And above all new Milk from the Cow with one dram of Bole-armenick that is true every morning is excellent as Forestus saies And it is a secret of his Master Helidaeus because it clenseth and healeth the Ulcer Quercetan in his Dispensatory commends the Water that is given for the Gonorrhoea as good for the same as well as other Ulcers Hartmannus commends an Opiate made of Conserve of Roses two parts and the Pouder of the Seeds of St. Johns wort one part given in the end of the Cure many evenings together And also two or three grains of Mercurius Dulcis given every day in Plantane Water But Mercurius Diaphoreticus is better if wel made and as it were fixed this cures al internal ulcers miraculously In old Ulcers the Decoction of round Birthwort in white Wine with Sugar is very good Also observe what Garcias ab Horto saies That in Goa they give Aloes and Milk for Ulcers in the Reins and Bladder or to such as piss filth and it presently cureth Outwardly to knit give this Oyntment Take of Juyce of Plantane and Nightshade of each four ounces Oyl of Roses three ounces Vinegar one ounce Litharge finely poudered one ounce and an half washed Ceruss half an ounce fine Pouder of Tutty two drams Sanguis Draconis one dram Make them into an Oyntment Also you may use this following when there is no Inflamation Take of Oyl of Roses and Mastich of each two ounces Myrrh Aloes Sarcocol Sanguis Draconis of each one dram Starch and Gum Tragacanth of each four scruples Styrax Calamita one dram white Wax as much as will make an Oyntment In the Ulcer of the Bladder it is proper to make Injection twice in a day first with Hydromel or Whey or the Decoction of Barley with Honey of Roses to clense then with Astringers and Binders made of Iron Water in which Comphry Roots Myrrh Allum and Sarcocol with Tragacanth have been boyled But especially with the Troches of Gordonius dissolved in Milk Fabricius Hildanus cured a great Ulcer in the Bladder with this following Injection and some few other Medicines Obs 69. Cent. 3. Take of the Roots of Comphry one ounce Agrimony Pauls Bettony Water Germander Ladies Mantle Sanicle of each half a handsul boyl them to a pint In the straining dissoâ—ve two dramâ— of Honey of Roses mix them for an Injection And you must observe that these Injections are not only to be made with a Syringe because they wil not enter into the Cavity of the Cavity of the Bladder the Sphincter Muscle being shut but you must conveigh it in with a Catheter And because in these Ulcers the pains are usually great you must through the whol Cure abate them with Anodines inwardly and outwardly Inwardly with Syrup of Poppies Laudanum and the Troches of Alkekengi made for this purpose as also with Emulsions made of the cold
or from a great destruction of al the Faculties which followeth the extinction of the Natural hear In Children it is cured when they grow elder and the superfluous humidity is by degrees consumed and the parts that were loose are more knit But if they be not cured before twenty five yeers of age they are incurable The Cure is wrought by amending the cold and moist distemper and loosness of the Sphincter Muscle but that which comes by sympathy from other diseases must be cured by the removing of them as also that which comes from Wounds Ulcers and other manifest Diseaseâ— depends upon the Cure of them Therefore we shall lay down a way of Cure proper both for Children and men provided that the Physitian be skilful in the choyce of his Medicines to give the gentlest to Children and that he encrease and diminish the quantity according to the Patients age First Here is little use of Phlebotomy because it comes from a cold distemper and flegm except there be a general Plethory in the whol Body being youthful But Purging is alwaies necessary in this Disease made of things that purge flegm mixed with some astringents that are not only Alterers but Purgers as Rhubarb and Myrobalans and the like After to dry up the Matter that is slegmatick and to knit the part you may use Pouders Opiates and Physick Wines and the like made thus Take of Cypress Nuts and Myrtles dried at the fire shavings of Ivory Coriander seeds prepared red Coral and Amber of each two drams Spodium or burnt Ivory one dram Cypress Roots and Galangal of each half a dram With the Syrup of Citrons make an Opiate of which let him take the quantity of a Chesnut morning and evening Drink after it a little red Wine Or you may give the aforesaid Pouder from half a dram to a dram with red Wine twice in a day long after and before meat Take of Comfry Roots half an ounce Cypress Roots and Galangal of each one dram Plantane Hors-tail and Five-leaved Grass with the Roots of each one handful Cypress Nuts Acron Cups of each four scruples Rue seed Agnus Castus Frankinsence and Ivory shavings of each half a scruple red Roses one pugil red Wine four pints Infuse them twenty four hours strain them through an Hippocras Bag adding of Cinnamon half an ounce Sugar as much as is sufficient to make a Claret of which let him take three or four ounces twice in a day Many proper things are propounded by Authors which do conduce to the Cure of this Disease Galen in his Book of Local Medicines and of things easie to be prepared commends the Brain and Stones of a Hair burnt Also a Snail burnt with its shell given to Drink The Modern Physitians give Hares dung pouder of burnt Mice the Hoofs of Hogs burnt the ashes of Date stones roasted Hazel Nuts pouder of Egg shels But above all are commended the Pouder of Agrimony and the inward Skins of Hens Gizzards dried given either by themselves or mixed together with red Wine Solenander witnesseth that he saw happy success in a Medicine invented by one Gilbert Holland a Roman Physitian He took the Throat of a Cock and dried it at the fire til it would pouder He gave it before supper in red Wine or with Oxycrate for some daies together In people of yeers sweating Decoctions used twenty daies together are good to dry the Body made of Guajacum and Sassaphras or Stuphs Hot-houses Brimstone Baths and those of Niter For his Drink let him take sharp red Wine without mixture or with a little Ironed Water They who can drink only Water may take Ironed Water or that in which Coriander seed or a little Mastich hath been boyled Or lastly for the better astringing let them take Water in which new Tiles have been quenched and boyl their meat with the same But they must drink but little especially at Supper And let the Patient make water when he goes to bed and be raised again at midnight and in the morning for the same purpose and this wil alter custom Outwardly to the Privities apply warm strengthening and drying things thus made Take of Elicampane Roots Calamus Aromaticus Acorus and Cypress Roots of each half an ounce Mints Sage Organ Calamints and Wormwood of each half a handful Cypress Nuts Myrtles Galls and Pomegranate flowers of each one dram red Roses one pugil boyl them in equal parts of Smiths Water and red Wine to two pints In the straining dissolve of Salt and Allum of each one ounce Foment the Privities and Perinaeum warm morning and evening Or you may make a Bath of the same things in larger quantities After the Fomentation anoint the same parts with an Oyntment of Oyl of Foxes Rue Flowerdeluce Unguentum Martiatum Aregon with Pouder of Mastich Cypress and Myrtles Or you may use Storax Liquid or Indian Balsom dissolved with a little Wine or for rich folks Musk and Civet dissolved in Muskadel Or apply this Plaister to the parts aforesaid Take of Labdanum Mastich of each two drams Wood of Aloes Styrax Calamita Cinnamon Turpentine of each one dram Myrtles and Cypress Roots of each half a dram Juyce of Mints and Hors-tail drawn with red Wine as much as will make a Plaister Lastly If there be a defluxion from the head which causeth the weakness you must divert by Errhines Masticatories and Causticks to the Neck or Arm and other Remedies mentioned in the Cure of the Catarrh Chap. 8. Of stoppage of the Vrine and Strangury THe stoppage of Urine is called by Authors Ischouria but when little is voided it is called Strangouria although this word be larger and comprehends all dropping of Urine but if it be without pain and the Urine come by drops with straining it is a smal sschuria but if it be with pain it must be referred to Dysuria or scalding of Urine Therefore Ischuria or a whol suppression of Urine is two-fold namely true when the bladder is full or Spurious when the Bladder is empty and not thing comes to it from the Reins A true Ischuria comes of three Causes The first is when the sence is lost in the Bladder by reason of the Palsey and obstruction of the Nerve that comes to it or by the eversion of the Spirits by whose defect it comes so that the Bladder feeleth no pricking to expel as in doting and sleepy diseases The second cause is a distemper of the Bladder coming from internal or external cold causes which dull the sence of the Bladder and weaken its expulsion The third Cause is the narrowness of the Neck of the Bladder which will not suffer the Urine to pass Galen gives three causes of this 1. de loc affect cap. 1. either the Muscle is swollen by an Inflamation Scirrhus or Imposthume or the like or there is a little flesh grown in the passage by reason of a former Ulcer or there is a hardness from some thick Humor of long continuance
under the name of Dysuria being they come all of the same Causes and are cured by the same Medicines The immediate Cause of painful pissing is a solution of continuity in the Sphincter Muscle or the passage of the Bladder and therefore whatsoever can cause a wound in those parts may cause heat of Urine The most usual Cause is sharpness of Urine somtimes without mixture of other Humors which is caused by a hot distemper of the Bowels or of the whol Body or by eating of hot and sharp Meats but it often comes by mixture of hot and sharp Humors as Choller and salt Flegm Somtimes matter coming from the Reins or Bladder being ulcerated may cause such a sharpness of Urine Somtimes a white Humor like Milk comes plentifully forth with the Urine and causeth scalding which is commonly thought to be Matter from the Reins but Sennertus denies it for this Reason For if all the Reins were turned into Matter they could not afford so much as is many times voided at once every day for a week together And he supposeth that it comes from an evil Concoction first of the Stomach then of the Liver because the error of the first Concoction cannot be mended in the second hence the Chylus and then the Blood remains crude not freed from its Salt and Tartar-like parts which ought to be separated in the first Concoction and they being after sucked into the Reins and sent to the Bladder cause pain in pissing He saith that he was brought to be of this Judgment because a Learned man who was troubled some weeks with heat of Urine which he voided plentifully with half an Urinal ful of such white Matter was when nothing else could asswage his violent pains cured only with drinking of Sack Also a stone in the Bladder if it strike against the Neck of it in time of pissing causeth pain and also large Gravel which grates upon the passage of the Urine Also Inflamation or Ulcer of those parts causeth heat of Urine because the sence is more quick at that time and though the Urine be wel tempered it is troublesom as we see externally how the least touch is offensive to a sore place So in a Gonorrhoea as long as the Parastates are inflamed there is a continual heat of Urine The Knowledg of this Disease is evident for the Patient is forced to roar somtimes with pain But you must distinguish the Signs of the Causes thus If it come from sharpness of Urine it wil be thin and high colored somtimes like fire or there wil be a visible mixture of Choller Flegm or Matter the Bowels wil be distempered or the Patient hath eaten hot and sharp meats and endured great heat The Stone and Inflamation of those parts are known by their proper Signs As for the Prognostick This Disease of it self is not dangerous but very painful and according to the cause it is somtimes hard to be cured especially in old men which if they be decrepit die thereof and in all ages if it continue long it ulcerateth the neck of the Bladder The Cure is first by taking away the Cause And therefore if it come from the Stone Inflamation or Ulcer you must cure them according to the Rules in their proper Chapters But these things after mentioned wil be good to allay the Symptome They who have it from the sharpness of Urine mixed with hot Humors are to be cured by the Medicines following And first Phlebotomy is good to correct the distemper of the Liver and other parts This must be often according to the Plethory and Inflamation first from the right Arm to evacuate and revel the Matter and after in the lower Veins to derive it from the part affected for which cause Hippocrates and Galen who followed him do command the lower Veins to be opened in Diseases of all parts beneath the Reins Purging also is good of mild and gentle things that cool lest the heat be encreased Therefore do not give any thing but a Bolus of Cassia alone and indeed that is best But you may make it cooler if you add the Pulp of Tamarinds Or you may mix it with the Decoction of Lettice Purslain and Mallow Tops and give it many daies together that the sharp Humors may be brought back from the part by stool But if you desire to purge more by reason of the plenty of Humors use this following Take Lettice Purslain Plantane and Mallow tops of each half a handful Tamarinds half an ounce yellow Myrobalans one dram boyl them to six ounces and add to it strained one ounce of Cassia strain it again and then add one dram and an half of Rhubarb infused in Lettice Water with yellow Sanders Manna and Syrup of Roses of each one ounce Make a Potion In an old Dysury the purging Opiate prescribed in the Ulcer of the Bladder is very good A gentle Vomit is excellent for it revelleth from that part affected and hinders those inconveniences which use to come by purging Therefore give it once or twice in a week to them that can vomit easily By often Clysters the sharp Humors are not only brought to the Guts and sent out by degrees but the distemper of the parts is qualified They are made thus Take of Marsh-mallow Roots one ounce Mallows Violets and Lettice of each one handful Water Lillies and clensed Barley of each one pugil boyl them to a pint Dissolve in the straining Cassia new drawn one ounce one Egg and two ounces of Oyl of Violets Make a Clyster The Mucilages of Seeds of Marsh-mallows Quinces and Foenugreek may be mixed with Clysters to asswage pain But Clysters of Milk only or mixed with the aforesaid things use to be so powerful to allay heat and pain that we have known some of long continuance cured by them alone and a Bath whereof we wil speak hereafter Experience hath found out many things good to be taken at the mouth to allay heat and to correct the distemper of the parts The chief are these following Take of Water Purslain Lettice Roses and Water Lillies of each one ounce Syrup of Violets and Water-lillies of each six drams Sal prunellae one dram Mix them for a Julep repeat it often Take of Marsh-mallow Roots one ounce Lettice Endive Purslain and Mallow tops of each one handful Melone Guord Mallows Lettice and white Poppy seeds of each three drams Jujubes and Sebestens of each six pair Violets Roses and Water-lillies of each one pugil boyl them in a pint and an half Dissolve in the straining Syrup of Violets Jujubes and Poppies of each one ounce and an half Sal prunellae half an ounce make a Julep for four Doses to be taken twice in a day Emulsions also may be used although they be Diuretick because they cool and clense the passage of the Bladder Make them thus Take of the four great cold Seeds and white Poppy Seeds of each three drams sweet Almonds blanched and infused in cold Water
thick slimy and crude Humors coming commonly from evil Diet for these Virgins drink great draughts of Water at bed-time or in the morning fasting or eat Vinegar Herbs unripe Fruits Snow or Ice hence it is that they lose their Natural heat and there is abundance of crude Excrements Others sleep too much or are very idle as Seamsters which by sitting stil al day are very cold Others watch too much and use unseasonable exercise as dauncing presently after meat and so continuing with their Sweet-hearts all night Moreover they have great cares and disturbances of mind by which the Concoction is destroyed and the Body filled with evil Juyce The Knowledge of this Disease is easie from the Symptomes following First The Face and all the Body is pale and white somtimes of a Lead color blew or green for crude flegmatick and â—erous Humors abounding and being carried to the habit of the body do discolor it and if Choller or Melancholly be mixed with that flegm the color wil be yellowish greenish or blew The Second is Swelling in the Face and Eye-lids especially after sleep because the motive heat being closed and contracted at night raised more vapors than it could discuss The Leggs also and Feet especially about the Ankles and the whol Body is loose and soft by reason of the abundance of flegm Thirdly Heaviness and Idleness in the whol Body a lazy stretching forth of the Leggs from the Humors being fallen down Fourthly There is difficult breathing especially when they move themselves or go up Hils or steep places then the thick blood grows warm and thence arise many vapors which cause shortness of breathing Fifthly There is Palpitation of the Heart and beating of the Arteries in the Temples when the Body is exercised by reason of the same evaporation which is raised from thick Humors heated by Exercise Sixthly There is often a great Head-ach and somtimes in the hinder part of the Head when the Womb suffers but in the Forehead when the vapors arise most from the Hypochondria Seventhly The Pulse is swift and quick as if they were in a Feaver and therefore this Disease is called the white Feaver by reason of the quickness of the Pulse which is so for this reason The vital faculty being weak makes the Pulâ—e little therefore Nature supplies the smalness of it with often beating Eightly The sleep is very sound they sleep til midnight except they be forcibly awaked and this is from many thick vapors which arise from the filthy flegm Ninthly There is a great loathing of wholsom meat by reason of the great collection of Crudities in the Stomach and parts adjacent and these Humors when they grow worse cause the Pica or longing for things that are not to be eaten Lastly When the evil encreaseth and the Obstructions are multiplied the Terms stop which shews the Disease to be at the height and confirmed As for the Prognostick That Disease commonly is not dangerous and continueth a long time But if it be too much neglected and suffered to take root so that the Nourishment is hindered there follow great Diseases of the Natural parts as Scirrhous and other Tumors and corruption of the substance of them which cause death by Dropsies long Feavers and the like When the Disease is less and comes only from the Obstruction of the Veins of the Womb in yong women it is cured by Marriage Women that have long been in this Disease either are barren or their Children are diseased and weak There is great hope of recovery when the Terms keep their ordinary course and their due quantity and quality The Cure of this Disease is by opening Obstructions by emptying of the filthy Humors from the whol Body and correcting the distemper of the Bowels and strengthening of them The Obstructions are taken away by the Medicines which were mentioned in the Cure of the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen adding some things which respect the Womb and that are more proper to open those Veins First then give a purging Medicine agreeable to the Patients temper made of gentle things to clense the first Region only and a Clyster before it if the Body be bound Then open a Vein if the Disease be not very old and the Maid very much without blood and inclining to an evil habit Let the Vein of the Arm be opened first although the Terms be stopped for if then you draw blood from the Foot the Obstructions of the Veins of the Womb will be greater by their fulness And if the Liver be most stopped take blood from the right Arm if the Spleen from the left After you have bled sufficiently you must give an ordinary Purge by way of an Apozeme such as was prescribed in the Cure of the Obstructions of the Liver To which you may add some Herbs that are proper to the Womb as Mugwort Feaverfew Peny-royal and if the Spleen be stopped you may add proper things for that as Capar barks Ceterach or Spleenwort Harts-tongue It the temper be Chollerick and there be signs of a hot and dry Liver you must take all the hot simples out of the Apozeme and put in cold openers instead thereof For the more delicate Virgins instead of Apozemes you may give the Broths prescribed in the aforesaid Cure of the Liver and change the simples as we said of the Apozeme In the mean while you may use Fomentations and Liniments prescribed in the same Chapter not only to the Liver but to the Spleen and Womb. After Purging 〈◊〉 this Bath following to open and loosen the Vessels and to dissolve and digest the Matter 〈◊〉 Obstructions which are of such force that we have known somtimes the Terms to begin to flow at the third or fourth bathing when they have formerly been long stopped Take of Marsh-mallow Roots Lilly Roots Elicampane Briony wild Cucumer of each two pound Mallows Violets Mercury Penyroyal Feaverfew Balm of each four handfuls Linseed and Fenugreek beaten of two ounces boyl them in spring Water for a Bath Let her go into it warm twice in a day not sweating long before and after meat for two daies renewing each day the Decoction The day after the last Bath if the Terms be stopped let the lower Veins be opened and take away three ounces of blood and this may be done twice or thrice at that time in which the Terms used to flow Or if they never did appear at that time in which the Patient is most asslicted After these Medicines to strengthen the Bowels and to wear away the reliques of the Obstructions an opening and strengthening Opiate wil do very wel described in the place mentioned to which you may add two drams of Foecula Brioniae and as much of Salt of Mugwort But because somtimes the Obstructions are so great that they wil not presently be cured you must make a Magistral Syrup of the Ingredients to the Apozeme before mentioned with an encrease of the purging Medicines in quantity and
Glass closely stopped be put into a Balneum Mariae exceeding hot so that it boyl twenty four hours together until the Spleen shall be boyled and consumed into little crums and there remains a great quantity of Broth excellently well boyled and of a very fragrant smel of which let the Patient take in the marning four ounces continuing the same for four or five daies when her Courses ought to flow Distilled Waters ought to be preferred before other Liquors as being more pleasant to the taste and because of their subtil thinness of parts they pierce more easily to the obstructed Vessels of the Womb. The Preheminence above all the rest is by Mercatus Rodericus a Castro and Sennertus given to this following Take a Loaf almost as sowr as Leaven indifferently baked and hot take away the Crust and add thereto of Honey twelve ounces Pounder of Nettle seeds Carrot seeds Amy Annis and Fennel seeds of each one dram Troches of Gallia Moschata red Mirrh of each one scruple Cotula foetida or stinking Fennel half a dram Infuse all in three pints of the Decoction below described which is made of red French Beans and red Vetches of each half a pugil Juniper berries one ounce Roots of Madder Butchers Broom wild Rhadish Asparagus Smallage and Parsley of each two ounces Green Germander one handful Seeds of Amy Annis and Fennel of each two ounces Boil all according to Art Then stil the liquor out in Balneo Mariae of which give to the Patient two ounces early in the morning Also there may be added Syrup of Maiden-hair of Opening roots of Mugwort Also the Dose may be augmented the following daies if the Stomach be not offended A Decoction of Guajacum or Sassafras is good in flegmatick bodies also Dictamnus Creticus may be added taking the same twelve or fifteen daies without sweating Jacchinus relates an Experiment thereof writing upon the ninth of Rhasis Chap. 66. I boiled saies he the Indian wood and added Dictamnus thereto By which I procured both her Courses and Child-bearing to a Woman which had wanted her Courses five years and had been Barren The Chymists commend Tartarum Vitriolatum Spirit of Tartar Mâ—xtura Spiritalâ—s Salts of Mugwort Bawm Celondine roots and Valerian This Treacle-Water following is mervailously effectual to this intent Take old Venice-Treacle five ounces Red Alexandrian Mirrh two ounces and an half Elect Cinnamon Oriental Saffron of each half a dram Camphire two drachms Pour upon them of the best Spirit of Wine till it stand three singers breadth above the Ingredients and draw out the Tincture with a gentle heat whereunto being poured off without straining add a sixt part of the Spirit of Tartar The Dose is one spoonful with some appropriate Water or Wine Whilst the aforesaid Remedies are in Use Clysters frequently injected are exceeding good because the Womb does rest upon the straight Gut or Intestinum Rectum and they may thus be compounded Take roots of Lillies one ounces of Orice and Valerian half an ounce of each of Mercury leaves two handfuls Mugwort and Savine of each one handful Chamomel flowers and Lavender of each one pugil Seeds of Caraway and Nigella of each one dram boil al to one pint In the strained Liquor dissolve of Hiera simplex and Benedicta Laxativa of each half an ounce Oleum Cheâ—rinum two ounces Electuarium de Baccis Lauri half an ounce Mix al into a Clyster Yea And the truth is Purgations repeated at certain convenient seasons will be very good which may be in divers manners prepared And in the first place Galen exceedingly commends the Pils of Hiera simple and compound because over and above their purging of superfluous humors they have a faculty of opening the narrow passages and of clensing the Womb. Or Take Aloes three drachms Mass of Cochie pills one drachm with juice of Savine forme twenty pills of which give the Patient three before dinner every third day Or Take Aloes one drachm Choice Rhubarb one drachm and an half Diagrydium one scruple Mirrh and Asarum roots of each half a drachm Spicknard one scruple With Syrup of Mugwort make a Mass of Pil-Paste The dose is from two scruples to a drachm made into pils Or Take of the Mass of Chochie-pil-paste half a drachm Mercurius dulcis twenty grains with Syrup of Roses solutive forme eight pills or six Let her swallow them early in the morning Also outwardly the Courses supprest are wont to be holpen with these Topick Medicaments following which must be outwardly applied to widen the passages make thin the humors and to rouse and awake the Expulsive faculty Take roots of Briony Lillies Cyperus Valerian Angelica Asarum Orice and of Parsly of each an ounce Leaves of Mugwort Baies Rue Savine Time Rosemary Penyroyal Nep Mallows Mercury of each one handful Flowers of Elder Cheiri Chamomel of each two pugils Juniper berries two ounces Boil all in Water and white Wine with the strainings let the Patients belly and the parts about the Privities be fomented with a sponge With the same Decoction the Quantity of Ingredients being augmented may be made a Bath to â—it in wherein the Patient may sit up to her Navil and the boiled Herbs being put into a bag must be applied to her belly But let her take heed of sweating which doth stop the Courses Take Oyl of Lillies Dill and Rue of each one ounce and an half Generous Wine three ounces Squinanth roots of Bindweed Angelica the two Birthworts and Savin leaves of each half an ounce Let them boil till the Wine be consumed Let them be strained and the Oyl pressed out wherewith warmed let the share and parts about the Privities be anointed after fomentation or sitting in the Bath Moist suffumigations are made of the Vapour of the Decoction for the Fomentation and for the sitting-Bath which being moderatly heated must be covered with a cover that hath a hole in it whereunto must be fastened a long pipe which must reach into the neck of the Womb through which let her receive the smoake morning and evening being covered with cloaths A drie Suffâ—â—migation may be thus made Take Cloves Cinnamon Mace of each two drachms Juniper berries half an ounce Nigella seeds one drachm Storax two drachms Make all into a gross pouder which being laid on Coles let her receive the smoake into the Womb after her manner aforesaid Or Take Storax two drachms Frankinsence one drachm Benjamin Alipta Moschata of each half an ounce Cloves Lignum Aloes Cinnamon of each two scruples With the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth extracted with Cinnamon Water make little Cakes for to burn as aforesaid Pessaries may be made after this manner Take of leaves of Mercury bruised one handful Pouder of Hiera picra and Benedicta Laxativa of each two drachms Pouder of long Birthwort one drachm Honey and juyce of Mercury as much as shall suffice make all into a Pessary Or Take of Agarick Mirrh of each two drachms Galbanum half
for Fractures which is most excellent and works it's effect without heating the Part. The following Cataplasmes are much more effectual and very prevalent in a large Flux of Blood causing danger of Death They are made either of Bole-armoniack incorporated with iuyce of Plantane and a little Vinegar and so applied Oâ— of Plaister of Paris lib. 1. incorporated with ten drachms of Gum-Arabick one pound toasted at the fire and laid upon the Parts aforesaid in Cotton-Wool The Whites of four Eggs being first mingled with it Solenander saith that this Cataplasm stops al Womens Fluxes in one day A Cataplasm or Pultis made of Nettles fried in a Pan and laid upon the Share and Privities works more kindly than the former rather by a specifical property then by it's astringency Injections made of juy ce of Plantane alone are likewise conveighed into the Womb by an Instument for that purpose which is very effectual and much cryed up by Practitioners Juyce of Knot-grass may be used to the same intent And sometimes we are wont to add to the aforesaid Juyces of the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth one ounce Starch one drachm Water of Rose-stalks and Seeds three ounces which are mixed and Injected into the Womb. Or Take of the leaves of Knot-grass Plantane Yarrow Shepherds-purse Hors-tail of each half a handful Boil all in Water sufficient to half a pint In the strained liquor dissolve three drams of Acacia Dragons-blood Bole-Armoniack and Blood-stone of each one ounce Mix all and make thereof a Clyster for the Womb. A Fume made with Vinegar poured upon a red hot Iron Plate and received by the Patient sitting over a Close-stool is very profitable or a Fume may be compounded after this manner Take of Frankinsence and Mastich of each two ounces Mirtles and Labdanum of each one ounce Amber Red Roses Balaustians of each half a drachm With the infusion of Gum Tragacanth in Red-Rose Water make Cakes to burn under a stool as before John Michael Paschalius doth test me that he cured a Woman troubled neer seven months with this Disease with the smoak of burnt Frogs and he affirms that the smoak of a Mules Hoof is an experimented Remedy wonderfully effectual in this Case Astringent Pessarles are likewise usual in this Cure Howbeit they profit little seeing they can hardly reach unto the Orifice of those Veins which are opened in this Disease But if the Veins of the Neck of the Wombare opened they may be useful and are thus Compounded Take of Juyce of Plantane or Knot-grass two ounces Troches of Carabe in pouder and Acacia of each one arachm Mix them with the White of an Egg rowl them in silk and make a Pessary Or Take of the pouder of Hyposistis Acacia Bole-Armoniack Dragons-blood Comfry roots Lambs-tongue Plantane Galls of each half a drachm Juyce of Purslain or Plantane or Syrup of Red Roses or Myrtles as much as shall suffice and with Cotton Wool make a Pessary Pessaries are likewise made of the leaves of Purslain Plantane or Knot-grass or some other convenient Herb bruised and rouled in a piece of fine Linnen or the Countesses Oyntment wrapt in Wool and put into the Womb. Neither are we to neglect the washing of the Patients Legs with cold Water or some astringent Decoction which is commonly used by Practitioners and doth not a little further the stoppage of the immoderate Courses Touching the administration of Topical Medicaments it is to be observed That astringent Medicines especially the stronger sort of them are not to be applied before sufficient Revulsions have been made especially by Blood-letting for it is to be feared least they cause Tumors or other worse Diseases in the Womb. Wherefore alwaies as far as the Disease will allow time the Cure must be begun with internal Medicines of a thickening and astringent Nature before we make use of the Topical Medicines aforesaid This Method of Cure aforesaid may with Judgment be accommodated to the Flux of Courses arising either from an opening of the mouths of the Veins or from a dreining of the blood through their Coats or from a breaking of the Coats of the Veins But if it arise from an eating or exulceration of the Coats of the Veins it ought to be cured after the same manner as an Ulcer of the Womb is cured of which hereafter In the whol Course of the Disease while the foresaid Medicaments are used care must be had to strengthen the Bowels and to correct the vitious quality of the Blood as we shewed in our Cure of the Hemorrhoids And to conclude When the Flux is allaid the same Rules of Prevention are to be used in this disease which we prescribed concerning the Hemorrhoids Chap. 4. Of the Whites A Woman is said to have the Whites the Womans Flux the Flux of the Womb or the White Menstruals when Excrementitious Humors do flow from her Womb either continually or at least without any certain order or course of time observed in their flowing And the said Excrementitious Humors are somtimes white and flegmatick very like to Whey or Barley Cream somtime they are pale or yellow or green by the mixture of Choller somtimes watery by the admixture of serous Humors somtimes blackish by the admixture of Melancholly somtimes sharp and Corrosive so as to eat into and exulcerate some parts of the Womb somtimes they are of a strong and beastly smel and other whiles again not at all offensive in that kind This Disease is wont to seize upon grown Women for the most part and such as are of riper Age yet are not Virgins alwaies free from the same so that some have done ill in daring to affirm That such Maids as are troubled with this disease have parted from their Virginity taking their Ground from the straightness of those Passages Naturally For if Virgins have the Veins of their Wombs so large that their wonted Courses can flow through them why may not the Whites likewise drop out by the same passages seeing they are many times more thin and fluxive than the Blood it self as being wheyish and chollerick The same is confirmed by the produced Experience of most learned Physitians and dayly Practice teacheth me as much viz. That the most chast and perfect Virgins in the World have had this Infirmity of whom there could be no suspicion that they had been corrupted And Fernelius doth witness That he saw a Girl eight yeers old which had this Disease and was afterward a long time grievously troubled therewith The Excrementitious Humors aforesaid are bred either in the whol Body or in some principal Part of the Body or in the Womb it self If the Humors flow from the whol Body they proceed either from bad Diet or from a vicious habitual distemper of the whol Body and they take their course unto the Womb as unto a Sink or Common-shoar whereinto the rest of the parts of the Body disburden themselves The particular parts by whose consent the Womb suffers
roots of Endive Borrage Lettice and Purslain of each half an handful of new Sebestens and Jujubes of each seven in number of the four greater cool Seeds and white Poppy Seeds of each half a drachm of red Rose-leaves a pugil Boil al in Water sufficient unto a pint and in the strained liquor dissolve Syrup of Quinces or of dried Red Roses three ounces and make a Julep for three Doses But if Melanchollick humors abound they are to be altered and Purged away by Medicines proper to that intent The use of Chalybeate milk taken forty daies together the quantity of four or five ounces is very proper for either of the aforesaid Humors whereunto may be added towards the end a little Bolearmoniack or Terra Sigillata In the whole Course of Curing it is to be considered whether any part of the Body be misaffected and so may send the matter of the Flux into the Womb and if so then care must be taken for the use of that part For if Humors flowing from the Brain do cause this Disease Remedies are to be applied to that part especially such as revel and divert the Fluxion viz. Cupping-glasses frequently fastned upon the shoulders and Back Medicines snuft up into the Nostrils Masticatories Vesicatories and Issues made in the hinder part of the Head or in the nape of the Neck instead where of Setous may be used which are more effectual And Febritius Hildanus in the forty one Cure of his first Century relates that he cured a Woman long troubled with the Whites and thereby Barren by a Seton If the Humors flow from the Stomach Liver or any other part suitable Remedies must be applied to that part The Body being prepared and the offending Humor for the most part evacuated or derived another way We must proceed to corroborating and Astringent Medicaments But they must never be used until the Antecedent matter be wel evacuated and diverted Otherwise those Humors retained do rush into the more noble parts and stir up more grievous Symptoms As Galen in the afore-cited place relates to have befallen the Wife of Boetius Whose Belly swelled by meanes of the unseasonable use of Astringents by which the Wheyish Humors were retained in her Body which were wont to pass away in the Flux It is likewise to be remembred that whilst we are in the use of Astringent Remedies we do then divert the Antecedent Matter and hinder the same from increasing by the Remedies aforesaid Amongst these principal corroborating Medicines Treacle is reckoned which is to be used in flegmatick Constitutions Conserve of Roses and of Wormwood may be mingled with the Treacle Or the following Opiate may be compounded Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers one ounce Conserve of Calamus Aromaticus two drachms Species of Diarrhodon Abbatis and of Aromaticum Rosatum of each one drachm Red Coral prepared half a drachm Treacle two drachms with Syrup of preserved Citron peeles Make all into an Electuary Or Take old Conserve of Red Roses Roots of Comfry Bugloss and Citron peeles of each one ounce Red Coral burnt shavings of Ivory Bole-armoniack Terra Sigillata Dragons-blood of each one drachm with Syrup of Red Roses dried make all into an Opiate The pouder of Sage Salsa-parilla and Baula stians taken every morning in broath is the Court-Ladies Medicine Zecheus commends this following Electuary which he had often used with happy Success Take Gum Arabick and Gum Tragacanth of each two drachms white and red Coral burnt Eg-shels Harts-horn Dill seeds Amber of each four Scruples Honey of Roses as much as will make all into an Electuary Of which give half an ounce two hours before meat Let the Patient swallow it down and drink after it four ounces of Plantane Water mingled with two drachms of red Wine Juleps may be made of Rose-water Knotgrass and Plantane waters with the Syrup of Myrtles dried Roses and the like Some of the aforesaid pouders being added Mercurialis saies he frequently used a Decoction of Oak-leaves with the Runnet of an Hare wherewith he cured many Women of this Disease His manner of making his Medicine was thus Take of the Decoction of Oak-leaves five or six ounces of the Runnet of an Hare one dram Let her take this Medicine eight or then daies When the Disease comes from Choller the following Syrup may be prepared which is strengthening Astringent and cooling Thus Take red Rose Water four pints Spirit of Vitriol so much as will make the Water a little sharp but so as scarce to be perceived by taste red Roses dried three pugils Steep them in the Water cold two daies Sâ—ain it and add thereto so much Sugar of Roses as will make a Syrup And Finally Those Astringent remedies mustred up in the former Chapter touching the Immoderate Flux of Courses may be likewise useful in this Cure The Patient may use instead of ordinary drink a Diet drink of China-roots or Mastich wood with Astringent Wine mingled The same time that the Patient takes in such things as are Astringent and do strengthen the Womb she must likewise use outward Remedies applied to the place affected viz. Fomentations Baths to sit it Oyntments Plaisters Injections Fumigations and Pessaries such as have been prescribed against Immoderate Courses But before these external Astringents are applied the Womb must be well clensed Otherwise such impurities would be therein retained as returning back into the Body may cause more grievous Diseases And in our clensing we must regard the Humor offending for one sort of Clensers are fit for Flegmatick another for Chollerick Humors If the Humor be Chollerick let the Clensing Injections be made of Barley-Water Whey Water sweetened with Sugar If it be Flegmatick let them be made of Hydromel or of the Decoction of Wormwood Fever-few and the like Also a Detergent Pessary may be made of Treacle and Turpentine or of Mercury leaves bruised and wrapped up in a fine Linnen rag very thin worn Let the Patient use these Clensers before the Astringents be applied until her Womb be well purified which may be known if little or no Humors come therefrom After the Use of the Clensers the Fumes are first to be received over a Close-stool because they dry and strengehen the Womb and they may fitly be made of Frankinsence Ladanum Mastich Sanders Nutmeg and Red-Rose leaves And afterwards we must proceed to other Astringent Remedies Chap. 5. Madness from the Womb. WOmb-Furie is a sort of Madness arising from a vehement and unbridled desire of Carnal Imbracement which desire disthrones the Rational Faculy so far that the Patient utters wanton and lascivious Speeches in all places and companies and having cast off all Modesty madly seeks after Carnal Copulation and invites men to have to do with her in that way This Immoderate desire of Carnal Conjunction springs from the abundance of Seed from it's Acrimony and heat transcending the bounds of Nature whereby it is made to heave and work in the Seminal vessels as
of the Chollerick and whether it be possible that a Child in such a case can live Inflamation of the womb easily degenerates into a Gangrene Because the womb as it were the Bodies Close-stool receives a mighty charge of nasty Excrements by which the inbred heat is easily suffocated Ravings turning of the womb Hiccoughs Coldness of the Hands and Feet Diaphoretick sweat seizing on a woman in this Disease do portend sudden death If an Inflamation of the womb come to Suppuration its hopeful that it may be cured but a foul Ulcer will follow which wil make the Patient to pine away with a lingering Feaver or to fall into the Dropsie If the Inflamation turn into a Scirrhus the evil becomes lasting and often brings a Dropsie To cure this Infirmity the Course of the Blood to the Womb is to be drawn back it is to be driven from the womb it is to be diverted another way that which is flown in and contained in the part is to be resolved And if the swelling tend to suppuration it is to be furthered and when it is broken the Matter or Quittor must be voided out Which may be done by the following Remedies An Emollient and cooling Clyster being premised let Blood be drawn from the Basilick Vein of the Arm on that side on which the Womb is most affected or from both Arms if the swelling be in the whol Womb and let the Blood-letting be repeated twice thrice or four times according to the strength of the Patient and the greatness of the Inflamation After sufficient Revulsion the Disease being come to its height when there is no longer suspition of any present flux into the Womb the lower Veins are to be opened to derive from the part affected In which sence we must understand Galen in his Book of Blood-letting and in his 13. Book of the Method of Healing where he teacheth That in the Inflamation of the Womb we must open the Veins about the Knees and Anckles But so long as there remains any Indication of Revulsion it is better to open the Veins of the Arm. Also to revel or draw back the Humors Frictions are good and Ligatures or bindings of the uper parts and Cupping-Glasses set upon the Shoulders Loyns and Back If vitious Humors especially Chollerick do abound in the Body which are as it were the Coach of the other Humors to hurry them about the Body they are to be evacuated with gentle Medicaments as Syrup of Roses and Syrup of Violets solutive Manna Rhubarb Catholicon or Electuary Lenitive for stronger Medicaments by stirring the Humors over much would excite the Flux of Humors more abundantly to the part affected And vomiting Medicaments though prescribed by Avicenna seem no way convenient in this case For if they be mild and gentle they evacuate nothing to speak of If they be stronger they cause a great Agitation in the Body by which means the Humors being in a Commotion may flow more plentifully unto the part diseased In regard of the greatness of the Feaver cooling Medicaments are to be used as Juleps and Emulsions whereunto if very great wakings pain and tumblings and tossings do disquiet the Patient some Narcoticks may be added which may likewise be given by themselves After the First Evacuations let outward Medicines be applied to the lower part of the Belly between the Navel and the Share and about the Kidneys first of all repelling and cooling things in the form of a Liniment an Epithem and Cataplasm The Liniment may be made of Oyl of Roses washed in Vinegar or of Oyntment of Roses Ceratum Santalinum or Galens cooling Oyntment with a little Vinegar added The Epitheme may be made of the Waters or Decoction of Plantane Sorrel Nightshade the tops of white Poppies and Roses adding a little Bole-Armoniack Dragons Blood and Terra Sigillata The Cataplasm or Pultiss may be made of the Crums of fine Manchet boyled with Milk to which a little Oyl of Roses may be added with Juyce of Henbane Nightshade and the whites of Eggs or of Barley Meal Linseed Fenugreek seed with Oyl of Roses whereunto likewise the aforesaid Plants being bruised may be added Injections must be made into the Womb compounded after this manner Take Plantane Leaves Water-lilly Leaves Nightshade and Endive of each one handful red Roses two pugils Boyl all till a third part of the Water be consumed and add to the strainings Oyl of Mirtles one ounce Vinegar half an ounce Make an Injection Of the same Herbs bruised with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar Pessaries may be made and put into the Womb. Neither must Repelling and Refrigerating Medicaments be long used lest the Swelling harden and degenerate into a Scirrhus Wherefore softening and discussing things are to be mingled with the repelling Simples with this Proviso That the longer the Inflamation is from its Infancy the greater must be the quantity of Digestives So that to the foresaid Medicaments may be added Mallows Marsh-mallows Mugwort Fenugreek Chamomel Melilot their Dose being augmented or diminished as the case shall require In the mean while if the Patient be costive she must be helped by gentle Purgatives Yea and the truth is frequent Clysters may do a great deal of good to temper the Inflamation seeing the Womb rests upon the streight Gut called Intestinum reotum But let them be little in quantity that they may be kept the longer and that they may not compress the Womb of which this may be an Example Take Marsh-mallow Roots the Leaves of Mallows Violets Lettice of each one handful Nightshade half a handful Violet flowers red Roses of each a pugil sowr Prunes ten boyl them in Barley Water In six ounces of the strained Broth mix three ounces of Oyl of Roses and make all into a Clyster If the Patient be in great pain to the aforesaid Clysters may be added the Yolks of Eggs the fat of an Hen Breast-milk Mucilage of the seeds of Fenugreek Lin-seed or Mallows yea and a little quantity of Opium with some Saffron In such a case Injections into the Womb may likewise be made of Goats or Sheeps Milk with Opium and Saffron of each three or four grains and a little Rose Water Or unto Pessaries may be added a little Opium with a little Saffron the whites of Eggs and Oyl of Roses Or Pessaries may be made of Philonium Romanum with Cotton Or a Fomentation to ease pain may be prepared on this manner Take Marsh-mallows Branch and Root Violet Leaves of each a handful Chamomel Melilot Roses of each a pugil Boyl all for a Fomentation When the Disease begins to decline Purgation is to be iterated with gentle Purgatives And when the Disease tends to a Resolution or Conclusion which is known by remission of the Symptomes and because the part is not so oppressed with any Heaviness Discussives must be used in greater quantity than any of the foregoing Medicaments Or this Cataplasm may be made Take Pouder of Marsh-mallow
to fruitfullness Extream Dryness hindring Conception must be cured by a restorative Diet and if the Consumption of the flesh be much we must have recourse to the Cure of an Hectick feaver viz. Use of Milk frequent Bathing and such like But the most frequent Cause of Barrenness is a cold and moist distemper of the whol Body and of the Womb which is often accompanied with the Whites whose particular Cure must be 〈◊〉 from its proper Chapter But the following Medicaments may be peculiarly applied to these distempers which by a discreet Physitian may be varied so as to make them more heating or drying according as Moisture shall the more offend And in the first place flegmatick humors abounding in the Body are to be evacuated by purging diuretick and sudorisick Medicaments And certain Revulsions are to be made by â—ssues in the Armes Neck or thighs Also the principal parts are to be strengthened with Treacle Mithridate Tablets or Lozenges of Aromaticum Rosatum Confection of Alkemies and such like Also Purgations must be repeated at certain distances of time if Evil humors do sâ—em to abound Afterward we must proceed to such things which do by a peculiar virtue or specâ—â—ck property strengthen the Womb help Conception and procure desire of fleshly Imbracements of which kind of Medicaments there are innumerable formes described by Authors We shall in this place chuse out the principal and set before you And in the first place An Electuary may thus be made Take Roots of Eryngus and Satyrion candied or preserved of each one ounce Green Ginger candied half an ounce â—iâ—bert Kernells Pine-Kernells and Pistachioâ— of each six drams one preserved Nutmeg Seeds of Rocket and Water-Cresses of each two drams ashes of a Bulls Pizzle the Reins of the Sea-Scinkos and shavings of Ivory of each one dram Confection of Alkermes three drams The Pouders Dâ—ambâ—a and Dâ—amoschum Dulce of each one ounce and a half Amber Greece half a dram With Syrup of Preserved Citrons make an Electuaâ—y of which let her take the quantity of a Chessnut aâ— her lying down to sleep twice or thrice in a week drinking a small draught of Canary Sack or Hyppocras after it In the form of a Pouder the following Medicaments may be administred Take Seeds of Rocket Siler Montanum of each half a dram shavings of Ivory Cinnamon Nutmeg of each a dram Musk in such as can away with it three grains White Sanders three drams Mix them and make of all a Pouder The Dose is one dram in Canary Or Take Seeds of Rocket wild Parsnep Cinnamon Pouder of the Nutmeg Electuary Diambrae and Diamoschus of each one dram the Matrix of an Hare a Bores-stones a staggs Pizzle Cloves of each half a dram Musk and Amber-greece of each six graines Sugar the weight of all the rest Mingle them make them into Pouder whose Dose is two drams with rich Canary The Afterbirth of a woman is believed to be of great efficacy being dried and Poudered and taken to the quantity of a dram Some Reckon as a secret the Pouder of the Liver and Stones of a Boare-Pig which the Sow his Mother farrowed alone without any Brothers or Sisters by him This Pouder they say cures Barrenness both in men and women Matthiolus in his Comments upon Dioscorides cries up the Seed of the Herb Amy in these words The Seed of the true Amy which is brought from Alexandria does exceedingly help the Barrenness of women For experience hath shewn that many have bin made fruitful only by the use of this Seed For if it be drunk a drams weight in a morning in strong Wine or in broath of flesh being finely Poudered every other day three hours before Meat it gives great hopes of Children But the Man must have to do with his Wife only on those daies in which she does not take the Seed In such women whose bowells are apt to be Inflamed the shavings of Ivory will be very good taken to the quantity of a dram in White Wine for four or five daies together after the monthly Purgation The Essence of Satyrion described by Crollius is most excellent in this case if it be given from a scruple and two scruples to a dram in a Cup of Muscadine Salt of the said Satyrion is also very effectual given to the quantity of ten grains in Muscadine after the Courses Divers Decoctions are wont to be made to the same intent The most effectual are these which follow Take Eryngo Roots one ounce Mugwort Nep of each a handful Boyl them in white Wine Give a Cuâ— of the Decoction morning and evening with a dram of Tryphera Magna made without Opium nine daies together Quercetanus highly commends this which followeth Take of the Stones of a Ram prepared with Wine and dried the Matrix of an Hare prepared after the same manner and dried Mace Cinnamon Cloves white Ginger Seeds of Ammeos of each two drams Saffron a dram and an half Hazel-nut Kernels and Pistachios of each three drams Beat such of these as require beating and boyl all in a quart of Muscadine till a third part be consumed Let her take three or four ounces of this Decoction in a morning three hours before meat and that three daies together and upon the fourth let her lie with her Husband The distilled Water following is likewise very effectual Take of Cinnamon Cloves Nutmeg Mace of each an ounce Cubebs long Pepper Galangal Zedoary Seeds of Ameos Seseleos of each half an ounce Juniper Berries one dram rich white Wine Rosemary Water Marjoram water Balm water of each as much as shall suffice Let them digest together six daies and then distil them and give of the stilled Water morning and evening two or three spoonfuls Pena and Lobellius propound as a Secret not to be communicated to any living Creature the distilled Oyl of the smaller and more delicate sort of sweet Marjoram mingled with the Runnet of an Hare and a little Musk to facilitate Conception If a woman upon the fourth day of her monthly Purgations shall drink about half a pint of the Juyce of Sage with a little Salt and a quarter of an hour after submit her self to the Genial Embracements of her Husband many grave men affirm she will undoubtedly conceive With which Medicine Aetius testifies that the Aegyptian Women after a great mortality by Pestilence had abundance of Children To the foresaid internal Medicaments external Medicaments must be joyned In the use whereof it is diligently to be observed that before we go about to dry bind and corroborate the womb that the filth contained in the Cavity thereof be first drawn away and purged lest it either flow back into the noble parts of the Body or be more affixed to the substance of the Womb. First therefore such things must be given as purge the womb after this manner compounded Take Diaphoenicon and Hiera Picra of each half an ounce Turpentine and Honey of Mercury of each one
and so there is no such fear least they should rush into the Part affected But gentle Vomits are to be used which do only evacuate those Parts which are near the stomach For if they be vehement and draw Humors out of the Veins they may precipitate the said Humors unto the Joynts Then after vomitings purgation must be procured downwards yea and if one purgation will not serve turn it must be repeated After sufficient Purgation it will be very good to procure sweat for so the wheyish matter wil be discussed by the habit of the Body But seeing when the Gout gives its first Onset there happens a kind of boiling and working of the Blood and commonly there is a Feaver hot sudoroficks will not be convenient but only such as are temperate amongst which Sennertus commends Harts-Horn either crude or prepared without burning either alone or with Carduus Water as likewise Antimonium Diaphoreticum In an old Gout without a Feaver a Decoction of China Salsa Parilla ar Sassafras may be given qualified with coolling Herbs as Cichory Endive Sorrel and Or after the Sweat is wiped off it may suffice to give the Patient Chicken-Broth altered with the Herbs aforesaid Martinus Rulandus did use this following Sweating Medicine with happy success Take Tops of Centaury two handfuls Asarum Roots two ounces Boyl them in ten pints of Water to five pints and strain the Liquor Give the Patient eight ounces of this Liquor hot in the morning some daies together and let him sweat upon it But Forestus commends the Roots of the greater Burdock because it cuts discusseth and provokes both Sweat and Urine And he reports that a certain Gouty person that kept his bed and could not stir a Limb drank hot Beer in which the great Burdock Root had been boyled after the drinking whereof when the Physitians could do him no good with all their Medicines he piss'd a great deal of white Matter like Milk and was freed from his pains Hercules Saxonia puts a great many Loaves hot out of the Oven round about the Patients Body by which means Sweat is plentifully procured and the pains removed Also a Decoction of Elder Bay-leaves Sage Rosemary and such like Herbs wil do much good the Patient receiving the vapor of this Decoction in a sweating Tub which wil make the sweat to come lustily Also the Waters of Natural hot Baths do provoke sweat and do readily discuss the Matter contained in the Joynts And therefore when the sick are not able to go unto them their Water is wont to be brought unto them and heated in a Caldron for them to bath in Erastus in his 15. Counsel prefers this above al others for easing the pains but he boyls so much Salt in the Water as gives it an evidently brackish tast In the beginning of the Fluxion of Gouty Humors in the spaces free from Purgations such things must be given as stop the Flux which have been propounded by me in the Cure of an hot Catarrh especially Juleps of Waters or Decoctions and Syrups which do cool and thicken Yea and the truth is We are somtimes compelled to use Narcotick or Stupefactive Medicaments for they both stop the flux of Humors and they mitigate the rage of the pains Of these sort of Medicines new Venice Treacle is most convenient which may often be repeated without danger from half a dram to a dram Unto which may profitably be added a little Bole-Armoniack to stop the flux of Humors Howbeit instead of Treacle Laudanum Opiatum and other Narcoticks may conveniently be substituted After due Evacuations have been celebrated and other things given inwardly which respect the antecedent Cause we must proceed unto local Applications such as mitigate the pain and discuss the contingent Cause Which are not presently to be used before the universal Remedies aforesaid have been first applied for otherwise they are wont to do more hurt than good For either the Matter which Nature intended to drive into the Joynts is driven back into the inner parts of the Body whereby grievous Symptomes are raised or it is forced into the Joynts and the pain is exasperated or the part is effeminated and made lax and so the fluxion is encreased Which Cautions being commonly neglected and external things untimely and heedlesly applyed the Patients receive commonly more hurt than good thereby And those external Medicines do either respect the pain alone or the Cause likewise of the pain viz. The Humor which hath took its course into the part and caused both the pain and Swelling Such things as mitigate pain are very necessary in this case because the extremity thereof weakens the Patient and draws the Humors to the parts affected Furthermore by the use of Anodines the parts are relaxed and the Humor which before did flow into the more deep parts about the Joynt is diffused to the more ambient parts and external Whence it is that the pains of the Gout are most vehement before the part swels but after it is swollen they are mitigated Now there are many Anodine or Pain-charming Medicaments propounded by Authors to be applied to those parts which are troubled with the Gout But the chief are these which follow Luke-warm Milk applied to the part affected by wetting Linnen Cloaths therein and laying them on doth asswage the pain as also if the part be sprinkled and bedewed therewith especially when it comes fresh from the Dug which Amatus Lusitanus doth very much commend in the 41. Cure of his sixt Century in these words One mightily tormented with the Gout caused a shee Goat to be brought into his Chamber and her Milk to be milked out upon his pained Joynt by which he perceived the pains evidently lessened And there is good reason for it For Milk newly milked doth asswage mitigate and lessen pains It is a Medicine commonly used by the Great Turk by you who seek Profit and Honor highly to be prized Of Milk likewise is made the Cataplasm of white Bread Crums boyled therein adding the Yolks of Eggs and a little Saffron Also the Leaves of Henbane or Violets are boyled in Milk or in Vinegar and Water and profitably laid upon the part affected Also a Cataplasm is made of the Pap of Marsh-mallow Roots mingled with Milk Also a Cataplasm is made of the Pulp of Cassia alone or mingled with Oyl of Roses or the following Ingredients Take Crums of white Bread boyled in Milk half a pound Pulp of Cassia three ounces Make them into a Pultiss Or Take the Pulp of Cassia four ounces new Venice Treacle half an ounce Barley and Oaten meal of each three ounces the Crum of white Bread four ounces Cows Milk two or three pints Boyl all into the form of a Pultiss which apply warm to the parts pained If you shall add half an ounce or an ounce of Vitriol calcined and finely poudered you will make it far more excellent In the beginning of the Gout which seizes only the great
the fore-cited place That he cured the most of such as had this Feaver suddenly by letting them bleed til they fainted away which bleeding was attended by a loosness vomiting of Choller and plentiful Sweat Yet in these daies of ours that same large blood-letting is out of date which is not without danger seeing Galen himself relates in his Book of Curing by Phlebotomy Chap. 12. That it besel three Physitians while they were practising this large Blood-letting that instead of fainting away their Patients died out-right It is better therefore at several times to take away so much blood as the Nature of the Disease doth necessarily require Before Blood-letting if the Patient be Costive or the Guts abound with Crudities an Emollient and Laxative Clyster must be given As for the point of cold Water Galen orders it to be given in so great quantity that the Patient grow pale tremble and be cold all over and so he saies it extinguisheth the fiery heat it strengthens the solid parts and drives out unprofitable Humors by stool by urine and by sweat But he saies there must be many Cautions in the use thereof viz. That it be given in the Vigor of the Feaver the signs of Concoction appearing that the Patient have been used to drink cold Water in time of health have strong bowels and full of juyce a fleshy and wel-set Body have a constant and vigorous strength be not full of thick and clammy Humors have no tumor in any bowel nor stomach throat or sinews weak Otherwise if these conditions be wanting it is to be feared lest the Patient fall into shortness of breath Dropsie Trembling Convulsion Lethargy or some other grievous Disease This kind of Medicine is likewise grown out of date in our times seeing it is hard to observe all those conditions and so many dangers attend the undue use thereof For it is better to use other more safe Medicines which cool the whol Body and the Blood as Juleps and opening Emulsions Epithems Liniments and a Diet altogether cooling Juleps are made of the Decoction of Barley or Sorrel or Cichory or with Water of Cichory Endive Sorrel Lettice adding Syrup of Juyce of Cichory Lemmons Pomegranates Vinegar c. Whereunto also for the greater cooling and opening may be added some drops of Spirit of Vitriol or Sulphur If the distilled Waters seem too crude or raw let them boyl with a little Species Triasantalon or Diamargaritum frigidum Emulsions may be made after this manner Take sweet Almonds blanched and steeped in Rose Water one ounce the four greater cool Seeds and Seeds of white Poppy of each two drams Beat them in a Marble Mortar powring on by little and little a pint and an half of Barley Water In the strained Liquor dissolve Sugar of Roses three ounces Make an Emulsion of Almond Milk for three Doses Which will be convement and is to be preferred before Juleps if there be want of Rest Epithems to be laid upon the Region of the Heart and Liver may be thus made Take Water of Roses Bugloss and Lettice of each three ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce Pouder of the Electuary Diamargaritum frigidum one dram and an half Camphire six grains Make an Epithem lay it upon the Region of the Heart Take Water of Endive Cichory Sorrel of each four ounces Vinegar of Roses an ounce and an half the three Sanders two drams and an half Make an Epithem for the Region of the Liver A cooling Oyntment may be anointed upon the Liver and Loyns of Vinegar of Roses Vnguentum Rosatum Vnguentum Refrigerans Galeni or Ceratum Santalinum washed in Vinegar tempered with Water If the Disease seem to lengthen after bleeding we must purge lest the wheyish and Chollerick Excrements putrefie and thereby a putrid Feaver arise But we must use such Medicines as purge without heating and agitation of Humors as Cassia Manna Syrup of Roses Tamarinds Catholicon and such like Ad hereunto a convenient Diet viz. Cooling moistening and thin of Broths made with cooling Herbs Prunes and sharp Apples boyled and Panadaes Let the Patients Drink be a Decoction of Barley Water boyled and Water with Bread boyled in it or mixed with Syrups of Maiden-hair or of Pomegranates Chap. 3. Of an Hectick Feaver AN Hectick Feaver occupies the solid Parts of the Body which constitute the Habit thereof and are commonly called Spermatical or fleshy in regard of which parts it is more fixed and rooted than other Feavers which are in the Spirits or Humors For which cause it is also termed Habitual because it is become Habitual and can hardly be removed from its subject There are many Divisions of this Feaver For first of all there is a Primary Hectick which begins of it self and another Secondary which follows other Feavers Secondly an Hectick Feaver is simple and solitary or joyned with a putrid Feaver Thirdly some Hecticks begin at the Heart others from other Parts as the Lungs Liver Spleen Kidneys Womb and other Parts inflamed ulcerated corrupted or possessed with some other grievous Disease And this Feaver though it have its habitual seat in the Heart and the whol Body yet is it commonly termed Symptomatical because of its first Original which it hath from other parts Galen makes three Degrees of an Hectick Feaver The first is the very beginning of an Hectick in which the Body is hardly extenuated yet the moist Humidity of the Body is inflamed consumes and dries The second comprehends the Augment and therein is an evident extenuation of the Body the fleshy and fat substance of the Body perishing The third contains the state of the Disease and its last age for it never comes to a declination because therein viz. in that degree it is incurable for then the fibrous and membranous substance of the Body is consumed and the whol Body is so extenuated that the Face of the Patient is like that described by Hippocrates nothing but skin and bone This last Degree is called Marasmus or rather Hectica Marasmodes because in a true Marasmus cold is joyned with dryness The Causes of an Hectick Feaver are divided into an Internal and External To the External are referred what ever Causes may occasion any of the other Feavers if the Action of Heating be continual and vehement or the Patients Body be apt to entertain this kind of Feaver Such are the heat of the Sun or of the Fire vehement Exercise Meats and Drinks that are heating immoderate Evacuations as in a Loosness and bloody-flux vehement passions of Mind and finally fasting in a Chollerick Body that is hot and dry of Constitution seeing Galen affirms that those Physitians that were wont to enjoyn their Patients to fast three daies together did bring Chollerick Constitutions by that means into burning and hectick Feavers The Internal Causes are burning and pestilential Feavers which do speedily consume the moisture of the Heart also a long slack Feaver Also some peculiar Disease of any of the bowels
which Cause Galen sent those that had consumptions of their Lungs to the Mount Tabias where the Air was more dry than ordinary The Meates of the Patient must be cooling and moistening and quickly nourishing as Chicken-Broaths and Broaths of Hens Capons Veal Kid Wether Mutton Yolks of Eggs with French Barley Lettice Purselane Endive Borrage Sorrel The flesh of Calves Kidds Piggs Pheasants Partriches Young Hares and such like Panadaes Barly Cream Water-Gruel Rice-Pottage with Sugar and a few Almonds or rather with the greater cooling Seeds Boyled Meats are fitter than Roasted which are sooner Inflamed and turned to Choller the boyled do more moisten But if the Patient be more delighted with Roast-Meats they must be very moderately Roasted and tempered afterwards with Juyce of Lemmons Citrons Orenges or of unripe Grapes without Salt Fishes may be eaten because they cool and moisten but such as are taken out of stony places are to be preferred and such as have a tender friable flesh haunting the Sea or Pure Waters Among fruits Apples are commended because they breed cold Blood also Pears are convenient Damask Prunes and French Prunes boiled in Sugar also Raisons clensed which being prepared after this following manner do nourish the body without heating Take Raisons of the Sun clensed one Pound Let them be tempered in endive bugloss and rose-Rose-Water and very diligently washed that the Laxative power may be taken away Afterward let them be lightly boyled in the same Waters adding a little Sugar wherewith let them be preserved for use let the Patients take of them in the mornings and allwaies after Meat And because Persons that are Hectical have the Feaverish heat fixed in the solid Parts of their bodies by which the Nutriment is easily and suddainly consumed and disâ—ipated therefore Practitioners are wont to prescribe unto them Meats solid and of a clammy substance as the Feet of Living Creatures The flesh of Snails Crabbs Tortoises and of Froggs For seeing these sorts of flesh are moist and clammy they easily adhere unto such Parts of the body as want nourishments neither are they easily consumed by the Feaverish heat and so they hinder the drying up of the solid Parts of the body Yet some do reject these Meats because hard of digestion and troubleâ—om to the stomach But this difference is thus reconciled In the beginning of an Hectick while the digestive faculty is yet strong these thick and clammy nutriments are convenient but in a confirmed Hectick they are not to be given because hard to digest Add hereunto that they may be so prepared and qualified as that they may easily be digested as by being boyled to a gelly or giving only what is strained out of them being beaten into a mash Among other things the land Tortoises are mightily praised for an Hectick not only for a single Hectick but when Joyned with a Consumption and they are prepared divers waies For either they are boyled in Water till they are dissolved then casting away the shells the flesh is separated from the bones and boyled again with Cichory Sorrel Borrage French barley and prunes in a single Hectick but in an Hectick of the Lungs it is Boiled with Bramble Leaves Purslain and Plantan Let the Patient drink the broath and eat the Flesh twenty daies together Or the Juyce is pressed out of the Flesh being beaten Or little Loaves are made of the Flesh of the Tortoises boiled in Barley Water with sweet Almonds pine kernells the cooling Seeds and Sugar Which are lightly baked in an Oven and are given the Patient at Dinner and Supper They may be thus made Take of the Flesh of Land-Tortoise Boyled in Barly-Water four ounces sweet Almonds steeped in rose-Rose-water six ounces Pine-Kernells so steeped two ounces of the four greater cool Seeds of each one ounce Annis Seed not Poudered but lightly baked in an Oven one dram and an half Cinnamon two drams Sugar dissolved in Rose-Water to the Quantity of all the rest Make thereof little Morsells Instead of Tortorises the Flesh of a Capon is used and of a Partridg and March-Pane is made thereof good to restore Hectick Persons after this Manner Take Pulpe of a Capon and Boyled Partridg of each three ounces sweet Almonds steaped in Rose-Water four ounces Pine-Kernells one ounce and an half Seeds of white Poppy two drams Gum Arabickand Traganth of each one dram and an half Pearled Sugar Cakes two ounces with a little Rose-Water make a March-pane and gild it with Gold To such as have weak stomachs Gellies broaths and Restorative stilled Waters are given A Gelly may be made after this Manner Take a choise Capon a Knuckle of Veal or a Wethers Thigh two Calves Feet or six Wethers Feet Boyl all in fountan Water till it be â—ufficiently wasted Strain and squeese out the Juyce and Broath and take off the Fat. In the strained Liquor dissolve a pound of white Sugar six whites of Eggs a little saffron or Cinnamon Stir them together let them Boyl lightly and strain them through an Hippocras bag twice or thrice At length put it into Porrengers or other Vessels in which it will become a Gelly If the tast of Saffron or Cinnamon be displeasing or you desire to have your Gelly more cooling add instead thereof the Juyce of a Lemmon or of one Citron Restorative Broths may be made divers waies this is far the best of all which follows Take a well fleshed Capon pull draw and cut him in pieces and take away the fat and skin add if you please some Veal or Weather Mutton cut into bits and freed from the Fat Put them into a stone Vessel well glazed in which about the middle there must be a grate of Wood or other materials on which the pieces aforesaid must be so laied that they may not come at the bottom Then cover the Pipkin with its cover and close it up well with paste and let it stand in boyling Balneo Mariae five hours There will drop into the bottom a cleer transparent Liquor of which three of four spoonfuls may be given in Broth or by it self three or four times in a day Such Distillations of Flesh by Descent are very convenient for Hectical Persons but those that are made by Ascent although they refresh the Spirits yet do they very little nourish neither do they restore the solid substance of the Body Let the Patients Drink be Barley Water either by it self or with Syrup of Vinegar or Pomegranates mingled therewith or Water in which a piece of Bread hath been boyled sweetened with a little Sugar But if the Patients Stomach be very weak weak Wine wel allaied with Water may be allowed which helps the concoction and distribution of Nourishment Galen Meth. 10. Chap. 5 6. gives cold Water with which he boasts he had saved many from the Marasmus Howbeit great Caution is to be used in the giving thereof for when the Body is very much pined away it is to be seared lest the smal
Double Tertian Now these Double and Triple Quartans come of Melancholly putrefying in divers parts of the Body The Signs to know this Ague by are first such things as argue that Melancholly abounds in the Patient Unto which must be added the coming of the Fit upon the fourth day which is the peculiar sign Also the form of the fit differing from the fits of other Agues doth discover this Disease For it begins with yawning and stretchings together with heaviness of the whol Body after which follows cold and then shivering and shaking in which the Patients seem to have their bones broken Also the heat is kindled by little and little in a cold and thick Matter The Pulse is seldomer and slower than in other Feavers The Urines are at first white thin and watry but in the progress they are more colored and thicker Now these signs appear in a legitimate Quartan But in a bastard Quartan the vehemence of the Symptomes being greater doth argue the Humor to be thinner and hotter But a bastard Quartan is not distinguished from a legitimate herein alone in that in a bastard Quartan the heat thirst watchings and other Symptoms are more vehement but in that the legitimate begins of it self without any Feaver foregoing but a bastard Quartan succeeds other Feavers and Agues by reason of the adustion of the Humor which caused those Diseases by means of which adustion it degenerates into Preternatural Melancholly A Double Quartan is easily known by the Course of the fits And a Triple Quartan is distinguished from a Double Tertian and a Quotidian not only by the Signs of Melancholly abounding and by the form of the Fits but also because it was first a Single or a Double Quartan before it came to be a Triple Quartan For very rarely or never doth a Quartan Ague begin with a Triple but a Simple or Double Quartan degenerates into a Triple As for what concerns the Prognostick this kind of Ague is wont to be longest of all others and that which begins in the fal of the leaf continues al Winter commonly and goeth not away til the Spring come Yea and some Quartans continue a yeer or yeers Summer Quartans are the shortest In al of them we must have a continual eye to the signs of concoction which signifie the solution of the disease to be at hand and with these for the patient to make black urine is a good token A legitimate Quartan is longer than a bastard Quartan because the former proceeds from a thicker the latter from a thinner Humor This kind of Ague is wont to be very safe from danger especially the legitimate being accompanied with no grievous affection of any of the bowels But the bastard Quartan is more dangerous and if the Liver Spleen or any other part be grievously damnified it degenerates into a Dropsie Aged persons above sixty years being taken with a Quartan Ague do for the most part dy of it because their naturall heat is too weak to overcome so contumacious an Humor An intermitting Quartan being changed into a continual is for the most part deadly Because that Feaver whose motion was outward is changed into one whose motion is inward Which mostly falls out in the Winter the cold meeting with the humours which were but outward and beating them back into the innermost Closets of the Body The which also come to pass by unseasonable use of sharp and vehement purges For thereby of simple Quartans double triple and continual are generated A Quartan Ague coming upon one that hath the falling sickness cures the same according to Hippocrates in the 70 Aphorism of the 5 Section Those that have Quartan Agues are not much troubled with Convulsions And if having first Convulsions a Quartan Ague follows they are freed from their Convulsions Now the reason which Galen in his Comment gives hereof is because the thick matter which caused the Convulsions is by the long heat of this Ague attenuated and digested Also by the shaking of the Body in the cold Fits the said Humor is more easily ejected We must also add that the evil Humors lurking in the Brain and other parts as also in the veins is transferred to the Hypochondria and more ignoble parts where the Melancholly Quartanary Humors are seated and so leaves the parts aforesaid A bloody flux coming upon a quartan Ague tends to health according to Hippocrates in the 48 Aphorism of the sixt section To such as are splenetick a Dysenterie is good Now in a quartan Ague commonly the Spleen is misaffected and a melancholly humor is common to a quartan Ague and a misaffected Spleen but this must be understood of a short dysenterie for a long one is wont to be mortal as we have it in the 43. Aphorism of the said section Such as being troubled with the Spleen have a flux of the Belly with pain if it turn into a long Dysenterie or Bloody flux they fall either into a Dropsie or a Lienterie and dy To bleed at the nose in a quartan Ague is a very bad sign Because the Humor which causes a quartan is too thick and too cold to be voided that way and because such bleeding is symptomatical and if it continue wil breed a dropsie it must presently be stopped by opening the basilica vein out of which the putrid blood may flow because the pure blood comes from the Nose The quartan Ague hath a double cure according to the two kinds thereof For the remedies used in a bastard quartan must be far different from those which are used in a legitimate one And that we may begin with a Legitimate quartan we must presently set our selves to vanquish the cause thereof not regarding the Feaver And seeing the cause thereof is an humor cold and dry thick and earthly we must use medicaments that do heat moisten and attenuate Also the Peccant Humor must be at seasonable times evacuated which notwithstanding will require a long time to do because of the extream contumacy of the Humor and length of the disease But before these medicines be used we must appoint the patient a convenient diet Let the patient therefore use meats of good juyce easy to digest of thin substance and moderately heating and moistening as the flesh of young Animals and mountain Birds new Egs soft boiled Fishes that are taken in stony Rivers In the state of the disease we may allow the patient Salt Fish Capars and Olives Galen 1. ad Glauco Grants likewise Pepper and Mustard Among Herbs Borrage is commended and Bugloss Pimpernel and Spinach Fennell and Parsly Roots but especailly Turneps which must be first boiled in water and afterwads in fat broath which is very good for such as have the quartan Crato in his Councels collected by Scholtzius brags that he had cured many of the quartan Ague by the second broath of turneps seasoned with Butter and Sugar Of fruits Apples and stewed Prunes Raisons of the Sun fat Figs Almonds
an even balance out of which diversity of influences notwithstanding it could hardly come to pass but that som parcel of things so different should sometiems suffer not in any whol kind oâ— sort which should tend to the destruction of the universe but only in some individuals that were less able to resist and for the most part misaffecred and only in some part of the Air more disposed to receive malignant influences From whence we may conclude that those corruptions doe chiefly depend upon the defect of sublunary bodies forasmuch as many places are in the world where the air is so perfectly constituted and the inhabitants â—o evenly tempered that let never so malignant Influences of Starrs showâ— upon them yet are they never infected whith other pestilence To the same kind of Causes must we refer the Defects and Eclipses of Sun and Moon unusual Meteors and especially Blazing Stars which are never wont to appear but that Epidemical and Pestilential Sicknesses and Divers changes in the World do follow as is Consirmed by the experiments of many Histories whence that usually Cited verse of Claudian is become as a Proverb In Caelo nunquam Spectatum impune Cometam A blazing Star does not appear But some Beholders plagued are A most evident witnes whereof was that hairy Comet which appeared Anno 1618. Towards the East on the 27 of November and was afterwards seen near upon the whol Moneth of December moving and shining It 's thicker and more solid part being turned towards the Sun did behold the East and did far exceed Venus both in the clearnes of its shining and in its largnes thickly compacted and conglobated together The remaining part being more thin and less enlightened by the Sun because of its thinnes did move like fairly spred beard and stretched towards the West This Comet first appeared under the sign of Libra nere the Aequinoctial Line but by a private and peculiar motion of its own it was carryed from thence through the feet of Virgo the middle of Bootes and the tail of the greater Bear And at length its light decreasing by little and little and the matter whereof it consisted being dissipated it vanished betwen the great Bear and the Dragon It was carried with the common motion of the Stars from East to West but it seemed to be moved som what swifter than the Stars for in the first Daies of its Apparition it was wont to rise a little before five in the morning and afterwards it rose about four a Clock and before four and so sooner and sooner till it prevented the Midnight and Bed-time And we have reason to believe that this Comet was the Prognostick and sorerunner of malignant and pestilential Diseases and also of those Wars wherewith whole Europe in a manner hath since that time been laid Wast And although the Air be chief among the mediate Causes of malignant and pestilential Feavers yet sure enough other non-natural things do concur to their generation as I shall particularly and berifly declare The next to air are Aliments because bad Diet Causth a sickly disposition of the body which is an internal efficient and Causasine qua non or malignant and Pestilential Feavers Whereupon Galen in his Book De Cibis boni et mali Succi and in the 1. de Differ Feb. Chap. 3. Does demonstrate that from bad and corrupt Diet Pestilential Diseases do arise Now meats are said to be evil and the Causes of those diseases in many respects And in the first place when the Fruits of the Earth and of Trees by reason of a bad constitution of the year viz. Over moist or over dry or corrupted by mists or some tempestuous weather or some malignant influence of the stars do being eaten produce bad Juices in the body Secondly when there is great Famine and scarcity of Corn From whence came that Proverb Ho loimos meta limon the Plague follows famine For then the poor common People are forced to fill their bellies with such meats as are cheap and bad whence arises abundance of bad Humors And which is much worse when a plenty presently followes famine they do then suddenly cram themselves with much meat which by the languishing heat of their internal parts cannot be well digested and thereupon those meats come to participate of a malignant putrefaction Thirdly VVhen Aliments which in their own Nature are good do by some way or other gain putrefaction or some evil qualitie such are wheat barly beans and pease and other kind of grain which being either overlong kept or ill laid up in a moist place or otherwise misaffected do come to be musty or have some other putrefactive qualitie Such is flesh over long kept or stinking or such as is of beasts that were not killed but died of some disease as Julius Obsequens relates that in the Isle called Lipara when the Sea was made hot the fires which by meanes of an Earth-quake were forcibly vomited out of the Mount Aetina and had boiled the Fishes casting them upon the shoâ—â—â— the Inhabitants eating greedily of those Fishes a sore Pestilence followed Neither is there less power in drinks when putrid and corrupted wines or beer or other liquors are drunk or when water is drunk out of putrid and muddy Lakes or otherwaies infected As good Histories do â—â—stiâ—ie that numerous Armies have been destroied by pestilential Diseases with drinking such waters These non-natural things mentioned viz. Ayr and Meates and drinks have the greatest force to engender malignant Feavers but the four remaining viz. things voided or retained Motion and Rest Sleep and waking with Pamons of the Mind are of less efficacy and do only concur as adjuvaut Causes or such as dispose the body to conceive a malignant pucrefaction as in our exposition of them shal preâ—ently appâ—ar The â—â—tention of Courses in women or of some other accustomed evacuation Men as of the Hemorrhoides bleeâ—â—ing at nose and Loosenes which betides some persons at certain seasons when they happen in a pestilential year they are wont to produce a malignant disease For those things which are wont to be avoided as superfluous and burdensome to Nature if they be retained in the body they do easily conceive putrefaction so likewise over great evacuations either of blood or other humors do much weaken the Body and do Cause that Natural Heat being weakned it is soon infected by the vitious and pestilential impurities of the Air. As for motion and rest certain it is that overmuch Idleness is a Cause that Natural heat is not sufficiently eâ—entilated and consequently the Humors conceive putrefaction so over great exercise does very much open the pores and dissolves the Heat whereupon the body becoming weak and more apt to take impression does easily receive the Infection And too much sleep makes many Excrements and fils the body with Humidities which easily putrefie but too much watching does engender Crudities and they easily putresie because Natural Heat cannot wel
no where else that the venemous matter may be drawn from the Heart to the most distant parts but that they are not good to be fastened to the shoulder blades or the Back because they draw hurtful humors from other parts towards the Heart Others are of a contrary opinion that Cupping-glasses are best to be applied to the shoulders and back viz. that poisonsom humors and vapors may be drawn from the Centre to the Circumference which motion is most suitable to the motion of nature in this disease But I am of opinion that Cupping glasses should be fastened to each and every of the places aforesaid and that is is good to set them first upon the lower parts that som portion of malignity may be drawn back unto the more remote parts But because the Glasses fixed in those parts cannot sufficiently draw back the venemous homors and vapors from the heart and its neighboring parts it is good to fasten them likewise to such parts as are neer the heart viz. To the shoulders and back For by this means the motion of nature is very much furthered seeing that experience doth teach that the eruption of the spots is commonly in those parts which by frequent fixing of cups is much furthered Which Mercatus hath most elegantly delivered in these words Howbeit in the mean time while the Body is plied with other medicaments small cupping-glasses must either many at once or a few frequently be applyed And if the venom of the disease or the weakness of the Patient be much they may be fixed without any or with very little scarrification In which kind of use and upon that occasion it is the best course to scarrify those which are set upon the Back over against the heart which experience hath taught to be of such moment that Anxieties Inequalitie of the Pulse and other grevious accidents have thereupon ceased Wherefore we must not cease applying of them until the venemous accidents are mitigated or wholly taken away But the Reason urged by those of the former opinion is of small moment for the fear lest ill humors should be drawn from other parts unto the Heart For this reason might peraduenter be of som force if they should be used at the beginning of the disease the whol body being ful of humors But after an universal evacuation sufficiently procured by blood-leting they can cause no such danger which is made manifest by a clear example drawn from a pleurisie in whose beginning if the pained side should be cupt doubtless it would bring the Humors more and more to the greived part But when after often blood letting a cupping-glass is fixed upon the pained side it doth not only draw nothing from other parts to the place affected but that humor which is fixed and wedged into the part is thereby powerfully drawn out so that ofttimes the disease is thereby perfectly cured Although in this disease there is more danger of drawing Humors to the part affected because it is in a manner externall and neer the Cupping-glass Zacutus Lusitanus in Observ 13. Lib 5. Praxeos admirandoe doth very much commend cups with scarrification fastened neer the groins and armpits for by such cuppingglasses so fixed the vitious humor is drawn to the ignoble parts and to those common Emunctories unto which nature is wont to expel the same Among revulsive remedies Frictions may very will be reckoned being often exercised upon the extream parts of the Body with a cours cloth But that Friction is most commended which is made upon the whol Body with the Liniment of Aetius which is thus compounded Take of sweet Almonds and fountain water of each three ounces Sal nitre two drams Boil them together til the water be consumed and with this Oyl warmed let the patients body be rubbed al over with the hands being dipped therein Aetius doth prescribe Oyl of Savin but because it is too hot Oyl of sweet Almonds was by Baptista Montanus fitly substituted in its place This oyntment doth open the pores of the Skin that nature may more fitly expel the venemous vapors thereby Vesicatories do likewise powerfully draw out evil and venemous juyces and serve for revulsion being applied in divers parts of the body Commonly they are applyed to the hinder part of the neck for they do both draw out the matter and drive it from the head and serve well to cure such sleepie symptoms as are usual in these diseases But where great malignity doth posses the whol Body and grevious symptoms afflict the patients one vesicatory will not suffice but more must be laid on I am wont when the disease is very violent to lay them on in five places viz. The Neck both the Arms on the inside between the bending of the Arm and the Shoulder and to both the Thighs in the space between the Groyn and the Knee with happy success The great profit of this Remedy we may learn from Galen who in Lib 5. Method Cap. 12. relates that of pestilential Feaver al recovered who happened to have exulcerations in divers parts of their Bodyes because the morbifick matter was evacuated by those ulcers And because the use of these Vesicatories do often caus the Strangury for the Cantharides do by a peculiar propertie affect the Bladder it wil be good when they are applied to give the Patient emulsion that may temper the acrimony of the urine This symptome may likewise be prevented by mingling the poudered Seeds of Ameos with the vesicant plaister which seeds have the faculty to keep the Cantharides from hurting the bladder Amongst Revulsive Medicines may likewise be mustered the Cataplasm of Radishes commended by Crato The Radish saies he because it powerfully drawes the malignity of matter it is good to apply the gross pouder or scrapings thereof to the feet having first clensed them with salt and vineger And the following Cataplasm may be better for the same purpose Take scrapings of a radish and the two Briony Roots of each two ounces seeds of Garden Cresses one ounce Grains of Paradise half an ounce Sea Salt three drams Mix al and sprinkle them with the strongest Vineger and make them up into a body with a sufficient quantity of soft sope til it become like a Cataplasm apply it warm with tow to the soles of the feet when the patient is disposed to sleep To this Cataplasm may profitably be added leaves of Rue Nettle Sage Scordium Pidgeons dung juice of Rue and Vinegar A Cataplasm of Snails beaten hath the like Efficacy and powerfully drawes unto the nether parts hurtful humors and vapors as Galen highly commends the same for powerfully attracting and disscussing the waters of Hydropic Persons These revulsory Remedies have place during the whol Course of the disease after universal evacuations viz. Phlebotomy and Purgation of the use whereof we are now to speak that so we may pass from Chyrurgery to Pharmaceutick Remedies Now it is much controverted among Practitioners whether
present remedy against poisons and drives them out of the body by sweat or insensible transpiration And they Conceive that Plant to be the Common ordinary food of Those beasts in which the Bezoar stone is found and that the stone hath its vertue primarily from thence A scruple or half a dram of this Root poudered may be given in Carduus matter or other medicaments Mendererus cries up this following pouder Take Sugar Candy three drams white-ginger two drams Camphire one dram Make al into a pouder the dose one dram in some convenient liquor But the Author doth advise that in great paines of the head or stomach Camphire is warily to be used which yet he highly commends in pestilential diseases and avouches that seasonably given il doth more good than the most precious bezoardick medicaments I conceive the pouder is too hot because of the Ginger and I have Composed this following in imitation thereof Which I have vsed with happy success Take mineral Bezoar three drams Sal prunella two drams Camphire one dram Make of all a pouder Give one dram at a time in Carduus water or som other convenient Liquor Pouders may likewise be made of the fragments of precious stones whose vertues many deride others as much admire so that from the times of the Arabian Physitians to our days many compositions are prepared of them in the shops as Electuarium de Gemmis Confectio de Hyacintho But in pestilential and venemous diseases many have extolled the great vertu of the Smaragd amongst the rest Avenzoar Mindererus and Zacutus Lusitanus Avenzoar 2 Teisir tract 1. Cap. 5. That himself being poysoned was thereby cured Mindererus Lib. de Pestilentia Cap 15. Relates that to a woman in a Pestilential Feaver who abhorred al Physick he gave the following Pouder which she might easily swallow haveing neither tast nor smel which when shee had taken the conbustions of cruel symptomes being allaied and the disease turning to health she was cured Take of the Smaragd stone prepared East-india Bezoar of each six grains Hyacinth prepared three graines mix them Make of all a pouder for one Dose And Zacutus Lusitanus relates that a Portugal Gentleman haveing through poyson fallen into a loosness and a Consumption from which no abstersives astringents or Antidotes could free him he was cured only by the Smaragd the pouder whereof to the quantity of twelve graines he tooke every other day in conserve of quinces and when he had taken it five times he was cured of his Loosness The Physitians of Mountpelier doe use in this Feaver as a most profitable Antidote no ways heating the Troches of Vipers which are usually prepared as an ingredient into Andromachus Treacle which they give from one scruple to half a dram in cordial waters or Juleps Yet the flesh of vipers were better being dried which hath no venemous quality as people imagine but is rather a potent Antidote which is much abated by boiling for it is boiled in water to make the troches So that we see greater effects wrought only by the heart and Liver of vipers being dryed without any other preparation The Alexipharmick Medicaments of the third Tribe viz. The Diaphoreticks and sweaters must be given only in the state or declination of the disease as was said before which is to be understood when they are given in a feaver simply malignant or spotted for in the true Plague they must be used at the very beginning that the venemous qualitie which would quickly kill the Patient may be suddenly and potently opposed and the malignant vapors discussed Yea verily and in simple malignant Feavers if the venemous quality seem to be greater than the putrefaction they are likewise to be given at the beginning in small quantity making choyce of such as are least hot mixing them with Juleps and other cooling medicines formerly precribed Now of these Diaphoretick medicaments there are divers degrees for som are more hot as Angelica Zedoary Dictamnum Treacle Mithridate Treakle water which are never to be given when the heat of the Feaver is at the highest but only when the same is much abated and when the signs of malignity do very much prevail But others are less hot as Scabious Carduus Mead-sweet Scordium which may safely be given though the Feaver be in it's height And these distinctions are carefully to be observed in practice and as for the formes of particuliar medicaments every Physitian can vary them according to the different degree of the Feaverish Heat and of the Malignitie But I shall here discribe such as are most effectuall Take water of Mead-sweet and Carduus of each two ounces juice of Lemmons one ounce old Treakle half a dram two scruples or one dram according as the fear of heating the Patient is more or less Mix al into a potion give it warm and cover the patient somwhat more than ordinary if there be great vehemency of symptoms new Treakle wil be more convenient because of the vigor of the Opium by means of which the vehemency of the symptoms will be allaied and the boyling of the Humors wil be restrained yea and somtimes when it seems unconvenient to use Treakle as in the beginning of the disease especially Laudanum Opiatum given to two grains mingled with Antidotes do much good For by the Narcotick and congealing power thereof those fervent Spirits so vexatious to the Heart are as it were fixed and the morbifick matter which is most pernicious while it is in motion is thereby stopped and remains in a manner unmoveable whence it comes to pass that Nature not being provoked by the malignant humors and spirits recollecting her strength doth more easily apply unto her self the vertu of Antidotes Aqua theriacalis seems fit to be preferred before Treacle it self For seeing it is exceeding thin and spiritous it doth more easily and suddenly peirce into and pass through the whol body and Cause sweat And because there are many descriptions of Treacle water their dose ought to differ according as they are compounded of Simples more or less healing I shal in this place propound the chief And first of al the Treacle water of Bauderon is most excellent because it is exceeding temperate For there goes no other Liquor thereinto than Vineger and Juyce of Lemmons by which the hot Ingredients are very much tempered and therefore it may be given from half an ounce to an ounce in Sudorofick decoctions or waters And although this is less heating than any of the rest prescribed by divers other Authors yet have I invented another easily made which is more cooling and does no less oppose the Feaver than the malignant quality and may consequently be used in the whol course of the disease at any period thereof It s composition is as followeth Take twelve fresh and juycie Lemmons Take away the bark or rind and the seeds and press out the fuyce and ad thereunto the said rindes and seeds and three pints of
for fear of augmenting the Heat of the Feaver for we must alwaies regard that which is most pressing and when the patient hath a little recovered strength if the hot cordials have made some increase of Heat it may afterward be tempered by potent coolers as Sal Prunella and Spirit of vitriol mixed in juleps and ordinary Drink This Method being observed by the discreet Physitian in his administration both of Strengtheners and of hot Antidotes and sweaters wil prove happily Successful After these things must follow the Application of Epithems and Liveing Creatures to the Region of the Heart fomentation of the Genitalls with Confectio Alkermes dissolved in Wine Bags to be laied upon the stomach and other both internal and external Medicaments largly by me described in my Chapter of Weaknes or Decay of strength As for Epithems there is Caution to be used in their application Because very many Authors do wholly reject the use of them because they are wont to be compounded of refrigerating and repelling things viz. of the waters of cooling herbs and Vinegar by which the venemous quality is beaten back to the heart and the transpiration thereof which ought alwaies to be promoted is hindered But this reason cannot hinder the use of Epithemes seeing we may compound them of cordial and diaphoretick waters that have repelling no or astringent quality in them and without Vinegar which some do yet allow adding cordials thereunto and by these things mingled together Epithems may be made not only which strengthen the heart but also open the pores of the skin that through them the malignant vapors may more easily transpire Of such Epithems this may be an example Take waters of scabious and Carduus of each four ounces Oreng-flower water two ounces Con'fectio Alkermes two drams Powder of Diamargaritum frigidum one dram Saffron and Camphire of each six grains Make an Epitheme and applie it warm to the Region of the Heart frequenly Take Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Powder of Triasantalon and Diamargaritum frigidum of each one dram and half a little Orengflower water Make of al a Liniment to be applied to the part after aforesaid the use of the foresaid Epitheme Neither must we here omit such Epithemes as are to be applied to the parts under the short ribbs because of the reasons of their use propounded in the Cure of putrid Feavers from whence the Materialls must also be fetcht At length whenas the malignant and venemous quality is mastered by the Remedies aforefaid and the Feaver abated and the Disease begins to decline and the signs of Coction do manifestly appear pargation must be used which by the experienced Physitian may be accomodated to the strength and constitution of the Patient I shal here for the sake of Beginners propound only one example Take Senna half an ounce Annis seed one dram Leaves of Scabious and Scordium of each half an handful Liquoris three drains Boil al to three ounces In the strained Liquor dissolve the infusion of four scruples of Rhubarb Made in bugloss water with yellow Sanders Manna and Syrup of Roses of each one ounce Make all into a Potion And for the most part one purge is not sufficient in the declination of the disease when the Patient begins to recover health but purgation must oftentimes be repeated twice or three times at convenient distances that the evil humors may be perfectly rooted out Otherwise there wil be danger of a Relapse or at least the Patient wil be long in Recovering prsecte health Because though nature be strâ—ng enough to master the reliques of the Morbisick matter yet can she not do it but in a long time and in the mean space the body is long in recovering its former strength For the perfect Compleating of this Cure it remaines onely that we speak something of the Correction of such symptomes as happen in this disease Now their cure is very near the same which hath bin propounded in the second section of this Treatise Chap. 2. where we delivered the Cure of such symptomes as attend putrid Feavers And the symptoms of this Feaver are the same in a manner with those of putrid Feavers the difference being only in degrees of more or less and therefore the same Remedies wil sute with both Howbeit I shal here set down such things as have bin frequently tried in the taming of such symptomes as attend malignant and Pestilential Feavers and which have proved most successful And wee shal withal declare the Cure of such diseases as do Supervene upon these Feavers And first of al In Paines of the Head Want of sleep and Raving at the beginning Revellers of al sorts must be used as opening of the inferior veins and of the Haemorrhoids emollient Clysters frictions of the nether parts Cupping-glasses first set upon the Calves of the Legs afterwards upon the Back and shoulders both dry and with scarification and Vesicatories which in a simple Delirium or Dotage arising from a Chollerick matter must be applied to the Armes and thighes But if with the Raving there be joyned a dullnes and sleepvnes a Vesicatory must be applied also to the Neck and then Repellers must be applied unto the Forehead and Oxyrrhodines of which it is to be noted that they are not so good in malignant as in meer putrid Feavers because the venemous vapors must by al meanes be expelled and at no hand be kept within the body And therefore first gentle repellers must be applied and if the vehemence of the foresaid symptomes shal compel us to fly to the stronger we must not use them long together Among Repellers of the gentler sort is reckoned that common frontal of the flowers of water Lilly Violets and Roses the greater cool seeds and Chermes berries bedewed with the Vapour of vineger And if that wil not suffice let this following be laid on Take Unguentum populeum one ounce Conserve of Roses and violets of each half an ounce Oyl of Roses six ounces Vinegar of Roses two drams Mix them all and receive them in tow and put them between two cloaths and apply them to the forehead Mean while the Emulsions of the four greater cool seeds may be used from which cool and gentle vapors are wont to be carried unto the Brain which are wont to mitigate the foresaid symptomes Which if they suffice not narcoticks may be added which do wonderfully hinder the ascent of sharp and malignant Vapors unto the brain and procure sleep Yet they must be given in a smal quantity as half an ounce of Syrup of poppies or if necessity compel two graines of Laudanum opiatum with conserve of roses may wel be given or they may be dissolved in some Julep or in stead there of new Treacle may be given to the Quantity of half a dram Howbeit these narcoticks are seldom to be given and in smal Quantity because they Concentre the poyson howbeit they are by some accounted sudorosicks After repellers have
the air or the weight of the Cloathes may not augment the heat of the Feaver The foresaid coverings are wont commonly to be made of red cloaths because they are thought by som Analogy to move the boiling blood to the externall parts Many are also wont to keep an Ewe or Wether in the chamber or on the bed because those Creatures are easily infected and draw the venom to themselves by which meanes som Ease may happen to the sick persons A decoction of Barly or of the roots of Sorrel or of Harts horn is profitably used for drink in the beginning of the disease especially and when the Feaver is vehement But if the Feaver be not very violent a decoction of Barly and Figs wil be very profitable viz. Effectually driving the Humors to the Skin and Forestus and Amatus did continually use the same with good success Furthermore Whereas in the whol Course of the Disease Sleep ought to be moderate yet in the Augment when the Pocks break forth long Sleep is hurtful and it is better to watch more than ordinary That therefore the aforesaid Jndications may be fulfilled the Cure must be begun by Blood-letting if Blood in any sort is redundant and the Age of the Patient is like to bear it and a Vein must be opened as soon as may be But if the Physitian shall not be called the first day yet he shal do well to take blood before the breaking forth of the Pocks or while but few are come out which time is wont commonly to last until the fourth day from the first onset of the Feaver In which Case notwithstanding diligent heed is to be taken For if upon the breaking forth of the Pocks the Feaver and its Symptoms be abated it is better to leave the business to Nature working well which will sufficiently expel the whol Morbifick Matter to the Skin Also Blood-leting is not in this case necessary since experience shews that an infinite company of children haveing gentle Pox and not Plethorick are happily cured without bleeding Nay rather in the former case somtimes blood-letting may do hurt because the expulsion of the smal Pox is caused by an ebullition of blood which ebullition if it be small it will by blood-letting be lessened very much and so it will becom insufficient perfectly to purge the mass of Blood from it's impurities Contrarywise if upon the Eruption of the Pox the Feaver becomes more strong there be anxiety difficult breathing an urin thick and red and other symptoms seem greater it's a sign that naure is opprest with the over great burthen of humors and that she cannot govern them conveniently and that therefore Phlebotomy is necessary that a part of the burthen being taken away nature may be the better able to expel the rest In one word when there is an Ebullition perfective meerly and depuratiue blood is not to be taken away but in a corruptive blood-letting is extreamly necessary yea even in that which hath less malignity in it whose degrees have been specefied before And so necessary is blood-letting in dangerous Pox in which the corruptive Ebullition is wont to happen that the tender age of infants must not hinder it For it is grown into a custom to let children blood when they are four years old and somtimes when they are three The physitians of Paris in their tender age and while they suck do let children blood Which yet the tender age of infants doth hardly admit with that light nourishment of milk and the plentifull efflux of their humors by transpiration neither can this new licence of letting such yong ones blood be justified by any countenance from the wise Authors â—f Physick In prety big children many times once blood-letting wil not serve the turn but it must be repeated if the Feaver remain intense or if Raving or any other grevious Symptome do urge Yea verily when the Pox are perfectly come out which for the most part is within nine daies if the Feaver be very urgent blood must be again let and the Patients ordered as those who have a putrid Feaver If blood-letting be suspected because of the tendernes of the Childrens Age or because the fitting season is now past the superfluous blood may be diminished by Cupping-Glasses with Scarification applied to the back shoulders and things which may also wel be used in the state of the disease seeing the Motion of Nature from the Centre to the Circumference is by them promoted But care must be taken that in young Children the Scarifications be not too deep for it happens somtimes that an unadvised Surgeon cutts so deep as to cut asunder some Veins and let out the fervent and boiling blood so that there is great trouble to stop the same Purgation is suspected in this disease for it makes a motion contrary to that of Nature viz. from the Circumference to the Centre and to whomsoever having Pocks a loosness happens the Pocks commonly strik in and the Partie dies as I said in the Prognostick Yet observe that many times purgation is to good purpose practised before the pocks come out and before the Feaver growes vehement viz. when the Children are in the Neutral state of Decidence For then if il humors abound they are profitably diminished by purging that Nature may afterward more Cheerfully set upon the Expulsion of the Remainder But when the Pox begins to appear Purging wil be pernicious And likewise if there be great malignity abroad as in an epidemical Constitution when very many Children dy of that disease it is better wholly to abstain from Purging because in diseases which are very malignant and Pestilential Purgation in the beginning of the Disease is very hurtful Now the Purgatives must be compounded of gentle Simples viz. Rhubarb Cassia Manna Tamarinds and Syrup of Roses In the Course of the disease if the belly be hard and bound it may gently be removed but not provoked and that by a suppository of honey alone without salt or with a Clister of Breath or milk or a decoction of French barley Raisons and Liquoris with sugar and yolkes of Eggs. After blood-letting and other evacuations if necessary the expulsion of the pox must be helped forward not only with specifick medicines driving the humors to the Skin but also with diaphoreticks and Alexipharmicks especially if the Pox be Epidemical and being very malignant do threaten great danger There is a vulgar Medicine commended by Rhasis Avicenna and al the Arabian Physitians to drive out the Pox which also the greatest part of our later Physitians use according to the description of Avicenna which is thus Take Fat figgs seven ounces Lentills shaled three drams Lack two drams and an half Gum traganth and fennel seed of each two drams Boil al in a pint and half of fountain water to the third part Let the patient drink thereof Rhasis adds Saffron fifteen grains Raisons five drams because Saffron opens and corroborates and the Raisons
Barly Jujubes and Liquoris and let them use this following Lohoch Take Seeds of Marsh-mallows Melons Cucumers and white Poppy of each two drams Raisons stoned and Jujubes of each four pair Boile al to a pint In which dissolve conserve of Roses and Violets of each half an ounce Pouder of Diatragacanthum frigidum three drams Sugar Candie and Sugar of Roses of each as much as shal suffice Make al into a Lohoch The Jawes and throat may be fenced against the Pox before they break out with this following Gargarism Take French barly one pugil Plantane Leaves two handfuls red Rose Leaves one pugil Balaustians seeds of Sumach of each two drams Boil al in two pints of water to a third parts consumption In the strained Liquor dissolve Syrup of Mulberries and Pomgranates of each one ounce Mix al into a Gargarism If the young age of Children cannot admit a Gargle a Lohoch may be made of Syrup of Mulberries Pome-granats of dried Roses either alone or mingled with red Rose and Plantain waters Which must often be given them in a spoon Wherewith if the Fluxion cannot be stopped by reason of the abundance of the rhume so that there is fear of Suffocation impendent such things must be used which widen the passages and help excretion after this manner Take Mucilage of Fleabane seed and Oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn of each one ounce and halfe Whitest Sugar two ounces Mix them Make of all a Lambitive to be given every hour If by meanes of the Acrimony of the flux or the Plenty of the smal Pox an Ulcer be berd in the Jawes or Throat it must be clensed with barly water and honey of Roses or with allum water and if it tend to corruption a little Aegyptiacum Ointment must be mingled therewith The gutts wil be preserved by the same remedies which were appointed to preserve the Lungs But if a present Loosens or dysenterie be urgent first detergent and lenitive Remedies must be used and afterwards astringents And so Clysters must be made of calybeated Milk of Sugar and yolkes of Eggs and afterwards of a decoction of barly and red Roses with the yolk of an egg and last of al of a decoction of Plantaine Knot-grass and Prunella or Self-heal and other Simples set down in our Cure of the Disentery And it is to be observed that a loosness in children that have Pox is oftentimes caused by wormes which lasts dureing the whol disease whence they are in the danger of Death because the expulsion of the Pox is therby hindred wholly or lessened Which is easily known by the thickness and viscositie of the excrements and their grey or whitish color then must be administred such things as kill Worms and sweet Clysters must be injected Somtimes also the kidneys are affected and are exulcerated whence arises Pissing of Blood In this Case it is good to give an emulsion of the four greater cool seeds with trochiscs of Alkekengy de Carabe and other things set down in our chapters of Pissing of Blood Among external parts the Eyes are most of all to be guarded from the smal Pox. For being endued with a soft and humid substance the matter of the Pox is easily driven unto them whence arise grevious calamites and somtimes total Blindness Before the Pox break out therefore or when they begin to appear the Eyes must be anointed every hour with Plantane and Rose waters in which a little saffron is dissolved or with the following Eye-Salve which doth more effectually preserve them Take water of Roses and Plantane of each one ounce and half Pouder of Sumach seeds two drams Infuse them a little while hot then strain the liquor hard out to the strained liquor ad Camphire ten graines Saffron five graines Make all into a Water for the Eyes It wil be yet more effectual if Instead of the waters the juices of knot-grass and Sheperds-pouch be mingled with the rest And if some Pox begin to Peep out of the Eye it self pidgeons blood must be often dropt in that their resolution may be hastened then also this following Eye-water is to be used Take Red Rose water two ounces Eye-bright water half an ounce trochisci albi Rhasis one dram Tutty prepared one Scruple Champhire five graines Saffron two graines make al into an Eye-water and wet the Eyes often therewith with a thin linnen rag But when the Eyes so swel that they cannot be opened they must often be washed with a decoction of Linseed Fenugreek seed Quince seed and Mallow seeds and so the swelling wil fal and the Eyes open and if when the Eyes are opened there appear cloudes in them they must be scoured off with Sugar-candie finely powdered And finally if the Eyes are ulcerated they may be cured with this following Eye salve Take Washed Ceruss three drams Sarcocol one dram Gum traganth one Scruple Opium two grains With mucilage of Gum traganth drawn out with Plantane water make all into little cakes or trochiscs which must be dissolved in Womens Milk or red Rose water when it is to be used and in all other things proceed as Practitioners teach at large in the Cure of Vlcers of the Eyes To preserve the Nostrills they must often smel to Vinegar But a Collyrium of juyce of knot-grass and shepherds pouch Sumach seeds and camphire formerly praysed wil work more effectually let the tent be often moistened therein and put up into the Nostrills If notwithstanding the Pox do grow within the Nose they quickly become hard Scabs which are often to be nointed with Oyl of sweet almonds that they may the sooner fal off And finally if an Ulcer happen in the Nose it must be dressed with a liniment of the Oyl of Eg-yolkes and juyce of Plantane stirred together in a leaden Mortar To preserve the Face some wash it with Rose-water and other Astringents Which I cannot approve of for a great part of the impurities flows unto the Face For the Skin tthereof long loose and soft is very fit to receive Excrements Wherefore if those impurities which Nature sends hither be repelled being retained within they may cause great hurt and therefore the motion of Nature is no waies to be hindred But this ought to be the Physitians care to hinder that the Pocks which break out in the Face do not leave behind them pits and Scarrs which doth often deform the Countenance And this he shall in good measure perform if when the Pocks are ripe and are high and white in the middle which is wont to fall out upon the ninth day of the Disease he cause them to be nointed with a Fether twice a day with Oyl of sweet Almonds drawn without fire until the Crusts fall off For by this Medicine the Acrimony of Choller is tempered the ripening of the Pocks is hastened and the falling off of the Crusts furthered which otherwise sticking fast doth exulcerate the Skin more deeply by reason of the Quittor which lies under them
Oyl of Nuts new drawn without fire mixed well with a like quantity of Rose-water till they come to the form of a Liniment is excellent for the same purpose If by neglecting the Remedies aforesaid or through the extream malignity of the Humor there remain Pits and Pock-holes all diligence must be used to repair the same Which notwithstanding is extream hard to do perfectly although many have taken great pains thereabout to gratifie Virgins and other Women who are exceeding careful to preserve their Beauties Among infinite Medicines recorded by Authors to this intent I shall propound the choisest And in the first place Oyl of Eg-yolks does nourish and engender Skin and therefore is very convenient to fill the Pock-holes Wethers Suet fresh and new melted and done out with a Fether is effectual to the same purpose But the filthyness of Pock-holes is much amended if they be washed first with Yarrow-Water or Cows-dung-water distilled in May and then anointed with Mans-Grease Forestus does much magnifie this following Oyntment Take Oyls of sweet Almonds and white Lillies of each one ounce Fat of a Capon three drams Pouder of Peony Roots of Orice and Lytharge of Gold of each ten grains Sugar-Candy one scruple Mingle al well in a warm Mortar strain them through a Cloth and noint the Pock-holes therewith morning and night And afterwards let them be well washed with Water distilled out of Calves-feet and when that is not at hand use the Water of Yarrow in stead thereof Neither must I omit that which many Practitioners do teach viz. That when the Pocks be ripe they must be bored through with a golden or a silver Needle least the Quittor tarrying long in them should leave holes in the part Which Practice is notwithstanding now in a manner grown out of use since Experience has taught that the Pocks being bored are longer in healing and doth longer hold their Crusts because of the Weakness of Natural Heat caused in the Part by boring whereby more deformed Scars are left behind And therefore it is better to abstain from this boring and to commit the evacuation of the Quittor to Nature alone To conclude this Cure I shall subjoyn how those dispositions of Itching and Exulceration which happen to persons that have the small Pocks may be remedied And in the first place When the small Pocks come forth or when they begin to ripen somtimes an huge pain or Itching does afflict the Patients especially in the Palms of the Hands and Soales of the Feet because the thickness of the Skin in those parts hinders the Eruption of the Pocks Which Symptom you shall help if you cause those parts to be held in hot Water or Foment them a long time with an Emollient Decoction But when there is great Itching in the Face which compels the Patients to scratch whence great deformity and foul Scars follow use this following Remedy Take leaves of Pellitory of the Wall one handful Flowers of Chamomel and Melilote of each half a pugil Boil them in a pint of Scabious Water To the strained Liquor ad three ounces of Honey-suckle Water With this Liquor hot often let the Itching Pocks be moistened by dipping a thin Rag or Cotton Wool therein and so applying the Liquor gently to them Now the Ulcers which arise from deep and malignant Pocks are to be cured with Vnguentum album Rhasis or with an Oyntment of Lead made after this manner Take Calcined Lead two ounces Litharge one ounce Ceruss washed and Vinegar of each half an ounce Oyl of Roses three ounces Honey of Roses one ounce Three Yolks of Egs Myrrh half an ounce Wax as much as shall suffice Make all into an Oyntment FINIS A PHYSICAL DICTIONARY Expounding such words as being terms of Art or otherwise derived from the Greek and Latin are dark to the English Reader This Dictionary is of use in the reading of all other Books of this Nature in the English Tongue LONDON Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil 1655. A Physical Dictionary A A Pophlegmatisms Medicines drawing flegm out of the Head Agaricktrochiscated See the London Dispensatory in English Apozeme A Medicine made of the Broth of divers Herbs and other Ingredients unto which somtimes certain Syrups are added Animal Faculties The Powers of Hearing Seeing Smelling Tasting Feeling of Imagination Understanding Memory Will Going Standing and all Voluntary Motion Aranea Tunica The Cobweb-Coat or Tunicle Abdomen The Belly or Paunch Apoplectick Water Good for the Apoplexy Autumn Harvest the Fall of the Leaf Actual Heat is Heat that may be felt by the hand such as is in Fire and all things heated thereby or in the Body of one in a Feaver It is oppoied to Potential Heat viz. That cannot be felt by the Hand as the Heat in pepper in Mustard seed in a Flint in unslaked Lime and the contrary of Actual Cold. Affected Troubled Diseased An Affect a Disease Trouble Disorder Aquae Acidulae The Spaw Waters like those of Epsam Barnet and Tunbridg with us Absurdities Unreasonable things Acrimony Sharpness such as in Mustard Pepper and in divers Humors of the Body which cause sickness Ascent Going up Apply lay on Actually Cold see Actual Heat Augment Encrease Accidentally By hap by chance upon occasion Adventitious not Natural but springing from external causes Actracting drawing together or causing Attracts draws to Accident somthing that happens upon a Disease vide Symptome Adstriction binding together shutting up Antecedent Cause foregoing Cause is opposed to the Conjunct Cause Abundance of Flegm in the Body is the Antecedent Cause of the Optick Nerves being stopped by flegm but the Flegm in the said Nerves is the Conjuct Cause c. of other Diseases Articulate Voyce A distinct Voyce such as that of Man-kind termed Speech Abstergent Clensing away filth Access Addition joyning to help or company Afflux flowing to Astringents Medicines that bind together and straiten the Pores and Passages of the Body Astriction binding knitting together Anodines Medicines which asswage pain Anastomosis an opening of the Mouths of Veins by which means Blood issues Astringe bind fasten close Acute sharp violent a Disease is termed Acute when it quickly changeth to health or death Adustion burning Adust burned Blood is said to be adust when by reason of extraordinary heat the thinner parts are evaporated and the thicker remain dreggy and black as if they were burnt Asthmatical troubled with shortness of breath Attest witness declare Aneurism a Swelling caused by a dilatation of the Arteries external Coat the internal being broken Axungia Grease Atrophy want of Nourishment when the Body pines away Attenuating Medicaments are such as make thick Humors thin Axiom or Theoreme an acknowledged undoubted Truth Adjacent lying neer bordering upon Aromatized Spiced perfumed Anus the Fundament Astringe to bind Atomes smal Moats hardly visible and that cannot admit of any division Adverse contrary to of
Extenuating making thin Expulsive faculty the power of our body which drives forth Dung Urine Sweat Vapors c. every part partakes of this Ability or Faculty Eminent neer at hand approaching Erysipelas a swelling caused by choller Erysipelas Phlegmonodes or Phlegmon Erysipelatodes Is a swelling caused by Inflamation of Choller and Blood Emulsions Almond milkes and milkes made of cool Seeds c. Electuaries Medicines made up of Conserves of Flowers or Herbs to which is added some sweet Spicy pouder for the most part and so with Syrup it is made up in the form of Mithridate or Treacle Epithemes are Medicines applyed in Bags commonly upon the Heart or Stomach Liver or Spleen c. Certain convenient pouders being put in a Bag or between two cloths and so wet in Wine or other convenient Liquor are laid upon the Stomach Heart c. Essential to the Disease that is of the being or substance so that without that the disease could not be So Heat is Essential to a Feaver Excrements dregs and refuse of our meat and drink after Concoction voided by dung Urine Sweat and invisibly through the Pores Excrementitious of or belonging to Excrements impure preternatural humors are so called Extenuate make thin Expressed Squeezed out Epidemical common to a whol Nation So the the Plague small Pocks Loosness Sweating-sickness c. when they are rise all over a Nation or Country at one time they are called Epidemical diseases Ehxir Proprietatis A Medicine invented by Paracelsus Take of the best Aloes Myrrh Saffron of each half an ounce Pouder them and put them into a Glass Then take Muscadine made tart with Oyl of Sulphur and pour upon the pouder til the liquor stand four fingers above the pouder Let them stand and digest in a warm place Then pour off the Liquor and put on more till all the Colour and vertue be drawn out from the pouder At last still the settlings with a gentle fire and pour that which comes away to the former Liquor and let all stand and digest a Month in a warm place close stopped The name signifies such a Quintessence as hath a special propriety of agreement with Mans nature whereby it comforts and restores the same in al kind of weakness Emollient Medicines that soften Eroded eaten a sunder eaten up Extraction pulling out Exquisite perfect in an high degree Escharoticks see Causticks potential Embrochated moistened bedewed bathed Erosion fretting eating Eclegma See Lambitive Extream parts the Armes and Legs Emplastick diet consists of such meats as are of a clammy substance viz. Calves Head and Feet Sheeps-trotters all Feet of Beasts Tripes Gellys c. Excreta and Retenta things voided out of the Body things retained or kept in Eradicate pluck up by the Roots Exasperated pained vexed molested Equivocal Signs of a Disease are such as are common to it and other Diseases The Efficient Cause is the working or making Cause so a Tailor is the Efficient of a Garment The Material Cause is the stuff a thing is made of which the Efficient works upon So the Cloth or Silk is the Material Cause of the Garment The formal Cause the shape that makes it a Coat or Cloak or Doublet the Final Cause is the end why it was made viz. to hide nakedness keep off Sun and Cold and to adorn the body Emulgent Veins which bring the Wheyish Excrement of the blood unto the Kidneyes where it becomes Urine and is passed by the Urecers into the Piss-bladder Evaporation a steeming out of Vapors Egress coming forth Evaporated steemed away as Water that spends away in boiling Evacuators Medicines which empty out evil Humors either by vomit Purge c. Exhalations Vapors drawn up by the Sun out of the Earth and Waters Eventilated Fanned purged as Corn by fanning So Exercise is said to eventilate or fan the Body because the motion opens the Pores and drives many vapors out Eneorema that which hangs like a cloud in Urines especially when the Disease is breaking away Emollient Decoction a softening moistening Decoction made for Clysters to soften and moisten the hardened Excrements of the Guts An Eschara or Eschar is the Core that falls off from a part that hath had a Caustick applied thereto F FVmigations Perfumes and others things burnt to qualifie the Air in a sick mans chamber Fracture breaking as fracture of the Skul or Arm c. Fomentation when linnen Cloaths or Spunges are dipped in some Liquor and applied to the diseased part and after renewed Functions of the Brain the Abilities of the Brain to Hear See Imagine Understand Remember c. Frictions Rubbings Furor Vterinus Womb-Madness when Women are mad by reason of a disorder in the Womb. See the Chapter of that Disease A Flux of Humors flowing of Humors Febris Catarrhalis a Feaver caused by Rheum falling from the Head Fabrick Frame making up composition Frontal Vein Fore-head Vein Fortified strengthened Fistula an hollow deep but narrow Ulcer that will not be closed up A pair of Forceps a smal Instrument like a pair of Tongs to draw forth any thing out of the Ears c. Fluid apt to run and flow like Water and other Liquors Filtration straining through a brown Paper or by means of a piece of cloth hanging out of one Vessel into another Filter to strain as aforesaid Fermentation the working of Humors as new drink works in the Barcel A Feaver Symptomatical is a Feaver caused by some other foregoing Disease in respect of which Disease the Feaver is but a Symptom or Accident A Flatulent and Pituitous Chollick is a Chollick caused by wind and flegm Formicans Pulsus a weak feeble quick Pulse that seels under the Fingers like creeping Pismires from whence it is named Form See Efficient Cause Fluxive apt to flow and run like Water and other Liquors Friable is crumbly short like costly Cake-bread Pie-crust Puf-past c. So Fishes that have a short crumbly substance not clammy or slimy such as Soals Smelts Trouts are said to be friable in comparison of Eels Carps Tenches c. G GVm Animi Indian Amber Gargarisms that is Medicines to Gargle in the Throat to wash sore Throats de Gutteta a Pouder used in Falling-sickness and Convulsion of Children by the French It is described page 33. at the bottom Going about by fits Generating breeding begetting Glandules Kernels such as are about the Throat aâ—d are called the Almonds of the Ears and such as the Sweet-bread c. Gate-Vein Vena Porta See Veslingus Anatomy in English Generous Wine strong Wine as rich Canary Muskadine c. Glutinations Clamminess like Gum about the corners of the Eyes Glutinators things which glue and close up broken Veins c. Glutinous clammy like Glue A Gangrene is a corruption of a part tending to the utter deading thereof H HYpochondria the parts beneath the Ribs Hemiplegia the Palsey possessing one side Hydrelaeum a Bath and Oyntment that is of Water and Oyl beaten together Hippocras
But it is chiefly good for them who have the worms and a flux withal In which diseases coming together he commends also the Juyce of Plantane and the Decoction of Knot-grass given to drink To which may be added Topicks applied to the Belly partly astringent and partly having vertue to kill worms Women do use common Oyl given with Wine for that Oyl stops the pores of the Worms and so choak them for want of breath and VVine kills them by its sharpness But when there is a Feaver it is better to give Oyl with the Juyce of Lemmons or Pomegranates or which is better Oyl of bitter Almonds with the said Juyces or Orange flower water Stocherus in his Empirical Medicines commends the Oyl that is taken out of a dâ—ied Hazel stick if it be given but a drop or two at a time to a child or to a youth three or four in a crum of Bread For saith he it doth immediately kill them and cast them forth by stool also by but touching of Worms or Lice out of the Body it killeth them The best Authors will have this Oyl of Hazel to be the Oleum Heraclinum by which Martin Ruland did cure Children of the VVorms in a moment by anointing only their Lips and Navils as you may see in his Centuries But we have found by Experience that the Oyl of Juniper given but a drop at a time in Broth to be excellent for children so troubled if they have not a Feaver But Quick-silver would exceed all if we durst give it in wardly which great Doctors say may be done Some of whom I wil mention so that they who please to try it may have Authority for it Mathiolus in his fourth Epistle to Stephanus Laureus the Emperors Physitian saith Because Quick-silver as Dioscorides saith doth no otherwise kill but by tearing the Guts with its great weight we fear not that it will do it in a smal quantity especially because its weight and roundness will easily carry it through the Body Therefore let us not wonder why Brassavolus that famous Physitian of our Age hath written that he gave Quick-silver to Children without any inconvenience And also a padua Physitian used it with good success but never would tell us the way of giving and preparing of it And I though I never gave it have seen Midwives give a scruple or half a dram to Women that had hard labor without inconvenience and alwaies with good success Thus Mathiolus Fallopius in his Tractate of the French Pox Cap. 76. If saith he Quick-silver be drunk down it doth not so much as when it is used with an Oyntment I have seen Women to cause Abortion take a pound thereof without hurt I give it to Children for the Worms and it doth bring no symptome but only kill the Worms Platerus in the Cure of the Worms saith the same Give a drop or two or half a scruple of Quick-silver and it kills the Worms or makes them crawl out of the Body and it may be done without hurt as we shewed elswhere Fabricius Hildanus in his 71. Observation Cent. 2. saith of a woman troubled with the Worms sent to him by Gilbert Saracenus thus Having reckoned up many Medicines to these saith he I added the excellent Medicine of Quick-silver a dram and an half strained through Leather and yet she was not freed of them John Baptista Zappata in his Book of Womens Secrets Chap. 5. tells many famous Stories of the Cure of Worms by Quick-silver when Aloes and VVormwood would not do it He shews two waies of giving it The first is this Take of Quick-silver one dram but a scruple or two for little Children Benjamin half a scruple four or five drops of Aqua vitae mix them in a glass mortar with a glass pestle then put to it a little Conserve of Roses or Violets for a Bolus which let the Patient take in the morning by it self or with a little Bread The second way is this Take a little course Sugar and three or four drops of Spring Water mix them in a glass mortar till they are like Honey then put to it as much Quick-silver as was aforesaid mix them together with six or seven drops of Oyl of sweet Almonds which will keep the Quick-silver from coming again to its body And with a little Conserve of Roses make a Bolus Baricellus in his Book called the Genial Garden saith thus Quick-silver which some account poyson is safely given against worms and it is accounted so certain a Medicine in Spain that the Women there give three grains thereof to children which pewk up their milk I cured a Widdow which vomited nine daies together by reason of Worms and scarce eat in three daies neither could retain any thing she took to whom I gave two scruples of Quick-silver with a little Conserve of Quinces and she voided downwards above an hundred Worms and was cured the same day and went about her business to the great admiration of her Parents being formerly weak and lean I have given it also to others and with good success alwaies and I keep continually at home Quicksilver infused Water which Water I give to children for Worms nor did I ever receive any discredit thereby Mathiolus used the same Horatus Angenius and many other famous men who all do extol the benefit of this Medicine You may give it to Children in substance one scruple and to youths two scruples or a dram It is mortified and corrected with red Sugar in a glass mortar wherein it must be so long stirred that it be invisible and least it should return to its former condition you may add thereto two of the Oyl of sweet Almonds Give it with Sugar of Roses Violets or Quinces fasting Thus Baricellus Sanctorius in meth vitand error lib. 5. cap. 11. saith That except we use strong Medicines to kill worms as washed aloes or a scruple of Quick-silver with a little Turpentine and Aloes made into a smal Pill we do nothing They who fear to use Quick-silver crude may give it prepared as Mercurius dulcis not only thrice but six times calcined for by often preparation the malignity of it is abated with some few grains of Diagridium to carry it sooner out of the Body and expel both the Worms and the Matter of which they breed You must enlarge or diminish the quantity according to the Age of the Patient As for example to a Boy of eight or ten yeers old it may be thus given Take of Mercurius dulcis twelve grains Diagridium six grains Make Pouder to be given with a roasted Apple and Sugar or the like For ordinary drink the Water made of Quick-silver which was formerly mentioned is very profitable or that in which Quick-silver hath been shaken in a glass half full for the space of one hour Also VVater wherein melted Tin hath been often quenched But if you will rather use Quick silver it is better to let the Water boyl
Bay-leaves Calaminth Carrot seed Cummin and Caraway Seeds Flowers of Cheiri and Chamomel in Water white Wine or Milk Or the following Cataplasm may be applied Take three or four Onions well boyled in Water beat them in a Morter and put thereto Seeds of Line and Cummin beaten of each one handful As much Chamomel flowers Barley Meal as much as shall suffice to make all into a Pultiss And if need be add a little of the Water wherein the Onions were boyled Spread it upon a Cloth and apply it warm to her Navel It is likewise profitable to apply the Skin of a weather newly flead off while it is warm to her Belly For this kind of warmth is very neer of kin to our Natural heat concocts and mitigates the cause of the pain also it hinders the Skin of the Belly from gathering into wrinkles These following Medicines may be given inwardly Take Carrot Seeds poudered one dram white Wine three ounces Mix them Give it warm twice a day Or Take Nutmeg Annis seed Cinnamon of each one scruple mix them into a Pouder to be taken in white Wine or give one scruple of Oyl of Nutmegs in Broth. Or Take Date and Peach Kernels of each half a dram Nutmegs four scruples Pouder of Diamargaritum Calidum two drams Annis seed one dram Cinnamon two scruples Saffron ten grains Sugar the weight of all the rest Make all into a most fine Pouder whereof give two drams in Wine twice or thrice a day if the pains are much Forestus gave a Decoction of Chamomel flowers in Beer or a Decoction of Mugwort and Chamomel in Puller Broth with good â—ucceâ—s It 's good presently after the is brought to bed to give her the Broth of an old Cock three daies together earâ—y in a morning while she is fasting with a little Cinnamon and Saffron The following Pouder taked presently after the delivery of a woman doth wonderfully preserve her from Gripings insomuch that it is thought If it be given a woman after her first Childing she wil never after in her following Lyings-In be troubled with these Gripes Take the greater Comfry Root dried one dram Peach Kernels and Nutmeg of each two scruples Amber half a dram Amber-greece half a scruple Make all into a Pouder of which let her take one dram in white Wine or if she be Feaverish in Broth. For her ordinary Drink let her use a Decoction of Mugwort with Cinnamon If the Gripings be caused by Chollerick and sharp humors they are cured much after the same manner that the Chollick is cured when it proceeds from Choller As for Example Take Syrup of Vioâ—â—ts and Borrage of each one ounce Mucilage of Quince seeds drawn out with Violet Water half an ounce Water of Borrage and Scorzonera of each three ounces Mix all make thereof a Julep for two Doses Or Take Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces Syrup of Violets an ounce Borrage Water half an ounce Mix all for a draught External Medicines must likewise be used such as are laxative and emollient which do likewise by one and the same labor ease pain Oftentimes after they are brought to bed women are pained in their Groyn by reason of their wombs being gathered together like a ball in their Groyn It is cured by applying to their Navel a Plaister of Galbanum and Anafoetida in the midst whereof some grains of Musk must be put Chap. 24. Of Acute Diseases of Women in Child-bed WHat we said before touching the Acute Diseases of women with Child we may now repeat touching the Acute Diseases of women in Child-bed viz. That they have the same Essence and the same Signs with the like Diseases in women which are not with Child and in men So that we shal refer the Reader for the Theory of these Diseases to their proper Chapters Now these Acute Diseases are for the most part continual Feavers both Essential as Synchus putrida a continual Tertian and the rest and also Symptomatical which accompany inward Inflamations as the Pleurisie Inflamation of the Lungs Inflamation of the Liver Phrenzy and such like Yet there is a peculiar sort of Feaver which besals almost al women in Child-bed which is called by them the Feaver of their Milk which is wont to befal them about the third or fourth day after they are brought to bed when their Milk begins to encrease in their Breasts and it ariseth from the reflux of the blood from the womb to the Dugs and the motion and agitation thereof Which kind of Feaver is reckoned among the Diary Feavers of the longest durance neither needs it any Medicines because within three or four daies viz. about the ninth after her delivery it is finished by sweat It is distinguished from putrid Feavers because commonly it seizes the woman about the fourth day after her being delivered and her Dugs begin to be filled with Milk and to be troubled with hardness pain and heat with heat and heaviness in her Back and Shoulders also her Child-bed Purgations slow duly which seldom is seen in putrid Feavers Now putrid Feavers do befal women in Child-bed from three causes viz. Suppression of their Child-bed Purgations or diminishing by the heaping together of bad Humors during the time of their Belly-bearing which were agitated by her Labors or by Errors in their Diet. Some add immoderate flux of the Child-bed Purga ions which is rather a sign of the secret badness of Humors causing the Feaver but cannot be it self any cause thereof In suppression of the Child-bed Purgations the blood and vitious humors which are collected during the whol time of her going with child do flow back again into the greater Veins and there putrefie and somtimes are câ—rrâ—ed to the Liver Spleen and other parts in which they raise Inflamations or if they abide in the Veins of the womb they putrefie and so cause a Feaver in those women which were before in perfect health But if the Child-bed Purgations duly flowing a feaver arise it comes either from superfluity of Choller or from errors in Diet. Evil Humors agitated by the Labors and Pains of Travel do easily inflame and putrefie and stir up a feaver Errors of Diet may happen divers waies And first in point of eating in which women that he In are wont to be very faulty stopping themselves with plenty and variety of Dishes which cannot be by them digested but causeth putrefaction in their Bodies Another error is committed when Childing women do unadvisedly expose themselves unto the cold Air especially while their Milk-feaver is in its vigor which is wont to be terminated by sweating and transpiration which is hindered by heedless admission of the cold Air whence it comes to pass that the Feaver which of it self was void of danger and would in a few daies have ceased is changed into a dangerous putrid Feaver There is yet another frequent Cause of the Feavers of Childing Women viz. When the After-births are not wholly cast forth but some
Parts In the fit the Sick-party must be rowzed by pulling the Nose Rubbing the Eares plucking off of Hairs Loud calling c. Also sweet Smelling things must be Applied to the Mouth and Nostrils as Cinnamon and Orange flower Water Vinegar wherein Cloves have been steeped inside of a white Loaf dipt in Hippocras alone or Cinnamon Water or the following cordial Water Take Waters of Bawm Rose-Mary and Orange flowers of each one ounce Cinnamon Water half an Ounce Confectio Alkermes one dram Syrup of preserved Citron Peels and of Gilly-flowers of each one ounce Mix all into a potion or Julep which the Patient must often take of by a Spoonful at a time Also Electuaries may be made after this manner Take Conserve of flowers of Bugloss Rosemary and of Citron Peels preserved of each half an ounce preserved Nutmeg three drams Consectio Alkermes two drams Species of Diambra and Diamoschum dulce of each one scruple With the Syrup of preserved Citron Peels make all into an Electuary Unto the Heart Epithems may be applied and young Pidgeons to the stomach and Stones Fomentations may be applied and other things administred which have been propounded in case of decay of strength While these things are in doing frictions must ever and anon repeated which must in this Disease never be omitted When the Patient hath a little gathered strength the Morbifick Matter is to be drawn out by Clysters and Purgations in which Hiera cum Agarico in regard of the stomach is very profitable which ought to be gentle and frequent yet so as fitting Preparatives be administred between Purge and Purge Want of Appetite is common in a Manner to al Feavers for when the stomach is inflamed thirst is encreased but Appetite of eating diminished Yet somtimes Appetite is so dejected that the Patients can hardly sup a little broath Which Loathing of Meat is caused by Vicious Humors collected in the stomach or soaked into the coats thereof or of corrupt and Malignant Vapors which infest the stomach It ought to be Cured by Evacuation of the Morbifick Matter by Vomit or Stool and first with an infusion of Rhubarb and Tamarinds But in the declination if the Feaver be not strong with Hiera Picra dissolved in a Decoction of Barley Vetches Wormwood and other detergent things Afterwards we must use Clysters which occasionally do revel from the stomach Also acid and refrigerating things are frequently to be given as Syrup of lemmons Pomegranats some Cherries c. given alone or with cold Water In the declination or when the Feaver ceases Syrup of Roman Wormwood may pofitably be given either alone or mixed with acid Juyces or Syrups Let Meats that are grateful be presented to the sick For as Hippocrates teaches in Aphor. 38. Sect. 2. The Pleasanter Meat and drink though somwhat the Worse is to be preferred before that which is bitter and not so pleasant Also let them eat but little and seldom for much and frequent eating causes Want of Appetite even in those which are wel And let their Meats be sauced provided they have no cough with Juyce of unripe Grapes Vinegar of Roses and Juyce of Lemmons If the sick do so abhorer al Meats that they can take nothing at al let them have nourishing Clysters given them twice or thrice in a day the excrements being first avoided by a clensing Clyster When the Feaver is wholly allaied and gone if want of Appetite do remain let the sick person Moderately excercise and use Capers Saxifrage Olives let him change place and go into a colder Air. And finally if these helps suffice not let the Patient use Wormwood Wine and pils of Hiera Picra which do powerfully clense away such Humors as are fast sticking in the Coats of the stomach Hiccupings and Vomitings which betide persons in Feavers are opposed by divers Medicaments the materials whereof are to be sought for in our cures of those Infirmities of Vomiting Hiconping to be Judicially accomodated to such persons as in Feavers are troubled with those Symptomes But special care is to be taken that a critical Vomiting be by no Means stopped Hiccoughing somtimes proceeds from immoderate use of refrigerating things as Lemnius witnesses whose words Schenkius doth thus relate Hiccoughing in Feavers doth somtimes follow over abundant use of Refrigerating Juleps and I have seen many so affected by the unadvised Rashness of Physitians which Symptom contrary to the expectation of all Men I Cured by giving the Patient Wine to drink A Loosness befalling one that hath a putrid Feaver if it be critical that is proceeding from the Conquest of Nature over the Morbifick Matter and tending to expel the whol or Part thereof it must not be stopped neither must a Symptomatick Loosness be presently stopped at the very first if it do not very much weaken the Patient least the Vitious Humor do flow back again to some principal Parts When it is seasonable to stop it it must be done with a gentle astringent Purge with clensing and Corroborating Clysters by Medicines taken in and outwardly Applied which do thicken strengthen and bind All which may be taken out of our Cure of a Diarrhoea or Loosness beginning with the gentler and proceeding if need be to the more strong by Degrees Sweats if they be not Critical that is caused by Nature expelling the Humor offensive but Symptomatical that is caused by the vehemency of that Disease dissolving the Body and hunting the Humors through the Skin and doth very much weaken the Patient they must be suppressed by cooling the Air with sprinkling cold Water and the leaves of the Willow and Vine-tree upon the pavement and if need be by opening the Windows the Body being cooled and ayred by little and little the Cloths being light upon the Patient and a Flock-bed being put instead of a Fether-bed also by often sprinkling the Patients Face with Water and Vinegar mingled together and finally by the use of cooling Astringent Medicaments such as are cooling Epithemes applyed to the Heart Liver and whol Belly and often changed Oyntments made of Oyl of Roses of Mirtles of Mucilages and Astringent Pouders are to be anointed upon the whol Body but especially upon the back-bone Pouders of Roses Balaustians Pomegranate rinds Myrtle Mastich Terra Samia c Must be sprinkled upon the Neck Throat under the Arm-pits and in the Groins Or let the Patient be wrapped in a Linnen Cloth sprinkled with a mixture of Vinegar and Water and the aforesaid pouders strewed thereon being in the mean time careful that no Inflamation or Tumor be in the parts about the short Ribs for then we must abstain from Astringent things at least such as are strong The Sweat must not be wiped off but suffered to dry about the Pores of the Skin so to stop them that more may not follow Also we must give in at the Mouth Medicaments that thicken and strengthen as Barley Water boiled with Lettice and cooling Seeds
Restorative Broths with Juyce of Pomegranates sowr Grapes Pouders of Corals Pearls shavings of Ivory Sanders or Baulaustians Juleps of the Waters of Roses Lettice Purslain with Syrup of Pomegranates dryed Roses or Quinces Conserved Electuaries of Conserve of Roses Corals Pearls Terra Sigillata pouders of Diamargaritum frigidum and such like AN APPENDIX In the Cure of most acute and pernicious Feavers one thing is diligently to be noted that such Feavers seldom happen without some inward and peculiar disorder and commonly Inflamations of some of the inward Bowels as Liver Spleen c. So that we must evermore be careful of the Parts under the short Ribs of the Head the Breast the Womb Reins and Bladder that by al means possible we may hunt out which of those is much out of order and as much as may be restore the same to its Natural Constitution Chap. 3. Of a Tertian Ague AN Ague or Intermittent Tertian Feaver is caused by an Excrementitious Chollerick Humor contained in the first Region of the Body and there putrefying A Tertian Ague is either Legitimate and Exquisite or Illegitimate and bastard A Legitimate or Exquisite Tertian Ague is terminated in twelve hours and is caused by the putrefaction of Natural Choller But a bastard Tertian hath fits that last above twelve hours But if it exceed twenty four hours it is termed Tertiana extensa a stretched Tertian And it is caused either by Preternatural Coller putrefying or by Natural Choller mingled with other Humors especially with flegm Also Tertian Agues are Simple or Double or Triple A Simple Tertian is that whose Fits come every other day A Double Tertian is that whose Fits come every day And although herein it differ not from a Quotidian or every day Ague yet they are known one from the other by their proper Signs shewing the abundance of Flegm or Choller in the Patient of which Signs in their place Somtimes notwithstanding in a double Tertian there are two fits in one day the other day remaining free and this some latter Physitians do call two Tertians and make it to differ from a double Tertian Which Distinction notwithstanding is of smal moment A Triple Tertian is when there are three fits in the compass of two daies This is a most rare and seldom seen sort of Feavers Yet Galen propounds one single Example thereof and I saw another in the yeer 1637. in a certain Gentleman who once in sixteen hours had a fit of a Tertian Ague And all the fits did every one of them terminate in the space of ten or twelve hours by sweat Now these divers Paroxysms are made by a different matter putresying in different places so that each one hath as it were its peculiar Chimney where it is first kindled Now the Humors causing Tertian Agues are collected chiefly in the first Region of the Body viz. In the Liver the bladder of Gall the Stomach the Mesentery the Pancreas or in the Veins of those Parts Their Causes are all such things which ingender Excrementitious Choller viz. An hot and dry distemper of the Spleen youthful Age Hot Constitution of the Air Watchings Cares Anger Fastings use of hot Meats over much Exercise To these are added for the breeding a bastard Tertian such Causes as engender Flegm and Melancholly Hereupon such as have hot Livers and by Glutinous and bad Diet do breed many Crudities are subject to bastard Tertians by reason of the mixture of Choller with crude Humors And hence also it is that in Summer time crude Humors bred through weakness of the Natural Heat by eating of Fruits and over much drinking being mixed with Choller do breed bastard Tertians The Signs to know an Exquisite Tertian by are these That this Feaver alwaies begins with great shaking Fits whereas in a Quotidian Feaver or Ague there is only a light shivering or coldness After the cold shaking Fit follows great Heat sharp and biting Intollerable Thirst great and frequent breathing want of Sleep Head-ach and somtimes Ravings After the shaking fit somtimes there follows a vomiting of Chollerick Humors or a purging by Stool The Urine is somtimes Yellow Yellowish-Red or Red. The Fits last not above twelve hours and they are terminated by Sweat Also the Causes fore-cited breeding Choller have preceded In a bastard Tertian all the foregoing Signs are more remiss than they are in an Exquisite one but more intense than in a Quotidian Ague And according as there is more or less flegm mingled with the Choller the Fits come neerer to those of an Exquisite Tertian or of a Quotidian but in respect of the vehemency of the Symptoms and the length of the Fit it self So that the Paroxysms of a bastard Tertian may be lengthened out to sixteen eighteen or more hours Although they may be somtimes shorter because of the paucity of the Matter and be terminated within the space of eight ten or twelve hours The Prognostick of this Disease is taken out of Hippocrates in Sect. 4. Aph. 59. Exquisite or exact Tertian Agues last but for seven fits at most And in Aphor. 43. of the same Section All Intermitting Feavers are void of danger Which is to be understood only of such Tertians as are void of all malignity For there are Malignant and Pestilent Tertians which though they have evident Intermissions yet do they often kill the Patients Furthermore many things fall upon the Neck of a Tertian which may breed danger although the Feaver of it self be not dangerous Haly writes and common Experience shews That if such as are sick of a Tertian Ague have Ulcers Scabs or Pustles breaking out in their Lips it is a token the Ague wil leave them For it is a kind of Critical Evacuation in those parts A Loosness befalling one that hath a Tertian Ague the matter being digested ends the Disease And this is the way by which alone Nature doth perfectly expel the Cause of these Feavers For seeing the Original Cause of these Feavers is contained in the Gall-Bladder or the Liver or the Mesentery and other Parts in the first Region of the Body although that which steems and vapors therefrom in every fit do get into the habit of the Body and is purged away either by Sweats or by insensible Transpiration or by Pushes and Pimples yet the gross parts and setlings of the Humor abiding in their place which unless by the benefit of Nature or Medicaments it be purged away by stool it is wont to be the Cause either of a long Ague or of Obstructions or of a Relapse or of other stubborn Diseases Agues are wont to be of smal durance and little danger if the habit of the whol Body be good if the bowels be wel affected if it be Spring or Summer if the Patient eat little and drink sparingly And contrary wise they are wont to be long and more rebellious if there be an evil disposition of the Liver or Spleen if the Patient abound with flegmatick Humors or