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-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
drying Eye-water Take the soot of burnt Pitch as much as a Hazel-nut and Oyl as much mix them with the yolk of an Egg. This Dioscorides approves against corroding of the corners of the Eyes Or Take soot of burnt Pitch and Turpentine as formerly and Acacia each half a dram the white of an Egg beaten half an ounce with syrup of dryed Roses mix them Another Eyewater Take Sarcocol Frankincense each half a dram Mirrh Aloes Lycium each a scruple Tutty prepared half a dram Antimony a scruple mix them Poudered with Honey of Roses A stronger Take Tutty prepared a dram Antimony a scruple Brass Lead Coral Hearts-horn all burnt and washt with Horse-tail water each half a dram Sugar two scruples mix them with the white of a hard Egg. Rhasis his Eye water of Lead good in suppuration after Inflammation and in an Ulcer Take burnt and washt Lead Antimony Pompholyx washt burnt Brass Gum Arabick Traganth each three drams and an half Opium half a scruple and six grains Pouder them and use them in Rain water Eleiser or the Eye water of Rhasis good when we fear the Pupil will come forth after an Inflammation and Ulcer Take Antimony and Blood-stone each five drams Acacia a dram and an half Aloes half a dram mix them with juyce of Quinces Rhasis his Eye-water called Polycrestum that makes flesh in Ulcers and keeps the pupil from coming forth and cleanseth scars Take Tutty Pompholyx Ceruss washed Antimony Frankincense each a dram Mirrh half a dram Sarcocol two scruples six grains Cinnabar Aloes Opium each half a dram An Ulcer after an Impostume in an Aegilops The Cure of an ulcer in the corner of the Eyes is to be cleansed and dryed as we shewed in the Ulcers of the Eye choosing the strongest meaus because the water and filth still gathereth to the part This is done well by a Lixivium to wash or squirt into it though it come out at the Nose any Lixivium or Lye made of Ashes or burnt bones will do it using stronger or weaker as you may know by the sliminess of it Also use Urin used in the same manner A stronger Lixivium Take Lixivium a pint and half Rose-vinegar half an ounce Pomgranate flowers and Galls each half an ounce Rue half a handful boyl and use them Another Take Lixivium half a pint Allum half a dram white Vitriol a scruple these must be moderated as you find occasion A drying cleansing Decoction Take roots of Snakweed Tormentil Moulin dryed each half an ounce Agrimony a handful Rue Chamomil each half a handful an old Nut kernel Pomegranate flowers and Galls each half an ounce boyl them in red Wine add a little red Vinegar A clensing Oyntment Take Aloes a dram Myrrh half a dram Honey a dram Gall and Saffron each half a scruple with Turpentine make an Oyntment Another Take juyce of Plantane and Agrimony each an ounce juyce of Rue red Vinegar and Honey each half an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce boyl them thick and with a little Turpentine make an Oyntment An Oyntment to heal a cleansed Ulcer Take Antimony Lead burnt and washt Tutty Litharge each a dram burnt Allum two scruples Verdugreece half a scruple Blood-stone a dram Dragons blood Aloes dissolved in Vinegar each half a dram round Birthwort two scruples burnt Ivory and Coral burnt each a scruple with Honey and Turpentine make an Oyntment Or thus Take filings of Iron a dram and burnt Chalcities half a dram burnt Lead and Antimony each two scruples with Butter and white Wax make an Oyntment A good Plaster to Cure the Ulcer Take Bole a dram and an half Dragons blood Mummy Acacia Hypocistu Frankincense Mastick each half a dram Acron cups round Birth-wort Gall and Cypress nuts each two scruples with Ising-glass infused in Vinegar make a Plaster apply a little Plaster to the corner of the Eye If there be a Fistula that weeps alwaies The Cure of the weeping Fistula then take of the Callus with that part of the bone that is foul and then fill up the Cavity with flesh with as little scar as may be Aegyptiacum takes away a Callus put in often with a Tent. Or other Oyntments of Verdigreece or a little qualified Aqua fortis or sublimate water boyled or sublimate it self put in and the like as hereafter I have used my Caustick which causeth no pain and it hath caused an Eschar But an actual Cautery doth it sooner if the bone be foul Which you may know by opening the flesh with your Lancet It must thus be burnt first defend the Eye with a Linnen cloth dipp'd in whites of Eggs and Rose water and with a silver spoon and then conveigh a red hot Iron with a round head through an Iron quil to the part once or twice til the Eschar fals off use Mucilages with yolks of Egs and Butter Then increase Flesh As Take Birth-wort roots Orris and Frankincense barke each a dram and an half Myrrh Mastick Sarcocol Aloes Lapis Calammaris each a dram with Honey and a little Verdigreece make an Oyntment I have seen in this Disease being old and above a years continuance that a piece of the bone with the stinking flesh hath fallen off of it self into the Nostrils and neither tears nor matter hath often come forth at the Eye But through the Nose and the part hath been healed up If the Eye be hurt from a stroak or wound you must presently use things to stop blood dryers and healers The blood of a Pidgeon or Hen or Turtle put into the Eye stops bleeding And this The Cure of Wounds in the Eyes grind Brim-stone with Milk put it into the Eye Or Take the red juyce of Blood-stone ground with Milk an ounce the white of an Egg beaten half an ounce juyce of Hypericon a dram Frankincense half a dram add a little Opium if then pain'd Then Take the white of an Egge beaten the Mucilage of Comfrey roots each half an ounce Ceruss and Tutty washed in Plantane water each half a dram Antimony a scruple water of St. Johns-wort and Steel'd water of each an ounce Then Cure the Ulcer as we shewed in Ulcers CHAP. V. Of the Pain of the Ears The Kinds THe Kinds of inward pains in the Ears are from the diversity of the propriety as there is any thing in them or not we speak not here of outward pains Somtimes there is only an itching in the Ear Itching of the Ears such as the finger or an Ear picker can scarse allay Somtimes there is a pricking pain and beating A pricking beating shooting and burning in the Ears more or less with burning and pain on that side of the Head and it is either increased or not with things put into the Ear. In these pains there is a Disease somtimes apparent as redness to the whole Ear or more inward to be seen by the light or Exulceration Often blood matter floweth out of it self or by pressing the
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
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
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
these instruments of sense either feel nothing or obtusely the which Fernelius hath writ hath somtimes hapned in the skin of the whol body as hath bin already said from Drunkenness in which case if Wine did not do this by its Narcotick vertue because it caused a general stupidity as hath been said in a Consternation of mind certainly it s Narctick faculty did manifest it self only in abolishing the sense of the Skin the which notwithstanding could scarce be done by Wine or other Narcoticks but also the vertue of the brain and Nerves must be dulied too and therefore after the Drunkenness was over perhaps by reason of the external coldness of the Air in which Drunkards oftentimes lie astonisht it might befall this Drunkard also his skin being thus stupified seeing the cold from without being a long while received perhaps may sometimes cause such a stupidity in some part of the skin which endured this cold for otherwise this can scarce happen from an internal cause bur how it hath hitherto been beleeved that the insensible and stupid skin of the Elephantiacal is rendred so from some internal cause and Disease of the skin that being prickt it feels not and upon what account that is true we shal declare in the Elephantiasis Neither could I ever find that by an external Narcotick applied to the skin that could be rendred stupid or free from pain that I might know somwhat certain I have applied a Mass of Opium mollified to a Gouty part full of pain but without any profit but what they write for truth that this may be done from the touch of a Torpedo not only taken in the hand but also if it be toucht with a Fishers Rod it wil stupifie his hand I seeing I observed no such thing at Moâ—tpelior where they handle and eat Torpedoes dare not affirm it for truth wherefore we say this disease is rare and which can scarce happen that the skin only became insensible the member which it covers not being stupid too by reason of the Nerve affected unless perhaps occasion be given when by reason of an impediment that the Skin being more thick and hard then that it can perceive the true feeling of any thing exactly we would call it the cause of that Stupidity the which notwithstanding is no waies a true Stupidity The Membranes also being Intrinsecally affected and Nerves not hurt too a Stupidity can scarce happen for their sake only And neither is that Stupidity which befals the Teeth or rather that trouble when the teeth are an edge from the Teeth alone An affect of the Nerves about the Teeth causeth a Haemodia because they are distitute of the sense of feeling as other Bones but that the Teeth are too much exasperated and refrigerated by the eating of acid and cold things which both by their thinness and coldness are enemies to the Teeth and Nerves that happens from the continuation of the Nerves and the sensible Membrane with their roots by which it comes to pass that the Tooth it self seems to feel The like Distemper may be imprest by contact on that part where the Teeth touch and so their feeling being changed as when the Teeth being prest in chewing they press them as swelling up thence ariseth that trouble some sense which they call the Teeth an edge The Cure The Cure of a Stupidity because it hath joyned with it other The Cure of a Stupidity from what cause soever and for the most part grievous Symptomes which proceed from the same cause it shall rather be explained in them that we need not repeat the same cure twice as if it be by fault of the Nerves as we have said that all Stupidity happens by reason of them and there be a resolution also the same cure is due to them both as shall be explained in a Palsie or though that be not yet present but only a Stupidity possesseth the part yet because it proceeds from the same cause as a Palsie doth whence they call Stupidity a Diminute or imperfect Palsey with the same labor the Cure of it also will be described there The sum of which Cure is this That if it be from a Humor it be emptied if from blood by the taking away of Blood by Revulsion and Derivation if from flegm or other Excrementitious Hnmors by purging it out with general and particular Purgers if from any other external cause by removing of that in the first place also by refreshing and strengthning the Nerves with things that alter Then that we Allure and Attract the Animal Spirit to the stupid part which is destitute of it by things that do it actually and potentially the which shall be explained in a Palsie and Atrophy because they attract the blood also amongst which these are chiesly used in the Cure of a Stupid Member By Friction of the Stupid part with the Hand applying also warm clothes by Application of Cupping-glasses with much Flame by Pication also often repeated and by other things that cause pain we allure the Spirits Also rubefying Sinapismes are used applyed to the â—ffected part anointings with divers hot Oyls amongst which that is chiefly commended in which Nettle-seed hath been boyled also Time Rue and other things appropriate to the Nerves are commended and other Oyntments which we are wont to use in an Atrophy we use here also Fomentations and Baths of warm water first a little warm by and by hotter are convenient increasing the heat by degrees to which we add somtimes Wine and Lie and oftentimes we boyle in it Time Rue Sage Chamomel and hot Seeds A Cataplasm of Pigeons dung Goose dung adding Bay-berries is approved of also with Oyls and Fat 's and hot Herbs The treading of Grapes if the Feet be stupid or if the stupid Member be thrust into a heap of fresh Grapes whiles they are hot or be dipt in new Wine are accounted for singular remedies in turning away the Stupidity Also the which forementioned Topick Remedies applied to the whol Body may do good if the Stupidity come from a too great refrigeration of the Skin and the Nerves lying under it And if a depraved or impaired sense of feeling arise in the said Formication or with a sense of that Air or Water The Cure of Formication and the false sense of heat and cold because here also is some Stupidity it shall be cured after the same manner But if in the same sense depraved the pain doth exceed the Stupidity as in the Stupidity of the Teeth The Cure of a Haemodia Tobe explained in the pain of the Teeth as also of the pain about the Nailes which they call Haemodia or in the pain of the fingers reaching unto the Nailes as hath been said the Cure shall be more rightly explained in the pains of those parts which are afflicted CHAP. VI. Of the hurt of Tasting The Kinds THe Tasting faileth because the Gustatory instrument doth not perceive at all
by reason of a blow from which commonly these proceed then presently at the beginning we must use bleeding and Repellers and things that allay pain and if that it being long retained do suppurate and whiles the matter is generated there arise pain the horny coat being affected and then also the adnate coat by consent the same must be done for fear of an Inflammation otherwise if there be no pain we must abstein from Repellers seeing they condense the blood more and by and by we ought to apply our care to digest and dissolve that blood which although it be converted into matter must be done nevertheless if part of it can be consumed seeing the greater part of the matter being resolved that which remains sinking downwards from the hole of the Apple can then no longer prejudice the sight and at length 't is wasted either of its own accord or by use of Medicines But 't is discust after this manner you must take the blood of Pidgeons Turtles or other Birds and that while it is yet hot must be cast into the Eye or if a young Pidgeon be at hand we must pul a feather out of his wing whose swelling root because it is newly grown is filled with blood which is contained there in its proper Vein as in an Intestine and the blood must be prest out of that and dropt into the Eye for how much power blood hath in discussing of Blood we have taught elsewhere in Haemorrhages that are to be stopt by blood of this nature Stronger discussives may be put into the Eye if it yeild not to these such as are explained in discussing a Sussusion made of Waters Juyces Gums Gauls To whice also we add these approved by their effects Take Aqua vitae which also doth wonderfully discuss Black and Blewness elswhere Rhadish water each half an ounce dissolve of Camphire which doth the same in discussing as Aqua vitae five grains drop it in Or thus Take of Radish water one ounce steep in it Saffron half a scruple til it looks yellow strain it and dissolve in it Frankincense one scruple Fish gaule half a dram use it by it self or apply it with a Mucilage Or a thicker to anoint the Eyelids may be made thus the which also may be put into the Eyes Take of the juyce of Radish two drams Fish gaule half a dram Myrrh Frankincense each one dram Saffron half a scruple mix them with a sufficient quantity of Honey Or thus chiefly in the declination Take of sour Grapes Lees of Oyl each two drams Myrrh half a dram Saffron half a scruple mix them with Honey Or wholly to discuss it the Compound waters explained in Suffusions are convenient by themselves or applied with a Mucilage Fomentations also shal be applied which do very much discuss such as we have prescribed in Suffufions Or this which is very powerful Take of Radish roots half an ounce Fenugreek seed one ounce Fennel Hartwort each two drams the herbs Fennel Celondine Eyebright each one handful Flowers of Chamomel Melilot Elder Lillies Oat chaff cut each one pugil make a Decoction in Wine and Water for a Fomentation Plasters laid upon the Eye to discuss are of force amongst which this is the best If the Lungs or Liver of a Pidgeon being yet bloody and warm be placed and bound on the Eye which if Pain and Inflammation also were present upon that account also they would do very much good as shal be said in an Opthalmy A Plaster also is made of a Rotten Apple profitable for discussion Or Compounded after this manner Take of Radish sliced one ounce the pulp of a rotten Apple half an ounce Pulp of Raisons one ounce Pidgeons Dung half a dram bruise them with the Mucilage of Fenugreek seed mix them with Milk and apply them A Suffumigation from the Decoction of the Fomentation prescribed wil also discuss very much Manual Operation also takes place here if the matter that is generated do not yeild to Discussives and there be great plenty of it which blots out the Apple which may be attempted by Puncture as hath been said in a Suffusion but with a greater Needle seeing otherwise nothing would flow forth and if it succeed not by thrusting in a bigger yet but in the same hole of the Puncture or by putting in a hollow pipe so sharp that it may enter the same hole and so by sucking out the matter so long til the Apple be in some sort freed from it for if we would draw forth all the matter 't is to be feared that the watry humor may follow For that sucking the Instrument or Pipe must consist of a large Belly that the matter suckt up may be carried into that and not into the mouth of him that sucks such as Chvmists are wont to use for the sucking of Waters or Oyls in seperating them one from another CHAP. VIII Of the hurts of Hearing The Kinds Deafness SOmtimes the Hearing is wholly abolisht so that either they hear not outward sound at all or if they receive any sound at their Ears yet they cannot discern the differences of it and therefore cannot judg what it signifies and this is called Deafness Cophosis and these are oftentimes Dumb if they be born Deaf and then it is an Original Deafness Yet of Deaf folks some of them can after a sort hear themselves speaking but others not all and there have been also found those who otherwise being Deaf pressing a Musical Instrument while it soundeth with their Teeth and biting some part of it or only some other part contiguous to it could apprehend that sound Which may happen not only to those that hold a Pipe in their Mouth and Piping but to those also who hold fast with their Teeth part of another Instrument which consists of strings whiles it is plaid upon And in like manner it happens also to those that are sound if stopping their Ears diligently that they can hear nothing that way they do the same thing as every one may make tryal of it But it is impaired only when they can hardly perceive or discern a sound Thick hearing Barycoia in thick hearing called Barycoia because they do not hear or understand a sound unless it be very high and lofty whence they that talke with them are forced to lift up their voice and somtimes call aloud but others cannot thus perceive their voice unless those that talke with them speak and cry aloud into their Eares A Depraved hearing or Obaudition Obaudition that is a sound in the Ears is when it perceives the external sound falsely and that by reason of an internal sound preternaturally raised in the Ears outnoising this external sound or mixing it self with it and confounding it and that either continually or only by fits besides which Impediment it breeds no smal trouble to a man and makes him unquiet But this sound raised in the hollow of the Ears varies very much and as
so drawn up that it would scarce admit the most liquid meats The Muscles or their Tendons being dryed An Exiccation of the Muscles on their Tendons is the cause of the Contraction of the Members and with them somtimes the Nerves inserted into them being so far wrinkled and bound up they are become as it were Hardned and Callus that they cannot be extended or bent then in what situation they remain firm in the same also they keep the Member which they are implanted fixt and immoveable and more or less Contracted as oftimes we see by reason of Old Age or of too much and long continued labour some parts to become Stiff and diversly crooked and those especially which have been much and long exercised with too much working and that they go with a Crooked Back and cannot raise themselves up streight who have a long while carried heavy Burdens and that they have Crooked Fingers and Hands who have too much used their Help or that Old Folks do labour of a Tetanus or other species of Contractions the which may come to pass not alwaies by reason of the Joynts as shal be said afterwards but also from the foresaid Exiccation of the Muscles their Humor being then Wasted by the forementioned causes so that being consumed by Leanness the which appears manifestly in the Muscles of their Limbs especially in the greater even outwardly their bodies and Tendons seem to consist rather of Fibres than Flesh and to represent dry Cords not soft Nerves which Driness is helpt by the defect of Fat which is wont first of all to be wasted by the said causes whenas it growing both Extrinsecally to their Membranes and being Intrinsecally inbred with the Fibres of certain greater Muscles especially anoynting them that they may the easier be extended and contracted in motion but if they be deprived of it rendring them unfit for motion also the Consumption of the Glue with which the Tendons upon the same account are wont to be smeared from the same causes for which the Humor and Fat do fail which Exiccation we have demonstrated doth depend on an Atrophy formerly in a pituitous humor possessing the Tendons of the Wrist the which also may happen from a vehement Heat from without through great Heats if either they persevere long or are so powerful that they burn almost the Tendons and Muscles rather the more membranous than fleshy being then bound up from thence But there can scarce be such an Exiccation of the Muscles from internal heat even in the most burning Feavers seeing in Hectick Feavers the body being otherwise almost reduced to a wasting the members do not appear contracted by reason of that unless by chance this happen in the Midriff and in the Tongue the which being dried as shal by and by be said its Function also is weakened as we shal speak of in the Breathing hurt for that the Convulsions also which follow these Feavers which we have said do very much differ from Contraction do not proceed from the Exiccation of the Nerves as they would have it but from their Irritation hath been explained in an Epilepsie The Muscles being very much Cooled by an external cause A cooling of the Muscles is the cause of Impotency of motion so that the native heat being laid asleep their Function is weakened then either they cannot rightly move the member or scarcely as it oftentimes happens in the Hands and Feet parts more exposed to injuries by reason of the Air Wind Water Cold that then they cannot rightly lay hold on things with their Fingers they being either numed together or affected with a great pain manifesting it self about the roots of the Nails as hath been said elsewhere but also they think that Spasm is caused by cold which is wont to betide those that swim in very cold Water by binding up the Muscles and Tendons the causes of which nevertheless we have expounded to be other the which notwithstanding this may help The Muscles or their Tendons being Cut The solution of Continuity in the Muscles or Tendons is the cause of a Palsie or only Wounded a little way transversly there follows a Languishing or Palsie of that Member which they ought to draw which as it happens in divers places of the body it doth breâ—d many sorts of Palsies so if it come to pass in the temporal Muscle the lower Jaw is Palsied Moreover the Tendons of a Muscle being too much Extended by a violent motion The too much lengthening of the Tendons is the cause of Impotency of Motion so that being as it were drawn asunder they become longer than is meet it comes to pass that afterwards they cannot sufficiently elevate the Member and because then they hardly recollect themselves again the Evil becomes lasting which somtimes happens in the Hands by lifting up heavy burdens in that strong streining as also I have seen it happen in the Joynt of the Knee being so forced by violence that the many Tendons which meet there being dissevered by that violent and sudden motion and become longer or freed from their connexion with their Ligaments they could no more afterwards rightly bend that part and the Patients have afterwards remained Limping And also an Attraction with violence oftentimes befals the Muscles and their Tendons Too great attraction of the Muscles and their Tendons is the cause of a Flatulent Spasm that they being too much bound up beyond their term or otherwise distorted or bowed or somwhat declining from their natural situation so that they cannot be relaxt again presently they draw the Member beyond a mean figure and that Spasm is caused which so often seazeth on men for a time when they extend their Members violently or with an inordinate motion as it more commonly happens in the Feet when they put on their Shoes with pain or Swimming in the Water they stir them after an unusual manner in which Spasm a Prominency of the Muscle appearing and vehement pain doth sufficiently shew that it is wound up by contraction and too much streightened in it self Wind then also breaking into that Space which it causeth by its elevation as hath been said formerly and helping its distension and that so long til the Muscle being relaxt again the Spasm doth cease again which is the sooner performed by the opposite Muscle drawing the part which the Muscle fastened to it doth follow the which nevertheless if the part be disposed as hath been said formerly in Wind and there is plenty of Wind it is wont sooner and the easier to return and somtimes to molest men not only in some one place but in many places which every one if he rightly consider the business may know to be the true cause of the Cramp that doth so violently and with pain extend the members seeing the true Spasm which is caused by reason of the Nerves sometimes in these or other parts cannot extend the members so violently or cause so
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
Inject with a Syringe into the bladder things that loosen the passages as Oyl of sweet Almonds or in which Mallows was boyled or that prick as Oyl of Scorpions to cause Urin and the Stone to be voided Or Whey or other clensers as Honey and Aloes if the humor be thick or things that break the Stone If there be a Caruncle or hardness inject Mollifiers and Clensers as Aegiptiacum and after Dryers as that of Litharge Tutty Antimony Ceruss and Aloes thrust in at the end of a Wax Candle If the Bladder be ful of Urin put in the Catheter which is good in all stoppages for it drives back the Stone breaks the Caruncle and dissolves clotted blood or matter it is made hollow that the Urin may flow through it Chimches Fleas and Lice may be put into the Yard or smal Hairs to provoke Urin. They say Galbanum applied like a Plaister to the top of the Yard provokes Urin. Also a Fume of Hedghogs bristles and Agarick and of Grass-hoppers doth it in Women Somtimes the only pressing of the swollen Bladder with the hand doth it And when a Stone is gotten into the Yard it may be pressed out by degrees Somtimes they must be cut for the Stone or Caruncle when other means fail as we shal shew in the Stone CHAP. IX Of the Defect of Bringing forth Children or other things The Kinds THere is a Defect of natural excretion by which a Woman sends forth at a fit season either a Child or a deformed Mole The Birth is Defective when it is difficult as it may be preternaturally and naturally Or when it is not at its time appointed by nature or before it or when part thereof remains behind Birth becomes difficult and painful when it is Natural when the Child is ripe A natural difficult Birth and the Woman hath foregoing signs by which she is provoked to hold her breath and press the Muscles of the belly as in other digestion All which are increased when the Child comes forth Also after birth some pain remains called after-pains of which seeing they are natural to the bringing forth we shal speak in the hurt of that Function rather than in pains Somtimes Travail is not preternatural from some impediment and so with more difficulty and slower as is mentioned A preternatural difficult Birth in which great pain afflicteth with straining heat and sweating when the Child sticks cross in the passage where the Midwife may feel it or when the Hand or Foot hangs out and not the Head for when that comes first the birth is easie Hence it is that either the Mother or the Child often dies It is said to be no Birth when the Woman goes beyond the natural time Birth hindered which is usually the tenth month though the seventh month be also allowed and there is nothing brought forth though the Child be ripe or there be a mole And then she falleth to sounding which kind of fainting is here most deadly through pain labor and bleeding Also shee hath her throws at the time and seems to be fit for Travail and is so disposed by the Midwife and her Urin breaks from her as is usual in that condition But all these cease and no birth followeth And if they return not the Child is dead and putrifies and breeds Feavers and Faintings and so infecteth the body that the Mother dieth as many have done especially one who went five months beyond her time with a dead Child and a stinking flux with the Navel-string hanging forth before she died which so infected that the Womb and Child were black and very stinking when shee was opened And when the Mother lived shee had somtimes cleer bladders about her Navel which signified putrefaction through which the Back-bones of the Child were seen and taken forth after they brake This causeth death as we shewed if it be not speedily voided and may be before the Child is perfect and then it must be cast out presently and it is easily done while it is little but when it is great there is as we said want of birth As also if there be a false conception or Mole which the sooner it is cast out the less is the danger therefore when we are certain thereof if nature be slow we help her with Medicines The Child is known to be dead if the Mother feel no motion which shee formerly felt and the belly is stil big which often deceiveth by the Terms reteined and these breaking forth it suddenly falleth flat about the flanks And if the Womb be cold and the Paps which were swollen grow lank At length if it continue there followeth water matter and filth and pieces of the secondine hang out there is a Feaver heart-Heart-pain and Swounding We shal shew in depravate Conception when there a Mole and no Child and how you shal know it The Birth is imperfect when the Child is voided and the Secondine remaineth whol or torn Imperfect Birth growing to the Womb or stopped and causeth great danger of a Feaver or sudden Swounding or Death The Causes The Scripture witnesseth that natural difficulty of Travail was caused by original sin Sin from Eves fall in Paradise for which the Creator was pleased to inflict pain in Travail Yet let us shew some natural cause of both why it should be naturally or preternaturally defective or imperfect which is either from the greatness of the Child Situation or weakness or form of the Womb having three orifices or from streightness of the Neck thereof When a Child ready to be delivered is great as when it can no longer be contained in the Womb Greatness of the Child but seeks another mansion and Diet in respect of the passages the Delivery cannot be without pain though it be natural And the rather when the Child being great by the Father is born by a little Woman which brings forth with great danger alwaies As also when there is monstrous Conception or many at once There is also either no birth or very hard Evil position of the Child when the decent roundness of it is changed by breaking the coats and flowing of water whereby the Child comes not forth with the Head first but the Feet or lieth cross or when the hands or feet which were close to the sides are stretched out And in regard the strong Throws of the Mother are required in Travail Weakness of the Mother the more couragious the Woman is the easier is the Delivery so they that are weak as very young and old Women and such as are weak-spirited and fearful dul and sloathful are tired out and in great danger If the Vessels by which the child wrapt in Membranes with a cake of flesh in the middle cleaveth to the Womb be not ripe The Vessels connexion not divided in the Womb. they are unfit to be divided like the stalks of unripe Apples without tearing and force and bleeding nor doth bleeding
and active and they who have less are weak and sooner die And when that flourishing humor is consumed like Oyl by the heat of the spirit by degrees in age men grow more weak and dry Among internal and external causes Diseases that dissipate the influent and fixed spirits are the cause of weakness all great Diseases dissipate the vital spirits if they continue long and at length consume the innate spirits with the radical moisture wherewith it is joyned from whence the weakness is more or less Great and often Evacuations either by chance or willingly Evacuations that dissipate the natural fixed and also the influent heat cause weakness or in Diseases exhaust and dissipate the spirits and abate strength especially if good humors be voidded as Seed in the running of the Reins or by Venery Also great bleeding purging by reason the stirring of the spirits abate strength as in Diarrhaea's and great and often sweating and much pissing Also the sudden effusion of things besides nature as of Water in the Dropsie matter in an Empiema doth weaken These violent excretions being painful as in a Dysentery weaken more Great pain which violently stirreth the spirits Pain moving the spirits causeth weakness to bring them to the part afflicted with the blood for help causeth weakness and if it be very great fainting Especialy if the part suffering Pain of the Mouth of the Stomack cause of Cardiaca or fainting have great affinity with the Heart Hence it is that they who have the Cardialgia or Heart pain are very weak by reason of the consent of the Stomach with the Heart and do easily faint this fainting is called Cardiaca And so it is in other painful and long Diseases Great and sudden Passions of the Mind Trembling of the Spirit is the cause of weakness fainting because then the spirits are carried in and out with force cause debility and somtimes fainting and death Thus we have seen some swoon with joy that hath thrown the spirits outward and have read that others have died so In anger the spirits are so inraged that they look red in the Face And when the spirits presently return as the paleness following sheweth they are in little danger of life but they are weakned thereby as appears by their trembling and there remains a weariness though anger be over Nor is the cause of men not dying with anger as with joy because angry men are stronger as is supposed in regard old men and sick men that are peevish are easily moved to anger But it often hapens that by great fear the spirits being violently moved some die and many are weakned And shame and bashfulness may cause the same by which they say Homer died Also if the passions be of long continuance and strong as sadness and fear and the like they stir the spirits with continual Cogitation and at length consum them and as they say dry the bones and this is a Consumption of the Spirits A strong and constant heat doth not only dissipate the spirits but consumes them Heat dissipating the spirits and consuming their nourishment is the cause of weakness and their nourishment as when the body is weakned by heat fire labor there is fainting somtimes And in Feavers it is so especially in a Causon or burning Feaver And in a Hectick the accidental heat of the heart though not great yet continuing devours the radical moisture of the heart and solid parts and the spirits and causeth weakness and Consumption A cold distemper quencheth the native heat Cold restraining the native heat is the cause of weakness or makes it less so some have been frozen to death And others have been killed with staying long in cold water Also some parts are benumed and blasted with cold or so weakned that they come not again to themselves And this may come to the Stomach by drinking cold water And hither may be referred those that for want of excercise bring not the native heat into action and grow stupid Also the parrs grow weak by using things inwardly and outwardly that are Potentially cold a long time they grow weak but the native heat is not wholly extinct as by actual cold Although hitherto it hath been believed to come from Narcoticks that are very cold which as we shewed do not kil by cooling but by stupefying the brain Nor do we grant that the Pores being obstructed that the heat is Suffocated for want of fanning or Eventilation for as we shewed the Skin hath Pores not to let in Air but to let out other things A Maligne quality affecting the Heart or mixed with its spirits A Maligne quality in the Heart is the Cause of weakness causeth an extinction of native heat thereof and by consequence of all the Body or diminisheth it and begets a Syncope or weakness or Death according toits divers qualities So when the Air is infected men in the Plague suddenly faint are weak and die or in swouning Feavers which alwaies begin with fainting And when Poyson is taken or bred in the Body it gets to the Heart and endangers life and causeth weakness And this may happen to other parts when Poyson is more contrary to them then to the Heat If a Wound peirce the left Ventricle of the Heart A Wound in the Heart is the cause of weakness and Death the spirits suddenly vanish and there is sudden Death And if the right or it peirce the Superficies or cuts the Coronal Veins they die suddenly from great bleeding I suppose non can scape if the substance only be hurt and divided because a principal part cannot endure it Fernelius writes that he saw one that consumed before he died of an Ulcer in the Heart that came from an inward cause The like may be from a Tumor which is rare and not known but by dissection because the Heart feels not I faw in 1644. in a Woman that I opened of a Dropsie in the Breast such a swolen Heart loose and greater then it should be with the Vessels especially the Arteria Aorta three times bigger then usual and both the Ventricles especially the left and the Langs and Cavity of the breast silled with waterish blood Also a great corruption in other parts extinguisheth the native heat The Cure We shall shew how it is to be done in diverse weaknesses The Cure of weakness and swouning and chiefly in general Imbecility and great fainting which also may be for particular weakned parts although in their Symptoms we shall also speak thereof We must act and prognostick acctording to the diversity of the cause of weakness If it come from want of Air and breathing we shewed the Cure in the defect of Breathing If it be from the birth or old age we labor in Vain because natural causes cannot be changed nor radical moisture renewed If it be from Evacuation it is worst from Venery or bleeding which is in a Dropsie If
from sweat it must be stopped as we shall shew in its place If from pain take away the cause and allay the pain for pain of the Heart causing swouning vomit purge and strengthen the Stomach as in Cardialgia some die of joy and that weakness which is from other passions if it continue especially from fear it is hard to be Cured If it come from a hot or cold distemper Cure it by contraries A Maligne quality Plague or Poyson often killeth for which we use Evacuations and Antidotes A Wound in the Heart is deadly and a corruption of the parts thereof uncurable These things observed though the evil be desperate yet with Restauratives and Cordials we may ply them to the last breath that if there be any hope and the weakness not fixed cure them And we may be the bolder if it come from Evacuation Pain or Passion or after a Disease And if there be a Syncope we may remove it and prevent it Examples of all which do folfow Let the Diet be of good juyce Cordials and in little quantity easie concocted give them little and often Especially if old men are lately sick or such as have had great Evacuation And if they cannot digest thick give broaths things strained or Jellies A good Julep Take Capon broath and boyl Rise therein with Borrage add the yolk of an Egg and a little Rose Vinegar or a little juyce of sharp Apples or Citrons or Wine Marjoram Nutmeg Saffron and Salt Or boyl and strain the flesh of a Capon in broath and give it with the rest The German dish of yolks of Eggs Wine Sugar and Butter doth restore excellently The Gravie of a roasted Capon mixed with the yolk of an Egg the fat being taken off and boyled with Nutmeg and Salt doth the same There are divers jellies As Take a Capon and Mince it with a little Veal salted and Spiced with a little Wine and boyl it in Balneo Mariae and take the juyce and strain it from the fat and keep it till it congeal in a cold place This may be given by it self or with others Wine doth suddenly and greatly refresh as experience sheweth give it alone or with Sugar let it be well sented and sweetish or mix Cinnamon therewith It is good in swouning to give a sop in Wine with juyce of Apples Lemmons Pomegranats and Cinnamon The Medicines to refresh the Spirits and preserve them are these Take the julep of Roses two ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce give it often Or thus Take the juyce of sweet sented sower Apples half an ounce Sack and Cinamon water of each two drams Or thus in the Heart pain Take of Balm and Lavender flower water of each half an ounce Cinnamon water juyce of Lemons or of Apples and Sack of each two drams Juleps are usual in Feavers and in thirst As Take syrup of Violets Bugloss water Lillies of each one ounce julep of Roses one ounce and an half Rose Bugloss and Balm water of each two ounces Cinnamon water half an bunce give two or three ounces A Distilled water to restore Take the broath of a Capon and Oxes or Dears Hearts well boyled four pints Sack one pint an Orange or a Lemon cut in pieces Galangal Balm of each one dram Cinnamon half an onnce Cloves two drams Coriander and Basil seeds Roses Scabious and Bugloss flowers of each one dram Saffron one scruple Harts horn and Ivory shavings of each one dram Distill a Water Or thus Take dried Citron peels Angelica roots Balm Borrage flowers Basil seed of each half a dram Cinnamon three drams Cloves and species of Diamargariton Frigidum of each one dram Infuse them in spirit of Wine give one or two spoonfuls with Sugar of Roses or white Wine Cordial Potions to be given at the point of Death to refresh Take Confectio Alchermes one scruple species Diamargariton Frigidum half a dram syrup of the juyce of Citrons half an ounce syrup of Poppies three drams with Rose Bugloss and Cinnamon water make a Cordial This is good in extremity with more Poppy water Or thus which is good against Poyson Take Confectio de Hyacyntho half a dram or Diamargariton Frigidum Diamoscum dulce of each half a dram Syrup of the juyce of Citrons one ounce with Scabious and Balm water make a Potion Treacle is good if fainting come from Poyson or an evil Medicine Also Lozenges of Sugar of Roses and Diamargariton Frigidum Or these Take species of Diamargariton frigidum of the Electuary of Gems or Cordial species of each half a dram Oyl of Cinnamon four drops Sugar dissolved in Rose water two ounces Make Lozenges Or Take Coral one dram Precious stones Pearles Ivory of each half a dram Citron seeds Sorrel and Basil seeds of each one scruple Cinnamon Mace of each one dram wood Aloes one scruple Musk two grains with Sugar make a Pouder or Lozenges To these you may add the Oyls of Pearls Coral or the like Portable Gold or spirits drawn called Elixirs are commended by Chymists to strengthen and hinder old Age. And they attribute much to their holy Oyl of mans blood Take of a sound mans blood of thirty or forty years old three pints Sperma Ceti Marrow of Oxe bones of each one pound Distill them in a Lembeck well luted keep the last water which is red and they say will change with the Moon give three drops in Wine or Cordial water Sweet scented things refresh and fetch swouning people again we shall mention some only to be applied to the Nose which are at hand Apply Vinegar of Roses with a Spunge or Cloth to the Nose or mix it with Penniroyal bruised or Basil or let him smel to Wine They use to chew Cloves and breath into the Mouth and Nose of the Patient Or this Take Cloves yellow Sanders Roses of each one dram Camphire one scruple beat them with Vinegar and apply them to the Nose Or Take Rose water one ounce juyce of Apples and Vinegar of Roses of each half an ounce Cloves half a dram Oyl of Spike one drop apply it to the Nose Or anoynt it with Civet or Chymical Oyls of Cloves and Cinnamon with white Wax Apply Epithems to the Heart and Pulses As Take Rose water three ounces Wine that is sweet scented two ounces Vinegar of Roses one ounce juyce of sweet Apples or Lemmons half an ounce Cloves one dram Saffron one scruple Or this Take water of Roses Balm Scabious of each two ounces Vinegar of Roses juyce of Apples of each one ounce species Diamargariton frigidum one dram Camphire one scruple Saffron half a scruple Make an Epithem You may boyl Pouders put into Bags in Wine and apply them Take Cloves two drams Gallia Moschata one dram Saffron half a scruple Basil seed one scruple Camphire half a scruple Or anoynt the Pulses Take Oyl of Cloves and Cinnamon of each three drops and mix them with a little Wax Anoynt the Heart with those mentioned
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
Head I suppose that that pain or sence of weight before and behind comes from the brain offended in the part from whence the Nerves and Marrow proceed The Disease which is in the meninges of the brain or the sensible parts thereof where the Nerves begin which causeth Head-ach is either manifest when a hot distemper inflames the parts or cold when it plucketh them or solution of continuity stretching or otherwise hurting Or it is a hidden quality which is offensive to these parts The helping Cause is the disposition of these parts to suffer From which cause if they be little the Disease is less if great or more causes meet the Disease is greater A hot distemper is often the cause of Head-ach A hot diflemper of the Brain causeth Head-ach for the Head as I shal shew easily is inflamed by reason of the plenty of spiritful blood and is pained by a preternatural heat And the rather when there is a matter which raiseth the heat to stretch and disturb it Or if there be an evil quality in them that offendeth the brain as it is usually from a hot vapor or humor from blood and choler The Head being uppermost easily receives Vapors Vapors going to the Head cause Head-ach especially thin these heat and pul and give occasion to Head-aches by consent This comes from outward scents but it is rather the return of an old pain which was usual than a new And sometimes from things eaten that with their Vapors strike the Head These may cause new Head-aches if they fil the Brain as in Drunkards who are pained in their Heads from the thin hot vapors of the Wine that heat and prick rather than stretch the Brain by a force as I shal shew contrary to the Brain and Nerves This pain comes after sleep from the stupifying or Narcotick quality of the Wine and the heat remaining and continues till the Vapors are thrown out by Snorting Vapors sent to the Head from hot cholerick and putrid humors in the Veins cause the Head-aches in most Fevers and out of Fevers they cause the fits of the Hemicrania or half Head-ach And Choler in the Stomach sending Vapors causeth Suffusions and Vertigoes or Giddiness and also Head-ach by consent Much spiritful Blood conteined in the large cavities and passages of the Brain Bloood in the Head causeth Cephalalgia by stretching or if it be hot by inflaming it causeth a Dotage or by heat a Cephalalgia or bloody Head-ach called Soda This is Cholerick Melancholick or Flegmatick as the blood abounding is thick or thin This Blood comes into the Head from a plethory in the Body which is from divers causes Or it is drawn thither by the heat of the Sun or Baths Noyse Coughing Stroaks Falls or great motion of the Body or Mind and made hotter Especially in hot Diseases this is a Symptom especially in Fevers in which the blood inflamed with the spirits in the Head as it is also in the great Veins hence comes Head-ach in all Fevers or from the Vapors for in Fevers the Head is made hotter as wel as the body We know when head-ach comes from blood from things foregoing and from the beating pain and redness of the Eyes and other causes Also if such excrementitious Choler as comes pure from the Ears separate from the water go to the Brain and Meninges it makes a pricking but it can scarse get thither without moisture nor doth it then cause pain because in the Jaundies except other causes happen there is no Head-ach A cold Distemper may cause head-ach A cold distemper of the Brain causeth Head-ach as wel as pain in the Nerves by binding and biting and by its adverse contrary quality to every sensible part This may come from flegmatick excrements of the Brain cooling the membranes and not the Brain for then there would be sleep or astonishment as in the Defluxion called Coryza there cometh somtimes actually cold water from the Nose and then the pain of the Head ceaseth Also pain riseth from some external actual Cold either because it astringeth or is otherwise an Enemy to the Head from the Air or Wind or cold things applied to the Head these cause Head-ach if they pierce inward And a little cold external in such as are used to have the Head-ach and to keep their heads warm if they stand bare wil cause the Head-ach therefore they defend their Heads Caps and long Hair And they who are offended easily with heat take off their Hair and say that if it be long they perceive the head-ach to trouble them as we have observed in old Men and bald-pated who use to be night and day bare-headed Also by accident external Cold by driving the external heat inward especially when from a cold place one suddenly removes into a hot may cause Head-ach rather by heating than cooling the Head Solution of Continuity manifest by external causes as a stroak Distention and Twitching in the Brain is the cause of Head-ach or Wound that pierceth to the Meninges make an inward Head-ach with an outward But distension and twitching pains are caused by Vapors and hot humors and flegmatick excrements abounding in the Brain cause the same not so much by their plenty as by their coldness and sharpness which they have by corruption or saltness And this Headach is joyned with a heat and is before or behind as the humor producing it is in the fore or hinder cavity and it is heavy like a weight with stretching and twitching And it is shorter when the excrements stay not and longer when they do and somtimes a Giddiness or Defluxion doth go before or accompany it And the plenty of these excrements being waterish thin sharp and hot as we shewed in Coryza with Head-ach flowing from the Eyes and Nose shew the cause And we have seen abundance of these humors voided not only at the Nose but Ears which have cured an old Ach. Any quality that is an Enemy to the Membranes of the Brain will cause pain in them first A quality which is an enemy to the brain causeth Head-ach and then in the Head either by a hidden force or a manifest quality As Narcoticks afflict the Brain with their evil quality being taken and also cause pain of the Head when they which took them come to their senses and it continues And Drunkards are not so much hurt by the heat and vapor of the Wine as by its evil quality and after Beer we find Head-aches caused from the Hops which are narcotick and stupefactive by which quality we observe that Hops are destructive unto Flies And we have often observed that Head-ach easily comes after the use of Opiates And after the use of other things not narcotick but otherwise offensive as of Saffron Smallage seed not only much taken but smelt to Also Head-ach as other diseases of the Head may come from evil vapors or humors as in melancholly and
extremities revel more powerfully than frictions or rubbing Also washing of the body with a hot Decoction of Herbs good for the Head draws humors and Vapors from the Head And asswageth pain as we shal shew Glysters are good and usually afore bleeding because they supple the belly and take away excrements and after also to draw down blood spirits and vapors if they be sharp and well applied And in constant heat they must be given often the belly being bound for the Disease comes or is increased by excrements retained which send up vapors In a hot cause especially Fevers use this Take Mallows Violets Marsh-mallows Beets Mercury red Coleworts which besides their pricking resist Vapors and Drunkenness each a bandful Bettony proper for the Liver half a handful Violets a pugil Chamaemel flowers half a pugil Barley Bran each a pugil cold seeds half an ounce Fennel seed a dram boyl and add Honey of Violets and red Sugar each an ounce Juyce of Beets or Mercury an ounce and an half Cassia an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces Butter an ounce with Salt make a Clyster In other Causes especially old pains Take Lilly roots two ounces the Emollients Beets or Mercury red Coltworts Pellitory of the Wall Bettony Sage Hysop each a handful flowers of Chamomil Lavender or Staechas Rosemary and Bran each a pugil Figs ten Annis and Fennel seeds each a dram boyl them and add Hiera prica and Diaphaenicon each two drams red Sugar and Honey of Rosemary each an ounce and an half juyce of Mercury or Beets an ounce Oyl of Chamomil and Lillies of each an ounce and an half with a little Salt make a Clyster If the pain come from Humors or Vapors from them or evil quality in them or if the uncleaness of the Body increase or nourish it we give divers purges such as are for other Diseases of the Head coming from the same cause differing in respect of the cause and constitution when the cause or nature is hot we use gentle and moderate but in others stronger and hotter respecting the Head in all giving before them Clysters or letting blood preparing the Humor first if need be And we purge often if the cause require as in the Head-ach from the French Pox. Thus In Cholerick Body we prepare before purging Thus Take Syrup of Endive two ounces syrup of Violets and Sorrel each an ounce Succory and Bugloss water each four ounces Vervaine water which is proper for the Head two ounces and Bettony water an ounce give it at thrice and a Tablet of Diarrhodon after every draught In Melancholly thus Take syrup of both Bugloses each an ounce and an half syrup of Harts-tongue and Epithymum of each an ounce Bugloss Vervain Balm and Bettony water each two ounces take it as the other In flegmatick and old pains where the heat is not great Take Honey of Roses Oxymel simple and syrup of Maiden hair each an ounce and an half syrup of Hysop and Staechas each an ounce Marjoram Bettony Vervain Balme Hysop and Sage water each as much as is fit give it as the other with a Tablet of Diamoschum after every draught Or this Decoction Take Fennel roots two ounces the true Acorus or Calamus an ounce Liquorish an ounce and an half Bettony Marjoram Sage Vervain each an handful Lavender Staechas and Rosemary flowers each a pugil Annis and Fennel seeds each a dram Raysons stoned two ounces boyl them and add Honey then clense it and add Nut-meg and Sugar give it three or four mornings As for purges if the pain come from a hot humor blood or choller they are as we shewed in Fevers and other hot diseases that cause Head-ach Or thus Take Cassia Tamarinds Prunes of each half an ounce take it with Sugar or Whey Or thus Take Cassia six drams Electuary of juyce of Roses two drams Diaprunis a dram syrup of Roses an ounce and an half with Bugloss and Rose water make a Potion Or give this Decoction Take Beet roots green an ounce Dock roots half an ounce Violets two drams Bugloss flowers a dram if fresh two drams Cold seeds of each two drams Annis seeds a dram Prunes and Tamarinds each six pair Polypody six drams Senna half an ounce boyl them and to one Dose add syrup of Roses an ounce or six drams of the infusion of Rhubarb this may be repeated often Or this infusion Take Rhubarb four scruples yellow Myrobalans two drams Spike half a scruple bruise them and sprinckle them with a little Wormwood Wine till they are soft then infuse them in Whey or Endive and Vervain water strain them and add Diaprunis two drams syrup of Violets an ounce give it We use this Apozem often in Cholerick persons which tempereth the Humor Take roots of Succory Bugloss Beets each an ounce Endive Succory Borage each a handful Mercury half a handful Cordial flowers each a pugil four great cold seeds each two drams Purslane Lettice and Annis seeds each a dram red Pease a pugil Raysons stoned and Tamarinds of each an ounce and an half Prunes twelve Sebestens ten pair Polypody two ounces Senna an ounce and an half Carthamus seeds an ounce boyl them and add juyce of Roses two ounces Manna an ounce with Sugar and Cinnamon make an Apozem for three mornings If he had rather have Pills use those of Assajereth which are good for Head-ach coming from the Stomach or Aggregative or sine Quibus a dram of either In Melancholick persons when the cause is not so hot purge as in other Diseases of the Head caused by Melancholly Or thus Take Catholicon half an ounce Diaphaenicon two drams Hamech a dram take it with Sugar or an ounce of syrup Fumitory or with Whey or Cock broath Or use this Decoction Take Bugloss roots an ounce bark of Tamarisk half an ounce Bugloss and Scabious flowers each a pugil Staechas french Lavender half a pugil Melon seeds a dram and an half Raysons stoned an ounce Prunes ten Dates five Polypody six drams Senna half an ounce tops of Time two drams boyl and infuse them Indian and chebs Myrobalans each a dram strain them and add syrup of Roses and Peach flowers each half an ounce with Sugar and Nutmeg make a Potion repeat it if need be Mesues syrup of Apples made with black Hellebore or that with white Hellebore corrected by Rondeletius is good an ounce and an half given alone or with convenient Liquor Or this Take the opening roots steep'd in white Wine Vinegar barks of Capars and Tamarisk each six drams Liquorish an ounce Bugloss with the roots Fumitory tops of Hops Eupatorium by Mesues called Ageratum Maiden-hair Cetrach Germander Ground-pine each a handful Balm and Elder each half a handful Cordial flowers and Tamarisk each a pugil Staechas and Chamomil flowers each half a handful Fennel and Annis seeds each two drams Parsley and Dodder seed each a dram Raysons stoned an ounce and an half Figs and Prunes each ten pair Dates
to make way for the humor is also a last remedy for old and desperate Head-aches Medicines to alter are given as in other diseases of the Head according to the humor predominating cold or hot and strengthening and that beat down vapors if the pain come from the stomach and allay Choller These are given in Diet as well as Medicine First take heed of things that by scent hurt the Head as Wine Mustard seed and the like which in a Flegmatick case would be good and Wine also which cherisheth the Head and Cures the hurt it caused hence the drunkards take a Hair with the old Dog and till they drink Wine again are not well or eat with it to repress vapors And Milk although being corrupted it causeth Head-ach yet thus drunk it abates it We are somtimes urged to give Stupefactives in great pain of the Head especially if they cannot sleep and in a hot distemper As syrup of Poppies or other gentle Narcoticks as Pouder Diapapaveris In other cases we give not Narcoticks or sleeping Medicines because as we shewed when their strength is spent they leave a Head-ach behind them except well corrected as Treacle or Mithtidate or Diacodium or Requies Galeni but in a very smal quantity All this may be also done by a large drinking of strong Wine which hath also a Narcotick quality The Remedies to be applied outwardly are of three sorts Coolers Anodynes or Removers of Pain or Healers If it come from a hot cause or Cephalalgia give Coolers and at first Binders when the flowing of blood is to the Head or is feared and after mix moistening things therewith to abate the heat Anodynes which with moderate heat not too dry cherish the part or by causing sleep or astonishment keep the pain from being felt when the pain is great and at the first to hinder the Defluxion may be given not so wel alone as with cold mixture Hot things which dry and discuss humors and thin vapors may be given in the declining of a hot Head-ach to take away the remainder and fix the weakned part first mixed with the aforesaid then alone With these the Head is washed from an high or Stuphes or Clouts or Spunges are put therein and applied to the Fore-head and Temples or the parts anoynted therewith or they are applied in Bags or Caps wet or dry as followeth When we wil cool and repell together we apply Vinegar of Roses thus Take Rose water four onnces Rose-vinegar two ounces Oyl of Roses an ounce mix them if you wil astringe more add more Vinegar It is better Thus with Juyces Take Rose water three ounces Rose-vinegar an ounce juyce of Osiers and Plantane â—â—ch an ounce with the white of an Egg to make the moisture stick longer if it come from Drunkenness add juyce of Ivy. apply it Or use this Decoction more repelling and cooling Take Plantane and Osier leaves Vine and Nightshade each a handful boyl them to six ounces strained add juyce of Plantane and Housleek each an ounce an half Vinegar of Roses an ounce mix them Anoynt the Fore-head and Temples with repelling Oyntments as the Cerote or white Oyntment of Galen or that of Roses Or Take Oyl of Roses juyce of Osiers Vinegar of Roses whites of Eggs each equal parts beat them a good while and apply them Or this Take Oyl of Myrtles two ounces of Roses one ounce juyce of sour Pomegranates Vinegar of Roses each an ounce Oyl of Olives a dram Myrtle Barberry and Coriander seed each half a dram with Turpentine of the Larch tree beat them apply it as the other Or this Emplaster Take juyce of Willow and Vine leaves or of Plantane in the winter and Housleek each an an ounce and an half Vinegar an ounce with Line seed flour and the white of an Eg make two Plasters for both the Temples Galen makes a Frontal or Plaster for the Fore-head of red Roses steept in Wine which is red and astringent or in Vinegar Fresh and green Vine leaves and Willows applied do the same and better if beaten or bruised or steept as the Roses If you wil repel and ease pain also Take Rose water three ounces Plantane water two ounces juyce of Willows or Plantane an ounce and an half Vinegar and Poppy flowers two ounces Oyl of Roses and Violets each six drams whites of Egs and Mucilage of Fleabane seed each an ounce beat them wel Or use this Cap or Frontal Take red Roses two drams Violets and Water-lillies each a dram Coriander seed two drams Myrrle seed a dram rinds of Mandrakes half a dram red Sanders a dram and an half red Coral a dram make a Pouder To Cool and Moisten we use this Take Lettice Water-lillies and Nightshade water each two ounces Vinenegar of Roses to pierce and repel half an ounce apply it to the Head Apply Nightshade also and Purslane bruised If you intend to allay pain at the same time Take Lettice and Nightshade water each two ounces the mucilage of Marshmallows and Mallow seeds each half an ounce Camphire half a scruple mix them Or this Decoction Take Marshmallow roots Lettice and Nightshade each a handful Housleek half a handful Roses Violets and Water-lillies each a pugil Barley half a pugil Line seed half an ounce boyl them in Water Or this Epithem to asswage pain Take Rose water two ounces Henbane water an ounce Vinegar half an ounce the Emulsion of fifteen Peach kernels made with the Liquors mentioned Oyl of Roses half an ounce Or anoynt with this Anodynd Take Oyl of Roses and Violets each an ounce Oyl of Poppy seeds Lettice and Chamaemel each half an ounce Vinegar of Roses two drams Milk an ounce and an half mix them with the white of an Egg. This is stronger Take Oyl of Violets and Roses each an ounce and an half Oyl of Poppy seeds half an ounce juyce of Housleek and Nightshade each an ounce Vinegar half an ounce boyl them till the juyce is consumed add white and red Sanders rinds of Mandrakes each half a dram Lettice and Purslane seed each a dram the Mucilage of Fleabane seed an ounce Camphire dissolved in a little Aqua vitae a scruple with Wax make an Oyntment Populeon is a good Oyntment against pain Or this Cataplasm Take Peach kernels and sweet Almonds each two ounces beat them add Starch an ounce meal of Fleabane seed half an ounce Henbane seeds two drams Oyl of Roses and Violets each an ounce with Milk make a Cataplasm These following are only against pain An Anodine Epithem Milk warm from the Cow with white of an Egg and any Mucilage beat them wel and apply Or this Decoction Take the broth of a Sheep or Calfs head and boyl in it Mallows a handful Chamaemel flowers a pugil Lineseed an ounce and an half Fleabane and white Poppy seed each half an ounce boyl and apply them Or these Liniments which may be also dropt into the Ears Take Oyl of Violets and
Willows each half an ounce Oyl of Poppy seeds two drams anoynt the Forehead and Temples Another Take Oyl of Apple-bearing Nightshade an ounce mucilage of Fleabaneseed cream of Milk half an ounce mix them Of Opium these Take Aqua vitae an ounce Opium a scruple Saffron half a scruple make a Liniment for the Temples by gentle boyling Or thus Take cream of Milk an ounce Opium half a dram Saffron six grains burnt Ivory and Starch each a dram mix them and anoynt or add Oyl of Violets or Water-lillies The leaves of Henbane Mandrakes and Poppies applied to the Head take away pain by stupefaction especially if first bruised Some roast Henbane in the Embers in a Clout and apply it But Rondoletius saith it will cause Madness If we wil discuss and add Coolers and Anodynes use these Take Marshmallow roots an ounce of Willow Plantane Bettony each a handful flowers of Chamaemel Elder and Dill each half a pugil Senna three drams Dill seed two drams boyl them in Wine and Water Or this Plaster that discusseth a little Take Violets and Water-lillies each half a pugil white Poppy and Lettice seed a dram pouder them and add Barley meal an ounce with Vinegar make a Plaster Some make Frontals of the Conserves of Violets and Water-lillies with other things Or thus Take Roses Violets Dill Chamomel flowers each a pugil Juniper berries half a pugil boyl them in Milk beat them add Bean flour an ounce flour of white Poppy seed two drams Lettice seed a dram Oyl of Roses and Chamomel each an ounce and an half make a Fronral Dill any waies applied to the Head discusseth takes away pain and causeth sleep This discusseth more Take Oyl of Dill an ounce Oyl of Lillies and Wall-flowers each half an ounce juyce of Vervain an ounce the infusion of Marygold flowers in Aqua vitae half an ounce boyl away the Juyces add Capons grease an ounce and with a little Wax make a Liniment Chiefly the Oyntment of Alablaster discusseth and is good in all Head-aches without a Fever whether they be of themselves or from some other part by consent Thus made Take juyce of sweet Chamomil four ounces juyce of Roses and Marshmallow roots each two ounces juyce of Rue and Bettony each an ounce and an half Sallet Oyl a pint and an half the sinest sifted Alablaster three ounces steep and then boyl them and with Wax make an Oyntment to which some add Bramble berries whites of Egs and Rue and the juyce of Vervain The Oyntment of Dialthaea is also good And the Plaster of Frogs or of Vigo applied to the shaved head is good if continued This Pouder for a Cap doth asswage pain and discuss Take Coriander seed prepared three drams Dill seed two drams Lettice seed Couchineel red Roses and Dill each a dram all the Sanders half a dram Nutmeg two scruples make a Pouder Another that discusseth and strengtheneth Take Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Dill seed a dram and an half Chamomel Melilot Dill Lavendar flowers each a dram Marjoram Balm Rosemary flowers each half a dram yellow Sanders a dram Cloves half a dram These Amulets to hang about the body are thought proper as a wreath or Garland of Vervain Or Ivy upon a Drunkards head or a Snakes Skin or the stone Ophites Some things are snuffed into the Nose to alter as Sweets not too strong as Camphire dissolved in Vinegar and Rose water and smel too Or thus Take Camphire half a dram Oyl of Storax a dram and an half which Dioscorides commends mix them with a little Labdanum make a Ball to smell too Or thus Take red Roses and Violets each a dram Dill and Chamomel flowers each half a dram Coriander seeds prepared a dram Lettice seed half a dram all the Sanders a scruple with Camphire half a scruple make a Pouder tie it in a Clout and dip it in Rose water and Vinegar to smel to Or take the Fume of this Decoction hot Take Willows Nightshade Lettice each a handful flowers of Roses Violets Dill Water-lillies Melilot each a pugil Lettice seed two drams Poppy seed a dram Basil seed half a dram boyl them and add Vinegar and Water of Roses Or snuff up Vinegar and Rose water Or stupefie with this Oyntment Take Oyl of Water Lillies an ounce Opium and Camphire each six grains This is good to be dropt into the Ears also and the other cooling Anodine and hot Oyntments mentioned when you wil discuss And you may mix a little Oyl of Safiron and Oyl of Dill and drop it into the Ears Washing and stroaking downward divert from the Head cause sleep and abate pain and if the Head-ach be hot do cool it It is made with leaves of Willows ' Lettice Violets Briony water Lillies with Mallows and Chamomel flowers with Head herbs as Bettony Calaminth Southernwood and somtimes Narcoticks as the heads of Poppies boyled in Water with a little Wine or Capital Lee. Also it is good to wash the Face with Rose water and Vinegar Head-ach coming from the ill shape of the Head The cure of a pain coming from the ill fashion of the Head as absence of a suture as the Arrow-suture or rocky constitution of the Skull about that suture or seam called Sagital is incurarable and if you will attempt by reason of the great pain use the Trepan to take out a piece of the Skul there CHAP. IV. Of Pain in the Eyes The Kinds WE comprehend under the name of Pain in the Eyes all Diseases in the balls and corners of the Eyes and in the inside of the Eyelids and we leave other pains outwardly in the Eybrows to another place When pain is in the said parts it either hath no other accident or is with other accidents as chiefly Redness Tumor or Inflammation in the Eye or great corner or there is a bladder in the Eye or unevenness in the Eye-lids or a corroding or excoriation or ulcer or wound in the Eye or Eyelids These kinds of pain are according to their accidents Itching in sound people coming from Wind or Watching Itching Pricking or contraction of the Eye alone without other sign wil cause redness if it be rubbed Also Prickings are in the Eye alone without any other hurt or with a Head-ach called Cephalalgia where the pain comes to the roots of the Eyes Also some have a twitching pain in their Eyes after sleep before their Eyes are well opened which hinders the motion of the Eyes When the pain is with Redness and without Tumor or Inflammation A false Ophthalmy or pain in the Eye it is called a false Ophthalmy and it is red all over or in part or in the inside only of the Eylids Blood-shot but the veins are not so swelled as in a true Ophthalmy nor is there so great burning but a cutting pain or itching in the corners or the edges of the Eybrows and it called Xenophthalmia Xenophthalmy is a kind of false
which glueth the Ey-lids together But if in this Flux of blood if it flow not only into the Veins but Tunicles and Ey-lids and cause a true Inflammation the Ophthalmy is called true Inflammation of the Eye causeth a true Ophthalmy with greater accidents and stronger pain with Head-ach somtimes by reason of the Connexion and consent of the Pericranium with the adnate Tunicle and the pain is greater when the blood flows into the Muscles of the Eyes as into the horney Tunicle or under it And the pain is greater as the blood is hotter Inflammation of the great corner of the Eye is the cause of Agilopy more Chollerick or sharp When this fals into the great corner of the Eye inflaming it there follows an Egilops The cause of this flux of blood into the Eyes is Plethory or abundance or thinness sharpness or heat When it is from plenty it is called an Ophthalmy from plenitude Moreover if the Veins of the Eyes be disposed to receive this flux by reason of their largness having been formerly filled therewith the disposition of the Eyes is the helping cause Also too much light which they cannot endure who have an Ophthalmy they scarse open their Eyes and shut them soon This is caused also from hot Air and cold wind that nips the Eyes or Smoak or things fallen into them for the Eyes cannot be safely touched by any thing especially that is rough or sharp as Pouders dust or flies And crooked hairs in the Ey-lids cause the same Also hot burning things as Pepper or sharp things as Salt getting into the Eyes Oyl and all unctious things burne if they get into the Eyes Great hurts or wounds cause a true and false Ophthalmy And weeping either makes an Ophthalmy or increaseth it if the tears be sharp and hot All these causes trouble in the Eyes if they cause itching and makes men rub this rubbing may cause a new Flux A simple waterish humor or mixt with Flgem falling into the Eyes or Lids causeth no great pain if it be near to the Nature of water but continual flux of tears and somtimes outward swelling of the Ey-lids of this in the Chapter of Tears over-flowing But if the humor be serous and partly salt it causeth some itching A Flux of water to the Eye causeth itching and Epiphora If it be sharp and hot then there is an Epiphora that is a pain redness itching and burning and weeping in one or both Eyes for one suffers often with the other This Epiphora if it be very painful causeth a flux of blood and an Ophthalmy Aboundance of this waterish humor in the heat within or without the Skul is the material cause of this defluxion and many Excrements The efficient cause that moveth the defluxion into this or that part comes from the things that provoke the Eye either to natural tears or preternatural Tumors of this we shall spake in the causes of blood-shot and tears All these are helped by the disposition of the Eyes to receive them when they are made weak and loose by former Fluxes hence it is that when this disease hath long continued and these causes met they have alwaies red and wet Ey-lids and somtimes ulcers and little pain but itching Some say pains of the Eyes may come from wind but in regard wind can no way get into the Eyes nor stay there and if it were there it cannot dilate the thick ball of the Eye or cause pain being the part is insensible I cannot allow it But without the ball of the Eye if vapors get between the Muscles there is a loosness and a twinkling rather then pain Vapors cause Convulsion or Contraction of the Eyes if they be not many but if they be many there may be a short twiching pain before the Eyes are opened after sleep As we shewed in the windy Cramp Solution of continuity causeth divers pains in the Eye Twitching of the Eye causeth itching roughness Ophthalmy and Epiphora If it be hidden and only a twiching not yet seperating any thing in the Eye it causeth itching and roughness and if it continue and increase pain it causeth Ophthalmy and Epiphora If the solution be manifest and the adnate Tunicle seperated from the Eye Solution of contituity if manifest 〈◊〉 the cause of bladders roughness Ulcers Fistulaes and wounds in the Eyes it fils the part with water and causeth a Bladder If the Tunicle be divided in the corners or the Ey-brows there is Corrosion Scabs or Ulcers If it be deep it causeth a simple or a hollow Ulcer or Fistula or Wound All these have divers causes Somtimes they come from outward hurts As strong and hot rubbing from itching causeth the Phlyctaenae and Excoriations of the Eyes Things falling in if they be rough may not only exasperate the Eye but take of the Skin Things that are sharp and burn also do not only inflame but take of the Skin and cause Phlyctaenae and Erosions as the juyce of the wild Cowcumber It often comes from strong Medicines that are used to take away spots and all these Erosions may turn to true Ulcers If things that prick or cut fal into the Eye they may both disturb and wound it as we see in the couching of a Cataract there is Inflammation Also Tears and waterish humors that wet and provoke the Ey do at length corrode and cause Scabs in the Ey-brows and Ulcers as also diseases that went before cause solution of continuity As Phlyctaenae broaken leave excoriation behind them A true Ophthalmy turns into an Impostume when the Inflammation will not discuss but supurate which broken there is somtimes a deep Ulcer Also an Aegilops after the flegmon breaks turns to an Ulcer either simple or Malignant as the blood is that caused the Inflammation or hollow if the matter be sharp and long kept before the Impostume opened corroding within And lastly if the Lips by continuance of the Ulcer be hard or grown over with a Skin there is a Fistula that descends into the Nose And when the Caruncle Rhyas is the consuming of the little bitt of flesh in the Eye or bit of flesh in the Eye is consumed by sharp matter or Medicines which they used to heal the Ulcer the disease called Rhyas follows And the thin bone adjoyning is eaten away and lost The Cure The Cure and Prognostick is according to the divers Causes of these pains A Simple hot distemper without a Flux Prognoflicks in all Eye sores that causeth itching and somtimes pricking if it come in a Cephalalgia and the pain of the Head reach to the roots of the Eyes must be Cured as the Head-ach In these heat and redness and largness of Veins in a critical day foretel bleeding at the Nose But if the Eyes itch or be red from any other cause besides these diseases as heat violent motion wind or watching these causes must be removed and the Air amended and they
Flux with Cold and astringent things If they itch and wax red from cold add sharp things These shall be mentioned in Ophthalmy and Epiphora If they itch or are rough from dryness of the Ey-lids use Anodynes and the Vapors of hot water into the Eye If the Eyes be heavy after Sleep The Cure of Contraction in the Eye or contracted open them by degrees and rub with a warm hand If an Ophthalmy true or false The Cure of true and false Ophthalmy be with a Flux of blood with or without Inflammation then use Topicks first to allay pain and stop Flux then to dry and after to degest and last of all to discuss the reliques Thus You must take away pain at first not only because it is troublesom but because it will bring a Flux and also cool and stop and allay the heat use this or that as the pain or Flux most requireth Thus Apply the white of a new laid Egg beat to a froath to take away pain by it self or with others Or that liquor that sweats out of a rosting Egg or the yolk alone or both together rosted The white boyled hard and beaten with Rose water and applied like a Pultis doth best take away pain and heat And all sorts of Milk especialy Womens are Anodyne Also Fresh Cheese doth the same Or Veal new washed and applied is a brave Emperical Medicine Or the Papp of sweet Apples roasted some think rotten Apples best The Mandrake Apples or love Apples do the same against pain but to strike back the Flux use sharp Apples and Pears or Quinces as the former Housleek Purslane Nightshade Henban Mandrakes green and bruised or heated in a cloth take away pain when applied If you will bind apply Plantane Bramble and Mirtle leaves beaten or boyled It is good to add Barley meal or bran to them all to make them stick Rose water is in great use to cool and if we will astringe take the water of the green cups of Roses or of Plantane Self-heal or Myrtle or if you will abate pain use water of Purslane Nightshade or Strawberries or the water of hard whites of Eggs. When we will take away pain and heat together First Take the white of an Egg with Rose water and Milk beat them And if you use the Decoction of white Poppies 't is better The second Take Fenugreek seeds half an ounce white Poppy seeds two drams boyl in Rose water and add the white of an Egg. The third Take crums of Bread steept in Rose water or Milk apply it or drop the juyce of it The fourth Use sweet Apples so boyled Or Bread and Apples The Chirurgions apply a Pill of Elder steept in Rose water Another Anodyne Take Mucilage of Fleabane Quinces Fenugreek Gum Arabick or Traganth dissolve it with Rose water and Milk If pain be great Take Mucilage of Fleabane seed and Fenugreek each an ounce infusion of Gum Traganth made in Rose water whites of Eggs each half an ounce Camphire five grains Opium two grains Saffron a grain Or this Emplaster Take crums of bread steept in Milk Pap of sweet roasted Apples and Barley meal each an ounce and an half Mucilage of seeds of Fleabane and Fenugreek each an ounce two yolks of Eggs Camphire half a dram Saffron three grains Opium two grains Oyl of Roses sweet Butter or Cream six drams the Unctious things are to keep the Medicines from being dry make a Cataplasam and put to the closed Eye Some apply it to the Forehead to ease pain or mix cooling juyces as of Purslane Nightshade if heat be great Or this Anodyne of Dioscorides Take the yolk of an Egg roasted and with a little Saffron and Oyl of Roses apply it to allay pain Or this Take juyce of Chamomil and Melilot each half an ounce Womans Milk and whites of Eggs each two ounces Rose water an ounce beat them and wet a clout for the eyes two grains of Opium added will allay pain Or this Decoction to foment Take flowers of Mallows Violets and Roses each a pugil Chamomil and Melilot flowers each half a pugil Fenugreek seeed an ounce Linseed and Fleabane seed each two drams white Poppy seed a dram boyl them An Anodyne Cataplasme Take Chamomil and Melilot flowers each a pugil Fenugreek seeds an ounce boyl them and strain add three ounces of crums of Bread two yolks of Eggs and a scruple of Saffron with a little Milk make a Cataplasme When you desire rather to repel and astring then cool Take Rose cup water two ounces juyce of Plantane an ounce whites of Eggs half an ounce mix them the juyce of Bramble berries added doth repel also if dryed An astringent Decoction Take Plantane dryed red Roses each a dram flowers of Pomegranats two drams boyl them in Rose and Plantane water When you will astring and also take away pain Take Plantane Purslane or Housleek in Winter Nightshade each half a handful Rose and Violets each half a pugil Fleabane and white Poppy seed each two drams boyl them in Water and two drams of Mandrake roots will allay the pain sooner Or this Cataplasme Take Pap of sower Apples or of Pares or Quinces boyled in Rose and Plantane water or the astringent Decoction mentioned or Wine as Galen prescribeth make a Cataplasm Or this Take the Pap of boyl'd Quinces or the other two ounces Barley flowers an ounce Sumach and Pomegranate peels each a dram with the juyce of Purslane Housleek and Plantane make a Cataplasm Somtimes ad dryers to the said repellers and Anodynes to consume moisture and when the heat is decreased and the disease increase the quantity and add digesters eye-Eye-waters are madee of white Ceruss thus Take Ceruss washed with Rose water two drams Plantane or Myrtle water if you will repel or Womens Milk if you will asswage pain two ounces whites of Eggs half an ounce mix and apply them Or Take washt Ceruss two drams Mucilage of Fleabane and Quince seed or Line or Fenugreek six drams with Rose water and Milk The white Troches of Ceruss to make eye waters are thus made Take Ceruss washt half an ounce Starch two drams Gum Traganth infused in Rose water half a dram make Troches If pain be great add half a scruple of Opium dissolve these in Water and Milk when you have occasion Add Sarcocol when you will digest as in the Troches of Rhasis Take washt Ceruss ten drams Sarcocol steept in Womans Milk three drams Gum Traganth a dram with Rose water make Troches with a scruple of Opium if you please Somtimes add Camphire As Take washt Ceruss two drams Starch a dram Mucilage of Fleabane Fenugreek or Lin seed each half an ounce Sarcocal steept in Milk a dram Camphire a scruple Rose water two ounces Milk and whites of Eggs of each half an ounce add six grains of Opium or Decoction of Poppy or Henbane three or four grains of Saffron in the increase of the Disease 'T is counted a Correcter of
Opium and will make the water yellowish Tutty is proper for the eye and makes a good water it is burnt and washt for that purpose or thus wash it in cold water Pouder it and steep it in juyce of Quinces or in a Quince and in a clout bake the Quince and then infuse it in white Wine Vinegar then dry and Pouder it and put it into Rose water After Water Make it to fine Pouder for your use It is thus used Take Tutty prepared half a dram Rose water an ounce whites of Eggs beaten half an ounce With Camphire thus Take Tutty prepared a dram Camphire four grains Plantane Rose and Fennel water each an ounce mix them a scruple of Sumach will make it stronger half a dram of Sugar candy is good in the height of the Disease Galen makes a white eye-eye-water with Ceruss thus Take Tutty washed four drams Ceruss a dram and an half Starch and Gum Traganth each a dram with rain-Rain-water make an eye-Eye-water add a dram of Opium in pains Or thus Take Tutty prepared a dram and an half Ceruss water a dram Starch half a dram mucilage of Faenugreek seeds half an ounce Fennel water an ounce Rose water two ounces with half a scruple of Camphire In great pain a yellow Eye-water is thus made Take Tutty burnt and washt in womans milk half an ounce Ceruss wa sht an ounce Gum Traganth a dram Saffron two drams Opium half a dram with Rain-water mix them use it with the white of an Egg. The Oyntment of Tutty or Nihili are good for the Eyes also Or thus Take Butter or Hogs grease or Oyl of Roses well washt or new with white Wax or Oyntment of Roses or of Alablaster an ounce Tutty prepared a dram and an half Pompholyx half a dram mix them Camphire a scruple Antimony half a scruple When we wil digest as in the beginning of the declination use these The yellow pouder of Sarcocol of Rhasis Take Sarcocol five drams Aloes washt in Rose water a dram Tragacanth half a dram Opium half a scruple and Saffron six grains Rose water or Milk or both having Frankincense quenched in them is good for the same Or this Eye-water Take Frankincense half a dram Sarcocol a dram and an half Aloes half a dram Saffron half a scruple Mucilage of Faenugreek seeds half an ounce Eyebright and Rose water each an ounce and an half with Fennel water in the declining of the Disease The eye-Eye-water of Rhasis digests also and ripens Take Frankincense five drams Sarcocol and Ammoniacum each two drams and an half Saffron a dram with juyce of Fennel apply it When we wil dry more if there be pain use this of Galen Take Frankincense and Tutty each five drams Ceruss ten drams Gum Traganth and Opium each a dram and an half make it with Rain-water somtimes he ads Pompholyx To dry and digest Take Sarcocol a dram and an half Tutty prepared a dram Aloes a scruple Myrrh a scruple Mucilage of Foenugreek seed half an ounce Vervain water two ounces Fennnel water an ounce If heat remain Take Sarcocol four drams Tutty prepared two drams Aloes a dram Sugar candy a dram and an half Camphire four grains Saffron thrree grains Rose water four ounces mix them and shake often In red Itching Eyes Take Tutty prepared half a scruple Aloes and Sugar each five drams Camphire two grains white Wine and Fennel water each two ounces mix them To discuss the remainder in the declination use This Fomentation Take Eyebright and Pennyroyal each a handful Chamomel Melilot flowers and red Roses and Oat chaff each a pugil Foenugreek seed two drams Fennel seed a dram boyl them add a little Wine dip Clouts and apply to the Eyes The Fume of the Decoction is also good Or this Cataplasin Take Southernwood a handful Chamomel flowers a pugil Foenugreek seeds an ounce mucilage of Foenugreek seeds an ounce Fennel seeds a dram Cummin seeds half a dram boyl and bruise them add Bean flower an ounce mucilage of Foenugreek and Line seeds each half a dram Saffron a scruple with Milk make a Cataplasm To strengthen the Eye use astringent Wine and Fennel water last of all A roasted Egg or Apple laid hot to the Eyes takes out the remaining redness If the Inflammation Imposthumeth it must be ripened with a Plaster upon the Eye thus Take Marsh-mallows a handful Chamomel flowers a pugil boyl them in Milk beat and add Barley meal and Foenugreek seeds each an ounce with Oyl of Chamomel make a Cataplasm The Eye-water of Rhasis and Oyntment of Tutty doth the seme When the Imposthume is broken cure the Wound as followeth If an Aegilops come from cholerick blood in the great corner of the Eye The Cure of an Aegilops you must apply things used in the Ophthalmy if there be an Inflammation that repel and take away pain and then discuss the Tumor with eye-waters there mentioned which dry and digest before it come to suppuration which is sooner when there is little or no inflammation and the Tumor came by degrees A Discusser Take Plantane Mallows Chamomel with the flowers bruise them and with kernels of old Walnuts make a Cataplasm for the corner of the eye if you add a little Salt and Hen-dung it wil be better The herb Aegilops bruised is good also according to Dioscorides Others use Emplaster Diapalma Divinum and Ceroniacum If the Tumor imposthumate it must be presently opened lest the matter retained corrode and cause a hollow Ulcer Then Cure the Ulcer as we shal shew in Ulcers If there be an Epiphora from a waterish humor falling upon the eye-lids chiefly The Cure of Epiphora with redness Heat and Itching and pain we must at the first stop the flux and abate pain and itching with medicines mentioned in Ophthalmy and with those we must mix afterwards things that dry up moisture which is plentiful in this case and use eye-waters of Ceruss and Tutty there mentioned When Epiphora lasteth long and there is a weeping itching and redness without burning we must use stronger Dryers As against Itching Take Antâ—â—ony prepared half a dram Rose and Fennel water each two ounces use it strained A Pouder Take Lapis Calaminaris a scruple Tutty prepared a dram Coral and rinds of Myrobalans torrefied or parched each a scruple make a Pouder for the Eye Or this Take Antimony prepared half a dram Tutty prepared a dram Coral three drams Pearl two scruples the crystal humor of the Eyes of boyled fishes half a scruple make a fine Pouder An eye-water of Blood-stone Take Blood-stones Antimony washed each a dram Tutty prepared two drams Lapis Calaminaris a scruple Aloes a dram Camphire a scruple burnt Stones of Myrobalans half a dram Pomegranate-wine two ounces Rose water four ounces To digest also Take Antimony washt Tutty prepared each a dram Myrrh Aloes each a scruple Saffron half a scruple dissolve them in Fennel and Eyebright water with a little Wine Use Fumes also of such
things as dry without biting or sharpness as of Frankincense Pitch and the like but be wary A Fume of boyled Salt drieth well without any biting Then are stronger drying eye-eye-waters of sharp Juyces to be used when the Epiphora is stubborn and itcheth much which is helped with sharp things which exasperate pain in other Diseases As a little white Vitriol dissolved in Rose water it is good in Itching and Redness and Heat the Germans call this Augstein some apply a little of it in Inflammations the Chymists use a drop of Oyl of Vitriol in Water others the Salt of white Vitriol in Water Another Take white Vitriol half a scruple or twelve grains Tutty prepared half a dram whites of Egs hard four in a Clout bruise them adding by degrees Rose water four ounces make Philtration use this Water cold to the eyes Another Take white Vitriol half an ounce whites of Eggs fifteen water a pint mix and boyl them then in a Glass add Camphire tied in a clout one dram Or thus Take white Vitriol two grains Camphire four grains Tutty prepared half a scruple white Pompholyx six grains Rose water an ounce Fennel water an ounce make an Eye-water Or Take white Vitriol two drams Camphire half a dram Tutty prepared one ounce Aloes a dram Sugar candy two drams make a Pouder mix it with Rose Fennel Vervain Celondine water and a little Wine If you fear burning add Narcoticks as Take white Vitriol Tutty each a dram Nutmeg half a dram Sugar half an ounce white Wine two ounces Cel ondine water a pint boyl strain and keep them for your use Or thus Take white Vitriol half a dram Camphire a dram Tutty prepared two drams Ginger Cloves each half a dram pouder them and add old white Wine in which a Gad of Steel was quenched an ounce Rose water Fennel and Celondine water each two ounces boyl or steep and then strain and keep them for your use An Eye-pouder Take white Vitriol half a scruple Camphire a scruple Tutty two drams Pompholix Ceruss Lapis Calaminaris Coral Mother of Pearl rinds of yellow Myrobalans each half a dram Aloes Myrrh each a scruple Sugar candy a dram Ginger Cloves each a scruple make a Pouder and put a little thereof into the Eye An experienced Oyntment Take Verdegrece twelve grains Camphire a dram Tutty prepared half an ounce fresh Butter with Rose water boyled a little six drams mix them for an Oyntment put as much as a Pease in the corner of the Eye and anoynt the Ey-lids This is a singular experiment against Epiphora and Itching A Verdegreece water very excellent Take a Barbers Bason and anoynt it with Honey and turn it with the mouth downward upon Sheeps Dung for fourteen daies and keep ripe Bramble berries in a Glass close stopt in a Horse Dunghil after fourteen daies wash the Bason with the Bramble berries and strain the Berries and mix with the Liquor a little Camphire and white Vitriol Another Take a Bason put therein six ounces of Bramble berries Salt two ounces one above the other in rows keep them in a Celler three weeks then strain the Liquor from them and let it settle til the Salt be at the bottom and pour it off and do the same the second time til no Salt remain put this Water into a Tinn Vessel that it may be sweet kept for your use If the tunicle of the eye called Adnata separated from the Cornea raise a Blister full of Water The Cure of the Bladder in the Eye whence cometh also pain and redness the pain must be abated the humor stopt and the Flux dried as in Epiphora and by the medicines mentioned in Ophthalmy If it break and leave a Corrosion it must be cured as a Corrosion with medicines that dry without biting mentioned in Ophthalmy and Epiphora and such as we shal shew in Ulcers If after the tunicle of the Eye is taken off The cure of roughness and taking off the Tunicle of the Eye there follow a roughness of the eye-lids and there be also redness heat and pain we use the same Remedies mentioned in Ophthalmy then we dry strongly if it cause no pain with things mentioned in Ophthalmy increased and shall be mentioned in Ulcers Or with these Tutty prepared with juyce of Quinces and Vinegar and laid in Pouder upon the eye-lids cures the Scabs and Roughness Or this Pouder Take Tutty prepared a dram Egg-shels steept in Vinegar half a dram Cuttle bone a scruple make a Pouder A third Pouder Take Tutty prepared a dram Pumice stone half a dram Coral burnt and washed a dram make a Pouder An Oyntment Take Tutty prepared Acacia each a dram Blood-stone and Antimony each half a dram mix them with Gum Traganth or Honey or Pomatum anoynt the Eye-lids Another Take Tutty prepared Ceruss washt Marchasites quenched in Vinegar each a dram Hypocistis Frankincense and Antimony each half a dram burnt Ivory Pumice stone and Cuttle bone each a scruple Pouder them After use sharp Medicines The Remedy of Dioscorides Take Juyce of Onions and burnt Ivory equal proportions Another Take the Gall of a Tench or other Fish and Cuttle-bone equal parts Dioscorides useth the Milk of Figs but because it ulcerateth Tutty and other Driers must be added Use also the Medicines mentioned in Epiphora made of Vitriol and Verdegreece Somtimes the Scab is taken away with a Rag or rough Leaves til the blood cometh and then we use Driers afterwards If a true Ulcer follows excoriation The cure of an ulcer in the Eye or be left in an Ophthalmy after an Imposthume then first clense and after dry and make a Scar. Use gentle Clensers if the Ulcer be not foul and stronger as Causticks if foul or the Lips hard such as as we shewed in films of the eye and weakness of Sight The gentle are such Take Goats or Womans milk an ounce Sugar candy a dram and an half Myrrh a scruple Or Take Honey water distilled an ounce Sugar candy half a dram Lizards dung half a scruple Water distilled from Turpentine is good A strong Clenser and Healer Take Turpentine half a dram a yolk of an Egg beat them and add Plantan and Rose water If you need stronger use those mentioned in a Fistula of the Eye After all those use Driers mentioned in Epiphora or the Oyntments to the Eyes and Eyelids A white drying Medicine Take Ceruss washed in Plantane water a dram and an half Starch a dram white Coral and Harts horn burnt and washed each half a dram the mucilage of Comphrey half an ounce with the juyce of the Grinding of the Stone Galactides with Rose water mix them A red drying Oyntment Take juyce of Hypociflis Dragons blood each half a dram Aloes a scruple Myrrh half a scruple barke of Frankincense half a dram infusion of Gum Traganth in Plantane water half an ounce the juyce of Blood-stone ground with water of Horstaile as much as is fitting A black
lower part We have seen water come forth in abundance as in a Girle after a fal first blood then water with pain and after blood and water and then death followed after a few daies sleep Somtimes worms come forth Somtimes pain is deep without these signs The Causes The Membranes only are sensible The place affected which are about the Cavities and the pain is from them either from the Membrane most outward before the drum or from that within behind the drum being dilated by the Nerve and then the pain is with noise The Diseases that cause this pain in the Membranes are cold or hot distemper or Malignant a stretching or manifest hurt of the Membrane A hot distemper causeth itching in the Ears A hot distemper causeth itching in the Ears but an Inflamation causeth pain that is pricking beating or shooting with burning This pain is as the blood that flowes thither is hotter or more inflamed And they have a little feaver with shivering and with Head-ach And when the Inflammation turnes to an impostume the pain encreaseth and when it breaks the pain ceaseth and bloody matter comes first then concocted or discoulered this matter retained causeth itching and new pain and corrupting causeth worms somtimes We thought this matter had come from an Ulcer without the canal of the Eare because the Ear being pressed near therto it came forth The cause of this hot distemper is either pains from outward injuries that causeth the defluxion into the part or fulness and heat of blood in the Veins that flows upon the part with a Feaver and Head-ach going afore A cold distemper from cold Air outwardly or wind disturbs the Membranes in the outward Cavity of the Ear and causeth pain A cold distemper causeth pain in the Ears or cold water in the Ear It is somtimes in the inward Chamber of the Ear from the defluxion of a waterish humor such as we see fall cold from the Nose which distempers the inward Membranes An evil qualitie that causeth the pains in the Head and bony parts in the french Pox and other diseases A Malignant quality causeth pain of the Ears may hurt these Membranes in the Cavities of the Ears and cause a pricking pain The itching in the outward part of the Ear or tickling comes often from irritation Provoking or rubbing causeth itching of the Ears or provokling as from hot blood boyling in the Vessels of these Membranes or from matter or chollerick filth in the Ear or other things fallen into the Ears which chiefly offend the outward Membrane A stretching by which these Membranes seem to be as it were pulled from the bones to which they are joyned causeth a stretching pain in the Ears this same thing is from wind from which there is rather a strange noise then a pain as we shewed in the hurt of hearing Stretching in the Ears causeth pain except it sil the inward Chamber of hearing so that pressing the Membranes it causeth a kind of pain Or being bred under the Membranes of both Cavities internal and external as wind may bred in the whol body and is most constrained between the Membranes it cause a twiching and tearing pain by drawing the Membranes from the bones I have known this distension in the Ears with much pain by consent of the Membranes through the whol body come from straining much in going to the stool and in pissing forth a stone from the neck of the Bladder and in great and loud Vociferation and whooping and also in difficult Child bearing as in one who had no pain during her travil but in her ears And she was dul of hearing all the time of her lying in and long after A manifest hurt from outward injuries or things fallen in or thrust into the ears A wound or other hurt causeth pain in the Ears which prick or cut the Membranes causeth pain And if there were violence and blood comes forth there is a manifest wound And Inflammation come the pain is increased and the more if an Impostume follow which being broken matter cometh forth The Cure The Cure is divers in respect of the Disease as it is a hot distemper Inflammation or Ulcer or a cold distemper Malignant or other hurt If the Ears only inwardly itch from a hot distemper it goes of it self away The Cure of itch in the Ears from a distemper especially if the Air be cool or by cold Medicines which I shall declare Or if hot blood remaining in the Vessels cause the itching it is cured by revelling that and purging and cooling it The Cure of Inflammation in the Ears But if Inflammation cause pain you must persently draw back the Flux of blood from the part and stop it from returning allay the heat asswage the pain and discuss what remains Or if it come to an Impostume and being broken leaves an Ulcer you must proceed as in that case Thus We revel and derive the Flux of blood by letting blood by Scarifying and Cupping and by Horsleeches and by Friction as in Opthalmy And we use the same Clysters and Purges if the body be bound as in Ophthalmy We give to drink things that cool and thicken to stop the course of the blood when hot especially and things that by propriety asswage pain in the Ears as they say the flesh of Dormice made up with Honey doth We use the medicines mentioned in Ophthalmy to the jugular veins and temples to hinder the Flux and if there be Head-ach we use Vinegar of Roses and other things to oppose both pains Into the Ears we drop many Liquors two or three drops and if these fill the Ear after they wet the sides thereof that they may not longer hinder the Hearing especially if strong least they hurt the Drum you must turn the Head that they may fall out of the Ear again Or you must apply outwardly hot Cataplasms upon the Ear so that they may fill the Cavity or a Fomentation with a Spunge or a hot Fume and we use Allayers of pain when it riseth and things that repell or drive back at the first if there be a flux and Coolers and in the progress and declination we use Digesters and if it imposthumate we use Digesters thus To asswage pain new warm Milk or the white of an Egg beaten to Liquor Ducks or Hens Grease Oyl of sweet Almonds and yolks of Eges or Oyl in which Earth-worms or Snails have been boyled which have been first taken out of their shels with the slime or in which Hog-lice or Millipides have been boyled or Oyl of Poppy or Henbane seed or the juyce of Poppy or Henbane Or drop these Compositions into the Ears Take Womens Milk two ounces the white of a an Egg beaten half an ounce with Goose Grease two drams mix them Another Take mucilage of Fleabane and Faenugreek seeds and whites of Eggs beaten each half an ounce Goose grease two drams mix them with Oyl
of Almonds and Milk add three or four grains of Opium to make it stronger A third Take Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces juyce of Mallows half an ounce Myrrh half a dram Saffron half a scruple Opium three or four grains A fourth Take Oyl of white Henbane seed a dram as much Saffron and Castor as a Pease mix them An anodyne Emplaster Take crums of Bread a pound boyl them in Milk add flour of Line seed and Faenugreek each an ounce Oyl of Chamaemel an ounce and an half two yolks of Eggs mix them and if you add Opium it wil be better Or Take Marshmallow rootts an ounce Mallows Nighshade St. Johns wort each a handful flowers Dill Chamaemel Roses each a pugil Line seed half an ounce Mallows Marshamallows and Poppy seeds each two drams make a Decoction in Water or Milk for a Fomentation or Fume If you add Leaves of Poppy or Henbane or Mandrake roots or Poppy heads when there is pain it will be better O Take the faeces of this Decoction and beat them with Hogs grease Calves marrow mucilage of Fleabane and Faenugreek each an ounce Oyl of Chamaemel and Violets each an ounce fresh Butter an ounce and an half Saffron half a dram make a Cataplasm To drive back and to ease pain Take Oyl of Roses and Violets and sweet Almonds each equal parts add Earth-worms Sows Snails and with a little white Wine boyl and strain them Or Take Oyl of Roses two ounces Vinegar an ounce Saffron half a scruple Opium three or four grains boyl them til the Vinegar is consumed or in stead of Opium and Saffron add Philonium Romanum two drams boyl them in Oyl and Vinegar To cool and drive back put in Oyl of Roses or Violets juyce of Plantane Nightshade Willow Venus navel and the like Or this Take Oyl of Roses an ounce and an half juyes of Pomegranates and Plantane each half an ounce white Wine Vinegar two drams boyl them till the Juyces are consumed Or this Fomentation Take Plantane Willow Violets Lettice each an handful red Roses a pugil Pomegranate flowers half a pugil Pomegranate Pills half an ounce boyl them in red Wine and with a little Vinegar foment the Ear. Or Take the residence of this Decoction add meal of Lentiles a pugil oyl of Roses and Myrtles each an ounce and an half one raw Egg make a Cataplasm for to be laid upon the Ear. To discuss the Inflammation mix hot things and in the decrease use them alone as Oyl of Chamaemel Melilot Dill Lillies dropt into the Ears and other hot things inwardly and outwardly such as shal be mentioned when it proceeds from a cold cause If the Inflammation tends to maturation which is known by the beating and not ceasing of pain use things to digest as Basilicon with Line seed Oyl into the Ears The Cure of Imposthumes in the Ears after Inflammation Outwardly apply this Cataplasm which asswageth pain Take a great Onyon and white Lilly roots roast them in the Embers beat them add Lineseed meal an ounce Butter an ounce and an half oyl of Chamomel and Line seed each half an ounce Saffron half a dram make a Cataplasm The juyce of an Onyon openeth a ripe Imposthume with Leaven dissolved in it If an Ulcer follow the Imposthume opened first clense The Cure of an Ulcer of the Ear after an Imposthume then add Driers and heal it with the same Use the same Clensers as were prescribed for Hearing hindered And these Sugar or Sugar candy or Honey dissolved in Whey or Barley water These are stronger Honey of Squils juyce of Smallage Fennel Beets Onyons Leeks Horehound Wormwood Centory alone or with Honey The Decoction of Lupines and Agarick do the same Wine clenseth wel and also Lixivinm or Lie Turpentine with Honey and Wine doth the same Aegyptiacum is the strongest for a sordid Ulcer tempered with Honey if you please To heal and dry Take Plantane Shepheards pouch and Shepheards rod Scabious Birthwort Solomons seal Fleabane and the thickned juyces of green Grapes Oyl of Olive and Hypocistis alone or with Wine Vinegar and Honey Or the Decoction of Birthwort Galls Pomegranate peels and other Driers in Wine or steeled Water Rust of Iron in astringent Wine and a little Vinegar is excellent or the Decoction of Litharge This is best Take fine pouder of Steel half an ounce Vitriol a dram boyl them in Wine and Vinegar or Vinegar alone if you wil have it stronger and strain it A good Liniment Take Cinnabar and Litharge of each equal parts and with Honey or syrup of dried Roses make a Liniment drop a little into the Ear or put it upon a Tent. Or this to breed flesh Take Ceruss Tutty prepared each a dram roots of Birthwort Myrrh Sarcocol Aloes each half a dram Orris a scruple make a fine Pouder mix them with Honey Or juyce of green Grapes It is stronger with Verdegreece and filings of Iron quenched and ground with Vinegar especially when a Scar is to be raised You may use divers Waters for the Eyes here and the strongest because the Ear is less offended therewith than the Eye To Cure an Ulcer in the Ear a Fume is excellent because it gets through and drieth as of Pitch Turpentine Frankincense and other Gums burned which are Driers Or the Pouders mentioned white a little Cinnabar which is very drying If Worms breed from the filth of the Ear and provoke The Cure of worms in the Ears you must draw them out or kill them as was shewed in the Defect of Hearing from things fallen in Juyce of Wormwood is the best to kil them and of Centory Arsmart and Peach Leaves and of wild Cowcumber Or a Decoction of Lupins Coloquintida white Hellebore in Wine vinegar Or Beasts Galls Or bitter Oyls as of Peach kernels and bitter Almonds Or thus Take Coloquintida half a scruple white Hellebore a scruple Aloes half a dram with the juyce of Peach leaves make a Liniment In the Worms of the Ear for killing and drawing forth as in the Worms of the Nose and Brain the Oyntment of Capons Grease and Oyl of Hazel with a little Mercury precipitate or sweet is good if it be put into the Ears with Cotton And the Decoction of Hemp distilled If the pain come from a simple cold distemper The Cure of pain in in the Ear from a cold distemper and distension or with matter from Wind then if the Humor or Wind be present we use Cupping or Friction to revell it and Clysters and Purges which do the same and evacuate the humor And we derive the matter by the Mouth and Nose as is shewed in the Hurt of Hearing from these causes and we discuss with Baths and other Sudoroficks If it be only a distemper we alter it with heat and hot Diet as with the flesh of Dormice as we shewed which hath a propriety We use the same things inwardly and outwardly to the Ears or
wax to make the fume thicker the fume of burnt henbane seeds is accounted best but it is best when the seed is first mixed with virgins wax Something 's are to be applyed to the cheek outwardly to take away pain An Anodine emplaster Take Crums of bread the pap of apples each three ounces boyl them in milk add lineseed oyl of Roses or of Chamomile each an ounce Saffron a scruple Or use Treacle or other opiats for a plaister Another approved Take the white of an egge beat it with Rose water and spread it upon flax with a litle pouder of Pepper and apply it all over the cheek where the pain is Ot thus Take the yolke of an egge with Aqua vitae and a litle Saffron with some meal or flower make a plaster to dissolve the tumor In a hot Cause Take juice of Nightshade and Housleek each two ounces Rose-water and Milk each an ounce and an half Oyl of Roses an ounce stirr them and dip a clout therein apply it to the Cheek In a cold cause thus Take rosted Onyons three ounces oyl of Dill and Chamomile each an ounce flower of Foenigreek an ounce and an half make a Plaster Or thus Take Lilly roots three ounces Mallows an handful flowers of Chamomile Melilot Dill each a pugil Foenigreek and Lineseed each half an ounce Cabbage seed two dragms Peach kernels or bitter Almonds an ounce boyl them in wine foment the Cheek without heat the residence of the Decoction and with oyl of Chamoemel and Dill made a Cataplasme Also apply baggs of Milliumor Panicum Wormewood Chamoemile flowers Dill and Salt Juice of Garlick Rue Ivy Daffadil roots dropt into the contrary eare Cures the toothach Also hot oyls as of Rue Bayes Costus Earthwormes with Castor boyled therein the distilled oyls are best Or five Ivy berries boyled with oyl of roses and pomegranate peels and the liquor dropt in doth it according to Diascorides A Clove of Garlick peel'd and put into the ear on that side the pain is cureth Among Amulets the roots Lepidium hung about the neck cureth according to Diascorides If a tumor arise on that side inwardly or outwardly or on both sides and the pain abateth then it goeth away of it self or with bags or hot oyls very easily If pain increase with the tumor because then there is an Impostume the Anodyne Cataplasme wil do wel to ripen it Especialy Barley meal boyled in milk and Olibanum added in pouder and applied ripens the Impostume Also hot milk held in the mouth in which roots of Marshmallows Lineseed Housleek and Lillyes are wel boyled The Impostume opened of it self inwardly or by force turnes to an ulcer which wil cure of it self or with the remedies mentioned in the ulcers of the mouth if it come outwardly it is easier cured as another ulcer but if the teeth are rotten and the ulcer reach them it wil hardly be cured til they are drawn and there is comonly a disfiguring scarr left after the cure If the toothach come from a cool distemper from the matter flowing thither The Cure of the Toothach from a simple cold distemper the cure is mentioned in a flegmatick defluxion by hot means which cureth a simple distemper Then take heed of al actualy cold things as Air meat and Drink and medicines because cool things are so averse to the teeth that in a hot cause actualy cool things are not good though they give ease but after rather increase the pain If toothach come from rotten teeth it will hardly be cured and return easily and if a defluxion be cure it as we shewed in a defluxion If toothach be from hollow teeth The Cure of tooth-ach from Irritation from teeth rotten or bound Take heed that nothing gets in and chew upon the sound side or chew wax or mastick afore to fil the hollow but experience teacheth that that may cause as much pain as the meat And therefore that is better in stinking breath caused by meat corrupting in the teeth as we shal shew When rotten teeth bring such trouble and pain upon every light occasion and infect their neighbors especially if they be unuseful they either must be drawn by the arts mentioned in corrupt bones or the place under them must be made insensible This is done by burning in the cavity with Aqua fortis or fig milk or Spurge or Sory as Diascorides taken in with Wool or Cotten and stopt in with Wax from falling out this done often breaks the teeth out or burn the rotten teeth with a hot Iron that the part under may loose sense and the tooth fall out If any trouble follows drawing because the teeth wil be bound by things that get in between them use a toothpicker of mastick wood or juniper use it gently in time of pain for a litle thing disturbs as only the motion of the tongue against them when pained or picking with your fingers and they who think to abate pain by picking are mistaken and increase it rather If from the edg or roughness of the teeth you chew with difficulty The Cure of Haemodia or teeth on edge chew purslain til it be gone it is a certain and sure remedy Crums of bread or tosted cheese or a yolk of a hard egge chewed hot doth it but not so quickly Or Almonds or Nuts or Wax and salt chewed If children feel pain when they breed teeth The Cure of Tooth-ach in children that breed them from the peircing through their gums then anoint the gums with the brains of a Cony or Hare boyled in Wine or with sweet Butter and Honey and other gentle mollifying things often Mathiolus saith the stone found in the head of a Snail without a shel wil do the same If the Gums are too hard and hinder the teeth which causeth great symptomes as Convulsions Fluxes called Diarrhaeas and Death then presently cut them with a Lancet this may be done safely without fear of inflamation pain or bleeding By this means I saw a famous Chirurgion cure many We shal shew the cure of other accidents in their places The pain that is while the tooth is drawing goes away when it is out The Cure of pain from a tooth pulled out or drawn that also that went before for which cause the tooth was drawn But if it be only moved or broken it is worse and the Patient must suffer again at the drawing of the stump To stay bleeding is dangerous if it continue and when an Artery is broken the Cure where of shall be mentioned in Haemorrhages or Bleeding CHAP. IX Of Pain in the Jaws The Kinds THe Kinds of pains in the Jaws or Throat either in the uper Jaw which is the receptacle into which the two Tonsils meet like an Isthmus and in whose middle there is a Caruncle or lump of flesh called Gargareon root or Palate or those pains which are in the lower Jaw joyned to the Neck whether in one place
Orris roots a dram Honey three ounces mix them Or use the Eclegma of Scribonius Largus A white Dogs-turd called Album Grecum finely poudered and blown into the Mouth or mixt with these Eclegma's is excellent or with syrups A Goose-turd dried doth the same Also the pouder of salted and dried Swallows a dram with convenient Water is good according to Dioscorides Or a dram of the pouder of a Boars tusk with Linseed Oyl Or the Smoak of Amber taken in with a Funnel Or these Lenitives and Dilators when there is pain and straitness As a Gargle of hot Milk Goats is best Another Take Milk half a pint the white of an Egg wel beat the mucilage of Fleabane Quince or Line seed each an ounce Penidies half an ounce Bran or Bread boyled in Water and strained or Almond milk doth the same The common white Troches are good also to be held under the Tongue Or Take species of Diapapaver or Diatragacanth frigid each a scruple with pulp of Tamarinds make Troches Or hold troches of Diapapaver or Diatragacanth frigid in the mouth Or this Eclegma Take species of Diatragacanth and Diapapaver each a dram with syrup of Violets and Jujubes make a Loboch Lenitives that clense the slime are thus made Take Liquorish two ounces pulp of Raisons two drams juyce of Liquorish half a dram with Gum traganth infused in Poppy water make a Loboch Another in the progress of the Disease Take species Diapenid and Diaireos each a dram with syrup of Hysop make a Lohoch Apply outwardly to the Neck or under the Chin or where a tumor appears at the first not things that repel but that draw forth as these relaxing As temperate Oyls of Olives sweet Almonds Violets or moderate warm as Oyl of Chamaemel Lillies Orris Wall-slower and the like anoynt the parts and dip Wool therein and lay thereupon Dioscorides commends Oyl of Frogs or of Wood-lice or Sows Also Oyntment of Marshmallows and that which restoreth called Resumptivum with those Oyls and a little Saffron Menstrual Blood with Vinegar is good against all Inflammations of the Jaws and parts adjacent Also the leaves of Hors-radish Use Fomentations first before you anoynt made of flowers of Chamaemel Lillies Melilot Linseed and Faenugreek But when you desire not only to draw out the humors but also to dry Consume and Digest use the following Make a Pultis of a Swallows Nest clensed and poudered and boyled in Wine and Water and strain or mix the pouder with the Oyls and Oyntments mentioned if you wil Digest apply it with Honey Swallows dung in Pouder or the Ashes of it burnt mixed with the rest or applied with Honey or a dried Dogs-turd or Birds dung chiefly of Hens and Pigeons For it is neither necessary nor decent to apply Mans dung when other wil serve Also use Sows or Wood-lice dried and poudered with Honey Other Digesters Take Aloes two drams Ox Gall a dram Pepper half a dram Allum a dram with Honey make a Liniment Another Take juyce of Danewort and wild Cowcumber two ounces Ox Gall half an ounce with Honey make an Oyntment Rhasis useth Honey Anacardine Another Take juyce of Danewort two ounces juyce of Ouyons an ounce juyce of wild Cowcumbers as much if it may be had Oyl of Flower-de-luce and Lillies each an ounce and an half boyl them add Swallows nest prepared half an ounce Litharge a dram and an half with Wax make a Liniment or with Wax and Pitch make a Plaster Or this Cataplasm Take Lillies and Onyons of each three roast them ad half as much of a rotten Apple and a handful of Wormwood boyl them in Wine and Water beat them and with Bean flower two ounces Oyl of Chamaemel and Wall-flower each an ounce and an half Hens or Pigeous dung two ounces make a Cataplasm If an Imposthume come in a Quinsie The Cure of an Imposthume in the Quinsie as we may know by the pain and other accidents increased and the humor cannor be Digested or Resolved by the Remedies internal or external mentioned use Maturatives or Ripeners inwardly and outwardly Inwardly we ripen with this Gargle Take Lillies Onyons or Leeks each two ounces Liquorish an ounce Hysop Scabious each a handful Figs six Raisons stoned an ounce Faenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce Mallow and Colewort seed and Swallows nest each two drams boyl them in Water and with Honey make a Gargle Outwardly ripen with these Apply a Pultis of Line-seed meal with Goats Milk Or thus Take meal of Faenugreek and Line-seed each two ounces crums of Bread four ounces with Hogs grease and Oyl of sweet Almonds make a Pultis Or this Cataplasm Take Marshmallow Mallows roots and all Henbit and Pillitory of the Wall each a handful green roots of Lillies two ounces green Orris and Briony roots an ounce Chamomel flowers and Violets each a pugil Figs twelve Dates five boyl and stamp them add meal of Line-seed Foenugreek and Barley each two ounces with Butter and Hens grease Oyl of sweet Almonds and Chamomel mix them If the Imposthume in a Quinsie break hot you must endeavor to open it before it be perfectly ripe With this Gargle hot used Take juyce of Onyons or Leeks and Lemons equal parts with Goats milk Or Take of the Gargle mentioned a pint add and boyl therein Pellitory roots and Mustard seed each two drams Myrrhe half a dram Saffron a scruple Oxymel simple an ounce This is stronger Take of that Junket that is made of Mustard and Honey dissolve it in Honey and Water and with a little Vinegar make a Gargle Or Take Mustard seed two drams poudered Oxymel an ounce Vinegar of Squils and Wine each half an ounce make a Gargle Vociferation or Roaring may do somthing to break it but swallowing may do more if it be with great force and of somthing that is hard as a crust of Bread Or Take a Spunge or a piece of salt Pork and tied to a thred fast let it be swallowed down and drawn forth again We open the Imposthume if it can be seen and reached with an Instrument or with the Finger or Nayl or a wax Candle or other wooden or Iron Instrument that wil cut In the Inflammation of the tonsills and Uvnla Remedies for the Tonsils or Palate inflamed or for the Antiades or Uvula we first use inward medicines as in the Quinzy which are astringent after resolvers and at lasT things only to be swallowed alwayes mixing things that clense by reason of the slime that sticketh there and that mitigate pain if it be great so that many medicines mentioned in the Quinzie are here good and such as are mentioned in the Inflamations of the parts of the Mouth or these An astringent and cooling Gargle Take Rose and Honey-suckle water Privet and Plantane water each two ounces Juice of Barberyes or Pomegranates or sower Cherries three ounces juice of Quinces Roses or Sorrel each an ounce syrup of Mulberies
Vinegar of Roses or green Grapes half an ounce mix them An astringent and cooling Gargle Take sower Prunes dry twelve sharp Cherries twelve paire dried Pears five Sorrel Purslain each an ounce red Roses a pugil boyl them in a pint add juice of Currans and syrup of Mulberies each two ounces Vinegar of Roses as much as fit When you wil bind more Take roots of Mulberries an ounce and half Acorn cups Pomegranate Peels each an ounce Bramble tous Plantane Agrimony Solomons-seal Shepheards purse Harts tongue each a handful and half red Roses a pugil Pomegranate flowers half an ounce Galls two drams make a Decoction in a pint thereof dissolve syrup of Quinces and red Roses dried Pomgranate wine each an ounce and half with a little Allum mix them Cardan comends this following remedy for al Inflamations of the Jaws driness and Clefts of the tongue Take a good quantity of Housleek and to halfe a pint of the juice add Salt Ammoniak two drams put it in a moist place under the earth til the Salt be dissolved then distil it in Balneo and wash the mouth in all Inflamations of the Jaws In the Inflamation of the Uvula a Pouder is made of the stone called Ageratum by Galen or the blood-stone this must be laid upon the Uvula or blown in with a quil When you wil astring and clense also Take Liquorish two ounces Agrimony Vervain Coleworts each an handful red Roses and Mallows each a pugil Barley Lentils leaves bruised each half a pugil Figs six boyl them in red Wine and Water and in a pint dissolve Oxymel simple three ounces Dianucum half an ounce juyce of Roses an ounce syrup of Quinces an ounce You may make Lohochs to clense mentioned in the Qâ—insie and Sugar'd or Honeyed Biskets When you wil Clense and consume the residue or Digest Take Liquorish two ounces Calamus and Galâ—ngal half an ounce Hysop Pennyroyal Savory each a handful Rosemary flowers Violets and Mallows each a pugil Barley a pugil Raisons stoned two ounces Dates six Figs twelve Myrrh and Frankincenss each two drams boyl them in red Wine with steeled Water and in a pint dissolve Honey of Roses threo ounces syrup of Liquorish two ounces syrup of Hysop an ounce make a Gargarism A Digesting pouder in the increase of an Uvula inflamed Take Orris half a dram Frankincense a dram meal of Orobus half a dram Saffron a scruple make a Pouder In the Swelling of the Almonds from a flegmatick Defluxion Topical Remedies for the Paristhmia or swelling of the Almonds the former Remedies are good but you must use loss Coolers and mix Clensers and Digesters In the loosness of the Uvula from a cold Defluxion you must presently use Astringents and Dryers to make it shorter Topical Remedies for the falling down of the Palate or Columella and bind it that it may not fall down as those mentioned or these following A Gargle Take rooes of Celondine an ounce Agrimony Harts-tongue Self-heal Golden Rod Privet each a handful boyl them in red Wine red Roses and Barley each a pugil Galls half an ounce boyl them in red Wine add a little Vinegar and syrup of Mulberries an ounce Or Take Pomegranate peels two ounces flowers of Pomegranates half an ounce red Roses Lentils each a pugil Myrtle seeds two drams boyl them as formerly in the increase of the Infirmity add a little Pepper and Pellitory roots and Chamomel flowers The Water of Phyllitis or Harts-tongue is a good Gargle Or Vinegar and Water Also juyce of Pomegranates and sour Grapes Troches to be held in the Mouth Take Acacia Hypocistis each a dram and an half the best Bole a dram Starch two drams Snakeweed half a dram with Gum Tra ganth make Troches If you take fine pouder that is astringent in a little Spoon or upon a Spatula and depress the Tongue and touch the Uvula therewith it wil presently be made shorter It is commonly made of Pepper the long Pepper is best Or of Allum or Salt Armoniack burnt or flour of Brass according to Dioscorides Or Take as much Salt as an Hazel Nut burn it in an Iron spoon til it be red add long Pepper a dram Ginger and Pellitory each half a dram make a Pouder Also burnt Snails shels Dill roots and all and Nutshels burnt are good Or the Pouder of Sandarach Or Take Galls or Pomegranate peels a dram Bole Mastick Myrrh Acacia or Hypocistis each half a dram Pellitory and Pepper each a scruple make a Pouder I have often found the Pouder of Lapis prunellae is a special Remedy against the falling of the Uvula because it sequeezeth forth the Humors that fils it As for the Cutting we have already spoken thereof If the Defluxion be only upon the Tonsils or Almonds or Palate we apply outwardly first things under the lower Jaw as relax not as in the Quinsie for there is not such danger that we need draw it suddenly forth but such as dry the humor and astringe or bind the part They are made of Consumers of the Humors and Digesters with some Astringents mentioned in the Quinsie Or thus Take a Swallows nest prepared two ounces dried white Dogs dung and Cypress Nuts each an ounce round Birthwort half an ounce red Roses a dram with Oxymel apply them Or Take Swallow nest prepared an ounce Litharge half an ounce Aloes three drams Allum two drams Salt a dram with Honey of Roses or Oxymel In the increase of the Disease use only Digesters or Emollients lest it turn to a Scirrhus as in the Scrophulus and if the tumor doth turn Scirrhus then use things to be mentioned in Scrophulus If the Inflammation or Uvula turn to an Imposthume of the Almonds use Ripeners as in the Quinsie And open the Imoposthume if ripe which is easie because you may come better at the part This may be done in the Uvula and also before the suppuration to prevent it by Scarification If the Uvula cannot be cured but remains corrupt and black after the Inflammation take off the corrupt part Or if it remain longer or greater by reason of the Defluxion take off the top of it because it causeth impediment This is done best by a sharp pair of Sizers this done stop the blood with cold and astringent mouth-Mouth-waters or Causticks as we shal shew in Haemorrhages or bleeding The same is done by an actual cautery through an Iron quil if you allay the pain after with Anodines or Milk held in the mouth but a potential cautery cannot be used so wel In the Inflamation of the Gullet use Astringents at the first then Digesters inwardly as we shewed or these Lenitives Take Cream of Barley Mucilages the white and yolk of Eggs Topical remedies in the Inflamation and Imposthume of the Gulet and swallow them with Sugar Or Take Sebestens twelve pair Quince seeds half an ounce Fleabane and Poppy seeds each two drams Barley a pugil boyl them and in
this is called Peripneumonia very like the Pleurisie in all things but in respect of pain And the liker if there be a pricking pain in the side and then is a Pleurisie and Perpneumonia mixed together There is a Cough in both kinds more or less which increaseth the pain especially if it be pricking by which at the first sooner or later there is spit forth spittle mixed with matter or blood sometimes which is rare it is without afterwards there is matter bloodish and at length true matter white or yellow or green or black concocted or not somtimes clammy somtimes stinking somtimes otherwise In both the Pleurisie and Peripneumonia there is a Fever with a pricking pain and both Diseases begin with horror and chilness and a Fever following Respiration is increased and the pulse and the Artery is hard and rough as a Saw when the pulse is touched though some think that in Peripneumony the pulse is soft and wet The Urin is high and there is great thirst and in a Peripneumony the Cheeks are very red and the Fever continues so long with exacerbations or fits in the night til the disease declineth or changeth as we shewed in Fevers There are other symptoms in both from Diseases of the parts adjacent as Doting Swouning and the like but then these Diseases are mixed with others Besides these there is a pricking pain with burning in the side A Pleurisie differing from the rest with a Fever and Cough like a Pleurisie only in that there is no bloody or mattery spittle but a foul and dry Cough and in that the pain comes outward and makes the Breast sore when it is touched and somtimes there is tumor and redness This being differrent from the other in respect of the part affected as shal be shewed in the Causes and we call it the Pleurisie of the Membrane The Causes These Diseases are in the inside of the Breast that cause these pains in the Pleurisie and Peripneumony The place affected and are either distension or Inflammation The Distension of the Membrane that girts in the inward parts of the Breast so great that the Membrane is lifted up and down as it were aside if not torn or rent from the Ribs and Muscles causeth that pricking pain in a false Phrensie This may be from Wind or Humor When Wind gets into the spaces Distension from Wind. between the flesh and the membranes it causeth the pain called windy And in the Breast when it gets between the Intercostal or Muscles between the Ribs it distendeth the Membrane and causeth the pricking pain of the Windy Pleurisie This Wind as in other Diseases comes from eating of crude and windy things and it wil be sooner in the Breast if there be outward cold or it is driven to the Breast by straining roaring coughing or the like when the Muscles are stretched hence it is that we have seen that after the Breath hath been exposed to the Air or after great motions there have been pricking pains sudddenly especially in bodies subject to wind and they have abated by heat and rest A Water or flegmatick humor falling down into the spaces between the Muscles of the Breast A Defluxion of Rheum is the cause of a false Pleurisie called Flegmatick and stretching them with its plenty as it causeth external pricking in the Breast of which in external pains so if it be caried to the inward Membrane which is easie if it be thin causeth these inward pains which are outward also not only in the Breast but Shoulders and that false Pleurisie which they call flegmatick Besides which there is no other as some hold which causeth Inflammation and yet comes from flegm for we shal shew that all Inflammations comes from blood An Inflammation of the Lungs somtimes Inflammation of the Lungs causeth a true Pleurisie and Peripneumony and in the Membranes and parts adjacent together or asunder as it is in this or that place causeth a true or false Peripneumony or Pleurisie or that which is of the Membrane either alone or mixed how this is caused we shal declare It is the vulgar opinion that the Inflammation of the girding Tunicle causeth a true Plurisie and of the Lungs a Peripneumony The Inflammation of the Tunicle is the Cause of the girding Plurisie But we wil prove not only from anotomies wherein we have seen the Lungs inflamed after a Pleurisie but by solid reasons that the Lungs are inflamed in a Pleurisie as wel as in a Peripneumony Because the blood which they so soon spit cannot be especialy so quickly carried through the Lungs and their vessels from the Tunicle inflamed nor matter except the Lungs be ulcerated but rather if it come from thence it should flow into the cavity of the breast and cause an Empyema Therefore because Blood and Matter are quickly and plentifully set forth in a Pleurisie and Peripneumony they must come from the Lungs and from no other part as also the other accidents in both diseases shew that the Lungs must needs be afflicted Only this is their argument that the Lungs are not only inslamed in a Pleurisie because the pricking pain which is manifest in the Pleurisie is obscure in the Peripneumony or none and cannot be from the Lungs affected but in a sensible and membranous part which the Lungs are not But this is not enough to evince that though these prickings come from the membrane yet the Lungs are not inflamed in a Pleurisie as wel as a Peripneumony But this is all that wil follow that if the Lungs are only inflamed as the truth is the peripneumony is in one side because the Lungs are divided by the Mediastine or Midriffe and rather inwardly then outwardly when there is no pain But if the Inflammation be in the outside of the Lungs then the pricking pains are from the Tunicle but gentle because the Lungs are not altogether insensible But if the Inflammation be extended outward so that the Lungs are stretched especialy in breathing at which time pain is only felt and the Fibers and smal veins and Arteries by which they are joyned to the girding Membrane streined they pul the Membrane from the breast though there be no Inflammation as we shewed in wind and then the pain is in the side and it is greater when the Membrane suffers by consent from the Lungs inflamed by Swelling and Heat We deny not but it may be thus and that the girding Tunicle may be also inflamed and also the Periostia or bone Tunicles near it but we wil not acknowledg that it can be inflamed alone to cause any other kind of Pleurisie as some write because it sticks so close to the girding Membrane where it is covered with Ribbs which being so there wil not be the true Pleurisie which is without the Inflammation of the Lungs which hath bloody and mattery Spittle because the girding Membrane cannot be disburdned thereof But there wil
not so good to be licked Or this Take Penidies an ounce Pinenuts and sweet Almonds blancht each two drams the great cold seeds and white Poppy seed each a dram Starch half an ounce juyce of Liquorish a dram Gum Traganth and Arabick each a dram infused in Violet water while they swell pulp of Raisons half an ounce mix them for a Lohoch with syrup of Poppies or a Diacodium half an ounce and Mallow and Cotton seeds a dram In the progress of the Disease when the Fever declineth give tablets of Diaireos simple Diapenids without the species Lohoch of Pine Or thus Take Lohoch de pino half an ounce species of Diatragacanth a dram species of Diaireos half a dram penidies half an ounce with syrup of Maidenhair and Liquorish make a Lohoch Or thus Take Sugar-candy penidies each half an ounce pine-nuts two drams of great cold seeds each a dram Orris roots two scruples Gum traganth infused in water of Maidenhair and mucilage of Quince seed half a dram pulp of Figs or Dates each half an ounce juyce of Liquorish a dram or roots of Briony and Nettle seed each half a dram with syrup of Hysop make a Lohoch We use also stronger Expectoratives and cutting Medicines when they spet matter especially if it be crude and slymy and when the Fever is gone and yet matter is voided As Lohoch of Coleworts of Coltssoot Horehound Lochsanum and other other medicines used in other diseases of the Lungs from Flegm and Matter Lohochs are made of fat things thus to open the Breast to mollifie and help spetting as of Butter Sugar or Sugar candy or Sugar of Violets used like a Lohoch the German May Butter called Mehenmuf The new drawn Oyl of sweet Almonds or Lineseed are good with Sugar to be licked and taken by degrees or to be drunk in Broath or any Decoction proper to allay the pains of the pleurisie to which some add juyce of Marshmallows Oyl of Nuts also in the progress of the Disease concocts the matter and makes it fit to be expelled Of which make this Lohoch Take Oyl of sweet Almonds or Line seeds or both Oxymel simple of Squils if the matter be tough each hvlf an ounce with Sugar candy make a Lohoch Also Decoctions though they stay not long in the passage are good in respect of the Fever and Inflammation give a draught once or twice a day thus If you wil thicken and lenifie use Barley water which allaies thirst and nourisheth if you increase the quantity of Barley If you wil clense more make it of whole Barley with Raisons Liquorish and other sweet things as Sugar or syrup of Violets Jujubes and Maiden-hair At first if you wil thicken and expectorate Take roots of Marshmallows an ounce Violets and Bugloss flowers each a pugil Jujubes and Sebestens each six pair Barley half a pugil the four great cold seeds each two drams make a Decoction to a pint sweeten it with syrups or Sugarpenidies The Decoction of Corn-poppy made with Barley-water or Jujubes adding Sugar is good at first to stop a Defluxion and Inflammation give three ounces at a time often after boyl them in Scabious and Burnet-water to Concoct or use the water of poppy instead of the Decoction or give the dried flowers in pouder with Broath or Violet-water or other Liquor Neither ought we fear its coldness because the force it hath to attenuate and digest which Galen imputes to the sharpness doth shew otherwise as in the other Narcoticks which we shewed in other places are not cold When we wil clense more give Sugar and Water boyled twenty parts water and half a part Sugar and if you clense more yet use more Sugar and a little Cinnamon Another to clense and lenifie Take Liquorish an ounce and an half Violets Bugloss flowers each a pugil Figs six pair Raisons ten pair Jujubes six pair sweet prunes five Barley half a pugil Gourd and Melon seeds each two drams boyl them add Sugar or Syrups When we wil concoct and prepare thick matter at the end give boyled Honey with Wine it is good in old people or when the Disease is not very hot Or Honey and Water which may be made as strong and hot as Sack Also the Decoction of Carduus or Leucacanth or white-thorn roots or Anthemis flowers Another to concoct and prepare Take Liquorish an ounce Elicampane root two drams Maidenhair a handful Hysop and Goats Organ especially in a pleurisie each half a handful Violets Bugloss flowers each a handful flowers of Anthemis half a handful Raisons twelve pair Figs ten Dates five Melon or Gourd seeds three drams Cotton seeds Mallow and Foenugreek seed each two drams Anise seeds a dram boyl them and add Sugar Honey or Syrups Syrups to thicken are of Violets and Jujubes to clense of Liquorish and to concoct withall of Maidenhair and Oxymel if the matter be tough two ounces at a time may be given in a Decoction or Water of Violets Bugloss Maidenhair Scabious Hysop like Juleps or give julep of Violets or the Syrups alone to be licked Also Spinage Carduus or Milk-thistle water or of Anthemis flowers or wild Lentils in a peripneumony Or water of ground Ivy four ounces in a pleurisie four times a day it is good to purge the breast from matter and to desend from Peripneumony or Phthisis Or the following potions Take Bores tusk or jaw of a Pike Crabs Eyes Buls pizle in pouder a dram or a dram and an half with Broath or Wine or Carduus water or Violet or Barley water these are better known by good experience than by reason The tusk of a Bore poudered and given with Oyl of sweet Almonds or Line seed is an excellent medicine in pleurisie or Quinzy Or Lapis prunellae given with Purslane water or of Bramble berries or of Sorrel with Coolers in a good quantity often quickly makes men in pleurisies to spit easily The Vulgar give the water wherein a Butchers Knife hath been laid some hours to cure the Pleurisie The roots of Daffodil or flowers or of Dog-stones Dockes Goulden-hair Lungwort In Peripneumony and seeds of wild Parsnepps and Carduus pouder of Almonds or Nutshells each a dram or a dram and an half with the Liquors mentioned are also good Also roots of Centaury the great Birthwort and Costus agallochus Aethiopis and three leaved Daffadill leavs and seeds Myrrh Bdellium Asla foetida are comended by Diascorides with wine and water But he saith not in what kind of Pleurisie true or false It is known by experience that these following are good and presently abate or take away the pain in a pleurisie Take a scruple of Bores Tusk or a dram with two or three or four onnces of Oyl of sweet Almonds or with Lineseed Oyl as in a Quinsie Another experiment Take Nut-shels red Corral each a dram make a pouder give it with white Wine This is highly approved Take Roots of long Birthwort Piony Bay-berries each halfe a dram
sooner open it It may be broken by violent Motion of the breast as Roaring Neesing Vomiting but not so safely If in a watery or windy pleurisie there be a stretching in the Membranes The cure of a false pleurisie of wind and water from a Humor or Water gotten thither which causeth pricking you must use things that stop the Humor and turn it from the breast if it still flow or if it be wind give things that hinder the breeding of it and keep it from the part And in both cases apply to the part things that discuss and digest and consume Wind and Water Diversions are made by cupping Friction and washing and other things that stop Defluxions and carry wind other wayes but you must not open a Vein but when by reason of great pain you fear Inflammation and only in plethorick bodies Sharp Clysters revel also with things to expel Wind in which Hiera dissolved is highly commended And purges with preparatives first not only gentle to revell but strong to draw down and send forth wind and humors that produce it these are better here than in a pleurisie from Inflammation which some do use in the pleurisie called Flegmatick which they dream comes from an Inflammation Therefore we rather use Rhubarb Agarick or Scammony or Coloquintida or Hellebore as the Ancients especially Hiera of Coloquintida commended so by Galen against a pleurisie here then in an Inflammation in which we can give no strong Purges profitable but with great hurt These Purges are mentioned in Diseases from Defluxions here and there and in palpitation from wind and in Rheums falling upon the breast And there you may find Altering Remedies also It is in vain here to give expectorating medicines as in a true pleurisie except a Defluxion fall upon the Lungs But some things there mentioned which work by a hidden quality or by drying or digesting may be given here As the Carduus waters which some think cures pricking pains because of the prickles as that of the Blessed Thistle called religiously the Carduus of Mary or their seeds or an Emulsion made of them and of Hemp-seed The Vulgar Women keep a water for this made of Ice gathered in March There are also other Remedies that cure a pleurisie without causing Coughing as that of a Bores tusk and the like which are good here and many better for a false than a true pleurisie for divers of them are hot and dry which cannot be good in Inflammations but by a hidden quality and those may work in this Disease by a manifest as wel as a secret vertue Especially those there mentioned of Dioscorides for pleuresies in general Also Oyl of sweet Almonds and Line seed given to dilate the breast are good here taken in good quantities And Wine if nothing else forbid it and other Meats and Drinks mentioned in Defluxion and Diseases of wind Apply outwardly things to dissolve and discuss wind and humors and to take away pain As a great Cupping-glass to the part with fire which will draw out the Humor and Wind by an attractive Vertue not by Heat as some think for Heat is not used to warm the breast but to make the Glass stick Also actual Heat doth the same if it be gentle it qualifyeth the pain if strong it discusseth and consumes thin Humors and Wind as the Heat of the Sun doth the Clouds This may be done by any warm Cloths or with warm Water in a bladder or brass vessels to keep the heat longer made on purpose Olive Oyl in a bladder hot take away pain But in a true Pleurisie it must be but luke-warm Also Fomentations of things actually and potentially hot with a Spunge felt or Wool squees'd a little that it may not wet too much or in a bladder rather then in brass that the vertue may pierce sooner and changed when cold They are made of Decoctions mentioned in Inflamation of the Membrane Or thus Take Marsh-mallow roots an ounce Orris Galangal each half an ounce Calamints Wormwood Organ Thyme each a handful Chamomil Melilot Rosemary and Stoechas flowers each a pugil Caraway Cummin and Fennel-seed each half an ounce Foenngreek and Linseed an ounce Bay-berries an ounce and half bruise and boyl them in Wine and Water This is an excellent Experiment in all side-side-pains Take Spirits of Wine six ounces Camphire a dram boyl them till the Camphire is dissolved add where it is hot Pouders of sweet Sanders a dram and half wet Clouts therein and apply them hot Also dry baggs hot As Take Bran and the whole Seeds of Milium or Grumwel or seeds of Panicum and Oats each two pugils Salt an ounce fry them and make baggs to be shifted as in Fomentations They are better if you sprinkle a little Wine or Aqua vitae or white Wine-vinegar to pierce This is stronger Take Bay-berries a pugil Juniper-berries half a pugil Caraway and Cummin each an ounce Fennel-seed a dram dryed Hysop Savory Thyme Organ Marjoram each a dram Rosemary and Chamomil-flowers each a dram and an half Orris roots a dram Salt half an ounce make a Pouder for a bag as before The residents of the Decoction mentioned squeezed between two trenchers is also good Or Cataplasms made of them as we shewed in the Inflammation of the Membrane with Pouder of Caraway and Cummin-seed each six drams Oyl of Rue and Orris each an ounce Pigeon or Goats dung half an ounce with two Yolks of Eggs. Also Oyls or Oyntments there mentioned sprinkle the part after with pouder of Cummin-seed which is excellent in all Pleurisies to consume Humors and Wind. Or this Cerot Take Thyme a dram and half Spike Cloves Sanders each half a dram Storax a dram red wax an ounce and half with Hogs grease make a round Cerot and a dram of Orris pouder Also the Emplaster of Bay-berries malaxed with Oyl of Lillies or mixed with the Cerot Or this Take Opopanax Galbanum Serapinum or Sagapenum each two drams dissolve them in equal patts of Aqua vitae and white Wine-vinegar add pouder of Cummin-seed half an ounce Caraway Seseli Lovage-seed each a dram dryed Rue half a dram Brimstone a dram with Oyl of Rue or Penny-royal and a little Turpentine make a Plaster Another Plaister of Honey and Oyl of Wormwood boyled is good also And many outward Remedies mentioned in outward pains from Humors or Wind. CHAP. XI Of Pain of the Heart The Kinds THe pain of the Stomach is commonly called the Pain of the Heart The pain of the Heart is the pain of the Stomach this is in the fore part of the Breast in a soft and naked place where the Ribs are parted which is called the Hearts lodge and reacheth to the left side as far as the Back In this place above the rest there are usual pains and molestations they differ in that they are either usual or not The most usual are such as come new from a new Cause or a Disease of which
have begun at the first taking of the medicine and while it was in the stomach and not a go long time after when the Medicine was carried with the Excrements into the Colon and laboured to get out When the Midriff is afflicted which toucheth the stomach all over behind The cause of pressing-pain is in the midriff and groweth to it there are pains in the region of the Heart because the Midriff being molested with evil and many vapors as in the night-mare mother and the like it causeth besides short breathing a pain which girts the Body like a Girdle And if the stomach consent that condoleth As a difficulty of breathing comes from a Disturbance of the Stomach by the Midriff The Cure The Cure is according to the Causes thus First we must cure the Diseases of the Stomach from whence come divers sorts of Heart-ach hurt of Functions and Crudities The Diseases are these Inflammations of the Stomach or coldness or stretching or windiness or heaviness twiching or irritation or else the weakness and hot constitution thereof Or a Discase by consent from the Nerves and from the Colon and Midriff The Inflammation of the Stomach is seldom The cure of inflammation of the stomach and never but from a violent Cause and is more dangerous because it is in a sensible and noble part especially if it be great for then there is a great pain and also Convulsion And it is better cured by dissolving then by Suppuration for so it wil turn to an Ulcer which is a new Disease and as dangerous as the former hard to be cured and which will leave a Callus or Hardness in the Stomach If it be beginning your aim must be to hinder the increase and abate the Heat with respect to the Fever and asswage the pain and fainting fits which are usual and to dissolve the matter that is there and if that cannot be done to bring it to Suppuration and cure the Ulcer thus At the first let blood in the Arm for though the veins of the Stomach come from the branches of the Gate-vein yet drawing blood from the branches of the hollow Vein is good against the Feaver and for Revulsion Give also a cooling Clyster to revel and abate pain for that will reach to the Colon and communicate its force to the Stomach under which the Colon lyeth You must not give strong Purges for they going presently to the part affected will cause pain and increase the Distemper by their Heat but loosning temperate Purges in the progress of the Disease can do no hurt As Cassia which also asswageth pain and pulp of Prunes and Tamarinds and the like Medicines to alter the Distemper must be cold both actually and potentially and in the beginning while the Humor floweth must be a little astringent and afterwards moist mixed with things that abate pain Thus Those Sauces which are good in a hot constitution of the Stomach and cooling as we shall shew are good here Cabbage chiefly and Rapes and other Fruits boyled and kept in pickle are good against heat And cold spring-Spring-water with Snow or Ice is good drink in the opinion of some but I think it not safe for a sudden Repercussion is dangerous It is better at first with a little Vinegar and more pleasant with Sugar boyled like a Julep Cold Milk is good and allayes pain Or an Emulsion of the cold Seeds to ease pain and heat with Poppey-seeds Dioscorides commends the Water of wild Vetches also Plantane and Rose-water and Vinegar and Sorrel-water And the Julep of Roses and Violets Or Take Rose-water three ounces Plantane-water two ounces juyce of Sorrel or Pomegranates an ounce and an half Sugar of Roses an ounce boyl and strain them give two ounces at a time Or the Decoction of Barley cold with Violets Or thus Take Barley a pugil Cowcumber-seed half an ounce Liquorish an ounce boyl and drink them cold This is cordial also Take Liquorish an ounce Citron-peels two drams cordial Flowers each a pugil Flowers of Water-lillies half a pugil Barley a pugil the four great cold Seeds two drams Purslane-seed and white Poppey-seed each a dram Citron-seeds half a dram boyl and sweeten them with Sugar or these Syrups In the beginning give Syrups with spring or distilled Waters those that cool and bind as that of dryed Roses Quinces green Grapes Ribes sour Pomegranates Bar-berries In the progress that cool and moisten as of Violets Purslane Water-lillies And if the Liver be also hot as it is commonly and for the Feaver give Syrup of Succory and Endive And against Fainting Syrup of Bugloss And to asswage pain Syrup of Poppies Or thus Take Syrup of Violets and Quinces Syrup of Ribes or Pomegranates or of Endive each half an ounce Syrup of Poppies three drams Also the candyed or preserved and conserved Fruits abovesaid and of Citrons Gourds or Lettice or Coleworts This is cooling and cordial Take conserve of Roses an ounce conserve of Violets Citrons and juyce of Ribes each half an ounce species Diamargariton frigid and Diarhodon and red Coral each a scruple with sugar of Roses make a mixture To resolve the residue of the Inflammation or the Imposthume of the Stomach use these at the end First give Chamomil and Endive water then six ounces of Chamomil water alone often Or Take Chamomil and Endive water each an ounce and an half Sack an ounce spirit of Wine a dram with a drop or two of spirit of Vitriol Or this Julep Take syrup of Endive and Wormwood each an ounce Mint and Elicampane water each an ounce and an half with Triasantalon half a dram give it now and then Turpentine washed with Wormwood water given twice or thrice dissolves or ripens the Imposthumes of the Stomach Apply outwardly coolers and anodynes with strengtheners As this Oyntment Take Oyl of Roses an ounce and an half Oyl of Violets Rose Vinegar and juyce of Hawkeweed each an ounce boyl them till the juyces are consumed add red Sanders a dram red Roses half a dram Spike a scruple Camphire half a scruple with white Wax make an Oyntment This Cataplasm is good for the beginning of the disease Take Violet-leaves and Snakeweed and Vine-leaves each a handful Roses Violets and Comfrey-flowers each a pugil stamp them add Barley-meal or Bran. In great pain Take Chamomil and Melilot-flowers Roses and Violets each a handful Wormwood half a handful boyl them in Milk add Barley-meal six ounces Coriander-seeds and Sanders each two drams Oyl of Chamomil and Dill each an ounce make a Cataplasm Or this Fomentation against Inflammation Take Rose and Plantane-water each three ounces Wormwood-water two ounces Rose-vinegar an ounce red Sanders two drams Or this Epithem against an Erysipelas of the Stomach Take Rose Sorrel Nightshade and Succory-water each two ounces Wormwood-water and white Wine each half an ounce Rose-vinegar two drams Diarrhodon a dram Coral and Ivory each half a dram apply it to the Stomach Use these to
dissolve the Imposthume as this with a Spunge Take Wormwood Mints and Snakeweed each a handful Chamomil and Dill-flowers each a pugil Faenugreek and Bean-meal each an ounce Mastick two drams Nutmeg a dram boyl them in Wine for a Fomentation Then anoint with this Take Oyl of Wormwood and Chamomil each an ounce and half Turpentine half an ounce Mucilage of Marsh-mallows and Foenugreek-seed each two drams Mastick a dram and half Cloves a dram with Wax make an Oyntment Or this Cataplasm Take green Wormwood a handful and Mints half a handful stamp them add Bran and Linseed-flowers each an ounce Roses and Chamomil-flowers in pouder each a dram Mace half a dram add Oyl of Wormwood Or use Melilot-plaster dissolved with Oyl of wormwood If the Inflammation do imposthume The cure of an Imposthume of the stomach after Inflammation ripen it with remedies in the Quinzie given at the mouth And with things there outwardly prescribed only ad some things that may respect the Stomach being a more noble part As this Cataplasm Take Orris and Lilly-roots each two ounces Wormwood and Mallows each a handful Chamomil-flowers and Roses each a pugil boyl them in Wins and Water stamp them and add Wheat-flour four ounces Lineseed poudered an ounce yellow Sanders a dram Saffron half a dram Oyl of sweet Almons two ounces make a Cataplasm Or use the Emplaister of Diachylon with Orris and Oyl of Mints To open the Impostume use things mentioned in a Quinsie Or this Take Wheat flower four ounces Pigeons dung half an ounce Oyl of Wormwood an ounce Honey an ounce make a Plaster Also Roaring Neesing Coughing and rubbing of the Stomach and Vomit will break the Imposthume If they vomit matter give Barley water and Sugar to clense with Honey of Roses Then strengthen the Stomach as in imbecility The Cure of Cardialgia from a cold Stomach If coldness of stomach come from outward injuries or cold water drunk and produce Cardialgia give and apply hot things actually and potentially so And the pain will be abated Of which we shall speak in Imbecility of the stomach from cold And also of that cold that comes from a humor for Imbecility is the cause of both But if the cold be so great that not only the stomach but parts adjacent suffer a Dropsie or Cachexy follow which comes by drinking much cold water when they are very hot we shall speak of the Cure of that in the hurts of the bowels As the cause is so must Distention The Cure of Cardialgia from Destention Inflammation and aggravation of the Stomach by Wind Meat Humor Tumor or Bowels adjacent or outward injuries Aggravation or Inflammation of the Stomach be cured If it come from Wind which proceeds from Meat Humor or weak Concoction it causeth a stretching pain because there must be good dyet to hinder the breeding of Wind and Evacuation and hot remedies used to help concoction and discuss wind inwardly and outwardly we shall speak of it in weakness of stomach from crude humors If the Stomach be stretched by Air taken in with drink except it be belched forth again we shall Cure it as in the Cure of wind If there be stretching and heaviness from plenty of things eaten and compression after Concoction and Digestion by excercise it will away But if it be great and will not yeild by reason of the quantity or quality it must be vomited up or purged the stomach strengthened All which are used against those causes that weaken the stomach and because there is also weakness we shall speak of it in Imbecility of the stomach As also if this stretching or heaviness comes from a crude humor we shall speak of it there because that is the cause of weakness and this is the cause of that If it come from a hard Tumor after a wound or a Scirrhus although it be difficult and there will be alwaies some heaviness after meat especially and weakness let the Cure against weakness be sufficient yet use Emollients as soon as you suspect it and consume it if you can The best way is to give Turpentine pills with Gum Ammoniack and Mastick often Or these Take Gum Ammoniack dissolved in juyce of Orris Mastick each a dram Storax Myrrh Ladanum each half a dram with juyce of Orris make pills give half a dram often Or give a drop or two of Oyl of Myrrh or Mastick with Sugar or otherwise And apply outwardly things mentioned in the hardness of Liver and Spleen Or thus Take Mallows or Wormwood each a handful Chamomil flowers a pugil Schaenanth two drams Figs twelve boyl them in Wine stamp them and add Gum Ammonick and Bdellium dissolved in the Decoction and Myrrh of each two drams with Honey make a Cataplasm If the stomach be oppessed by the Liver Spleen Reins Colon Midrife being stopt stretched swollen hardned or inflamed Cure it as in these diseases for the heaviness will not away till they be removed nor the difficulty of breathing though they complain least of them If it come from the crookedness of the sword Gristle bent inwards and pressing the Stomach it is incurable and no rest can be till the patient lye upon his Back that the Stomach may remove from it or till there is a compleat Concoction If it come from hard things outwardly pressing remove them and if they have done any hurt mend it If the twitching of the stomach cause loathing rather then pain The Cure of Cardialgia from twitching and tickling of the stomach Cure it as in loathing If worms cause tickling expel them and any other Disease that causeth it If there be Irritation or reaching with pain knawing The Cure of Cardialgia from Irritation or provoking or from things swallowed or from Medicines or from poyson bad Dyet or evil humors pricking or burning caused by things swallowed that wound the Stomach first remove them if possible not by force as vomiting for so the stomach wil be closed and the things that hurt will stick faster but by things that make way and wash and make them descend that they may not hurt the entrals for they do not easily fix though sharp but are cast down by the Stomach and Guts as other hard things and stop not till they come at the straight passage of the Fundament For we think it impossible as some say that they should pass through the Veins by the Meseraick and Gut out at the skin Yet we have observed from a Famous Chirurgion from whose mouth I had it with great admiration of the hearers that a Needle swallowed which stayed long in the body came out at the Reins by the right Kidney in an Ulcer And I my self saw and handled a piece of Glass which came out by Urin by a strong Diuretick after a great and sharp pain in the Uriters and fit of the stone These are washed away with great draughts of fat things especialy which relax the passages as of
broath Milk Oyl or Butter which done if by the pain we suppose that a Needle or a thorn be fastned then we prevent or Cure an Inflammation as we shewed in Inflammations If by reason of great hurt they vomite blood we must stop it as we shewed in vomting of Blood If matter come forth we must give clensers as was shewed in Ulcers of the Jaws and Gullet and then dryers to heal as was there also shewed But this is hardly done in this noble part ulcerated and if it be done it leaves a Callus which causeth weakness Here we shall shew how these two last are to be done Whether it be from things swallowed or Choller or evil juyce vomiting is good and though it come of it self yet nature is to be helped if it be not sufficient tocast out the offence The Vomits must be such which wash the stomach and make the vomiting easie as warm water Broaths or Drink plentifully taken with Oyl Butter or the like which turn the stomach and allay sharpness or with Honey and Sugar which also clense Also Barley water is good In a cholerick sharp juyce give things to abate it as water or the like with Vinegar syrup of Sorrel or Oxymel and other Vomits mentioned in Feavers Also gentle Clysters to draw it out of the Stomach And though the body be loose as it needs must be by the provoking of the expulsive faculty yet Clysters are good to take away pain in the Stomach and Guts for they can get into the Stomach by the Colon Also Suppositories revel and do some thing thereby examples of all these are in the Colick When there is choler or sharp juyce or any violent thing swallowed whether Medicine or Poyson or other things that hurts the stomach it is good to purge because nature tends that way And there are many purgers of choler mentioned in cholerick Feavers good in this case if they be so ordered that they may not trouble the stomach thus Take Cassia ten drams or Catholicon ten drams or three drams of the Electuary of juyce of Roses or the like as Diacydonites with Scammony alone or with Sugar or with Wormwood water or of Endive when you will temper choler but when you will clense with Barley or Pease broath But when you will loosen more with a Decoction of Fruits and old Cocks broath Rondeletius commends Fish broath or Whey or Possets or if bitter things will down the Decoction of Wormwood which is clensing and is good against both choler and flegm Or give three ounces of syrup of Roses or an ounce and an half of syrup of Roses with Rhubarb or Senna or that of succory with Rhubarh or of Wormwood Or this Decoction Take sweet Prunes and Tamarinds each half an ounce Endive a handful Violets a pugil Barley a pugil senna half an ounce Polypody six drams Epithymum two drams Annis seed a dram boyl them with sugar syrup of Violets or Roses make a Potion Or this infusion Take Rhubarb four scruples Senna two drams Wormwood a dram Spike half a scruple bruise and sprinkle them with white wine and add Endive and wormwood water infuse them and add syrup of Roses an ounce give it You may mix with it the Laxative afore mentioned Another infusion in wine of wormwood better for the stomach Take Senna an ounce Rhubarb a dram and an half yellow Myrobalans three drams wormwood two drams Cordial flowers a dram Spike a scruple Fennel seed a dram steep them being bruised in white wine that is smal twenty four hours Give every day a draught Pills for the same Take Aloes which is good to clense both choler and flegm a scruple Rhubarb half a dram Spike three grains Scammony two or three grains with juyce or syrup of Roses make a Dose of Pills Or give a dram of Pills of Rhubarb or scammoniate Pills if need require If the stomach be provoked by a bad Medicine or poyson or burne or be corroded give things to alter by moistures to abate the force or by slyminess to defend the stomach and that will heal and resist Poyson As warm Milk or Cream of Almonds or Pinenuts or of Cold seeds or Barley Cream Or the milky juyce of Goats beard Hawkweed Sowthistle Sycomore in Corrosions are good Or the Mucilage of Lineseed Fleabane apples Pears or Quinces The Decoction also of Lineseed heals the Stomach when it is corroded by taking of Spanish Flyes Or Take Marsh-mallow roots an ounce Comfrey roots half an ounce Line and Quinceseed each a dram boyl them in Water and add Sugar drink often thereof Or oyl of sweet Almonds in a good quantity or the oyl of Sesamum commended by Dioscorides If the stomach be poysoned give Treacle and Mithridate and the like which are proper to take away the cause and the pain But after a violent purge they do more by stupifying the expulsive faculty then by the way of Antidote You may also give Antidotes without Opium which are contrary to poyson by a peculiar quality or general Antidotes such as are prescribed against the Plague and biting and stinging of venemous beasts If the stomach be burnt and reacheth from choller or sharp juyce give things that moisten and are sharp and cool and will hinder the reaching and also such as take the sensibility away and asswage the pain As sour Fruits take away the burning of the stomach Citrons Limons Orenges Pomegranats Apples Plums Cherries Grapes and Strawberries and chiefly Currans and Berberries Also Lettice Endive Violets Borrage Sorrel wood-Sorrel Vine leaves and Berberry leaves in sallets or otherwwise Dioscorides commends simples against the burning of the stomach and some of them are hot as scordium Pennyroyal spicknard smallage flowers of Comfrey sweet rush Piony seeds and wild Laurel and juyce of Liquorish Also Flesh or Barley broath with cooling and moistning herbs and Vinegar or other sour juyces or the Decoction of Wormwood or the juyce of the Fruits aforesaid or sharp Herbs alone or with sugar or syrups if they be two sharp In a cholerick stomach wormwood wine doth quickly help by clensing flegm and Choler Or a sharp syrup alone or with waters or Decoctions as of sorrel or Vineger or Oxysacharum or of Pomegranate juyce or of the syrup of them or of Apples Plums Limons Citrons unripe Grapes of Currans Berberies sorrel or that of juyce of Quinces boyled or quidiney of Quinces with wine or Vinegar to make it sharper And so you may mix other syrups that are too sweet to beat down and suppress choler which two sweet things will breed Also syrup of Violets Roses or Juleps thereof also of Endive succory and Water-lillies and the like well mixt with waters or Decoctions for so they suppress choler not only by cooling but wetting especially if they be sharp to all which add syrup of wormwood to clense choler Also Conserves and Candites of the same Fruits and Herbs are good but alwaies be ware of sweet they will heat choler
and Conserve of quinces Citrons Gourds Lettice Colewort Also juyce of sharp fruits without sugar as the ancients did or with Vinegar usually they are without sugar as of Currans Berberries unripe Grapes or these Make Electuaries of these mixed as that called Diacydonites of Quinces without the Spices which is made of the Pulp of Quinces boyled with Honey and Pouder of Diacydonites Or thus Take Conserve of Roses and Sorrel and Citron-peels each half an ounce Conserve of Currance an ounce of Myrobalans candied one the pouder of our Diacydonites or Trionsantalon or Diarrhodon a dram with syrup of Sorrel or unripe Grapes make an Electuary And this Take Citron-peels candied Quinces and conserve of Quinces each two dramss juyce of Currance without Sugar all well dryed half an ounce the Pouder of our Diacydonites which I shall after shew Cinnamon each a dram with Rose-water and boyled Sugar make Lozenges Or give Crumbs of Bread steept in Juyce of Pomegranates Lemmons or the like with Vinegar and Rose-water to make it pleasant Or Barley-meal with Capon-broath and Juyce of Pomegranates which is Hippocrates his remedy against the heat and reaching of the stomach Or Pine-nuts eaten and Juyce of Purslane drunk after are good against burning of the stomach The usual Pouders for Choler in the Stomach are Diatrionsantalon which hath no other spice but cold seeds Roses Gums Starch Juyce of Liquorish burnt Ivory and Camphyre and Rhubarb Also Diarrhodon Abbatis which hath all the former Ingredients and other cold and Mastich and some spices of hot Seeds and Cordials The Pouder of Diacydonites without the hot Spices is added to this Electuary when we will only cool and is used after Meat and Trionsantalon Barbary and Sorrel-seeds Roses and burnt Ivory Instead of which Take dryed Quinces half an ounce all the Sanders each a dram red Roses two drams Sorrel and Barberry-seeds each a dram the Antispodium of Dioscorides made of Quinces half a dram make a Pouder mix them with Pouders after Meat or Electuaries Also the Pouders of the Troches of burnt Ivory Camphyre Bar-berries allay the heat of Choler they all have burnt Ivory and Antispodium of Quinces also Instead of all these Pouders for hot Stomaches use this Take dryed Quinces half an ounce Citron-peels a dram red Sanders two drams white Sanders a dram Liquorish two drams red Roses two drams and half cordial-flowers a dram great cold Seeds two drams small cold Seeds half a dram Sorrel Purslane Barbery Coriander-seeds each a dram white Poppy-seeds Gum Traganth and Arabick each half a dram Coral a dram Antispodium made of Ivory or Harts-horn half a dram and to please the Stomach Cinnamon and Aniseseed each a dram sweet Sanders half a dram with Mastick make a Pouder Give it with Sugar of Roses or in Lozenges made with Sugar and the Waters mentioned and a little juyce of a Lemmon or Vinegar A bitter Pouder easie to be made against Choler in the Stomach Take Wormwood a dram tops of Centaury and Masterwort-roots each half a dram give a spoonful with Wine A Pouder against Burning of the Stomach Take white Chalk half an ounce Nutmeg a dram Sugar an ounce Give a spoonful Or this Take Crabs-eyes two drams Bole half a dram red Roses a dram Sugar of Roses half an ounce Use it as the other In great Pains give things to abate Sense as Antidotes to be mentioned in Imbecillity which are good here if new made though they have many hot things and opiate Electuaries as Philonium Romanum two scruples in Pills or Electuaries of Juyce of Roses to purge Choler or requires Nicolai half a dram with Wine Or this Drink Take Syrup of Poppies six drams Syrup of Roses and Wormwood each an ounce give it with convenient Water or Wine If you leave out the Syrup of Poppies and boyl in the other a grain of Opium gently and give it with Chicken-broath it is excellent In time of danger give Narcoticks and that often I have often with good success given my Nepenthe in a cholerick Vomiting from anger when there hath been great pain and heat of the Body Outwardly of what cause soever in heat or corruption we use Astringents and Coolers as to keep the flux of Choler from the Liver adding alwayes some hot things proper for the Stomach because outwardly they cannot do hurt but strengthen and cause piercing they must all be used warm The usually cold Oyls of Roses and Omphacine that is of unripe Olives Quinces Myrtles Mastich with hot as of Mints and Spike are used with Vinegar to make them pierce or Wine to strengthen boyled in them till they be consumed A cooling strengthning Oyntment Take Oyl of Roses and Quinces each an ounce Oyl of Myrtles or Mastick Wormwood or Mints each half an ounce Vinegar of Roses six drams boyl them till the Vinegar be consumed add when they cool Pouder of Citron-peels Coriander-seeds red Roses Wormwood each half a dram Coral a dram Sanders red and white each half a dram Spike two scruples Camphyre a scruple to pierce rather then cool with Wax make a Liniment or with Labdanum two drams Aloes a dram and Turpentine make a Plaister Galens cold Oyntment of Roses and the Cerot of Sanders are good in Burning of the Stomach and of other Bowels In a great Heat when you will cool more Take Oyl of Roses omphacine two ounces juyce of Sowthistle Solomons-seal Vinegar each half an ounce Pouder of Alabaster half an ounce with Turpentiine wash'd make an Oyntment Or use the Oyntment in the Inflammation of the Stomach mentioned Or a Cataplasm of Purslane Nightshade Solomons-seal Vine Sowthistle Harts-tongue Venus-navel Water-lillies wild Vine Roses with Wormwood and Mints or Chamomil-slowers in pain boyled in water or rose-Rose-water or horstongue-Horstongue-water well beaten to a Pultis with the Oyls aforesaid two ounces Mastick half an ounce Alabaster three drams Horstongue poudered two drams Sanders and Cloves each a dram make a Pultis If the pain be great use an anodyne Cataplasm mentioned in the Inflammation of the Stomach Or this Take Toasts of Bread dipt in Vinegar of Roses half a pint Pulp of Quinces so steeped also three ounces add a little red Wine and juyce of Quinces and pouder of Mastick half an ounce dryed Wormwood two drams Chamomil-flowers and Mace each a dram Oyl of Roses and Chamomil each an ounce mix and apply them Or the Fomentation mentioned in Inflammation or of the Herbs mentioned or of the Oyls with Vinegar and Juyces of Herbs If there be pain Take Roses wild Vine Chamomil Melilot or Dill each a pugil Wormwood or Mints each half a handful Marsh-mallow roots six drams Coriander-seeds and Myrtles each half an ounce Mastick two ounces Cloves Sanders each a dram with Water and red Wine make a Fomentation Or use an Epithem of Rose-water and Vinegar with a Linnen-clout or a toast of Bread Or Take Rose-water two ounces Harts-tongue and Wormwood-water each an ounce all Sanders or Diatrionsantalon two drams
cold Distemper or against its Refrigeration or for the preparation of Humors altering or expelling of Wind And as the Stomach is moister or looser they must astringe more or less and if the pain be great abate it This is done divers wayes Among Drinks sweet Wine and old as Muscadel Sack Malmsey either at meat or otherwise when it is cold if it be drunk warm Also they are good when they are spiced Or made of Herbs by infusing or a little boyling as that of Wormwood is most usual but unpleasant to some It must be made of such quantity as may give it bitterness and good scent it is good in all Diseases of the Stomach from Repletion And Mints and Marjoram make it pleasanter Or thus make it Take Roots of Masterwort Galangal Zedoary each three drams dryed Citron-peels and Wormwood each half an ounce Mints Marjoram Coriander-seed each two drams Cloves Nutmeg each a dram and half Mastick two drams Wine four pints steep them if there must be greater Cleansing as in a foul stomach and Obstructions add tops of Centaury a dram and half If they hate bitter things leave out the Wormwood and the Centaury For a windy stomach give Fennel or Anise-seed Wine and the like Or this Take the barke of Fennel-roots and Roots of Calamus each half an ounce Mints Marjoram Spondilium each a handful Fennel Caraway and Seseli-seed each two drams Juniper and Bay-berries each an ounce infuse them in Wine add a dram of Cummin-seed if the scent be not disliked if they love bitter ad Wormwood Dioscorides teacheth that Melilot boyled or infused in Wine is good against pains of the stomach Also Wine is made of Infusion of Spices for the stomach which may be sweetned and strained To make Hippocras sweetned Take Cinnamon an ounce Sugar a pound wine four or five or more or less pints as you will have it more or less sweet add Pepper Ginger and Cardamoms each half a dram The Wine of Mountpelior called Pimentum is thus sweetned Take Cinnamon six drams or more Ginger five drams Pepper two drams Cardamoms the great Cloves Nutmegs each a dram Honey five pints Wine ten pints steep and strain them A Claret artificial for the stomach Take Cinnamon an ounce and half Ginger half an ounce both Cardamoms round and long Pepper each a dram Nutmegs Mace Galangal Cloves each a dram and half Spike Schaenanth each half a dram Honey or Sugar or both a pound and half Wine five quarts A spoonful or two of the Infusion of Spirit of Wine is good As Take Cinnamon an ounce spirit of Wine a pint Sugar four ounces set it in the Sun and add rose-Rose-water Or thus Take Cinnamon an ounce Pepper Ginger Cloves each three drams infuse them in a pint of spirit of Wine add a spoonful or two of this to Wine and Sugar and it will be excellent against the Wind of the Stomach Another against Pains of the Stomach Take Nutmegs two drams of Wine two ounces with Honey of Roses sweeten it If it must be presently used boyl it a little give two or three spoonfuls some boyl this till the spirit of Wine is gone and make a Mixture Or infuse Wormwood in Aqua vitae and mix some drops with Wine Or other Stomach-herbs Dioscorides teacheth that the Broath of an old Cock expels Wind. Or make Broath with Pepper Ginger Cloves Nutmeg Mace or the like with a little Saffron Some boyle the stones of Bay-berries in Broath to make it pleasant and strong to expel Wind. Or Herbs as Marjoram and other Pot-herbs as Mints Hysop Savory-Broath with Wormwood is commended if it be not distastful If the scent may be endured it is also excellent to boyl Chamomil and Melilot-flowers in Chicken-broath In a weak and windy Stomach Take Caraway-seed a dram whole Pepper ten grains boyl them in Broath with a scruple of Mastick The only Decoction of Mastick strengthens the stomach Syrups to prepare afore Purging when we will cut Take syrup of Mints Hysop or Stoechas each an ounce Honey of Rosemary-flowers half an ounce with Mints and sweet water make a Julep When we will cleanse also Take syrup of Wormwood and Bettony each an ounce Honey of Roses and syrup of Vinegar each half an ounce with Wormwood-water When we desire most to strengthen Take syrup of Citron-peels or of Nutmegs or of Myrobalans an ounce syrup of Mints or Chamomil half an ounce Give it alone or with Wine or Wormwood or Marjoram-water A Compound Syrup Take Fennel-roots half an ounce Roots of Masterwort Calamus Zedoary Citron-peels each two drams Mints Savory Hysop Marjoram Bettony Spondylium Sage Rosemary and Stoechas-flowers each a dram Fennel and Anise-seed each three drams Caraway-seed a dram Schaenanth half a dram boyl them in wine and water add Nutmeg half a dram and to the straining of Sugar six ounces boyl it to a syrup give an ounce and half alone or in wine Or Take syrup of Mints an ounce syrup of Wormwood half an ounce drink it with Wine Or this to strengthen Take juyce of Mints half an ounce juyce of Wormwood two drams give it with wine Juyce of Chamomil and Melilot each half an ounce given with wine takes away pain presently Stilled Waters to strengthen and heat the Stomach are of Wormwood Mints Calamints Marjoram alone or with Wine or with other Drinks or after Electuaries Cinnamon-water is refreshing and healing if it be made of Wine with Sugar Or some drops of spirits of Wine or Aqua vitae presently do help a cold flegmatick and foul stomach therfore it is so common and if it be compounded with spices t is the better Or with hot Plants and then distilled Some Natural Baths drunk to help the old Weakness of the stomach when it comes from too great moisture or foulness especially those of Niter Italians commend the Porrectan-Spaws and Germans have many as good Chymical Oyls also of Plants and Spices are excellent but not given alone but with distilled Waters or Wine a drop or two As Oyl of Cinnamon or Cloves the rest are not so pleasant and burn too much Or the Oyl of Marjoram or Mints or of Anise-seed and Fennel-seed proper against Wind. Also Oyls by expression are good as of Mace and Nutmegs and inflame less if taken with Broath Or Oyl of Palma Christi and bastard Saffron expels Wind. These are given in substance Mints Calamints Greek Mints Sage wild Mints Spikenard Lavender Tansey Goats-organ Penny-royal-seed and Root of Lovage Also Roots of wild Parsley and sweet Cane to expel wind according to Dioscorides Also Roots of Masterwort Zedoary Galangal Calamus Ginger are drunk in pains of the stomach and Rhapontick by Dioscorides Or Bithwort against the pains of stomach and guts Onyons eaten take away the pain and Pistacha's and Rocker help Concoction Also Pears and Quinces Or Mints fryed with Eggs. And Wormwood so fryed is used at great mens tables where I have been they seem not so bitter to
some whose stomachs delight therein Also Anise-seed Caraway and Fennel expel wind and help Concoction Or seven or nine corns of Pepper whole that they may not burn the mouth given with Wine do quickly help a cold stomach and also Ginger Or a dram of Pepper wrapt in a wafer wet in Wine and three ounces of Wine after it Galen gives Pepper with wine presently after Meat if it turn to Flegm and the Patient be cold with short Breath and weak Pulse This case Bairus describeth and saith it is rare but it is all one with Cardiaca Nutmeg helps Concoction and the Pouder given with chamomil-Chamomil-water takes away pain of the stomach Also Cloves alone or in Meats with Cinnamon and the like Cubebs are highly commended against wind and Galangal chewed breaks the wind as they say Or Mastich swallowed whole or in pouder a dram or some grains often taken to strengthen And Gum of Ivy so taken is excellent against pains of the stomach And Labdanum and Castor with Wine and the polishing Stone There are divers compound Pouders for the same called Species to be given as Meat or Medicine alone or mixed When we will heat much we choose the Burners if pleasant as the Peppers Ginger Cardamoms or the less pleasant when there is much Flegm as Zedoary Cubebs Pellitory-roots When we will strengthen and bind or astringe the loose stomach we give less sharp but sweet things as Nutmeg Mace Cloves Galangal Calamus Cypress or sweet things as cinnamon cassia or sweet cane wood-aloes yellow Sanders Spikenard Schaenanth with Saffron concoct Of hot seeds these help concoction and chiesly expel wind as the Anise-seeds Fennel Caraway Cummin Smallage Parsley Ameos sesely or wild Parsley-seed Of Herbs sweet and pleasant Thyme Calamints Lovage Mints Marjoram Savory with the Roots of Elicampane and Citron-peels And when we will strengthen they add red Roses often seldom Mastich And to these species Liquorish is added to cleanse and Asarum that is sweet but in a small quantity least it turn the stomach and Galen mixeth Niter In some compound Pouders they put Musk and Ambergreese for the Heart but some love not the scent of it Of these divers Pouders are made some are for Meat and Broath to make them pleasant as Cooks do These following are sold ready prepared for the cooks in Germany Take Ginger two ounces and half Pepper an ounce Nutmeg Cinnamon each two drams Saffron three drams this is called the Aromatical saffron pouder Another more pleasant Take Ginger four ounces grains of Paradise half an ounce Pepper two drams Nutmegs Cloves each half an ounce Galangal two drams Cinnamon two ounces make a Pouder this is used alone or with six drams of saffron A more pleasant pouder is thus made Take Cinnamon four ounces Ginger an ounce and half Cloves an ounce Pepper half an ounce Saffron two drams A sweet pouder for meat Take Cinnamon two drams Ginger three drams Cardamoms the greater Pepper and Nutmeg each a dram Sugar two pound You may also mix the other species or pouders with sugar There is also a Salt compounded to season Meat for moist and loose stomachs Thus Take salt parched an ounce Galangal a dram Cinnamon two drams the Ashes of Hens guts half a dram Salt and Caraway-seed with a rear Eg helps concoction and keeps the Eg from corruption Pouders to heat and strengthen the stomach and expel wind and crudities and cleanse flegm and filth are made af the aforeseid mixed to be taken alone or with Broath Wine Waters Juyces Decoctions with or without sugar somtimes with eight times as much sugar if they be unpleasant and Lozenges or Electuaries We shall shew Examples of stomach-pouders Of Aromaticks alone to heat we make pouders the first Take round Pepper a dram long Pepper half a dram Ginger half an ounce great Cardamoms Nutmeg Mace cloves and Galangal each a dram Cinnamon half an ounce The second is more compound by adding to the former the lesser Cardamoms Zedoary Wood-aloes or yellow Sanders Spike each half a dram Cubebs saffrom each a scruple The third Take Cinnamon an ounce Ginger half an ounce great cardamoms half a dram round Pepper a scruple Nutmeg Mace Galangal each two drams cloves three drams Of this Pouder with sugar a pound you may make Lozenges some leave out the Pepper aâ—â— cardamoms some add cubebs and alter proportions Or we may use the species Diacinamomi of Mesue which hath besides the other Wood-aloes Saffron Elicampane and Musk. A fourth less healing and more strengthning Take calamints Mints Marjoram Thyme savory each a dram Liquorish a dram and half Roots of Masterwort Elicampane and Pellitory in flegmatick persons each half a dram Asarum-roots dryed Citron-peels each a scruple with red Roses two drams make a pouder A fift Pouder of seeds to expel wind Take coriander-seed Anise-seed each half an ounce caraway two drams cummin if it be not offensive Ameos sesely filer-mountain Lovage-seeds each half a dram The sixth very hot Take round and long Pepper each half an ounce Ginger a dram Fennel and Anise-seeds and tops of Thyme each half a dram make a pouder Or use Diatrionpipereon which is hotter if it be Galens or that of Mesue which hath also cassia-wood Spike Smallage and Ameos seeds roots of Asarum and Elicampane Or use the species of the Electuary of spices made by Galen Or the Diaspoliticon of Galen which cutteth flegm best it is made of Pepper Niter Cummin and Rue The seventh not so hot as the first Take Calamints or Mints Marjoram Time Lovage seed and of siler montain each a dram Pepper and Ginger each half a dram Cinnamon a dram and an half make a Pouder Diacalamintha of Galen or Mesue doth the same thing The eight Pouder which is also a strengthner of the Stomach Take red Roses an ounce Cinnamon half an ounce Cloves three drams Nutmeg Mace each two drams Galangal a dram long Pepper great Cardamons and wood Aloes each half a darm Zedoary and Spike each a scruple Liquorish two drams make a Pouder The Aromatical species of Gabriel so much used is like this it is prepared with and without Musk and the Aromaticum Rosatum of Mesue to which is added Cubebs Troches of Diarrhodon and Gallia Moschata And the species Rosata Novella of Nicolas which hath Storax and the species of the Electuary of Citrons made by Mesue and that of Musk. The ninth Pouder for the same Take Galangal six drams Calamus Cloves Cinnamon Mace each two drams Ginger both Peppers great Cardamoms each half a dram Spike wood Aloes of each a scruple Fennel Carva Annis seeds dryed Mints and Marjoram each two scruples make a Pouder Or instead thereof use species Diagalangae of Mesue which hath Lovage and Calamints also The tenth is stronger yet Take Cummin prepared with Vinegar or Annis seeds or both an ounce Fennel and Carua seeds each two drams Ameos siler mountain Calamints or Mints Marjoram Savory Time Lovage red Roses
prest and there is a numness of the Thigh on that side to the Knee or sole of the Foot with great pain as I have often seen with stoppage of Urin or pissing of Blood after violent excercise or riding And the Sediment or bottom is black in the Urinal This at somtimes is white and muddy like Whey at the first and after setling the bottom is white as Chalk and much somtimes Somtimes it is gravely and white or scaly This pain is also increased by new accidents There is somtimes a burning pain in the top of the Hypochondria A burning pain of the Hypochondria is from the Liver or Spleen before on the right side this is called the Inflammation of the Liver which is the cause of it or Hepatitis Or it is in the left side backwards and is called the Inflammation of the Spleen or Splenitis Somtimes it is below in and about the Hip and behind about the Back on either side and it is called the Inflammation of the Kidneys or Nephritis In all these kinds there is a burning stretching and heavy pain also beating especially if it be the Inflammation of the Spleen on the left side In which there is a tumor to be felt and somtimes on the right when the Liver is inflamed which appeareth more when the patient bends to the right side but it is without redness not as the inflamed Muscles are In both these Inflammations the pain reacheth to the Throat and is increased by the lying on the contrary side and it is more burning in the Erysipelas of the Liver In all kinds there is a smal dry Cough and in the Inflammation of Liver or Spleen the Hiccup And in that of the Liver choler is vomited and the Mouth bitter or voided by stool Also from Inflammation of Liver or Spleen there is a Jaundies and from the Liver or Bloody flux somtimes and there is often Pissing with heat when the Reynes are inflamed There is with all kinds a Synoch Fever going afore or following With restlesness thirst and dryness of tongue Quick and little breath swift and great Pulse High Urin and somtimes matterish These ceasing there is a heaviness in the part mentioned and other accidents Somtimes there is a pricking pain in sound people suddenly on the left side somtimes on the right A pricking pain in the Hypochondria The pain of the Spleen falsly so called which the Germans call Milkesteehen pricking of the Spleen falsly It comes chiefly after meat upon riding exercise with a Tumor like that of the Cramp from wind it is pricking and very tearing when breath is fetched and lying upon the Belly abates it and at length it goes away of it self In other Diseases of the right or left side there is also a heavy pain with greater Symptoms among which I shall speak of that Those pains that are outward in the Hypochondria and about the Groyns in Ruptures are refer'd to the Diseases causing them There is a cutting and stretching pain in the Loyns A cutting and stretching pain in the Hypochondria is from pain of the Womb. which is called the pain of the Womb because it is caused from thence At the time of the courses or when they are stopped Somtimes in great bellyed Women often after child bearing and with other Diseases of the Womb where it is described exactly There is often on one side A twitching and grievous pain of the Hypochondria Nephritis or Stone in the Kidneys seldom on both a twitching tearing and pricking pain most grievous in the Reyns somtimes by fits somtimes returning in a month or year this is called Nephritis from the cause which is the Stone or Gravel it somtimes is fixed and somtimes goes to the Groyns and not the Belly as the Colick And the Leg on that side is benummed At the first there is vomiting of flegm and choler and quick and little breathing At the beginning the Urin is with difficulty crude like water then thick and after bloody and there is red yellow or white Gravel found at the bottom growing together somtimes Somtimes they are so little they stick in the sediment and fat and fly up or stick to the pott All these last long or the pain goes to the bottom of the Belly and then departs in a moment or there is some hurt in the part as we shewed in stoppage of Urin. And this either is not or ceaseth presently if one or more stones be pissed forth the stone is somtimes sandy and brittle red or yellow or white long or round smooth or uneven greater or less or hard and flinty and then white or dunne somtimes of a strange shape The Causes The Diseases of divers parts in the Hypochondria under the short Ribs cause divers pains These parts are either the fleshy Bowels as Liver Spleen two Kidneys with the Ureters or parts belonging to them as part of the Porinaeum or Caul Stomach and Colon The diseases whereof reatch thither and are felt under the Hypochondria Some diseases of the fleshy Bowels cause pains these are manifest on that side where the Bowel lyeth If from the Liver it lyeth on the right side foreward the Spleen one the left side under the Stomach the Reyns one both sides with the Ureters under the other two Bowels The pain of the right Kidney is known thus from the pain of the Liver for when the Liver is afflicted the pain is more on the right side foreward where the greatest part of the Liver lyeth or against the lodg of the Heart where it lyeth upon the Stomach but the pain of the right Kidney remaineth fixed backwards a little lower in the Back But the pain of the left Kidney is not so easily distinguished from the pain of the Spleen because it is higher then the right Kidney And contrary to the common opinion the Spleen lyeth more backward next to the left Kidney Not on the left side so forward as is supposed Therefore the pains of these parts must not be distinguished by the Scituation but by other signs The diseases that may happen to all these and cause pain are Inflammation Weight Obstruction or Distension from a Humor or Tumor or from the Stone When there is Inflammation in these bloody Bowels Inflammation of the Liver Spleen Reyns is the cause of burning pain in the Hypochondria Liver Spleen or Kidneys it is from pure or fowl Blood and causeth a burning where the Bowel lyeth on that side For these Bowels have but dull sense of feeling from the outward Tunicle yet when the Inflammation reacheth to the parts adjacent which are very sensible and Membranous the pain is great and the Tumor more appearing when the Inflammation is in the outward gibbous part of the Liver or when the Spleen which lyeth lower under the Ribbs is swollen and the beating is more when the Spleen is afflicted because it aboundeth with Arteries and there are other accidents as were shewed
When those Bowels that lye upon the Diaphragma are inflamed for then Breath is hindered and there is a Cough and the stomach disturbed And when the Liver is inflamed Choler is vomited or there is a looseness or Jaundies and the Reins inflamed make the Urin sharp And if an Ulcer follow an Inflammation in these parts as appears by pissing of matter from the Kidneys and we see in Anatomies in the Liver and Spleen or if there be a hardness left from the Inflammation not well discussed there will be accidents that will follow accordingly A stroak or contusion or the like made outwardly upon the parts may be the cause of the Imflammation as also very hot things taken in may inflame the Liver and Spleen as well as the stomach which lyeth near them The chief Cause of Inflammation of the Liver is drinking much cold water in a great heat which makes a sudden repercussion And the Cause of the Inflammation of the Kidneys is the stone which seeks a passage forth and gets into the Vreters and causeth great pain and flux of blood This stone increaseth the Disease by being together with the Inflammation All these Causes of Inflammation kindle a symptomatical Feaver But when blood is hot in a Synoch Feaver without these Causes as we shewed in Feavers and sent upon any of the Bowels aforesaid it may cause these Inflammations which follow a Feaver as their cause And it may be also from plenty of blood when a Feaver goes not afore but follows after which blood breaks out of the Vessels and causeth an Inflammation If this Blood if it be in the Liver impure and not well purged from Choler causeth an erysipelated Phlegmon and the great Heat that comes from thence by which the Bowels seem to burn whence comes the burning Feaver called Typhodes And the same things happen if there be a true Erysipelas from pure Choler spread through the substance of the Liver from the Gall. And this may come also from the Causes mentioned that produce other Inflammations If the Liver or Spleen be obstructed by a Humor The obstruction of the Liver Spleen or Kidneys causeth a blunt and heavy pain in the Hypochondria so that they are more heavy there is a weight in the sides This is seldom from a Humor in the Kidneys but from a Stone or Gravel This heaviness increaseth as if a weight lay thereon if there be a hard Tumor Scirrhus or Oedema in the Liver or Spleen This may be in the Kidneys from the same tumors with great pain and heaviness The Causes of all these shall be mentioned in other great accidents We shall not speak of Wind which some will have to be a cause of pain in the Liver or Spleen because it cannot be in such quantity there as to cause it by stretching neither is the inside of those parts sensible neither do we see how it can be in the Kidneys From a Stone bred in the Liver or the Gall or from sand or gravel A stone and sand in the Liver or Gall is the cause of heavy and dull pain in the Hypochondria gathered and returned there is felt a Heaviness as from a Tumor This may be as I have seen in Anatomies and it hath been observed that much red Gravel like Blood hath been voided in a Disease of the Liver and by finding stones in the Livers of Beasts We may collect that the same may be in a man These hapning cause this pain and other Symptoms such as come from a stopped Liver as we shall shew we cannot affirm that Stones may breed in the Spleen but from that general rule that they may breed in any part of the Body because we never saw nor heard of any Stones of divers sorts The stone or sand in the kidneys is the cause of heaviness in the Hypochondria and gravel in the Kidneys and Vreters cause the Nephritick pain which is either a Heaviness only in the Reins gentle and dull when the Gravel lyeth still or the Stones sticks to the kidney but the pain is greater when much Gravel is gathered there or the Stones be great or many with pricking and cutting and numness in the Leg on that side from compression of the Nerves in the Loins or pissing of Blood from great motion which maketh the stone beat upon the substance of the Kidneys and somtimes of matter and some part of the stone These accidents are greater and longer when the stone is long detained and grows up in one place and especially when it grows so that it fills the Reins and swells them as we have seen great branched stones in Anatomies Or when the substance of the Kidneys is worn away and the stone is wrapt in the Membrane only as in a purse where the Kidney was Hence must needs be great pain and I opened a Woman that in her life time complained for many years of such a pain and often miscarried and found it so Also I opened a woman that after a mischance pined away and died in whom besides other accidents I found both Kidneys eaten away and full of matter and two great square stones in the right Kidney and two in the left one like a cross another like an almond with many other little ones This is usual for others have told me as much I saw also a stone in the outward Fat of the Kidney that grew to the tunicle which was great but caused no pain because it was hollow and light If the Stone get from the Kidneys into the Vreters A Stone and Gravel in the Vreters is the cause of Nephritis the pain is greater and hath the aforesaid Symptoms first Vomiting from the consent of the stomach and because flegm is vomited they suppose that the pain come from that but that came from the stomach because it could not so suddenly come from the Kidneys The Urin is then waterish and crude because the Choler is carried another way by vomiting and pain That pain which is from the Stone getting into the entrance of the Vreters when it returns to the Kidneys again ceaseth or is less but it increaseth when it descendeth through the narrow passages of the Vreters by stretching them and so it lasteth till it gets into the Bladder and then it ceaseth suddenly And this pain may come from Gravel that passeth slowly through the Vreters especially in the strait passages which have been so enlarged in some that I have opened that they have pissed Stones and Gravel without pain The Cause that breeds Gravel and Stones is Flegm according to the vulgar opinion which is so dry by the heat of the Kidneys that first it is Earth then a Stone But in regard Mudd or Slime is rather bred of dryed Flegm and it cannot be further hardned by any Art or Nature nor that that chalky matter which is found in the Joynts comes from Flegm as we shall shew in the Diseases of the Joynts or
and by giving cleansers to keep the Stones from growing to the Kidneys and to break them and bring them down But in curing of the pain of the Stone which sticketh in the Passages we must relax the passages break the Stone and labour to get it forth all which shall be now related as also the Diet and Exercise and Purgers and Clysters and alterers and outward remedies There must be moderation and choise in meats and Drink which must be of good juice because the stone taketh its Original from them Meat must be Temperate and very little salted very salt and dry things must be forborne for from these comes the cheif earthly Matter Also very sharp and hot things that dry and heat the Kidneys as Sawsages and Spices rather then crude glutiners and things they thought breed Flegme for these cause a thick juice which maketh Obstructions but not the earthly Matter except there be some other cause for that is layd aside in the serum in which they are washed as we shewed in the Causes Therefore Cheese which they forbid so earnestly as the great Cause of the Stone cannot do it but by its saltness and sharpness but fresh Cheese Milk and milkie meats and other fresh meats though they be glutinous cannot breed the Stone Modetate Exercise before meat is good to remove the Stone which fixeth by Idleness Therefore they void Stones more after exercise then after Sleep and the Urine made at that time is best to judg by Therefore when the Stone is little and sticks in the Kidneys Moderate Exercise is good but when great it causeth pain by moving it and in an old disease strong and violent motion of the Loyns tears the flesh from the Stone and causeth pissing of Blood and an Ulcer Neither do some allow exercise presently after meat least it be distributed before concoction and carried to the Kidneys to breed matter for the Stone but this Crudity will rather breed Obstructions and other Diseases then the Stone as we shewed Immoderate Venery dries and weakens the Reins and disposeth them for the stone and if there be a stone it stirreth it and causeth pain Therefore they who have lived long without the use of Women when they marry are subject to the Stone which they never formerly perceived being old men as we have observed often Also loosness of Body in orderly going to stool hinders the increase of Excrements And not holding of the Urin when it urgeth prevents the fixing of the Gravel If the Body be foul purge Spring and Fall and oftner to prevent not only Flegm which some think is the cause of the stone but all humors And to take away the cause of the stone use gentle things that carry the salt and wheyish Matter from the Reins and cleanse the Blood as they say such as shall be mentioned for the Cure For when the fit of the stone is we use Laxatives or Clysters to take away Excrements and Wind then Purges but not violent that they may not meddle with the cause which is rather to be looked at in the time of prevention then of cure But such as may gently move the stone drawn mixed with things that break it as we shall shew Cassia is excellent to prevent and in the fit also an ounce or more with syrup of Violets or Sugar candy or with the Decoction of Liquorish or Sebestens or convenient Waters or seeds of Winter-cherries or Gromwel or a dram of Pouder of Turpentine with Oyl of sweet Almonds to abate pain Also Turpentine two drams with the yolk of an Eg convenient Liquor Sugar or Honey or with Cassia Or with Benedicta laxativa or two drams of the pouder thereof with Sugar A loosning and cleansing Decoction Take Liquorish an ounce and half Raisons stoned an ounce Sebestens ten pair Prunes five pair Pease a pugil the four great cold seeds half an ounce Anise-seeds three drams Senna and Polypody each an ounce Violets a pugil boyl them and add Sugar syrup of Violets or Roses for two draughts It is better to add Fennel and Parsley-roots each an ounce Saxifrage and Marsh-mallow roots each half an ounce Mallows Maidenhair each an handful Dill-flowers a pugil Alkekengi-berries two drams and make the quantity of Senna an ounce and half and to add Rbubarb and Agarick A purging Wine Take Senna an ounce Carthamus-seeds a dram Agarick or Rhubarb two drams Liquorish an ounce opening Roots half an ounce Violets and Mallows each two drams Berries of Alkekengi Anise and Lovage-seed each a dram Currance four ounces add Wine three pints drink this to prevent the stone and when it begins to purge A preventing Electuary and to be taken in the fit Take Cassia two ounces and half Prunes and Sebestens each an ounce juyce of Liquorish two drams with syrup of Violets make an Electuary give an ounce with things against the stone and some scammoniate Electuary as that of Juyce of Roses Diaphaenicon Elescoph and Benedicta laxativa a dram and half Or give the gentle Electuaries with Rhubarb and Senna as Catholicon and Lenitive and the like alone or with the Decoction mentioned Or gentle Pills with things that break the stone Or these Take species Hiera and Benedicta laxativa half a dram with Turpentine make Pills Or a dram of Benedicta Or this Pouder Take Senna an ounce and half Rhubarb two drams Turbith three drams Ginger a dram Cinnamon two drams Polypody three drams Gromwel and Burdock-seeds each a dram Broom-seeds half a dram Orris a dram the four great cold seeds each a scruple make a pouder give two drams Clysters suddenly take away pain by taking out the Excrements and Wind which would increase it by pressing upon the Ureters and Reins And also by coming to the part being anodyne and if they be narcotick especially and which break the stone Then do they help in a threefold respect As this against the Stone Take the emollient herbs roots and all Pellitory Bettony Groundsel Beets or Mercury each a handful Chamomil Melilot and Dill-flowers each a pugil Liquorish two ounces red Pease Bran each a pugil Figs ten Bay-berries three drams Alkekengi-berries two drams Gourd Foenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce Fennel and Caraway seeds each a dram and half boyl them in Water and Wine or Broath strain and add Honey or sugar an ounce and half Cassia an ounce Benedicta or Hiera two drams Oyl of sweet Almonds Nuts Olives or Butter each an ounce Turpentine two drams with Salt make a Clyster If the Pain be great add two drams of Philonium Romanum Or you may use the anodyne Clysters for the Colick adding things proper for the stone Or thus Take Oyl of Chamomil Dill Lillies sweet Almonds each an ounce and half Oyl of scorpions Goose grease and sweet Butter each two ounces Turpentine dissolved with the Yolk of an Egg an ounce and half Saffron a dram with Milk make a Clyster add Opium half a scruple if there be
family by drinking the diuretick Wine in the Blasine-street voided often stones of half a dram in weight and hath shewed to me many of them which came forth with a little pain Hollerius teacheth us that the same may be done by much cold water when the body is hot and dry from the pain and it is better with Vinegar also the spaw-Waters that are sharp are drank many dayes together against the stone Or an ounce of juice of Limons alone or with Sugar or with three ounces of Wine also juyce of Oranges and the like Or the juice of winter Cherries and Yarrow or the Water of a Beet stalk taken often in the same quantity according to Mathiolus Or Take Juice of Fennel and Purslane each half an ounce white Wine an ounce Drink it with sugar or make a syrup thereof Or this Potion Take Juyce of Pellitory clarified an ounce and half of Chamomile Bettony Honey or Sugar each an ounce drink it with Pease Broath or the like or make a syrup thereof Another Take a Horse-Raddish bruise it add the best Wine to make it three ounces or four strain it and add Blood of a Goat prepared a dram this is highly commended to which other Juyces and Pouders may be added The Urine of a Goat of four yeers old or of a rock-Goat is highly commended Also distilled waters which pierce to the Reins in a good quantity as Pellitory water a pint or Mallow or Marsh-Mallow water or of Broomflowers or Bean flowers Rest-Harrow Asparagus Saxifrage Parsley Fenel Osyris or that of wild Parsley sea Fennel Raddish Ivy berries or winter Cherries or that of Flixweed called Osyris or of Oak leavs and Leavs and Roots of Brambles and of Dogs tongue also of ceterach Vervaine Chamomile or that of Peach kernells or that of Turpentine which is oily Mathiolus commends the Water of Mans Dung or Pigeons Dung The spirit of Wine which is thin breaks the Stone These all may be given alone or with sugar or with other Pouders or distilled of divers simples mixed together Or thus Take the Roots Herbs Seeds of which we make the Wine by Infusion all dryed and bruised and so much Wine as it may be like a Pultes and four ounces of Turpertine draw a water by distillation from it give it as the other Or add to the dryed simples that will keep their Virtue Roots of Spargus Smallage Parsley each halfe an ounce roots of Asarum Maddir Valerian each two drams Pellitory of the wall St. Iohns-wort Chamomile and Broom flowers each two drams Smallage Lovage Sparagus and Raddish seeds each a dram distill a water with Turpentine as before All these are better distilled in Aqua vitae Or Thus Take Peach or Cherry kernells two ounces Berries of Brambles Strawberries Winter Cherries Ivy each an ounce Hors-Raddish three ounces green Beans with the shales Pellitory each an handfull wild Parsly Sea Fennell each a pugil bruise and distill them Or this Take of Peach kernells four ounces Sebesten and Jujubes each five pair four great coldseeds six drams Winter Cherries half an ounce Gith and Smallage seed each two drams Hors-Raddish half a pound bruise them add Turpentine and Honey each a pound distill a Water give three ounces alone or with other Breakstone-Medicines Or distill this Water of Juyces Take Juyce of Raddishes Lovage each six ounces Juyce of Winter Cherries two ounces white Wine Vinegar two ounces distill them give half an ounce This is an admirable Water Take juyce of Radishes a pint and half of Restharrow and wild Tansey Saxifrage Winter-cherries Pellitory Burnet Bettony Marsh-mallows Gromwel each half a pint Roots of Fennel Parsley Eryngus Restharrow Orris Elicampane each two ounces Basil Gromwel Burdock and Parsley-seeds each half an ounce Juniper berries bruised half a pound infuse them and stir them often two dayes add a pound of Honey and a pound and half of Turpentine white Vinegar two ounces distil them in Balneo give two ounces or two and an half with as much syrup of Violets It is good to drink Oyls for we may see them swim after upon the Urin and therefore know that they pass through and supple the Ureters Therefore in great Pains when the stone is stopped in the passages give Sallet-oyl or Oyl of sweet Almonds or Linseed new drawn or well washt alone or in Broaths or Cream Some commend an ounce of Sallet-oyl with Wine wherein Flints have been often quenched But some Oyls are proper for the stone alone given or with other remedies as Oyl of Peach or Cherry-kernels or of bitter Almonds or of Scorpions or that of Citron-seeds or Dock-seeds or of chymical Oyls given by drops with others as that of Turpentine or the fat Liquors of Calcanthium or Vitriol called Spirit of Vitriol Or this compounded Take Juniper-berries four ounces bark of the Roots of Ash three ounces beat them add Turpentine two ounces Honey an ounce steep them and ad Water and so distil an Oyl Give six or seven drops with any convenient Liquor Some Simples are good taken in substance Raddish and Salt in Sallets Horse-raddish beaten with sweet Almonds Roots of Lovage boyled or raw eaten in a good quantity before bathing Roots of Fennel Parsley tops of Sparagus Hops Coleworts Purslane wild Parsley and Water-cresses in Sallets Sea-fennel pickled called Samphire also Lemmons Raisons Figs or kernels of Peaches bitter Almonds Cherries eaten with sugar or made into Comfits Also the Fruit of sweet Briar called Hepps Hares flesh especially the kidneys or Sparrows or Wag-tayls roasted or Goats blood boyled or five or six ounces of Fox blood with wine and sugar which is highly commended Some Simples of a Rosin quality pierce and cleanse the Reins and make the Urin sweet as a Violet and expel the stone and gravel in time of the fit by provoking Urin as the best Turpentine alone not washed two drams and half in a Wafer or with Liquorish Pouder or Sugar and it is better dissolved with the Yolk of an Eg and given with convenient Liquor or boyled till it may be poudered two drams There are many other Simples for the same given in Pouder in Wine or the Waters mentioned as Dittany-roots Bayes Knotgrass Rupturewort Buphleurus called the Hares-ears the seeds of Paliurus Gromwel Broom Xanthium Winter-cherries and Ivy-berries And pouder of Goats blood thus prepared Take the blood of a young Goat fed with Herbs good against the stone neither that which comes first or last but in the middle of the bleeding preserve it from putrefaction by a gentle fire or by the sun and give a dram in pouder with Wine The blood of a Hare is as good Or the ashes of a whole Hare-skin and all a spoonful in Wine Or the ashes of a Wag-tayl Or these stronger Pouders of scorpions sows or hog-lice pouder of Earth-worms or ashes which are very strong and must be given warily and in a small quantity or of Grass-hoppers Beetles pouder or rather ashes of Spanish-flies or of
Pills with syrup that is proper with Peach kernels and juyce of Liquorish instead of Liquorish With Conserves you may mix them thus Take Conserve of smallage roots or Orris an ounce Conserve of Broom flowers and Maidenbair each half an ounce The tenth twelfth or thirteenth Pouder Or the Electuary Ducis Justinus or Lithantribon a dram and an half Or if you will have it stronger the fourteenth Pouder and juyce of Liquorish each a dram with syrups aforesaid make an Electuary Agarick is somtimes added Take Agarick a dram Pellitory of Spain two drams roots of Dropwort a dram Gromwel seeds half a dram Madder half an ounce conserve of Maiden hair half an ounce with Honey of Violets make an Electuary Convenient Pills Take seeds of Paliurus Gromwell Winter Cherries each a dram Saxifrage seed and Sea fennel each half a dram Mallow seeds two scruples juyce of Liquorish a scruple Gum of Cherry and Plum tree each half a dram Bdellium a scruple Goats blood prepared a dram ashes of Scorpions or Mouse heads Earthworms Hog lice or Sows each half a dram with Turpentine make Pills give a dram Fâ—â— pain give Anodynes with the former An Emulsion Take Peach kernels four ounces Melon or Gourd seeds half an ounce white Poppy seeds two drams beat them and with half a pint of Pellitory or Mallow water make an Emulsion with Sugar or Honey give four ounces A pouder again pain Take white Poppy tops two drams Henbane seeds a dram and an half the four great cold seeds and Mallow seeds each a dram Gromwel seeds and Winter Cherries and Broom seeds each half a dram Liquorish two drams Restharrow roots a dram sugar two ounces It is good in pains to add white poppy seeds or Henbane seeds as I shewed in my pouder Or to give Opiats as Asyncriton Philonium Romanum with pouders against the stone or others mentioned in the Colick And Narcoticks may be given with purgers As Take Asyncriton or Philonium Romanum two scruples or a dram Diaphaenicon a dram and a half or species Benedicta a dram and an half or six grains of Diagredium with sugar make a Bolus Or thus Take senna half an ounce Carthamus seeds two drams Liquorish parsley roots each half an ounce white poppy seeds two drams Mallows and Lineseed each a dram boyl them and dissolve Asyncriton or philonium a dram Mithridate two drams or half an ounce of syrup of poppies Or these pills Take species Laxativum two scruples Opium prepared and dissolved in sack two grains Storax saffron Castor each three grains Oyl of sweet fennel seeds a drop with Turpentine make pills We give Anodynes in Clysters also as in the Colick And outward things to remove the stone by dilating the passages Sitting in a moist and hot Bath takes away pain if up to the Armeholes in a Vessel made on purpose called Lumbrorium In time of necessity hot water alone will do well and better then potential heat to take away pain though things potentially hot may be added to help the Decoction and which loosen expel wind open and move the stone such as Clysters were made of Or these a Decoction of Mallows and parsley and Chamomil flowers in a straight Vessel the less will serve Or adding Lilly roots pellitory and Violets Or a Decoction of Coleworts Spinage Arrage or Turneps or Parsneps or Scirroots and Horse-radish which is best Or of Marsh-mallowroots opening Roots and all three pugils Foenugreek and Linseed a pugil Smallage Parsley and Caraway seed an ounce We add to the former some stronger things to expel the stone which are mentioned in Remedies taken inward and may be used outwardly to remove it as some think Chiefly Madder roots and sea-fennel or Sisymbrium Columbines Dropwort Dovefoot Bupleur southernwood Mugwort Broom flowers and of Verbascum Gromwel seeds and Winter-cherries and the like For rich people we add Milk Oyl Butter to loosen more and Wine to make it penetrate We make Fomentations when baths cannot be used of the Decoctions aforesaid with a spunge stuphes or bags with Wine and Oyls Some use Embrochations or Infusions upon the pecten if the stone lodge there to remove it they are made of the aforesaid Decoctions Also to bath in and to drink of sharp Waters is good against the stone as those of Sulphur After Bathing or Fomentation anoint the Reins Privities and Perinaeum to take away pain and open the passages warm stroaking the Hand downward If there be heat of the Kidneys this Oyntment will open and cool Take Oyl of Violets and Water-lillies boyl Marsh-mallows therem fresh Butter or Cream and Goose grease each half an ounce with white wax make a Liniment A stronger Anodyne Take Oyl of sweet Almonds an ounce and half Oyl of Chamomil or Melilot Dill and wall-flowers each half an ounce Conies grease six drams Mucilage of Linseed or Fleabane an ounce Saffron a scruple with wax make a Liniment Or anoint with the Oyntment of Marsh-mallows or that called Resumptive When we will drive along the stone Take Oyl of bitter Almonds an ounce Oyl of Peach kernels half an ounce Oyl of Scorpions and Goose grease each half an ounce Turpentine a dram with wax make a Liniment With Juyces thus Take juyce of Pellitory and Marsh-mallows each an ounce and half wine an ounce white wine-vinegar half an ounce Oyl of wall-flowers and Earth-worms each an ounce Oyl of Scorpions half an ounce boyl them to the consumption of the Juyces ad Goats grease six drams and with wax make an Oyntment or with Turpentine Another stronger Take Oyl of Lillies and bitter Almonds each an ounce and half juyce of sea-fennel Horse-raddish and white wine each an ounce boyl them and ad Grass-hoppers or quick wood-lice spanish-flies scorpions dryed twelve or more Or thus Take Oyl of bitter Almonds of Peach or Cherry-kernels two ounces Oyl of scorpions or burnt Grass-hoppers half an ounce with wax make an Oyntment A more compound Oyntment Take Oyl of Chamomil Dill Lillies each an ounce Oyl of bitter Almonds an ounce and half of scorpions an ounce Goat and Badgers-grease each half an ounce Mucilage of Foenugreeck seed an ounce Madder and Asarum roots each a dram water-cresses Raddish and Lovage seeds each half a dram Myrrh a dram ashes of Grass-hoppers or Beetles two scruples ashes of Beech mast a dram saffron half a scruple Oyl of Amber half a scruple with wax make an Oyntment Trallianus commends the blood of a Goat newly killed to anoint This Cataplasm is good to the pained part Take roasted Lilly roots half a pound of Pellitory of the wall heated upon the Tiles and bruised two handfuls and of Groundpine so prepared three drams Marsh-mallow roots bruised two ounces Chamomil flowers and Dill tops each a pugil Flower of Foenugreek and Linseed each an ounce boyl them in milk add fresh Butter two ounces Oyl of Lillies and scorpions each an ounce saffron a scruple make a Pultis Also the actual Heat of Bags made
thereof And then because it hindereth pissing we shall speak thereof in the Chapter of painfull pissing If the Bladder be inflamed in the substance of it The Inflammation of the Bladder is the cause of the burning pain thereof it causeth a pain in the Privities with redness and tumor also when the Bladder is wrapped in the Caule and the tumor is greater when the Excrements and Urin want passage This Inflammation somtimes turns to an Imposthume and then for the time the pain is yet greater and when that is broken there is an Ulcer and painful pissing of matter Also this Inflammation may leave a Scirrhus such a one as I saw gtowing very large in the Bladder of a Cow that was broken by accident and cured again Also this Inflammation if it be not well cured turns to a Gangraene And I once saw a Bladder black within when I opened a dead Fryar Some external accident may cause this Inflammation of the Bladder or pain from the stone or an Ulcer to which Diseases an Inflammation is somtimes joyned of the Bladder and Kidneys also when the body is Plethorick and fit to receive it Because the Womb is in the same lower part of the Belly The cause of pain in the Womb and the Vessels thereof and lyeth under the Bladder and the bottome thereof especially being stretched reacheth into the Belly the pains are alike in both And because the Ligaments of the Womb by which it hangeth reach to the Hips and Loyns they are pained also and of them we shall here speak but we have treated of the pains of the Neck of the Womb in its place But all the pains of the Womb in the bottom or Body or Ligaments thereof some whereof reach to the Neck as in the Bladder come from stretching or from Inflammation The stretching pain in the bottom of the womb The stretching of the bottom of the womb causeth the pain after Child-bearing comes chiefly from outward Cold taken in after Child-bearing while the inward Orifice of the womb is large and open for want of keeping warm by which means the Air gets in and fills and stretcheth and weakneth it and by cooling causeth pain This is called the pain after Child-bearing At another time this pain cannot come from taking in of Air because before Conception the womb is smal and thick and the cavity which is to be filled with Seed in time of Conception is very straight and after conception also when it grows bigger with the Child the inward Orifice is close shut and the womb full Nor from wind bred in the Body because if it get into the straight cavity of the womb or breed there it cannot so stretch the womb to cause pain because it is very thick Neither can water cause pain for the same reasons Though some suppose that the womb may be like a bladder inlarged and have an Inflammation from wind and water as they call it For though the womb be larger in some women by Nature or by much moisture which loosneth it yet it cannot be so filled and stretched that pain may follow And if the repletion be great there will be rather a weight and heaviness then a pain as it is when the Child is great but the weight of the Child by stretching the Ligaments may cause a kind of pain but it is in the Groins and not in the Loins as we shewed So then there is no other stretching pain of the womb but what is after Child-bearing The stretching of the vessels is the usual cause of pain in the womb caused either from the substance of it or from the Membranes and Vessels by which it hangeth but from Humors retained and then it may reach to the sides as we shewed in Hypochondriack pains as when the courses are stopped or disordered or foul This foulness comes from foul blood and humors in women of evil habit that want their Courses which do so fill stretch or provoke the part they that cause pain especially when they are hot and send up Vapors and produce other Accidents especially the suffocation of the womb as we there shewed The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb and neck also The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb causeth the burning pain thereof causeth pain with divers accidents as we shewed This as that of the Bladder may leave an Imposthume Ulcer Scirrhus or Gangraen And the cause external may be a Stroak or Bruise or internal abundance of blood about the womb upon stoppage of the Terms when they flow not into the neck but into the substance of the womb and cause Inflammation according to the diversity of the blood The Cancer of the womb And if the quality thereof be malignant it may cause a Cancer which shall be mentioned in Diseases of the Neck of the Womb because it is commonly in that part The womb is chiefly inflamed from difficulty of Deliverance The Inflammation of the womb after Child-bearing causeth the second sort of pain after child-bearing great pain and straining either while the child or after birth remain or after they are gone which causeth a Feaver And this Inflammation is rather the cause of many womens death then the retention of the after-burden and the pain they have comes from the Inflammation as well as from the Air that gets into it and is then greater and more dangerous The Cure The Cure is different according to the part affected and the variety of Causes as the Bowels are stretched cooled or inflamed by Blood or Choler And is to be applied to the stretching or Inflammation of the bladder or womb The stretching of the Bowels from what cause soever The cure of the Colick pain of the womb Convolvulus from stretching or cold if it cause the Coeliack and Iliack pain must be cured the same way as also when it comes of Cold. And if it come from the abundance of excrements and wind with pain and rumbling if they come forth as they use to do by Fasting Belching or a Flux you must take the same course as in Diarrhaea If these Excrements cause a stoppage in the thick Guts and so by stretching the Colick it is easier cured then in the small Guts especially when they are evil and increase continually for then Iliack passion which is so deadly and hard to be cured will return and cause Convulsions and Palsies and the like which though the pain cease destroy the Patient And if the stoppage be so hard that it cannot be opened but the thin Guts are so full of Excrements that they are sent back into the Duodenum then follows the deadly convolvulus or Spewing up of Excrements or Iliack or knots or tanglings of the Guts In all which cases except when the Guts are knotted or an Iliack pain from a Rupture for then you must rather look to the putting up the Gut then to the Iliack Passion the cure is
by softning the Excrements cleansing and bringing them forth by loosning and expelling wind out of the belly and by abating of the pain And if Humors be cholerick sharp or evil they must be purged and allayed not with cold and sharp but with temperate Medicines And the pain chiefly respected with Narcoticks to prevent convulsions and the like If the pain come from glassie Flegm that cools the Guts it must be purged and cut and the cooled parts warmed which will cure a simple Distemper These things are done by the following means Clysters are the best in this case because they go straight to the Guts for if the cause be in the thick guts they go to them and if in the thin their vertue reacheth thither by continuation and vicinity They are made of Emollients to supple the hard Excrements which cause pain by binding and holding in of the wind and purgers that cleanse strongly when there is great stoppage by glassie Flegm in the Guts also of warm things that expel wind and comfort the Guts And when there is great pain they are made of Anodynes and at length of Narcoticks The quantity of these Clysters must be from a pint to a pint and half beginning with less at the first while the Guts are small and so enlarging by degrees the Examples whereof are these An emollient Clyster of a pint of Sallet-oyl and a little Butter or Grease may presently be made Or this which provoketh a little Take fat Broath of Tripes or the like and boyl therein Caraway seede Bay or Juniper-berries a pugil Butter or Oyl three ounces Honey two ounces with a little Salt make a Clyster Or thus Take Mallows Marsh-mallow roots and all Spinage Arach and Brank-ursine each a handful Lilly-roots two ounces Chamomil and Melilot flowers each a pugilâ— boyl them in fat Breath add Butter or Oyl three ounces Hogs grease an ounce Honey two ounces and a little Salt A stronger to expel wind also Take Mallows red Coleworts Mercury Beets Pellitory each two handfuls Penny-royal or Organ a handful and half Beet roots two ounces Liquorish an ounce Chamomil and Elder flowers each a pugil Bran a pugil Foenugreek and Linseed each an ounce Caraway seeds half an ounce Cummin seeds two drams Figs ten boyl them in Wine and Water strain and add Honey and brown Sugar each an ounce juyce of Mercury or Beets an ounce and half Oyl of Nuts three ounces Turpentine dissolved with the Yolk of an Eg half an ounce with a little Salt make a Clyster It is stronger in Cock broath with Senna and Carthamus seeds each six drams Polypody two ounces or Mechoacan or Briony or Sowbread roots six drams with Cummin-seed two drams an ounce of Hiera piera or Diacatholicon or Benedicta or Diaphaenicon Jndum majus Elescoph half an ounce or an ounce of the juyce of Sowbread When the Obstruction or Binding is great or when the Flegm is glassie and tough stronger may be used but not otherwise least they increase pain as three drams of Turbith or Agarick and somtimes half a dram of Coloquintida in a clout warily least it burn the Guts or three drams of Hiera Colocynthidos Logadij Rufi Hermetis The best cleansing Clysters against Flegm are made of Turpentine two ounces with the Yolk of an Egg Honey and Wine or Oyl alone Or thus against wind Take Boys urin six ounces juyce of Pellitory four ounces thick boyled Wine three ounces Oyl of Rue two ounces with two Yolks of Eggs and a little Salt make a Clyster Some make Clysters of spaw-Spaw-waters to cleanse Strong Wine healeth expels wind and pain as Hippocras and Claret a pint If you fear the Hear you may allay it And if you will make it hotter add two ounces of the Spirit of Wine Or thus to cleanse and abate pain Take three quarters of a pint of the best Wine Oyl of Chamomil Dill or Butter four ounces Honey two ounces This Clyster will set any purging Medicine a working as we shewed in Cardialgia Or give true Hydromel with Wine boyled and Sugar or Mead which will heat less and cleanse more Or make a Clyster of Onion broath and Oyl Or this hot Clyster to expel wind Take Lilly and Marsh-mallow roots each two ounces Elicampane half an ounce Bettony Southernwood Wormwood Calamints Horehound Rue Organ Penny-royal Balm and Hedg-mustard three handfuls Chamomil Melilot Rosemary Lavender Stoechas flowers each two drams Foenugreek and Linseed each an ounce boyl them in Wine and Water add Honey of Rosemary two ounces Oyl of Lillies and Sallet-oyl each an ounce an half Hiera picra and Electuary of Bay-berries each three drams with Salt make a Clyster In glassie Flegm it will heat more if you add Roots of Pellitory Calamus or Orris six drams Centaury flowers a pugil Gith seeds two drams and an ounce of Honey of Squills with two ounces of Wine and a dram of Castor which is very comfortable to the Guts or half a dram of Euphorhium or Galbanum or Opopanax but Musk Ambergrease or Civet will not change the stink of the Excrements and therefore are superfluous A special Clyster against wind Take Organ Rue each a handful tops of Rosemary Stoechas Lavender each a pugil Chamomil flowers two pugils Bay and Juniper-berries each an ounce Caraway and Cummin seed each half an ounce Fennel seed two drams Ameos Parsley Sesely Carot or Rue seed each a dram boyl them in wine and water add three drams of the Electuary of bay-berries Hiera picra two drams Honey of Rosemary an ounce Oyl of Dill and Nuts each an ounce and half with Salt make a Clyster A pint of Oyl of Rue with two ounces of Sack is good An Anodyne mollifying Clyster Take roots of Lillies and Marsh-mallows each two ounces Mallow Bettony each a handful Chamomil and Melilot flowers each a pugil Faenugreek and Lineseed each an ounce Crums of Bread four ounces Caraway seed two drams Aniseed a dram boyl them in Tripe broath or Milk add Butter two ounces Oyl of Dill an ounce and half Goose grease an ounce with two Yolks of Eggs make a Clyster Some say that Wolfes dung is good in Clysters six drams Or Oyl of Olives Walnuts Acorns Almonds Linseed Jesamnie or of Chamomil or Dill are good Anodynes in a good quantity with the Mucilage of Foenugreek and Linseed two ounces two Eggs and half a dram of Saffron To cleanse and abate pain Take Honey Sugar boyled Wine two or three ounces with Oyl Or thus Take Oyl of Chamomil or Dill and Barley-cream each half a pint Sugar or Honey or boyled Wine two ounces Narcoticks are given safest by Clysters as Henbane or Mandrake leaves or two drams of Philonium Romanum or Requies Galeni or Treacle and Mithridate each half an ounce And as you give Narcoticks at the mouth with Purgers so you may add Philonium here to benedicta and other purging Electuaries Six grains of Opium dissolved in Wine or Aqua vitae is
excellent in a Clyster to take away pain Or half a scruple of Opium half a dram of Castor and a pint of Oyl of Rue or Dill. Suppositories are good to provoke alter and abate pain Some give them to expel wind which they can hardly do The common are of Honey and Salt adding Hiera Mouse-dung Coloquintida They say that a Snakes skin rub'd upon a brass Bason and burnt is good to be put into the Fundament against the colick And to anoynt inwardly with Juyce of Lettice and Opium or with an ounce of Oyl of Dill a scruple and half Castor and a scruple of Opium put in with wool or any Suppository of Opium Purgers are useful when Clysters are refused to remove the cause and open the Belly when the cause is high but beware of strong which will increase pain they are good afore clysters to draw the Matter down as I do in colicks Purging Wines are best for the Guts when clysters are refused for they fetch the Excrements out of secret places better then clysters And I had rather use them for the Wines sake that correcteth the Purgers that they offend not the Stomach and Guts we give Examples of them in the pain of the Heart This is best for the Guts Take Grass roots and Fennel roots each six drams Roots of Calamus Elicampane Masterwort each half an ounce dryed Citron peels and wormwood each three drams Marjoram Calamints Penny-royal Groundpine Rosemary flowers red Roses Chamomil flowers each two drams Bay-berries three drams Caraway and Smallage seed each two drams Fennel seed three drams Senna two ounces Agarick half an ounce Turbith two drams these are corrected by the wine bruise and slice them for four pints of wine or more give a Draught when the Belly is bound of the Infusion or gentle Decoction thereof This wine is good against Choler or sharp Humors Take Succory roots an ounce wormwood half an ounce Violets and bugloss flowers each a pugil Aniseeds and Violet-seeds each two drams Polypody an ounce and half Senna an ounce Rhubarb two drams Spike half a dram Use it as the former Or make a Decoction or Syrup of the same The Broath of an old Cock with coleworts loosneth the Belly with a little caraway or Fennel seed against the wind Or thus Take an old Cock after sighting unbowel and stuff him with Mints Marjoram Time Savory each two handfuls Chamomil and Rosemary flowers a pugil Annis Fennel and Caraway seeds each half an ounce Galangal or Calamus three drams Polypody Mock-saffron Senna each an ounce Tarter half an ounce with Sal Gem or common Salt boyl them in water to Halfes as I shewed in Asthma drink a good draught Or give Turpentine half an ounce as in the stone with Hiera Benedicta or the like Or Cassia with Annis Fennel or Caraway seeds to loosen Also these Electuaries Catholicon Diaphaenicon Indum Majus Elescoph Hiera picra or of eight or of fifteen things Benedicta or the like with a Decoction of hot plants with spiced wine Or gentle Pills of Hiera of eight things of Spices with half a scruple of Castor or stronger if the binding be great bewaring of coloquintida or Agarick or Turbith for they twitch the Guts when given in substance Two scruples or three of Tartar clenseth flegm or cream of Tartar often washed and dryed again as I use it in the purging Decoctions of Senna Bryony roots black Hellebor or the like Or that purging Pouder for the stone A Plaster of Sea spunge seeds hulled and beaten with Wax and laid to the Belly loosneth it To prevent the Humors must be prepared before purging and to cure also They must be such as cut flegm when it is cold and tough as that with Glasses as we shewed in Heart-ach by Syrups Waters Decoctions Somtimes a Vomit prevents the Colick and is good at the first and in the Iliake Choler-Vomiting must not be stopp'd Oyl of Palma Christi drunk doth the same and takes away pain Let the Dyet be thin and sparing in the fit and before bewaring of crude windy hard or binding meat and in the fit when the cause is cold give hot cutting and discussing Spices and strong wine without water or at least Spiced water with Cinnamon and Pepper as in Cardialgia and weakness of Stomach These hot Spices are not good when there is Cholerick Excrements And wine must be given moderately because it hurts the Nerves and a Convulsion is feared nor may sower things be allowed though they temper choler because they cause pain If the Excrements are still hard give moist fat Meats and Oyls and Butter When you fear the Convolvulus give brown bread poyled and the water cast off and made into a Pudding with Hogs grease or Butter Or a Lark roasted and eaten with Cock broath Or the broath of an old Cock or of Snails Or Decoctions of Calamus grass Elder Calamints Rue Chamomil Dill Melilot or Rocket flowers in Water or Cock broath with Wine Honey or Sugar Some commend the Decoction of Southernwood others Pellitory in Wine with sugar or Wormwood with Cummin seeds or Horse-radish Wine and Sugar and Seeds and Spices as Calamus Galangal Nutmeg Cloves infused or boyled gently in Wine with a little Saffron and Sugar or those for a weak Stomach mentioned Also the juyce of Sulphurwort with an Egg. Or blood of an Eele Or water wherein a Dears Pizle was washed Or four ounces of distil'd water of Herb Trinity Dogs tongue Elder or Broom flowers or flowers of Chamomil Bean shales or of Tizil or of Cow dung or a spoonful or two of Cinnamon water A Compound water Take Ginger half a pound Cinnamon Cloves Nutmeg Zedoary Galangal each two ounces Mastick half an ounce bruise and infuse them in Wine distil them and give two or three spoonfuls against wind add two drams of Mints Fennel and Anniseed each half an ounce The Compound Aqua vitae mentioned in Heart-ach from a cold cause is good Oyls do good also by slipperyness and mollifying the Excrements as Sallet Oyl well washed if it be old and rancid six ounces to asswage pain or Oyl of sweet Almonds Nuts or Lineseed taken alone in a good quantity or with broath to which Oyls you may add Sugar and Sack the third part or two drams of Aqua vita or other distilled waters An excellent Remedy Take Oyl of sweet Almonds or Salet Oyl for Poor people four ounces of the best Sack an ounce and an half syrup of Poppy half an ounce Oyl of bitter Almonds and of Peach kernels are good against the Colick and Iliake as well against the Stone to be drunk also Oyl of Bayes with some drops of the Chymical Oyls of Cinnamon Cloves or Mace Some commend the Oyl of Turpentine or Vitriol above the rest And six drops of the Sky colour'd Oyl of chamomil flowers newly drawn which is better when made of Roman chamomil There are also good pouders mentioned in cardialgia from a cold cause or
Belly Or in a Decoction of Anodynes and Expellers of wind as we shewed in the Stone As of Mallows Marsh-mallows Penny-royal Organ Calamints Mints Wormwood Southernwood Rue Sage Bayes Chamomil Melilot flowers Dill Elder Rosemary Stoechas Lavender flowers Foenugreek Linseed caraway cummin Fennel seed Bay and Juniper-berries more or less with Orris root citron peels Mugwort and Rue seed Gith Seseli Smallage with cloves Schaenanth Spike with Sulphur vivum and Salt-peter Boyl all in water and wine with a little Vinegar to make it pierce or Oyl to allay pain Somtimes boyl it in water and oyl or in Bath or spaw-Spaw-waters if you have them Anoynt with Anodyne hot Oyls as of Olives Nuts Almonds Bayes chamomil Dill Rue Spike Lillies Wall flowers Elicampane or with Oyl of Lillies of the Vallies which is chiefly provided against pains in children adding somtimes these hotter as oyl of castor Euphorbium Pepper Petroleum Spike Or anoynt with the Grease of Mountain or Field Mice Or thus Take Oyl of Chamomil and Rue each an ounce Oyl of Spike half a dram Galbanum dissolved in Aqua vitae six drams make an Oyntment Or thus Take Oyl of Chamomil and Dill each an ounce and half Narde-oyl and of Rue each an ounce Oyl of Spike half a dram Sack or juyce of Mints two ounces Hens grease and Butter each an ounce Pouder of Galangal two drams Cloves Nutmeg each a dram Spike Gith seed each half a dram with wax make an Oyntment You may add other Spices also Turpentine and Mastich or apply Species to the stomach as Diagalanga Or Take Oyl of Nutmeg or Mace by expression and mix it with Oyl of Cloves or the like Or for the rich with Civet Musk Ambergrease or the Algalea of Hollerius dissolved in Oyl de Been or of sweet Almonds Or the Oyntment of Agrippa or Dialthaea Also the cawle of a Kid or Lamb or Calf or Heifer broyled till it melt and applied to the Belly hot this is excellent for children It is better fryed with Oyl of Rue or the like and sprinkled with cummin seed or cloves Some apply Leaven to the Belly Or Goats or Ox dung sprinked with wine cummin Bay-berries and a little Honey Or an Emplaster of Soap Butter or Oyl and Salt Or the Plaster of Bay-berries made of Frankincense Mastich Myrrh Bay berries cypress berries costus and Honey Or Wheat flower or Barley or Orobus Foenugreek or Linseed with Grease Butter or Oyl and Honey Or Pellitory Celandine the great Mints Rue bruised with Honey and Wine or boyled and oyl and meal added for a Pultis with Cummin seed Or Juyce of Henbane or Tobacco mixed with meals mentioned or the Herb bruised or fryed Or burnt Nuts shells and all added to the former Or apply bags hot and dry or wet with wine or Aqua vitae made of Milium parched Bran and Salt with Caraway seeds Chamomil flowers Bay leaves or barberries If from the great pain you fear Inflammation open a Vein in full bodies otherwise it is not good in this case because nothing can be taken out of the Meseraiks thereby A great Cupping-glass that will compass the Navel is good against wind if applied with Heat to the belly especially if it be first laid in hot wine or anoynted with juyce of Garlick And in other cases it is good to apply it a little below the pained part Wind also may be drawn out by a clyster syringe and a clyster set on work by drawing it The Amulets are a Girdle to the naked belly made of the guts of a wolf or skin of a wolf girt with the hair next to the belly or a Navel-stringe dryed and kept for this purpose Or apply a young wolves skin or the dung of a wolf Or a Nut-shell fill'd with Quick-silver and hang'd a-about the Neck to the belly is good to prevent or which is thought rare the little bone of the outmost joynt of the right wing of an old Crow killed in the time of his kawing Or Wolfes dung in a Nut-shell and they say it is better when the string that it is tyed about the Neck which is made of buff or a thread of sheeps wool but this sheep must be first kill'd by a wolf forsooth There are many more which we wilfully omit If the Iliack or Colick come from Inflammation The Cure of the Colick or Iliack from Inflamation Burning or Erysipelas Heat or Erysipelas of the Guts or be in the small guts from blood so that the Excrements are vomited up It is deadly in old men and in the thick Guts it is dangerous when the Urin is stopt If the substance of the Guts be hot from choler or Erysipelas the Iliack is dangerous and causeth convulsions sooner and worse then when the choler is in the cavities of the Guts obstructed In these cases when blood or choler is carried to the substance of the Guts proceed thus Let blood in the Inflammation especially if there be a Feaver in the Arm but if the Inflammation be below and the Urin stopped bleed in the Foot And in an Erysipelas when the pain is great a little bleeding can do no hurt A cooling Clyster also is to be given in great Inflamations As Take Marsh-mallow roots two ounces Violets Mallows each a handful Flowers of Chamomil half a pugil water-lillies a pugil Roses a pugil Linseed and Fleabane seed each two drams cold Seeds half an ounce Aniseed two drams add Cream and Butter an ounce and half Goats grease an ounce Oyl of Roses at first or Violets after two ounces Oyl of sweet Almonds against the pain an ounce Honey of Roses an ounce and half Manna or Cassia an ounce Some boyl sour Apples therein and in the Declination they add Oyl of Chamomil Dill Lillies In choler thus Take of the Emollients each a handful Barley and Bran each a pugil Figs and Prunes each ten Chamomil and Melilot flowers each a pugil Linseed and Foenugreek seed each half an ounce Fleabane and Quince seeds each two drams Mallow seeds a dram boyl and add Goose or Hens grease an ounce Butter or Oyl an ounce and half Oyl of Water-lillies and Violets each an ounce of Lillies half an ounce Honey or Sugar of Violets an ounce and half make a Clyster If you will have it purge add Polypody an ounce and half or Senna half an ounce the Electuary of the juyce of Roses half an ounce or Diacatholicon an ounce In both cases use Astringents as Plantane Sumach Roses when you fear an Ulcer which follows an Inflammation or Erysipelas the cure of this ulcer is mentioned in Dysentery A Clyster of the Broath of an old cock with the emollient Herbs is good And of new Milk with Sugar with the white of an Eg and Mucilage of Fleabane an ounce Or of Milk or an Emulsion of Almonds or Barley-cream with sweet Butter Sugar and Honey Or of Anodynes when the pain is great such as were mentioned being temperately hot Give only gentle
Loosners if Clysters may not be given as Syrup of Violets Roses the Decoction of Fruits Raisons Prunes Sebestens Violets with Rhubarb or Cassia and other Loosners not too hot Let the Diet be such as in Inflammations internal and in cholerick Diseases and give no Wine for fear of a convulsion Let it be of things that properly help the Guts which are not too hot and Anodyne and also Narcotick at last mixed with Purgers In both cases anoynt with Oyl of Violets sweet Almonds chamomil Dill with Butter and Mucilage of Seeds of Foenugreek and Line Quinces and with Fat 's Also use a sweet Bath and a Fomentation made of the clyster and Ingredients And a cataplasm of the residents of the clysters and of Barley-meal Lime and Foenugreek seed with Butter Fat 's and Oyls It is good in the Iliack to apply cupping-glasses with Scarification in an Inflammation to the Groins And Amulets mentioned If from tumbling or leaping The cure of the Iliack from Knots comming in the Guts or a Fall upon the Belly the Guts be knotted and the Excrements stopt so that they begin to be vomited up you must cut open the belly by way of Longitude where the pain or tumor is and so skilfully place the the Guts in order again This is the last and only Remedy If stretching of the Bladder and Womb cause pain The cure of the stretching pain of the Bladder and urin and of pains after birth we spake of that in the Bladder in the stoppage of Urin if the stone cause it we spake thereof in painful Pissing If the Womb be stretched by wind or cold external after birth let the woman be kept very warm and bound with a rouler below If it continue use Medicines for the womb that are hot But if the pains of the womb come from evil humors about the Vessels and Ligaments such as go before or follow the stoppage of the Terms or such as is after they cease by reason of age and foulness Then first purge away the filth and make the courses come as we shewed The remedies are the same for pains in the womb as for the Guts when we desire to heat and expel wind These hot remedies that expel wind and are anodyne are mentioned in the Pains of the Guts and are proper for pains in the womb when they come after Birth from cold Air and continue long or be joyned with other cold Distempers of the Womb. And because that the Womb and Guts are refreshed with hot things the things that provoke the Courses are to be allowed Hence it is that because they observed that hot remedies agreed with both the Womb and Guts they supposed that these pains of the womb came from Cold but they agree with the womb for other causes mentioned and the rather when those remedies which heat the Guts and discuss wind and asswage pain are mixed with things proper for the Womb otherwise the Womb-medicines differ little from those of the Bowels but use them as followeth and they will better help the pain of the womb Hence it is that they called the Pains of the Guts the Pains of the Womb in both Sexes Men and Women And gave things that they observed good for the Guts for the Womb. These remedies being hot and expellers of wind and Anodynes are chiefly good against pains of the Womb when they come after Child-bearing from cold Air and are joyned with other Diseases Bleeding will do little good except in the Foot to provoke the Courses or for other Evacuations in another part The same Purges prescribed for pains of the Guts are good here And because Turbith doth trouble the Guts and cause pain it must be given for the Womb from a dram to four scruples in pouder with a scruple of Ginger and a little Cinnamon and Sugar in nutmeg-Nutmeg-water Also the Clysters against Pains in the Guts are good here whether emollient pricking heating or expellers of wind because they go to the straight Gut and there heat the Womb which is joyned unto it especially if you add some Womb-herbs thereunto As thus Take Mugwort Calamints Penny-royal each a handful Chamomil and Melilot flowers and Dill tops each a pugil Aniseed six drams Foenugreek and Linseed half an ounce Bran a pugil boyl and add Honey of Rosemary an ounce Oyl of Wall flowers three ounces Benedicta laxativa and Hiera simplex each half an ounce red Sugar an ounce with a little Salt make a Clyster Another Take Oyl of bitter Almonds six ounces Goose grease two ounces Turpentine dissolved with two Yolks of Egs half an ounce give it in Chicken broath Mugwort-water is as good for the womb as the guts And Oyl of bitter Almonds drunk in a good quantity Some give Oyl of Scorpions And the juyce of Horse dung alone or with Wine Decoctions to be drunk hot alone or with Sugar or Honey and Cinnamon The first Take Schaenanth two drams boyl it in Mugwort-water give it hot at twice or a Decoction of Spike or two drams of both for four times Another Take Motherwort half an ounce Nutmeg two drams boyl them in white Wine Give it at twice A third Take Juniper-berries two drams Anise and Caraway seed each a dram boyl it in Wine give it A fourth Take Motherwort six drams Roots of Devils bit half an ounce Juniper-berries two drams Aniseed half an ounce Caraway and Carot seed each a dram Nutmeg half an ounce Schaenanth and Spike each a dram boyl them in Wine strain it sweeten it for three or four doses The Infusions mentioned for weak Stomachs and others in Wine and Aqua vitae are here good And the things given in substance as follow Mints or great Balm called Greek Mints is good in Broath or Drink or Cakes and Juniper-berries Also Pouder of the Roots of Masterwort Zedoary Gentian a dram or a dram and half with Wine Another Compound Pouder Take Roots of Motherwort half an ounce of Masterwort and Devils bit each two drams of white Dittany Zedoary Gentian each a dram Juniper-berries a dram and half Aniseed two drams Carot Ameos Cummin seed each a dram Schaenanth two drams Mace Spike each a dram Ginger Pepper each half a dram Saffron half a scruple make a Pouder give a dram in Wine or add a double quantity of Sugar or make Lozenges or an Electuary with Honey Diacyminum is good in pains of the Womb and Diamargaritum calidum when there is Weakness A pleasant but good Pouder Take Cummin seed infused in Aqua vitae and dryed a dram Ameos and Ginger each half a dram Castor a scruple give a dram with wine Or a dram of the Jaws of a Trout poudered in Water of Chamomil is excellent when the pain is before the Courses Rondeletius saies that the Pouder of a dryed Secundine or After-birth cureth the pains after Child-birth And because other Beasts eat them they have no such pains and he saith that he took it from his Bitch
straight orifice will not admit Injections they are not profitable except but by what they do outwardly to the neck or bottom of the womb being inflamed And then use the Decoction of the Herbs mentioned for a cataplasm or the waters or Juyces of them to repel at first and in the progress use the Decoction of the cataplasm which we prescribed to be used in the increase Or make a Pessary for women of the Herbs beaten up with Meal Pain chiefly requires Injections as of Milk and whites of Eggs beaten with Oyl of Henbane or a little Opium or of a Decoction of Poppy or Henbane seed or Marsh-mallow seed or the Juyce of it or other narcoticks mentioned in Pain of the Belly Or Triphera Saracenica In the Declination make Injections of things that take away the residue and soften to prevent Scirrhus as of Galbanum a dram and half dissolved in Oyl of Lillies or Wall flowers an ounce Storax a dram Marjoram water four ounces Or Take the Decoction of wild Time four ounces and add the ashes of Mans bones and two ounces of Balm-water make an Injection Or this Pessary Take Galbanum Storax each a dram Labdanum half an ounce Coney Goose or Ducks grease enough make a Paste and put it in a silk bag Also a Fume of Sagapenum Storax Benjamin will consume the refidue Give Lenitives in both Inflammations as Prunes cassia Syrup of Violets Roses Whey and no stronger till the Declination Give coolers in Diet as cool Herbs and Water and Syrups Waters and conserves that cool mentioned in Feavers And things to provoke urin by a cleansing moisture as Emulsions of the cold Seeds Decoction of Pease or Whey CHAP. XIIII Of the Pain of the Privities The Kinds THe pain of the Privities is divers in respect of the Sex we have spoken of the outward pains in their place The pains inwardly in the Yard being in the passage to the Bladder The pain of the Yard which is for the Piss and Seed and chiefly in the time of pissing with discharge of Matter with great straining shall be spoken of in things sent forth And the pain in the Codds or Inflammation because it appears outwardly shall be spoken of in the Externals as if there be a pain and tumor from a Rupture in Ruptures The pains in the Privities of Women The pain of the Privities in Women are either where the two passages of the Bladder and neck of the womb appear or deeper and are divers either with Heat or Ulcer This pain is either with Inflammation only The Inflammation of the womb or with a Tumor and that which is in the bottom of the womb is most usual of which we spake in pains of the Belly This Inflammation is apparent and turns somtimes into an Imposthume Scirrhus or Gangraen There is another pain with heat and tumor The Cancer of the neck of the womb in the Cancer of the womb more usual and apparent then that in the Body of the womb In which there is a tumor at the first as in other Causes with a little pricking onely and then increasing by degrees it grows heavy and troublesom with burning and at length it ulcerateth and turns to a Carcinoma and then there is a venemous Humor and Blood flowing from the womb with other great accidents The third Pain is called Condyloma Condyloma in the Privities of women and is with heat and swelling or excrescens within the womb It is worse when there is an Inflammation This is somtimes both in the Privities and Fundament and in the Fundaments of Men of which in its place A tearing or pricking pain is called the Ulcer of the womb The ulcerous pain of the Womb. and it is either inwardly or more outwardly and may be touched and increased by Medicines or Copulation And then blood or thin matter comes forth Or thick white concocted not stinking or it is crude and waterish or green yellow or black and the same matter is sometimes pissed forth And we have known it come forth of the Fundament and Excrements come forth of the womb and some have observed it is in the Bladder or Panch What kind of Ulcer it is whether Excoriation onely or a profound deep Ulcer whether creeping or with swollen Lips hard or turned in it may be seen or felt or else if deep seen by an Instrument With this are divers other Symptoms And if the Ulcer comes to the Orifice of the Bladder there wil be burning and often pissing If it be malignant the Vital Functions are weakned or if joyned with other Diseases as the French Pox there are many Symptoms The Causes The pains in the Privities of Women come from Diseases of the neck of the womb or Privities and they are either Inflammation or Cancer or Condyloma or Ulcer Inflammation being chiefly in the neck of the womb or in the womb Inflammation is the cause of burning pain in the womb causeth pains with heat burning or tumor as it is greater or less pure or impure or Erysipelas where the heat is greater and no tumor The internal Cause of this Inflammation is Defluxion of Blood to the menstruous veins in the substance of the womb Or difficulty of travail may cause it because the neck of the womb is very sensible and the Orifice narrow And somtimes there is an Inflammation of these parts from the Orifice which is shut in Virgins with the Hymen or Membrane when they are much pained at the loss of their Virginity or at other times when the woman is straight and the man large And it may come also from Pessaries or corroding Medicines A Cancer in the hollow of the womb causeth pain with burning and pricking and swelling which somtimes turns to an Ulcer And this is caused by a malignant Humor sent to the Neck of the Bladder The kinds and causes of which shall be shewed in an external Cancer A Condyloma in the womb causeth the pain above mentioned and is in the Fundament Also by reason of the same Causes to be mentioned An Ulcer in the Cavity of the womb An Ulcer in the womb is the cause of an ulcerous Pain or the Privities causeth ulcerous pains and other accidents that are more as the pain is greater For if it be a simple Excoriation with the skin off there will the pain be small by reason of the exquisite Sense of the part If there be a great hurt or wound the pain wil be greater and the blood come If a simple Ulcer the pain will be less but with a Flux of Matter if it be foul the Ulcers be eating called Nomae or when they are deeper Phagadaenica the pain is longer because there wil be a Flux of Matter If the Ulcer reach the Neck of the Bladder there will be painful Pissing If it eat through the womb and the strait Gut there will be Matter by stool and the Excrements that should have passed
a dram Mastick or Sarcocol each half a dram make a Pounder give a dram with Milk Shepheards-purse Plantane Rose or steeled Water Use warm Injections to cleanse and dry after and heal As three ounces of Barley boyledin two pints of water or Whey with Sugar or Honey or of Hydromel alone Honey and Wine which is strongest Or a Decoction of Barley Lentils Beans Smallage Pellitory Plantane with Honey Against Foulness Take Hydromel half a pint Juyce of Smallage two ounces Myrrh a dram Or use a Decoction of Orris Birthwort and Sowbread Lupins Orobus Horehound Wormwood and Centanry To cleanse add Lye Urin and Wine or a little Allum The Juyce of a Nettle and Urin of a Boy cures the Ulcers of the Womb. Also the Gall of an Ox Goat Carp with Honey and Goats Milk Or Unguentum Apostolorum or Aegyptiacum Or the like Cleansers used in outward Ulcers and Dryers A drying healing Decoction is made of Comfrey Snakweed Plantane Agrimony Shepheards-purse Horstayl Sanicle Mousear Pyrola Yarrow Knotgrass wild Tansey Bramble Myrrh Olive Ceterach Shrub Sumach Rose of Jerusalem Wall-sage Swallow-wort Rock Comfrey Roses three handfuls or four Grape Plantane and Myrrh feeds an ounce boyl them in steeled Water for an Injection Or add Galls Cypress-nuts Acorn-cupps Peels and Flowers of Pomegranates an ounce which are good to stanch Blood or red Wine or Syrup of red Roses or Honey to cleanse You may use the Decoction mentioned for an Injection Or Juyce of the Plants mentioned with Honey Or half an ounce of the pouder of the Plants mentioned with the Ashes of Reeds Gourds or Spunge or of Eg-shells When we desire to dry exceedingly use Litharge Tutty Ceruss Bloodstone Calaminaris Bole two drams and Sanguis Draconis Acacia Hypocistis a dram for once injecting Or this incarnative Pouder Take Orris roots Birthwort and Comfrey each a dram Myrrh two drams Aloes a dram or a dram of Frankincense Sarcocol Mummy put into the Injection Or add to this Pouder two drams of Turpentine with plantane-Plantane-water washed and dissolved with Honey and the Yolk of an Eg. Or use Unguent of Pompholigos Ceruss or Lead six drams for one dose in an Injection To allay pain and heal also Use All sorts of Milk to cleanse heal and abate pain And they will dry also if you quench Flints therein and abate pain more if you add Mucilage of Fleabane Line seed Quinces and Infusion of Gum Traganth and Arabick and Whites of Eggs and Yolks somtimes And in great pain a little Opium And if you will cleanse also Honey or Sugar A Decoction to allay tearing and burning pain Take Barley a pugil Foenugreek and Line-seed an ounce Fleabane and Poppey seed each half an ounce the four great cold Seeds six drams Roots of Marsh-mallows and Mallows each a handful Dill a pugil boyl them in Milk and Water adding Honey and Sugar If you add Purslane an handful Water-lillies a pugil the Heat will be better abated and the Pain less if you ad half an ounce of Mandrake roots and Henbane seeds two drams to be boyled therein Also Juyce of Purslane Lettice Nightshade Plantane in Milk or their distilled Waters Or the white Troches of Rhasis with Opium dissolved in Milk or the Decoction mentioned take away pain and heal Add Oyls if need be as of Roses Poppies Henbane-seed or of Lovage to astringe Also Fomentations and Baths are good for their strength reacheth to the inward parts and heals the Ulcers They are made as the Injections by choosing things proper to cleanse dry and take away pain as you please And for drying we add Metals as Filings of Iron and the like Also drying Baths of Allum and Sulphur in old ulcers and we send the desperate Women in this case to the Spawes Also we make Pessaries and thrust them with the finger into the hollow of the Womb to cure Ulcers Or an Anodine of Goose grease or Hens grease or Hogs or Dears suet or Wool grease with white Wax and the Yolk of an Eg and Mucilages and Saffron and Oyl of Opium Dioscorides puts into Pessaries Leaves of Vervain cream of Henbane seeds and Juyce of Mandraks To cleanse Take Turpentine washed with Juyce of Smallage half an ounce Myrrh a dram Birthwort roots two drams Sugar half an ounce make a Pessary with Gall of a Beast or Alium it will more cleanse You may use Anodine Oyntments also Or Dryers mentioned with Pouders or Juyces and with Mucilages and Wax Or Fumes that pierce into the womb and dry Ulcers as in the Nose for which are Fumes mentioned and they which are strongest and of worst Scent may be best used here If these Ulcers come from the French Pox they cannot be cured without a general Cure of the Pox. And then the Fume of Cinnabar doth all together And the Oyntment of Quick-silver is good to be put into the part All which shall be declared in the Cure of the French Pox. CHAP. XV. Of Diseases in the Fundament The Kinds THe Diseases or in inward Pains of the Fundament are such as are in it when closed in the end of the strait Gut and Muscles about it we mean not the Clefts in the outward part which shall be mentioned in external Cures with those of the Lips The kinds of the Pains are from the Sense of the pain and swelling There is somtimes a pain there A burning and hot pain in the Fundament with Burning alone or with a Tumor And this is called the Inflamation of the Fundament when it is inwardly hot swell'd and red and outwardly sometimes This pain is increased by touching sitting going to stool especially with straining The Belly also and Urin are stopped by the tumor and heat And this Inflammation leaves somtimes an Imposthume or the like in the Veins which coming from other Causes have an Inflammation As also the Falling out of the Fundament hath which also I observed in a Child of a year old turned to a Gangraene and caused death All these may be known by touching and sight when the Gut is turned out The pain in the Fundament with a swelling The blind Haemorrhoides and no Inflammation but what is from pain is called the Haemorrhoides because it comes from the Veins so called and it is called blind when they bleed not but it may better be called closed or painful In this upon straining there is a tumor appears or else it lyeth deep and is only felt by the Patient This pain is sometimes great from the Excrements going forth with an Inflammation somtimes which produceth bleeding or open Haemorrhoids which are dangerous from their great Flux somtimes As I have known in two Professors which from a sedentary life had the Haemorrhoids and died of their great Flux and Inflammation A Pain in the Fundament with an uneven Swelling The Tumor called Condyloma in the Fundament like an Excretion that comes by degrees not suddenly as the Haemorrhoids is called Condyloma because
Mucilage of Fenugreek Linseed or white of an Egg. Pouder of the rinds of Mandrake Henbane and Poppy seed and if pain be great to four ounces of the Oyntment a dram of Opium and half a dram of Saffron Or use Populeon with Opium when there is heat or Saffron Fomentations and injections are made of Mallows Marsh-mallows Mulleine leaves and flowers Chamomil Melilot Dill Elder flowers VVater-lillies and Violets and Faenugreek and Linseed boyled in water or fat broath or with Oyls And you may make Cataplasms of the residents boyled in Milk Thus Take crums of Bread and Barley or Spelt boyl them in Milk and with Oyl of Roses Violets or Butter and yolks of Egs make a Pultis you may add Papp of Apples and Mucilages of Time Fleabane and Althaea and Saffron Or fry Purslane Nightshade Poppy and Henbane in Oyl The Juyce of Veal is a good Anodine Give Digesters to consume them and if they prevail not then Dryers that bite not if there be pain Or make Cataplasms of Mullein Clowns-All-heal Plantane black Hawkweed Scabious Crownwort Yarrow Shepheards rod Dogs-tongue Horehound Leeks Coleworts bruised or roasted in the Embers and mixed with Butter or Oyl Matthiolus commends the Oyntment of Scrophularia Or this Take Lillies two ounces Orris an ounce Moullin Scrophularia each three handfuls Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Dill St. Johns-wort each a pugil Dates ter with Snails without shells boyl them in steeled Water stamp and add Foenugreek and Line-seed each an ounce Butter two ounces Myrrh Frankincense each two drams Sassron a dram yolks of Eggs four make a Cataplasin Or apply roasted Onions or Leeks with Oyl of Roses or the like or with Dragons or Cuckow pintles and Oyl least they burn or alone if they may be endured All these may be mixed with the former Cataplasms You may foment with a Spunge or a Bag with the decoction of the aforesaid with Dates and Snails to nourish and with such as consume and dry as Sumach Bramble Pomegranate peels and flowers Galls Roses Myrtle berries and the like mentioned in Ulcers of the Neck of the Womb with steeled water and red wine Or anoint with Oyl of Chamomil Melilot Dill St. Johns-wort Lillies Olive in which are boyled Raddish-seed Spurge seeds or Earth-worms or Hog-lice or Sows or Wood-lice or Horsleeches or red Snails without shels or with Oyl of Bricks Or make a Liniment of the Plants mentioned with Smallage or Parsley or Yarrow Juyces Or beat them with Turpentine in a leaden Mortar and wax Some fill a hollow Onion with Oyl and Verdigrease and roast it and anoint with the Juyce An Oyntment Take Frankincense Mastick or Myrrh each two drams Bdellium Lycium or Juyce of Sumach or Hypocistis a dram Saffren a scruple Mucilage of Fleabane and Gum Traganth each half an ounce a Yolk of an Eg with Oyl of Roses make a Liniment If there be pain ad a dram of Opium or Oyl of Henbane seed which also consumes them To dry more add Ceruss washt Lead Litharge Tutty three drams the Arabian Stone according to Dioscorides And in a leaden Morter with Mucilage and white Wax make an Oyntment It will be stronger with Vitriol burnt Allum a dram Verdigrease or Rust of Iron a scruple Camphire half a scruple Give a Suppository or Suet the Yolk of an Eg white wax and a little Opium Or make a Fume of the Decoction hot or take in only the Fume of Moulin boyled to ease the pain Or sprinkle the Pouder of Darnel Moulin Scrophularia upon Coals or hot Bricks or Iron and take the Fume to dry It is better with Brimstone or with Honey anacardine Some say it is good to sit upon a Stool made of Pine-tree and anointed with Oyl When a Condyloma comes from unclean Copulation without the Pox The Cure of Condy loma in the Funda ment Privities then after purging and bleeding and sweating apply Topicks as in other malignant Humors If it be in the Pox then cure it as the Pox by purging and sweating and if they remain the Disease is not wholly cured and then use Topicks in the Cure mixing things that are proper against the pox Use the same Topicks to digest and dry as in the swollen Haemorrhoids especially the strongest because these are harder and the pain less adding stronger Ingredients Also the Cataplasms and Fomentations there mentioned as Scrophularia Moulin Plantane Bramble Pellitory Mercury Winter-cresses Savine Horehound Maiden-hair Rosemary Time Savory Rue green and bruised or boyled with red Wine or steeled Water or water and Vinegar or Lye and applyed with a Spunge or Bagâ— or ad Roots of five leaved Grass round Birthwort and Bay-berries and other Dryers as Salt or Peeter raw Quinces may be added according to Dioscorides Sheeps dung or Hens dung with the Gall of a Goat Soap and Vinegar mixed are good Or dissolve Tarr and Ammoniacum in strong Vinegar Or use the Oyntments for the Piles To which add this Take Juyce of Winter-cresses Smallage or Parsley each an ounce and half Oyl of Brick two ounces Bole a dram with Turpentine make an Oyntment Or Take Oyl of Tartar half an ounce Lapis Calaminaris Bloodstone or red Lead two drams Or Take Vine ashes and Dill ashes each a dram and an half Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar a dram Allum two drams Bloodstone or Minium a dram Galls half a dram Saffron a scruple a Yolk of an Eg roasted Turpentine a dram with Oyl of Roses and Wax make an Oyntment This is stronger Take Quick-silver two drams Turpentine an ounce Oyl of Nuts two ounces red Lead two drams Allum Vitriol each a dram Verdigrease half a dram with Wax make a Liniment add a little Sublimate A Pouder to dry and consume it Take round Birthwort a dram dryed Savine two drams Ashes of Hermodacts and Myrobalans each a dram and half Allum a dram red Vitriol half a dram red Orpiment a scruple with Opium and Mandrake roots make a Pouder Or use Sublimate boyled in Water or Oyl of Vitriol or of Antimony A caustick Oyl to consume the Condyloma Fistula Scrophulus and any Excrescens of Flesh without pain Take Oyl of Bricks Mastick and Gum Arabick the best and Turpentine each three ounces distil them in a Glass Alembick and mix the first Water with Ashes of Ivy and still it again keep the Water Fumes taken in do dry up a Condyloma such as we mentioned for the Ulcers of the Nose Chiefly of Cinnabar as in the French Pox. Somtimes they are cut off when they are hard as warts or if they be long they are tyed with Hair or Thread to rot Inflammation in the Fundament alone or with Piles or Condyloma The Cure of Inflammation of the Arse-hole is cured as other Inflammations in Womens privities and if it turn to an Ulcer as an Ulcer Therefore we let blood in the Ham to derive and cup to revel and derive when we fear a Flux to the part We loosen the
Belly that the Excrements may not hurt Clysters are not easily given We alter with cold and moist Diet and Medicine Dioscorides commends the Water of Lens palustris to be drunk VVe use Anodines at the first because the part is very sensible of pain and we cool without binding much least the part should be exasperated with things against piles mentioned that ease pain and slupesie and cool as Oyntments Baths Fomentations Cataplasms A cool Oyntment Take Juyce of Purslane Plantanc Groundsoyl each three ounces Mucilage of Fleabane an ounce the Yolk of an Eg roasted with Oyl of Roses and Violets A Pultis Take Comfrey roots Althaea roots each an ounce Plantane Moulin Groundsoyl Sowthistle each a handful Melilot flowers and Roses each a pugil Faenugreek and Line-seed each half an ounce boyl and stamp them add Flower of Lentils a pugil Oyl of Willows Roses and Violets each an ounce Saffron a dram In the end use Discussers and if Hardness appear Softners and consume the reliquies as in other Inflammations An Ulcer or other Solution of Continuity in the Arse-hole The Cure of ulcers and wounds in the Fundament being a sensible part is very troublesom and will scarce be cured in so strait and moist a part If it first ulcerate it is worse and worse yet if it cancerate If it be a wound cure it as a wound If the Ulcer come from a wound or Inflammation alone or with the piles after purging by which alone Ulcers are fitter to heal Do thus Drink Milk often and much or such things as are good against wounds when there is a wound as vulnerary Herbs Bettony is highly commended in this case and Mullein any ways taken is good in al Diseases of the Arse-hole other things mentioned in the Ulcers of the Womb as pills of Bdellium And if Blood flow from the wound use the pouder there mentioned Topicks may be used as in Ulcers of womens privities because the part is very sensible and tender as they and will not admit of other Cleansers and Dryers then are there mentioned except such Dryers as are mentioned for swollen Haemorrhoids And if there be a pain in the ulcer or Inflammation feared use the things against pain prescribed in Ulcers of the womb and Haemorrhoids as pessaries and Fumes Besides which the Roots of Carduus boyl'd in wine cures the Ulcers in the Fundament And Raisons beaten up with Rue if they be foul and cancer'd Or Oyntment of Minium Litharge or Chalcitis called Diapalma And if there be a Flux of Blood use such things as are mentioned for stopping of Blood in other Fluxes CHAP. XVI Of Pain in the Habit of the Body The Kinds VVE call those Pains in the Habit of the Body which are within the Skin either in the soft or fleshy or hard or bony parts They are of divers sorts some are greater and others less then their accidents VVe shall mention only by the way those pains whose accidents are greater Of Pains in the Habit of the Body which have prevailing accidents that are greater then themselves because we spake of them in their places As in Hurt of the Functions when there is pain joyned as pain of weakned Motion mentioned in Laziness voluntary and after labour this pain is ulcerated inflamed stretching or beating Besides there are somtimes in some kinds of unmoveableness as in that kind of palsie where the Sense of Feeling remains with a pricking or vehement pain Also there are divers pains in the Cramp especially when it is from wind As we shewed concerning a moving pain in the Cramp of many years continuance Also there is pain in Fractures and Dislocations of Bones All these are spoken of in impotent Motion And in Depravation of Feeling there is a pain in divers parts from a false Sense of Cold or Heat And we shewed in Feavers that there might be pains as if the Limbs were bruised or broken Also pains inwardly may come forth as in the Head-ach the pain may reach to the Eyes and and other pains may come to the Neck Breast and Belly as we shewed And we shall shew how some superficial pains go over the whol Body And others are from evil Conformity or shape Those pains which are in the Habit of the Body greater then their Accidents Of painsin the Habit of the Body which are greater then their accidents are chiefly distinguished as they are in the Flesh Joynts or Bones The Germans call the pains in the fleshy parts of the Habit of the Body die Fluze Of Pains in fleshy Parts from the cause that is Defluxion Distillations or Catarrhs Of which we shall declare divers kinds in parts not fleshy from the Joynts These Pains or Defluxions are sometimes in the Cheeks Chapps Of Defluxions or Distillations in the Habit of the Body or about the Ears with Swelling or without Or in the sides or behind the Neck with difficult turning of the Neck or a Creek and Swelling of the Glandles And if there be difficulty of swallowing it is a bastard Quinzy Also there is a pain from Defluxion in the fleshy sides of the Breast heavy and tearing that increaseth with touching or Motion of the Arms and hindereth breathing And if it be pricking it is a bastard Pleurisie if the breath be much stopt it is to be referred to Dyspnaea or difficulty of breathing These pains from Defluxions are also on both fleshy sides of the Back either above towards the Neck or below towards the Loyns And are increased by Motion of the Back-bone or by lying down or pressing but if they endure touching they are spoken of in internall Pains These pains from Defluxion are also in the fleshy parts of the Joynts in the Arms or Feet and in the Nervous parts if they are about the Shoulder blads or fleshy parts of the Hipps they are referred to pains in the Joynts A pain in the Joynts is called Arthritis And it is either more general in many Joynts as in the Feet Arms Hands Hips Pains in the Joynts Arthritis or Joynt-gout Shoulders reaching to the Back and Neck and somtimes to the Cheeck-bones and Joynts Or it is more particular in some small or great Joynts The Sciatica or Hip-gout as in the Hip called the Sciatica That in the Shoulder is called the pain of the Homoplate when it is in the small Joynts in the Toes or Foot Pain of the Homoplate Podagra Gonagra Chiragra or Ancles it is called Podagra when in the Knee Gonagra when in the Fingers Thumb or Wrists Chiragra This Disease seldom is constant in the Shoulder alone as in the Knee and if it be there it is called Arthritis when other Joynts suffer also Some of these kinds of Gouts have the same accidents Sometimes there is a great pain fixed in one or more Joynts That which is in the Hip is first fixed then moveth from the Thigh into the Foot and that in the
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
it as Spasmus or Cramp or Palpitation If the Members are weary and broken by long lying and Compression restore them as in Laziness If any part is pained from Compression the cause being taken away it ceaseth except Inflammation follow which requires a Cure by it self If pain come from broken or dislocated Bones appointed for motion that press the parts The Cure is shewed in Immobility If it be in other Fractures that cause no loss of motion because other internal and external accidents follow with Tumors cure it as in Tumors If pain come from a Rupture see Ruptures and Tumors from thence The Cure of Head-ach from Humors If there be evil Feeling from a hot or cold Distemper external upon the part see the Diseases of the Skin If from Feavers see Feavers If external Head-ach come from Humors see Head-ach If in a Palsie there be pain from a malignant Defluxion see the Palsie We shall distinguish the Cause of Pains in the Habit of the Body The Cure of Pains in the Habit of the Body which are greater then the accidents which are greater then their accidents as the three kinds either such as are about the Joynts or Flesh or Bones and cure them in respect of their Causes But if the pain be from Flux of Blood or Water called the pains of the Joynts The Cure of Arthritis from Congestion of Humors We shall cure it the same way As if it be arthritis from the congestion of Humors because it come from a Defluxion first The Cure of external heaviness of the Head from congestion of humors And the same way of cure shall shew how a heaviness of the Head from congestion of Humors that goes before an Arthritis and Defluxion may be cured and they prevented The Cure of Pain in the Habit of the Body from wind And if pain like that from Defluxion come of wind because the same things that dissolve a flowing Humor expel wind We shall use the same way to cure and prevent the breeding thereof But pains from a malignant quality will have a particular Cure as from the Pox and the like of which when we have spoken of the Cure of Defluxions and Joynts Defluxions that fall generally into the Habit of the Body Prognosticks in Defluxions in general and in the Gout though they are usual and upon divers parts molesting more or less and comming from light Causes and returning except they fall upon the inward parts especially the Midriff are not so dangerous and are easier cured then the Joynts And pain from wind is more easie to be cured All Joynt-pains are perverse and last long and easily return Among which though the general Gout be the greatest pain and somtimes dangerous with other accidents yet because the cause must be great that must send it to so many places it is not so usual and it comes slower and seldomer then the rest and somtimes never returns Podagra and Chiragra are most usual and return monthly or yearly and are hard to be cured when sixed but kill not but by other accidents for many have lived long with the Gout and others by the Gout have been freed from greater Diseases which the Defluxion using to fall before upon more noble parts would have caused The Sciatica and Shoulder-gout are less usual then the Podagra and more then the Arthritis they return seldomer then the Podagra and sooner then Arthritis and somtimes are away some years and return again and last as long as an Arthritis for some months but with less danger These things observed we must make our Praedictions accordingly especially in the Podagra fixed or haereditary and not promise rashly to cure But we must try if we can make it less or come seldomer and bring it to pass if possible and comfort the Patient that age abateth the pain The Method of curing in Defluxions The preventing and curing of Defluxions and Arthritis and its Kinds and Joynt-pains is to prevent and take away the pain We must prevent so that they may return less and seldomer By hindering the increase of blood or water in the Head or the whole Body by Diet and Evacuations and Correcters of Distemper and Weakness We divert the Flux from the Joynts and other parts with things that stop or by derivation of the Humor And we confirm and strengthen the parts to which they use to flow when they are loose and weak that they may not receive the humors and amend the distemper After the Defluxion is fallen and in the time of pain we cure by stopping at the Fountain or straintning the passages through which the Humor flows and by Revulsion from the part and Derivation and Repercussion and we allay the pain and prevent a new Defluxion proceeding by degrees especially after the Humor is fallen down to things that digest it if it be Blood and discuss as in other Inflammations If it be another Humor let the means be stronger and if it lye deep more attractive and consuming or opening And in the Declination we strengthen the part and consume the residue These are done divers wayes as the Defluxion is upon the Joynts and Members or Back Breast or Neck or Face of which in Tooth-ach or as it is a general Arthritis or a Podagra Chiragra Gonagra Sciatica or Shoulder-gout called Pain of the Homoplate by Diet or Medicine by Evacuations by Stool Vomit Spitting Sweating Pissing Cutting Burning Also by Alterers inwardly taken and outwarly applied as follows The Diet must be to prevent Excrements and Humors A Diet to cure the Arthritis and Defluxions or keep them from flowing Let the Air be temperate and dry for cold windy cloudy and moist Weather and hot provokes Defluxions and the more when it suddenly alters from cold to hot Let not the Patient wash his Hands or Feet in Water for it is hurtful whether cold or hot And Wine is better as we shall shew in strengthning the Joynts Let the Diet be convenient in quantity and quality with Exercise Sleep and other Motions of Mind and Body As we shewed at large in Weakness of the Stomach to prevent Excrements If it comes from Blood we must diet as in Feavers especially in Gouts that easily return as the Podagra and good order of Diet-wine and Women wil prevent or abate the Gout As when there is a simple exquisite Diet only eating once a day abstaining from wine or drinking it sparingly or with water Instead whereof they may have Drinks made fit or Meath As for Venery they must either give it over or use it seldom and not standing And this may be the reason why Hippocrates saith that Women have not the Gout before they have used Venery and Eunuchs seldom have the Gout When the pain is begun let the Diet be thin and let them fast as much as they can and use Medicines proper in their Diet according to the accidents In the
blood And Galen saith that he prevented the Gout by purging and bleeding and temperate Diet. Open the Arm-vein for general Evacuation or that in the Foot for particular which is good in Women when the Terms are stopt And it is acknowledged a singular Remedy to prevent the Podagra to let blood twice a year in the Foot And it deriveth and preventeth if it be done in the sound Foot And some open the Vein in the Loyns by the Buttocks to prevent the Sciatica For Cure of Defluxions and Gouts from Blood it is good to bleed at first for Revulsion in the part distant as in the arm or hand to draw from the feet or to derive by the part near where it is found In the Sciatica from blood open a vein in the arm to revel Hippocrates openeth them behind the Ears and the Arabians opened the Veins by the little Finger This done open the Vein in the Ham or Ankle within to derive or without if it appear most which is called the Sciatica-vein for its great benefit This alone cures somtimes This is done on the same side the Sciatica is although we have known by experience that bleeding on the sound side hath cured This bleeding in the Foot is good when the pain is not from blood but then bleed not in the arm before Otherwise you must not bleed rashly in particular Gouts from water least you move the humors except from the great pain you fear a new Flux of blood and then you may do it for Revulsion We use also Cupping and Scarification to prevent of what cause soever it come in the inside of the Leggs or Ankles It is good in Podagra and Sciatica It is chiefly good every new Moon to scarifie in the sole of the foot under the great Toe to prevent a Podagra And in the beginning of Defluxions and Joynt-pains it is good for turning the Matter another way in the opposite sound part as in the Sciatica in the Buttocks and Leggs and in the Shoulder-pain in the Scapulae And to bleed by Leeches in the Haemorrhoids especially where there hath been a custom Some teach that they can stop the Flux to the part by opening and tying the Vein And some have drawn yellow Water from the Hands and Feet by cutting which Hippocrates alloweth But when no certain Matter appears the way is doubtful and dangerous And a light Incision is good when the Nodes or Knots strive to get out and the skin is there Also the Flux of Humors is diverted by burning and blistering this is the best to prevent and to cure by drawing forth the matter and is to be used chiefly when the matter lyeth deep and will not be discussed by Medicines as in the Sciatica and Shoulder-gout or other kind or defluxion upon the Members when the Cause of the Disease sticks stoutly This is the last Remedy to take it out The gentlest way is to apply things that make the skin red only in the Hip Shoulder and other fleshy parts upon the pain As Sinapisms made of Mustard seed and Vinegar one part and Figgs or Leaven two or three parts with Pigeons dung Stronger things blister and burn called Vesicatories and Cauteries these are applied behind the Neck to prevent or to the arms to cure to stop the Flux a little above the part or when it is flown below it as in the Joynt-pains below in the Joynt in the Sciatica in the Instep or to the Buttocks in the Gonagra to the Ham or upon the part These Vesicatories are Flamula Crowfoot Spargrass Daphnoides Capsicum Dragons bruised or Nettles or Milk of Figgs with Bran and Vinegar Or apply a potential Cautery of Spanish Flies and Leaven and things that take away pain mentioned in opening Imposthumes This is done sooner and better with a hot Iron and they will not feel so much pain if you clap first a Plate of cold Iron upon the part to be burnt which hath a hole in it through which the Cautery Iron may pass for by the Coldness of it and pressing and stupefying of the skin the pain is not felt We give to prevent the Gout that returns so often The preventing and the Cure of the Gout and Defluxion by things taken in when it comes of blood things to cool and thicken it Such as we shewed in Synochs with Erysipelas as sharp Waters and Spaws by use whereof many have been kept free from the Gout I knew a man that was troubled with the Gout and lived many years after by the use of a Drink made of Bar-berries Prunes Plumbs Apples and four Pears with a few Juniper-berries and some have been cured by drinking of ashes Milk others with Vinegar for divers dayes Dioscorides commends Vinegar and Honey others Vinegar of Squills If the pain come from a watery Defluxion then give things to consume it and to strengthen the brain and Nerves by which the Gout is prevented if constantly used And the Podagra from blood is so prevented by temperate things that consume the Serum and make the blood purer and thicker These are mentioned in a Palsie from Flegm and Weakness of Stomach and other Diseases from Defluxions Among which the Water of Groundpine or Iva arthritica is best or the Decoction thereof in Hydromel Oinomel or Honey and Wine Water or Vinegar called Oxymel if often drunk or a syrup of the juyce of it or a Conserve or a Pouder of the same or of Primrose or Cowslips Also Bettony Sage and Stoechas These following taken many weeks together dry up Defluxions and are excellent As Decoction of Althaea roots Grass roots Asparagus five leaved Grass white Thorn Echium Corn-poppey and Aethiop leaves are approved of Dioscorides against the Sciatica in wine or wine and water with Honey and Sugar An Electuary Take Conserve of Groundpine two ounces of Primrose Lilly of the Valleys Broom and Bettony flowers each an ounce and half Conserve of Roses an ounce Cinnamon a dram Cloves Galangal Nutmeg each half a dram Ginger a scruple Spike half a scruple Coral a dram Harts horn and Ivory each half a dram with Syrup of Bettony or Groundpine make an Electuary Give as much as a Nutmeg and drink Bettony water upon it Another Take Seeds of St. Johns-wort Leaves of Germander each two ounces Groundpine an ounce and an half Bettony half an ounce round Birthwort roots an ounce and half Sarsa an ounce Angelica six drams Sassaphras half an ounce Asphodel roots if they can be had two drams Ivory Harts horn Amber each a dram red Coral a dram and half Cinnamon two drams Cloves a dram Saffron half a dram add to them poudered being an ounce two ounces of Honey give four scruples or a dram If you would have Pills mix the Pouders with Turpentine and some proper syrup and give half a dram Another to be used daily Take Sarsa four ounces St. Johns-wort seeds Leaves of Groundpine and Germander each eight ounces round Birthwort roots
six ounces Angelica three ounces Cinnamon two drams Cloves four scruples Saffron two scruples with Honey boyled in white Wine make an Electuary Or these Pills Take Roots of round Birthwort and Angelica each two drams Leaves of Groundpine three drams Rupturewort a dram Spike half a dram Saffron a scruple Ashes of dead mens Skuls a dram and half with Turpentine and syrup of Bettony make Pills Give a dram Sciatica pills Take Pouder of Groundpine six drams Gum Ammoniacum and Opopanax each a dram Myrrh half a dram Castor a scruple Enphorbium half a scruple with Turpentine make Pills A Sciatica Electuary Take Groundpine and Germander and Ivy each half an ounce Rue Sage Mugwort Savine Bettony Thyme each a dram Seeds of St. Johnswort or Ascyri or Androsaemum three drams wild Rue and Southernwood seeds each a dram Madder and Monks-Rhubarb roots each a dram and half Pepper and Cardamoms each half a dram make a pouder and with a pound of Honey an Electuary give a dram Or Take the Pouder last mentioned an ounce and half Roots of Xyris Polemonium and white Poplar barks each a dram and half of Heliochrys Arctium Chamaecyssus called Ground-Ivy Dasy flowers and Comfrey each a dram Cappar and Ocimastrum seeds or wild Basil each half a dram with Honey make an Electuary Give it as the former An excellent Syrup against all sorts of Gouts Take Sarsa two ounces Calamus and Roots of five leaved Grass and Birthwort each an ounce Angelica half an ounce Asarum two drams Groundpine Rupturewort and Bettony and Germander each a handful Sage Thyme Mints Marjoram each half a handful Primrose and Comfroy flowers each a pugil Rosemary Staechas and Lavender flowers each half a handful Aniseseeds half an ounce St. Johns-wort seeds two drams Basil Seseli and Rue seed each a dram boyl them in Water and the third part Wine strain and add Honey a pint make a Syrup with Cinnamon two drams Cloves a dram Give an ounce to prevent alone or with Water of Groundpine or Bettony A Pouder of ashes to dry up Water Take Ashes of a dead mans Skull an ounce of a Bulls pizzle or Castor half an ounce of Swallows Cuckow or Kites two drams of Harts-horn and burnt Ivory each a dram of Amber half a dram Pearl half a scruple Cinnamon two drams Diagalangal and Diamoschum each half a dram Sugar of Roses and Sugar Candy as much as all the rest Give a dram and half and drink wine with proper distilled water thereupon or make Tablets with Sugar dissolved in Bettony or Ground-pine water In the Cure give things to stop the Humor when it falls If it be blood let it be cooled and thickned with syrup of Violets Water-lillies Endive dryed red Roses Myrtles Julep of Roses and Violets with Water of Sorrel Plantane Lettice Roses and the like Or with a Decoction of Prunes Sebestens Jujubes and the things mentioned in Synochs To stop the Humor use things mentioned in Defluxions and Catarrhs Somtimes give Narcotick Opiats in both cases they are not dangerous for they abate pain and stop the Flux as Treacle and Mithridate and if the Defluxion be waterish ad a little Bole. Also Philonium Asyncritum and things mentioned in Colicks that heat if there be pain and watching Adding as followeth to stop Defluxions Take Mastick Frankincense each a dram Storax half a dram fine Bole a dram and half Ivory and Bedeguar each half a dram Spike half a dram Saffron half a scruple Opium five grains with Syrup of Poppies make Pills Give two mornings and evening We apply Remedies to the head and other parts some at first The outward cure of Defluxions Gouts and Prevention others in the declination In a Defluxion or Gout from Rhewm from the Head after decent purging we apply dryers and strengthners to the head out of the fit after the Defluxion and in the fit when we fear not the Return of the Defluxion as we shewed in Diseases from Flegm As Lotions for the Head of Sage Marjoram Bettony Groundpine Stoechas Lavender Rosemary Agarick and the like boyled in Lye of Vine ashes with other drying things proper for the Head After washing that it may not raise a Defluxion presently dry the Head with a fumed Cloath with Amber Mastick or Sandarach and then comb it well Also Pouders in Caps are good or for the Hair made of Head-herbs and dryers as Nigella Mastick We apply to the parts receiving the Defluxion to prevent it things to strengthen and to consume the residue and to confirm the Cure The Hand or Foot is to be often washed with a Lye of steeled water and ashes of Beech Oak Juniper Vine Horse bones and Dears bones and the like Rosemary Bayes Hermodacts To this Lixivium we add Wine or Urin or Salt or Allum to make it stronger sometimes Tartar and Brimstone Salt-water whether natural or artificial doth the same thing alone or poured through ashes to which Myrth added makes a good Fomentation Or the decoction of Juniper or Salt or of Rapes or a Fox inbowel'd Or thus when there is a loose Tumor in the declination of a Disease Take Roots of Dwarse-elder a pound Groundpine a handful red Roses Chamomil and Melilot flowers each a pugil Pomegranate flowers and Myrtle seeds each a dram Earth worms many boyl them in four parts of Lixivium two parts of Wine and one of Water Or this Take Dwarse-elder roots and Hemp two ounces Sage Wormwood Bayes Organ Penny royal Calamints Mints Thyme Groundpine Bettony Hysop Plantane three handfuls Moulin Rosemary flowers and red Roses three pugils Juniper and Bay-berries a pugil Myrtle berries half an ounce Cypress nuts an ounce Pomegranate peels and flowers half an ounce make a Decoction in Water and the fourth part Wine add Salt an ounce Allum half an ounce wash therein to astringe more add Galls Acacia Hypocistis an ounce and for the poor Stones Pears Services Medlars Oyntments to strengthen the weak loose parts are Oyl of Grape stones with Oyl of Salt and Oyl of Hazle-nuts Cherries de Been Citrinum Oyntment and that of Orange flowers A strengthening Oyntment Take Oyl of Myrtles two ounces Salt two drams Myrrh a dram It is said that the ashes of a Kites head or bones with Oyl is proper Another Take Oyl of Worms and Froggs each an ounce and an half Oyl of Roses and Goose grease dropt into Vinegar each an ounce Acacia and Pomegranate flowers each a dram Cow dung dryed two drams Salt a dram burnt Allum half a dram with Wax make an Oyntment Or this Take Bramble tops Sumach and Housleek boyl them in red Wine add of Barley flower not ripe and parched called Alphitum as much with the sixth part of Pouder of Pomegranate peels make a Cataplasm This is an excellent Remedy to strengthen and ease pain in the Gout Take an old Boar Cat that is fat and black if it may be had gut him and flea him cut off his Head and Feet and put
him into the paste following Take Goose grease that is the dripping of a Goose which fell when it is roasted into a Dripping-pan half ful of Wine and Vinegar four ounces or six Pitch Turpentine two ounces Badgers grease Dears sueâ— each two ounces Virgins wax four ounces Oyntment of Agrippa an ounce Frankincense and Mastick each half an ounce make a Paste stuff the Cat therewith and roast it keep the dripping for an Oyntment It is good to strengthen weak Hands and Feet to put them into the Wine-press where there are black Grapes They say Sextus Pompeius was cured with Sweating in a Heap of warm Wheat Also Baths of Sulphur Salt or Niter both sweat and strengthen And bucketing of the Head therewith as the Custom is cureth the Disease at the Fountain And the Mud or bottom of such Waters applied to the parts strengthneth Or artificial Baths of strengthening Herbs mentioned and the skin of a Dog are proper In the time of using all these least the humors be stirr'd up by heat and moisture and sent to the part which is weak and apt to receive them use the defensive Plaisters mentioned For Cure at the first grudging apply outwardly things to stay the Flux In the Arthritis especially apply them to the Joynt within and bind them if you can and rowle them Make them of Bole the white of an Eg and Vinegar and apply it with Cotton or Linnen Or Take Bole two ounces Dragons blood half an ounce Snakeweed roots Acorn cupps each a dram and an half pouder them and with Vinegar and whites of Eggs apply them you may add Pomegranate flowers Spunge Roses Grapeseeds and the like Or make it of Litharge Bole Vinegar whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane seed Add a little Oyl to keep it from drying too soon Or Take Pulp of green Pears Quinces Services Cornil-berries Medlars Dates Olives boyl them in red Vinegar with Crumbs of Bread and make a Cataplasm Or use the Plaisters against Rhewms in the Eyes mentioned in Ophthalmy Bind the part affected very hard and the Thighs that the Humor fall not down Upon the part also lay according to the time of the Disease as it is in the beginning or progress or as the Flux is flowing or flowed to the part Repellers or Anodynes or Narcoticks or Dissolvers At the first while the Cause floweth use astringents and repellers that bind and are cold when it comes from blood and there is Heat in the part But in the Sciatica and other fleshy parts where the humor lyeth deep they profit little These we use with anodynes somtimes and gentle dissolvers Thus Hippocrates bids us use cold Water to repel and cool or Snow or cold Vinegar applied with a Clout often Or three parts Water and one Vinegar or red Wine two parts with Bran and Lineseed boyled therein or Lupins when the disease is in the increase Or boyl Vinegar and Water in the same proportion with Wheat or Barley-meal and Lineseed to a Cataplasm Or use Plantane Lysimachia Housleek Violets Purslane Endive Solomons-seal Fleabane Nightshade Pellitory and Poplar leaves of Gourds Water-lillies Lens palustris or wild Lentils with Oyl of Grease first incorporated with Meals and Vinegar Or Coleworts with Fleabane seed or Foenugreek and Vinegar or roasted Quinces and Barley meal Or Plantane leaves bruised with Barley meal and Crumbs of bread and Oyl of Roses Or boyl Bran and Barley meal in steeled Water with Roses add Oyl of Roses and at first Vinegar and in the increase Flowers or Oyl of Chamomil Or mix the Juvces of the Herbs with barley flower Oyl of Roses or Violets with the Yolk of an Eg and Turpentine and Vinegar Or thus Take Oyl of Roses four ounces Juyce of Lettice or the like two ounces Vinegar an ounce with two Yolks of Eggs and Barley-meal make a Paste Or Take Oyl of Roses and Vinegar each two ounces Bole two drams red Sanders a dram Or a little Ceruss with Waters or Juyces and Vinegar or Oyl of Roses or Violets with distilled Waters Or the Decoction of the Herbs mentioned with Vinegar for an Epithem Or use Galens cool Oyntment the Countesses or Oyntment of Poplar These are also good when there is a hot Defluxion upon the Loyns Or a great pain use Anodynes such as by gentle heat do rarifie and cherish mixt with Repellers in the beginning while the Humor flows and after when the Matter is flowed or fallen things that dissolve more Thus Pour warm Milk thereon or apply it with a Clout And at first quench Steel in it and to allay pain boyl in it Foenugreek or Lineseed Hermodacts or the like Or add an ounce of Sulphur or Litharge to a pint of Milk it will discuss what is gathered to the part Or Take an Eg and beat it with Oyl of Roses or Chamomil and Crumbs of Bread and apply it with a little Saffron Or hard Eggs beaten with the fourth part of Myrrh and Chamomil flowers and Saffron Or foment with Oyl of Roses and Wool or of Violets in which Earth-worms are boyled and after in the progress with Oyl of Chamomil and Foxes Oyl of Eggs allayes pain Or Take Lineseed oyl Oyl of Earth-worms and Elder each half an ounce Saffron three grains Camphire two grains anoint the part and roule it up with a Rouler dipt in Boys urin Or make a Pultis of sweet Apples boyled and Oyl of Roses or Froggs or Chamomil Or apply Cassia with Barley-meal and Fleabane seed with Oyls of Roses or Chamomil Rose Nightshade or Plantane-water Or steep or boyl brown Bread Crumbs in Milk and add to a pint three Yolks of Eggs and six ounces of Oyl of Roses or Chamomil When you will cool and repel leave out the Oyls and add Juyce of Nightshade Plantane four ounces Vinegar two ounces or boyl the Herbs first in Milk Or use Fleabane and Lineseed bruised and boyled in Water to a Slime with Water of Roses Nightshade and Housleek and an Egg while it is hot add Mucilage of Lineseed Wax Oyl of Roses or Chamomil and Vinegar Or apply Foenugreek bruised and boyled in Oxymel or Vinegar and Honey or with Juyce of Coleworts and the fourth parts Vinegar or boyled in Wine with the Pouder of Chamomil and Melilot flowers and Hermodacts adding Turpentine Oyls and Mucilages Or add to the aforesaid Bean Lentils or Barley flower Oyl of Roses and Juyces of Herbs mentioned Or thus Take Bean and Faenugreek-meal each an ounce Barley and Lineseed each an ounce Marsh-mallow roots Chamomil and Melilot flowers each half an ounce Cummin-seed three drams boyl them in Wine Vinegar and Honey equal parts add Hens grease two ounces Oyl of Dill an ounce make a Cataplasm Or Take Althaea roots two ounces Turnips four ounces Mallows Coleworts Henbane each a handful Pompion two ounces Flowers of Violets Chamomil Melilot and Moulin each a pugil boyl them in Water and Wine add Fleabane Foenugreek and Lineseed four ounces Yolks of Eggs four
Hoggs grease three ounces Oyl of Dill and Froggs each two ounces make a Cataplasm Narcoticks stupifie the part and take away pain and by their heat as I proved dissolve the humor and are not dangerous Alone or with Anodynes and other resolvers Thus The green Leaves of Henbane Mandrakes and Poppies bruised or boyled or Oyls thereof or their juyces with Rose and Water-lilly water to foment Or Mandrake Roots and Henbane seed mixed with Bran or Oyl for a Cataplasm or with Grease for an Oyntment Or thus Take Henbane leaves two handfuls Nightshade Housleek each an handful Poppy tops a pugil Mandrake roots an ounce Chamomil flowers and Violets each a pugil Fleabane seed half an ounce Henbane seed two drams boyl them in Milk and Water and foment stamp the residents with Lineseed an ounce an half Barley-meal two ounces Duck and Hens grease and Oyl of Chamomil each an ounce make a Cataplasm Another excellent against pain in the Foot-gout Take dryed Elder flowers a handful Leaves of Henbane wrapt in Coleworts and baked four ounces bruise and boyl them in Goats milk or to a Pultis ad Saffron a scruple Yolks of Eggs two or three make a Cataplasm Or use Opium and Saffron with Milk two ounces of Milk to half a dram of Opium or two drams with the Plaister of Bread or the like Or with Oyntments but it is of lesser force With Fat 's it is best a dram of Opium with four ounces of Aqua vitae a little Saffron and a scruple of Camphire and safe Or apply Mithridate or Treacle or Philonium Or the Skin of a Torpedo or the Oyl of it causeth Stupefaction Use Resolvers to consume the Humor in the progress when the Defluxion is stopped Such as are gently hot and rarefying and discuss the Matter if it be Blood and hotter if it be Water to consume it that it turn not to Nodes And if it be deep as in the Hip use stronger Drawers and Consumers adding things proper for the Joynts Membranes and Nerves and that are approved These are as follow and are proper for other Defluxions As Oyl of Moulin flowers mixed with Wine and made in the Sun Or of Elder or Dwarse-elder Flowers or the Juyce or Oyl of Dwarfe-elder seeds thus made Beat them being clensed to a paste boyl it in Water and take of the skum put it in a long Glass and set it three dayes in the Sun till the Oyl which is green be at the bottom Also that of the Seeds strained is good or of Raddish seed Indian roots Nuts and Acorns Or Oyl of Cyprian Ligusticum or Privet or of Alkanna or of wild Cowcumbers in which Flammula was boyled Or Oyl of Froggs and Worms and Foxes or Oyl in which a Weezle hath been boyled or a young Stork or Swan or the Livers of the fish Galeus or Sows or Hog-lice called Aselli or Millepedes Or Oyl of Mans bones or Horse-jawes when they are beaten and burnt and mixed with Oyl and then an Oyl drawn by a retort or the like Some commend the Oyl of Deers blood And other hot Oyls mixed with them as Oyl of Bays Costus Elder Nard Rue Orris Wall-flowers Lillies St. Johns-wort Euphorbium Castor Bricks Turpentine Petroleum Some add distilled Oyls to them as of Spike Juniper-berries a dram to an ounce of the other Oyl of Guaicum and Sulphur and Tartar are also good The Chymists use Oyl of Salt made with red hot Bricks and Oyl of Danwort berries Others boyl Salt in Oyl and anoint Or an Oyl made of the Marrow of Veal bone and as much old Oyl and Oyl of Worms Groundpine and Saffron gently boyled Another Take Sallat-oyl and of Bayes and Turpentine each equal parts add Mastick Myrrh Frankincense one part draw an Oyl Or thus Take Oyl of Turpentine a pound Sage an handful boyl them in Balneo take out the Sage when it is cold and add new three or four times and add at last pouder of Sage Opopanax and Ammoniacum each four ounces boyl and preserve it After you have anointed the Part therewith lay on a Plaister of Tachamhaca An excellent Oyl against Sciatica Take Oyl of Nuts six ounces wild Cowcumbers Flammula or Iberis or Sowbread roots bruised or three ounces of the Juyces sliced Earth-worms twenty Sagapenum Ammoniacum dissolved an ounce Sack two ounces Aqua vitae an ounce boyl them till the Juyces be consumed and strain it Or Take Pellitory roots and white Hellebore each half an ounce Hermodacts Turbith Rue Wormwood each two drams Coloquintida and Euphorbium each a dram Salt a dram and half infuse them in old Oyl and add Wine and Aqua vitae an ounce set it in the Sun and boyl it Or use Mathiolus his Balsom Unguents as of Greases of Men Goats Sheep Hogs Calves Geese Hens Ducks Foxes Bears Cats Serpents also Oesypus or Grease of Wool and Marrows of Horses Dear Calves with Wine and Aqua vitae are also good Prepare Goose grease thus and it is excellent Gut a Goose and fil her with flesh of a Fox or a Cat and Ground-pine Sage Rosemary Marjoram Bettony roasted receive the dripping into Water and Vinegar or stuff a fat Goose with Pitch and the dripping is rate against the Sciatica Another take Dears suet and Ox marrow and add as much Aqua vitae set it in a glass in a Horse dung till fifteen dayes Or dissolve Sagapenum and Galbanum in Oyl Or thus Take Juyce of Dwarfe-elder Oyl of Rue each two ounces Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Aqua vitae hal an ounce Mastick Frankincense each a dram Castor hal dram with Turpentine make an Oyntment Or Take Juyce of Danewort and old Oyl each an ounce boyl them add Mummy half an ounce Camphire a dram Or thus Take Oyl of Roses Lineseed Lillies Chamomil each an ounce Juyce of Smallage an ounce an half Mucilage of Lineseed and Goats grease each an ounce boyl them and with Wax and a little Saffron make a Liniment Or use the four hot Oyntments of which Dialthaea is the mildest Martiatum Agrippa and Aregon are strongest Or use those proper for the Joynts as Ebulinum Divinum Nervinum Vigonis Or these Take Roots of Orris and Birthwort each three drams Pellitory Turbith Hermodacts each two drams Bay-berries a dram and half Coloquintida a dram Pepper Nutmeg each half a dram Saffron a scruple Storax half a dram Frankincense two drams Bdellium a dram Euphorbium and Castor each half a dram pouder them and add Oyl of Bayes and Goose grease and an ounce of Turpentine Oyl of Spike half a dram and Cow dung make a Paste Another against the Stiatica Take Oyl of Lillies two ounces an half Wall flowers Worms Fox grease or Goose each an ounce an half Juyce of Elicampane three ounces Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Aqua vitae an ounce Sowbread roots a dram and half Pellitory Orris Mustard seed each a dram Hermodacts Castor Euphorbium each half a dram with Turpentine make a thick Oyntment Or this
foul may be painful Of which as the shape is divers we shall speak in Deformity The Causes The Causes of all pains in the superficies of the Body as tickling itching pains of cold or heat compressions roughness contusion all without an appearent Character also of redness or Erysipelum Tumors Inflammations Impostumes Cancers Pustles Scabs Clefts Corrosions Wounds and Ulcers in which there are signs which are the disease it self are cold or hot or dry distemper of blood or other Humor gathered in those parts or Solution of continuity When the parts are not used to be touched as the soals of the Feet sides Want of usual touching causeth tickling Arm-holes and Privities they are subject to ticklishness or when any thing toucheth the Face gently or creepeth there is tickling or titillation A cold distemper Cold causeth pain causeth the cold pain in the superficies of the Body from Air Wind or Water or Snow or Ice and not solution of continuity by freesing that presseth forth the thin moisture This pain is greater when the part is Nervous or not used to cold or Air. Therefore the Face because it is not covered though it be very sensible yet it is not so sensible of cold as other parts that are usualy covered Also cold is very grievous to Ulcers or wounds that have the skin off And this pain is greatest when there is a sudden change from very hot to very cold If this happen to the Hands as it is usual there is that great pain in the the Fingers ends called in high Dutch Kuneglen A hot distemper causeth a hot pain from the Air Heat causeth pain made hot by the Sun or otherwise or from water or the like when there is burning in the body and not Inflammation Also this hot pain may come from too many cloths which disturb and cause sweat Also the body is inflamed with excercise And there may be preternatural heat in the Hands and Feet from internal causes which some attribute to the heat of the Liver Also in hot diseases especially Feavers there is a perplexing heat internal and external Dryness of the skin causeth that roughness which offendeth the touch Dryness is the cause of pain from touching of rough things in tender people especially This roughness may also come from external Air that is dry or from the touching of dry and astringent things When the skin is made hard by labor it rather diminisheth the sense of touching Dryness is the cause of clefts then depraveth it Somtimes the skin is extraordinarily cleft as in the Hands Feet Lips Fundament c. This dryness may come from the causes mentioned or from cold or heat as in Feavers we find the skin cleft and the Lips from the heat of breath And there may be clefts in the Hands and Feet from cold Air and water And in extraordinary cold that is long when it beats upon a part where the skin is thick there may be great clefts which turn to Ulcers they are called Perniones As in the soals of the Feet and Palms of the Hands and in the Ears and Nostrils because they want flesh to defend them This the cold doth by astringing drying and wrinkling the Skin And if it extinguish the heat it is most dangerous Blood flowing to any superficial parts as to the Skin Flesh and Glandules causeth divers diseases When it doth not only moisten the parts which is natural for nourishment but fil and inflame them And if blood flow to the skin except the scarf skin which admits no blood it causeth Erysipelas in which there is redness from the blood shining through the scarse skiâ— Blood flowing to the skin is the cause of Erysipelas and its kinds and before it is sixed or swollen the part being pressed the redness flies away and returnes again as we see in other parts it comes to pass from the blood coming and going in the Cheeks But if the blood be hot the burning is the worst pain and it is as the blood is For if it be thin and hot there is a simple Erysipelas which comes and goes sooner If it be thick there is a great Erysipelas Phlegmon if waterish there is Erysipelas oedematous this is gentler but longer If the blood be Cholerick the Erysipelas turns yellow and burns more and eats off the scarf skin If the choller be green or black it is seen by the color and ends in perverse Ulcers or malignant if it be infectious If the blood be gathered in the flesh and skin Flux of blood to the skin and flesh causeth Tnmors and Inflammations it causeth swelling and Inflammation with redness and pain from distention and heat and when the blood is discussed the Tumor is gone If it suppurate or grow ripe Suppuration causeth Impostumes it is an Impostume which breaking makes an Ulcer and the matter is more when the blood is much and the substance of the part corrupted And if the Inflammation increase and the humor be perverse and corruption follow especially a wound in the Nerves Slidwasser from a corrupt wound Corruption of the part causeth Gangren Natural heat extinct causeth a Sphacel that pernicious Ulcer called in high Dutch Slidwasser which gleets with Water is begotten and the Nerves being corrupted there is less of motion But if the Inflammation increase and there comes no suppuration but corruption of the natural heat be extinct a Sphatel If blood flow upon the flesh rather then the skin as upon the Muscles outward in the belly breast neck or back there are Inflammations but not red or manifestly swollen as in other as in the Pleurisie and Quinsies If the blood flow to divers places there will be pustles as I shewed And if it be in the pores there will be many little scabs These Inflammations are divers in respect of the blood if it be pure the Inflammation is simple If thin and not only gathered but dispersed partly upon the skin it causeth a Phlegmon with Erysipelas if thick the Inflammation will be blewer called a Scirrhus which rather follows then accompanyeth an Inflammation If the blood be waterish the Phlegmon wil be Aedematous in which the Serum sent further into the skin makes an Aedematous tumor about as we see blood doth when sprinkled upon linnen If other humors as choller yellow green or black or sharp and malignant be in the blood the Inflammation is worse and the heat of the blood when the Inflammation lyeth deep will make the rotten flesh part from the sound in a Coate which will be in the tumor when opened as in furunculus If Blood flow upon other parts distinct from the flesh and skin Flux of blood upon the glandules causeth the Bubo Parotis Phygthlon Phyma and gathereth together it causeth a hot tumor and inflammation as when it fals upon the kernels or glandules in the Emunctuaries This is usual because nature sooner dischargeth her self in ignoble parts
especially being spungy and placed by the divisions of the great veins Hence comes the pain and hot tumor in Bubo and Parotis behind the Ear and Inflammation and suppuration in Phygethlon or Panus as we shewed These differ as the blood is pure or impure thin or thick crude simple or mixed with other crude humor or waterish from whence come Phyma or with pernitious and infectious humors from whence comes the Pestilent and Pocky Bubo If Blood flow into other parts Flux of blood into other parts causeth Tumor and inflammaoions in them as into the breasts or stones into which it easily floweth by reason of the plenty of Veins or into the spungy parts as the Privities Fundament and Mouth or into parts that have gristles as the Nose and Ears or into the joynts it causeth hot tumors and Inflammations in them which differ as the blood is pure or impure and as the parts are more tender nervous and sensible The efficient cause of blood thus flowing into the superficial parts is the expulsive faculty when it is troubled with it either offending in quantity or quality The helping cause is the disposition of the blood being apt to flow and the readiness of the parts to receive it These causes whether one or more come from these following As Plethory or abundance of blood which is burthensome to nature and therefore sent by her both to inward and to outward parts Sometimes it flows of it self and somtimes from some light cause Therefore young people that grow have swollen or waxing kernels from abundance of blood and by handling they break into Buboes Or when the blood is too hot or thin it is apt to flow and being much it stirs up the expulsive faculty to send it forth and then it causeth Erysipelas or divers Inflammations according to its nature So in a Synoch Fevers Erysipelas as comes from hot blood sent from the Veins into the skin Also another humor or quality offensive to nature may provoke her to send out blood while she expels the humor and thence tumors may be So when the cause of the disease is sent from the Veins with the blood in the Crisis of a Fever there is a tumor in the declination of the disease And when the Pestilent quality is sent to the Emunctuaries with the blood in a Pestilent Fever there is a Bubo Pestilent and when the poyson of the Pox is sent to the Groyn there is a Venereal Bubo as we shewed Pain causeth Tumors and Inflammation not by attraction Pain is the cause of divers Tumors and Inflammations as it is usually thought but by stirring up nature to expel the cause by which means the blood floweth this is in the outward parts when they are pressed strook or bâ—uised by which is pain Or if pain come from any disease and if the Inflammation be increased a new by the pain if there be Impostume Pustle Wound burn Ulcer or Inflammation therewith or with any other disease causing this pain Also Pustles inflamed from scratching come from pain which follows though at the first it seems pleasant Also it often comes to pass that not only the part pained swelleth but the adjacent parts if they be apt to receive Defluxions as the Kernels in the Groins Arm-pits and behind the Ears when there is any pain from the Causes or Diseases montioned And a troublesom Scab in these parts hath commonly a Bubo accompanying it And the pestilential Bubo comes as I shewed not so much from the Plague as from the burning and pain of the Carbuncle near it Also these Pains are longer and worse when the blood easily and constantly flows thither and the part is continually pained As when there are swell'd Leggs in a Dropsie if the skin be open there is a constant Flux of water which by its corruption through long abiding in the Body is pernicious and corroding And also of blood being thin which causeth the perverse and ulcerated Erysipelas which so easily gangraenes When outward heat doth long or much afflict the skin External Heat causeth Erysipelas or Phlegmon and their kinds it doth not only make it thin but inflames it and the blood near to it and makes it flow causing Erysipelas or Inflammations especially in tender and sanguine Constitutions and such as are subject thereto As when they sit too long by the sire and burn their Shins or inflame themselves by long suning As I did by riding in a hot day when I was young my Boots were so hot that they made my Leggs burn and look red two dayes after This I have had often and it came at first with red Spots which turned first blew after yellow and then vanished They may also come from hot water and after bathing as the pustles called in high Dutch Eyssen when in the time of the Bodies being hot they use cold water which causeth a sudden repercussion so that the Blood flies back suddenly and returns with pain Also other moderate heat may cause Itch and that scratching and so pustles Also Inflammation of particular parts may cause them as of the Roots of the Nails Then they are called Paronychiae as when Maids by washing their Hands in foul hot water often do cause their Nails to be crooked and the Roots inflamed Also other excrementitious and preternatural Humors thrown to the skin Flux of Humors causeth pustles and there fixed cause pustles as blood dispersed into divers parts and these may grow greater and turn into Ulcers small or great or corroding or venemous as the quality is Humors that have an occult quality that is malignant produce a little swelling or pustle according to their Venom A venemous Humor so infecteth the parts A pernicious and venemous quality causeth the Cancer that somtimes at first there is a little Tumor which only causeth a little pricking but is most dangerous in that it will not away because while it is nourished with the other parts of the Body it makes the Nourishment like unto it self and converts it into Venom and so increaseth by degrees and grows broader and deeper and at length becomes a Cancer consisting of a fleshy substance full of Veins with no Inflammation or Tumor but Blood in the Veins which itcheth and pricketh which shews its malignity by its constant increase till there is an Ulcer and then it goes no further but with its Claws that come from the Body it creeps on we know the whole to be malignant because if it be not taken out by the Root it cannot be cured and the least portion remaining will grow again It is a hard thing to know whence this Matter and Poyson first comes or to describe the Nature of it but by the effect But that it came by Touch and Infection because the Elephantiasis whose Cause is the same with that of the Cancer and therefore is called the general Cancer comes from Contagion but the Cancer is worst because the Humors are
all in one place And as there are few that have Cancers so are there sew Lepers for the Venom lyeth lurking in the Veins and comes to the part infected with the Blood and when the Cancer increaseth it weakneth the Body by degrees And this may be an argument that there is a Contagion in the breeding of a Cancer because I knew two Women that attended upon two other that had Cancers a long time in their Breasts that consumed them which were themselves infected with Cancers and perished therby after long torment the one being near of kin to her Mistriss But we cannot yeeld that it comes from Melancholy for these reasons For if it comes from Natural Melancholy which they say is the Dreggs of the Blood there would some signs thereof appear and such blood would be there gathered out of the Vessels if there should be a Tumor or Inflammation which are not And if it come from preternatural Melancholy there would be at the first coming a burning corroding and blackness as in the Carbuncle which is not so but a Cancer is like Flesh and not very painful A pestilent Pustle comes from poyson of another Nature A pestilent Poyson causeth Carbuncle and pestilent Bubo which we call a Carbuncle with venemous force and with little burning but with itching and pricking only as I said of a Cancer somtimes with Inflammation round about and a Bubo hard by which corrupteth the part and mollifieth till it falls out back from the sound This poyson comes from that pestilent Poyson that got into the Body and caused a pestilent Feaver by its destructive quality and heat as I shewed when it gets outward And we shewed in pestilential Feavers that I and others have been infected with pestilent Pustles taken outwardly Some Humors cause Scabs Itch and Carbuncles Cholerick salt and sharp Humors cause the Scab and creeping Itch Carbuncles and Phlyctenae by a manifest quality that corrodes and burns and Pustles with Ulcers these are either preternatural yellow and green and black Choler or salt sharp or malignant and go the Superficies of the Body with the blood and serum and cause pustles and inflammations if they come with blood or pain or they come without this Flux from the Veins by sweat according to the diversity of these Humors are different Scabs Itch and Carbuncles as we shall shew If in the common moist Scab there be Itch and corroding without great burning the Humor is not so hot but salt and gentle Choler or tempered with water is fallen from the Veins upon the skin when there is no redness or Inflammation But if there be they shew it come with blood moved by scratching or pain as also may appear by the suppuration that follows When those things are as in the worst Scab with yellow or green Matter it comes from thicker and worse Choler as the colour shews as in Terminthis and Epinyctis the pustles are very burning with Inflammation and Suppuration following Especially in a Carbuncle are the pustles very burning which shews that they come from very hot Choler and the Feaver shews they come from Blood and their sudden appearing shews that they come from Defluxion And we cannot gather that black Choler was the Cause by their blackness because others are black when they are dry But from the great Heat that burns and corrupts the skin and makes it black and will not let them suppurate we may conclude that either black Choler or green was the cause This â—â—ews that the pustles in Herpes come not from a Flux of Humors but from a Collection made there because they come by degrees without Inflamation And if the Herpes be called Miliaris there is great Heat and Pustles dry and therefore the Choler was yellow milder and thinner and went to the Superficies of the skin If it be Herpes Esihiomenus the Choler is worse and green and it is deeper in the Flesh The malignity appears by its corroding and creeping on and when it creepethno farther it causeth Impetigo In that kind of dry Scab which is called the Itch because no moisture appears we conclude that the Choler is pure but thinner then in Herpes miliaris Or that the Humor is salt and dryed the skin shews which grows red by scratching And the like Humor is in Impetigo deeper and broader This by continuance turns worse and causeth Psora which cometh from salt water that is infectious and corroding as appears by the constant sweat which vaporing away wet not but rather dry the skin This Venom may come from a long continuing Scab which infecteth the skin when it turneth the Nourishment into corrupt Humors this is the worse sort of Scab called the Greek Leprosie or Arabian Leprosie which cannot be cured by reason of the fault in assimulation or nourishment As for Phlyctaenae it is plain that they come from water carried under the scarse skin which divides it from the true skin and maketh Blysters because water comes forth when they break If this water be pure there is no pain while they are whole but when they break and the true skin is hurt But if the water be salt as appears by itching or mixed with Choler as appears by the yellowness when they open the heat is greater and if this Humor sweat forth long they creep and then it is called Herpes phlyctaenodes These salt sharp cholerick Humors which cause the Herpes and Carbuncles come from Diet when it is apt to breed such or turn into Choler as we shewed in Feavers For if in the first or second Concoction they are not separated from the Blood but lye long in the Meseraicks they grow worse and either get into the hollow Vein with the Blood and Serum and â—o to the Superficies of the Body or there they are heaped up Therefore intemperate Livers and such as use bad Diet and are Chacochymical are subject to these Also the same Excrements may be gathered from Distemper of the Bowels or be derived from the Parents And some think they come from the menstrual blood And they go to the skin by Natures benefit which expels them when they are bound and by other Causes as heat and motion As we shewed speaking of Tumors from Blood Solution of Continuity causeth divers kinds of pains in the Superficies of the Body with Ulcers as Excoriations and Wounds and Clefts or without Ulcers as the cause was internal or external The external Causes of Solution of Continuity Compression Distention and Coniusion cause pain are Compression Distension or Contusion with outward hurt but inward separation of the smal Veins which causeth pain which we call Distention or stretching as from a stroak or weight or pulling the Hair Hence comes the Rhagades or Clefts in the Fundament from hard Excrements When the skin is scratched off there is Intertrigo or Rawness Friction is the cause of Scabs this comes after riding as galling or long Diseases and lying and
from scratching with the Nails And the moist Itch is when the skin is most scratching and Humors that are salt or cholerick come forth and it is worse when there are little Tumors from rubbing and they break Intertrigo or Pustles of the Privities come so from cholerick sweat which putrefieth in these parts easily and causeth itching Cuts Pricks Stroaks cause Wounds all these when they suppurate are ulcers Outward Cuts Pricks Contusions cause Wounds Of poysoned Wounds These are with a sharp or blunt Tool If the Instrument be infected with poyson the Wounds will be venemous or rusty or if the weapon be toucht with Garlick or a bullet dipt in grease or if a sword or tool be otherwise poysoned the wound will be venemous Taking off the skin by Medicines or the like ulcerateth and inflameth Corrosion of the skin and also sharp Urin doth the same in Childrens Hips Burning separates the scarse skin from the true skin Of Burning and causeth a bladder or blyster which breaketh and leaves the skin bare when it is deeper it causeth an Ulcer or Eschar This may be from heat of the Sun which blysters the naked Body or from hot or sclading Oyl and Water which takes off the skin inflames and brings perverse Ulcers or from Fire which makes Blysters and Ulcers or from burning Medicines Vesicatories and Cauteries among which some mortifie and cause an Eschar without pain Also a Nettle sends in fire with its prickles which causeth first Heat then Blysters Biting of beasts causeth uneven and deep wounds Biting or stinging of venemous beasts which suppurate and turn to ulcers and these are worse when the spittle is venemous as in some beasts And it is known that the biting of a man hath caused dangerous wounds by his spittle especially when he hath been fasting and angry because the spittle is most cholerick as appears by the same I knew a Fisher-mans Wife that was bitten by her angry Husband in her right hand and dyed of a venemous Ulcer caused thereby with a Feaver And I knew two more that lay long sick and were with great difficulty recovered of Feavers by bites given by their fellow-drunkards in their fingers There is from biting of a mad Dog or other Beast not only a venemous wound but other horrid symptoms As we shewed in Hydrophos Also if the bite be very small if the Venom of the spittle get in as of a Weezle or Mouse there may be a perverse wound or of a Viper or Serpent or the like the whole Body is poysoned When beasts by their stings or otherwise make wounds The stinging of beasts causeth venemous wounds though solution of Continuity scarse appear yet because there is a burning or evil quality sent into the part there is a great pain inflammation and tumor as we see in stinging of Bees or Waspes when they leave their horny stinges in the wounds If they come from worse Creatures as from the crooked stinge of a Scorpion then the poyson infects the whole Body And as Nicander and Dioscorides shew the same may be from divers other venemous beasts whereby the Body being only prickt in one part may suffer in divers These we shall not speak of because they are not troublesom in our Countrys As also we shal not speak of the Harms stinging of Flies Gnats and Fleas which are only itching with a red spot The internal Causes of these Solutions of Continuity The Humors which cause ulcers that follow Imposthumes and are joyned with pustles are Humors which while they cause tumors and pustles do also corrode and ulcerate Or those Tumors ulcerate and cause it as we shewed Namely how matter bred of Inflammations suppurated produceth Imposthumes and then Ulcers which with other Humors coming to them grow worse as by blood inflamed or by other malignant Humors malignant And also how from this pernicious Matter breeding a Cancer it may be ulcerated and how a hollow Ulcer may follow the burnt and corrupt Flesh that falls out of the pestilential Carbuncle And how from cholerick Serum and sharp Humors that produce Carbuncles Herpes and Scabs of all sorts there may arise malignant Ulcers as in Carbuncle and corroding as in Herpes and foul with Matter as in the moist Scab and dry with Clefts as in the dry Scab And also how the skin comes off from the Serum that causeth Phlyctenae Also without Pustles or Tumors going before Humors cause Fissures or Clefts the skin may be cleft by a sharp salt drying Humor when the part is tender or spungie as the Lips Fundament and Privites Hence come the Rhagades or clefts which by reason of the exquisite sense of those parts are very painful and burning When a thick Salt humor is gathered between the thick skin of the Head and the Skul Humors that cause Tinea Favus or scald Head and there long kept till it putrefie about the roots of the Hairs and eates through the skin in divers places there is a Tinea Favus or scald Head And the Humor is Malignant because it is infectious in Children Corroding Phagadaenical Ulcers breed and are nourished with sharp and malignant waterish Humors Humors that cause Corroding and Varicous Ulcers Which are cheifly in the Legs by falling down of the Humors Also these Humors carried with the blood to some Vein near to an Ulcer and enlarging and washing the Ulcer keep it from healing as we shewed in a Varicous Ulcer The Original of these Humors is as of those that cause Herpes and Scabs When the Privities are infected by Malignant Humors Malignant humors cause Malignant Ulcers from unclean Copulation there are Ulcers as in the Glans and Praepuce And the Ulcers in the French Pox and Leprosie are alike But the nature of these humors are known only by the effect being infectious The Cure The Cure of solitary pains which have no Character external but themselves as itch and tickling hoâ— and cold pains or roughness of Skin because they are not great nor last long but depart with the cause removed is not hard As thus If tickling come of it self it is not long but if it be by outward force it is a torment intolerable and it weakneth and causeth convulsions Cure of tickling which must be cured A light Itch will cease of it self Cure of itching if you be patient and forbear scratching If it be great it is cured by a pleasant scrubbing If it continue or return and the cause be external as Lice c. It shall be cured as in them If it be internal from a humor because it hath with it commonly scabs or pustles it shall be spoken of in them But if it be without other manifest disease in divers parts and continue use Evacuations Baths as in the scab If it be in Womens Privities you must put Oyntments or the like into them If pain come from cold Air Wind Water or Snow The
Cure of pain from cold and cease not when they are gone you must by degrees bring the body to a natural heat least the sudden change from extream cold to extream heat bring inconveniences or that called in high Dutch Runeglen or pain in the Hand It is good to come into a temperate room or to exercise violently if the feet be cold from riding or beat the Arms like Watermen or to apply skins furrs or feathers or put the Hands into the Hair or wash them in warm water before you come to the fire If after these the native heat be weakned use Fomentations Baths and hot Oyntments as in astonishment and Palsie as Oyl of Euphorbium and Peppers Or take Pellitory of Spain Pepper each two drams Euphorbium a dram Oyl of Wall-flowers and Wax and Oyl of Spike and Spices with Musk Amber and Civet Oyl of Nettles or wherein Nettles are boyled is a singular remedy and to preserve the Hands against cold and also Goose grease If a hot pain come from heat of the Sun or motion The Cure of pain from heat or baths and cease not the cause being removed you must not sudenly cool which is dangerous as we have known some who in violent heats have staied long in Cellars under ground and caught Feavers and dangerous Defluxions and Apoplexies Therefore it is best to go first into some temperate place or Arbor If the heat continue to Inflammation or Synoch Cure that If it be in the palms of the Hands or soals of the Feet because it comes from internal causes and foresheweth or accompanyeth diseases Cure them If there be roughness or hardness of the Skin The Cure of pain from touching of rough things which hinders and troubles touching in dainty people use moistners as in Deformity If there be clefts see Ulcers If there be pain from pressing or stretching without manifest solution of continuity it ceaseth with it The Cure of pain from compression and distention but if you fear Tumor or Inflammation we shew you how to prevent them in a Phlegmon The Cure of pains in the superficies that have manifest diseases is as Erysipelas Phlegmon and Tumors from contusion or glandules or as Impostumes from Inflammation or as a Cancer or as Pustles as Carbuncles Herpes Scab or as Ulcers or corruption of parts as Gangreen or foul bones If an Erysipelass be without a Feaver from an external cause The Cure of Erysipelas and its kinds or if the Feaver be little only Cure the Erysipelas If a Synoch follow look first to the Feaver as in Feavers first you must be sure to prevent the Carbuncle if it be customary as in old people And after you must regard the Feaver if it be not prevented by sweating bleeding purging altering heat and other accidents But as to Erysipelas as alone when it burns not much it must not be over much cooled but kept warm to disperse it with gentle means by wrapping it in Linnen that is soft and a little unctious as some think Or wrap it in a Saffron clout Take Saffron a dram Plantane Privet Night-shade Roses each an ounce Rose vinegar half an ounce let them stand warm till the water is dryed then dip a clout in it apply it wet at first and warm Or apply scarlet which doth dissolve and strengthen the part Or Fume the part with Mastick Frankincense Amber or Juniper or Sanders burnt These gentle remedies are most usual because the patient feareth strong and moist means When an Erysipelas with a Phlegmon or alone is very burning or hath Pustles or Blisters Take heed of an Ulcer which is dangerous at first stop the Flux of blood from the part allay heat and abate pain and then by degrees consume and digest the matter At first to repel and allay heat use coolers with a little astringents by Fomentations This is approved of others but ours will not wet the part and think that wet causeth all accidents They are deceived from hence because they hear that a Gangreen comes from a cooled Erysipelas that suppose it is from moisture But the Refrigeration in a Gangreen is rather a Mortification and Extinction of the native heat from two great Inflammation then from the introducing of a cold quality Therefore cold water with the third part Vinegar may be used as in Arthritis from blood with a clout or wooll Dioscorides bids use Vinegar alone with the white of an Egg to allay pain or Juyces or distil'd waters of Plants or Vinegar of Roses Apply these Herbs green bruised or heated or boyled or with Bran and Vinegar as Plantane Nightshade Shep-heard purse Knot-grass Purslane Sorrel Housleek Vine leaves Endive Lettice Grundsill or Lens-Palustris Cotyledon Liver-wort Lonchytis Willow Ieaves Alder Reeds Privet Cypress Myrtle Bramble Sumach Fleabane flowers of Roses Violets Water-lillies the great Antirrhinum and of Ras-berries Or use the juyces with Plantane and Rose water as an Epitheme or Vinegar and red Wine the white of an Egg Camphire and red Sanders Or the Decoction of the five-leaved-Grass Plantane Housleek Purslane Vine leaves Privet Myrtles with Barley and in the increase Chamomil Melilot slowers Roses Fenugreek Oyntment of Roses with Camphire and Galens cool Oyntment or that of Housleek Oyl of Violets Goosegrease and Saffron Or Take Oyl of Roses two ounces of Water-lillies or Violets an ounce juyce of Plantane and Nightshade each an ounce and an half Vinegar of Roses an ounce Camphire a dram with the white of an Egg or Mucilage of Fleabane an ounce and an half and Turpentine Plates of Lead are good to repel When you fear an Ulcer add dryers to your coolers as Oyntment of Ceruss Album made of Ceruss white Wax and Oyl of Roses with the white of an Egg and Camphire or with Ceruse and Oyl boyled and Lytharge Or Take Litharge an ounce and half Ceruss two drams juyce of Plantane or Nightshade two ounces Vinegar of Roses half an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces mix them well in a Leaden Mortar dip clouts and apply them or with white Wax make an Oyntment Or thus Take the white Troches of Rhasis two drams Sarcocol a dram Lytharge burnt and washed Lead each a dram and an half Oyl of Roses two ounces juyce of Plantane an ounce white of an Egg and Mucilage of Quince seeds an ounce add half a dram of Opium to abate pain Or to allay pain use Cowcumbers Anguria deadly Nightshade Herb true-love cut and bruised or pulp of Cassia Or Henbane leaves or Tobacco crude or roasted Poppy heads roots of Mandrakes with Bran and Vinegar to repel Dioscorides useth juyce of Hemlock we use juyce of Henbane Half a dram of Opium with half as much Saffron may be added to the former And this is the cause why the Chirurgions use Treacle in Oyntments Populeon cooleth and easeth Or thus Take Populcon an ounce and an half Oyl of Henbane Mandrakes or Poppy seeds half an ounce Mucilage of Fleabane seeds an ounce
Saffron a scruple and a little Opium Or this Epithem Take Milk three ounces Oyl of Roses an ounce and an half white of an Egg or Mucilage of Fleabane seed an ounce Vinegar half an ounce Opium half a dram Saffron a scruple In the progress when the heat abates to dissolve when the part looks not so red and is yellowish or at first if the heat be little Use Coleworts Pellitory of the wall Mallows white Lillies Mulleine also leaves of Ricinus Stratiotes Acinos Fetherfew or Parthenium roots of Alkanet and Lychopsis and of Clowns-Allheal with the square stalk which is so highly commended bruise and apply them Or dip clouts in Oyl of Roses and Wine and squeeze and apply them to ease pain and discuss Or boyl Oyl and red wine thus Take of them equal parts cover them in a close Vessel boyl them gently till they make no noise It is good to discuss to anoynt with hot blood especially menstrual as saith Dioscorides Or with Urin to stop itching and to dry Dioscorides useth the Sediments or fetling thereof adding Vinegar and Eggs. Dioscorides also commends Goats or Sheeps dung boyled in Wine or Vinegar Others commend Inke but it is too sharp without cold waters or juyces And I knew an Impostor that concealed a Gangreen thereby Dioscorides useth rust of Iron and burnt Vitriol or Chalcitis or Salt and Vinegar These strong Medioines are best in ignoble parts not in the Face and Nerves when there is need of great drying Dissolve the residents with Fomentations and Oyntments and strengthen the part as we shewed in Arthâ—itis as with Lyes of divers sorts and Spaw waters to pâ—event Wash the Feet with water wherein Vitriol or Oak or Ivy leaves or red Roses or Sloes or Grapes are steeped Or put them into the Wine press or into Grapes stampt with Iron water and Vinegar If there be Erysipelas in the Face wash it often with red Wine Rose Plantane and Nightshade water and Vinegar If the Legs have an Oedema after the Erysipelas use things as in Oedema if it ulcerate or grangreen See them Phlegmon or Inflammation is of divers kinds The Cure of divers sorâ—s of Inflammation but we shall speak only of them which differ not much Such as are in the skin as Phlegmon with Erysipelas or Oedema Or with little Tumors or Pustles that ulcerate and turn to scabs Also of Inflammations in spungy parts as Privities Paps Fundament Mouth and in the Gristles of the Nose and Ears And of those in the joynts and ends of the Fingers called Paronychia prescribing to all their particular remedies Of the Tumors and Inflammations of the Glandules we shall speak hereafter and of the Impostume that comes from all Tumors Of these phlegmons the greatest and fullest of pain are the worst and they which are in noble parts or near to them as in the Face Organs of sense or in very sensible parts as in the Fundament Yard or Womb or in the joynts or Fingers Many of these Impestumate and then ulcerate and hurt the noble part other gangreen and cause loss of parts or deaths Others turn into a Scirrhus which hinders the bending of the joynts Blood-letting is the chief remedy against all if there be plethory both to prevent and cure Also it revels and derives from the part and helps the Feaver if it be there Also we revel and derive with Scarifications Cupping Ligatures and Friction And it is good in plethory when the Terms or Haemmorrhoids bleed and to divert If the body be foul loosen the Belly and purge to prevent especially when people are subject to Inflammation And the Cure will be the easier when the body is clean Also some Laxatives do revel the blood slowing to the part they must not be strong to stir or inflame the Body Also use alterers against the phlegmon and Feaver in meats and Medicines that cool the blood Topicks are to be used in all first they must repel the blood flowing to the part and abate heat and pain and then dissolve the matter and if it tend to suppuration they must Cure the Impostume and Ulcer And they must be chosen according to the Inflammation as it is great or little and according to the part We repel the humor flowing with astringents and coolers choosing the strongest when the heat is great especially in Furunculus And if the Flux be great and the Inflammation also and in the Face or Joynts and noble parts In the other we use more gentle repellers Especially if the Inflammation be about the Jaws or Breast least it cause a Quinsie or pleurisie To these repellers when the Defluxion abateth we add gentle resolvers and anodynes if there be pain Thus Actual coolers are vulgarly used if we sear Inflammation from a stroak or bruise to prevent swelling as a cold Stone Iron Lead or Ice Or cold water This must not be done but at the first least the blood congeal and will not after be discussed Some commend the putting the Finger presently in cold water in Paronychia or Fellon or in hot Vinegar but boyling water is best Make repellers of green Herbs that are both potentially and actually cold as of Plantane Nightshade Housleek knot Grass With Vinegar Oyl of Roses Myrtles Quinces and Barley meal Apply Acrons bruised and Sloes Or Bran fryed in Vinegar or Rice and Water often Or red Rose Cakes with red Wine and Vinegar or Roses Or Take the Juyces of the Herbes mentioned six ounces Rose vinegar and red Wine three ounces Oyl of Roses Myrtles or Privet an ounce and an half with pouder of Bistort roots and Pomegranate peels each a dram Mrytle or Barberry seeds Bole three drams after you have stir'd them in a Leaden Morter make an Oyntment or with Vinegar and whites of Egs and Barley meal a Pultis The usual defensative against Inflammations is of Bole Vinegar and whites of Egs and Oyl of Roses You may add Sanguis Draconis Blood-stone and rust of Iron and sealed Earth Coral and Camphire When there is pain repel thus add the fourth part of red Wine Vinegar to Milk Bole and the white of an Eg. Or wash with Vinegar and Water Three or four pound of Quick-silver allayeth heat and pain being in a Bladder and applied So doth Juyce Decoction and distilled water of Herbs with pouders aforesaid Or foment with Oyl of Roses or Violets and rowl the part In Paronychia or Fellon make a Bath for the Finger of five leaved Grass Wormwood Agrimony Straw-berry leaves Myrtle-berries with Wine A repelling Oyntment Take juyce of Plantane Housleek two ounces Vinegar an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces and an half Vinegar an ounce Bole half an ounce with the white of an Egg and a little Turpentine afterwards to digest add Ceruss Cadmia and Litharge Or Take juyce of sower Pomegranateâ— two ounces of Nightshade and Rose water each an ounce and an half Camphire a dram anoynt add Barley flower to make it stick
This is approved in Inflammation of the Nose As in Etysipelas so here you may use Oyntments of Roses Poplar and Ceruss and plates of Lead also In great Inflammations and when they are parts exquisitely sensible use chiefly things to asswage pain As Anodynes that cherish with their temperate heat Or Narcoticks that dull the sense These are not to be used alone when we sear suppuration but in case of necessity because they digest but at the first add repellers and in the progress resolvers But when you desire to digest you may use Narcoticks alone safely The same Narcoticks and Anodynes may be used as in Erysipelas and these following As Snayles not beaten with the shells least they be too rough but taken out may be applied And leaves of Henbane and Mandrakes baked in the Embers with Hogs grease and a little Saffron Or use this Cataplasm Take white Bread or Flower a pound boyl it in springe Water and Proper stilled Water and Milk with Mucilage of Fleabane two ounces three Egs Oyl of Rose three ounces Hogs grease an ounce Saffron a dram This is proper against a Paronychia or Fellon boyl crums of Bread in Milk with the white of an Egg and a little Turpentine and to ease pain add Mucilage of Fleabane seed with Barley meal Opium and Camphire and after to heal add Pouder of Galls Or this Cataplasm against any Phlegmon Take the Emollient herbs two handfuls Althaea two ounces flowers of Chammomil Melilote Roses Bran each a pugil boyl and bruise them add Oyl Butter Grease and Saffron Or bruise Fleabane or its seed with Oyl of Roses and a little Vinegar and apply it or boyl it with Milk and Althaea roots and add fats Or use the Mucilage of Fleabane with the white of an Egg Juyces and sats The Plaster of Diachylon the less by Mesue made of Mucilages of Fleabane and Henbane easeth pain and digesteth Oyl of the Apples of Strychnodendron and of the fruite of the Balsamine tree called Momordica is an approved remedy and so is Oyl of Henbane seed The Chirurgions ease pain with an Egg raw beaten with Oyl of Roses and Bole to repel And to digest also they use Oyl of Roses yolks of Egs and Ceruss There is an Oyntment called Anodynum made of Oyl of Lillies Dill Chamomil Ducks and Hens grease to take away pain Or this Take Juyce of Henbane Tobacco Hemlock or Poppies Mallows or Marsh-mallows each two ounces Oyl of sweet Almonds and Roses each two ounces boyl them add Mucilage of Althaea or the like two ounces or of Mucilage of Henbane seed which is best Butter an ounce make an Oyntment The Water of Frog spawn is highly commended and Juyce of Hemlock applied with a Clout also raw Cray-sish Also we must dissolve or discuss the Humor which is flown to the part least by continuance it turn to Matter and stink which though Nature doth of her self if it be thin yet if she be slow in her work she must be helped with dissolvers which in the beginning of the increase of the disease mixed with Repellers does it rather by dryness then heat and after they must be used alone and the rather if the Phlggmon be oâ—dematous especially towards the Declination when the heat ceaseth adding Emollients to gentle Healers that may discuss the Reliques and prevent a Scirrhus This is done by Herbs mentioned against Erysipelas as Pellitory Mallows Marsh-mallows Orage Coleworts Henbit Coltsfoot Vervain Moulin Scarlea Bindweed Elder Dan-wort Penny-royal Feaversew Achillea Wormwood Sesamum Nettles Lilly roots Orris Briony wild Cowcumber Asphodel Lyris Docks Rhapontick wild Hemp Chamomil Melilot Dill Elder flowers and Water-lillies Foenugreek Lineseed Barley Wheat Lupins Orobus and Flower of Millium Panicum You may apply one or more of them bruised or boyled as Pellitory and Scabious or lay the whole Leaves thereon without the Stalks Or make an Anodyne Oyntment of Dwarf-elder to anoint the part inflamed Thus Take Dwarfe-elder cut small put it in a Glass phial roule it in Dough and bake it then take out the glass and you shall ffnd a thick redish Oyl anoint therewith The Herb called Paronychia is good against a Felon from whence it had its Name the Felon is an Inflammation at the Root of the Nails as also five leaved Grass or the skin of an Eg shell or Dandelion milkie Stalks roule about the Finger Phlegmons may be wash'd with Juyces Decoctions or still'd Waters of Herbs as that of Moulin which is best with rose-Rose-water Aqua vitae doth so dissolve that it takes away Tumor and Inflammation presently allaies pain when Labourers hurt themselves they use it Dioscorides commends the Lyes of Wine in all Inflammations it is good to dissolve and to asswage pain Also use Oyl of Chamomil Lillies Orris sweet Almonds or Roses or Fat 's as Oesipus of Wool or Propolis Or bruise or boyl the Plants mentioned with Vinegar at first then Wine Honey Oyl Fat 's Turpentine and Brans or Meales Or apply Raisons as in Furunculus with Salt c. Or chew Wheat or its Flower with Water and Honey or with Leaven Or Rose cakes boyled in Lye to dissolve adding Oyl of Chamomil or Dill. Or Smallage and Henbit beaten with Tartar and Oyl of Chamomil Or this Cataplasm Take Roots of Althaea Docks four ounces Lillies two ounces Pellitory Vervain Coltsfoot each an handful Feaversew Wormwood half an handful Chamomil flowers and Roses each a pugil Barley meal and Foenugreek four ounces Figgs five pair boyl them in Water bruise and add Oyl of Roses Chamomil each two ounces Hens grease an ounce and half Or make it of Bran or Wheat flower a pound Pease or Lupine flower two ounces boyl them in Water and Honey ad pouder of Orris red Roses each two drams Myrtle seeds a dram Saffron half a dram Oyl of Roses and Chamomil each an ounce and half A Cataplasm to digest more and to be used in the Declination Take Lilly roots three ounces Orris and Briony roots two ounces Mallows Moulin Bindweed Dane-wort each a handful Chamomil Melilot Elder and Rosemary flowers each half a handful Meal of Lupins or Orobus and Foenugreek each two ounces Dates six boyl them in Honey and Water add Oyl of Lillies and Orris each an ounce and an half of Roses an ounce Hogs grease an ounce and half Oesipus an ounce with Saffron half a dram make a Cataplasm Or this of Juyces Take Juyce of Pellitory Coltsfoot Plantane each two ounces Mucilage of Mallows Foenugreek or of whites of Eggs three ounces Honey an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces anoint and add Brans Litharge Ceruss Saffron or apply the Ashes of Box tree with Honey Or Take Cow dung half a pound Juyce of Housleek or Nightshade two ounces Oyl of Chamomil and Roses each an ounce Bole half an ounce anoint or apply it with Meals or Bran. Or apply Olibanum with Foenugreek Meal Rosin and Honey In Furunculus especially anoint with Scammony Honey and Oyl or
from other Causes and Inflammation be feared or begun Which causeth perverse Ulcers often in the Breasts and hardness or Scirrhus in the Stones The Cure of them shall be shewed as in the Inflammation of them If blood flow much to them presently open a Vein if the paps be inflamed in the Arm and then in the Foot especially if Terms be stopt If the Stones be inflamed first open a Vein in the foot then in the Arm to revel and derive and apply Cupping-glasses to the Arms and Hips with Scarification and Repellers to the part and Anodynes Then dissolve that which is flowed to the part least it turn to matter and cause an Ulcer which in those parts is not easily cured Use the repellers mentioned in Phlegmon and the digesters also such as have meals in them Or thus Take Plantane Groundsoyl mallows each a handful boyl them and add at the end water of Nightshade and Roses stamp and add Barley Rise Bean and Pease meal each three ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Oyl of Chamomil an ounce make a Cataplasm with Bdellium dissolved in Vinegar half an ounce Also take remedies prescribed in Phlegmon against pain such as are Narcotick and digest rather then Anodynes which will cause Suppuration which must here be prevented And use dissolvers as in Phlegmon adding the roots of Coriander and Dasies Or apply Coriander Raysons and Honey beaten Meal of pease and Beans is best here if boyled in Wine or dissolving Oyls mentioned in Phlegmon with Honey Vinegar and Cummin seed Or mix Mucilage of Althaea Foenugreek Linseed with Farines or Meals and Oyl Dioscorides commends Wallnuts with Rue and Honey And you may use Raysons stoned or Figs and Dates boyled in Wine or the pulp thereof a pound with pease and Bean. Meal each two ounces Faenugreek half an ounce with digesting Oyls Orris pouder half an ounce and seeds of Irion a dram Honey two ounces to discuss Better Dioscorides applies Vine leaves and Salt And Leaven with Organ and Salt Also dryed Cow dung boyled with Honey and Wine is good Or Treacle with Saffron Honey and Oyl Or Foment as in Flegmon with Althaea Mallows Wormwood Orris roots wild Cowcumbers Melilote Chamomil Rosemary Elder Staechas flower Roses Foenugreek Linseed common Figs boyled in Wine adding Honey and Vinegar Or dip Wooll in digesting Oyls and apply it Or this Oyntment Take Oyl of Chamomil and Lillies each an ounce and an half Galbanum and Labdanum dissolved in Vinegar each half an ounce Cummin seed a dram dryed Cow dung two drams Saffron half a scruple with Wax Live Crabs or unboyled Cray-fish bruised and applied are highly commended If the Inflammation of the Paps or Stones tend to Suppuration Cure it as impostums Imposthums coming after Inflammations are a like Cured in all parts The Cure of Impostums By ripning and opening and curing the Ulcer An Impostume must be ripned as soon as it comes as when the matter flowed in the Phlegmon cannot be dissolved that so it may be turned to Pus or Quittor and voided by an Ulcer Such an Ulcer is not very difficult if well looked to but when we know and perceive that an Inflammtion tends to an Impostume we must help nature and the more when it is apt to suppurate presently as most little Pustles do And we must be more diligent if the suppuration be difficult and long as in Furunculus in which instead of matter there is a lump of flesh that is long fixed and especially in parts of most concernment or noble where the matter may prejudice by being long kept in as about the joynts and in Paronychia or Fellons except the matter be presently concocted and get forth the bones in that place and the Nerves grow foul This Maturation or Suppuration is commonly done by the benefit of Nature only which concocts the Humor and therewith some part of the part afflicted in which the blood is without any putrifaction only it turnes to a white matter Which stinks not for putrefaction differs much from Suppuration and follows it when nature ceaseth to Maturate or ripen or doth it slowly or imperperfectly as in Furunculus therefore to help her the Physitian applyeth Suppuratives or ripeners which are temperate or gently hot and Emplastick which by nourishing the natural heat makes Maturation This is done by Anodynes which after the same manner as I shewed cause Maturation And many Suppurative Medicines would be Anodyne if the breeding of matter did not cause new pains Also many dissolving Medicines being not too hot or dry but gently hot when they cannot dissolve matter by reason of its incapacity and unsitness help Suppuration when nature tends that way or at least hinder if not All these maturating or ripning remedies being actually warm and gently hot doth thereby hasten Suppuration Also concocting remedies ripening or Suppurating are applied that they may better operate in forms of Cataplasms or plaisters as Triapharmacum Galeni made of Wheat floure Oyl and Water boyled to a pultis and colored with Saffron to make it concoct the better Or instead thereof use this Take wheat flour or of Zea or Maizi which are outlandish grain privatly commended or crums of Bread boyl them in water or fat broath not salted or milk if there be pain and to a pound add Oyl or â—utter or Hogs grease of each an ounce and an half two yolks of Eggs and mucilages if you please Or make it of crums of bread or flower with Lillie roots Onyons and Milk adding Butter Oyl or Grease You may boyl also Mallows Althaea roots Ground-sill Figs. Or Take Marshmallow roots and Lilly roots each two ounces Bryony roots an ounce Emollient herbs Groundsoyl Coleworts Eryngus three handfuls Violets a pugil Figs six pair Raysons stoned ten pair wheat flower or Bread three ounces ponder of Faenugreek or Linseed two ounces boyl and bruise them add of the fat mentioned two ounces Oyl of Lillies Violets sweet Almonds an ounce and an half Saffron half a dram make a Cataplasm Or Take a white Onyon which because it is not so sharp as the other sort doth more maturate or ripen and digest and Figs sliced boyl them mix them with Butter or Oyl and flower yolks of Eggs and Turpentine Or Take Figs two ounces Labdanum Frankincense each a dram Storax Liquid and Turpentine each half a dram with Flower Oyl and Hogs grease make a pultis Or roast Henbane leaves in the Embers and apply it with sats and digesters for the sats being temperate will moderate their Heat The roots of Dogs Tongue bruised is good against the Plague and suppurates well Some apply Bird-lime others liquid Vernish Dioscorides applies Birdlime Wax and Rosin equal parts Or Bird-lime with Mallows Wormwood Linseed Honey and Oyl boyled Or sweet Butter and Wax Or Pitch or Wax or both with Oyl Turpentine and Frankincense Others apply yolks of Eggs or with the whites with Oyl or Butter or Suet or Marrow and Turpentine with Frankincense
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
an ounce pouder them and with Oyntment of yolks of Eggs mentioned two ounces or with that of Mucilages for chapt Lips make an Oyntment Sulphur and oyl mixed cure the Chaps of the Hands or if you tie Sulphur in a Clout or the flour of it and boyl it in common oyl or oyl of St. Johns wort or Moulin Or Litharge with the white of an Egg or Mucilage or oyl or Grease stirred long in a Leaden Mortar cures the Excoriations by Piss and other chaps Or mixed with the oyntments made of Juyce of Plantane also Ceruss Tutty Starch and oyl of Yolks of Eggs. Or thus Take Litharge Myrrh Frankincense each â— dram Galls or round Birthwort half a dram Camphire a scruple Oyntment of Suet two ounces Or use the usual oyntment of Litharge Ceruss Pompholyx with Allum or Unguentum Citrinum When the chaps are stubborn use stronger Driers Take Litharge Ceruss each a dram Allum red Lead each half a dram Sublimate four grains with white of an Egg make a Liniment A Water for the same Take Tartar three drams Allum half a dram Sublimate four grains â—eruss Litharge each a dram Frankincense Mastich each half a dram Pomegranate flowers two scruples boyl them mix them in twelve ounces of Rose Plantane Limon or Mouse-ear water till a third part be consumed wash therewith Or wash before anoynting with Decoction of Lillies Mallows Henbane Poppy Violets Purslane Groundsil Housleek Chamaemel Melilot flowers meal of Foenugreek and Line seed with Sheeps suet let it be of Milk or Water It is good to wash chapt hands in their own Urin. For Kibes and Chilblains foment with a Decoction in Wine and Water of sharp Herbs as Dragons Sowbread Crowfoot or Clensers as Turneps Beets Orrobus seed or Astringents as Myrtle Verbascum the less Arction and Pomegranate peels Also Allum water is good against Kibes and Chilblains Or Take Melilot a handful red Roses a pugil pulp of Quinces two ounces boyl and stamp them add meal of Lentils an ounce Pomegranates peels half an ounce with Oyl of Roses Frankincense and Ashes make a Cataplasm I have seen the thick lips in a kib'd Heel stitched togeher that it may heal the better You may cure chaps in the Hands and Feet with ordinary Glew spread upon a Clout You may use against Burning things against Blisters and Excoriations from them being broken Burning whether it be from any thing red hot or from flame or from Gun-powder for a Bullet cannot so quickly grow hot as to burn as some suppose or from scalding water and the like or from potential Causticks or Nettles the narrower and shallower it is the sooner and easier it is cured if otherwise it is difficult and leaves an ugly scar and I have seen Gun-powder stick in the skin after the Cure That Burning that is in or about noble parts or the Face or which is very large from falling into the Fire is dangerous and often deadly If the skin be burnt by a Cautery we labor to keep it open by cutting the Blyster and taking off the Eschar and use nothing but things mentioned in Flegmon against pain and Inflammation and they may be used against other Burnings with Blood letting As for the place burned that is hurt and pained first we take out the Fire which is thought to be done by hot things and therefore the Vulgar hold the part to the Fire but they are most agreeable which have moderate heat and are therefore called Anodynes and dry without Biting and digest without great heat and which hinder the Blisters from breaking this done at the first we must use stronger Driers and such as heal Excoriation and Ulceration such as are against the skin flead off and mentioned in the Itch. But if it turn to a deep Ulcer by suppuration it must be cured as an Ulcer and if the Weapon or Instrument made a Wound also you must first use things against Burning and then cure the Ulcer against Burning use these Plants bruised or boyled in Water Wine-vinegar or Oyl or Hogs Grease are good as Leeks Onions Daffadil Hemerocallis Lillies Danewort roots Hemp Alkanet Thorn roots or leaves of St. Johns wort Androsaemus Pellitory Althaea Mallows Ivy wild Verbascum Mulberry Myrtles Poppies Hounds-tongue wild Rue Sesamus flowers of Spear-grass Ivy Cistus Typha or apply Beets roots and all Or anoynt with the Juyces especially of leaves and Berries of Ivy Onyons Turneps Nightshade wild Lettice which hath a milky juyce according to Dioscorides with Allum or yolks of Eggs Mucilage or Gum Traganth or Cream Or Take the juyces mentioned three ounces Oyl of Roses fresh Butter Hogs grease each an ounce slaked Lime half an ounce mucilage of Quinces an ounce with Turpentine make an Oyntment or boyl away the Juyces and put Wax to it The Vulgar apply Elder leaves but the middle rind is better Or Take the middle rind of Elder an ounce and an half the juyce of Elder buds an ounce Lineseed Oyl two ounces Oyl of Roses and Hogs grease each an ounce Wax an ounce and an half Frankincense an ounce boyl them in Water a little and when it is cold take of the Oyl at the top Mathiolus useth liquid Varnish but we Line seed Oyl Or apply the root of Fennel stampt with Cream but first take off the black skin or coat Or the middle bark of the Tile tree which in Rose water makes a Mucilage which is excellent in Burnings Or use Oyls by Infusion of the fruits of Momordica or Nightshade Apples or of red Poppy leaves or by Decoction the Oyl in the hollow roots of Daffodil or Ivy boyled in Oyl and Wine til the Wine be consumed also Oyl of Elder Quinces or by expression as Oyl of Gourd seeds of Nuts or yolks of Egs. Or Oyl of Whelps and Worms which is approved against Gun-shot fire Or Hogs Grease wel clensed and dropt into Water with the application of a hot Iron others stick Straws into Bacon and set them on fire to make it drop but it is better to wrap them in a double paper that is larger and set on fire and so let it drop into water thus they season roast meat instead of Larding it Bacon alone so prepared cureth Burnings and easeth pain with Cream or Yolks of Eggs. Against Gun-powder fire use Butter or Hogs Grease dropt into Frog-spawn water or of Cray-fish or Earth-worms boyled When there is an Ulcer use pouders or otherwise anointing first the part that they may stick with Oyl Mucilage or Milk as Ashes of Gourds Coleworts Barley Shoe soals shels of Frogs or as Dioscorides pouder of Cinabar and Cimolian Earth The Vulgar wet the part and apply meal to take out the fire To abate pain use whites of Eggs and Oyl of Roses with Lint or with white Wax make an Oyntment adding mucilage of Quinces and Hogs Grease or Barley meal and in an Ulcer Bole and Frankincense Or Take Leeks or Onions roasted stamp them with yolks of Eggs or Elder Deers or
Goats Suet and Turpentine make a Plaster Or use the Oyntment of Quick Lime steep Lime in water til it dissolve pour off the water and add fresh seven ten or twelve times keep the Lime in the bottom dry or use it presently This washt Lime with Oyls of Roses or fresh Butter and white Wax makes an Oyntment or with whites of Eggs mucilage of Quinces or Fleabane Ceruss with Milk and a little Camphire or Citrine oyntment Pomatum or Populeum for the Face Or mix this washt Lime with Hogs Grease with Oyl or Lineseed and Barley meal for a Linunent Oyl of St. Johns wort with washt Lime is excellent especially in Gun-shot Or it is good to mix the water of washt Lime with Oyl of Roses and apply it Or use this Lime water against Gun-powder fire Take Flints burnt to Lime pour Water upon them in a wooden Vessel and there wil be Fat swimming at the top use this upper Water with Oyl of Roses and a Clout hot Some use Sope against Burnings Dioscorides saith that Glew dissolved in hot Water hinders Blysters You may make Oyntments of the Ashes Pouders Oyls Hogs Grease whites of Egs and Mucilages aforesaid adding seeds of wild Rue St. Johns wort Acacia fine pouder of Glass Phrygian Stone according to Dioscorides who applieth also Stimmi with fresh Grease Or Ashes of Myrtles and yolks of Egs as also Salt peter and Oyl of Roses hinder Blysters from rising Or Ceruss and oyl of Roses washt with Rose water the white of an Eg and Camphire or the white oyntment of Rhasis or of Ceruss Or Sheeps Dung Hen or Pigeon Dung with Oyl of Roses or Line seed the Vulgar take out Fire with Cow dung Dioscorides saith that Salt and Oyl prevent Pustles others uss Niter and Oyl of Egs. Dioscorides useth Milk and Water Or Foment with Coleworts or Cabbage Broath or with that of Turneps or use the distilled Water lay Colewort leaves on to hinder the Inflammation and discuss Or use the Decoction of Ivy Privet Plantane Henbane seeds to cure Itching Or distilled Water of Flowers of Verbascum Plantane and Henbane seed to hinder Pustles from rising with red Sanders and Camphire Aqua vitae is good against Bruises and also Burnings And cold Water hinders Blysters from rising And so doth Juyce of Fennel and white Wine You must not forcibly pul off an Eschar from a Burning for the pain and bleeding wil increase and the hurt wil be larger but with Lenifiers and Ripners applied let it fall off of it self we can scarce get it off in eight daies and then we take it off with Forceps with little cutting Butter spread upon a Colewort or Mallow leaf makes the Eschar fall off Or the yolk of an Egg and Butter or Oyl of Roses or Hogs or Hens Grease you may add Althaea roots or Colewort leaves stamped or other Emollients Or Take Colewort leaves and Althaea roots and other Emollients crude or boyled Also Triapharmacum Galeni and Tetrapharmacum are good to make an Eschar fall off A Wound is larg or narrow or both The Cure of Wounds in divers parts made by Cutts Blows or Gunshot or venemous of these kinds we shal shew divers Cures We shal speak hereafter of a Wound compounded with a Phlegmon which may happen to an Ulcer First then of the large Wound whither by a Cutt or Prick called a Puncture or by Gun-shot or the like or by Contusion we shal speak together Among which that which is broad and dividing the part perforating and laming the more superficial and aequal it is and hath less hurt the part the sooner it is cured that which is otherwise is more difficult especially a Contusion for in that the flesh bruised and Blood flowing thither presently suppurateth and ulcerateth and a wound in the Membrane and Nerves about the Joynts and when the Nerves or Great Veins or Arteries are divided these are dangerous by reason of Bleeding Resolving or Contraction They are commonly deadly with pain through the Scull and to the Brain and Membranes or through the Breast or Belly to the Bowells yet we have cured Wounds in the Lungs and Guts and Bladder and Womb leaving it open below for Dung and Urine to pass out and some say they have cured Wounds in the Brain and other noble parts For the Cure Let the Diet be such as may keep the Body clean the Belly be kept open and a Vein opened if need require and the Strength preserved and the accidents removed as Bleeding in large Wounds and loss of Parts or Inflammation from Gunshot or Bruise or great pain this is don by Blood letting and other Revulsions and things mentioned in Wounds with Inflammations and by binding Plasters and Blood stanchers And in respect of a wound if there be any thing within that hurts it it must be removed first of all and then if the lips of the Wound be farr distant they must be united and lastly you must labour to make them grow together Thus If any part or peice of a Sword or other Instrument or Bullet which often falls deep or peice of Glass or Splinter it must be taken out with Forceps with Teeth or a Cranes bill and if you cannot lay hold of it as being a Bullet open the wound to come at it so you must also do by broken Bones that are loose And if any part be so cut away that it cannot be united to grow together it must be cut off afterwards if the wound be in a hairy part it must be shaved off that it fall not into the wound and all dust or Filth must be wiped or washed away with a clean Sponge dipt in red Wine which will repell and glutinate you may for a shift use hot water When parts cannot grow together we joyn them togethet nor in smal wounds when the Lips are not farr asunder and when the Skin grows to the parts beneath though it be cut Therefore in Head wounds there needs no stitching nor in longe Cutts as when a Stone is taken out of the Bladder In other parts the remote lipps of the Skin that is divided also the Muscles and Tendons and whatsoever is at distance must be joyned together and so kept some dayes This is the first business for a Chyturgeon in dressing of Wounds Sometimes by Ligatures alone sometimes by Plasters also we joyn and keep the lips of wounds together by a Rowler made of old soft Linnen not so streight as to cause Pain and Imflammation which sometimes Gangreens nor so loose that the Lips may not exactly meet together according to the Longitude and Latitude of the Wound The Chyrurgeons make a threesold Ligature the first is called retentive which is made in those parts where we must not bind hard as in the Neck and Breast or in Wounds that are so full of pain that they cannot abide it This is done by a single Rowler which is laid at the end upon the Wound and
the pain be great pour in hot sallet Oyl or of Chamaemel Dil Rue Or drop or lay on with a pledget Oyl of St. Jhons wort Turpentine Worms Mastich or Savin or if the pain be great Oyl of yolks of Eggs or the fruit of Momordica Or Oyl of Lovage with Grease of a Lyon and Wax makes a rare Oyntment Or Oyl with Turpentine Rosin Opopanax Sagapenum Euphorbium or Sulphur vivum dissolved in it Or other Balsoms mentioned in Wounds Or apply Turpentine with the yolk of an Egg and Saffron Or Leaves of Groundsil with Frankincense according to Dioscorides and leaves of the lesser Dracunculus with Coutchineel When the puncture is by a Thorn or Needle make a Pultis of Hemp leaves with the white of an Egg and Vinegar To draw things fastned in a puncture use the Plaster of Garlick by Aetius made of Garlick Niter Pitch marrow of a Deer Wax and Oyl Or Leaven and Propolis with Honey and wax Or Snails taken out of their shels and Earth-worms bruised or boyled in wine and mixed with meal Ordinary Flies bruised and applied draw out splinters When a Thorn is drawn out wash with the Decoction of red Pease or with old white Wine when the vein is pricked Or apply pouder of Crabs Eyes Harts-horn and Earth-worms with Honey and Turpentine Or give the Wound-drink mentioned for they work so strongly that they wil not only expel from inward but outward parts If a puncture suppurate cure it as an Ulcer If there be Inflammation cure it as a wound with Inflammation If a Convulsion or Palsie or Contraction follow cure it as is shewed in them Wounds or Punctures poysoned from a Sword weapon Dart The Cure of venemous and poisoned wounds Strokes and Bites or Bullet poysoned with evil juices or otherwise or from biting of Serpents weasels mad Dogs of which in Hydrophobia or fear of water or from Scorpions Spiders are according to the Venome better or worse As when it is from a Scorpion it is most dangerous or when the wound is great which cause great Accidents and leave stubborn Ulcers some have only Heat and a little Pain and are not so bad except that cause inflammation and so a stubborn Ulcer such come from our Snakes and Spiders which are not so dangerous as these from Vipers and Phalangies And the stinging of Bees is such in all which though the Hurt be small the pain is great If the Venome be great you must labour to draw it out and then cure the wound Thus. Give Antidotes suddainly to resist poyson and proper as Treacle Mithridate Antidote of Esdras Also that of Skinkey Bloods Earth of Lemnos mentioned by Galen The Electuary of Asa by Mesue and others mentioned by Dioscorides and Nicander Or that of Mathiolus and that so much comended made of Laurel called the Saxon Antidote and others mentioned in the Plague and in Madness And in a poisoned wound if you use Bole earth of Lemnos and Mummy they both resist Poyson and heal Or this Decoction that heals and tesists poyson made of Roots of swallow wort Valerian Tormentil wild Angelica steept in Vinegar and Leavs of Scabious Nettles small Valerian Flowers of Conval Lillies and Perwincle boyled in wine Or Juice of Dittany Scorzonera and Gentian Some say that Cocks or Hens dung boyled expels poyson That rare Oyl of Scorpions of Mathiolus to anoynt the pulses and Arteries resists all poysons as he saith Divers things are applied outward to draw forth poyson as we shewed in pestilent Carbuncles and when we spake of the biting of mad Dogs and against stinging of Scorpions and Spiders Burning Cutting and Cupping are good And things applied that resist Venom As this plaster Take Pigeon or Hens dung an ounce pouder of Dittany two drams Niter a dram with Hares grease Oyl of bitter Almonds and VVax make a Plaster Or this Take juyce of Scaboius Rue Onyons roasted each two ounces juyce of Anagallis with the purple Flower Sowbread each two drams great Spurge seeds a dram Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar six drams Oyl of Amber Sulphur each half an ounce Oyl of Saffron a scruple with Treacle Mithridate and Turpentine make a Plaster Galen mentions divers plasters for venemous wounds and punctures called Icosij their Ingredients are to cure wounds But this plaster called Diadictamnum is more proper to draw out splints and poyson and so is Vnguentum Macedonium You may find in Dioscorides and Nicander specifical medicines against particular Venoms as a bruised Scorpion or the Oyl thereof against the sting of a Scorpion of biting of mad Dogs we have spoken In other Bites or stingings which cause burning rather than Venom with tumor and dolour you must use things accordingly for stinging of Bees use Potters Earth and herbs that abate tumor mentioned in phlegmon and things mentioned in Burnings are good against stinging For Biting of Fleas and Gnats they cause but a little itching and a spot and small tumor therefore we shall omit them In wounds with Saws or rugged weapons the torn flesh must be cut away presently or taken away with an actuall or potential Cautery The Cure of wounds unequally divided and the wounds made even and cured as others If an Ulcer come frm a wound or an Imposthume which we call sordid The Cure of plain hollow filthy lousie eating spreading and malignant Vlcers whether it be plain hollow or sinewous and not covered over or putrid lousie or that sweats out water or follows a paronychia or Felon or comes of foul Juyce and nourished therewith which is eating or spreading or malignant as in the French pox and Elephantiasis they must be cured alike because in many things they agree afterward we shal shew the cure of Ulcers that have a Callus or covering or flesh or preternatural tumor We shewed the cure of Ulcers with Cancer Carbuncle Ring-worm and Scabs in the Cure of Tumors and pustles Those Ulcers which come from wounds or Imposthumes the less hollow they are the sooner they are cured Foul lousie Ulcers are hardest especially in Nervous parts that gleet water because they make the joynts unmovable or Gangraeene or the Fellon-ulcer that eats off the Joynts of the Fingers when they are nourished with evil Jnyce they are worst as Eating corroding or spreading Ulcers these last long and are somtimes incurable especially if they be in a part depending as in the Foot so that the humor descends continually to them and when they are nourished with a vein adjoyning they either must not be cured lest the humor being stopt cause worse accidents or cannot And such as take off the skin as rotten bark of a tree are dangerous by reason of the Bones or Gristles which they foul as in the Nose and Ears which destroy the parts Also malignant Ulcers in Womens privities or Mens yards are long a curing and somtimes consume the part They which from the French pox are not cured til the Pox is cured Ulcers in
the skin clean from hair called Psilothra this they do by a caustick Power by burning and if they burn strong as we said of hot water the Roots will be taken off and a Scar will be in the Skin so that they never will grow again This is to be done warily and if the place be burnt cured as a burn Some Medicines work otherwise then by caustick or burning by a secret propriety which are mixed with causticks to keep hairs from returning besides these there are some which have an astringent Faculty by which they hinder hair which do drive back the Nourishment And cheifly to keep hair from growing again they use Narcoticks or Stupefactives supposing that they repel them by their great coldness but they being not cold must do it by another way of Digestion which we have shewed to be their property or they are used to take away the pain by Causticks so they were used mixed with other things at first and after they were supposed to be applied for the hindering of that groweth of hair These Medicines which take of Hair or hinder it from growing either by way of Oyntment or Pouder are made of the Simples following First from Plants as the Roots of Osmund-royall of Cypress take off hair according to Dioscorides the Meal of Lupins with Oyl and Vinegar the red Berries of Briony take away hair hence the Plant is called a Psilothron to which you must add Vinegar when they are bruised least they cause Ulceration The juyce of Spurge doth it excellently but it inflameth easily therefore it must be mixed with the white of an Egg or Oyl the Juyce of the wild Cowcumber doth the like other Juyces keep them from growing as of Fumitory Coleworts especially Narcoticks as of Henbane Hemlock and Poppies The distilled Water of the same doth the like as also the Water of Stonecrop and Housleek the water that drops from a Vine that is burnt is good also also Gum of Ivy dissolved in any proper Water is much commended From living Creatures these are good the sea Hare and the Urtica beaten and laid on saith Dioscorides Also Ants beaten together with their Eggs are commended if applied Also Ants Eggs with the Milk of a Bitch or meal of Lupins with strong Vinegar Moles green Froggs and Horsleeches poudered or burned and applied with Oyl or Grease are also good also Salamanders and Glow-worms mixed and beat together with Ants Eggs are of much force also Swallows Dung and Vinegar also Batts blood Ftogs blood Snails with Vinegar Moles with Vitrioll Bitchs Milk Ox Gall black Chickens and Dogs piss The Decoction of a Mole with salt Water till the water be almost gone takes away hair but brings white in their stead Dioscorides commends the Oyl wherein a Salamander of the Sea hath been boiled They say Salt often thrown upon the Head takes away hair and the crocus of Iron with Oyl Of Compounds this following is the best Take of quick Lime one ounce of Orpment one dram or one dram and an half add a little of the white of an Egg and Barbers Sudds anoint the place with your Finger and a quarter of an hour after wash it with the Sudds if they go not off increase the quantity of Orpment and so continue till you have done it some mix these with French Soape The Turks have a thing called Rusma it comes out of the Earth and is like skales of Iron but lighter black and as it were burnt which is best of all and the Women use it much as Belloniuc saith because it makes the parts smooth without burning leaving no sign of hair they take the half of this Pouder half of the Pouder of quick Lime and steep them in Water and wash therewith and afterwards in the Bath they wipe the part and the Hairs comes off This Rusma is a kind of Shoemakers black or vitrioll called Sory or Melanteria it is like it by Description other things to take off hair are made thus Take of unsleked Lime one ounce of Orpiment half a dram pouder them and boyl them in water or Lie then use it others use the ashes of Harts-horn with as much Orpimens boyled in rain-Rain-water the Pouder of Orpiment mined with juyce of Henbane takes off hair and they will not grow again and the Juyce is to prevent pain Another Take of Orpiment one dram of Gum of Ivy five drams of Ants Eggs bruised one spoonefull and mix them with Vinegar you may add the blood of a Bat or of Froggs or Juyce of Henbane least they should grow again some use the Decoction of Spurge in Vinegar with Quick-lime and least they should excorias they boyl Mallows therewith or add Milk This water takes off Hair and keeps it from growing again Take of salt Peeter eight ounces of Allnm six ounces beat them together and distill a water with which wash the part and when it is dry wash it again A Lye in which Nettle roots have been boyled and a rusty Horse-shoe steeped doth the same if after the part be shaved you wash the place there with thrice every day To hinder their growing again this is the chief Medicine Take of the Juyce of the Narcotick herb afore mentioned two ounces of the blood of a Bat half an ounce and add thereto Gum of Ivy or half an ounce of the Mucilage of Fleabane or of pouder of Ceruse and burnt Lead each one dram or Take of Opium half an ounce of Sanguis Draconis one ounce and an half boyl them in Vinegar adding the Juyce of Henbane a distilled Water of Henbane Poppy Hemlock Housleek and Stonecrop with the bloods afore mentioned and Allum and Vinegar is approved Hair cannot be pulled off otherwise many together would cause pain and one by one require much time therefore a very sticking Plaister laid some time upon the part and drawn off will do it for this purpose Take of the Rosin of the Fir-tree or of the Larix-tree four spoonefulls of Mastich poudered as much as a small Nut dissolve and boyl them a little alwaies stirring them and then powr them into cold water and make a Plaister It is otherwise made with Colophony and a little Gum Ammoniack or Galbanum for so the Skin being mollified and enlarged the hairs come forth more easily If you add something which will pull hairs forth it will work both actually and potentially as Gum of Ivy or thus Take of Pitch half an ounce of Mastich or Gum of Ivy three drams of Orpiment one dram and an half with Rosin make a Plaister You may take hairs off with Scissors but better with a Raysor first washing with warm Sudds but then the Roots will appear and arise suddenly again and the oftner you shave the thicker they will grow therefore shaving will but palliate and not take away this Deformity The skin must be a little seared not to take away the hairs because they may better be cut away but to hinder
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 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
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
body by which it passeth with crude blood to the nourishing of the Parts and as the blood nourisheth them with crude Juyce so this watereth them And the Cause of the mixture of this serous Humor with the crude is the abundance of it in the Veins When there are Causes which produce these serous Humors joyned with the weakness of the Bowels that do sanguifie or make blood so that they cannot sufficiently compleat it as we shewed in the Leucophlegmacy Among which this was chief the immoderate increase thereof which most say is in the Liver and is Naturally produced at the second Concoction so that if the Liver be weakned or cooled because it cannot make the Chylus into Blood they say it turns it into Whey But these Arguments may proove that Whey and Serum is not made in the Liver but in the first Concoction and it takes its form presently from thence because being partly made in the Stomach with the Chyle of the best Juyce some part thereof is thinner as Whey in Milk and is of the same use with the Chylus of which it is a part and comming partly from the Humors abounding through eating and drinking and made thinner it hath the form of Whey and being sent into the Guts with other Excrements it is carried from the Mescraick Veins into the hollow Vein with the Chylus and without it as we see some who piss out Drink too much taken presently being suddenly snatcht to the Liver Hence it is that we must attribute the abundance of Serum to too much drinking and use of moist things which administer matter unto it rather then to the fault of the Liver except we will as some do call that crude Juyce which is made by defect in the Liver a serous Humor or because the separation of the Whey imperfect at the makeing of the Blood cannot be handsom but there is more Whey in the Blood then is needful and is not separated as in other places makes it more watery for this cause we may pronounce that the Serum or Whey is not only made by the Liver but also gathered into the Veins more plentifully And so to determine the Leucophlegmacy comes from the weakness of the Liver And this is chiefly when there is not a sufficient Evacuation by Urin the attractive Faculty of the Kidneys being weakned or when usual sweating is stopped which may be the only Cause without the Distemper of the Liver of water in the Veins And this is sooner when the Diet is such as breeds water These causes meeting make a Leucophlegmacy in which the whey or water called Serum is more then the crude Juyce or such as comes from only Serum when the Imbecillity of the Liver is absent As we have seen some who have swollen only by drinking a great Draught without fetching breath when they were very hot by reason of the Heat which carried the Humor suddenly into the Veins and thence into the Habit of the Body and the same hath been when a body hot and sweating was exposed to the Air through the strikeing in of the water And it sometimes happens that the water being carried from the Meseraick Veins into the Belly from the Causes aforesaid and so into the Habit of the Body that the Dropsie Ascites is produced with that called Anasarca and so they both are united Water falling into some parts and there gathered Water in the Feet may cause a swelling without a Dropsie causeth Swellings as when it is in the Feet of which we spake without the Dropsie Ascites it causeth a Tumor like that of a Dropsie being soft such as we described formerly And this is when together with the crude Nourishment which causeth Oaedematous Tumors it falls from the inferior parts into the Feet Or when in Diseases of the Feet as the Erysipelas Oedematous or the like these Excrements are carried with other Humors into the Feet and cause these Diseases and when the other are discussed the Tumor remaineth Or when by a Defluxion into the Eyes there is an Epiphora or Moistness and weeping which makes the Eye-lidds swel which was spoken of in the Eyes Or when in the Declination of other acute Diseases Nature disburdning the remainder of the Excrements with the water into the lower parts the Feet do swell and the sooner because having long kept the bed and their Feet up when they begin to walk the Humors flow downward This tumor of the Feet in men that are in Health is counted a good sign because the reliques are so carried away And because such thin Humors are quickly discussed it continueth not long unless it be such as shewed it self at first in the Feet which a Dropsie followed this deceiveth many and it may be discovered by other accidents which accompany a Dropsie We have formerly shewed that there hath been a Tumor in the skin Water in the Leggs the cause of particular tumors there upon the Longitude thereof only from a serous humor and because it came suddenly it was a sign that it t would go suddenly away though it pitted with strong Impression And this was sent by Nature by reason of the plenty of it as appeared by the Parties continual Sweating and by reason of the thinness and sharpness which caused Itching And there was also a Loosness of the Feet and a contraction If water be sent under the skin into any outward part Water gathered under the skin of the Head the cause of Hydrocele if it separate the skin from the part and fill the space between it causeth a Tumor as under thick skins of the Head in the Tumor called Hydrocelephale comming from plenty of water there breeding and gathered together And when water is under the skin of the Navel Water in the Navel is the cause of Hydronphalon the Tumor called Hydromphalon is raised being carried thither by the Navel-vein enlarged or by reason of the plenty thereof or from other causes while the Passage is not dryed as we shewed in a Dropsie may be When water is in the Eye-brows there is a swelling Water in the Eye-brows Cause of their Swelling and the sooner with tears and rubbing because they will often Itch. Somtimes there is a sudden Defluxion of Blood into the Eye with water with Swelling and Redness as if there had been a stroak comming and going about the ball of the Eye These have I seen in two Children of evil Habit of Body having pain in the Limbs and the running Gout Also when water is under the scarfe Skin Water under the skin of the Eye the Cause of Phlyctana if it be separated from the parts beneath and the Mouths of the Veins that end there and stop them causeth the Bladder called Phlyctaena And this will be so in other parts The cause is the abundance of whey brought thither and hindered from passing through the Pores by Sweat and therefore it getteth under the skin and lifteth it
up And if this be salt or sharpe provoking Nature and in divers parts It causeth those watery Pustles in the Itch called Hydroae Also another external force may cause the same when the scarfe skin is raised as also by rubbing or burning as we shewed Wind begets some of the Tumors aforesaid differing according to their parts as in the Belly Codds Stomack and Guts or the like Wind gathered and kept in the cavity of the Belly Wind comming from other parts into the hollow of the Belly or bred there is the cause of the simple Tympany or if with water of the Ascites is the chief Cause of the Dropsie called Tympany and it is seldom without water And it must be in the cavity of the belly and stretch it forth very large and we may know there is wind by the sound thereof when it is beaten And somtimes there is a pricking pain by reason of the Distension of the Membranes These winds getting into the belly because no parts beneath in which it may be retained so plentifully must needs come from the Stomach and the Guts But the doubt is which way for it seems impossible that they should come through the blind Passages of the Stomach and Guts ' because they are easily held in with the smallest Membrane and a thin Humor will with more ease sweat out then wind break forth And it is plain that they come not from solution of Continuity in the bowels because then the Chyle of other Excrements would also come forth Therefore it is probable that if wind be carried from the Stomach and Guts into the Belly it first gets into the little mouths of the Meseraick Veins and from them as we shewed the water doth into the cavity of the Belly And this appears in that the water may come the same way which is commonly mixed with the wind except as some say the wind passing by the inward Tunicle of the Guts into the outward and piercing through the mesentery where it is joyned unto them get in and being contained between two Tunicles at length gets through them into the Belly and whether it come this way or that it is rare as also the Tympany and not but from abundance of wind by which the Guts are so distended that they are so thin that wind may pass through And this cannot be except it be so inclosed in the Guts that it can find no other way upward or downward This abundance of wind is continually made in the Guts and Stomach from great weakness therein turning that by its weak Heat into wind which should have been concocted from whence also may come the Dropsie called the Tympany from wind and water if the Liver be weakned also and water be mixed Now the great Obstruction and gathering together of the Guts causeth that it cannot go forth downwards by its Natural Passage and therefore the pain of the Colick comes first with the binding of the Belly as we shewed in those Diseases and from what Causes they came And if they continue and the wind be carried into the Belly as we said the Belly will begin to swell and the pain of the Cholick remains as at fiâ—st with the binding or costiveness of the Body till by continual dilatation or Enlargement a way is made that the wind which was in the Guts may have a free Passage and cause no more pain and if this wind break away yet that which is without the Guts doth not but the belly is swollen and the pain of the Cholick is turned to a Tympany If dropsie Bodies were often anatomized it would be found out that wind in a Tympany doth sometimes get into the space or vacuity of the Belly by reason of some manifest Solution of continuity in the Stomach or Guts which were before stretched exceedingly thereby or by some other waies and this may hence be collected because it is the worst of all Dropsies therefore the hurt ought to be great and if it were so in an Ascites it would be incurable And if the Solution of continuity be so great that the Chyle and the Excrements also get into the belly it will sooner kill but if only water and wind without thick Matter as it may be the life will be prolonged Besides this Cause of the Tympany which comes from the wind of the Guts getting into the belly there is another which comes from wind bred in the cavity of the belly And this is when the watery Humor with which the belly is alwaies moistned sweateth too plentifully from the Meseraick Veins or comes too fast from the Mouths of them and turns into wind which retained for want of passage causeth a Tympany And if the whol Humor turn into wind which is seldom it will be a simple Tympany but if mixed with water a Compound which is most usual In which kinds if water abound not over much and falls not into the Feet or other parts from the cavity of the Belly nor causeth Swelling any where else neither can it be discovered in the belly But if there be so much by the continual Increase thereof that the Tumor of the Belly not only extends it but causeth a Noise of Water falling into one side when the Patient turns and the water falls into the Feet there is an Ascites with the Tympany Now the Cause of this wind turning into water in regard we have shewed in Ascites the cause that brings it into the belly may be the Heat of the inward Bowels which maketh the water turn into a Vapor or thick Wind as it may do in in any part of the body where there is space and Humidity As we have shewed that in the Ascites when water is carried from the cavity of the belly into the Codds it makes the Tumor called Hydrocele or Water-rupture so when wind comes from the same part into the Codd and puffeth it up it causeth the Pneumatocele or windy Rupture Which we never saw in a Tympany and it is seldom alone and when it is there is commoly water with it But by wind brought thither that Swelling in the Codds which comes with the pains of the Cholick and vanisheth presently may be produced Nevertheless the cause of both is the dilating of the Passages of the Peritonaeum and it is less when wind only with a little Moisture gets by degrees into the Codds This Dilatation or stretching in Pâ—eumatocele or Wind-rupture may come from divers Causes mentioned in Hernia especially in young tender Bodies which are subject to these as well as other ruptures by crying and the easier if there be wind in the belly as it useth to be without a Dropsie in those that are sound otherwise being made of water turned into wind as in all vacuities of the body it may be and we shewed a Tympany cometh the same way and though the wind be not much and disperseth it self yet if there be a Passage to the Scrotum open it will get
thither For which reason this puffed Swelling in the Codd which staies long comes from the straining which dilates the Passage by wind that breaks through by which Passage after the force is over the wind comes back into the belly and the Codd ceaseth to swell neither doth it return without a new force be raised Winds detained in the Guts and belly which are not gotten into the cavity do not only produce the Cholick Wind kept in the Guts and stomach is the cause of the Tympany of the Gutâ— but if they be so inclosed that for want of Passage they swell the belly they may produce a kind of Tympany more easily then when the wind breaks into the belly as we have found in those whom we took to have the Tympany and had no wind in the cavity of the belly after they were dead nor did the belly asswage But the Guts especially the thin were so stretched with wind that when they were forth we could not get them in again and we wondered how they could be contained in the belly before it was opened And in one we found them made so thin by stretching that they were not only shining and clear like a blown bladder but when they were broken they sent the Excrements violently forth with the wind And the Cause of this Tympany is the same with the other that is wind and gathering of the guts or great Obstruction as we shewed and hence it is that in this kind of Tympany they neither break wind nor go to stool for a long time When wind is gathered in the Stomach it makes it swell visibly Wind contained in the stomack is the cause of the swelling of the stomach wind in the Guts is cause of the Cholick and Tumor thereof and this is the Inflation of the stomach mentioned whose cause we shewed in the Diseases in the Stomach and when wind lying in the turning of the Guts causeth little Tumors in those parts we have shewed the Cause thereof in the Cholick When wind gets into other parts and spaces of the body Wind under all the Skin is the cause of a general Tumor either alone or with water it causeth Tumors As when it is every where under the skin it causeth the general Swelling of the body which comes suddenly and lifts the skin from the body as they who make a hole through the skin and blow therein that they may the more easily take the Feathers off from the Quils And though this Swelling comes seldom and it is difficult to be yet somtimes Nature either by the abundance of wind dispersed in the body especially if there be water joyned therewiâ—â— being offended violently throws it to the extream parts under the skin And this may be when Nature stirred up by Poyson taken in or by the sting of a venemous beast or by poysonous Humors labours to expel the same Also this general Tumor of the whol body with difficulty of breathing comming from the stretchingof the Muscles between the Ribbs or the like may be as I have shewed by the suppression of Sweat which comes by violent exercise through the Coldness and Moistness of the Air and this after purging is easier cured with sweating Also in certain parts there are peculiar Tumors from wind under the skin VVind creeping under certain places of the skin is the cause of the Tumors called Physodes and windy Oedema and if they be simple they are called Physodes and windy blisters but if the wind be joyned with a crude and serous Humor they are called Oedemata or windy Tumors which as they may come of their own accord from an internal Cause in divers parts of the body so may they come from without as when the Hair is pull'd hard we find the skin blown up with wind which got in upon the Pulling of it up and we see the Hands and Feet swell with cold which bindeth the skin lifts it up and straineth out the thin Moisture If wind be under the scarfe skin and blister it VVind under the scarfe skin is the cause of Phlyctaenae or wind Blisters wind between the Muscles is the caus of the Cramp the Blistes called Phlyctaenae do come from thence such as are mixed with wind and water If wind between the Muscles it causeth Tumor and Cramp of which we spake If it get under any external Membranes or the Periostium which is the skin upon the bone and cause a Tumor because it is with pain we spake of it in the Causes of windy pains when it gets into other internal cavities as of the Breast Head Womb because it produceth other accidents besides manifest Tumors of which we only here spake we refer you to them That wind getting under the skin and and Membranes under it in the fore part of the Neck VVind under the Skin and Membranes of the Neck the cause of Bronchocele causeth the Tumor called Broncocele appears in that the skin in that part of the Neck seems extended and lifted up and when it is beaten it sounds as if the air only were underneath The Cause of which Air there gathered is nothing but loosness of the skin plucked up when the Membrane which is above the Neck is more red and thick from the rough Artery and the Muscles of the Neck before which lie under it making a space underneath into which the Air or Wind got under to avoid vacuity not only filling it and making the skin and membrane swell but in by stretching causing it to increase Hence it is that we do not only make the wind to be the Cause of this Tumor but the separation of parts which were joyned by small Fibres which being torn a sunder or broken cause this Disease to be called a Rupture or breaking of the Throat or about it Albeit some think this Tumor comes from Rheum falling from the Head but this cannot be because of the not pitting thereof with the Impression of the finger nor from water and if these two Humors should produce this Disease and they should be contained there long they would produce other putrid Infirmities which they perceive not And that shortness of breath and Hoarsness comes not from any humor but from a stretching by which the free motion of the Throat is hindered Nor do we deny that Defluctions may be carried thither in this Dsease as well as into other spaces and that other excrements may be there collected but that these will not cause this Tumor in regard when they are discussed the Tumor remaineth But the chief cause of this separation of the Membranes is violent straining in Child-birth when the breath is held in the time of Delivery or when they blow strongly with the Mouth and this appears by the Swelling of the jugular Veins of the Neck from which the Membranes are divided and when the Spirits are driven into the Neck by the Veins and Arteries the wind carried thither also may
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
increase of water in the Belly with good Diet and such things as consume Water as we shewed in the weakness of the Stomach And if there be any fault perceived in the Bowels ordained for Sanguification or making of blood you must use things mentioned in a Cachexy And if we perceive by the return of it again speedily that this Swelling comes from the falling down of the Peritonaeum you must keep it up with such Remedies as were mentioned in fleshy Ruptures called Epiplocele and Enterocole and if they prevail not you must use a Truss or Ligature to keep it up first making incision in the Groin as in other Relaxations and Ruptures And because this is dangerous for loss of life or one stone it must not be done but upon great Necessity especially in a Hydrocele which is less troublesom and may be cured by a Puncture The watery Tumor in t he Groin The Cure of the watery Tumor in the Groin in Women being like the Hydrocele in men is cured the same way applying things that consume water The Cure of the Swelling about the Navel called Hydromphalus The Cure of Hydromphalus of the Navel is by external Applications and manual Operation The Hydrocephalus being a tumor of the Head The Cure of Hydrocephalus is hardly cured with outward Applications because the skin is there so thick that the matter cannot de digested but when you have tried the best Medicines mentioned in Oedema and the Dropsie without success you may easily cure it by cutting or burning and the safer because there is no danger of great loss of blood If the Eye-brows be swollen either they fall by actual Heat The Cure of swolen Eye-lidds or by Fomentations the Eyes being shut or discussing oyntments mentioned in the watery Oedema Phlyctaenae or little Bladders full of water either depart of themselves The Cure of Phlyctaenae or by pricking or cutting to let out the water and then the cut may be cured Hydroata or water Pustles are little and many The Cure of Hydroata called Saren in high Dutch If these vex by itching because they argue much salt or cholerick Water he must be purged with things mentioned in the Itch and they must be opened to let out the water to which the itching calls the Nails or they must be pricked with a Needle and afterwards the Scabs are to be cured as we shewed The Cure of Bladders in the Eyes was shewed when we speak of their pains you must cure all windy Tumors as a Tympany of the belly or as the puffing up of the whol body is cured at first And after it be in the Codd called Pneumatocele or in the Throat called Bronchocele or a Physodes you must look to Particulars There are three sorts of Tympanies from divers causes two are more usual the first comes from wind onely in the Guts the other from wind and water in the cavity of the belly the third is very seldom which comes from wind only shut up in the cavity of the belly we will declare what is to be done in all three The first kind of Tympany which comes from wind not gathered into the cavity of the Belly The Cure of the Tympany of the Guts but in the Stomach and Guts which so stretcheth them that the belly swelleth if it come from rouling together of the Guts or from some old Obstruction and if the Guts be made exceeding thin thereby so that they cannot again come to their former condition or be broken as we have known with a little force It is for the most part desparate but if this stretching or stoppage hath not been so old so that it seems rather like a Cholick from wind then a true Tympany then there is Hope of cure And it is thus begun by opening again the Passages of the Guts and that speedily and chiefly with Glysters which by softning and pricking do loosen the Belly and discuss the wind or by purges such as are mentioned in the cholick and in the binding of the belly where we have been so large that we need not repeat them again But in the other kind of Tympany The Cure of the Tympany joyned with ascites when wind and water in the cavity of the belly cause it to swell which is most treated of because most usual because the Tympany and Ascites meet being both dangerous the case is worse The Cure of this differs not much from that of Ascites only you must respect the weakness of the Stomach which causeth wind and whether the wind come from the Stomach or from water turned into wind you must regard both And first you must purge with such Purgers as were mentioned in Cachexy and Leucophlegmacy for to cleanse the belly and Stomach of Excrements and then purge water and wind You may use these following Take of Liqucrish one ounce and an half opening Roots each one ounce Valerian Orris and Elicampane each half an ounce Asarum two drams Mints Bettony Horehound Maiden-hair Germander each one handful Cordial flowers Broom Rosemary and Lavender flowers each one pugil Anise and Fennel seeds each two drams Parsley Sesili Endive Dodder seed each one dram Melon seeds two drams Raisons stoned one ounce Senna and Carthamus seeds each one ounce and an half Epithimum three drams and if you please two drams of Soldanella boil them in water and the third part wine infuse Rhubarb Agarick and Mechoacan each half an ounce Cinnamon Ginger and Sanders each one dram Spike and Schaenanth each half a dram Sugar as much as is sufficient for an Apozeme for three or four doses Or make this wine Take of Succory roots and Fennel roots each one ounce of Orris and Elicampane each half an ounce of Gentian and Valerian each two drams Wormwood Mints Groundpine Ceterach each one handful Topps of Centaury and Rosemary each one pugil Fennel seed half an ounce Caraway seed two drams Senna one ounce and an half Agarick Rhubarb each half an ounce Spike Schaenanth each half a dram infuse them in a sufficient quantity of wine for four or five doses Also the Clysters mentioned in Anasarca and Ascites or this for expelling Wind. Take Orris and Briony roots each one ounce and an half Gentian half an ounce Asarum two drams Bark of Elder roots one ounce Rue Mother-wort Horehound each one handful Flowers of Centaury Chamomil Dill Melilot Elder Lavender and Rosemary each one pugil Juniper and Bay-berries six drams Cummin Caraway or Fennel seeds half an ounce Parsley seed two drams Foenugreek three drams Carthamus seeds half an ounce Agarick three drams Soldanella or Roots of wild Cowcumbers two drams or leaving out the Purgers we add a little Coloquintida boil them in water and the third part wine or weak Lye and in as much of the strained Liquor as is sufficient dissolve two drams of leaven two ounces of Honey three ounces of Oyl of Rue and a little Salt make a
and Tartar burnt each half an ounce Quick-brimstone three drams Cuttlebone two drams Snails burnt to Ashes one dram Camphire one dram and an half Lytharge Tutty and Ceruss each one dram and an half mix them well for a Liniment To these may be added Oyl of Bread Corn of Raddish seed of Vipers Juyce of Sowbread and Niter Also Quick-silver may be added which though it doth not destroy the Venom either in Leprosie or French Pox yet it taketh away the accidents in the skin use it not in quantity as you do in the Pox especially if you anoint all over least it cause spitting because it will not cure an Elephantiasis apply it onely where the accidents are in the particular parts one ounce with the former Oyntments is enough if it be used all over Or make this Liniment therewith Take Vnguentum Citrinum four ounces Oyl of Eggs one ounce Oyl of Tartar half an ounce Quick-silver dissolved with Turpentine and the oyntment prescribed formerly half an ounce Juyce of Lemmons or Oranges two ounces and an half Borax two drams Roots of dragons Docks Daffodil Lillies roasted and beaten and mixed with the aforesaid two ounces Treacle of Andromachus and Oyl of Juniper added to these Oyntments will much increase their vertue Particular Applications are only to the parts affected to take away Deformity though they cannot cure And they are used to the Pustles and Ulcers external to diminish or take away or to correct them as the falling of the Hair but we must use them chiefly to internal least they produce worse accidents as in Pustles and Ulcers internal mentioned in difficulty of breathing Medicines are applied outwardly to Pustles in the Face and other parts and they are of dryers and cleansers or Causticks that is burners As we shewed the blackness of the skin in the Discourse of Pains and Spots Pustles and Freckles which Remedies may be used here either gentle strong or burning when Pustles are to be taken off These are applied in divers formes Distilled Waters are used for the Face of things that corrode not As this Take Brimstone six ounces Tartar calcined two ounces Sal Niter Crystal calcined each one ounce Frankincense Myrrh each three drams Camphire one dram Juyce of Docks four ounces Juyce of Lemmons two ounces Rose Bean-flowers Lilly flower or Plantane water one pinse distil them Another Water Take Tartar calcined four ounces Borax half an ounce Frankincense or Mastick two drams sugar candy one ounce Camphire one dram pouder them and mix them with Mucilage of Fleabane or of Gum Traganth in Bean-flower water or Water-lillies six ounces three Whites of Eggs beaten Juyce of Lemmons or Oranges two or three ounces distil them in an Alembeck Other Waters mentioned in Discoloration which have Urine Tartar and Sublimate are here good and those for a red Face for Lytharge and Tartar and the like and those for Spots made of Tartar A white Liquor for the Face like Virgins Milk Take Lytharge one ounce and an half Vinegar six ounces Juyce of Lemmons or Oranges two ounces Allum or Sal Gem. two drams Tartar calcined half an ounce Camphire one scruple steep them and stir them often or boyl them a little if you must use them presently Or boyl in strong white Vinegar equal parts of Sulphur Niter and Crystal finely poudered and wash the face with it strained There are others mentioned in a red Face and in Discoloration of Brimstone and Milk and Lytharge also Lac virginis or Virgins Milk so called There are divers Oyntments for the parts mentioned in Discoloration as Unguentum citrinum for the Face and in a red Face and other Spots made of Juyce of Plants of Oyl of Eggs Tartar and Hellebore of the Blood of an hare and Galls especially of a wild Goat approved by Dioscorides also Oyl of a Lizard Another Oyntment excellent against pustles Take aloes three drams Asarum roots one dram both Hellebors each half a dram staphisagre one scruple Coloquintida half a scruple with Bulls gall make an Oyntment for the Face Oyntments made of Quick-silver mentioned in Discoloration and in the French Pox are good here Some extol this steep two or three Eggs a long time in strong Vinegar till the shell be consumed then beat them with the fourth part of Vinegar and add Frankincense for the Face and it is stronger with black Soap The Causticks against pustles made of Sublimate for the most part are mentioned in the Cure of Spots in Discoloration Also Cauteries these we may use in the Elephantiasis Or this Take Unguentum Citrinum Oyl of Tartar each half an ounce Juyce of Lemmons one ounce sublimate half a dram Vipers or Hens grease half an ounce make a Liniment for the Face Some gather the Worms that breed in a Viper that is buried and dry them and mix them with Cantharides and sharp Vinegar to an Oyntment To wash off the Oyntments and other things take a decoction of Bran and Beans shaled Pease Rice Barley Lupines bruised not in Meal least it turns to a past in boyling adding the Flowers of Beans Water-lillies and an Orange cut in pieces Or wash with bean-flower-Bean-flower-water or the Decoctions mentioned for a red Face In outward creeping hard Ulcers many mentioned for pustles are good and these in pains for malignant ulcces are here good We spake of Medicines against falling of the Hair in deformation In the internal pustles of the Nose Palate Jawes we use those mentioned for other Ulcers and when the Vvula is eaten off and there is Hoarsness as we shewed Also we give things mentioned in shortness of Breath and Hoarsness and if the Nose be stopped you may know there what to do When a fleshy red skin grows in the Eye least it cover the sight and cause Blindness it must be presently prevented with things mentioned in the Cure of the skin or film of the Eye if the Eye brows are red or rough there are Remedies The French Pox albeit it comes from an external hidden Venom The Cure of the French Pox. yet daily Experince shews it is curable yet with pains and more when it is old and deep rooted and hath many evil accidents of which some remaining when the rest are cured and are incurable The Cure is general of the whol Pox or particular of its accidents The general Cure which respecteth the Pox and its accidents is in taking away the Cause that is the Venom brought into the Body by Infection and the Disease that it caused That is the Quality or hurtful Distemper in the skin and Membranes Experience hath taught us that this is done by Evacuations and Reason sheweth how that is when the Excrements desire to be expelled with other Humors by Sweats and other waies they discharge the Venom also And the sooner if the evacuating Medicines have a secret force or manifest quality of drawing out the poyson and consuming it then it is better drawn out and the evil quality departeth
of water thereto boyl it to half and strain it This they may drink freely at Meate and othertimes and it will not be unpleasant when they are used to it especially if you add a little Cinnamon or Sugar or Raisons boyled therein others add many things as Liquorish which causeth a Physical tast and make them loath it except you put Wine to it which is allowed but in great weakness Sleep is allowed not only at night but in the morning and before supper when they Sweat because it doth not only provoke sweat but being at rest they better indure it Let him walk about the Chamber use Frictions or Rubbings especially after Sweat let him Comb and Rub his Head Also You must keep the Belly loose which is apt to be bound by fasting and sweating Let him beware of Venery and refresh his Mind with Sport Discourse and Musick You must alwaies purge before you begin to give Guiacum for sweating to void the thick Humors and Excrements And somtimes you must purge in the time of the Dyet the rather if the Body be fowl that the Cure may proceed the better because it helpeth the operation of the Guiacum by taking away the cause of the Disease And because no certain humor as was shewed produceth this Disease therefore you must direct your purges to the constitution and to the quantity and quality of the Humors and Excrements Thus First give an Emollient Clyster to take away the Excrements from the Guts that may clense and be sharp such as are prescribed in many places Or a Suppository or give Cassia Manna some mollifing Decoction the the Infusion of Rubarb syrup of Roses Solutive syrup of Peach flowers Catholicon and other mild Electuaries or gentle Pills or Lozenges such as are Mentioned in other Diseases These being administred If the Body be ful let blood in the Arme which is not needful in the Flegmatick and leane Bodies except used to it Then prepare the Humors as we suppose they abound if they be Cholerick or sharp with syrup of Fumitory Hops Bugloss Mayden-hair Endive Succory Violets Apples or the like with proper Waters as of Scabious and the like and so let him take thse Juleps some daies together before Purging When they are Flegmatick and ful of pain we add the syrup of Stoechas or French Lavender which is very good made of Bettony and Hysop also Honey of Roses and the like with the waters of those Plants or of Calamints Bawm c. And when there is pain about the bones the water of ground pine and Prim-roses You may also prepare with Decoctions made of the same Herbs We put Spices as Cinnamon into those Juleps and Decoctions to make them pleasant Or Trionsantalon Diarhodon Aromaticum Rosatum Or give a Lozenge thereof after it Many times we purge and prepare at the same time mixing gentle purgers with the preparatives when they are weak and Cholerick or stronge purges when they are Flegmatick and Lusty Proper for the Humors we intend to oppose especially such as purge watery Salt and sharp Humors when there are Spots and Ulcers such as were prescribed in divers Diseases especially in the Itch. Or if there be pain about the bones we must give such as are prescribed in the Diseases of the Joynts from watry Humors We give these Apozems or Decoctions for five or six daies to prepare and purge Thus made Take the Herbs following with the Roots Succory Endive Dandelion Docks Sorrel Bugloss Capillar Herbs Scabious Germander of all five or six handfuls Fumitory Hops pot Mercury of each one handful Asparagus or Kne-holm and Grass Roots of each two ounces Cordial flowers three pugils red Roses two pugils Tamarisk flowers one pugil Prunes ten Raisons three ounces Sebestens or Jujubs twenty of the four great Cold seeds and Annis seed of each half an ounce Fennel seeds two drams Boyl them in Water or in the Decoction of Guiacum strained which is more proper And infuse Senna three ounces or four Polypody Carthamus seed of each two ounces Epithymum two drams Boyl them again and then add Sugar or Honey to sweeten it with a little Cinnamon In moist Flegmatick Bodies add these following Calamus Aromaticus or Galangal one ounce and an half Elicampane Bettony Majoram each one handful Rosemary and Lavender flowers of each one pugil tops of Time one pugil and an half Figs twelve Caraway seeds one dram and those that purge water bark of Elder and Dwarfe Elder one ounce and an half or stronger purgers Agarick or Rdubarb half an ounce Turbith three drams Soldanella two drams or in strong men who commonly have this Disease Hermodacts two drams in the pain of the bones Or half a dram of the Pulp of Coloquintida tied in a cloute which is strong or one dram and an half of black Hellebore If there be pain in the Head and Bones you must add things good against it and against Poyson as Tormentil roots and the like you may use the Decoctions mentioned for the Itch as that which begins thus Take the roots of Docks three ounces of Grass c. Or you may give purging Wines made of the simples of the former Decoction infused therein or that prescribed in the Itch. After preparation or purging with preparation we use strong purges if we suppose the Body not purged sufficiently we give strong Purges divers waies by adding to the last draught of the Decoction an Electuary or the like that purgeth or another Decoction Electuary or Pills considering the spots Pustles Ulcers and Pains Commonly they purge Melancholly that suppose it to be the cause of the Pox and therefore they give Confectio Hamech and Diasenna also Pills of Lapis Lazuli of Fumitory and others mentioned in Melancholly Diseases And we allow these in strong people because they Purge Choller and sharp Humors of all sorts Other Purges also mentioned in the Cure of the Scabs and if there be pains about the bones Pils of Hermodactils stinking Pils or Pilulae faetidae and others mentioned in Arthritis And many others mentioned in other Diseases which have both Scammony and Coloquintida which are used indifferently though many think they should purge but one Humor But Empericks and Chyrurgions presently purge without preperation before they use things that Evacuate by the habit of the Body and without choice of purges or careing what Humor so they do but purge sufficiently Therefore they give the strongest And among the rest Wine wherein an Apple of Coloquintida hath been all night infused or that wherein some of the lesser Spurge Seeds have been insused or they bid them swallow the seeds or they purge at first with the Decoction of Hellebore such as we mentioned in Cure of the Itch where we shewed how the Empericks cured the Itch and other Diseases only with Stybium infused which is good here also As also how good purging at first in many perverse Diseases hath excellent success as with the dry leaves of true
the Stomach and Guts and leaves its strength notwithstanding We give crude Quick-silver from six to eight or ten grains with somthing added to dissolve it and to carry it away for of it self it will not cause stools it is made into pils and so given every day till there be Heat and stink in the Mouth with spitting which must continue thirty daies and the Cure is compleat if general Purges went before and a good Diet with it You may make these Pills thus Take of crude Mercury half a dram kill it with Juyce of a Lemmon or Sage or of Roses or with Syrup of Roses or with Turpentine add the best Agarick two scruples make three Pills let him take every night after Midnight one and repeat them till the signs aforesaid appear Rhubarb is given instead of Agarick some mix one or two grains of Opium to the Composition to take away pain and provoke Sweat Sometimes Musk and Ambergreese or a drop of Oyl of Cinnamon to refresh it by it scent Also because Gold is good against the Venom of Quick-silver and to make them dearer they use to guild them Another Composition Take Aloes one ounce Rhubarb or Agarick two drams Mastick one dram Quick-silver killed with Turpentine two or three drams with Syrup of Roses solutive make them up adding the aforesaid Spices give one scruple at a time or more if the former work not We make these Pills stronger by adding strong Purgers which take away spitting they are given every day or every other day and Treacle between They are made thus Take of the Pills mentioned of quick-silver Rhubarb Agarick and Mastick add to the Scammony or Coloquintida prepared two drams give half a dram at a time Or thus Take Cochy and foetida Pills each half an ounce Rhubarb and Agarick each one dram Quick-silver killed with Turpentine three drams with syrup of Roses solutive make a Body for Pills let him take one scruple or half a dram as they work Mercury calcined called Precipitate is given to cure the the Pox so called because it is precipitated or thrown down into the bottom of the Glass by the fire or because it moveth the Belly downwards And then it doth not work by its Natural force as when crude but by an acquifite or new gotten Vertue by which it stirs up Nature so violently to stool and not to spitting and that not as other purges in a long time but quickly given but twice or thrice causing aboundance of vomiting and purging somtimes sweating and urin so that they are cured as by a Miracle but not without danger The way to prepare it is as followeth Take Quick-silver two ounces Aqua fortis three ounces let them stand a day or two in a Glass till it fall to the bottom like chalk pour off the Liquor by degrees till the bottom is dry or draw off the Moisture by Evaporation upon the fire or boil them to a hardness pouder that which remains and put into a Crucible or melting pot upon the fire for an hour stirring it with a stick till it be calcined and made like red Lead this they call Precipitate Take it and infuse it in Rose-water Plantane Scabious or Bettony-water at a gentle fire till all the Water be gone and the pouder remains dry then calcine it in a Crucible this pouder must be mixed with Conserve of Roses or of Apples or the like and a Pill as big as a Pease thereof given in the morning others add some Cordial or Stomach pouder others Treacle and Confectio Alkermes Some work with more pains to rectifie it that it may do less hurt first they wash it in hot water then they boyl it in Vinegar four times distilled three or four fingers above it in a close Glass for four hours then they pour off the Vinegar and boyl it again in new the third time also then they distil the Vinegar that was thrice poured off and after the vinegar is gone they take that in the bottom which is like Salt and boyl it in rain-Rain-water and when it is settled they pour off the clear top and distil it in Balneo mariae till the Liquor be gone and keep the remaining Body and this they use as the safest precipitate Others take more pains and steep it in Spirit of Wine and still with a retort and then dry it to a red Pouder it One grain of this in wine doth wonders in the Pox say the Chymists Some give Pills of precipitate with Rhubarb Senna Scammony or Hellebore Saffron and Starch with Juyce of Lemmons and give every day one I thought fit not to omit that famous Medicine of the Chymists called Bezoar mineral for curing the Pox it is thus made Take Antimony and Sublimate calcined with Vitriol very white and let it be thrice finely poudered of each as much as you please first ground by themselves and then together and draw out the Oyl by a Glass retort with a gentle fire by degrees increased separate the coagulated Mercury as much as you can Take four ounces of this Oyl and pour upon it three ounces of Vitriol by drops which will make a great Noise still them in sand till they are dry fortifie the Spirit with one ounce of fresh do thus thrice and the Mercury will be fixed calcine this in the fire of Fulmination and it will be very white and it must be sweetned with spirit of wine often poured on and drawn off this is Bezor mineral keep it in a glass and give two or four grains at a time These are not to be used rashly because dangerous and when all things fail nor must all know them And when we use them we must refresh them with things internal and external and we prevent the Flux Dysentery as we shewed in Dysentery The accidents of the Pox are divers wayes cured The pains about the skin bones shoulders head and fore-head with the Nodes if they continue after the cure fully administred and trouble the Patient must have peculiar Remedies and if they help not you must begin the Cure again the Remedies follow If after the general Application of things there remain any accident it may be removed by the anointing of the part with the common Oyntment mentioned in the Pox and if you add Wax thereto you may make a Plaister for the Fore-head and use it like a Cap or the like constantly Or use the Plaisters mentioned or Cerots to the particular parts or that called Divinum or Gratia Dei or of Bettony with Quick-silver adding Euphorbium Castor Hermodactyls Orris Pellitory Hellebore and other hot things for the Joynts especially that usual Emplaster of Vigo called the Plaister of Froggs excellent for pains and Nodes or Knots Also that Cerot which we mentioned for curing of Nodes That excellent plaister which I have found so successfully is thus made Take Quick-silver three ounces mix it with Turpentine washed in Aqua vitae one ounce Hogs grease or Calfes
Marrow each one ounce and an half Oyl of Lillies Chamomil Dill Bayes Worms or Foxes each half an ounce Oyl of Spike or Turpentine two drams Euphorbium Frankincense each half an ounce Storax six drams Hermodactyls two drams Castor one dram with Wax make a Cerot They say the Oyl of Guaicum allayeth the pains Wash the Legs pained with mercury-Mercury-water it is the best for Pains and Nodes as is mentioned Some say that Fomentations and Oyntments of things without Quick-silver will allay the pain being temperate and anodine or takers away of pain or heating much the Nerves But we have shewed that actual and potential heat doth increase these pains except Quick-silver be mixed Besides it is good to purge often with Pills Potions and the like mentioned in the Gout and Head-ach which alone somtimes takes away the Reliques of the Disease and with other Medicines to the part they are more effectual especially if you give between things that strengthen and if the Head ake give peculiar Medicines therefore Sweating also by Decoctions mentioned doth take away the after pains especially with purges and Medicines to the part Stilled Waters are the best for it as that of the Decoction of Guaicum or that of Treacle mentioned in the general Cure given in Potions Narcoticks or Stupefactives are sometimes given to asswage pain with good success because they also bring rest and cause sweat and they may be taken without hurt Therefore Treacle is so good to cause sweat and asswage pain and the rest the stupesie called Narcoticks The Nodes or Swellings in parts without flesh as the Fore-head or Head or Shins or Backs of the Hand depart when the pox is cured and if it be by Unctions or Fume the sooner because they are anointed with the other parts but if the Cure be by internal things and the Knots or Nodes remain you must cure them by Unction and Fumigation and the whol Disease is not perfectly cured adding more Oyls and Gums and Grease to the Oyntments The Emplasters mentioned are good for these especially that of Vigo which sostneth and consumeth them Or this Cerot Take Gum Ammoniack Opopanax each two ounces dissolve them in Aqua vitae Goose grease Hens or the like each one ounce and an half the Marrow of Veal or Goats bones one ounce Labdanum Storax each two ounces Storax liquid one dram Pouder of Hermodactyls Orris each three drams Cinnabar one dram Quick-silver dissolved with Tâ—rpentine six-drams with Oyl of Worms and Wax make a Cerot Or boyl Briony roots and Orris roots in Wine to half a pint ad Gum Ammoniack Galbanum and the like dissolved in Aqua vitae to three ounces Liquid Storax Bears grease horse Marrow each one ounce Quick-silver kill'd with Turpentine two ounces make a Plaister Or take black Briony roots and fill them made hollow with precipitate keep it in a moist place then take out the Mercury and anoint it with the Juyce of the Root Mercury water is good against Nodes to wash as mentioned especially when it raiseth Blysters as it usually doth and burns the skin and this is done by adding more Mercury or some Arsenick as we shewed That Froath which is skummed off at the boiling of guaicum doth discuss the Nodes if it be often used You may use the strongest of those Remedies which were prescribed for taking away other Nodes as we shewed in tumors especially those of Quick-silver And the Stupefactive Roots and Herbs will do good applied as is shewed As Briony roots bruised and applied without Quick-silver doth wonders Some boyl Rhubarb and Aloes in one part of Lye and half a part of Soap till it come to a Plaister with Wax Also they foment the Nodes which softning Decoctions mentioned in Scirrhus and Knot-gout and other hard tumors A Bag filled with Oats and boyled and often applied hot is accounted good for the same The Nodes are cut out if they will not away but hinder the Patient as we shewed in the Cure of other Nodes And if they be not near the Joynts or Nerves as in the Head or if their be fear that the Bone is foul they may be burnt with an actual Cautery and if the Head or Shins be infected so that the Bone will not scale you must take it out with a pair of Forcipes or little tongs if the skin of the Brain appear you must desend it with red silk or fine linnen before you lay a Plaister to the Ulcer and cure it as a Head-wound The Ulcers external and internal that come in the Pox if they be small are cured with the general way but if they be fixed and filthy they must have a particular Cure least they infect the parts adjacent and the Bones and it must be speedily administred after the general In the external Ulcers of the Face about the Mose Lips the Privities or Eundament you must first cleanse them if foul and if hollow apply Incarnatives and then heal them up if the Bones be foul they must be scaled As I shewed by Remedies mentioned in the Cure of malignant ulcers where these are comprehended and in the general Cure of foul Bones by actual and potential Cauteries Chiefly in the Ulcers of the Pox they which contain Quick-silver Sublimate or Precipitate or Cinnabar all made thereof are the best because they are contrary as I shewed to the Disease such as is prescribed in the Cure of Ulcers beginning thus Take Quick-silver one ounce Turpentine c. and that following for the Ulcers of the Legs Or that made of others there mentioned as Apostolorum and the like adding four ounces of Quick-silver with half an ounce of Turpentine dissolved or one dram of Sublimate or precipitate or mixing equal parts of the general Oyntments for the Cure of the Pox and for the Cure of Ulcers together or another there mentioned good against Pustles and Ulcers this may be used to the Ulcers after fluxing c. as we said there if the Ulcers be filthy Cinnabar Verdegreese and Sublimate must be added and if you fear the Bone is foul add one ounce of Myrrh more And if the Bone be foul add six drams of Euphorbium which will take Scales that are rotten from the sound Bone The pouder of white Hellebore roots Agarick Senna added also do cure those perverse Ulcers Oyl of Guaicum is commended above the rest also of Antimony of Bricks and Juniper They also teach that the Foam or Skum arising from Guaicum boiled cures these Ulcers Other internal Ulcers in the Pox although as we said of external they must have a general Cure yet it is good in the time of the cure and after if they continue to apply particulars to them Which differ not much from them that are used to other Ulcers which are in the same places without the Pox. For in the Ulcers of the Nose which are internal we proceed as we do in other Ulcers of the Nose by sternutations or
and is to be felt only or it only hangs out a little and grows forth more and more except it be prevented and this is called the Descending or Falling down of the womb And if Inflammation or Corruption happen not when the womb hath long been forth and ill ordered there useth to be no great accidents but filth hinderance in walking and a sense of weight so that the Belly and Loyns seem to be drawn down but otherwise if the woman can put it up again as usually it is she may use a man and conceive and go out her time without the Falling of it down while she is with Child The Fundament externally like a purse internally is made of the end of the Muscles of the strait Gut The Falling out of the Fundament if it be let more forth then at the time of going to stool is usual and cannot be put up again into the Body but remains outward with some part of the Fundament it is called the Falling down of the Fundament Somtimes it is without any other Disease as when by straining it comes forth and continues longer or shorter and comes of it self or with little trouble into its place again Somtimes though it be put up it presently especially at the stool comes forth again this is usual in Children and somtimes in Men. Somtimes the strait Gut falls down and swells so that it cannot be put up or with much difficulty Sometimes it is red and inflamed and will endure to be touched that it may be put up Sometimes it falls out without sense The Looseness of the Fundament and cannot be drawn up at will this is called the Palsie of the Fundament We have seen the Codds open and the Stones hang far out The Falling out of the Stones The Eye cannot hang far out of its place as we shewed in Deformity The Falling out of the Eye and if it stick far out it is called the Falling out thereof The Tongue sometimes hangs out of the mouth The comming forth of the Tongue and this is called the hanging forth of the Tongue The Causes The Cause of the comming forth of the Guts Cawle Womb Fundament Eye or Tongue is either from some opening and the Rimme of the Belly or weakness and dissolving of the Neck of the womb or the turning of the Fundament or strait Gut outward or the loofening of the knitting of the Eye or Tongue or a wound of the Codds By the opening of the Rimme of the Belly which keepeth the Guts and Cawle in the same if the Guts or Cawle fall through the opening then there is a Rupture or Falling out of which we spake in Tumors And this opening of the Rimme is either when it is broken or dilated The Falling forth of the Guts and Cawle is from the breaking of the Rimme of the Belly The Cause of the rupture of the guts called Enterocele and of the Cawle called Epiplocele that causeth the Swelling called Hernia or Rupture of which there are divers sorts according to the Diversity of Parts where they fall for if it be in the Groin and in the male-kind so that the Rim be open which covereth the Stones and seminary Vessels the Guts get through the opening and so lye under the skm which is called Enterocele and sometimes into the Codds and cause a great Swelling when much falleth down or when they are stretched with wind or with Excrements And if they be hard it is selt and if there be wind they make a noise being pressed And if the Guts stay there and cannot be put up because they are stretched and rouled together because the Passage of the Excrements is stopped they are thrown up again But if part of the Cawle fall into the Groin by the aforesaid it is called Epiplocele and the Tumor remains there not going lower because the Cawle being short and scarce reaching beyond the Bone of the Privities cannot fall so low as the Guts except some part of it be broken when the Rimme is broken and then it may fal into the Codd which cannot be put up again We saw one in the Groin very big which we knew was the Cawle by feeling of it to be unequal with Knobs of hard Fat which we knew was broken by the quantity or relaxed as we shall shew but being without pain it was neglected and the Patient lived not long after If the Rimme be broken in the groin of a Woman The breaking of the Rimme is the Cause of the Rupture in the Groins of Women where a certain Vessel passeth by it outwardly in the Groine then there is the Rupture called Enterocele or Gut-rupture in Women which is sometimes very great And if the Cawle fall there which is longer in Women then in Men the Tumor is larget then in Men and is called Epiplocele or Cawle-rupture But if the Rimme be broken in another part of the Belly and the Guts The Cause of Navel-rupture or the Cawle get there under the skin if it be in the Navel it is called Omphalocele Navel-rupture or Exomphalocele or Rupture about the Navel if in any other part it is called Hernia or Rupture which you may know by touching whether it be the Guts for then they will make a noise but the cawle will not and the Guts make a larger Tumor then the Cawle The Rimme is broken either by a Stroak or Fall or vehement Leaping or Vaulting into a Saddle as I have observed Also by great straining when the Belly is pressed by the Muscles in Labour or Travail with Child or going to stool also in Children by crying Also by a cut when the skin is healed and the Membrane left open or the like A Portion of the Guts or Cawle may fall down The Dilatation of the Rimme is the Cause of ruptures only by the enlarging or dilating of the Rimme of the Belly by which the Seed Vessels descend into the Codds This comes not speedily but by degrees with often straining for when the Guts are carried to the enterance of the Rimme of the belly they work themselves through or break through when the force is great And that this may be so and that the enterance of the Rimme of the Belly may be so dilated and opened without breaking it appears in that more narrow and thick parts may be so enlarged as the Ureters through which a Stone falls down as we shewed And this we have seen to be by degrees And in a Rupture-dropsie when after Death we opened him we found a round hole not cut or broken by which the Guts fell into the Codds by which that thin part of the Gut which is above the blind Gut was carried to the bottom of the Codd which was full of Water and it grew firmly to the Rimme in the whol Passage and the Patient while he lived and was in Health otherwise voided his Excrements orderly and complained of no pain
the womb being continually moist and therefore too loose that the womb being compelled by other Causes may easier slip down and the neck may yeeld more easily and be inverted Some teach that besides this Falling down that the womb while in the Belly may be moved on one side and get also up to the Stomach But being it grows to the neck and is compessed every where with the guts abiding commonly in the middle it will not easily get into other parts and will rather go downwards then upwards Except perhaps it grow so that it take up more room then formerly as we see in Women with Child and then also it rather goes downwards by its weight and the Belly is more swollen and harder beneath For which reasons and the other accidents in the Mother-fits we declared in the Cure of them that they come rather from Vapors that arise from the womb then from the ascending of the womb it self The Falling out of the Fundament is from the Inversion or straight Gut The cause of the falling out of the Fundament is straining for then it swells as when going to stool the Fundament sticks out with straining to let out the Excrements till it be drawn in again so that if by great force and straining with hard Excrements it be so brought down that it brings a part of the straight Gut with it it is the cause of its staying out The same may be from other causes that bear down as in Child-birth when the Delivery is hard the Fundament also falls out also from forcing about the Fundament as in the Tenesmus or needing or in the Flux called Dysentery And we have seen in an Incision made in the Rimme or Peritonaeum near the Fundament for taking a stone out of the Bladder that through pain the Fundament hath been by straining thrust out and the Yard also though in an Infant and little hath been swollen and stood And I have observed in some Children troubled with the Stone that they had not only this coming forth of the Fundament alwayes when they strained to make water but an Extension of the Yard especially in the Head and Fore-skin from their often handling of it through pain which were the undoubted signs of the Stone in the Kidneys And if the Fundament be so thrust out by straining that the straight Gut be drawn from the Mesentery or middle Membrane by which the Guts are held then they cannot be put up or kept in although the Muscles be right against the Fundament to draw it in again gently yet if it be far forth and tied with no Ligaments the Muscles alone cannot do it because if the Fundament be far out they will fall out also It may come from the weakness of the Muscles which draw in the Fundament after stool The Loosness of the Muscles of the fundament is the cause why it cannot be drawn in and constrain it up that the Fundament may be so far forth that it cannot be drawn in by which means the Fundament may be said to be forth but not to fall out except Force or Straining perceeded because it is not so retained by these smal Muscles that when they cease to act it should presently fall out of the Body in which it was included without any Force These weakness which makes the Muscles unable to draw back the Fundament that falls out by stool bofals them which have often had the Falling of it out or it comes from too much cold of the part which is very sensible by sitting upon a cold stone or the like or by staying in the cold Air or Water which touch the Fundament Many suppose that Falling of the Fundament The Loosness of the muscles is the cause why the fundament cannot be drawn back and that which is called the Palsey of the Fundament comes from Loosness of the Muscles through a Defluxion upon the Nerves But it is improbable that a particular Palsie of this part should be alone without any other part affected from the Defluxion Nor is it probable that a Defluxion which must needs fall in abundance to cause a Palsey should fall only into the lowest part of the os sacrum where these slender Nerves are accompanied with these Muscles and not rather sill the whol Cavity of the os sacrum by which means the Nerves might be dissolved Therefore if there be a Palsie in the Muscles of the Fundament it would be in the whol Body or in the inserior parts as well as there And though there be a great Resolution of parts in an Apoplexy we find none there nor doth the Fundament fall forth nor in any other Palsie when all the lower parts are resolved yet the Patient can go to stool and draw in the Fundament and though it be weaker for the Disease yet it falls out For which cause if difficulty of drawing back of the Fundament be from the Nerves which comes soldom it comes from a Palsie caused by a Defluxion and we suppose that it comes from compression of the Nerves or contusion by Fall or Stroak about the Crupper or from some great Coldness of the part which is not only upon the Muscles but Nerves When the Connexion of the Eye with its hollow roundness is loosned The Connexlon or Fasting of the Eye being loosned by a Contusion is the cause of its coming forth it falleth out and this comes by fome violent Cause because it is so fixed to the place that when it is brought to the Table boyled it can scarce be got out Yet the Eyes fall out by a great Contusion of the head by a Fall or Stroak And scarce by another means except they start out a little by straining as in Child-birth crying or roaring and so seem bigger yet they fall not out by that means but only stick out of which we spake in Deformity because by straining they cannot be much dissended but a little forced by the Muscles Some think that the Eye may fall out by the stretching of the Globe with Wind and Moisture gathered before it but since we find no Cavity in the Eye but it is full every where and there is no way for these to get in or can they be bred in the Eye or come from other parts we cannot yeeld to them As we shewed in the Causes of pains of the Eyes from Wind and Filmes which they suppose to come from Defluxion of Water The Falling out of the Tongue may be from the loosning of its Connexion The loosning of the Connexion of the tongue from a contusion is the cause of its coming forth it is so strong bound by Muscles a Coate and Ligaments that it must be done by great Force But it happens from a Contusion of the Neck or Breast as when theeves are racked their Tongue sticks out and it may also come by other means I saw one whose Stones hung out by a wound which was given upon his Codd
The cutting of the Cod causeth the falling out of the stones And I observed the same in one which was shot with a Bullet and lost half his Codd that his right Stone with the Seed-vessels hung forth bare The Cure The Falling down of the Guts and Cawle which comes from the breaking or stretching of the Rimme of the Belly The Cure of the Falling out of the Guts Cawle in Ruptures causeth the Tumor called Cele if it be in the Groine and be but little causing no great pain it is neglected or it is easily cured if taken in time as also the Omphalocele or Navel-rupture which some have all their lives which will fall in when it is pressed or the like but some Navel-rupture vanisheth of it self as I shewed But if the Tumor descend to the Codd in the Gut-rupture it is harder to cure or dangerous for if it will not return by any means but cause Pain and Costiveness of Body it is deadly and the Excrements are spewed up which declare it Also the Navel-rupture or the like if it cannot be put in and produce the same accidents is deadly And we shewed that the Cawle-rupture killed one when the Tumor in the Cod grew hard In other kinds of Ruptures in the Belly or Codds if the Tumor will yeeld although it be of short continuance yet to take it quite away that it return not and to make a perfect Cure it is difficult especially because the Patient must continue them for their Operation and Rest and be bound which he wil unwillingly undergo But if it be old it is impossible except by manual Operation and that is painful and dangerous of death if by Incision as is usual and the Stone on that side must be left if it be made in the Groine And if the Patient will not adventure that you must labour to hinder those Tumors from increasing which you cannot take away All which shall be declared and the manner how by Medicines both inward and outward first how Medicines may be applied to the cause that is the part fallen then how to the Disease which is the Solution of Continuity in a Rupture or of Contiguity in the relaxing of the Rimm of the Belly We use things to put up the part fallen and to keep it in and hinder it from falling out again if it be Gut or Cawle fallen out of the cavity of the Rimme either causing a Tumor in the Groine or Codd We put up the Tumor in the Groine and Codd with the Hands by degrees or in the Belly by pressing and moving it to the hole whence it fell which we find out with the finger And this is done when the Patient lyeth upon his Back so placed that if it be below that his Feet may be higher then the rest of the Body by which somtimes the Gut goes in of it self so I saved the life of a Countrey-man twice that was broken on both sides when he vomited his Excrements and was in great pain and a while since I cured a Virgin that was bursten which vomited her Excrements by putting up the Gut with my Hand And if this Operation do it not as when the Gut is out it comes to pass often through Distention by the wound and Wrinkling and Hardness that the Gut is so swelled it cannot be reduced by the Passage and then you must have a care least the Passage of the Excrements being hindered they should flie up or an Inflammation should kill the Patient Also you must apply the Anodynes or takers away of pain when there is Pain Heat and Fear of Inflammation mentioned in the Tumor Phlegmon And chiefly this Pultis which openeth the wayes and mollifieth the hard Excrements and expells Wind. Take Marsh-mallow roots two ounces Lilly roots one ounce Mallows Violets Brank-ursine Pellitory each one handful Roses Violets Chamomil and Melilot and Dill flowers Bran each one scruple boyl them in Milk and Water if there be great pain beat and seirse them adding Barley flower and Bean meal each three ounces the Flower of Line-seed and Foenugreek each one ounce and an half Fleabane seeds one ounce Pouder of Earth-worms one dram Oyl of Roses three ounces Ducks or Hens Grease one ounce make a Cataplasm When the Heat is not and we will use Softners and Expellers of Wind add to it Orris roots Briony or wild Cowcumber roots each one ounce Wormwood Calamints or Organ each one handful Elder Rose and Centaury flowers each one pugil Cummin and Caraway seeds each two drams Agnus Castus seeds one dram and without Milk we add Wine and with the Meals or Brans aforesaid or of Orobus and Lupines each one ounce Bay-berries half an ounce with Oyl of Orris and Rue make a Pultis Or when there is much Wind. Take Caraway seeds one ounce Cummin seed half an ounce Oyl of Rue one ounce with Oxymel make a Cataplasm Rue fryed with Oyl and applied is good Fomentations are made of the Decoctions of the which the Cataplasm was made of the first if there be Heat of the last if you must discuss more adding the Oyls there mentioned Also anoint with Oyl of Roses Dill Lillies Chamomil Melilot Orris Elder Rue You may discuss with Baggs of dry Plants and Milium seeds and the other great Seeds and Salt Besides you must use against Wind inwardly and outwardly things to dissipate or discuss and prevent it also As we shewed in the Wind of the Stomach and of the colick You have need of no external Applications when the Cawle comes forth being commonly in the Groine and will go back only with lying down or with the Hand except it be in the Codd as we shewed and then you must foment and plaister the Tumor with Loosners not regarding wind except it be gotten in the same way If the Guts cannot be put up we are constrained to cut that the skin being open and the Guts bare and the hole by which they sell open they may better be put up which is dangerous to do in the Groine if the Guts are gone from thence into the Codds because the Guts sticking to the skin may easily be cut also as we have seen Moreover if the Incision be made with such care the Guts are not hurt yet in regard the naked Entrals are worse to be meddled with for the Cure of the pain of the wound then when they were covered with skin by this Operation in the Groine we either do no good or we give occasion to have cutting to be thought the Cause of his Death which would otherwise have followed while the Guts were forth But we have observed good success by cutting in other parts of the Belly when the Guts get through the Rimme of the Belly being burst and can by no Art be put up again because the Tumor is seldom so great in those parts and the hole of the Rimme may better be found and the Guts better put up without danger being taken
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
Matter and the Jawes in the Squincie Also from ulcered rotten Lungs in the Phthysick as we shewed In an Empyema there is Matter in the hollow of the breast which fals from the Lungs and if the Lungs be rotten and a way open thereby it is coughed up neither can it be sent any other way then by opening it externally As we shall shew But the Matter of the Lungs is not alwayes from an Ulcer The Blood of the lungs turned into a matter is the cause of Sperting of Matter but from blood when the Lungs are inflamed without an Ulcer And that Spetting of Matter in a Pleurisie and Peripneumony is blood ripened Somtimes Blood flowing in a small quantity from the Veins of the Lungs into some other part of the Lungs where it stayes and turns to Matter by degrees which is by the dryness of the outside turned to a Bladder And this is the Cause of the Spetting of Imposthumes with little skins or bladders And this may be without any other inconvenience except the Matter so inclosed hath hurt the Lungs And then a Phthysick or Consumption followeth There is a also a Spetting of Matter with Flegm for the most part The Flegm of the Head or Nose falling upon the Lungs is the Cause of Spetting of Matter when Rhewm from the Head is fallen into the Cavity of the Nostrils or upon the Lungs where it lyeth till by Heat it be baked into Matter This we have often seen in sound people and in flegmatick Diseases that cause Coughing when there hath been neither Ulcer nor Consumption It may come to pass that a putrid Humor concocted The substance of the Lungs corrupted is the Cause of Spetting of the Lungs may so eat the substance of the Lungs that a piece of them may be spet up The Cure The Cure of most kinds of Spttings joyned with other Diseases is mentioned in those Diseases But we shall speak of the Cure of other Spittings according to their Causes Often Spetting from an evil custom as in Orators The Cure of Spetting of Flegm is not to be cured but by forbearing by degrees If it come from much speaking let him be silent If a Ptyalismus or Spetting come from Rhewm in the head or from the Stomach when a watery Humor riseth up and fills the Mouth For that from the Head you must hinder the increase of Rhewm and purge it and consume it and stop the Defluxion as in the Cure of a Catarrh and Cough mentioned As for that from the Stomach you must hinder the increase of Flegm in the Stomach and that which is must be purged and the weakness of the stomach strengthned with things mentioned in the Cure of a weak Stomach which done in both Causes dry up the moisture in the Mouth and draw it away with Masticatories to chew and the like mentioned in the cold Diseases of the Brain and in the Tooth-ach Spetting by reason of a Defluxion upon the Lungs or Flegm bred in the Lungs is cured as a Cough The Cure of Blood-spetting is divers as blood is from one part or another The Cure of Spetting of Blood From the Gums when blood floweth we take blood because it is a sign of Plethory least it should cause worse accidents And we cure it as a Plethory And if it continue we use astringent Mouth-waters Bleeding from a Tooth drawn although it stop usually of it self yet it stops sooner when the Mouth is washed with red Wine Rose Vinegar and Rose-water But if it stop not by reason of a Vein or Artery broken then you must use Astringents mentioned in the Inflammations of the Mouth and loosness of Teeth And if it cease not you must stop the place from whence the tooth was taken with Pouders mentioned in Bleeding of Wounds Burnt Vitriol is excellent If these will not do use an actual or potential Cautery that will burn speedily least it be held long in the Mouth And this is done well with a Pill made of Cotton and dipp'd in Aquaf ortis and stopped into the space between the Teeth And this we have found by Experience to have done the work when others fayled in this and other bleedings When bleeding is from other parts of the month â—urt or wounded it is stopped with the same washings of the mouth And if there be a great Flux from the biting of the tongue as I have seen after Convulsions with danger of death then you must use stronger Causticks When Blood falls from the Nose into the Mouth it is cured as the bleeding at the Nose But if there be danger least it falling into the Mouth should be swallowed or fall upon the Lungs which can scarce be for when it comes to the rough Artery it causeth a Cough which casts it forth He must lie with the Face downward that it may rather flow out at the Nose then backward Also you may keep it from flowing down with holding water in the Mouth Blood-sweating from the Lungs and mixed with Spetting and coughed up in a Pleurisie or Peripneumony is cured as is mentioned in the Pains of the Breast The Haemoptoical Passion although it be in some especially women The Cure of Haemoptoica Passio or Spetting of Blood without other hurt yet is it somtimes dangerous if often and in great quantity And somtimes deadly though the sudden loss of blood both in Diseases and without But usually it turns to a Consumption Therefore it must be stopped in time and if the Mouths of the Vessels be open they must be closed And if they be broken they must be healed Aâ—â—â—n both cases the blood that clodders in the breast muâ—â— be cleansed least it hurt the Lungs and the Cough cured But if the Lungs be ulcerated and there be blood voided with matter from the corroding of the Veins then you must cure it as a Phthysick by healing the Ulcer and the like For the Cure of the Haemoptoick Passion or Spetting of blood is as followeth There must first be Evacuations by Blood-letting in the Arm upon which side there is a pain or heavyness or pricking Also by Scarification with Cupping in the Shoulders sides of the Neck and Wrist or by a great Cupping-glass under the Ribbs or Hypochondria's Also by using Ligatures and Frictions as in Bleeding at the Nose In full bodied Women we provoke the terms if stopped or but few And in Men the Haemorrhoids if they formerly had them If the Blood be watery we purge but with mild things and not hot least they should cause Vomiting which would do hurt And with things that astringe stay other Fluxes though they open the belly as Rhubarb in pouder with Juyce or Syrup of Plantane or Purslane and a little Spikenard Alteratives must be in their Meat and Medicines Let the Air be cool and dry eitheâ— Naturally or Artificially because it being taken immediately into the Lungs will dry well as burnt Frankincense Mastick
and Water and with Sugar make a Syrup It is good to eat Beans Kidney-beans Lentils Dioscorides directs twenty two Lentils Divers Stomach-pouders mentioned in the weakness of the stomach which are astringent as Aromaticum Rosatum and Gary ophyllatum Rosata Novella and Diagalanga Or make this astringent Pouder Take Roots of Cypress Galangal Acorus Cassia Lignea each one dram and an half Nutmegs Mace Cloves each one dram Schaenanth Spike Wood Aloes each half a dram Pepper and Ginger each half a scruple make a Pouder which will be stronger but less pleasant with Marjoram Mints Roses each half a dram Mastick or Frankincense two scruples These are given with Wine and Sugar Also there are many Conserves and Candyes good as that of old Roses Mints Marjoram Citrons Nutmegs and the like You may apply to the Stomach strengthners and astringers mentioned in the weakness thereof choosing those which are best scented Anoint the Stomach with Oyls there mentioned which strengthen and bind And least the greafiescent offend the stomach keep the Head off and use some sweet Scents Or sprinkle some sweet Pouders there mentioned after anointing or mix sweet things with the Oyntment Oyl of Nutmegs is good for that The Oyntment mentioned for a moist and loose stomach is good if you sweeten it It is better to apply Plaisters least by chasing the stomach you cause Vomiting as that of Mastick mentioned in the weakness of the stomach Also the Fomentations there which strengthen and astringe which are the better for being sweet-scented The sweet pouders also there are to be sprinkled here upon the Oyntments and to be applied in bags to the stomach Also use the Cataplasms without the unctious things which are well-scented and there mentioned The Juyce of Mints with Leaven laid like a plaister to the Stomach and Guts doth quickly cure Vomiting of flegm and wind And the same is good for cholerick Vomiting and the Disease Choler Also Cupping Dropax Ligature Amulets are good but best in Vomiting of Choler Remembering alwayes a spare and convenient Diet. If Vomiting come from Choler or a sharp Humor The Cure of cholerick Vomiting and the Disease Choler from corrupt Meat or otherwise which pricks the Stomach when these are voided you must provoke rather then stop it But if it be often in Cacochymicks because it is worse then that of flegm and causeth hurt threatning diseases it must be cured As also when it is immoderate and vehement And in regard Vomiting is the chief symptom in the Disease Choler and so dangerous The cure in general must be aimed at This Disease of Choler is most acute and dangerous if it come without a manifest Cause but it is less dangerous when it is from eating of Cowcumbers Mellons or the like turned into Choler And it threatneth Death if the Pulse be weak the Heart beat and faint with Hickocks and Convulsions And if the Pulse intermit and the Urin be blew and the outward parts cold Death is at hand Your aim in curing of these immoderate Vomitings of Choler or sharp Humors is to cleanse away the Choler that sticks so fast with other Humors alwayes regarding the Disease and other Symptoms if there be any and to abate their force and drive them down when they ascend too much And then to strengthen the Stomach and Ou ts by astringents And if need require to take away their sense of feeling with inward and outward Applications And to have regard to the strength and to drive away all accidents approaching and to mind the flux of the belly in Choler which are all done by these following The Vomits mentioned in Heart-pain from Choler are good here to take away the Cause These also evacuate Choler that cleaveth and stop the violent Flux of the Belly by Revulsion Also Purges mentioned for the Heart-ach from Choler chiefly Myrobalans and Rhubarb with Spike which corrects it and stops all Fluxes giving alwayes things which stop the Vomiting by drawing the Choler downwards The things mentioned in Dysentery are good in the Disease Choler because the belly flows too much when the Choler sticks to the Guts Stronger remedies are not given but to prevent in such as are subject to it And therefore in the time of the Disease abstain from them Clysters are best to draw down Choler which cleanse and allay Heat Many Alteratives are good which are mentioned in cholerick Heart-ach if you choose those that bind and are not nauseous as also these Sour Fruits raw or boyled eaten or used as Sauce or the Juyces thereof in Meats if not too ripe as Grapes Cherries Medlars Services Cornil-berries also four Popherbs or eaten with Vinegar candied Cabbage topps and Turneps The conserved or candied four Fruits are good also Myrobalans Citron barks candied Conserve of Roses and Sorrel Also the Juyces of the same four Fruits and Herbs without Meat stay vomiting Also vinegar drunk alone after a surfeit or Drunkenness as it allayes Drunkenness so it hinders vomiting Wormwood-wine cures the vomiting of Choler therefore Drunkards use it for their mornings-draught when pain of the Heart forerunneth it Also to drink cold water after Meat will stay vomiting Those four Syrups mentioned in heart-Heart-pain are good given alone or with Sortel-water And you may add which is the best of the Syrup of four Pomegranates four parts of Mints one part Or boyl the Juyces of both to a Syrup or boyl a little Mints with the Syrup of Pomegranates therein The Chymists give some drops of the Oyl of Pearl in this Disease You may make a Pouder to be given in wine or otherwise thus Take Pulp of Quinces or of sour Pears Medlars or Services or Cornil-berries dryed before they be ripe half an ounce dryed Citron peels one dram Galls half a dram Cynk-foyl roots Sorrel seeds and of Plantane Grapes Barberries Sumach Pomegranates Roses Coriander each one dram Roses and wild Vine each half a dram Antispodium of Ivory or Harts horn red Coral each one dram and an half Crystal half a dram Pearls one scruple Bole or other fat Earth one dram Hypocistis half a dram red Sanders and Gross Cinnamon each one dram make a Pouder Also the Pouder of Mastick Frankincense Amber with the Yolk of an Eg and a little Salt Also Pouder of three leaved Grass Chesnuts-shells Mallow-seeds Cherry Gum drunk with wine The Moss of Trees called Lungwort and the Leaves of Harefoot with the Seed is commended by Dioscorides Also Diacydonites without the Species Troches of Spodium with Sorrel seeds Also Troches of Frankincense is good except the scent offend as that of Rhasis of Frankincense Mastick Bole Amber Champhire Gallia Moschata with Cloves to sweeten The Pouder of Liquorish with Ivory and Cinnamon given in Broath stayes both Vomiting of Choler and Flegm and are good after the taking of a Purge Also the Electuaryes and Candyes mentioned in Heart-pain Or this Take Conserve of Quinces two ounces Citron peels candied Conserve of Roses each
of Roses in the morning as it stops the running of the reins so doth it the burning of troubled urin from the reins and bladder ulcerated To these Pouders you may add Opium as in the Troches of Winter-cherries Or other Narcoticks as in scalding urin which I have observed a hundred times and more being taken every night in this and other painful Diseases hath allayed the pain and refreshed the Patient that he hath lived though without it he could not for pain Healing and narcotick Pills Take Frankincense and Mastick each one dram Myrrh Storax and Gum Traganth each half a dram the Barks of Mandraks one dram Henbane seed half a dram Opium and Juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Wine each one dram with Syrup of Poppies make Pills give one or more as you shall think fit Injections are not for the Kidneys but for Ulcers of the Bladder to which they scarce reach in men by reason of the bending and length of the Yard but return again though not in women and if the Instrument be thrust to the neck of the bladder it will hurt the ulcer yet they are to be used for necessity For making whereof take Cleansers and that also dry which is hard by reason of the constant moisture and things that abate heat of urin as those Anodine Injections there mentioned They are made of Milk which asswageth pain cleanseth and healeth Womens and Cows Milk asswage pain best or Goats with Sugar or Honey Water and Whey when you will heal use Sheeps milk or other boyled and mixed with Sugar or Honey Also the Decoction of Barley with Bean shales Sugar and Honey Wine is good to cleanse if white and thin with some drops of Spirit of Vitriol Also Whey and some drops of Spirit of Vitriol injected with a Syringe doth cleanse A Decoction for an Injection to cure ulcers Take the Roots of Comfrey one ounce and an half the dryed barkes or skins of Pompions one ounce Horstayl Plantane Nightshade each one handful Rosemary and St. Johns wort flowers each one pugil the four great cold Seeds six drams boyl them in Barley-water in a pint where of dissolve four ounces of Sugar or Honey If you must dry more add Mousear Solomons-seal Shepheards-purse Ceterach Bettony Herb Robert Dassodil roots which glew well also plantane and purslaneseeds Adding also the Juyce of Plantane Horstayl Shepheards rod also Starch Also the Waters of those Plants are good especially plantane or Myrtles Brambles or Olive tops Roses Centaury of St. Johns-wort Also steeled Water or wherein Iron is quenched or melted Lead hath been often infused There are glewing mixtures for Injections As Take Sarcocol steeped in Milk one dram the Infusion of Gum Arabick or Traganth half a dram made in an ounce and an half of Plantane-water Ceruss half a dram Dragons blood one scruple dissolve them in Milk or a Decoction or stilled Waters This oyly Injection heals ulcers Take Hens dung fry it in a pan with Butter or Oyl omphacine then put them in cold Water preserve the Oyl that swims at the top Mix with these somtimes things that asswage pain as the Decoction of white poppy seeds Rinds of Mandraks or Mucilages the white of an Eg and Opium in case of great pain In obstinate Ulcers the Decoction of Litharge is good two ounces in plantane or Rose-water four ounces Or mix with the Injections mentioned Bole Cadmia or Brass ore called Lapis Calaminaris Tutty Ceruss Lead burnt and washed Antimony and the Juyce from the grinding of a Bloodstone And in filthy ulcers a little Myrrh The troches of Alkekengi and Gordonius are good to be taken at the mouth and those of Amber sealed Earth Spodium dissolved in the Liquors aforesaid Some drying Collyriums for the Eyes are good here as that white one and the yellow one and that of Frankincense of Rhasis also of Tutty and the like of Ceruss Sarcocol Frankincense Gum Traganth Arabick Starch which asswage pain with Opium A little Aegyptiacum is good when ulcers are very foul The Chymists commend the spirit of Mercurius dulcis with plantane or Horstayl-water injected to cure ulcers in the Yard and Bladder cool Oyntments for the reins are good to cool the urin As we shewed in burning urin You must anoint the privities and perinaeum or seam with Oyl of Roses or Violets with Oyl of Myrtles Quinces and a little Vinegar if the pain threaten Inflammation To these Unguents are added Ceruss Litharge Juyce of plantano and Horstayl to dry the ulcer yet they do little outward and because by astringing outwardly they will stop the passage of urin it is better to use relaxing Oyntments to open as Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil which also stay pain You may make Fomentations of the same for the pecten or perinaeum as of Mallows Chamomil Melilot with Coolers if there be heat as Water-lilly roots and flowers Violets c. The Diet must be as in the Cure of scalding Urin without an ulcer and glutinous Meats that cover the ulcer to keep it from sharpness Fat things soul ulcers and are not here good Other thick pissings as of matter The Cure of turbulent pissing from the Reins or of milkie white from the Reins not yet ulcerated come from a filth that is bred there and mixed with the urin because they cause heat in pissing and by continuance also excoriation of the bladder that causeth an ulcer must be cured This is done by purging the Body from foul excrements and humors which cause the filth to grow to the reins and is turned into matter then by cleansing the reins with things mentioned in the Cure of the Ulcer of the Kidneys Among which Turpentine is excellent and Milk and the like with Lenitives which take away heat mentioned in Heat of Urin which allay the acrimony of urin and of this matter also As for the Pissing of Matter which comes from Imposthumes in the Liver or other parts The Cure of pissing of matter from the Liver and other parts besides the Reins and Bladder or from an Empyema a Pleurisie or Peripnumony In these you must help Nature in her motion and not stop with things that cleanse the filth of the blood by urin mentioned in Feavers and for the rest go to the Disease rather then the Symptom If Pissing of Blood come from a stone which grateth upon the Loins The Cure of pissing blood from the stone through motion because there is then but little blood mixed with urin and it continueth not but when motion ceaseth the urin comes to its colour again it requires no other Cure but that of the Stone which is the cause thereof As we shewed in the Cure of the Stone But if Pissing of Blood come from the Kidneys The Cure of pissing of blood from Anastomosis or hurt of the Reins being too full of blood which Nature sends forth with the urin being impure or too thin it must be cured if it contiune And
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
Pouder with Wine Dioscorides commends Beans boyled in Vinegar and water others commend Lentils Also Eggs poached in Vinegar or fryed till hard with one dram of new wax to which may be added pouder of Sumach Plantane seeds or Hemp. The Blood of a Goat or Dear fryed is commended by Dioscorides And chiefly that of an Hare with Barley-meal also a roasted Turtle stuffed with Myrtle-berries and new Wax each two drams or two drams of Frankincense and one dram of dryed Pigeons blood and other Astringents as Plantane seed Roses Sumach and Cinnamon Among Fruits Quinces Pears and Apples that are sharp roasted or boyled are the best Also sweet Meats made thereof Or roast a Pear or Quince with Wax and let him eat it Also Medlars Services Cornil-berries Cherries and sharp Plums before they are ripe are astringent Also Goos-berries are astringent and Bramble-berries And Mulberries but they cause pain and therefore are to be used warily Dioscorides commends the Berries of the Lote-tree and Bar-berries and the Huskes of Beans Also roasted Chesnuts and Acorns with Almonds not roasted but these will clog a weak Stomach Purslane is the best pot-herb for a Dysentery it takes away the sharpness There are divers Pouders which dry and bind or have a secret quality given alone or mixed from one dram to one dram and an half commonly with sharp red Wine or with steeled Water Broath or Milk Plantane water or the like with Sugar Honey or proper Syrups The Pouder of the Roots of Tormentil Snakeweed are not ill-tasted Water-lilly roots do wonders in Dysenteries Also Comfrey roots wild Sage and Avens roots Dioscorides commends the Pouder of Yarrow Fleabane Scordium and the tops of Tragus also Mousear Cudwort Sun-flower with the Roots the middle of the root of Mullein Horstayl Balsamine or the like mentioned for Decoctions Flowers of Ivy Cistus Palma Christi Flower gentle and Pomegranate flowers Also red Rose cakes Also the Fruit of the Rose with its down and seeds and Bar-berries Roast a Pomegranate and give it in Pouder Also Seeds of red Roses Pomegranates Raisons Grapes Seeds of Water-cresses alone or with others is counted an excellent Remedy against a Dysentery and because they are sharp and burning they are first parched Also Tamarisk seed The Seeds also of Docks and Bloodwort or Sorrel The Pouder of roasted Acorns doth wonders Also of Chesnuts or of Beech mast The Down of Chesnuts within the shell as also of Acorns and Hazel-nuts is good in pouder Frankincense Mastick Myrrh Traganth swallowed or drunk in pouder The pizle of a Dear also poudered and drunk in wine Also burnt Harts horn or unburnt and the pouder of Ox shanks The Runnet also of a Hare or Kid or Mare is commended by Dioscorides He also prescribeth Goats suet with Barley-flower and Roses Also Hares Dogs or Swins dung is given with Milk that hath had Steel quenched therein Also Bole or other fat Earth as that of Lemnos red Coral Crystal Pearl Sapphyres Smarag'ds The Chymists commend the tincture of Smaragds as specifical in a Dysentery It is thus made Let the sparkes or pieces of Smaragds be ground finely upon a Marble with the Urin of a Boy or distilled Vinegar or Juyce of Lemmons and the tincture drawn out at the fire And then let it be evaporated till it be a grey pouder then draw out the green tincture with spirit of wine and then evaporate the spirit of wine and let it be brought to an Essence at the bottom two or five tops of this they say taken with Plantane-water cureth Dysenteries miraculously Some give Allum with an Eg. And Dioscorides gives Salt with red Rose seeds for sauce with Meat There are divers Pouders compound of these to be given in the like quantity or with Sugar in a greater quantity with a Sop in Wine The first is Take Roots of Tormentil two drams Snakeweed one dram Seeds of Docks and Sorrel each one dram and an half red Coral half a dram Another Take half of this Pouder that is three drams Seeds of red Roses and Myrtles each one dram Pomegranate flowers burnt Harts horn or Ivory each half a dram Pearl half a scruple The third Pouder more astringent Take with the former Galls one dram Sanguis Draconis or Acacia half a dram Bole or Terra Lemnia one dram and half a dram of Bloodstone which is stronger A Pouder of Acorns which bindeth and healeth wonderfully Take roasted Acorn kernels one ounce Coriander seed prepared one dram and an half Purslane and Fleabane-seed each half a dram you may add roasted Chesnuts If you will heal more mix Starch one dram and half Gum Traganth a little parched one dram And if you will dry and astringe more mix it with a dram or two of the former Pouders Ashes also are highly commended as of a quick Hare burnt in an earthen pot well stopped Land-turtles or Snails also burnt with their shells Also Pouder of Mans bones or ashes in red wine or steeled wine These may be mixed with other Pouders as Bole Dragons blood and Mummy with pouder of Turtles or pouder of Galls with ashes of a Turtle and a little white Pepper Also these Ashes following Dip a hempen Cloath in two parts of Plantane-water and one of Rose-vinegar in which a little Allum and Bole are dissolved then dry it and burn it to ashes Also the Troches of Amber burnt Ivory or sealed Earth with Sorrel seeds Ramich half a dram taken every day Give in pouder with red Wine or other proper Liquor Sugar of Roses or convenient Syrups or with old Conserve of Roses or Syrup of Myrtles make Pills or a Bolus These Electuaries following are made of Conserves and Candyes Take old Conserve of Roses and Marmulate of Quinces each one ounce Conserve of Comfrey roots half an ounce Coral two drams Troches of sealed Earth or the like simple or compound one dram parched Nutmeg and Cinnamon each half a dram Sugar of Roses as much as will make a Mixture Or Take the Conserves and Candyes mentioned with those of Services Cornils Roses Medlars and other Astringents Pouder of Rhubarb parched one dram mix them with syrup of Quinces or Juyces or Syrups mentioned Micleta Nicolai of Myrobalans Mastick Gum Arabick Sumach Pomegranate flowers burnt Ivory Water-cress-seeds and others that expel wind is good in Dysenteries and other Fluxes Two drams of Watercreess-seeds parched and poudered boyled in Syrup of Quinces till they be thick and three spoonfuls given at once is excellent Another that lenifieth and healeth Take Mucilage of Quince seeds Comfrey roots Infusion of Gum Traganth all made with rose-Rose-water one ounce Starch one dram red Coral two drams Bole one dram Pomegranate flowers half a dram Juyce of Services Cornil-berries or Marmalade of Quinces two ounces Sugar of Roses one ounce make an Electuarie give two drams Narcoticks as we said in Clysters asswage pain and stop Fluxes and they do better taken at the Mouth causing rest and sleep which the Dysentery hindereth
with warm Water Oyl and Wine or Oyl of Chamomil Dill Rue c. Use the Oyntments mentioned for Ulcers in the disentery When there is great pain in Tenesmus anoint with Oyl of Roses Violets Water-lillies Mucilage of Fleabane yolks of Eggs or the like mentioned in the Haemorrhoids If you must heat use Oyl of Chamomil Dill Bayes Rue and the like You may make Cataplasms of the same Ingredients A warm Anodine bag is made of Milium Bran and Salt fryed with hot Herbs dryed In an Ulcer make it of astringents as Coriander seeds Myrtles Acorn cupps Galls and other Herbs mentioned in the Fomentations for a Dysentery And let him sit upon the bag boyled in red wine A Brick that is black with Smoak beaten and steeped in wine and put into a cloath is good to be applyed to the Perinaeum and Fundament when there is an Ulcer Let the Patient sit upon hot Mugwort Also warm Cloaths applyed to the Fundament and Perinaeum are good to abate pain If a Diarrhaea be a Flux of silthy Excrements and Humors The Cure of Diarrhaea by Medicine or Nature which takes away the plenty of them it must not be stopped neither in those that are sound because it preventeth Diseases nor in those that are sick from plenty of humors and evil Juyce nor in the beginning of acute Diseases for as Hippocrates shews if things which ought to be purged be purged and the Patient endures it wel it is good Nor in the declension or Crisis of a Disease which somtimes is cured thereby But it is to be stopped if it happen in sound and pure Bodies especially if there be an over purging And in sick when it is provoked or comes of it self when it will not cease and takes not away from the cause of the disease but weakneth As in internal Inflammations Pleurisie Peripneumony and in some acute and malignant pestilential Feavers and others that weakens as in Hecticks Consumptions Dropsies with which it is deadly In all which we must prevent it or stop it foretelling the danger Observing first if it be alone without other diseases with it or after it whether it came from an over purging Medicine or too much meat and drink that is crude or corrupt or from Choler or sharp humors or water Then we must evacuate the cause and abate the pricking Then we fortifie and bind the Stomach and Guts with hot temperate or cold things as the cause requires as followeth The Stomach and Guts are to be purged with gentle things least the Belly that is already moved should be too much troubled And if the tumor be water or flegm with pills for the Stomach As these of Mastick and Assaiereth and others in the Lientery Or give six drams of the Electuary of Hiera or two drams of the Pouder with one ounce of Syrup of Vinegar to take off the bitterness all dissolved in Wine and Water or Liquor convenient or sweet Wine But Pills of Hiera are better taken There are other purges to be taken in wine mentioned in Lientery and Weakness of the Stomach If the Humor be cholerick and sharp use Remedies for the Dysentery there mentioned As a Potion of Rhubarb parched or not or the Infusion thereof with Wormwood wine or Syrup or that of Mints Also you may make a Potion of the Infusion of half an ounce of yellow or chebs Myrobalans or of two drams of Myrobalans and one dram of Rhubarb Or give two scruples of the Pills of Rhubarb made with one scruple of Mastick and half a scruple of Spike with Juyce of Roses Or a bolus of the same with Conserve of Roses or Quinces or the Pouder of Rhubarb with Cinnamon and Sugar of Roses and Myrobalans if they make not the Medicine too large If you must purge in a Diarrhaea use the troches of Roses burnt Ivory Barberries the cold great Seeds with Diagredium The Tryphera Saracenica Nicolai is given in six drams when there is plenty of Humors or so much Catholicon in potions of Myrobalans and Rhubarb it is not safe to use stronger Remedies to purge in this Disease A Vomit somtimes is good to revel and take away the cause as in a Dysentery Also Sweating especially when it comes from much water And if strength will suffer use them often moderate fasting is also good to hinder the increase and to consume Humors but in people of sharp cholerick Constitutions it hurteth All Clysters are good that have astringent qualities though they be presently voided The fourth Clyster mentioned in a Dysentery is good here it is a strong astringent to the Decoction of which you may add also other astringents as Juyce of Plantane Bloodstone or drying Earths And if the humor be sharp and threaten Excoriation you may give the third Clyster there mentioned to astringe and heal But before use Cleansers if the Humor be sharp and cholerick and fret the Guts And you may mix other things if there be other Humors as Wormwood Centaury and in a phlegmatick Cause against pains and noise of wind things to expel wind as Fennel and Anise seeds Chamomil Melilot and Dill flowers or Oyls thereof If the Humors fret the Guts use Lenitives or when a violent purge hurts them they are mentioned in Dysentery As that which begins thus Take Marsh-mallow-roots one ounce Barley c. Medicines must be given in divers forms twice or thrice in a day especially that bind or that cleanse and lenisie least Nature being accustomed to one should be no way moved thereby Dioscorides commends divers Decoctions in wine and water as of Maiden-hair golden Locks Marsh-mallows Brambles Cinquefoyl or five leaved grass Piony Also wine of the Infusion of dryed Sloes and the like Moss of a tree Wormwood Snakeweed Citron peels and the like astringents Also Juyce of Plantane Solomons-seal Horstayl Gum Succory Quinces sour Pomegranates Also Syrup of Quinces Myrtles red Roses dried Barberries Currance with the waters following in Juleps Waters of Plantane Roses Sorrel Shepheards purse Services Sloes Oak leaves Or the Decoction mentioned in Dysentery One begins thus Take Tormentil roots one ounce Comfrey rorts c. Another thus Take Roots of five leaved Grass or Snakweed c. Of which you may make Syrups Or make a Syrup of the Juyces to be kept Take Juyce of Quinces three ounces of Bar-berries two ounces Juyce of Plantane or the like one ounce and an half red Wine and Rose-water each two ounces Sugar four ounces boyl them to a Syrup and add a little red Sanders it is better if two drams of Juyce of Sloes and in a cholerick Cause a little Rose-water be added to make it sharp The Syrup of Nicolas of the Decoction of Fruits and the like is good in all Fuxes of the Belly Also this distilled Water Take Yolks of Eggs boyled hard twenty Nutmeggs parched a little two ounces infuse them in red Wine Let them stand a while and then distil them according to art the dose
Stone in the Bladder it must be worn or broken or expelled or removed from its place or taken out by these means following Purges are somtimes given when the Body is full of evil Humors to prepare it for things proper that they may work the better And the Belly must be kept open As we shewed in the heat of Urin from other causes Also strong purges are given to put nature to the expelling of it as it doth the other superfluous Excrements As we have often seen not only Excrements but stones have been voided by strong purgers To all these are added break stones to diminish them and break them These Purges are mentioned in the stone of the Kidnyes and are good here for the vertue of them will reach to the Urin and Bladder Mollifying Clysters are good which are mentioned in many places and Anodynes when the Urin burneth mentioned in the Colick alwaies adding things that break the stone Such as are mentioned in the stone of the Kidneys in three examples They who suppose the stone is bred of flegm use Vomiting often to prevent But it is better to cleanse and prepare the Body then for any thing else And this Vomiting by great straining may force the stone from the Bladder into the passage The same things mentioned in the stone of the Kidneys are given here to open the passages and to cleanse the Earthiness which increaseth the stone and to make less the stone And they are good to prevent the Stone in the Kidneys from whence heat in the Bladder cometh And because the Bladder is farther off then the Kidneys you must give the strongest Medicines and the greater quantities that their vertue may reach it As nourishing and Physical broaths and divers Decoctions And this Take Liquorish two ounces Knot grass roots one ounce Asarum half an ounce Bettony Maidenhair or Goldy locks Mouse-ear white Saxifrage Pellitory of the Wall Sea fennel Burnet of each one handful flowers of St. Johns wort Broom Roses each one pugil Myrtle berries Annis seed Fennel seed each half a handful Gromwel and white Thorne seeds two drams Garden Smallage seeds and wild Smallage seeds each one dram Raysons stoned two ounces red Pease one pugil boyl them in Wine and Water for five or six Doses in a good quantity that so it may sooner come to the part affected dissolving in every draught syrup of Limons and Oxymel simple each one ounce Oxymel of Squils two drams To this Decoction may be added other openers and stone breakers as the opening roots steeped in Vinegar Madder roots and Mulbery roots Rupture wort sweet broom Ladies Gloves c. Also the infusion mentioned in the stone of the Kidneys and the Lies Also the juyces as Urin Vinegar natural waters and the like there mentioned with the sharp juyce of Barberies and of Sea fennel Saxifrage St. Johnswort of green Nuts and Leeks given alone or with Sugar or other Liquor or Decocted to a Syrup or extract or made into Lozenges Those of juyce of Limons and Berberies are most in fashion and are very excellent and pleasant Simple and Compound waters distilled for the stone in the Kidneys mentioned are here also good If the Patient will use them freely The Urin of a Goat or Boar is commended by Dioscorides if drunken Also Oyls mentioned in the Cure of the Stone of the Kidneys are here good And the same Diet may be used And those Medicines which are divers waies prepared of which we use the Simples as the Rosins of Plants Medicines given in substance are divers waies prepared some of Simples as Rosins Pouders of Herbs Blood and Ashes of Beasts Some are Compounded of Plants Animals and the like into Pouders Electuaries and Pills Besides which in the stone of the Bladder is commended Mouse dung Snailes shells Stones in the Gall of an Oxe the Stomach or Gizard of an Eagle that breaks bones therefore called Ossifraga Connies blood burn Glass Sagapenum Euphorbium with other things mixed Gum of Almond-tree Vine Eryngus roots wild Parsnips Elder flowers not open being dryed and given often Nettle seed Cappars Water-mints You must use Injections into the Bladder of such things as allay Heat mentioned in hot Pissing Lastly to break the Stone if possible use Oyl of Scorpions and Medicines made of Goats blood or Wolfes blood Of Juyce of Lemmons and Bar-berries and other sharp things as Vinegar with Coral and Pearl which often used dissolve the Stone These may be injected with other things that allay them from hurting the Bladder Baths to sit in and Fomentations of such things as relaxe and open the passages and break the stone are made of such things as we use in the Stone of the Kidneys Which as they are there good when applied to the Hypochondria or under the Ribs so here to the lower part of the Belly To which add these Fennel Spignel Saxifrage Melilot flowers St. Johns-wort and other breakstones Also Natural Baths are good if sharp and of Brimstone instead whereof you may make Artificial of Brimstone boyled in Water Oyntments prescribed in the Stone of the Kidneys which open the passages asswage pain and break the Stone are good to be applied to the Breast and Back Yard and Stones Among which Oyl of Scorpions is best alone or with other as Birthwort Gentian Cypress and barks of Cappar roots boyled therein with prepared Goats blood Instead of this we make an excellent Oyl of Cantharides and Beetles and Grasshoppers boyled in Oyl with Juyce of Raddish Pellitory and Goats blood adding a little Vinegar of Squills We mentioned a Girdle with a stone in it good against the stone of the Kidneys The same is also good here in the stone of the bladder Also a Girdle made of divers things used all night is highly commended as of Linnen washed with Juyce of Tansey Plantane Housleek Bean flower and Honey You must use Operations when the Stone of the Bladder sticks in the neck thereof and stops the passages of urin as shaking when the Patient lies upon his back his Thighs drawn up for the Motion of the Bladder and Loyns We thrust the Stone of the passage of the Bladder with a Gatheter thrust in which is hollow that the Urin stopped may presently flow forth and crooked like the passage of the Yard The same is done with a wax Candle because it will work into the passage better being softer We take the Stone out of the Bladder by other wayes some suppose it may be done by applying things to the Yard which have a property to attract the stone as the brayne of a Mag-pie tyed to the Head or Glans and Praepuce called the Fore-skin Or they leave the Yard thrust into a great Raddish made hollow Somtimes the Stone is expelled by forcible pissing after sharp wine long retained after great Draughts especially if the lower parts be shaken at that time by stamping upon the ground with the Feet Somtimes it is sucked forth of
need Or this Take Turpentine two ounces dissolve it in white Wine half a pint with the Yolk of an Eg Oyl of Butter Almonds two ounces Oyl of scorpions an ounce Goose-grease two ounces Or this to help the stone to pass foreward Take Lilly roots two ounces Lapidium Smallage Purslane Roots and all each an ounce Pellitory Coleworts Groundsel saxifrage-roots and all Bettony St. Johns-wort Water-parsley Crateva Fennel Dovefoot Columbines Beets each half a handful or a handful Lillies Broom Elder Lavender and Stoechas flowers each a pugil Juniper-berries an ounce Alkekengi-berries two drams Gromwel saxifrage Parsley smallage Cummin Hally-berries and seeds each a dram boyl them in Wine and Water strain and add juyce of Pellitory St. Johns-wort Fennel or Parsley each an ounce Benedicta laxativa or Indum majus three drams Oyl of Dill bitter Almonds Peach-kernels scorpions each an ounce Turpentine dissolved with the Yolk of an Egg two drams with salt make a Clyster Add the Electuary called Justinum or Lithontridon Alterers are given also to cleanse away Gravel that it stick not to the Reins nor grow to the stone they are good to prevent and cure they open the streight passages where the stone is lodged and make them slippery And break the stone if it be crumbling or fastned to the Reins but if it be old or flinty it cannot be Some do it by a cutting quality and sharpness or by cleansing which takes the Gravel from the Kidneys and somewhat alwaies from the stone and the rather when they are drying and earthy which they do not by their hardness as one stone wears another as they suppose for they are not given whol but finely poudered but by the clensing quality which is in these dry bodies and by a propriety known more by custome then reason as in other things which do it by their similitude of which hereafter Good broath of red pease is approved with Butter Sugar and Honey or a little Salt this is used to prevent adding parsley roots and Coleworts and topps of Sparagus with Beans and Fitches Or Take Red Pease a pugil Parsley roots two ounces Fennel and Rest-Harrow roots and Liquorish each an ounce Colewort or Malowes a few Melon seeds two drams Aniseed a dram boyl them in Cock Broath til there be two messes of it streined give it Morning and Evening Or the Decoction of Alisma Chamomile Marsh-Mallows and of Corn Poppy according to Diascorides is good for such as make thick sandy Urine Or the Decocti-of white Saxifrage To this Decoction of white Saxifrage Orris Primrose roots Mallows Venus Navel and Holly are added also roots of Valerian Musk and wild flax may be boyled with Wine Some say that the Decoction of Lignum Vitae is good against the stone by its cleansing and cutting quality And therefore they give it in the fit and to prevent also as ordinary drink for a long time together with other clensers sometimes as Liquorish roots Rest harrow and the wood of the Thorne Tree with Sugar or Honey Of these and others make this gentle and pleasant Decoction Take Liquorish an ounce and half red Pease a pugil Raisons ten pair Figgs five pair the four great cold Seeds Anise and Mallow-seeds each a dram Violets and Mallow-flowers each a pugil boyl and strain them add Sugar or Honey a sufficient quantity for two or three draughts This is stronger Take Marsh-mallow roots Liquorish each an ounce Mallow-flowers two handfuls red Coleworts Chervil Bettony each a handful Melon seeds two drams Foenugreek or Linseed a dram and half seeds of Parsley Alkekengi and Gromwel each a dram Chamomil and Broom-flowers each a pugil boyl and sweeten it and use it as the former Or thus Take Roots of Asparagus Restharrow low Bramble each an ounce Pellitory Bettony Poli-montain each a handful black Vetches a pugil boyl them in Rain-water add Vinegar of squills an ounce Goats blood prepared half a dram Lapis Iudaicus a dram Or this Syrup Take the five opening Roots each half an ounce Liquorish Marsh-mallows Dropwort Burnet saxifrage Restharrow Ground-bramble Horse-radish each an ounce Roots of Valerian Dittany Madder Nettle Bayes Orris Elicampane Birthwort Piony Vervain each half an ounce Roots of Asarabacca Cypress each two drams Sea-onyon a dram Roots of white Saxifrage inner Rind of Hazel and Elder each half an ounce Mallows Pellitory Chervil Lovage roots and all Saxifrage of Dioscorides which Dodon takes to be wild Time Bettony Pauls Bettony Maidenhair Ceterach Rupturewort Bupleurus Ground-Ivy â—red Coleworts wild Parsley Sea-fennel Celticknard each a handful Flowers of Chamomil Lillies Broom Walflowers St. Johns-wort each a pugil red Pease a pugil Peach and Cherry-kernels each an ounce Juniper Winter-cherry and Ivy-berries each half an ounce the four great cold seeds and of Mallows and Marsh-mallows each a dram the four great and small hot seeds each half a dram Foenugreek and Linseed each a dram Raisons stoned two drams Jujubes and Sebestens each five pair make a Decoction add to the straining Sugar or Honey six ounces with a little Cinnamon make a Syrup Take two or three ounces alone or with convenient Water or Wine Some boyl Lapis Judiacus and Lyncis in it but in my Iudgement to no purpose Or the opening and cleansing Syrups which are seldom given alone but with Powders and Electuaries that expel the Stone as Oxymel Hydromel Syrup of Liquorish Radish or Byzantine There is also an Infusion made of Wine to expel the stone as winter Cherries bruised and steept in Wine Or bruised Radishes or Hors-Radishes steept twelve houres in Wine which is very good Dioscorides commends Wormwood-Wine against the Stone And this is better Take Liquorish Rest-harrow Burnet Saxifrage Lovage Fenel Radish each an ounce and half Bettony and Pauls Bettony Rupture-wort Bupleur Maiden-hair Ground-jvy all dried each three drams Violets Dillflowers each a dram Winter Cherries Ivy berries each two drams Parsley Carua Gromwell and Broom-seed each a dram bruise them and infuse them in two quarts of Wine Groundjvie infused in Aqua Vitae is a singular experiment against the Stone Or divers Aqua Vitae's made of Herbs and other things proper against the stone Or a Lixivium or Lye made of ashes of the same is good in four ounces at a time As of Vine ashes or Bean stalk ashes when Water or Wine is poured through them so often til it be sharp Another strong enough in half an ounce It is made of the Ashes of Bean-stalks Pease Coleworts Vervain Wormwood Garlick Ivy Iuniper Bayes and Paliurus if it may be had Taking as much of them as you can hold in your hand and letting a pint of Wine and four ounces of Aqua-Vitae pass nine times through them Some Juices break the Stone as Hannibal did the Alps with Vinegar as thin white Wine and Vinegar and Water A certain man was drunk with white Wine and held his Water forceably and then voided abundance of stones and Gravel And another of our Citizens of a good