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A69834	Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...; Technē iatrikē. English	Galen.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7517; Wing G159; ESTC R22670	55,815	130

their Head if you moisten their Heads they avoid excrement the more they are perpetually troubled with pains in their Head when the wind is South the North wind easeth them they cannot keep themselves awake neither can they sleep quietly but are molested with Dreams and troubled with foolish imaginations so that many times they think they see the things they see not and hear the things they hear not especially if the Brain offend more in heat than it doth in moisture only remember the Indications of a simple distemper and so may you with ease find out which quality most abounds for if the heat be much and the moisture little most Signs of heat appear but if the moisture abounds much and the heat be but little peccant most Signs of moisture appear Culpeper Galen could not have made a more lively Description of this evil if he had been in a Mans Head that had it with a Candle and a Lanthorn I shall ad this 1. This Infirmity is alwaies accompanied with wind which somtimes proceeds from the Hypochondria or Region of the Spleen and then the Imaginations are dreadful but no pain nor distention troubles the Head in the day time neither are the Veins of the Temples swollen this usually comes by drinking let them take away the cause and the effect will cease for it is not my Task to speak of the Spleen at this time 2. If the Disease be inherent to the Brain as here Galen describes it bleeding is a very good Remedy if the season of the yeer c. permit also because wind alwaies accompanies it the Roots of Parsley the Roots and Leaves of Fennel Mugwort Plantane Vervain and Willow Leaves are good Medicines they may boyl them in Water and drink the Decoction I have very often known Plantane Roots alone being eaten as People eat Apples help this Infirmity when nothing else would and therefore Gentlewomen might do well to keep some of them candied with Sugar continually in their Houses for their own benefit and their poor Neighbors Chap. 20. Signs of a cold and dry Brain IF a distemper of cold and driness afflict the Brain the Face is cold in feeling livid swarthy and discoloured to the Eye you can see no Veins in their Eyes and their Head is easily offlicted both by cold and cold things the temper of their Brain and Head is very unequal for some times their Heads are light and excrem●nts flow thence moderately somtimes they are exceedingly troubled with heaviness of their Heads and they are troubled with Distillations from the Brain upon every light and slight occasion alwaies remember the former rule given regard the Signs of the Simple dis●●mp●●s so may you know whether coldness or driness most super-abound Culpeper Such whose Brains are cold and dry have admirable Memories and are fantastick in their actions fearful and think every thing they do whether it be Meat or Drink or Exercise of Body doth them harm they sleep very badly c. A Cup of strong Beer with Nutmeg and Sugar is an excellent mornings draught for such People for although I would have such as have their Brains too hot and moist fly from strong Beer and Wine as fast as from a Dragon yet is it exceeding good for these Medicines proper for them are Conserves of Roses of Borrage and Bugloss Confectio Alchermes For Simples Borrage Bugloss Marsh Mallows Mollows Vervain Violet Leaves and Flowers Strawberry Leaves Betony Sage Fumitory Hops c. Chap. 21. Signs of of a cold and moist Brain THe Brain afflicted with cold and moist distempers moves a man to an inexpugnable desire of sleep and when he is awake his Brain is so muddy and his Sences so dull that he can do nothing that will get him honor here nor make him famous another day the excrements that flow from his Brain are abundance he seldom goes without a snotty Nose his Head is full though not of Wit and heavy and is most afflicted in cold and moist weather Culpeper Such people are very subject to Lethargies Coma Carus and other Diseases of the Head that proceed of coldness and moisture For Cure Juniper Berries are excellent to eat ten or twelve of them every morning fasting as also Bettony Chamomel Peony Roots and Seeds Calaminth Fennel sweet Marjoram Penyroyal Mother of Time c. Chap. 22. Of the SENCES MAny have their Sences in Vigor when they are yong and void of all blemish and yet in age they soon decay as you shall see the Sight of some People decay by that time they are twenty or twenty four yeers of age and therefore 't is true enough that the Brain first declares age is coming as usually appears by the Hair of the Head Chap. 23. Of the Eyes THe general mention we shall make of the Eyes is but short When the Eyes being touched are manifestly hot very quick and swift in motion when men whose Eyes are afflicted stare nimbly about and seldom hold their Eyes still when the Veins in the Eyes are large and red the Eyes are afflicted by heat If the distemper of the Eyes arise from cold the Signs are contrary to these When they are offended by moisture they are alwaies full of moisture and the party weeps against his will but if by driness they appear hard and dry in all they must be helped by a moderate use of things contrary to the Humor offending I say moderate because of their tenderness which endures no violent Medicines Culpeper 1. If the Eyes be afflicted by heat 't is no matter whether driness or moisture accompany it as one of them alwaies doth I commend unto you the distilled Water of Loos-strife you may find the Description of it and the place where it grows in my English Physitian to wash your Eyes with 2. If it come of cold Eyebright water is better 3. If Cataracts Pin and Web or the like grow over the Sight do not go about to eat it off with corroding Medicines as the Duncical practice of some Physitians is for take notice that the Film which offendeth is not of a thickness in all places and then your mother wit will teach you that you may eat asunder the Tunicle of the Eye in one place before you have eat away the Film offending in another Therefore in such cases make an Oyntment with Chelondine otherwise called Sullendine and Hogs Grease or an Oyl with the same Herb and Sallet Oyl and anoynt your Diseased Eye with it These special Rules you shall not twice in your Age find to fail therfore esteem them as Jewels Chap. 24. Of the Greatness of the Eyes THe greatness of the Eyes where they are neatly composed and the Sight strong shew abundance of well tempered substance whereby they are formed but if neatness of composure be wanting the substance indeed is much and so there may be of a heap of dung but it is not well tempered and therefore the Sight is weak and the Eye

done by in like case 4 Not aim at Gain 5 Promise no more than they can perform 6 Perform faithfully what they promise Chap. 91. Of Solution of Continuity in a Bone THe breaking of a Bone is a Solution of continuity in it A Bone broken in two cannot be made one again but is only united by a Callous a Callous is made of the very same Nourishment that Nourisheth the Bone and some hold that the Bones of a Child whilst they are yong and tender will unite without a Callous Usually when a Bone is broken the Muscles which lie neer it suffer also therefore the intention of Cure is double one which regards the Bone its self the other which regards the parts of the Body neer the Bone which is broken the latter you find the way of Cure in the foregoing Chapter Because as we told you all Bones are united by Callus you ought to supply Nature with a convenient superfluity to make this and withal to observe a convenient Decorum both in respect of the Qantity and Quality of it and according as you find the fracture to abound with moisture or driness so to prescribe a diet either drier or moister as you see fit Culpeper I as yet know or can at least at present remember no better Remedy in such a case than a strong Decoction of Comfry Roots or Leaves if the time of the yeer afford them you may make the Decoction in Wine or Water or a mixture of them according as you find the Age and Complexion of the Patient to be and the season of the yeer agree and as Comfry is so good for a broken Bone so Knot-grass is as good used in the same manner for a disjuncture Chap. 92. Of pricking of a Nerve or Tendon SEing Nerves and Tendons are of such exquisite sence the pricking of either of them is very subject to produce Convulsions and the reason is because no expiration can come outwardly from those parts to prevent it then you have no other Remedy than to open the Wound and dry it up with Medicines of such thin substance as can penetrate even to the very bottom of the Nerve Culpeper The usual practice of the Chyrurgians of our time in such cases is to cut the Nerve and so suffer the Patient to lose the use of that Member but I suppose if you heedfully read my English Physitian you may find a safer way to the Wood Chap. 93. Of Diseases according to Formation WEE come now to Formation the Diseases of which although they are devided into many Differences we will begin with that which is most evident which is change of Figure or Fashion this we told you might be amended so long as the party is growing and the sooner the better for when once they are grown up 't is past cure The Intention of this Cure is the turning the Member the contrary way If it come by reason the Member was formerly broken and not rightly set if it be new done your way is to break it again and set it better but if long time be elapsed 't is past cure Chap. 94. Of Obstructions OBstructions are caused of Humors either thick or thin the healthful causes of the first are cutting and clensing Medicines That which is caused by hard dung in the Guts remedy the hardnesss of it by moist and fat Clysters and then carry it quite away by such as are sharp The Stone in the Bladder requires cutting and bringing it away Immoderate fulness also causeth Obstructions and they are to be cured by immoderate emptying as bleeding and the like Superfluity of meat is corrected by purging and Vomiting Stoppage of the Lungs by Coughing In the passages of Urine by such things as provoke Urine and Urine is provoked by such things as vehemently extenuate or make thin The Stomach is clensed by Vomiting the Bowels by Purging To conclude whatsoever is contrary to Nature in any part is to be taken away and if that cannot well be done draw it to another part where it may Culpeper I do not well fancy Galens Remedy of cutting such as have the Stone I think nay am confident Remedies not dangerous may be found for the Stone in some of my Works I think in my Translation of the London Dispensatory look Lapis Nephriticus there Chap. 95. Of Roughness and Smoothness VVHat parts of the Body soever have lost their natural habit by roughness natural smoothness is to be restored to them and this be it to the Bones Arteries or Tongue is to be done by mild and moistning Remedies which have no biting quality at al in them Again Other parts of the Body have or may have a smoothness in them which is not Natural roughness is to be recovered to such by Medicines which clense and somthing bind but if there be Obstructions and narrowness of the passages withal use first such Medicines as cut tough Humors If there be a mixture of any of these Diseases let there be the like in the Medicines it is sufficient to give one Example for that 's the Rule we follow in all our Works Suppose a multitude of Blood flow to some particular Member that not only the greater but also the lesser Veins of that Member are extended and by reason of the cleerness of the Skin are cleerly seen 't is to be supposed that other Vessels that cannot be seen are stretched also now the danger is lest that which is sweat out through the Vessels be spilled in the void places in the midst of the Body Now the Cure of this must be done by Evacuation or to write plainer English by Emptying because the Disease proceeds of the immoderate filling of the part but yet this Humor thus passed into the Cavities of the Body will never be brought out that way while the world stands therefore all Evacuation cannot be made at the part of the Body offended if the whol Body be overfilled for if we use Scarrifications or Incisions we shall draw the more thither by reason of the pain if we should attempt to scatter it by heat the heat would draw more to it than it scatters away If we go about to drive it back the Body being full admits no such motion in such a case then you must first evacuate the whol Body then meddle with the particular part afflicted afterwards first repelling the Humor and then dispersing of it And this know The less the Humor is the sooner 't is evocuated cooling and binding Remedies repell ● If you conjecture any offending Humor yet retained in the part first search whether it be thick or thin that so you may expel it either with or without cutting Medicines Alwaies have a care of hot Medicines if the patient part be towards the upper part of the Body because they send Vapors upwards therefore in such cases let the heat of the Medicine be but mean and if it be a little moist withal it can cause no pain but if