half a dishful two whites of Eggs beaten Boyl them with Milk and add Sugar Also a roasted Onyon with Butter and Sugar or filled with Treacle and roasted and the juyce taken out and mixed with Sugar-candy to be licked Also Leek Portage are good And Radishes with much Oyl a little Vinegar and Honey Eggs also rear dressed with fresh better and but a little Salt for it provokes coughing Spinach and Rocket buttered A meat made of Egs boyled Wine and Butter or Egs Wine Sugar and Butter which the Dutch call Beanwarm that is Warm-bones Also warm Milk drunk with Penidies or Sugar-candy A Medicine wel of sented sharp Apples is excellent and for to restore the strength also in other Diseases Take sound Apples sliced round Lay them upon sticks in an earthen Vessel in a Wine-seller sprinkle Sugar-candy thereon Take of the juyce that you shall find in the Vessel which fel from the Apples two ounces Aqua vitae Rosewater of each one ounce Oyl of Cloves and Cinnamon of each two drops Mix them and give a spoonful or two often Another Lenifying Decoction Take Raysons Pease shels Liquorish of each two ounces Jujubies Sebestens of each ten pair Barley clensed one ounce Boyl them strain them and Clarifie them let him often drink a draught you may add Sugar and Honey Another to Expectorate Take Hysop Penyroyal Maidenhair Cole worts of each one handful Figs ten with Honey Boyl and scum and strain them drink it Or thus Take Line-seed Faenugreek bruised each two drams Anise and Nettle seed each one dram Basil seed half a dram Liquorish Marsh-mallows each half an ounce Pennyroyal Goldy-locks each one bandful and an half Mallows Violets each one pugil Figs ten Dates five boyl them and add Honey and Syrup of Liquorish This is good against a Catarrh Take Frankincense Mastich each one dram Liquorish one ounce Raisons stoned ten pair Figs five pair Jujubes Sebestens each six pair boyl them add to the straining Penidies for a Drink Wine with things infused or boyled especially that of Elicampane is good boyled thick Wine wherein Juniper berries are boyled is good for a Cough in Children and it is stronger with Hysop and Mother of Time Also the flowers of Gourd dried and boyled in Wine And of bitter things Take Elicampane half an ounce Orris Squils prepared each two drams Horehound Carduus Germander Sage Pennyroyal Pauls Bettony each one handful steep and boyl them in Wine Some drink pouder of Ginger in Wine at nights in Winter And if the Cough be of Cold it must do good And because it heats the mouth and the virrue is carried by consent to the Lungs it expectorateth And Dioscorides commends Pepper Brandewine is good with Sugar-candy also the same burnt while it wil flame and so brought to an Oyl Some commend the essential Oyl of Sugar thus made Put four ounces of Sugar often washed with Sack and dried into a Glass lute it wel set it in the Sun or Ashes over the fire and sublime the Sugar which wil make a noyse This take out and put it in the hard boyled whites of Eggs and place them in a Wine-celler til you have a cleer Oyl One spoonful of this swallowed by degrees is excellent The water of Pauls Betony or Pouder of it with Sugar is good Also new drawn Oyl of sweet Almonds That which stops the Catarrh expectorateth and taketh away the provoking to cough by stupefaction is excellent As Diacodium at bed-time or syrup of Poppies or Lohoch of Poppies Or thus Take Syrup of Poppies or Diacodium one ounce Syrup of Jujubes one ounce and an half Mucilage of Fleabane seeds half an ounce make a Lambitive or Linctus Or this Take Garden Poppy heads almost ripe three ounces Pease shels Liquorish each one ounce and an half boyl them add Penidies and Sugar-candy each four ounces boyl them to a Consistence let it be licked at night Or Take Lohoch of Poppies one ounce Lohoch of Fleabane half an ounce Pouder of Diatragacanth frigid one dram Henbane seed half a dram Bole one scruple Penidies half an ounce Some write for a secret that red Poppy water and Sugar-candy drunk at night is excellent Also Pils of Hounds-tongue or Storax are taken one or two of six grains in weight at bed-time If you wil use them often Take Storax Myrrh Frankincense Galbanum Spike each one scruple Saffron Opium each five grains mix them with Honey for Pils let him hold one of half a scruple in the mouth and if it doth not help take one scruple at bed-time Errhines are put into the Nose to bring the Catarrh into the Nose And clysters to draw it downwards of which see in Catarrhs Masticatories and Gargarisms which draw rheum to the Mouth cannot be good fumes to dry the Brain taken in at the Mouth and Nose do reach the Lungs and Brain and dry both Let him take into his mouth the hot vapor of this Decoction Take Mastich Frankincense each one dram and an half Salt two drams Sulphur one dram Calamus three drams Colts-foot Horehound each one handful boyl them in water and take up the vapor by a Funnel A Fume from things burnt is stronger if it be not in great quantity or sharp Take Colts-foot dried half an ounce Schaenanth Storax each two drams Mastich Frankincense Myrrh each one dram Henbane seeds half a dram with Turpentine or Infusion of Gum Traganth in Rose-water make Troches Some things are applied to dilate the breast and to allay its pain and to concoct the matter In a hot case this Oyntment Take Oyl of Violets one ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds sweet Butter washed in Violes water Hens grease Mucilage of Fleabane made with Coltsfoot water each half an ounce In a Cold this Oyl of Lillies wall-flower each half an ounce Mucilage of Time and Faenu-greek seed each half an ounce Orris half a dram Saffron one scruple with Wax make a Liniment see the rest in Asthma Also the Resumptive Oyntment An Emplaster of Lillies and Onions boyled and butterred And this Epithem warm Take Oyl of Cammomel Violets each one ounce and an half Milk or cream of Almonds made with Barley water wel boyled four ounces dip Clouts strain and apply them Keep the Breast warm Use spiced Caps or pouders to the Head wash the Thighs with warm water to divert Catarrhs in which Head herbs have been boyled And when the Cough is hot or sleep is wanting use cold herbs Apply Garlick and Bears grease to the feet it is accounted an Oyntment that cureth Ligatures also Cupping-Glasses Cauteries are good to revel as we shewed in a Catarrh Holding of the Breath staies Hickets and Neesing and also Coughing not because then a greater heat is raised in the breast but for the cause mentioned in Hickets Warm Air is best when the Cough is from Cold. A hot house is good because Sweating after purging is proper Let him take heed of a cold Air and the North-wind and
Juyce by a drying and digesting Quality if the spots turn to Pustles and these must be strong if the swelling be hard by adding if other things fail such as corrode and burn These are applyed in Liquors Waters and Oyntments with which you must anoint or wash the red Pustles or if you apply strong things you must only touch the Pustles they are divers First they are made of Plants as Water of Straw-berries Ash and Mullein flowers with Camphire and wine of strawberries Another usual which is very good Take in the Spring one pint of Straw-berries or in Winter one pint of sour Grapes of Goats milk two pints twelve whites of Eggs and the Mueilage of Fleabane and Quinces of Gum Traganth made in Rose or Plantane water four ounces of Camphire two drams distil them You may add Vinegar Juyce of Lemmons or the Plants following also Allum and Sulphur Or use this following Take of Speare Dock-roots three ounces of Plantane Nightshade Sorrel Mallows Fumitory each one handful of Roses Violets Water-lillies Honey suckles Willow each one pugil of Lemmons Oranges or sharp Apples seven or nine of green Mulberries Strawberries or grapes half a pound of Allum half an ounce of Camphire one dram distil them Brimstone added makes it better but it will sweat so well You may add Water-lillies great Penny-wort Housleek bastard Dittany Pomegranate flowers green or dry Or thus Take Goats milk four pints of ordinary meal as much as is sufficient and make Bread thereof half bake it and take of the Crust and break it in pieces and dissolve it with four pints more of Goats milk adding Lemmons peeled and sliced twelve Raddish and Spear-Dock Roots each two ounces whites of Eggs beaten twelve Allum half an ounce Tartar and Sugar each three drams white Coral two drams Egg shells calcined and Camphire each on dram mix them well and distil a water from them by a Lembeck Allum water so called of Plantane and Purslain water Oyl Allum and whites of Eggs is good also This following Vitriol water is good against a red Face Take of the water of Froggs-Spaun Mullein Fern each two pints and an half of the Vrine of a young Boy three pints to these mixed add of the Treacle of Andromaehus two ounces and an half of Vitriol Salt Allum each four ounces draw a water by the Embers or Balneum Maris till the residents are dry To which water add Camphire and Saffron each one ounce keep it for Use The pouder of Spear-Dock roots and the ashes of Daffodils with Oyls make a laudable Oyntment The hot blood of a Hare or other Creatures is good to take away Redness Of quick Brimstone Applications are especially good to take away Redness If it be mixed with cooling or astringent Juyces as the Juyce of Housleek Nightshade or Plantane or some sweet water as of Roses Or Take of quick Brimstone one ounce of white Frankincense half an ounce of Camphire two drams dissolve them in one pint of Strawberry or Rose-water and you may add the Juyce of a Lemmon or sour Pomegranates And it will be better if you add common Salt Salt Ammoniak or of Allum two ounces or Lithargie boiled in Vinegar or Ceruss Or Take of live Brimstone half an ounce of Lytharge made white by Decoction in Vinegar two drams of Frankincense one dram of Camphire half a dram of Grains of Paradise or Ginger one scruple of Citron Oyntment or white with Camphire two ounces make a Liniment and if you add half a dram of Orpiment it will be better They make a white Water of Lytharge called Virgins milk which takes away all evil Colours from the Face especially Redness It is made thus Take of Lytharge poudered two ounces of white Wine Vinegar six ounces more or less as it is in strength steep them often shaking them or boil them a little This done let the thick part settle and pour off the clear and strain it Then Take of Allum or Salt or both two ounces dissolve them in spring-Spring-water or other distilled water good for the Face as of Beans Lillies and Rose-water for the sent sake six ounces one dram or two of Borax and a little Camphire when we will use these two Waters we take equal Proportions and though they were clear before being mixed they turn as white as Milk with this wash the face and if it be too sharp you may add more water Also by mixing the Ingredients of both Liquors steeping or boyling them this Milk is made if you will cleanse more you may ad a little Oyl of Tartar or the like Another Water excellent in a red swollen Face and when there are scales and Hardness Take of Lithargy one ounce of Allum one dram of Borax three drams of Ceruss half an ounce of Vinegar two ounces or Rose Plantane water or the like four ounces boyl them to the Consumption of the third part strain them add a little Juyce of Lemmons There is also a distilled water of the Virgins Milk mentioned which is good Or this Take of pouder of Litharge one pound of Vinegar two pints steep and boyl them then add of Bean-water or the like one pint draw a water adding sometimes other things as Allum Camphire Borax Oyl of Tartar before it be distilled Or use this Oyntment Take of Litharge prepared white which is by infusing it thrice in Vinegar and drying it two ounces add Vinegar and Oyl of Guord seeds as much as will make a Liniment with Camphire dissolved in Rose-water half a dram A profitable and convenient Water is made of Tartar thus Take of calcined Tartar half a pound of burnt Allum one ounce and an half of Borax one ounce of Sugar candy two ounces of Camphire two ounces of whites of Eggs beaten twenty of the Mucilage of Fleabane seed one ounce and an half of the Juyce of Lemmons or of Vinegar two ounces draw a water There is a powerful Oyntment made of Camphire Take of unsleaked Lime two ounces quick Brimstone half an ounce pouder them and boil them in Vinegar to an Oyntment An excellent Medicine of Quick-silver Take of Peach Kernels or bitter Almonds chew them a little and being brought to a Paste take out the milky Juyce with a linnen strained and put thereto as much as a Nut of burnt Allum then take as much Quick-silver as a Pease and rub it in your Hands so long with spittle till it grows black then mix it well with the aforesaid milkie Juyce anoint the Face at bed time therewith and in the morning for the space of a Week this done before you go abroad wash it thus make a paste of Bean meal and Rice with whites of Eggs beaten keep this in balls and soften one of them in water for a Night and then rub the Face therewith upon a Towel Another is made thus Take of Quick-silver one dram of Fir-tree Rosin washed one ounce mix them well then add half an ounce of Borax one ounce of
the Breath is held doth dry excellently if it be often made of Frankincense Mastick Pitch upon Coals or if you make a Candle thereof with a wick and after lighting put it out and hold it to the Nose It will dry more with Brimstone and other Minerals Oyntments are applied with a Clout or if very strong with a quill least the parts adjacent should be touched Of Cicatrizers mentioned in an Ulcer that is best which begins thus Take of the sixth Pouder half a dram of Corrosives mentioned in an Ulcer this is best which begins with Take Antimony c. And thus Take Hermodactyls or Agrimony c. Aegyptiacum also mentioned in Fistulaes or that made with Sublimate or that which is mentioned for opening Imposthumes of Sublimate or Troches Our Caustick made of Oyl of Bricks and mentioned in Scrophula which is called the Caustick without pain is good If you will use milder take the pouder of Dragons mentioned make an Oyntment with Oxymel of Squills or Juyce of Pomegranates or Oyl Or the Juyce of the Peels and Stones of Pomegranates boiled forth with Oyl The Juyce of Dragons also is good Or this strong Oyntment Take Aegyptiacum half an ounce Pomegranate Peels and Galls each half a dram Oyl of Vitriol one scruple Or Take the strongest Vitriol or Verdegreece and mix them with Oyl or Honey with Scales of Brass It will be more strong with a little Arsenick or Sublimate There are Waters also for the same to touch them with a Quill or a little button of Lint These are mentioned in Fistula's as that which begins thus Take of Verdegreece three drams c. Or thus Take of Orpiment one dram Verdegreese three drams c. Or thus Take of Orpiment and Verdegreese each one ounce c. Or that Receipt which is mentioned for the Cure of Imposthumes and begins thus Take Vitriol and Arsenick c. Also this stilled Water Take of Allum half a pound Vitriol one ounce and an half Galls or Pouder of Pomegranate peels three ounces of Oyl or Syrup of Grapes two ounces or Juyce of green Grapes mix them with strong Vinegar and distil a Water thereof with which often wash the Polypus The Oyl of Vitriol is stronger Or this Take Oyl of Vitriol one scruple burnt Allum two drams dissolve them in Plantane-water Another most powerful Take Sublimate two drams boyl it in Smiths Forge-water three ounces to half and use it alone or with Oyl of Vitriol half a scruple burnt Allum half a dram Aqua fortis with Orpiment also cureth it The Oyl appointed for Fistula's which begins thus Take Antimony c. Is also good Cauteries of Time burnt Tartar and those which are without pain being warily applied with a Quill to desend the parts adjacent do cure it This is done sooner by an actual Cautery or hot Iron through an Iron quill We also cut it off with an Instrument first made hot in the fire to hinder bleeding That flesh which grows over the teeth The Cure of ranke flesh in the Gums because it only hinders chewing by bleeding is not much regarded because it goes away by chewing But if it grow over the Grinders then you must wash the Mouth with dryers and astringents such as are mentioned in the Ulcers of the Mouth and use things to rub the teeth such as were prescribed in Foulness of teeth The pouder Lapis Prunellae or spirit of Salt-peeter or of common Salt must be applied with a Pencil If these help not use stronger as the Oyntment of Dragon pouder and that made of Oyl and Juyces mentioned in Polypus or Oyl of Vitriol as there mentioned Or this when the teeth are covered Take Allum half a pound Vitriol c. As is there prescribed or Aqua fortis and touch the superficies of the Gums and not the Roots least the teeth grow loose defend therefore the parts in the time of Operation and wash the Mouth well afterward Epulis is a little flesh growing at the roots of the teeth it hinders not The Cure of Epulis though in a Defluxion it is somtimes bigger and goes away of it self therefore it is neglected But if it hinder chewing and cause pain then take it away with astringent Mouth waters such as are mentioned in the consuming of the Gums with Care as aforesaid But if it hang down with a slender Root and may be tyed it may be so cured Encanthis is a Caruncle in the corner of the Eye which is troublesom The Cure of Encanthis therefore you must prevent the Blood which comes thither as we shewed in Ophthalmy or Diseases of the Eyes We use outwardly dryers and astringents such as are prescribed in Ulcers of the Eyes by which it will quickly be cured But if not use stronger Remedies so that you hurt not the Eye or take away all the flesh which will cause a Rhyas which is worse therefore proceed by degrees from mild things to the strongest These are all mentioned in the Cure of the Eyes and taking away Filmes and will be as good for this This Water is most excellent and is also good for other Ulcers Take a Copper Vessel fill it with Spring water or rain-water which is better and put therein an indifferent quantity of unslaked Lime and let it stand till it is setles to four quarts of the clear water add if you make it for the eyes half an ounce of Sublimate and if for foul Ulcers an ounce and let it fall to the bottom and will be yellow pour off the clear water and keep this with you must gently touch the Caruncle in the Eye but wash the foul Ulcer soundly When Flesh grows rank in an Ulcer if it be not skin'd The Cure of proud Flesh it is easily cured as we shewed in an Ulcer but if it be cicatrized and grown over with skin it must be cured as a Wenne The Cure of tumors growing in parts without flesh is first of those in the Joynts as a Ganglion and Nodes which grow also upon the bare Bones as also of those of the Nails and then of those which grow to the skin as Warts Cornes and Callus and lastly of Freckles and Tumors like a Barley corn called Hordeoli A Ganglion is a tumor in the Joynts and though it be softer then a Scirrhus The Cure of Ganglion yet is it hard to be cured if of long continuance sometimes it is incurable but being deep rooted it hinders the motion of the Joynt and so of the Membrane This must be prevented before the tumor be confirmed And we must use all means to discuss it or make it less so that the Joynt may move And this after fitting Evacuations mentioned before in hard and soft Tumors must be done by topical or outward Remedies that soften and digest being wary as may be least it come to suppuration because when it is come to matter either of it self or by neglect it causeth perverse and
aspect and by their words and deeds they express the violence of their Minds whenas they tell false obscoene and horrid things cry out swear and with a certain brutish Appetite they go about diverse things like beasts and some of them otherwise unusual even to men and especially some of them desire Venery very much as I have seen it befal a noble Matron otherwise most honest who did invite both men and dogs to Copulation by most filthy words and gestures Moreover they strive to offer violence both to themselves and others wherefore they pull out their hairs tear their cloaths and somtimes hurt their own Body by biting and other waies and unless they be diligently restrained with Bonds and Chains the which they study to break with all endeavor and be kept close in custody where they try to break open the gates and oftentimes by a certain industry digging their Pryson to make a passage for themselves falling violently on the standers by like Beasts they endeavor to scratch them bite strangle kill But some amongst these maniacal or Melancholick som times shewing forth these accidents more vehement Possession by the Devil a sort of Madness somtimes more mild and also acting and speaking things preternatural and monstrous do manifestly declare that they are possessed by the Devil which for that reason they call men possest and Daemoniacal who besides the depraved actions of the Mind as was said are wont diversly as the Divel doth to impose marvellously upon Men and to bewitch them oftentimes they continue dumb for a long while somtimes also they abstain longer from meat then Nature otherwise could bear yet without any hurt and sometimes they so wreath their Body bend and winde it that as I have seen with my own Eyes it could by no meanes be done Naturally without Luxations of the Joynts or by guessing prophesying they divine and foretel things otherwise obstruse or they speak with Tongues which they learnt not neither understood when they were well the Divel as it were speaking thorough their Mouth the divers stories of which we could bring we purposely omit There is also a certain sort of Madness Hydrophobie a Species of Madness in which those bitten by a mad Creature are converted into the same madness with which the Creature was troubled as if this be done by a Dog they bark like Dogs or if it happen from a Wolfe they howl and set upon those they meet to bite them shunning the light and those things which are clear and bright when as in them doth appear the Image of the Dog by which they were hurt instead of the proper figure of a man as some would have it and especially fearing water and trembling at the sight of it whence this Species of Madness is peculiarly named Hydrophibia long exercising the man with a distension of the Nerves and a Redness of the whole Body especially of the face and with sweat and at length killing him unless releived Hither also is to be refer'd that horrid and wonderful but rare affect in which being struck with a certain mad fury of skipping Vitus dance they continually desire to dances which Disease they therefore cal Vitus dance from a Saint by invocation of whom they beleeve they are freed from it which though some counterfeit that they may extort the greater Almes or are therefore suborned that they may imprint the false opinion of the common people the more in the minds of men yet there are some found of both Sexes which indeed being possest with this evil are carried with an inordinate desire to dancing as that no time interposed that desire to dance with others without any rest night and day not only for some daies but weeks also and in the interim are scarce yet tired but are wonderfully recreated and refresht and unless they do so they are very much hurt whence when they take meat by compulsion or being opprest with sleep they are forced a little while to cease from dancing yet they do no waies obstain from the Agitation of their Body and presently again laying hold on any body they sollicite them to dance and that so long till at last their strength being wholly overthrown and feet bruised comming to themselves again they feel an exceeding weakness from which they can hardly be restored and made up again an example of which I when I was a young man saw in a Woman here at Basil dancing thus a whol months space in a publique place for whom the Magistrate suborned certain persons strong men that should dance with her by turnes seeing one was no waies able and many writers do testefie that it hath somtimes happen'd and the common people also is wont to imprecate this as a known evil and some Arabians have called it the dancing disposition of the Limbs and would have it to be a Species of Convulsion when yet here is no Convulsion of the Limbs but the Mind Alienated is carried and forced into this madness and perverse appetite as also in other Species of Melancholly and Madness they are possest with a desire of other things which after another manner appear also too horrible as even now we said those who are bitten by a mad Dog are rather tormented with the fear of water as according to the nature of the venenate cause these different accidents proceeds as we shall say in the Causes if so be that this inordinate dancing also do not proceed from the Devil and befall men by way of punishment by Gods permission because they have offended by dancing A Phrensie is a Dotage Dotage in which equally as in Madness the Mind is wholly Alienated yet more or less as the affect is great the which also they make known after the same manner by words and deeds now sporting it more pleasingly with Laughter Jests and Trifles now raving Angrily with Scoldings Clamors Blasphemies and desiring also to do hurt as the Maniacal to whom this happens peculiarly that because they think that Flies Locks of Wooll Straws are before their Eyes and divers apparitions do appear from their false Imagination they endeavor to hunt them pull them gather them drive them away But besides these like faults of the Mind which are common to them with the Maniacal there is a companion another grievous hot Disease A Phrensie is a Species of Dotage especially a Feaver to which if a Dotage be presently coupled at the first invasion A bastard Phrensie is another Species of Dotage this affect is called a Phrensie if that come after the Feaver hath lasted a little while and a pain of the Head also went before about the state especially if the Feaver be continual or if it come first at the beginning of the fit or in the vigor if the Feaver be intermitting then it is designed by the name of a Bastard Phrensie Therefore together with a Dotage which is somtimes very grievous somtimes more milde as was said
half Nutmegs one dram the rtots of Pellitory of Spain half a dram the leaves of Sage Marjoram of each one scruple Mix them It will do good if they drink but little and wholly abstain from the use of Wine or of clear Wine and instead of that drink Water and Honey which shall be prepared of ten parts of Water and one of Honey boyled to the Consumption of a third part and Aromatized in the end Or if he drink it more Compounded as shall be declared by and by Those things which are given to prepare the Humors are used before purging Medicines in the beginning of the Disease and are repeated when in the progress of the Disease the purging ought to be reiterated but also otherwise given they do help because they at once waste and alter the Humors as shall besaid This is done by Syrups after this manner Take of the Syrups of French Lavender Hyssop of each two ounces Honey of Rosemary flowers half an ounce the waters of Sage Ground-pine Hyssop of each one ounce and an half Make a Julep Aromatize it with the Pouder of Rosata Novella for four or five times Also Nicolaus his Syrups of Ground-pine are convenient of the Conserve of Acorus Honey of Squils although they approve of Oxymels we omit them the waters of Matjoram Betony Prim-rose Balm are allowed In place of these Water and Honey boyled with Acorus French Lavender Lavender flowers or with Sage is very convenient Also the following Decoction may be given to drink instead of these Take of the roots of the true Acorus Orrice of each six drams Cyperus Elecampane of each three drams the Herbs Sage Marjoram Ground-pine the tops of Time of each one handful Hyssop Betony Penny-royal Calamint ef each half a handful the flowers of Rose-mary French Lavender or Lavender Elder Prim-roses of each one pugil seeds of Annis Fennel of each two drams Rue one dram Liquorish root one ounce Raisons three ounces Make a Decoction adding Honey or Sugar as much as is sufficient Aromatize it with Cinnamon or with some Aromatical Pouder let her use it instead of a Julep The Remedies which are given to Drink to heat the sluggish and cold Nerves and also to waste the Humors ought to heat very much so that they may kindle a feaver because if that supervene the whol Body then grows hot and the moistures of it are Egregiously consumed with which also are mixed those things which are appropriate to the Neres and do resist Disease by a peculiar vertue But these are used presently after purging and in the whol progress of the Disease being given in the morning to them fasting or once or twice towards night in the form either of a Decoction Infusion Waters Pouders Electuaries Pills the choycest of all which we will propound Somtimes the more grateful Decoctions are given upon that account because they loath ingrateful things in that form of which sort Compound Hydromel or Mead is very effectual if it be drank somtimes before Meat or otherwise which is thus made Take of Water twenty pound Honey one pound and an half the roots of Acorus dried Sage of each one ounce the roots of Orrice half an ounce Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part Aromatize it in the end with Cinnamon Nut-meg of each two drams Pepper half a dram Make a Melicrate the which also may be done after the same manner with Sugar Other Medicinal Decoctions may be reduced into the form of a Svrup and used which may be boyled as hath been said there with the formentioned preparatives and purgers or taking away those things which purge and so be given Or of juyces after this manner Take of the juyces of Sage and Ground-pine of each one ounce and an half the juyce of Marjoram one ounce Lavender water two ounces the most generous Wine two ounces Sugar or Honey two ounces Boyl them to the consistence of a Syrup Aromatize it with Nut-meg and the roos of Galangal of each one dram Let him take often one spoonful Infusions especially those made in Wine do good for though Wine especially if it be stronge is no waies convenient yet acquiring the strength of other things to it self and being to them as it were a Vehicâ—e to the Nerves it becomes profitable being somtimes taken by way of Medicine but it is prepared of the simple Infusion of Sage or of some convenient Plant. Or a Compound one as followeth Take of the roots of Acorus two ounces the leaves of dried Sage one ounce and an half Ground-pine Cow-slips of each one ounce Wormwood half an ounce Nutmeg one ounce Zedoary half an ounce white Wine or new Wene or Wine a little boyled twenty pound If you add of the shavings of Guajcum one pound the wine will be more effectual Distilled waters or those made by infusion are highly magnified by some which are given by themselves in the morning or are mixt with others as the more simple ones of Rosemary Sage Marjoram Time Lavender especially if the Liquor be extracted out of them dry being first steeped in Wine Cinnamon water as it is grateful so also t is effectual the water of Ground-pine and Primroses are chiefly appropriate Many Compound ones are made for these uses such as we have described also in an Apoplexy this also will be rightly fitted for the work Take of the roots of the true Acorus Angelica or Masterwort Elecampane of each fix drams the leaves of Sage Marjoram Rose-mary Ground-pine Rue the flowers of Lavender Prim-roses of each half an ounce Galangal Nutmeg Zedoary Cinnamon Cloves of each there ounces Being thus pouderd steep them in strong-wine or in that first distilled till it be thick as Frumenty afterwards draw forth the Liquor give one spoonful often in the morning it will be more effectual if you infuse a little Castor in part of it and give it or if you fear the strong seml of that let a few grains of Musk be added Divers commodious pouders are prepared which are either drank by themselves from one dram to one dram and an half being dissolved in the waters of Sage Marjoram Lavender Cinnamon Groundpine and also with Honey and Rosemary flowers or Anacardine or of Squils or with other Syrups Or eight parts of Sugar being added to one of Pouder they are so taken Or the Sugar being first dissolved with the said Waters Lozenges are made and then they are given in greater quantity Or they are mixt with Conserves and Electuaries Of the usual ones the most excellent are the Pouder of Diamoschum Dulce and Amarum Diathamaron Pleres with Musk Rosata Novella and other Aromatical Pouders are convenient Instead of which these following also may be prepared that called A more simple one of Nutmeg after this manner Take of Nutmegs three drams root of Pellitory of Spain two drams make a Pouder of which if one dram be given for some mornings with Sage water and Honey of Rosemary flowers it
blood which stretcheth the Member in men as we shewed in defect of Venery If Seed be plentiful it causeth Sanguin men Plenty of seed and heat is the cause of a Venereal Itch. by reason of fulness or heat of the Vessels which continually attract blood which desires expulsion where it aboundeth to be Lascivious Especially when the Seed is hotter then ordinary and sharper Sharpness of seed is the cause of Frensie of the Womb in Women so called this we have shewed may come of eating hot Spices or Medicines And of hot humors and sharp not in the Womb of salt Flegm and Choller as is usual but from the seed which is venemous and sharp from the heat of which comes the unsatiable Itch which is usual in unclean Women who infect men therewith Men when they are thus infected have a running of the Reins which sends it forth but women have it not so usually Some say that the cause why Lepers are not Lecherous is because they are separated from women and constrained to be abstinenr Seed raised from its Vessels Shaking of the Seed causeth a Venereal Itch. and desiring passage causeth Itch and is scarse hindered from flowing for this is the condition thereof while it is sound and in its own place except it abound that it doth not much prick But when it is removed it is very troublesome to get forth so it is for by imagination dreams and handling Seed may be spent by both Sexes When much Arterial blood sils the Yard and continueth The cause of Priapismus or Erection preternatural is the plenty of blood gathered in the Privities it causeth Priapismus or constant standing with a desire of which we now speak But it may hapen that there may be Erection before the blood come to prick the part and a desire afterwards from thence Also it may come from heat of the Reins and parts adjacent by blood caused from lying upon the back upon feather beds or boards which posture makes blood come sooner to the part and makes Erection and greater Appetite as experience sheweth And heat of the bed makes men rise at midnight as the Proverb is If it come from other causes as Pain Inflamation Wind or Water it belongs to another treatise The Cure If Men or Women are provoked to Venery to prevent unlawful acts The Cure of the Venereal Itch and Frensie and of Priapismus the heat is to be allay'd by hindering increase of Seed and heat thereof as also of blood and preventing the commotion of Seed Thus Purges are chiefly requisite when foul and sharp humors corrupt and sharpen the Seed and cause lust To cool lust we give things that quench or that dry though hot if they consume it by a propriety nor do we spend time to Cure and expel wind which is not the cause as we said we give them evening or morning often for the effect will not quickly be seen Sallats at supper of Lettice Purslane Mints with Vinegar are proper without Spices And this Electuary Take Conserve of Water-lillies and Mints of each an ounce Lettice and Coleworts candied six drams seeds of Agnus Castus so called from its vertue one dram and an half Rue half a dram Coral one dram Crystal half a dram Camphire a scruple with syrup of Purslane Make an Electuary A convenient Pouder Take Snakweed roots one dram Mints Rue Water-lillies dried of each half a dram the seeds of Vitex one dram and an half Hemp seeds Grapes Lettice of each one dram and an half Crystal one dram Camphire a scruple make a Pouder take a dram in broath or syrup of Purslane or with a little Sugar or made into Tablets with Rose and Lettice A convenient Syrup Take juyce of Lettice and Purslane of each two ounces juyce of Mints half an ounce Violet and Rose-water of each an ounce Vineger of Roses half an ounce Sugar three ounces Boyl them to a Syrup give an ounce often The Decoction of Lettice Purslane Endive Mints is good in broath Cold water drunk in great quantity allaies lust Some affirme that they can take away all desire and use of Venery with Wine in which the Fish called Mullus is infused others give forty Pismires in drink Outwardly cool the Feet Privities Loynes so to wash the Yard in cold water makes it presently fall this remedy my Father told me a learned man used who the first year of his Mariage lost his Wife and Child at once in Child-bed that he night die a Widdower without desire of Women Things that Potentially cool mixed with driers and applied by Fomentation to the Privities extinguish lust as the Decoction of Lettice Plantane Purslane Willows Water-lillies and the like Especially if they be applied to the Feet with Vinegar The juyces of the same to foment the Stones adding a little Vinegar and Camphire is better and injected into the Womb doth the same for Women Vinegar of Roses doth the like It is good to anoynt the Reins with this Take Oyl of water Lillies two ounces juyce of Lettice one ounce and an half Vinegar half an ounce boyl them to the consuming of the juyces add seeds of Vitex one dram Camphire half a dram white Wax a little Make an Oyntment Unguentum Album with Camphire or that cooler of Galen for the Reins with Camphire doth the same And also Plates of Lead to the Reins Sugar and Crystal of Lead with Oyntments and Correcters given in a smal quantity are commended by the Chymists The smel of Camphire stupifieth lust therefore they teach that it is to be worn to preserve chastity which it doth by touching it or tying to the Arms And Vitex and Vervain they say doth the same Great fasting doth somewhat allay lust especially abstinence from hot Meats Spices and Wine which rule they ought to observe which pretend to chastity by abstaining from certain Meats as the Friers who pretend to mortifie by eating of Shel-fish and Botargo and the like in the holy time of Lent The sorrow of mind and grief take away lust And Diseases with pain whether hot or cold By letting blood something is abated but it cannot make the Body lean or weak without some other inconvenience It is reported that one cured his Wife of her unsatiable desire by opening all the usual Veins And Hippocrates teacheth by the example of the Scythians that the opening of the Veins behind the Eares maketh Sterility and Impotency Gelding is the extream remedy for extream Lechery and taking off the Yard is the surest way for which cause they say Origen Gelt himself And I know a Priest that having been often punished for sin in that kind did the same and Masters usually do so to their Servants to whom they commit their Wives but they deserve this punishment best that sin in Adultery and Fornication and therein persevere The surest remedy is Mariage which is granted by God to all that want the gift of Chastity CHAP. 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Violets Bugloss each half a dram pouder of Cloves half a dram of Saunders and Wood Aloes each a scruple Saffron five grains Diamargariton frigidum half a dram bind them in two little bags sprinkle them with Wine Vinegar and Juyces and bind them to the Pulses An Oyntment for the Heart and Pulses Take Oyl of Violets and Roses each an ounce the Mucilage of Fleabane seeds half an ounce Gallia Moschata a dram Camphire six grains Saffron half a scruple juyce of Lemons two drams mix them Oyntments for the Liver and Epithems to cool it and strengthen and open it if stopped for the Liver is hot in Fevers and inflames other parts Thus Take Lettice Water-lilly and Nightshade Water each one ounce and an half Rose-water an ounce Endive and Succory water each two ounces Vinegar of Roses an ounce Camphire six grains make an Epithem Another better against obstructions Take Endive Liver-wort and Succory water each two ounces Rose water an ounce and an half Lettice and Housleek water each an ounce Wormwood water six drams pouder of the three Sanders Spike and red Rose leaves each half a dram Vinegar one ounce Troches of Camphire half a scruple If you add Salt-peter or Lapis Prunellae these Epithems will cool more and resist putrefation Also this Bag Take flowers of red Roses Violets and Succory each a pugil all the Sanders half a dram seeds of Sorrel Endive and Purslane each a dram Parsley seed half a dram Spikenard a scruple sow them in a red cloth being bruised steep it in Vinegar Rose and Endive water apply it warm to the Liver After anoynt with Oyntment of Sanders or with Oyl of Roses and Violets with Spike and Wax Because the heat of the Reins is great which inflameth other parts use Galens cool Oyntment Or thus Take of Galens cool Oyntment two ounces Oyl of Violets and Roses each an ounce Vinegar half an ounce Camphyre five grains Mix them and anoynt The Stones have a consent with the Reins and the whol Body by reason of many Vessels therefore to cool them abates Inflammation of the Body Thus Take water of Plantane and water Lillies each four ounces Vinegar of Roses an ounce red Wine an ounce and an half wet a clout therein and apply it cold Cold washings of the outward parts by reason of the consent and the Vessels under the Skin and the Nerves do the same and cause sleep Thus Take Lettice Violet Housleek Purslane Vine-leaves Willow each one handful Poppy heads twelve or the leaves if sleep be wanting one handful Vinegar an ounce white Wine half a pint water as much as is sufficient wash the Hands Arms Legs and Feet with the Decoction warm at night It is good to hold cold things as Stones and Apples in the Hand It is good in Feavers to keep up the strength if they are continual and acute which we must have an Eye at For when it fails the Physitians labors in Vain because it is natures work to conquour a Feaver and if she yeild to the disease there can be no perfect Crisis but it is either imperfect or the Patient dieth in the battel Strength is preserved by order in good Air meat and drink and the like and by Medicines Air doth much refresh if it be cool and pure for then it refresheth and altereth Food as it is necessary for sick sound to restore what is lost while they live so it is required here because the body is dissolved with heat but because it must be concocted by nature by which means she is hindered from concocting the matter of the Disease especially if any quantity be taken Therefore let so much serve as will just sustaine and not put nature to too much trouble to concoct it Let it be thin as Hippocrates shews in acute diseases and that little nourisheth and given at certain times Or extream thin or indifferent thin alwaies observing custome which is another nature Hippocrates saith that an extream thin Diet is to be used in the vigor of the disease this the Patient endures best at that time And it is the better extream to give too sparing a diet at that time then too much by which the common people think to strengthen nature to over come the disease This is the most sparing which is given but once a day or twice when of little nourishment As Barley broath twice a day in the state only of the Feaver Or a Ptisan which is stronger this is the cream or juyce of Barley hulled and cleansed And it is given thinner or thicker as you please as you desire it should nourish This allayes choler also And also the juyce of Wheat called Starch or Rice well boyled doth easier digest and less swel The Germans use Hen or Chicken broath with alterers And they are good Also cream of Almonds or Emulsions is given not as drink but meat That slender diet which is fuller a little then this which Hippocrates saith must be at the beginning and continue to the state must be also used But when the exacerbation or fit comes or a little before the Patient must not eat not only to prevent the hindering of natures motion but to keep the heat from increasing which it doth after meat as we shall shew in Hecticks The fuller but sparing Diet is that which is given oftâ—er as twice or thrice in a day and hath more nourishment As the beaten flesh of a Chicken well boyled first and washed with its broath or stronge broath of the same Eggs because in cholerick persons they quickly corrupt are not to be given rashly nor Milk for the same reason which Hippocrates proclaimes to be naught in Feavers To this Diet belong sops in broath Prunes Apples Peares not sharp but fresh or new gathered or throughly dryed for then their juyce is most excellent and therefore the Germans keep all sorts of fruits so preserved and dryed or boyl'd in their Liquor or syrup wherein they are kept The other are made of Plants and are given for alteration rather then nourishment as sower fruits Wine is beyond all for refreshing and is not allowed but in the declining of the Feaver by reason of its heat especially when they sweat and also because it causeth Head-ach which is usual in a Feaver But in the declining it may be given to provoke Urin and refresh and also a fuller diet often and of little nourishment Sleep refresheth yet of some it is denied all the time of the Feaver while the heat goes outward least by sleep it should come inward But it is in vain to fear it because heat by sleep goes outward rather then inward at which time we see men are more hot and sweat and also because it allayes thirst Moreover nature makes better concoction in time of sleep and is active at that time in overcoming the cause of the disease Nevertheless in the exacerbation or fit of the Feaver it is better to abstaine from sleep And at
drink or give a dram or half a dram in Wine or the like I prepare them thus I slice and clense the roots and steep them two or three daies in Sack and dry them in the shade and keep the Pouder The Dose is half a dram or a dram to the strongest Or Take Phaseoli a pugil of Dill Atriplex and Radish seeds each three drams dryed Calamints a dram and an half boyl them and to four ounces add Oxymel simple or of Squils if flegm be tough Many have been cured by Stibium and other strong Vomits as white Hellebour and then they Vomit abundance of flegm with yellow and green Choller and there is a great Evacuation from the Meseraicks by nature most stirred up But because this is dangerous they must not be given rashly to any as Empericks do We repeat purges differing according to Feavers oftentimes If after purging an exquisite Tertian double and Acute cease not it is sufficient afterwards tokeep the Belly open with a Clyster and to invite nature to send out the humor from the Meseraicks for which the Clyster above mentioned must be often given or a stronger Or this every other or third day Take Barley Pease each a pugil Mallows Violets Beets Atriplex each a handful Chamomil stowers a pugil Annis seeds a dram make a Decoction dissolve Honey of Violets red Sugar each an ounce and an half Oyl of Violets three ounces with the yolk of an Egg and a little Salt make a Clyster If the Feaver cease not give a gentle purging Clyster as broath made of Orach Violets Spinage Mallows or a Potion of Rheubarb or Cassia as abovesaid In bastard Feavers especially long lasting you must purge a fresh and prepare first with those above mentioned used discrnetly and altered if need be These Medicines that prepare the way and matter and evacuate are commended if they are somtimes used and then a stronger given In divers Formes As this Apozem Take roots of Succory Asparagus Grass each an ounce and an half Dock and Sorrel roots each an ounce Parsley and Fennel roots each half an ounce Liquorish six drams Endive Succory round Sorrel Maidenhair Bugloss each a handful Bettony Burnet each half a handful four great Cold-seeds each two drams Annis seed a dram and an half Fennel seeds a dram Cordial flowers a gugil Chamomil flowers half a pugil Prunes and Sebestens each ten Tamarinds six drams Carthamus bruised an ounce and an half Steep the roots in sharp Wine and then boyl them all in water and while the strained Liquor is hot Agarick half an ounce boyl a little adding yellow Myrobalans and Rhubarh each half an ounce with a dram of Cinnamon a scruple of Spike and three drams of syrup of Roses Laxative give it every other day a good draught and according as it works give more or less the next time You may boyl the half of it with Sugar to make it last And use somtimes the Apozem and somtimes the syrup or give it being all a syrup alone or with convenient liquor or Barley or Pease broath While this Syrup is preparing you may give syrup Diasereos or of Roses solutive with Rhubarb An infusion in Wine is good because many delight in Wormwood Wine and Wormwood doth better allay the stink of Senna then anything and amends the hurt that purges do to the Stomach and the Wine being opening helps it by piercing and the heat can do no hurt being but a little Opening Wine is thus made Take Succory roots an ounce and an half Grass roots an ounce Parsley and Fennel roots half an ounce Orris roots two drams Wormwood three drams Germander Ground-pine Maiden hair of each two drams Sorrel Liver-wort Maudlin each two draws Cordial flowers each a dram Annis seeds a dram Parsley seed half a dram Senna one ounce and an half Rhubarb three drams Spike half a dram Agarick four drams Ginger bound in a cloute with the Spike a scruple pour upon them all of strong Wine dashed with a little water and of Endive water five pints because some part will be drunk up by the ingredients Let them infuse a night and boyl in the morning and cool by degrees use it as the Apozem Before mentioned after three or four daies heat it again to keep it from corrupting You may make Electuaries for the same thus Take Cassia new drawn two ounces Tamarinds pulped with Endive water an ounce and half Manna an ounce Catholicon Diaprunis and Lenitive Electuary half an ounce Rhubarb infused in white Wine til it be soft two drams Spike a scruple Senna a dram and an half first sprinkled with Wine Cinnamon and Annis seed each half a dram with syrup of the five roots and Succory with Rhubarb make an Electuary take first half an ounce to try and then increase the Dose by degrees give it every other day alone or with Liquor as he pleaseth These are the usual Pills Take Agarick two drams Turbith a dram Ginger a scruple Rhubarb three drams Spike half a scruple Diagredium prepared with juyce of Roses a scruple extract of Wormwood a dram with syrup of Roses make a Mass take half a dram in the morning fasting every other or third day drinking after a little syrup of Violets with Endive water If the Feaver abate not with these use stronger as this Potion Take Liquorish an ounce Raysons an ounce and an half Prunes six Tamarinds six drams tops of Time a dram Polypody Senna each half an ounce Carthamus seeds six drams Annis and Fennel seed each a dram boyl them infuse Rhubarb four scruples Spike half a scruple Agarick a dram and an half strain and dissolve Diaphaenicon a dram and an half Or Take Electuary of juyce of Roses Diaphaenicon Confectio hamech each a dram and an half syrup of Roses made with the infusion of Senna an ounce with Wormwood Wine and Endive water make a Potion Or these Pills Take Aggregative of Myrobalans and sine Quibus each a scruple make nine Pills with white Wine In long Quartans you may somtimes rest a month and then prepare and purge again The humor being Cholerick and thick blood is thus prepared Take syrup of Fumitory and Epithymum each an ounce syrup of Violets and of Endive each half an ounce waters of Fumitory Bugloss and Endive each an ounce and an half add yellow Sanders and drink it five or six daies In Spring when Herbs may be had or Autumn Thus Take of both Buglosses Hops Fumitory each a handful beat them with two ounces of Vinegar strain and add the juyce of sweet Apples a pint with Sugar drink it often Afterwards purge as formerly Or thus Take Damask prunes ten Raysons Jusubes Sebestens each twelve Cordial flowers a pugil Annis seed a dram boyl them in water and white Wine add yellow and Indy Myrobalans rubbed with Oyl of sweet Almonds each three drams Rhubarb a dram Spike six grains Senna half an ounce Epithimum and tops of Time each a dram and
make Lozenges to be eaten on the well daies Sugar of Roses by it self or with other things is much commended and that called Manus Christi and Trionsantalon and Diacorallium In quartans for Melancholly Take species of Diarhodon Trionsantalon each half a dram Diamoschu half a scruple Laetificans Galeni half a scruple with Sugar dissolved in Rose or Bugloss water make Lozenges Soft Electuaries Take Conserves of Cordial flowers each an ounce Conserve of Hearts-tongue Maydenhair and Ceterach each half an ounce candied Citron peels two drams species of Diarrhodon Diatragacanth frigid and Diamargariton frigid each a scruple with the syrup of Citrons Or thus Take Diabuglossati and Diaboraginati each an ounce Letitiae Almasoris two drams species de Gemis Aromatici Rosati each half an ounce with syrup of Apples Or for Melancholy Take the four Cordial conserves each an ounce Species Cordial for meat fragments of precious Stones and Pearls each half a scrnple Gold leaves with syrup of Currans and Cherries or Sower Apples make an Electuary Cooling Pills Take Troches of Camphire two scruples with Vinegar make Pills give half a scruple Mollifying Clysters all the time of the Disease do alter And also moist Dyet Moist flesh as of young beasts Veal Pigs Kids Chickens boyled also brook Fish seasoned with Pepper In quartans rare Egs are good but in Cholierck stomachs they soon corrupt Grapes are very refreshing also Peaches and Pippins Give bread fopt in broath and Cream of Barley Make broath with Lettice Borrage and Bugloss in quartans with Endive and Sorrel such as we prescribed for continual putrid Feavers and give Bugloss water in broaths Make sawce of sower Grapes and Vinegar Capers and Olives well washt from the Salt and our Compound called in High-dutch Sumpist Also Confections of sower fruits and the same crude except there be other things that hinder or dryed and softned again are good Sallats also of Lettice and Vinegar and a little Oyl and Succory roots boyled and eaten with Oyl and Vinegar Let the Air be cool by nature or art Apply Epithems to cool the Liver Thus Take water of Succory and Endive each four ounces Wormwood water two ounces yellow Sanders and Roses each a scruple Spike half a scruple Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Then anoynt with the Cerot of Sanders Oyl of Violets washed with cold water each an ounce Spike half a scruple For the Heart this is a good Epithem Take Rose-water two ounces Borage and Bugloss water each an ounce Balm water half an ounce Vinegar of Roses six drams Cordial species or Diamargariton a dram Saffron a scruple Then anoynt the Heart and Pulses with this Take Treacle two drams Oyntment of water Lillies a dram juyce of Lemons half a dram Saffron and Camphire each five grains make a Liniment If the Reins be hot Take the mucilage of Flea bane seeds made with Rose water an ounce Sanders two drams Camphire half a scruple Oyl of Roses and Violets each an ounce with Virgins Wax make an Oyntment A moist Bath of moystning things is good in quartans to alter and is best out of the fit if the Ague hath been long Albeit the vulgar people fear to moisten in intermitting Feavers and if they walk but near a River they fear a â—elapse And therefore by old Wives superstition forbid any that are recovered to cross over a Bridge or go by Sea or in a Boat or walk upon new broken up or tilled ground wheras that moisting of the body in long Feavers when the heat a little abateth is good especially if there be a Consumption There must be a good course of Diet in respect of food Air Sleep and excercise to keep up strength if the Feaver be sharp least he fall or to hold him up if it be long The Air must be pure and free and somtimes perfumed Meat and Drink must be thin in the beginning of all intermitting Feavers In which Avicen teaches that hunger and thirst endured the first week conduceth much to the Cure And if they be long and Chronical as bastard Agues and quartans and they live sparing the first three weeks they are easily Cured Afterwards a fuller Diet is allowed and when the choller grows hotter in Tertians and quartans and they cannot endure fasting In the fit we give no food least nature should be hindered in concocting the matter of the Disease and least the food should be corrupted with preternatural heat and the Feaver increased for we see that after meat it doth as in Hecticks And then we deny nourishing drink if but of Barley in any quantity and Almond Milk especially when thick But if the patient be cholerick and thin bodied least choller should be enraged or an Hectick follow we allow even in the fit a little food as to Children in respect of custom Out of the fit Cholerick persons may eat in the declining of the Feaver and before it cometh two or three hours But in long Agues as quartans it is good to fast the whol day wherein they have their fit and let food be given six or seven hours before the fit or so long time before as a Concoction may be before it come And this is to be observed in double Feavers that come every day alwaies choosing that time of rest which is farthest from the fit and feeding presently after the fit because the Disease returnes soon And let it be easie of Digestion as we shewed in altering things and continual Feavers Wine is good in quartans and other bastard Agues because it refresheth but give it out of the fit at meat and not immoderately and if thirst be great give it with boyled water white thin and new Wine is best especially in cholerick persons old wine inflames you may give red Wine if it be clear and dasht with water Sleep refresheth in the declining of the fit as waking hurts and sleeping is hurtful in the beginning of the fit In quartans moderate excercise is good Passions of minde if sad and immoderte hurt and pleasant and moderate do good We have shewed what Medicines are fit to preserve and restore strength in the alterers The Symptoms abate and depart with the disease and if any of them be extraordinary the Cure thereof shall be regarded either by respecting all the accidents together by hindering the fit or by respecting that in perticular of which hereafter The Paroxysme or fit is when all the accidents from heat and cold appear and departt with the fit which fit and accidents if hindered there is a Cure in part that is of the Symptome not of the cause but of the evaporation or motion that inflames the Heart Things that take away chilness which is the first fit do this and then though heat follow the vulgar suppose the Ague to be cured or abated And somtimes it comes to pass that when shaking by which means the feaverish matter passeth through the Body is hindered then both the hot and cold fit are prevented
parts and hinder motion As we shewed in want of Motion from a Dislocation The same pain may be from broken Bones out of their place which tear the parts and hinder motion as we shewed in want of Motion from a Fracture Or from the Spondils of the Back broken out which cause Pain Swelling and Ulcers before they come forth as I knew in a Child of seven years old who was born crook-baked and had a Tumor in his left Shoulder out of which came many small bones of his Back with much matter Solution of Continuity internal in a sensible part causeth pain Rupture is the cause of pain in the Hernia as when the Membrane about the Belly is broken Especially when the guts come forth and there is an Hernia As for other sensible parts as Muscles and Nerves they can scarce be broken without an external force Of these we shall speak in the Diseases of the Skin Also Distemper causeth pain Distemper causeth pain with other Symptoms joyned whether cold or hot If it be outward it is to be referred to Diseases of the skin if inward it comes from Defluxion or congestion of Humors as shall be shewed And in the Fits of Agues the pain felt in the Back and Members comes first from Cold and then from heat because the Cause lyeth in the great Vessels which are near the Back and inflame the Nervous parts An Humor heaped which is corrupt from evil Nourishment or Weakness of Concoction or crude Congestion of Humors causeth an external Head-ach causeth pain in the bloodless parts about the Bones Periostium and Membranes where by reason of Cold they are more easily heaped up and more slowly discussed This is often in the Head between the skul and skin by reason of the plenty of Veins which afford Excrements which cannot easily be discussed by reason of the thickness of the skin Hence comes Cephalaea or Heach-ach external This may be in other places upon bare Bones like that in the French Pox with Swelling and Nodes when the Nourishment of the part aboundeth and turns to a Callus as shall be shewed in external Tumors Also when these Humors are heaped without the Skull Congestion of Humors causeth outward Heaviness Congestion of Humors causeth the Joynt-gout there comes a pain external which goes before Defluxions and Joynt-gouts The same Excrements about the bloodless Region of the Joynts not flowing from other parts may cause a kind of Joynt-gout This comes by degrees not suddenly as that which comes from a Defluxion nor doth it cause great pain and the tumor is only oedematous This Arthritis or Joynt-gout seldome comes first but follows the other which comes from Defluxion when the part is weakned from which Defluxions new Excrements are gathered Hence they are free from the Gout but there is some sign of it either from Defluxion or Congestion of Humors Or if there be another kind of Arthritis from both as a Sciatica It lasteth long and hath great changes A Defluxion of Humors causeth sudden pains A Defluxion of Humors causeth the Joynt-gout and other pains and they are either simple Defluxions or Arthritical The Humors either flow from within the Vessels or otherwise Humors congested without the Vessels that cause these two sorts of pain are supposed either flegmatick or waterish but a waterish Humor or pure Whey flowing to these parts causeth resolution or tumor without pain rather then with great pam And therefore it must be mixed with other Excrements and then as it is more cholerick sharp or salt or evil it stretcheth and tearing the part more or less and causeth pain accordingly The Original of this serous Humor comes from the Head and flows downwards And it is somtimes congested in the inward part thereof within the Skull from the Blood which is plentiful in the Head when it is crude or impure And when any part thereof is unfit for Nourishment and will not be concocted there are Excrements in the Brain which fall down and cause pain Before which there was a Heaviness in the Head from the Matter heaped up and other accidents Also excrementitious blood sent to the Brain comes from the weakness of the first or second Concoction or from its Crudity and the rather if the Brain be weak Hence it is that though good blood be bred in the first Concoction yet because it cannot be assimilated or brought into substance in the third there are many Excrements and more when it is not at first well concocted or mixed with Excrements This cause of the weakness of the Brain is either from the Parents or from age and Disease especially from Wine and Venery the one stupefying and the other spending the Spirits and both weakning the Nerves and Brain and taking away strength Of the excess of which the Gout is the punishment The plenty of this humor in the brain causeth it to flow down or external cold wind or moistness that pierceth the Brain and straineth and squeeseth it or heat of the Sun or Baths causeth Defluxions rather by opening the passages and stirring up the Faculty to expel then by melting the Flegm as they call it Also great motion that shakes the Head by Neesing Coughing or the like causeth the abounding Humor to slow down And we have shewed that the same humor may be without the Skull and flow down and cause pain before which was Head-ach or Heaviness and Swelling of the skin And also we shewed the Cause why Humors are easily gathered there And the same Causes that made the Humor flow which was internal may move the external as cold and heat and sooner as we ordinarily may perceive The Defluxion of this Humor which is both within and without the Skull is divers For if that flow which is in the Skull it causeth Diseases in the Habit of the Body and others also as it falls into the bottom of the skull into the three cavities For if it fall into the upper chamber next the Forehead then it is strained through the holes of the straining Bone and comes like clear water out of the Nose and is called Coriza If it fall into the middle Cell or Chamber which goeth to the Pallate with many holes it either passeth thin presently or continueth and turneth thick into Snot and so is blown out at the Nose or hawked out Or if it flow towards the Eyes it is turned to Tears as we shall shew in things sent forth But if it follow the passage of the Nerves in the middle cell or fall into the hinder Cavity of the Skull which is lower and larger through the great hole behind which contains the the narrow from whence come the pain of Nerves it fals into the Habit of the Body into fleshy parts or Joynts and causeth the Gout Also when the Humor gathered without the Skull flows down under the skin it causeth pains according to the parts as we shall shew If it
with pain and knawing or ulceration of the flesh Scabies or Scabrities is so called because it makes the skin rough and with a crust and is moist or dry The common moist itch and scab The moist is with Pustles that have sanies and Pus one is called vulgar in which many Pustles called Ephelides do arise from which broken sanies or thin matter cometh if they be a little inflamed and red they impostume and are covered with a dry crust made of the dryed matter which is blew or black or otherwise Colored The itch goeth before this scab which causeth pustles by scratching which break when the skin is broak there is after a cutting pain and if the pustles be inflamed there is burning pain This scab or itch is so frequent that scarse one is freed but in his life time hath it There is Another moist scab less usual then the former The Cruel scab called Agria or Fera in Dutch Herbrolen but worse with little pustles out of which cometh a rough humor like Honey alwaies moist and covering the parts with a thick white green or black scab Some call this Fera or Agria The Germans call it den Herbroten or Harbroten when the part affected is like a toast covered with hairs This is often in Infants heads seldom in aged somtimes it is in the Eye-brows Cheeks and Face very noysome and in other parts There is another kind of scab peculiar in the Head Running Vlcers of the Head called Tinea Achores or scald which with many sinal holes peircing to the Skul out of which come glutinous matter that being dried causeth a crust or scab therefore they are called sordid running Ulcers by the Greeks Achores and because the skin looks like Moath-eaten cloth it is called Tinea a Moth. And the English call it the running scab of the Head and the scald And if the holes be large and the matter like Honey Favus it is called Favus from the likeness it hath to a Honey comb This is perverse and usual in children spoyling the roots of the hairs which are white and thick when the hair is pulled off and after it is cured it leaves many bear places in the Head which is ill favoured to be seen There are other pustles which may be referred to the moist scab which have a dryness at the top and sweat and moisture Some whereof are with greater Imflammation and Ulceration as those called Terminthi because they are as big as Lupines or Pease Terminthus The Germans call them Huntsblatern they are black round and red and inflamed about very burning and quickly dry and when the scurfe is taken off or lifted up matters comes forth They are most usually in the feet and many together Galen desicribes them to be most common in Women and some say they are a kind of Phyma Epinychtis is not unlike this it is as big as a Terminthus Epinychtis blew and very red round about and burns very much at night and turns to an Ulcer and sends forth sâ—ymy matter Also there are waterish pustles called Phlyctaenae that being broken have a scurse and are painful Phlyctaenae they are smal as bubles or greater like bladders which broaken send forth clear water with pain and a crust they may be in any part There is another kind that hath yellow transparent bladders Herpes Phlyctanodes which being whol itch and burne and being open yellow water comes forth with great burning and Inflammation and a running Ulcer it is called Herpes Phlyctanodes The dry scab or Scabrities is so called in distinction from the moist The dry scab which hath dry pustles without matter and makes the skin rough and itcheth much It is of two sorts one is in the extremity of the skin with little pustles dry red and corroding more or less sweating moisture forth with intolerable itch called Prurigo or in Greek Cnismos of some Impetigo and Psora or Scab And Rubrica it is about the Emunctuaries in the Groyns and Arm-pits Prurigo or Cnismos and bending of the Knees and Arms and most usual in the Neek The other kind of dry scab is worse The foul scab called foul and in high Dutch Mager because it makes the body lean and dry by degrees it comes of it self or from a Herpes not cured And is at first greater then Prurigo making the skin rough and dry the Greeks call it Lichen it is chiefly in the Legs and Arms somtimes if the scabs creep and make the skin more rough hard and swollen with chous and being rub'd bran fals off and then the Greeks call it Psora It is not only in the Feet and Arms but in other parts especially the Neck and Face and Head in the Hair like a scurfe of Clay or Chalk from which a dry scale falls and it is horrible to behold If it last long it corrods and makes clefts in the skin and there fals thick scales yellow or blew this is the Greek Leprosy not the Elephantiasis of the Arabians Greek Leprosy though they are taken one for the other but this is more incurable and returns again and is as horrible as Elephantiasis especially if it eat off the Nose We call this the worst Scab Papula or Herpes comes forth with little Pustles Papula or Herpes of the Greeks first with itching and then burning but with Inflammation or Feaver and though the Pustles dry new come about them as if they were begotten of the former Some are like Millium seed called Herpes miliaris which creeps but sooner stayes Herpes miliaris Others are dry little Pustles and are deeper in the skin and break into Ulcers with one Matter and when cured returns with new dry Ulcers broad and high This is called Estheomenus or in high Dutch Den worm from its creeping and corroding if it last long it turns to Impetigo and then into a Psora and after into the Greek Leprosie but not into Elephantiasis When it ulcerates it is like Erysipelas ulcerated and call'd the holy fire or wild fire but Erysipelas comes suddenly with Inflamation Redness Holy or wild Fire Feaver and being ulcerated hath greater Pustles or Bladders and after them a moist Ulcer which is not so in Herpes but dry and without matter The Carbuncle or Anthrax in Greek hath many Pustles Carbuncle Anthrax in Greek or Persian Fire smal like burnings very hot called thence Persian Fire with a black Crust like a Cole and thence called Carbo or live Cole because of the redness round about under which after suppuration there is no matter but a blak Lump of Flesh fastned to the Roots with a Feaver and great weakness Like this is the Anthrax of the back between the shoulders with many Pustles together red which broken there comes matter forth as from a spunge which turns to a hollow Ulcer over all the upper part of the Back with lumps This
Superficies of the body that divides the skin and flesh also this comes not at first as a wound from an external Cause but from a Pustle or Tumor or a Wound or of it self We spake of Ulcers with Tumors or Pustles in Cancer Carbuncle Herpes and Scab Here we shall speak of Ulcers after Inflammation and Imposthumes broken with matter or flesh or after an Erysipelas when the Blysters are broken Or of such as come from foul Wounds or Humors They are all simple or Compound A simple Ulcer is when there is onely foulness when it is not hollow Simple sordid Ulcers plain and cavous it is called a plain Ulcer when there is hollowness from lost Flesh as when it follows an Imposthume and is round it is called a cavous Ulcer If it be long or like a Burrough or Channel coming forth it is called sinuous and if the passage go strait a fistulated Ulcer All have filthy matter but the hollow most A sinuous Ulcer it is white of a mean consistance called concocted sweet and equal Or discoloured waterish or crude unequal or stinking There are also thick slimy Matter about Ulcers and Wetness The pain is not so great in them as in Inflammations or Imposthumes breeding only it is lancing and increased with touching or tenting And if Ulcers be in the parts ordained for motion or go to the Bowels they hurt the Functions Compound Ulcers are divers especially that with proud Flesh which would be ill cured Compound ulcers if before it be removed Other Ulcers are sinuous and girt about with a Tunicle within Growing ulcers without flesh fending forth no humor from the flesh which is not naked and cannot be cured till the Cavity be filled with flesh Fistula They are called Fistulaes especially if they be large and strait as I have seen one that began at the neck and went down the Back to the Hip voiding much matter And I have seen many little Fistulaes in the Perinaeum that when to the Bladder through which the Urin alwayes dropt And I saw in my Fathers dayes in a Palatinate Begger a horrid Fistula in the lower Belly with many holes that sent forth matter like seed And 1652. I saw a Woman with a Fistula in her Privities and strait gut with a Tumor and many Holes who went to a simple bragging Chirurgion who by Causticks caused Inflammation and Death There are also Ulcers with hard Lips called Callous Callous ulcers and cannot be cicatrized or healed these are called Dysepulota And they which are malignant shal be spoken of hereafter There are other to be cured called Cacoethe Ulcers of evil Habit. not of themselves but by reason of the part to which they cannot be fixed as a corrupt or rotten Bone as we shal shew there They are worse when there is Inflammation or Erysipelas Phlegmonous Vlcers with Redness Tumor and Pain if the tumor be an Oedema it swells with less pain but is harder to be cured The corrupt Ulcers whose flesh is white like Bacon are worst Erysipelated oedematous Vlcers and when it is soft and swollen and when clear water comes forth These Ulcers come from wounds in the Joynts Corrupt Ulcers with water where it is membranous and nervous without Flesh The German Chirugions call them Glidwasser or water of the Joynts and fear least it gangraene by reason of the pain Contraction and Corruption Of this sort is Paranychia or the Inflammation in the Fingers end that corrupteth the Joynt Paronychia ulcerated as we shewed in Inflammations To these are referred Ulcers with stinking Flesh Foul ulcers and such as corrode when the Flesh is yellow A verminous ulcer green or black with stinking Matter and Worms called Verminous these somtimes gangraene Besides these Perverse ulcers Eating Ulcers Nomae there are Ulcers from malignant Humors or other Ulcers or from Erysipelas ulcerated these eat and are hollow called Nomae and when they eat the skin only Phagedaenica and because they spred Serpentia or creeping when they are hard to cure Phagadaenica they are called Cacoethe These are in divers parts but especially in the Leggs Perverse Ulcers in the Leggs which are apt to receive Humors and Erysipelas above the Ankle they use to be broad there and to eat the flesh away This may be lasting for many years in old men full of Humors which wets mens clouts and bleeds upon the least occasion and is full of pain with Heat Redness and Tumor round about and somtimes with an oedematous Swelling Somtimes the Vein upon the Ulcer is swollen and blew A varicous Ulcer which comes thither with many windings in the Leggs and feeds it this is called a varicous Vlcer from Varix a Vein dilated Eating Ulcers that are malignant from the French Pox A malignant pockie Vlcer A Cancer in the Yard besides those in the Jawes Nostrils and Privities of Women are in the Praepuce and Glans of Mens Privities also which destroy the Yard this is called Cancer And that is a leprous Ulcer Leprous Vlcers which is in Elephantiasis in the Jawes Nose Soles of the Feet and Palm of the Hand and Arm-pits and other parts of the Arms and Feet which are Phagadaenous that is devouring and have swollen hard Lips without pain as we shall shew in Elephantiasis Corruption in the Superficies is either in the Flesh or in the Bone Corruption in the supersicies of the body Corruption in the Skin Flesh Membranes Nerves and Compound Vessels is called a Gangraen Gangraene usually it follows Inflammations somtimes it comes from other causes In this the part begins to lose its natural color and wax blew suddenly or by degrees and then black with swelling of the part and pain very great before a total corruption from which poyson constantly flows that wets the skin and flesh and makes it softer which being corrupted either opens of its self and ulcerates or with Scarification by which we labor to cure The wounds lye deep and swell with lips and at last if it be not prevented the part is destitute of all natural heat pulse and sense and is very stinking and hollow Sphacelus Syderation And then it is called Sphacelus and Syderation If there be foulness of bones they are either corroded in parts and made rough and uneven Corrupt bones Caries or corruption is so manifest that the part is black and comes from the sound and quick part or corrupts the whol bone as in Paronychia the joynts of the Fingers and mortifyeth and is called the Caries of the bone This corruption of the bones is with an Ulcer in the skin and flesh from which it cometh for the most part and through which it is to be seen being deep and to the bone And therefore though of it self a corrupt bone feel no pain yet the Ulcer joyned thereto and which cannot be cured whiles the bone is
and Neck Take Galls and Pomegranate peels each an ounce Gypsum burnt two ounces Bole an ounce Litharge and Cademia each half an ounce round Birthwort three drams burnt Lead two drams pouder of Crab shells a dram make a sine pouder or a plaister of them with Honey and Turpentine We use Sal Gem or Allum to take away corrupt Flesh with an equal part of pouder of Earth worms Or mix therewith Juyce of Briony or Dragons Or Aegyptiacum to resist putrefaction These are stronger Orpiment and Tartar equal parts steep them in Vinegar and make a pouder Or Take Crystal Arsnick two drams Cookowpint roots an ounce make a pouder Or Take Orpiment a dram Verdigreese two drams white Wine a pint infuse them pour of the clear and boyl it till the third part remain use it with a little rose-Rose-water Or Take Sublimate a dram Rose Plantane and Nightshade water four ounces boyl it a little The last Remedy is cutting it forth by the roots if strength will permit It is in vain to try when it is deep and grows to the Flesh Membranes and Veins for if a portion remain it will grow again And if it be great and near great Veins there is danger of great bleeding which is dangerous if it be not presently stopt But somtimes it may be wholly cut out with a part of the sound flesh As when it is in the Thigh or Arm. And if you cut a great space above the Cancer and take it away it will grow again as I observed in a Maid who had a cancer cut from her Knee The Cancer in the Breast is taken away with cutting the breast clean off But if any Root remain in the Ribs it will return Give me leave to relate the Cure of a Cancer which was told me by a Friend Take white Arsnick â—inely poudered one part Roots of Cookowpints poudered four parts Chimney soot as much as will make it grey or ash coloured keep this pouder for your use the older the better it will last five years Sprinkle this pouder as thick as the back of a knife upon an ulcerated Cancer taking heed that it touch not the sound flesh lay it thickest in the middle because the middle Root of the Cancer is commonly biggest then lay thereon a pledget wet with spittle that it may stick with the pouder otherwise it will not work The Patient must be dressed thus after meat and touch not the the cancer but with wooden Instruments There are some cautions to be used in the application of this pouder by reason of its divers operations for in some it causeth pain in other not it pierceth to the Veins or Roots of the cancer and there it sticks fast so that it cannot be taken away without breaking of them It must therefore be used but once because its force remains till it takes all away with it And no other medicines must be applied but round about in the circumâ—erance as broad as two â—ingers you must lay Deâ—ensives or Repellers to hinder Inflammation As Take Bole Arsnick Oyl of Roses and Vinegar Also there is a great flux of blood sometimes from the piercing force of the medicine which breaks the Veins with yellow and sharp matter apply then nothing but dry double clouts as often as they are wet for it will be but a day or two and will take away all pain This done expect the Cancer to fall from the sound flesh of its own accord within eighteen or twenty dayes for if the least Root be broken by force before that time the cure is dangerous to be begun again The separation being made of the cancer from sound flesh use this pouder to the Ulcer Take fine Olibanum Mummy Mastick Myrrh Aloes Sarcocol each a dram Opopanax half a dram wash them in Plantane and Rose-water and make a fine pouder you may increase the quantity of Mastick Olibanum Myrrh and Sarcocol to make it sharper After you have laid this pouder thick upon the Ulcer use this Oyntment upon a pledget Take Litharge of Gold two ounces Mummy an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce and half with a little Rose-vinegar stir them in a leaden mortar and make it a soft Oyntment with Oyl of Roses It is sufficient to cure the Ulcer if you apply these two once a day at first there will come forth a slimy white thick matter which must be dayly wipt away till the Cure is by Gods assistance compleat A Carbuncle or Anthrax if it be not pestilent The Cure of a simple Anthrax or Carbuncle pestilent weakneth and is difficult and dangerous when it is near the Heart when it is dry or sends out venom and not matter with great Inflammation A pestilent Carbuncle destroys by the pestilent Feaver which goes with it and hurts the Joynts and destroys if it be in the noble Parts For cure of both cleanse the whole Body and use alterers when it is pestilent look to the Feaver rather then the Carbuncle and let blood according to the part it is in As we shewed in pestilent Feavers In other Carbuncles bleed and purge in respect of the Plethory and Cacochymy and Inflammation to revel and derive Use coolers agreeable to the Feaver and Cordials inwardly and outwardly and a refreshing Diet and cause sleep if it be wanting though in a carbuncle it is forbidden least thereby venom should be drawn to the Heart but by heat external and sweat in time of sleep we see the contrary that the heat goes outward Therefore keep them not from sleep as is usual When a Carbuncle is not pestilent we use Topicks to repress the Inflammation when it is we attract the Venom we open and ripen it in both cases and then cure it as an Ulcer In an Anthrax not pestilent we only lay Repellers round about where the Inflammation is and that at first such as are in Phlegmon mentioned as the Defensive of Bole and that of Juyces or the Oyntments as that of Ceruss Or we use the Emplaster of Arnogloss to cool and concoct at first or all a long the Cure it is made of Plantane Meal of Lentils or brown Bread adding Galls at fiâ—st to repel more and to concoct more Meal of Orobus and Beans and Honey In a pestilent Carbuncle at first we attract poyson as in a Bubo pestilent as we there shewed with a Cock cut in two or a Pigeon or Frog or Toad or with the Rump of a Cock or Pigeon after the part is scarified or with Cupping-glasses or Horsleeches or with the mouth of a desperate Fellow to suck it or with the Instrument by which Womens breasts are drawn We open both sorts of Carbuncles to let out the venom or humor at first by scarifying and in the progress especially when it waxeth black with deep cuts least they gangraene which will cause death and wash them with salt Water We also use Causticks to attract the venom in both And when it begins to corrupt we use
other stubborn Scabs use Chicken-broath and Vipers flesh boyled therein and made into balls with Crumbs of Bread and gilded with Gold Let the topical Remedies be such as draw out the Humors fastned in the skin and abate their sharpness and dissolve them and that purge the skin from matter crust scurfe and scalds and heal it and take away the Inflammation They must be drying and cleansing and healing mixed with cold and sharp things in both moist and dry Itch to abate cholerick and sharp Humors and Itching and Inflamation as in the vulgar Itch or that which is called Fera or Cruel or Terminthus or Epinyctis Also add Emollients to take away the Scabs in the wet Itch and the scurfe and scalds in the dry Thus scratching is delightful till the skin be torn to let out the itching Humor but it ends in tearing pain and though it so hurteth and is the first cause of the scab breaking out yet because it allayeth the Itch and brings out the Humors it is not amiss if it be with distinction of the parts and not so much in some places as in others Baths are much used against the Itch both natural and artificial dry and moist and if it be in a particular part they must be used to that alone Among Natural Baths it is good to swim in fresh water which allayes the Itch by its coldness and mollisies the scurfe by its moistness and by its earthy quality which I shewed in the Causes of the Stone to be in all Waters it dryeth And the rather if the Water be muddy or have any chalk-like substance in it when it is boyled Such are in divers places although they are sweet and seem pure and clear and are good against other Diseases as well as the Itch. Hot Water doth all things better if the Patient continue long in it and go in often for thereby the Humors are better drawn forth and purged and by the use of it not only the small Itch but the stubborn Scab hath been often cured Sulphur-waters or such as are salt or sharp which by the bitumen swiming at the top and by their scent declare they are from Minerals are the best baths That of Sulphur which is hot upon which Bitumen swims like grease is best against all sorts of Scabs because it dries cleanseth and digests and mollifies by its fat therefore it is good against dry scabs as the last remedy Salt Waters hot or cold are best for the moist scab for they dry strongly And all other Mineral Waters are good Or Artificial Baths such as are called dry or hot Houses to sweat in by which the humors that cause the scab sweat out with the serum which takes away the scab by its moistness and the heat dries up the Excoriation These do it alone somtimes but moist baths or other applications when the Pores are opened do better being joyned therewith You may make moist Baths to sit in to cleanse dry mollifie and cause sweat of Herbs Roots and all as of Docks Scabious Elicampane five leaved Grass Snakeweed Tormentil Plantane Fumitory Moulin Fern Dwarf-elder Mugwort Dill Oak leaves Ivy and Willow tops tops of Briony Dragons or Cookowpints wild Cowcumbers and to dry more of Sorrel Soapwort Pellitory Beets Mallows Borrage Marsh-mallows Lillies Organ Sage Chamomil and Rosemary flowers Beans Pease Vetches Lupins Barley Bran Foenugreek Gourd and Lineseed and the like Boyled in fresh Water or Salt or mineral Water adding Lye or Smiths Forge-water or Sulphur Salt Allum Vitriol Tartar burnt Gypsum Bole and the like Thus Take Lapathium and Briony roots a pound Elicampane four ounces Dragons or Cookowpints two ounces Scabious Plantane Fumitory Pellitory Mallows six handfuls Bean and Lentil meal four pugils burnt Gypsum a pound Sulphur half a pound Salt four ounces with Water to fill the Vessel boyl it and add Lye In a dry Itch when by use of Oyntments the skin is dry Take Mallows Violets Docks Beets roots and all Pellitory Scabious six handfuls Line Faenugreek Bran Pompion seeds an ounce or more Chamomil flowers three pugils Brimstone a pound boyl them Another for the same Take Sulphur two pounds Salt a pound pouder them and mix them with two pints of Oyl boyl them gently put them into a hot Water for a hath let him sit and sweat there and after that sweat in his bed do thus three dayes and be cured It is good once or twice a day to rub and anoint before and after bathing the Pores being open Rub the Body with Dock roots boyled in Vinegar in both Itches or bruise Dock roots with Salt and Vinegar and rub in the bath therewith that he may be washt after this is a common remedy In Impetigo use Briony and Gentian roots after the same manner with Dragons and Cookowpints Or stamp these Plants Roots and all with Vinegar Salt and Brimstone as Elicampane five leaved Grass Snakweed Tormentil Alkanet wild Cowcumbers Daffodil Coleworts Bugloss black Charlin Crowfoots black Hellebore Plantane Scabious Fumitory Agrimony Elm-leaves lesser Celandine and against Itching use Potamogetum and Mercury Add Meal of Lupins Darnel Pease Barley Juniper and Bay-berries or wild three leaved Grass and Water-cresses with Honey according to Dioscorides or Coriander Wormwood Rue Cowcumber leaves and Leeks Rhus Coleworts and Plantane with Bran Raisons Honey against the Epinyctis Or an Apple called Adams-apple cut in two sprinkled with sulphur within and then roasted in brown Paper under the Embers is good to rub with or an Orange Mustard-seed Turnep Rocket Nigella Staphisager Briony Tamarisk with Vinegar and Oyl or Glans unguentaria with Urin or seeds of sunflower are used by Dioscorides against Epinyctis You may rub the Plants mentioned adding Grease as with Dock or Gentian roots bruised or boyled with bitter Grease Oyl of Bayes and Ginger Or Take Roots of Docks Elicampane or the like two ounces Dragons or Cookowpints two drams slice and boyl them in Vinegar bruise and add Hogs grease or Butter three ounces with Salt and Brimstone If you add a little Quick-silver or Sublimate it is excellent in Impetigo and Psora Or Take Roots of black Chamaeleon two ounces and half bruise them with fine Hogs grease or Oyl three ounces add Sulphur half an ounce Allum two drams Vitriol a dram Or boyl a pugil of Juniper-berries and a spoonful of salt bruised in fine Hogs grease or Oyl and strain them for an Oyntment Or use Juyces of Herbs mentioned or of Mercury Xyris Agrimony Southernwood with salt sulphur and Vinegar or Juyce of Oranges Lemmons Citrons Oyl omphacine and Acacia or Juyce of Sowbread Thapsia Fig milk is used by Dioscorides Juyce of Henbane takes away Itching Or Vinegar made of the Infusion of Oleander Olive-leaves Aloes dissolved in Vinegar is good against Impetigo Storax with Vinegar and Oyl of Roses cures the scab Or Turpentine or Gum Arabick of Plum-tree Almonds Vines with Vinegar and Oyl Dioscorides applies Bird-lime with a pledget to the Epinyctis
made Take of the whitest Barley flower or Starch made into a past with Goats Milk bake it gently in an Ouen and when it begins to be hard take it out and mix it with so much Goats Milk as will make it all like thick Milk take five pints of this and two drams of Sublimate mix them well together more or less till by the proof above mentioned with a pin you find it right then use it adding sometimes Ceruss one dram Borax two drams of sea Snails calcined half an ounce with a little Camphir A dry past made of Sublimate like Chalk or Starch is often used a portion whereof being tempered in the hand with a little wine out of your Mouth or Rose-water may anoint the Face or mingled with Pomatum Oyl of Gourds seeds or sweet Almonds it is made thus Take of Sublimate poudered one ounce of Quick-silver two or three drams of Juyce of Lemmons or Vinegar a little stir them till they wax white and then stir them well fasting spittle of one that cheweth Sugar Candy then with whites of Eggs stir them into the form of a past or Liniment Then wash it with a good quantity of Spring water and let them boil together a little and then stand to settle and let the clear water at the top be poured off by degrees and fresh water be poured on and then after boyling and setling be poured of as formerly Do it thrice but the last time with Rose-water or Bean-water or of Myrtles and boil it till it be almost consumed and let the bottom or residence be set in the Sun or in an Oven till it be dry sometimes this infusion is made without boiling only by long steeping and changing the water sometimes and then drying the residence Sometimes a dram of Camphire is added to the sublimate and Quick-silver the quantity of a dram and to make it more dear rather then for profit as much of the pouder of Pearls or sea Snails calcined with some Leaves of gold and silver to repress the malignity of Quick-silver and of sublimate There is the like made by the women of Monpelier which is Take of the best sublimate four ounces of Quick-silver mixed with the fasting spittle of one that chewed Sugar Candy half an ounce beat them well in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestil till it be white then tie it in a white silk Clout and put it into a new glassed earthen pot full of water and set it upon the Embers and after the water is grown hot pour it off and add fresh and do so the second time and let your Mercury be sweetned with so doing nine times and let the Body that remains in the silk Rag be dryed and made into formes as big as Vetches dry them in the shade and keep them for use The way is to take one piece and dissolve it in Oyl of sweet Almonds for a Liniment for the Face There is a white wash made of Litharge by steeping or boyling it which they call Virgins Milk this gives the Face a good Colour but because it doth take Redness away too much we shall speak of it hereafter in Redness Washes may be made also of Borax which the Goldsmiths use and is made of water being finely poudered and mixed with Oyl of Guord seeds or other Oyl Or with the Infusion of Gum Traganth to anoint and you may mix Ceruss with Borax Of stones as white Marble Alabaster Amiantum specular stone Loadstone which is called Talcum Crystal white Coral and divers Sea-fish shells either crude or first calcined made up with Oyl Liquor or Pomatum are made also Oyntments and these Washes as Take of some of the aforesaid half an ounce Ceruss two drams Borax one dram white Frankincense and Camphire each half a dram of Juyce of Lemmons one ounce of Oyl of sweet Almonds or other Oyl as much as will make a Liniment Or let her use instead of these the Vnguentum citrinum which is made of the stones aforesaid Alabaster the speculiar stone or Talcum Christal Coral and shells the Navel shell Fish the purple Fish the Trumpet Fish Ceruss Borax white Frankincense Camphire and Gersa of Dragons Niter Starch-Traganth Hogs Grease and Hens Grease and the Juyce of Citrons from whence this Oyntment is named Citrinum The Face or Hands being rubbed with the fine Pouder of Talcum it makes them wonderful white so that if it continue any time it will not easily be taken off Eggs shells calcined and poudered finely make an oyntment with the things mentioned also very excellent Also a good Oyntment is made of Starch incorporated as before and you may add the white flower of dryed Melon and Pepon-seeds Also an Emulsion of Melon-seeds and Almonds with their water doth beautifie the Face Some Women use it thus They take one or two bitter Almonds and put them in a Clout and chew them fasting and so anoint the Face with the Spittle mixed with the white Emulsion Those cleansing Remedies external which differ from a Fucus only in that they paint not white are made as the other and are as follow with which the Face is to be washed or anointed Stilled Waters are most usual as of these Simples Solomons Seal Bean-flowers Roots of Dragons or Cuckow-pintles Sowbread Raddish Gentian Mallows Lillies Mullein Water-lillies Melons Kidney Beans Pine-nuts with sweet Waters as of Roses with Musk or Camphire of Orenge flowers Orris Roots c. The Waters of Lillies and Rosin of the Fir-tree doth make a thick Skin thin Many Compounds are for the same use thus made of Guords Melons being ripe and divided distilled with Goats Milk and Eggs beaten together Or of Lemmons Oranges Citrons distilled as the former Another is made of Bread thus Take of common white Bread or of Barley or Bran the Crust taken off two pounds of Goats Milk three pints of Eggs beaten ten distil a Water of them You may add three ounces of Sugar and so distil it Or half a pint of Wine and one or two Lemmons or one ounce and an half of the Juyce and one dram of Camphire Or Take the aforesaid and add of Bean or Pease Meal or of Rice three ounces of bitter Almonds two ounces of the four great cold seeds one ounce distil them That it may cleanse more add of Dragon Roots and Solomons seal each one ounce and an half of Orris Roots one ounce and of Mastich half on ounce Borax two drams Also the Water of Rice macerated or steeped in Lemmon or Bean water till it swell distilled to a pint ad half an ounce of the pouder of Mastich And the white of Eggs mixed with the Juyce of Lemmons make a good Water distilled to which before the stilling you may add Borax Allum and Salt The Venetian Paint is not to be omitted which is thus made Take of the whitest Lard that is sweet and cut it small as much as you please of the white Flowers of Bindwood of the
Juyce of crude Citrons strained each as much as is sufficient still them with a gentle fire in Balneo Mariae keep the water for your Vse The water also of Snails distilled with Goats Milk and Hops or Goats Grease and a little Camphire There is also an excellent Water made of Urine mixed with Salt especially Salt Gem. with Cloves Cinnamon and Rose-water to take away the Sent thereof Also a Water distilled of white Tartar dissolved in Wine with Bean flowers and Rosemary Or Take of Tartar one ounce Allum half an ounce Borax two drams Camphire one dram of Water that is proper two pints distil them Or Take of Tartar calcined one pound of Mastich one ounce with whites of Eggs make a Past out of which draw a Water You may make a water of Sublimate not to whiten but to cleanse either by dissolving it being steeped or boiled in the waters above mentioned Simple or Compound especially in that of Bread with the Juyce of Lemmons you must take no less then three pints of water to one dram of Sublimate and you must try by Coppar put into it if there be enough to which you may add Ceruss and Camphire and mix it with Goats Milk whites of Eggs or Mucilages least it should hurt Of more or fewer of those things may a water be distilled as Take of Lilly and Orris Roots green each four ounces of Dragon Roots or Cowkow pintles and Solomons Seal each two ounces of Bean flower four ounces of Rice flower two ounces of the four great cold Seeds one ounce of bitter Almonds five ounces of Quince seeds half an ounce beat them all and add one pint of Goats Milk of Calfes Feet and Snail broath three quarters of a pint of Bean flower Water and Rose-water each one quarter of a pint the white of twelve Eggs beaten Turpentine dissolved in the Yolks of Eggs half an ounce of Honey ooe ounce of common Sugar or Sugar Candy two ounces of wine and Vinegar each one ounce of poudered Mastich half an ounce of Allum and Borax each two drams of Camphire one dram mix and distil them To these may be added Briony wild Cowcumber Sowbread Guaicum Lemmons Oranges Melons Muskmelons Guords or their Juyces Also Primrose flowers Bean flowers Lillies Elder flowers Pease Lupins Starch Pine-nuts Fleabane seeds and the Gums of Traganth or the Infusion thereof Frankincense Myrrh Cinnamon Cloves Musk Boys urine Ox gall Litharge Tartar Ceruss Soap Goats Suet or fresh Butter to which you may add shells and earths from which little comes by distilling as Coral and Shel-fish and sometimes a little Chalk To take away the Spots of the Face and whiten it this is an excellent Water Take of Bean flowers Turpentine washed in Goats milk each one pound whites of Eggs seven in number mix them and put them in Balneâ— Mariae keep the distilled water for your Use then Take a white Capon pluckt and washt and cut in pieces and put that also in Balneo and mix the water that is distilled from it with the former adding two drams of Borax half a dram of Camphire put them all in a long necked Glass and set it by Night in the Moon-shine and by Day in the shaddow wash the Face with this water warm This water following which was used by Mary of Medices the Queen-mother is of most Vertue above all others she used it to make her Face fair it is made thus Take three white Capons presently after they are killed and mince them small taking out their Grease two new green Cheeses made of Goats Milk the pulp of six Lemmons the peels taken off the whites of eight Eggs with the shells of Borax and Pouder of Brimstone each half an ounce of Camphire one pound of Bean flower and water-lilly-Water-lilly-water each one pint put them in Balneo Mariae and some Grains of Musk in the Neck of the Still keep the water that comes forth for your Use wash the Face therewith every Night This water is good with Sublimate Take of Dragon or Cuckow pintles Roots Sowbread and Solomons Seal each one pound of Crumbs of Bread half a pound of fresh Lard one ounce and an half of Juyce of Lemmons two ounces in which Sea Snails have been dissolved of Allum two ounces Sublimate half an ounce or less distil a Water A Decoction is used to wash the Face to make it clear and to wash off what hath been formerly laid on especially of Beans Pears Rice and Lupines and the like abstergents or cleansers In a ful fat Face the Decoction of Guaicum is approved Some Liquors are used as of Melons thus made let a Melon sliced be put in a Pipkin and at the top of it unripe Grapes Mallow-flowers and some Eggs shells let these be kept well stopt in an Oven so long as the Bread is baking this done strain forth the Liquor for your Use Some use Snail water made of Snails and Salt so baked in an Oven as the former Some mix Snails and Melons together Maids being fasting use to spit into their Hands and rub the Hair of their Fore-head backwards and make it shine which wil whiten more if they chew bitter Almonds before Moreover the Face is anointed with fat Liniments which bring Splendor and it is to be done carefully least the Paint appear Pomatums do this And chiefly the Marrow of a sheeps bone which is taken from them being well cleansed broken and boiled swimming at the top Oyl of Talcum to whiten and make clear the Face and Hands is of most use among great ones and is of great price because it makes them also soft Of Mucilages the Infusion of Gum Traganth as also the white of an Egg is best to make the Face shine Some things may be used to the Hands to cleanse them and make them white and soft Remedies that make the face hands soft and white which are not so proper for the Face For this there is a paste with which they rub their Hands as with Soap made divers waies The most plain paste is made of Crumbs of Bread boyled Bran or Barley flower Rice Pease Lupines which we use alone or with water or with soft Soap or hard a little dissolved and Honey we make a paste Of Nuts there is another Paste as of bitter or sweet Almonds of Peach Kernels of Hazel and of Pine-nuts Beans bruised or first steeps in Milk or mixed with Soap or Honey Also it is made of other seeds especially of Guords and white Poppies The Compound Paste is thus made Take of the aforesaid Simples one especially that of Almonds or of two or three the quantity of one pound adding pouder of Mustard seed two ounces or more of Orris Roots half an ounce this will sweeten it and of Honey as much as will make a paste to this add sometimes the pulp of Figgs and Rocket seed instead of Mustard seed some add the Gall of an Ox but this leaveth such a
was grown very big We also saw a woman loose a great deal of Blood with great Pulsation from the opening of a Vein which could scarce be stopped although many Remedies were applyed having a beating Tumor after the wound was healed which declared it to be an Aneurism And this came either because the Artery was cut by chance in the fleshless bending of the Arm where the Tumor was by reason of the blood ebbing and flowing under the skin after the wound was healed in the skin and not in the Artery Or because the Mouth of the Artery was fresh dilated before the incision was made and that caused that when the skin was cut there was a Flux which caused a Tumor after the cut was healed Neither can an Aneurism not be from the Arterial blood when it is under the skin and corrupted although this may be when blood is sent from the Veins into the empty spaces yet when Blood leaping from the Artery thus opened returns again and the skin is instead of an Artery it may be without concretion as when it is in the Artery And because this cannot be in the Veins an Aneurism cannot be from venal Blood A watery serous Humor produceth in divers places both general and particular Tumors because it is contained in divers parts of the body as in the veins which are dispersed all over and Bowels into which they are sent or in other Vessels being separated from the blood from which places somtimes simple Water otherwhiles mixed with other Humors comming forth produceth divers kinds of Tumors differing exceedingly as they are in the cavity of the Abdomen or Belly Codds Groyns or in the superficies of the Body either in the inferior parts only or al over as shall be shewed in particulars A serous Humor like Water getting into the Cavity of the Belly Water sent into the Cavity of the Abdomen is the cause of the dropsie Ascites or Abdomen causeth the Dropsie Ascites and then the belly swells more or less according to the quantity of the Water and is somtimes so full that it grows very large in which by tapping we have seen taken from the Living and found somtimes in the Dead threescore pound weight and above of water when much had formerly run out at the Feet which water doth not only burden with its weight but by pressing lying and hindering the free Motion of the Diaphragma or Midriff causeth difficulty of breathing of which they so complain and especially when the water goes more to the Midriff and oppresseth it hence it is that they breath better when they are standing for then the water goes downwards And if the same water weaken the Bowels Liver Spleen Veins Stomach and Guts by making them too moist or by its saltness or sharpness from mixture with other Humors or by its Corruption through long continuance till it stink make them too dry the Mesentery Cawle and Reins will be dryed and drawn up and the Fat clodded as we have seen Or if this water corrode the exulcerate in any part or putrifie the same we have seen the Cawle yellow and stinking in many as well as contracted and the Midriff hath been found the same in and opening of Hydropical People if this happen or if any other Bowels be hurt by this Water it will produce worse Symptoms in the hurt Functions of natural parts as want of Appetite Thirst Cachexy Atrophy and Diarrhaea and the like as by Corruption and Gangren of the Stomach by the water long contained therein a Vomiting with Heat and vehement Inflammation of the Oesophagus or Wezand which I saw in an Hydropical Woman which a liltle before her Death vomited often abundance of black stinking Water with great Inflammation of the Throat The cause of this water in the capacity of the Belly is from the parts of the lower belly which contains the Water or from the Bowels that are ordained for Sanguification as the Liver Spleen Reins or from the Veins which go through those parts and the rest or from the Bladder that holds the water from which if they be divided or the continuity dissolved by Diapedesis by which it is strained or Anastomasis by which the Mouths are open this water falls as shall be shewed in particulars Fernelius witnesseth that there is no Dropsie but it is caused by the solution of the continuity or Division of the Parenchyma or substance of the Liver And this by Anatomy we have often known And that chiefly when the substance of the Liver is cleft and gapeth from whence the water passing by it from the Vessels of the hollow and gate Vein and sweating under the Coats being there constrained fills them with water and makes them like bladders by separating the Tunicles from the parts under them which being broken the water runs into the Belly we have often seen these Bladders very large and clear growing to the Liver and Spleen in Men dead of the Dropsies and in an Ape and Butchers find the same in Cattel And when these coats are corroded the water falls directly into the belly The great Dryness of the substance of the Liver which makes it grow less is the cause of these clifts in the Liver And this came rather by a hot then cold Distemper as appears by the great Thirst of Hydropical People and the high Colour of their Urin and other signs of heat rather then cold and in regard they have it that time most deliciously with spiced meats and drink the strongest wine and so continue being young or aged at which time they fall into a Dropsie by reason of the Dryness of their bowels and they jestingly complain that they are troubled with water though they never drank it in their lives And this we have observed to have been the chief cause of dropsies in our Country and we perceive that a perpetual thirst in Drunkards which they long have had from the hot Distemper of their bowels which makes them ever drinking is a most sure fore-runner of a Dropsie if another Disease doth not prevent it by Death This also may come by heating of the Bowels immoderately with hot Medicines with which Women labour to warm the Stomach and Womb or when they have other cold Diseases These bowels may also be dryed and cleft by hot sharpe and constant Diseases as Feavers and Jaundies and therefore the Dropsie which sheweth rather the signs of heat then cold followeth these Diseases From a hard Tumor of these Bowels either all over them or in any part in the concave or convex part of the Liver or in the Spleen may these Clefts come from a Scirrhus of the Liver or Spleen or any other Tumor which will turn to an Imposthume Or there may be such openings by which the water may fall into the Abdomen because from this Hardness the Tunicle quickly cleaveth and if it imposthume and ulcerate then there is way made for the water as shall be said in
seeds wood Aloes Lack burnt Brass and Juyce of Fennel Clysters do also purge water by the Meseraicks is brought again into the Belly which they do by cleansing and stirring up Nature and by opening the Mouths of the Veins thus made and they also take down the Belly by expelling wind A gentle Clyster is thus made Take of Beets Mercury Pellitory Cranes bill or Dove foot and Rue each three or four handfuls Flowers of Elder Broom St. Johns-wort Chamomil Dill white Lillies each three pugils or four Caraway seeds half an ounce Smallage seed or the great or less hot seeds half an ounce Senna one ounce and an half of Carthamus seeds one ounce boil them in Water and dissolve Hiera benedicta or Leaven half an ounce Honey one ounce Oyl of Bayse one ounce and an half with a little salt make a Clyster It will be stronger with more Purgers as Agarick or Turbith half an ounce Asarum three drams or with only a dram of Coloquintida leaving out the purging Electuaries It will purge water strongly by adding a handful of Soldanella or spurge to the Decoction or one ounce and an half of the Roots of wild Cowcumbers and as much of Sowbread and Smallage roots Another Take the Vrine of a sound cholerick Man or Lixivium which is not too strong and dissolve in it one ounce of stale Leaven and one ounce and an half of Oyl of Rue and it will be stronger if you add half an ounce of the Juyce of Flower-de-luce root which may be added also to the former For other Evacuations especially Sweats which bring the Water into the Feet and other parts they are good but not to be forced too much for so they are hurtful because the sick being in Bed and taking hot things is inward and outward in danger of Suffocation for want of Breath therfore except they come freely and in the declining of the Disease for taking Swelling from the Feet you must not sweat But if the Party by inclined thereto and can sweat standing use such as we shewed in Leucophlegmacy which if they move not Sweat yet will purge by Urin. Evacuation by Vomit because it shakes the Belly too much and increaseth the shortness of breathing it is hurtfull to some yet in some if there be a Revulsion made by Vomits from the Meseraick Veins to the Stomach and Guts or to take away something that causeth the water if they be easie to vomit it may do well as also if then thirsty they drink much water to vomit it up again Rhasis adviseth to provoke Sneezing to send the water to the Kidneys We can do little good by Blood-letting in a Dropsie because except there be another Disease joyned as an Inflammation it cannot help the Bowels and it brings none of the water from the Belly or Habit of the Body nor out of the Meseraicks nor much of that which is in the branches of the hollow Vein for we find that in Dropsies they bleed clear thick and black Blood by Experience Yet if the Haemorrhoid Veins use to bleed or do open themselves the water in the Meseraicks may be sent forth in great quantity thereby Water is often taken from the belly by cutting burning or pricking it as also from the Codds and Feet And that which is done by tapping or pricking of the belly called Paracentesis is the best for by it all the water may be taken out of the belly sooner then by any other way Therefore it is most usual and ought to be betimes before the water by long continuance defile the bowels and the strength decrease because this wound being made only slightly through the Skin Muscles and Peritonaeum brings no danger as the People suppose nor can the Guts be thereby so made any wayes hurt because the Superficies of the Belly being stretched with water is at such a distance from them and they lie as is proved by discection far separated from the parts divided Besides it is impossible that the Patient should escape in regard the water can get out no other way by stool or urine it is therefore better in a desperate Condition to try this Remedy as the last then to leave the Patient because except the Greatness of the Cause do hinder they may thus sometimes be cured or if they die in regard they could not otherwise be cured the Physitian by foretelling this may keep his credit and his Conscience clear And the Patient shall get this benefit at least that when the water is let forth he shal be freed from his great shortness of Breathing and other internal Griefs and so die in a more easie posture But for the doing this handsomly you must choose a place three fingers below the Navel on the side and there where the Muscles of the lower Belly are oblique and transverse and lie upon the flesh because you may better make a wound there then in the middle under the Navel where the nervous parts are of the Muscles which make the white line which is Nervous Therefore with an Incision knife or some other fit Instrument make a wound through the Skin Muscles and Peritonaeum gently least you hurt the Guts and receive the water in a Bason which usually gusheth forth violently And you must presently shut the Orifice again least it flow all forth at a time and so take away the strength so that the water may be taken out by Degrees dayly twice or thrice a little at a time by closing the Orifice without loss of strength which must in the same time be restored with proper Remedies In which we must have a special Care that we commit not an Error and that we may stop the water when we please which is done by putting in a hollow top which may shut the Orifice so that we may open it and shut it as we please or if before we make the Orifice we draw down the skin and cut it transverse as far as the Muscles and after cut within with an Incision knife For then the lower Orifice of the wound made first in the skin rising when the skin is loose the inward Orifice will be hid and stopped and when the skin is drawn down again it will be opened and so we may keep and let out the water as we please and prevent its flowing out at other times Moreover we must consider when the water flow's forth whether it be clear and without evil Sent for then it is a good sign because we suppose from thence that the bowels are not yet putrified but if it stink or be bloody it is to be supposed evil A Puncture made in the Codd as we shall shew in Hydrocele doth not onely give vent and let out the water there but if it be long kept open it will take it from the Belly by degrees and by the same way that it first sell into the Cod for which Cause if the Puncture be not made in the belly it may
safely be made in the Codd And this is the only way to cure any dropsie curable though it be neglected Also we may take water from under the skin by Scarification Which being make in the Feet doth not only evacuate that which is there abouts but because other water comes alwaies in the room of that which is let out it setcheth it so from the upper parts and hollow of the Belly that by long and plentiful Evacuation it takes it from the Belly also and it ceaseth to swell And this Scarification being usual is not refused by the sick although it may seem strange because the water flowing may cause an Inflammation and somtimes a Gangraen and this may be thought to be from the Scarification which may be a reproach to the Physitian That he may avoid this he must foretel that this may come from the malignity of the water when it begins to flow either by Incision or of it self Moreover the Scarification must be rightly made and good Government used And this is done by making it in the fleshy parts of the Feet about the Ancle or first trying in the Thigh only cutting the scarfe skin which will drop and then piercing the true skin gently making Wounds broad and at a distance with a large incision Knife and let the water that comes away be gently wiped off with a Linnen-cloath without rubbing and after let the Inflammation be taken away with white Oyntment and Juyces convenient as of Nightshade Plantane Henbane or with the Leaves laid on And let us chiefly take heed least the Roulers or Bolsters be alwaies wet by changing them continually or by anointing them with Goats suet or Dears suet to keep them from taking water Some commend the Scarification of the whol Belly to the Nervous parts of the Muscles which cover the straight Muscles to draw out water Also you may let out water by raising Blisters in the feet and breaking them and by keeping them open And these use to come by the force of the water within the skin-being sharp and burning Otherwise they are made by art by light burning of the skin by an actual Cautery By these means one in a Dropsie was cured with a warming that burnt his Feet being in the Bed at that time Or this may be done by Vesicatories foretelling alwaies the Danger of Inflammation and Gangraen and by using gentle things because if you apply very hot things to raise Blisters you will cause Inflammation sooner then by Scarification Moreover Water doth not onely flow by blistering the Feet out of the whol Belly but we sometimes find the Navel enlarged with a clear Bladder full of water by which being opened with no pain the water hath all come forth with great force And this way of Cure being so easie might be by often applying Cupping glasses to the Navel to raise it Water also may be let out by an Issue in the Feet which would quickly cause Inflammation if made with an actual Cautery Therefore it is better to use a Potential cautery which opens the skin by Mortification without pain in the Feet if nothing hinder with such Cautions as are before mentioned And this may be done without Danger in the Cod but not in the Belly because it is too thick Also if the Dropsie come from weakness of the Bowels and fullness of Humors from Obstructions or Hardness you may use altering Medicines such as are mentioned in a Cachexy And these are chief which are so compounded that they dry up water and provoke Urin as these following A Decoction Take of the five opening Roots Succory Flower-de luce each one ounce and an half of Dandelion five leaved Grass Dropwort Valcrian and Eryngus each one ounce of Asarum roots half an ounce of inner Bark of Tamarisk Ash Elder Câ—par roots each six drams of Endive Agrimony Horehound Germander Groundpine the Capilar Herbs Burnet Mouseare Wormwood and Carduus us each one handful of the Flowers of Elder Broom Tamarisk St. Johns-wort Bugloss Borage each one pugil of the four great cold Seeds half an ounce of the less cold Seeds three drams Pease one pugil of Smallage Fennel and Parsley seeds each two drams of Raisons stoned two ounces of Liquorish one ounce and an half make a Decoction in water and the fourth part wine with as much Sugar as is sufficient you may add the Juyce of Flower-de-luce and a little Cinnamon Schaenanth Spike or Cassia Lignea or Diarrhodon or Trionsantalon c. To these may be added the Roots of white Carduus Polypody Fern Docks the great Celandine Ash bark Misleto of the Oak Cleavers Plantane Devils bit Hops Mints Hysop Poly mountane Bettony Penny-royal Organ Rue Marjoram Another Decoction Take of the Roots of Fennel and Parsley each one ounce of Rhapontick two drams of Wormwood Ceterach Agrimony each two drams of the four great cold seeds each one dram of Schaenanth and Spike each one dram boil them in chicken broath or infuse them in Wine without the cold Seeds Rhasis hath a Potion much esteemed of Wormwood Dodder Winter-cherries Fumitory the four great cold Seeds Schaenanth and Spike in Whey Of simple Decoctions that of Lignum vitae is best to provoke Urine also a decoction of Garlick and Madder with Honey of the broad Plantane by it self or with Lentils as Dioscorides who approves the Decoction of Organ with Figs and of Pease with Rosemary and of sweet cane with Smallage seed A pound of Misleto of the Oak sliced in three pints of water boiled to half is good if morning and evening four ounces be given for a long time you may sweeten it with Sugar and a little Cinnamon A Decoction also of Earth-worms with things that provoke Urine as Smallage roots Orris or Asarum or the Bark of Elder roots of Danewort Ivy-berries Also Wormwood wine for weak stomaches made with Sack provokes Urine wonderfully Also wine of Horehound and Squils Compound wines are made of many of the aforesaid mixed together as Take Roots of Smallage Fennel and Flower-de-luce each one ounce and an half Valerian Acorus each one ounce of Master-wort and Gentian each half an ounce Asarum and Squils each two drams of the Bark of the Root of Elder or of Danwort and Sassaphras each one ounce of dried Wormwood Horehound Agrimony Maiden hair Germander Carduus each two drams the Tops of the lesser Centaury Broom and Tamarisk flowers each one dram of dryed Elder-berries two drams of Parsley and Fennel seeds each one dram and an half of Ameos and Dill seed each one dram of Cinnamon two drams of Spike half a dram bruise them for two or three quarts of â—ine A Lye made of Bean stalks or Juniper ashes dried in a Furnace often strained or long steeped in water drunk somtimes hath often done good And some have been recorered by drinking nothing else but it hath been smal Alâ—o that is good which is made of Broom ashes Also that of Ivy Bitter-sweet and of
hath been wearied with Medicines and to streng then the Body and then we add to the former Artificial Baths things proper for that as Groundpine and other Herbs mentioned in the pains of the Joynts The Cure of the Pox by purging is not so usual because lately invented and this is done by giving violent purges often and refreshing the Body by turns And sometimes it is cured by this way alone without the use of any other Evacuations Sweating or Fluxing Sometimes we joyn sweating with purging especially when the Patient will not endure strong purging such as is required for this Curre and then after purging divers times we give the decoction of Guaicum some daies to sweat and then purge again and so as sormerly till it be cured sometimes we consume half the time in purging and the other in sweating with internal Sudorificks also we use outward dry Baths and mix purging by fits And in purging we choose not things for some onely Humors because we know not it is that causeth the Pox but any thing that will purge for they which abound will be soonest evacuated when Nature is stirred up And we observe that al Physitians though they talk of purging Melancholy or flegm yet they use any kind which we give according to the constitution and strength and as there are Spots Pustles Ulcers or Pains as we said for purging with sweating these are divers waies prepared Of Decoctions and Apozemes after general purging for a time shorter if for fifteen daies together they take it twice a day or longer if the Patient being weak is constrained to rest a day or two often and then to fall to it again for then it will require three weeks or a month Some continue this Course four or five weeks purging three or four times in the week together then resting three daies in which morning and evening they take strengthners and use good Diet but not so strict and little as when they sweat only nor are they to be so prohibited the Air but may eat often of the best and walk forth sometimes when it is fair which they desire least they should be suspected to have the Pox by staying within and therefore they like this way of cure best These Decoctions are thus made when the Body is hot and cholerick spotted pustulated or ulcerated Take Polypody three ounces Senna two ounces Epithymum Myrobalans Citrin and Chebulars each two drams Cordial flowers two drams Capillar Herbs both Buglosses each one handful Succory roots half and ounce Anise-seeds two drams boyl them in Water for five or six doses sweetning them with Sugar dissolved in each dose of the Juyce of Roses and Fumitory each half an ounee or of their Syrups or of Violets each one ounce somtimes mixing one dram of Rhubarb infused in the Decoction and sometimes stronger Electuaries if you will purge more as that of Juyce of Roses Confection Hamech c. somtimes forbearing the Decoction one day or two you may give a stronger purge and then return to it again thus let him continue taking those Potions by sits five or six times and make new stronger or weaker according to the Operation of the former and while he is cured And because it is troublesom to make the Decoction new so often it is good to increase the quantity of Ingredients and Sugar and boyl it to the consistance of a syrup that it may last and give that quantity thereof of that will purge sufficiently For those that are flegmatick waterish and cold if there be pain about the bones this Decoction is made Take of Carthamus seeds bruised one ounce and an half Senna two ounces Polypody one ounce Turbith half an ounce Epithymum two drams Raisons one ounce Figs ten Liquorish one ounce Elicampane six drams Galangal half an ounce Thyme Bettony Marjoram Hysop Groundpine each one handful Bugloss Rosemary Staechas or Lavender flowers each one pugil Chamomil flowers half a pugil Coriander seeds and Anise and Fennel each one dram Nigella seed half a dram boyl them in Water for five or six doses sweeten them with Honey and dissolve in each the Juyce of Orris half an ounce Syrup of Roses solutive of Fumitory and Hops each six drams If we will have it work stronger insuse Agarick or Mechoacan one dram Gingar one scruple or mix an Electuary therewith as Diaphaenicon or the like these Decoctions are used as the formerr Other Decoctions such as are properly against the Pox may be used as of Guaicum Sarsaparilla c. which often used cure other Diseases as well as the Pox as this following which must be drunk twenty five or thirty daies together with a little Intermission and that when necessity requireth Take Guaicum Chips one ounce Sarsaparilla six drams Liquorish half an ounce Succory roots two drams Bugloss flowers two drams Raisons half an ounce Prunes six steep them in eight pints of Water a day and a night then boyl and strain them and add a little Cinnamon in five ounces of this infuse half an ounce of Senna Mechoacan or Agarick one dram Ginger half an ounce let it stand a day and a night strain it and add syrup of Roses solutive and Balm-water each two drams give it at one Draught and prepare another for the next morning and so continue till he be cured We mentioned a Drink like this in the Cure of the scab which must be continued thirty daies together also You may use more or fewer purgers in the Decoctions of Guaicum and Sarsaparilla Senna is best and safest and Hermodactyls which is not to be omitted when there are pains as is shewed in the Cure by Guaicum alone There are also Decoctions with Hellebore as in Melancholy Diseases and the like good for the Pox if often used or if they be too violent every other day and let the day of rest be for Cordials Antidotes and good Meat and Drink which must be observed in other violent purges The chief Decoction with Hellebore is this Take the Bark of black Hellebore six drams of the five kinds of Myrobalans each half an ounce Senna and Polypody each one ounce Sowthistle one handful Chipps of Guaicum four ounces boyl them in eight pints of Water and a pint and an half of white Wine strain and sweeten them with Sugar and Cinnamon and Cloves let him take three or four ounces as it worketh Another Decoction or Insusion of Hellebore for the same mentioned in the Scab is good here Or this Take the Barks of black Hellebore poudered one dram or four scruples boyl it with Whey or other Decoction and give it strained with syrup of Fumitory and syrup of Roses use it often Wine wherein only Hellebore is infused will do the same without Decoction or if you make a Wine of the Grapes of the Vine that hath black Hellebore growing at its Root A samous Chymical Emperick cured the Pox with this Electuary giving it morning and evening fifteen daies if the
Injection to heal Take Roots of Comfrey one ounce and an half Horstayl and Plantane each one handful Litharge six drams boyl them in Iron-water and in one pint thereof dissolve Honey of Roses or Sugar of Roses two ounces Turpentine one dram dissolve it in the Yolk of an Egg for an Injection Or thus Take the white Troches of Rhasis half a dram Lapis Calaminaris Tuity burnt Lead Bole each a dram dissolve them with convenient Liquor or Milk or Whey Another Take Ceruss half an ounce Lytharge two drams Tutty prepared three drams Starch one ounce make a Pouder and inject it with Water or drop it into the Nut or head of the Yard A good Water for an Injection Take Comfrey roots half a pound Roots of Snakeweed Tormentil each two ounces ten Heads of Daffodil roots Horstayl and Plantane each two handfuls Tops of St. Johns-wort with the Flowers two pugils Allum one ounce Honey of Roses as much as is sufficient twelve Eggs beaten if the Herbs be dry sprinkle them with Plantane-water and distil them all If you add to these Injections some Drops of Spirit of Vitriol or of Salt they will be stronger And if these spirits be used alone with Whey they will cleanse and heal The Balsom of Suphur invented by Roland doth cleanse and heal excellently These may be dropped into the Yard if the Ulcer be not too deep as also Juyces They put some Oyntments also as Pompholygos with a wax Candle which is better then other Instruments because it will bend better in the crooked Passage But you must remember that you tye it with a thread least it should get into the Bladder and the Oyntment go beyond the Ulcer The distilled Oyl of Henbane dropp'd into the Yard doth asswage pain You must anoint the seam or suture between the Stones and the Fundament and soment it when there is heat and it will be felt within and the Passages must be loosned with Oyntments mentioned in the Ulcer in the Neck of the Bladder to which add Opium if the pain be great Anoint also the part with Oyntments there mentioned to heal the Ulcer And let the Diet be as there menâ—ioned The Excretion of slimy Matter from the Yard without Urin The sure ofe Uâ—cer in the Neck of the Bladder the slimy Matter and in Women from the Urin-passage is cured as that of the Stone and Matter with Injections which cleanse the slimy Matter and if it stick in the Yard it must be drawn out Or if you put the Yard into a hollow Raddish the matter will be drawn forth The Matter which comes from the Womb The Cure of the ulcer in the womb the matter that slows from it as also from other parts of the Body is to be cured as the Ulcer of the womb When it flows by any other Orifices from any internal filthy Ulcers which lye deep in the Body and are made of Imposthumes that break or are opened you must cleanse and heal As we shewed in Ulcers Imposthumes and Wounds And we shewed in the Cure of Empyema how you should order the Matter that flows from the Breast after Incision CHAP. VII Of Excretion or Voiding of Water The Kinds VVE call that a watery Excretion when a moist Humor thicker or thinner made of the Excrements of Flegm or of that which is Natural and crude and of the Serum or Whey mixed together so that the one is more then the other floweth forth Which Excretion is preternatural chiefly when it is much and often and corrupted or comes not out at the proper place This comes from divers parts besides that of Spitting Vomiting Pissing and Purging Of which shall be spoken in their places Tears flow from the Eyes often which are like Whey Tears or Serum or Flegm mixed with water they break out in sound people especially in Children and doting old Men from a small Cause and in others from a great Passion of Mind And therefore are not counted preternatural But when they are troublesom and of long Continuance in some Diseases of the Head and Eyes they are Symptomes of the same Some Tears are hot and sharp others cold There is often water from the Nose which is natural The dropping at the Nose because it is by the right way but when it aboundeth it is preternatural And it is in some from whose Nose water flows like tears and a drop hangs at the end of it Or it is like slimy Flegm which being usual in children is counted less noisom then in Men. The same is in the Kind of Defluxion called Coryza Coriza or Pose there falls at the first a thin moist Humor constantly actually cold sometimes hot and sharp that makes the Nose smart and provokes Neesing and causeth Tears inflamming and corroding the Nostrils and Lips with great Spitting Hawking and Coughing somtimes And this Humor at the last is thick white or of another Colour The same happens in other Diseases of the Head and Defluxions As was shewed There comes a water out at the Ears thin or thick somtimes Water from the Ears but seldom And a certain Maid had divers measures of water that flowed from her Ear without any other hurt It is usual in Women to have the white Flux The Flux of the womb or the Whites And because it useth to come when women are past their Courses they are called the white Terms But these use to be out of order and with women that have their Courses and last more or less time And somtimes they trouble such as have their Courses stopped As those who are past them and are in old Women In Virgins it is but seldom and often in women with Child Somtimes this Flux is of water and very much and clear and milk somtimes sharp or salt yellow green or black somtimes mattery stinking Sometimes it is mixed with Flegm that is tough without scent cold and little or as much or more then the water If this Flux be immoderate there is no other accident and both Wives and Virgins have it many months and years without hurt But if it be immoderate there is an evil Habit of Body therewith Also Faintness and Weakness also Barrenness in some although it hinders not some If the matter befoul there is an Itching Pricking and Heat in the Privities And it is very noisom when it stinks and makes the Husband loath her Usually there sweats a whey or water out of the Pores of the skin Preternatural Sweat it is Natural and common to all Complexions but it is preternataral when it is too much or soul as it is in Diseases and somtimes without There is too much Sweat without a Disease when it is caused oftner then it should be or continued longer so that they faint and if it be often they grow faint The Sweat is evil when it stinketh This is somtimes al over the Body or in the parts as Feet as we shewed
dram of the following Pouder which is pleasant Take Cypress roots and Galangal each one dram and an half dryed Citron peels Cinnamon each one dram Anise-seeds which Dioscorids commends one dram and an half Coriander seed parched one dram Spike one scruple Or Take as much Aromaticum Rosatum Diagalanga or other Dryers Of these you may compound others Others are of the Roots of Avens Fullers thistle Mead sweet Oak leaves Brambles Sumach wild Tansey â—ungwort Adders-tongue Moonwort Rosemary Flower gentle Millium Roses Piony seeds also Ashes of Cray-fish Shell-fish Spunge If you must bind more you may add some of this Pouder following to the former Take Galls or Pomegranate-peels one dram Pomegranate flowers half a dram Bole or the like one dram Bloodstone half a dram Acacia or Dragons blood half a scruple Or use the Astringents mentioned in other Fluxes You may make Decoctions of the same Plants or you may make Wine in the Infusion of them dry You may also use the Juyces of the same alone or with other Drinks You may make Syrups of the same or give some astringent usual Syrups mentioned in the Terms as of Mugwort Stoechas c Drink Waters of Plantane Oak budds wild Tansey Yarrow Ladies-mantle Roses Water-lillies Mints Service-berries Conserve of old Roses Pomegranate flowers Acorus Rosemary flowers Stoechas candied Citrons You may make Electuaries of the same with Pouders and Conserves and give Waters to drink after them Pills of Bdellium are good here as in other Fluxes Cymbalaria or that wall herb which is like Ivy is good in Sallets and Bee-nettle The Chymicks cry up the Vitriol of Iron for a great secret and give every night one grain thereof at bed-time for a month in Plantane-water or red Wine and make Pills of Magistery of Coral and the same Many things are applied outward which dry up the humors and being astringent do six the Vessels about which conveigh the humor and strengthen the womb The use of Natural Baths for many daies or weeks after purging often and good Diet with drying and sweating is good therefore women that have the Whites and are barren do much use them All Dryers are good as in Sterility or Barrenness Allum Niter Salt actually hot by Nature or Art Also the Sulphur Baths by use whereof women as I shewed had the Whites and were cured by the same Artificial Baths to sit in do the same used long or often as we shewed in Barrenness Of Salt Allum Sulphur boyled in Rain-water till the water tast of them adding Vitriol to bind or Rust of Iron Or you may use Iron-waters with burnt Plaister of Paris to make it dry more Baths of Plants decocted in the Waters mentioned or with Iron-water or Bean-water or Lye or red Wine with Snakeweed roots Docks Madder Valerian Cypress Perwincle Mugwort Bettony Tamarisk Savine Ivy. If you will bind more use Galls Acorn-cupps Pomegranate peels Cork Sumach Roses Pomegranate flowers Oak moss Myrtle-berries and the like In cold women add the hot sweet Plants as Penny-royal Organ Calamints Mints Balm Sage Nep Marjoram Rosemary the great and less hot Seeds Rue and Agnus Castus To which Decoction add Earths that are dry and salt or Bole or Blood-stone and then they will astringe more You may use Fomentations instead of baths or bags to be sitten upon hot full of the said Herbs wild Rocket boyled in wine is the best It is good to put in some sweet plants to take away the stink of the excrements chiefly Bay leaves and Myrtles Angelica roots Coriander-seeds Cloves and the like Vinegar of Roses Elder flowers or the like Oyntments and Plaisters applied to the Privities Reins and Loyns stop this Flux as well as that of the terms and the Oyls there mentioned especially of Henbane To which you may add hot things because the humor is watery and some of the pouder for a Pessary Gallia Moschata Musk Ambergreece yet the scent wil be lost with other things Many things are put into the neck of the womb to dry and astringe the loose Orifices and stay the Flux and strengthen the Part. Some Herbs are put in stamped Perwincle Yarrow Tamarisk and the like also Asarum roots which cleanseth and takes away the stink A drying Pessary is thus made Take Galls or Acorn-cupps three drams Cypress-nuts two drams Pomegranate flowers one dram Frankincense one dram and an half Ashes of Tawarisk one dram Savine or Mugwort half a dram Goats dung or Ashes dryed one dram with Juyce of Shepheards-purse and the White of an Egg and fill a bag for a Pessary To take away the evil Scent Take Cypress roots two drams Marjoram Mints Penny-royal in Pouder each one dram Schaenanth Spike each half a dram Cloves one dram make a Pouder to be used alone or with the aforesaid you may add Sanders and wood Aloes Gallia Moschata Musk and Ambergreece will make a better Scent You may use cleansing Injections such as are mentioned in the Ulcer of the Womb and these following You must make drying and astringent Injections of the Decoction that dryes and heal the Ulcer of the womb or of the Baths and Fomentations which we use outwardly And if there be a stink let them be qualified as afore Fumes pierce best into the womb they dry bind and strengthen and refresh the womb by their Scent These are made of the Decoction of Plants mentioned for a Bath hot and taken in with a Funnel or under the Cloaths Or you may cast Pouders or the Troches mentioned in Barrenness upon Coales Or thus Take Mastick two drams Frankincense Labdanum each one dram Amber Hypocistis Storax Benzoin each half a dram with Bdelium make a Pouder Keep a good Diet. Let the Air be dry and avoid cold and moisture Eat little and that which is of a good Juyce and breeds little superfluous Moisture Let the Dâ—ink be little rather wine then water Avoid idleness and too long sleep Evil Sweats that stinke are clammy The Cure of preternatural Sweat or stain Linnen because they purge Excrements from sound and sick must not be stopped but rather furthered And you must cure it by taking away the Cause of the abundance of Excrements and prevent those Diseases which sweating forerunneth And if this Sweating be in a Disease and the Disease not cured thereby you must use all diligence to take away the remainder of the Cause of the Disease There is nothing peculiar for cold Sweats for in Diseases they are deadly If they come from fainting they cease when the Patient comes to himself If Heat causeth sweating with faintness that must be allayed If the abundance of Moisture that must be diminished If Sweats in Diseases be superfluous and unprofitable and cannot be well stopped without weakness though Nature endeavors to discharge her self thereby yet being so great that the Patient may sooner die then the Disease be discharged they must be stopped We open a Vein when there is fulness and the Body sweats too much
sharp and will provoke as it passeth If scalding Urin come from the stone of the bladder The Cure of hot pissing from the Stone without ulceration of which we spake in troubled Urin. And if the Stone hath not been long there but fell from the Kidneys nor be too great it comes forth with the urin of it self or by the use of medicines But if after it is fallen into the bladder from the reins and it grow so great that it cannot pass the neck of the bladder but when it comes thither causeth pain and heat then it must be taken out either by medicines to which it will scarce yeeld or by cutting which endangereth the life As shall be shewed in the Cure of the Stone of the Bladder Turbulent or mattery pissing like slime The Cure of the ulcer of the reins and bladder comming from the ulcers of the reins and bladder with heat of urin is not cured but by the Cure of the ulcers And that being difficult maketh the cure also difficult of that which comes from the ulcer The ulcers of the reins being old increase matter in the vein and devour the substance of the reins leaving only a hard skin like a purse And if this be but in one Kidney the Patient may live long and the other Kidney may perform the duty The ulcers of the bladder are either incurable or very obstinate because they cannot unite by reason of the moisture and because the urin being salt doth alwaies provoke The greatest hope is when the fleshy part of the Neck is only ulcerated but when the membranous part suffereth it cannot be healed except as we shewed in Wounds of the Bladder it grow to the flesh adjoyning If a Stone he with these ulcers either in the reins or bladder it makes them incurable because the ulcers cannot be cured except it be taken out and that is impossible We shall speak of the Cure of the Ulcer of the Reins and Bladder together because they agree in many things They are to be cleansed and then dryed and healed alwayes mixing things that resist sharpness of urin and lenisie the passages and stupesie the pain or using somtimes one and somtimes another as necessity urgeth For the ulcer of the bladder and neck thereof use Injections And if a Stone be therewith mix things to break it but gentle least you enrage the ulcer or cut out the stone for the ulcer will not else be cured As we shewed in the Stone of the Bladder Many Cleansers mentioned in the Cure of the Ulcers are good here to break the Stone Also slimy and glutinating things which defend the ulcer and take away sharpness and cover the stone and make it smooth But for the Cure of the ulcer of the reins and bladder we take this course As for purging it is sufficient to purge the Guts for excrements and wind which increase the pain bewaring of strong purges which would do the same and not cleanse the ulcer Gentle Laxatives mentioned in the heat of pissing for the urin are good especially Cassia with Liquorish pouder c. Also Manna which cleanseth ulcers and Whey and chiefly Turpentine which loosneth the belly and heals the ulcer Things that alter cleanse and heal and allay the heat of urin are given in divers sorms Also the Decoction mentioned in scalding Urin with the Roots of Comfrey Agrimony Plantane Ceterach Myrtle seeds and the like Or this Decoction Take Guaicum half a pound Comfrey roots two ounces Skins of Guords dryed one ounce and an half Horstayl one handful red Roses one pugil boyl them in Rain-water to four pints Let them often take a draughat with Honey Sugar of Roses or Syrup of Myrtles c Also the Juyces of the Plants alone or made into Syrups are good Also Water of Horstayl Plantane Myrtles c. As Milk is good in ulcers of the Lungs by cleansing glewing and lenifying so especially here because it can better get to the reins Rosin of Larke-tree or Tutpentine is good for it cleanseth and glueth and you may know the vertue of it reacheth to the reins by the violent scent of the urin give one dram or more if you will have it loosen the belly or in pills with Liquorish Sugar and the like It wil work best with the Yolk of an Eg and Honey with water and wine The chiesest Pouders to cure ulcers in the Kidneys and Bladder are made into Troches with Gum Arabick that they may keep These are poudered again and given one dram with or without Sugar with Milk or Water and Honey or the like in the morning fasting or at night especially if they be Narcotick that they may sleep four hours after supper These pouders may be made a bolus or pills with turpentine The troches of Alkekengi are usual being made of Seeds of Nightshade Winter-cherries the four less cold Seeds Poppy sweet Almonds Pine-nuts pistachaes Barley Liquorish Roses Gum Arabick Myrrh Bole Spodium Sugar-candy pellets and Hydromel Others that cure the ulcer and asswage pain are thus made The first Take the Pouder to abate heat mentioned in often Pissing Comfrey roots one dram red Roses Amber Franksncense each two scruples Bole or sealed Earth one dram Dragons blood Spodium each half a dram make a pouder give it as formerly Another made of divers things and very excellent Take Almonds Nuts Pistachaes Pine-nuts each half an ounce bitter Almonds and Peaches Cherries-stones each two drams Chesnuts Acorns and cold Seeds each half an ounce Barley and Rice each three drams Comfrey roots two drams Liquorish half an ounce red Roses Pomegranate-flowers Purslane Lettice Endive Fleabane Cotton Line Quince Mallow Myrtle Coriander Winter-cherries Anise Smallage and Parsley seeds each one dram white Poppy seeds half an ounce Henbane seeds two drams Date-stones five Cherry and Plum-tree Gum each two drams Gum Arabick Traganth each one dram Turpentine half an ounce Frankincense Amber each one dram Juyce of Liquorish Wheat or Starch each two drams Acacia or Juyce of Sloes one dram and an half Sanguis Draconis half a dram Opium when there is pain one dram Bole or sealed Earth six drams red Coral Osteocolla the stone so called Crabbs eyes each two drams Spodium one dram Ashes of a Bulls or Dears pizle half a dram red Sanders one dram Sugar Candy and Penidyes each one ounce make a Pouder give it alone or with Gum Traganth made into Troches or with ten ounces of Sugar mixed give two drams by it self or made into Troches The third Pouder is only for curing of Ulcers Take red Coral washed two drams pouder of Horstayl and ashes of the shells of Pompions each one dram Frankincense Mastick Sarcocol steeped in Milk each half a dram Sanguis Draconis one scruple Sugar candy or of Roses the weight of all the rest Half a dram of the Pouder of Cuttle-bone or from six grains of the Magestery thereof to ten given in a rear Eg or old Conserve
is weak and evil coloured Dysentery is a voiding of blood either alone Dysentery or with other things it is so called because the guts are affected It is mamy times popular or Epidemical most in young men somtimes in old men and men of such and such a constitution In this there is an urging molestation to void somtimes more somtimes less with often needing and gripings with noise and rumbling and blood is mixed with the excrements and besides that a slime like flegm or like that fibrous substance which is in blood that falls into water when a vein is opened this is falsly called flegm and is voided somtimes in great abundance The Germans call it the white Dysentery This slime is thought to be fat by some because the guts being turned by the Butchers are fat they suppose that they are inwardly also fat which is not so some say it is the shavings of guts which if they come forth as seldom they do are membranons Also Choler yellow green or black is mixed therewith and also Flegm as in all Dejections or Stools There is commonly a thirst in this Disease and signs of heat the urin is dyed and cholerick and there is a Feaver called Synochus usually as we shewed in the Disease Choler Somtimes a Dysentery follows a Feaver either putrid continual or intermitting or which is more usual malignant and pestilential which is contagious and epidemical I have often observed a Hiccup to contiune till death in a Dysentery and other great Symptomes Bloody Stools that come from an Inflammation with gripings and symptoms of a Dysentery not from an Ulcer mixed with excrements are taken for a Disentery Somtimes slimy matter mixed with a little blood is voided Tenesmus and it is called Tenesmus or Needing from the great straining without intermission without other pains if this continue at length there is nothing voided but abundance of matter without any ulcer appearing in the Fundament Somtimes waterish blood is voided like that water wherein bloody flesh hath been washed The Liver-flux and it is called the Hepatick Flux because it comes from the Liver This Flux is great and without pain most in the night and continueth long It weakens the strength and the natural Functions and comes with thirst and other accidents The bloody thin Flux in a Dysentery is like to this Somtimes congealed blood or parched black like Pitch Voiding of clotted blood by stool is voided with the excrements more or less joyned with vomiting of the same As we shewed in Vomiting with great weakness and other accidents Sound people have often a Flux of pure Blood from the Haemorrhoids which is not mixed with the excrements and shall be mentioned in other Excretions of Blood The voiding of Matter in the Dysentery and Tenesmus Matter voided by stool is little and without pain and somtimes when the Dysentery is gone it continueth and weakneth the Patient Somtimes matter is sent forth in abundance without pain for a long time and the Patient is evil coloured and consumeth with other Diseases in the Natural parts There is somtimes a slimy and flegmatick Dejection in a Diarrhaea Slime and Flegm voided by stool and it is often mixed with blood in a Dysentery and Tenesmus and towards the end in a Tenesmus it comes forth pure matter And Fernelius observes that more white Flegm may be voided without pain after long Diseases and great riding Somtimes Stools are unctious and fat like Oyl or Butter or other Grease Voiding of Fat by stool And we have seen them like tallow candles ends with other excrements for a long time and many I have seen the same like suet not melted often as big as Hazel-nuts in an old Diarrhaea This is a kind of Lientery if they come from things eaten and often or of a Diarrhaea if they be voided with other things and come from any thing but meat And this they call the melting of the Guts from a mistake of the cause When excrements or dung come another way then the ordinary it it preternatural as when they come from these places following Dung or Excrements are vomited somtimes which stink and are thin The voiding of Excrements by vomit like Chyle with great pain and wonder to the Spectators In the Disease called Convolvulus in Hernia or Rupture as we shewed We have seen the Faeces or Excrements of the belly voided by urin The voiding of Excrements by urin with bones of birds with pissing of matter heat of urin and great pain And I have seen the kernels of Apples voided the same by stool We have also seen the Excrements of the belly voided by the womb The voiding of excrements by the womb with matter and other accidents Somtimes the Chyle as also the Excrements will come forth at a wound of the belly The voiding of excrements at wounds not in such only as die presently but in them that live long after from a Fistula that hath remained The Causes The Cause of all these preternatural Dejections being more or oftner then is fit or strange and unusual is in the Stomach and Guts And the chief is the irritation or provoking of the bowels that are so sensible which so stirs up the expulsive Faculty that it strives to expel what is therein especially if the parts adjacent be also stirred up by consent so that they endeavor also to expel what is in them this causeth divers kinds of Dejections with griping and pain The irritation of the stomach is the cause of preternatural Dejections by stool For if the Stomach be stirred up it sends things to the Guts rather then to the mouth except it be so disturbed that it must presently discharge as I shewed in Vomiting Therefore the stomach avoids great evils and is more seldom ulcerated then the Guts When there is an irritation in the long passage of the guts The irritation of the guts is the cause of Dirrhaea Dysentery and bloody Flux it causeth Dejections more or less By this the expulsive Faculty of the guts is stirred up and sends downwards what is in them and by straining causeth a Diarrhaea with griping Or if it be greater and knaws or corrodes the substance of the guts there is a Dysentery and if the Colon be affected the pain is about it especially on the lest side And because the Colon passeth under the Navel there is pain also And if the thin guts are affected the pain will be there And the blood which is voided with the excrements is more or less mixed by how much the farther it flows from the thin guts and the nearer from the strait gut And the greater the hurt the more the blood and the less when the ulcer begins to â—â—ink for then there is matter also And this blood is thinner or thicker purer or more impure as it is in the Meseraicks And from the pain there is a Feaver especially if it
dram of the Pouder of Wolfes Liver or to strengthen Diamargariton frigidum The third Pouder Take Rhubarb Wolfes Liver prepared each one dram Barke of Frankincense-tree half a dram Cinnamon one scruple Spike half a scruple The usual Pouder for the Liver and the Flux thereof is Dlatrionsantalon by reason of the Sanders and the Rhubarb which is somtimes doubled in quantity And by reason of the Gumms it stops the Veins and of coolers it allayes the Heat It may be given in Lozenges or Pouder Diarrhodon Abbatis doth the same being of the same Ingredients and more When the Heat is not great and the Stomach weak you may use Aromaticum Rosatum Narcoticks are rather given against watching then pain because the Flux is most at night Among which Philonium Perficum is good to astringe Outwardly use things mentioned for the Dysentery to the Belly because the Veins must be stopped and the Flux stopped alwayes adding things proper for the Liver which lyeth under the right side of the Ribbs and the Oyntment useth to reach to it You may use the Oyntments Pouders Cataplasms and Plaisters there mentioned adding for the Liver Wormwood Agrimony Sanders Spike Schaenanth Asarum roots burnt Ivory Storax c. You must apply to the Liver if it be hot things that temper and strengthen as in the beginning of an Inflammation as that of Oyl of Roses Myrtles with Juyce of Endive or Succory Also the Unguent of Roses and Cerot of Sanders with Wolfes Grease which is highly commended outwardly and inwardly And the Epithem there mentioned which repelleth which is of Rose-water c with burnt Ivory You may apply some Coolers mentioned for the Liver to the Reins which suffer and consent therewith Also to bath the Feet and use externals mentioned in the Dysentery it is good Coeliack passion The Cure of the Coeliack passion or the Flux of the Belly when the Chyle is voided pure is an usual Disease in Children and not dangerous except joyned with other Diseases or a Diarrhaea In this case when it comes from the Obstruction of the Meseraicks with weakness of the Liver and the Veins adjoyning which cannot suck You must first open Obstructions with things proper for the Liver that disturb not the Belly abstaining from astringents because the Flux is not immoderate Nor must they be used except after Obstruction is opened there follow another Diarrhaea or Flux The remedies are these following besides those mentioned in Obstruction of the Liver These gentle Pills are good to take away Flegm Slime and Filth which stops the Veins Take Rhubarb one dram and an half Agarick one dram Cinnamon half a dram Spike Schaenanth each one scruple make a Pouder Or with Water Juyce or Syrup of Endive or white Wine Pills let two scruples be the dose Or Take that pouder and sprinkle it with white Wine for a night and with Fennel Smallage and Succory-water strain it and add Syrup of Roses laxative of Endive Maiden-hair each half an ounce make a Potion for once Then give these following the Lozenges of Diarrhodon Diatrionsantalon Or if you will open more of Diacurcuma all which have Rhubarb Or give this Electuary Take Conserve of the Flowers and Candyed Roots of Succory each one ounce of Maiden-hair six drams Conserve of Smallage or Fennel one ounce and an half Conserve of Eryngus roots half an ounce Pouder of Diarrhodon or Trionsantalon one dram Diacurcuma half a dram with Syrup Bizantine make an Electuary Corcus Martis made with Juyce of Citrons or distilled Vinegar is good to be put into Electuaries Let distilled Waters be drunk presently after the taking of Lozenges or Electuaries of Fennel Smallage Succory Endive with the third part of white Wine The Syrup Bizantine of the five Roots or of two roots of Succory Endive or Maiden-hair may be given alone or with distilled Waters Or this Decoction Take Roots of Succory Fennel Smallage each one ounce Eryngus wild Parsnips each half an ounce steep them in white Wine of Maiden-hair Sowthistle Endive each one handful red Pease one pugil Coriander and Smallage seeds each one dram boyl them and add to the straining Sugar and one dram of Cinnamon Sanders and Schaenanth each one scruple Let it be for three draughts A Wine of the Infusion of those Roots is better adding Monks Rhubarb Madder each one ounce Cypress-roots half an ounce Wormwood and Agrimony each two drams The Belly must be anointed not with astringents but things that open Obstructions which will pierce to the Mesentery and the Veins of the Omentum Therefore Make this Oyntment Take Oyl of bitter Almonds one ounce and an half Spike Chamomil or of Melilot each one ounce Juyce of Smallage or Fennel and white Wine each one ounce and an half Let them be boyled or mixed for a Liniment used with the hand first dipped in Aqua vitae Or Take the aforesaid Liniment and with Asarum roots and Gentian each one dram Spike and Schaenanth each half a dram Smallage seed one scruple and Wax make an Oyntment Apply things mentioned in the Weakness of the Liver to the region thereof A Cupping-galss applied there is thought to draw the Chyle thither If a Diarrhaea follow then you may use gentle astringents inward and outward as in a Lientery but not otherwise If it come from the Dysentery or coick The Cure of mattery Stools the Cure is there mentioned or from the Liver or Spleen If this Voiding of Matter be of long continuance and come from an Imposthume of the Mesentery turned to an Ulcer the Patient is of ill Habit of Body and discoloured And the Cure is difficult because the Ulcer is without the Guts and the Matter may easily fall into the cavity of the Belly But the same things must be used as in a Dysentery and Tenesmus with Matter It is cured as a Lientery if it come from eating of fat Meats that are not concocted The Cure of fat and oyly stools Or as a Diarrhaea when fat is mixed with other Excrements The Excrements are voided otherwise then by the Fundament The Cure of the Voiding of Excrements at the mouth And if by vomiting it is dangerous and few escape As was shewed in the Iliack Passion and the Rupture And then you must look to the cause of the Disease as was shewed and wash the Mouth with wine-vinegar and sweet things by reason of the abhominable stink and strengthe Stomach but you must not stop least the filth be retained If Dung come forth with Urin you must regard wholly the Ulcer fistulated The Cure of the excrements voided by Vrin which passeth through the strait Gut to the Neck of the Bladder As was shewed in Pissing of Matter You must cure the hollow Ulcer in the neck of the womb The Cure of Excrecrements of the belly voided as the womb which pierceth the strait Gut As we shewed in the Ulcer of the womb If Dung or Chyle passeth through a wound
we shewed in the Diseases of the Eyes Somtimes a stone as big as a pease hath been blown out at the Nose A Stone blown from the Nose white and brittle which we keep in the treasury of our Physical Rarities Not only I A Stone hawked forth but others have known stones to be hawked forth with a cough some white some brittle and hard round long or broad equal and unequal And a great difficulty of breathing hath gone before in which Disease as was shewed Stones are oftner kept then voided I keep by me some such that were voided by a comely widdow that was marryed to one in a Consumption that infected her Of which I spake she voided them with great pain and coughing Somtimes other Stones have come from the Mouth Stones under the Tongue In the Jawes Stones voided by stool as from a swelling under the Tongue called the Frog or from a swelling in the Jawes I keep at home a stone that was voided by stool and another that came forth of a Horse that dunged A famous Physitian of our time A stony Birth saith publickly in writing and told me that a Woman was delivered of a Child hard as a Stone Somtimes they grow in the Pores of the skin and are taken out Stones fixed in the Skin as in the Face I keep one by me that was taken out of the Sole of the Foot One had a little Stone taken out of the white of his Eye with a Needle Stones in the ball of the Eye and he brought it to me There are often scales which cover the Teeth Gravel upon the Teeth like Scales and they are chiefly about the Roots As we shewed in the Gout Stones from the knots of the Gout stones are often taken out of the Nodes thereof Stones are cut out of the Bladder by a Wound made in the Perinaeum Stones from the Bladder From a Wound in the Groyne Stones from the Fistula when a fleshy Rupture was cut which turned into a Fistula there came as I shewed Sand and Stones with the Urin a long time The Causes VVe shewed in the Pain of the Reins from the Stone that Sand and Gravel and Stones came from a earthy Matter and Flegm especially that which is mixed with water fastned in dry parts And when other earthy Matter is gathered and fixed in certain Excrements or parts it may do the same because we find by Experience that wood and bones out of the Body may be turned to stones and such are found in the Body And we shall now shew how they breed in divers parts of the Body As we shewed in the Causes of the Stone An earthy Matter in the Kidneys is the cause of the stone there comes sand and stones by urin from the Kidneys rather then other parts and they are from an earthy Matter fastned to them And they fall from thence into the Bladder by the Ureters and if they stay there as great stones do and increase by the earthy part of the urin Sand fallen into the Bladder the cause of pissing of Sand Stones there is the stone of the Bladder If they go farther they are pissed forth Otherwise they must be cut forth Which we shewed was done by chance from a wound in the Groine VVe shewed in Diseases of the Liver that Gravel might grow there The earthy matter of the Liver is the cause of Sand that is pissed of gravel by reason of the Serum that pierced into the Vessels from which it might pass with the Urin to the Reins and so to the Bladder but stones cannot pass that way Also Gravel is bred in the Eyes The sandy Matter in the Eyes is the cause of Gravel from water that continually moistneth them Or it is brought thither with tears if they be hot and sharp or earthy And in sound Eyes this sandy Matter is gathered in the Corners of the Eyes and Eye-brows at night when the Eyes are shut And in diseased Eyes if there be tears and heat as in Epiphora is shewed From the same Cause come little Stones when sand is fixed in the hard Tunicle of the Eye In the Cavities of the Nostrils from the Earthyness of the water and flegm Earthy Matter growing to the Nose which flows from the Brain proceeds the stone that was blown out For though stones are found in the Brain yet cannot they get that way through the narrow passages VVe shewed in Asthma the Cause of a Stone in the Lungs An earthy Matter in the Lungs is the cause of Stones VVhen Matter lyes long and grows hard in the Guts from the Serum which wetteth them with the Excrements The Cause of Stones in the Guts is thick matter that groweth in them a Stone may be caused there But it is not much regarded because it passeth with the Excrements without pain And this is probable to be in a man for I saw the same voided by a Horse Other things turned into Stone may be from an earthy salt Matter taken in and hardned with the Excrements The rare bringing forth of a stony Child The earthy salt Matter in the womb is the cause of a stony Child comes from an earthy salt Matter in the womb which turns it to stone even as other things are turned to stone out of the Body VVhen Earthyness is in the Serum in divers Pores of the Body An earthy Matter in the Pores is the cause of the Stone there it causeth Stones by being externally dryed This is most in the Face when it is exposed to hot and dry Air. The same is the cause of a Stone in the Eye VVe shewed in Tumors The earthy Matter of Tumors is the cause of stones under the tongue in the Jawes and the Gout And the Filth of the Teeth is the cause of Scales how stones grew under the tongue and in the Gout And the same may be in other Tumors VVe shewed also in Filth how from the Slime and Filth of the Teeth Scales and Gravel grew The Cure The Cure of Stones is to be after some have been voided or other signs have discovered them from whence we conjecture that they may grow again For that they are seldom if they will not go of themselves they must be taken out The voiding of Stones by Urin is not to be stopped but furthered The preventing and Cure of the Stone in the Bladder or Gravel and the growth must be hindered And if a stone stick in the Bladder it must be taken out A Caution must be for the prevention of the Stone in the Bladder as in the Reins As we shewed in the Pain of the Kidneys The Gravel grows first in the Reins and falls from thence into the Bladder And the beginning of them must be prevented in the reins And then the stone in the Bladder will not grow so fast For the Cure of the