greater Celandine six ounces Crocus Metallorum one drachm infuse it in the same water and drop two or three drops into the eye three or four times a day as long as need requireth I could insert many more Receipts of Learned and able men but I fear my Book will swell too big I shall onely insert the Ointment of Zacutus Lasitanas which he commends for drying and purging the moiffure flowing into the eyes Take of the Oyl of Roses three ounces white rose-Rose-water nine ounces Camphire one drachm Tutty one scruple Honey two ounces the Gall of a Goat half an ounce Lupin meat half a drachm Aloes Succotrine one dram Sugar-candy half a drachm the juyce of Horehound Fennel and Rue of each half an ounce Mirrh one scruple Ammoniacum half a drachm Saicocol one dram and a half Pouder them that are to be poudered mixe them and boil them a little with a gentle fire and with the grease of a Goat or Sheep and a little Wax make an Ointment accorbing to Art anoint the Eye-brows twice in a day three hours after meat which will purg plenty of water out of the head through the corner of the eye When you have finished your Cure whether by Mâ—…es 〈◊〉 by the Needle you must keep your Patient 〈…〉 of Physick for fear of a Relapse and administer such things as threaten the head and eyes and hinder defluxion It is good to wash the head and eyes every morning with white wine wherein hath he en infused sweet Fennel seed in pouder till they smart but for other medicines to strengthen the head and eyes I refer you to the preceding Chapter CHAP. XII Of the enlarging and dilating of the straitening or contracting of the Pupilla THis Disease is called in Greek Mydriasis because too much light going in hurteth the sight hence it is that those that are thus distempered see better in a darkish place than in the light And this may be demonstrated by the natural change of the Pupilla in sound eyes in bright and obscure places For when a man is in a bright and clear place the Pupilla is contracted and made less lest the light going in too fast should dissipate the spirits so that a man going suddenly out of a very light place into a house or place more obscure at the first entry he seeth almost nothing at all the Pupilla being so lately contracted he remaining in the same place the Pupilla is soon dilated or enlarged to receive more light and then he seeth perfectly those things which before he could not Then if he go out suddenly into a very light place his eyes are dazled and he seeth not perfectly because the Pupilla is enlarged and the Light going in so fast doth dissipate and dispierse the Visive Spirits Hence you perceive that the Light ought to pass into the Eye in a moderate quantity and the Pupilla ought to be of a moderate size Hence Galen observes that they who are born with narrow Pupillas see best The Pupilla is enlarged or contracted by dryness or repletion It is enlarged by dryness which stretcheth the Uvea which maketh the form of the Pupilla larger as Leather being pierced when it is dry the hole is larger and this proceeds from Feavers and such drying Diseases which are attended with want of sleep So may the Pupilla be straitned by dryness when the Tunicle Uvea by reason of the diminishing of the humours of the Eye loseth its former extension falls together and is wrinkled and so the hole of the Pupilla is made streighter whereas in the former the Tunicle though dry holdeth its extension It is made larger also by repletion namely by vapours or wind sent unto the Eye or by the extraordinary flowing of the watry and other humours to the eye or by the swelling of Uvea it self it is distended and the Pupilla made larger So the same watry humour may work a contrary effect namely by relaxing the same Tunicle and by that means making the hole streighter The Pupilla is inlarged sometimes by Convulsion as may be seen by some Epileptick Children Sometimes a stroak or fall may cause a deflaxion into the eyes hence comes extension retension of the Spirits causeth wind and humours and that causeth distension of the Pupilla and sometimes the Pupilla is made streighter by reason of the want of the visive spirits to extend the Tunicles for want of which they are relaxed and fall together as may be seen in old men These Diseases though they are contrary yet are to be cured by the same medicines remember this that if these Diseases be of long continuance and in ancient people they are without doubt incurable But if the Patient be young and the Disease of no long continuance you must proceed with this consideration that the cure must be varied according to the variety of causes If it proceed from dryness you must refresh the body with medicines which are moist and restaurative and such you shall finde in the cure of the Hective Feaver If it comes from a humour filling the Eye you must purge and cleanse the head and whole body of that humour as you are taught in the cure of a Cataract If from Wind after due Evacuations you must labour to discuss the Wind with the decoction of Fennel Rue Dill Cammomel Red-Roses made in Red Rose Water and White-Wine and the Eyes fomented therewith If there be occasion for Astriagent Medicines to bring the Pupilla being enlarged to its former state make use of this following taught by Ryverius Take of Red-Roses dryed two Scruples Saffron Spicknard and the Bark of Frankinsense tree of each half a scruple Tutty prepared Burnt-Ivory and Acatia of each one scruple make them into fine pouder and tie it up in a fine linnen rag and hang it in three ounces of Red Rose water woen you have occasion to use it squeez the cloaih and drop the water into the eyes and wash them therewith If a blow in the eye causeth an inflammation cure it as the inflammation of the eye but if by the blow the Pupilla be enlarged without inflammation drop in a drop or two of Pidgeons blood and apply a Cataplasme made with Bean-flower and Red-Roses juyce of Plantane and Red-rose water CHAP. XIII Of the Pin and Web. THE Tunicle called Cornea sometimes loseth its colour and brightness somtimes it grows thick by driness as in old men and is incurable Sometimes gross humours are fastened to it by reason of inflamation Sometimes by resolving Medicines the thinner humours are dissolved and the thicker remain or by the use of cold medicines the humours are thickned and a white humour is contracted which is called by some Leucona by others Albugo commonly a Pin and Web. Sometimes it comes from a Sear after an Ulcer and so the Cornea loseth its transparentress Sometimes the Eye is bloud-shod and that spoileth the natural colour of the Cornea and this is called
and commeth up with pain That which comes from the Gullet and Stomack is known by Vomitting from the Jaws and Wezand by Hawking from the Mouth by simple spetting Sometimes the Blood is sent from some other part to the Lungs and spet forth but this may be known by pain or some hurt happened there You must judge of the signes from the quantity or quality of the Blood the Nineteenth Chapter will instruct you To the Prognostick Hippocrates saith that what kind of Blood soever is spit from any of the inferiour parts is evil for every opening of a Vessel which letteth out Blood is dangerous especially in the Lungs But sometimes it happeneth without hurt when nature critically doth evacuate superfluous Blood that way as it is seen sometimes in women who have their courses stopt You must begin the cure with Blood-letting open a Vein on the same side you judge the distemper to be If there be obstruction of the Termes open the Saphaena If your Patient is subject to the Hemorrhoids Bleed with Leeches Cupping or other Revulsions you may use if occasion be Then purge Choller which causeth the Blood to be thin and fluid with Rubarb Mirabolans and the like Then give Medicines a stringent to close the Orifice of the Vessels but at the first give such things with them which have an expectorating quality lest Blood in the breast or other parts out of the proper Vessels should be coagulated Take of Conserve of Roses and the juice of Purslane of each two ounces Sugar of Roses one ounce Red Coral Blood-stone Bolearmenick and Terra Sigillata of each half a dram Troches of Amber a scruple the Oyle of Vitriol six drops with the Whites of eggs beaten to Water make a Lohock of which let the Patient lick often especially Night and Morning Quercetan prescribeth a Water excellent against spitting of Blood see the fourth part of this Treatise among Distilled Waters The Chymical Oyle of Amber two or three drops hath an excellent astringing quality take it in the Distilled Water of Knorgrass or Plantane or the like so you may take or give half a drachm of Sanguis Draconis or the Blood stone alone finely powdered out two scruples Opium Laudanum Philonium Romanum and Persicum These and such like may be given provided the dose be regulated by an able brain the juice of Nettles drunk four or five ounces in the Morning hath prevailed when all other have failed saith Amatus Lucitanus If by the use of Astringent medicines your Patient be costive give a Clister or purge that leaves an Astringency behind it and if the use of Astringents hinder spitting mix those things which doe not only stop Blood but mollifie the breast also such are the juyces of Plantane Purslane the Sirrups of dryed Roses Quinces Myrtles and of jujubes Gum Arabick Traganth and Starch and such like If Blood be congealed in the breast indeavour to dissolve it by administring six ounces of Oxycrate three times a day if it cause Coughing sweeten it with Sugar or Sugar Candy Apply this cooling Epithem to allay the heat of the Liver if you see occasion Take of the Water of Rose Plantane and Succory of each four ounces Vinegar of Roses two ounces of the powder called Diatrion Santalen a drachm and an half Camphire one scruple make an Epitheme apply it warme to the Liver afterwards anoint with unguentum Rosarum and Rose Vinegar Anoint the reins with Oyle of Roses and Water Lillys and the Testicles with Oxycrate If a Defluxion of sharp humors from the head unto the Lungs be the cause of the Disease seek the cure in the ninth Chapter When the Blood is stanched let your Patient avoid all things that may cause a returne thereof as Salt and spiced meats rich Wines great heat anger and violent exercise If you judge him inclinable to the Distemper by reason of thin Cholerick humors mixed with the Blood purge those humors at the Spring and Fall CHAP. XXXI Of the Consumption or Ptisick This Disease is called in Latine Tabes and in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which although it signifieth every Consumption yet is most properly taken for the extenuation of the whole Body caused by an Ulcer in the Lungs An Ulcer in the Lungs by reason of its nearnesse to the heart afflicts it with putrid vapours the heart disperseth it into all parts hence commeth a Feaver hectick joyned with a putrid and by its unnatural heat does hinder the well concocting of nourishment hence the whole Body decayeth Sometimes sharp corroding and Salt humors falling from the head or the Suppurated humors from the Pleurisie or Empyema which humors putrifying upon the Lungs may Ulcerate them Many times the cause is in the Lungs themselves which have a vitious hereditary constitution naturally tender and disposed to corruption Sometimes a Pustule is bred in the Lungs and never breaketh but groweth till it stop the passage of the breath and killeth the Patient Sometimes it commeth to Suppuration and is called the Imposthume of the Lungs which being broken and flowing to the Bronchia or passages in the Lungs it may be spit up if the body be strong and the matter little in quantity but many times an Ulcer remaineth which causeth a Consumption If the Impostumated matter flow into the Ventricle of the heart the sick dye sudainly and many times insensible of any pain or sicknesse take examples from Fernelius lib. 5. de partium morbis et Sympt Chapter 10 Pag. 288. To the causes of this Disease here mentioned you may adde all the causes mentioned in the ninth Chapter of Defluxions Hippocrates mentioneth many more kinds of Consumptions too tedious for me to insert in this Volume as those proceeding from nocturnal pollutions the running of the Reins also the obstruction of the Nerves or the flowing of Choler to the Back so of nourishment or drying causeth a Consumption likewise a Distillation from the head to the Marrow on the back may be the cause as Hippocrates faith when a Defluxion falleth upon the Spinal Marrow there is a secret and undisernable Consumption Sometimes it hath its original from hunger and want of nourishment Sometimes when the Meseraick Veins are obstructed that the Chylus Concocted in the stomach cannot passe to the Liver In the Diagnostick we must observe the signes of a Consumption beginning begun or confirmed Signes of a Consumption beginning are a small Defluxion the Lungs not much hurt thereby the Cough but small the spittle Sweet Salt or Bitter the body a little Feverish The signes of a Consumption begun the Distillation is stronger the Lungs pierced by which the Lungs are exasperated and the Cough violent The matter contained in the Lungs maketh the stomach weighty a sharp pain before and behind from the humors suppurating sharp and hearing humors fall into the body and sometimes into the Veins causing a hective Feaver sometimes joyned with a Putrid The Lungs by contracted Filth grow hot
Sugillatio Sometimes the Cornea is made yellow by the Jaundise All these Diseases are easily discovered and their causes are laid down in the Description That which cometh after a Wound or Ulcer and is a Scar is not easily cured But the cure of the Pin and Web consists in Emollients attenuating and discussing medicines But the Antecedent cause must first be removed by universal evacuations such as are described in the 10. and 11. Chapters Then you must soften the hard matter with the decoction of Fenugreek Mallows Melilot Celendine Fenel and the like Then let a Child chew sweet Fenel-seed and afterwards liek the eye or make a Water thus Take of Honey a pint the juyce of Fenel-Brooklime and Celendine of each half a pint Sugar-candy dissolved in the juyces an ounce with the natural Balsome a scruple clarifie them together or distil them in Balneo Mariae and drop it into the eye The seed of Oculus Christi put into the eye is good If it be a scar after the use of the former medicines use the Water of Honey afterwards put a quantity of the Gall of an Ox to the Juyces before spoken of and thicken it with Gum-Traganth If the Eye be blood-shod and yieldeth not to the fore-going medicine you must seek its cure in the Chapter of the Cataract As for the yellowness of the Eyes caused by the Jaundise take away the cause and the effect ceaseth CHAP. XIV Of the Inflammation of the Eyes THis Disease is called Ophthalmia which is an inflammation of the Tunicle Adnata and is sometimes extended to the Cornea By the Latines it is called Lippitudo bloodshontess This Disease is divided into three kinds the first is called Taraxis by the Greeks and by the Latines Conturbatio and it cometh from an external cause viz. the Sun Smoke Oyl Dust or the like If it comes from an internal cause namely from distempers of the stomach it is called Phlogosis and is a light inflammation but is the Original of the true Ophthaliny which always proceeds from an internal cause accompanied with tumour redness and pain and a thick Exerement called Lippa from whence the Latines call it Lippitudo or bloodshotness The third sort is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in in Latine also Chimosis this is attended with vehement pain and the eye-lids are so inverted that they can scarcely cover the eye the red covereth most part of the Iris and it proceedeth from repletion and flegmy humours I might here shew you how Hippocrates hath divided these Diseases namely a moist and dry Ophthalmy the moist I have already spoken of the dry he calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it wanteth humidity and proceedeth from Choler and adust Melaneholy there are other subdivisions if there be itching joyned with it he calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and if it come with hardness of the eye-lids 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Galen mentions another which he calleth Ophthalmia Tabida which ends with a Consumption and loss of the eye this happeneth to them who have moist heads and weak eyes sit to receive a defluxion The immediate causes are defluxion or congestion and sometimes both The defluxion cometh from the head either by the internal veins which comes from the brain under the skull or by the external veins which come from the Pericranium to the Eyes These signs demonstrate the Disease and the cause thereof if redness appear without swelling it is a Contâ—rbation If swelling heat and tears be joyned to the redness then is it a perfect Ophthalmy but if it cover the black of the eye and invert the eye-lids then it is called Chimosis If blood abound and cause the distemper the eye and face will be red and the veins swelled If Choler be the cause the Patient feeleth a pricking pain sharp tears which corrode the cheeks and corners of the eyes If it proceed from Flegme the pain is heavy many slâ—my and glutinâ—…tious tears If Melancholy cause the grief the tumour is but small the colour of a dusky redness few tears the humour thick the constitution of the Patient melancholy If the defluxion come from the internal parts of the head the pain will be felt inwardly and about the roots of the eyes if through the exterior vessels the contrary signs appear the veins of the forehead are distended and there is much shooting about the Temples For the cure the external causes must be removed the antecedent causes evacuated revelled and repelled the conjunct cause derived and discussed and the parts affected strengthned Let the Patient observe an orderly and temperate Diet and eat such things that are of easie disgesture let him avoid all sharp and salt things and such as fume up to the head and such things as breed Choler Let him abstain from strong drink let most of his drink be Barley water Let him avoid all motion let him lie still as long as he is able and sleep as long as he can Let him keep his eyes shut and what ever you do endeavour to keep his body soluble Phlebotomy for the most part is convenient but let it be regulated and moderated according to the constitution strength age and sex of your Patient and nature of the Disease If the body be Plethorick and the Disease hath its original from blood you must take away the greater quantity for Galen in his book de curat per sang mis reiateth how one was cured of an Ophthalmy by bloed-letting first three pound and four hours after one pound understand this onely in the case before mentioned though I could instance many cases more cited by eminent Authors and Fathers of Physick yet let this serve for all to avoid prolixity If onely one eye be affected bleed your Patient on the contrary side If you finde a stoppage of any accustomed evacuations viz. the Terms or Hemorroid veins if the first be stopped open the Saphaena if the other bleed them with Leeches To make revulsion some do apply Cupping-glasses to the shoulders and back others open the veins of the head and temples sometimes the veins or the corners of the eyes and behind the ears and some bleed these veins by Leeches all which are very profitable for derivation When you have bled and made sufficient revulsion you must purge the humour that offendeth and causeth the blood to be inflamed but first let the humours be prepared then purge gently and often and if you see occasion after all this you may purge more strongly Prepare the humours thus Take of Endive Succory and Fumitory of each one handful Red. Rose leaves one ounce of the greater Cold-seeds half an ounce Of Lettice and Poppy-seeds of each two scruples boil them in a quart of Spring water to the consumption of half shrein it and with Sirrup of Violets two ounces and Sirrup of Fumitory one ounce make a Julep for three potions afterwards you must administer such medicines as have power gently to carry away the peccant
by the use of this diet drink let him take a Clyster as often as need requireth and once in seaven dayes let him take some purging medicine that day omitting the diet drink This bole taken in the morning two houres before meat is exceeding good to strengthen the head after due evacuation of the peccant humours viz Conserve of Roses and of Rosemary-flowers of each two scruples of Venice Treacle the weight of both with a little fine Sugar make bole and administer it as before Likewise may Gargarisms be made and used in manner following Take the root of Masterwort a drachme Long-Pepper and Nutmegs halfe a dram Mustard-seed one scruple beat them to powder and put them in a linnen cloth and chew it halfe an hour which will purge the head of grosse and phlegmatique humours Somtimes it is convenient to use Sneezing-Powders and you may make them in this sort Take the Leaves of Marjarom Rosemary and Betony dryed two scruples white Hellebore Cloves Nutmegs Cubeba of each halfe a scruple beat them into fine powder and by the help of a quill provoke sneezing Also a quilt to corroborate and strengthen the Brain may be thus made Take of Wood-Betony dryed one ounce the flowers of Rosemary and Stachas a Drachm Red-rose-leaves two drachms Frankinsence Mastick Benzoin Mace and Cloves of each halfe a Drachme beat them to powder and quilt it in Silk or Linnen and apply it warme I might here reach you to make Plaisters to corroborate the braine to attract or resolve the humours but I forbeare here for brevityes-sake and referr you to its proper place where I shall treat of the making of Plaisters and their uses If the distemper hath its originall from Cholerick humours let him use meats and drinks that are naturally cold and moist it is convenient that the humours be prepared quenched and concocted for which purpose you may use this medicine following Sirrup of Violets one ounce of Water-Lillies halfe an ounce distilled waters of Endive Succory and Lettuce of each one ounce mix them and drink it in the morning fasting the humours thus concocted and made mild and obedient unto nature may the better be removed by purging medicines To which purpose take fine Rubarb two drachms Spickuard one scruple cut small and infused in the distilled water of Endive Succory and buglosse of each one ounce for the space of twelve houres dissolve therein a drachme of the electuary of the juyce of Roses and make a purging potion Pills of Reubarbs and Alephangina may be safely used in this case the dose is a scruple or halfe a drachme taken at night going to bed Pill aureae or golden Pills taken halfe a drachm in the morning purgeth cholerick and other offensive humours from the head Clysters in this case profiteth much Take of the decoction for a Clyster before described adde one ounce of Cassia fistula Hiera picra halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce Salt halfe a drachme mix them and make a Clyster After purging of the Cholerick humour it is convenient to coole and strengthen the head by outward medicines oyle of Roses and oyle of Cammomell mixed with a little white-Wine-Vinegar is good to anoint the head but if there need greater cooling you may adde to the oyles juyce of Housleek Purslane Nightshade or Sorrell If the sick cannot sleep anoint the forehead with oyle of Water Lillies and Poppy If the symptomes declare wind to be the cause let the Patient eschue all meats that do breed windinesse empty the belly with Clysters that are made of such things as do naturally dissolve windinesse viz. The seeds of Annise Sweet Fennell Carraway and Comin of each one ounce boile them in a quart of posset-drink till halfe be wasted streine it and adde to the liquor Catholicon and diaphaenicon of each halfe an ounce This Clister doth not only purge the intestines and those parts about the Liver but also pulleth back those vapours which ascend to the Head To the outside of the Head may be applyed repulsive medicines as Vinegar Wormwood Melilot Mints Pomegranate-rinds Shephards Pouch Purslane Lawrell Nutmeggs c After a moderate use of these adde medicines that have power to mitigate concoct and digest as Camomell Linseed Fenugreek Saffron yelks of Eggs Hens and Goose-grease Lastly apply medicines that have power to discusse viz meale of Lupines and Barley Lilly-roots Nigella oyles of Dill and Rew. CHAP. III. Of the Frensie THe Frensie is an inflammation of the braine and membranes thereof caused by the abundance of blood or choler occupying those parts it differeth from madnesse in this that a fever is joyned to the Frensie Some that are thus grieved do erre much in imagination others are acute in imagination but want judgment to regulate their cogitations and some are deprived of memory Symptoms and Signes They who are thus greived are in a continuall Fever are mad and cannot sleep Somtimes they sleep and are much troubled therein They often rub their eyes which are red and somtimes dry somtimes afflicted with a hot rhume The tongue is rough sometimes they bleed at Nose they snatch and catch at the bed-clothes their Pulse is weak and hard like the motion of a sinew they breathe seldome If choler be the cause of the I hrensie they rage very furiously and can scarcely be ruled if blood be the cause they somtimes laugh and rejoyce This disease according to the opinion of the wisest Physitians for the most part is deadly and incurable The Cure For the cure of this distemper the blood or cholet afflicting the braine must be discussed pulled back repelled and evacuated so that the distemper of the head be removed the strength of the head and of the whole body be preserved It is convenient as soon as the disease is discovered to open a Veine having first administred a Clyster thus made Take of the Leaves of Violets Mallows Endive Beets and Lettuce of each one handfull of the root of Marsh-Mallows an ounce of the flowers of water-Lillies and the tops of Dill of each halfe a handfull let them be boiled in a sufficient quantity of Barley-water then streined out to a pint of this decoction dissolve Cassia newly drawne Sirrup of Violets Diaprunum Lenitive of each halfe an ounce browne Sugar one ounce and make a Clyster You must soone after the Patient hath had a stoole open the Cephalick or Head-Veine but if blood do abound open the Basilick or Liver-veine or the middle Veine first and after a while breathe the cephalick Vein If you find that suppression of Menstrues or the hemorrhoid hath been the cause of the distemper you may first open the Veine under the Ancle called Saphaena and afterwards open the Cephalick Veine If the age and strength of the Patient forbid not you must bleed him often in the Cephalick Vein if the body be weak open the Veine under the Ancle be sure not to draw too much blood at once least the sick faint
of water untill half be consumed to a pint of the decoction adde the oyls of Lillies and Rue of each half an ounce Hiera Picra Benedicta Laxativa and Diaphaenicon of each half an ounce Honey of Roses an ounce Salt a drachm mix them and make a Clyster If your Patient be young strong and full of hot humors and blood you must soon after the operation of the Clyster open a vein in one Arm let him not bleed too much at once lest his strength fail in a few hours space open a vein in the other Arm for by that means the disease will be the more abated and the strength the more preserved After the first vein opened if you perceive his countenance more lively his pulse beat more orderly and his breath fetcht with more ease it is a good sign and a good encouragement to open another vein Make the Orifice wide or else the grosseft blood will lye behind Where you see the body abound with blood draw blood liberally if not draw blood sparingly After letting blood if you see hopes of your Patients recovery within a few hours you must administer some purgation the time of the day matters not one ounce of Elect. Diacarthamum half a scruple of Castor dissolved in Betony water you may in this case make use of Pillulae Cochiae the greater or the lesse or Pillulae de Agarico pills of Agarick But in the Lethargy by reason it is accompanied with a Feaver you ought to administer more gentle purgations as Pillulae Hiera cum Agarico I shall lay down some generall Rules for purging in the next Book which serve to divert the humours flowing to the Head But the humours there fixed must be purged with Scammony one Scruple Castor two scruples administred in Oximel which hath been proved with good successe If hitherto your Medicines prove unsuccessful you must venter to administer stronger not fearing the danger or strength of your Medicine seeing without it nothing can be expected You may use such Medicines as are extracted out of Antimony or those lesse violent as is the infusion of Crocus Mettallorum or two drachms of the Tincture of Tobacco extracted with the Spirit of Wine doth powerfully evacuate upwards and downwards both cholerick and flegmatick humours and cleanseth not only the Stomach and Bowels but the Brain also Also Frictions and Ligatures on the extream parts are necessary that the vapours do not ascend to the Head You may fasten Cupping glasses to the Shoulders Arms and Thighs with scarification if you have not let your Patient blood otherwise without forget not the often administration of Clisters or instead thereof you may use Suppositories made thus Take two ounces of Honey boiled to a due thicknesse of Hiera Piera two drachms Coloquintida Agarick and Scammony of each two seruples Salt gemme one drachm make them into fine powder and mix them with the Honey and make Suppositories as long as you think good You may apply things to their Noses which have a property to awaken them as Vinegar Castoreum Galbanum Sulphur Goats-horn or Harts-horn burnt and holden to the Nose A fume made with white Amber is of excellent vertue in the Apoplexy You must pull them by the hair and prick their Legs or rub them with Salt and Vinegar You must annoint the Palare of the Mouth with strong and sharp Medicines as Mithridate Mustard powder of Masterwort and rub the bottoms of the Feet with Salt and Vinegar and the Palms of the Hands with the Oyls of Rue and Castor If the disease be of long continuance provoke sneezing with those Powders prescribed in the second Chapter to which you may adde Rue and Castor You may apply resolving Medicines but first you must make them thus Take the leaves of Betony Sage and Rosemary of each one handful the tops of Lavender and Marjerom Rue and Savoury of each half a handful the roots of Angelica Masterwort and Setwall of each one ounce Bayberries and Juniper berries of each half an ounce boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Vinegar and with a Spunge or cloth dipped in the decoction bathe the Head of the sick If the Disease yield not to these Medicines you may fasten Cupping gâ—asses to the upper part of the Neck about the first or second joynt Some use to draw Blisters there and with good successe Many precious Medicines against this distemper have been left to posterity I shall omitting many insert this one viz. Take of the root of Peony and Misleto of the Oake of each two ounces Calamus Aromaticus Galanga Cyperus of each one ounce of Betony Sage Marjerom of each one handful the seeds of Peony Annis Fennel and Carraway of each three drachms the flowers of Lavender Stechas and Rosemary of each half a handful of Nutmegs Mace Cubebs Cloves Grains of Paradice of each half an ounce Cinamon two ounces Saffron half a drachm of Species Diambrae and Diamoshi of each two drams Let all these ingredients be shredd and bruised and put into a glasse Limbeck powre on them of the best rectified Spirit of Wine enough to cover them the breadth of three fingers digest them in a Bathe eight daies afterward distill it and upon occasion administer a drachm or half a drachm in some other convenient liquor In like manner may the Spirit of Castor be administred in Oximel and 't is a good Medicine against these Diseases Moreover be very careful that you wel understand the nature of the humor offending as if blood offend use not too many refrigerating Medicines and bleed the more I need say no more Verbum sapientibus c. If after so many Evacuations the Brain become too cold and much weakened you may strengthen it with Lozenges made thus or after this manner Take of the distilled oyls of Annis Cinamon and Nutmegs of each three drops oyl of Cloves one drop Amber-grease half a scruple with four ounces of Sugar dissolved in Betony water make Lozenges take a drachm in a morning Likewise you may make Pills to strengthen the Head in this manner Take of the Species Cordiales temperatae and Aromaticum Rosatum of each two drachms Mastick Nutmegs and Cloves of each one scruple Ambergrease half a scruple and Musk three grains make it into a Masse for Pills with the juyce of Marjerom and take a scruple to bedward once or twice a week or you may take half a drachm of the powder called Diarrhadon Abatis night or morning If any fear the return of this Disease again after cure or any by the aforegoing Symptoms fear its growth upon them let them carefully consider the humour offending if blood abound lessen it by opening a vein if Choler flegm or melancholy by purgation How you may know which humour offendeth or by what it may be purged this Treatise if you have any ingenuity will inform you CHAP. VI Of the Vertigo and Falling-sickness THe Vertigo is a Disease which maketh a man think every
not here trouble my selfe or the reader to insert examples of the aforegoing medicines the Chapters beforegoing together with every Artists ingenuity will sufficiently insorme Take this for a generall rule that when a Catarrh or Deflaxion is caused by excrementitious humours flowing from any of the inferior parts by reason of the naturall passage being stopped you must open the obstruction by often purging or by medicines regarding the nature of the obstruction and by that meanes turn the humours offending into their naturall channell after convenient Evacuations with internall and externall medicines labour to corroborate the head and dry up the humours Internall medicines may be prepared thus or after this manner Take of Coriander seed prepared and Coltsfoot dryed Nutmegs and Frankinsence of each halfe an ounce Liquoris Mastick and Cubebs of each two drachms flos Sulphuris three drachms Conserve of red Roses one ounce with a pound of white Sugar dissolved in popy-Popy-water make rolls weighing three drachms or half an ounce Take one morning and Evening Or you may make Troches in this manner Take of the best Frankincense and juice of Liquoris of each one drachm Lac Sulphuris half a drachm Opium Saffron and Mirrh of each one scruple the oyles of Annise-seed and Nutmegs of each three drops with Diacedium as much as sufficeth to make Troches or if you please you may make them into pills and take halfe a drachm morning and evening It is good to apply bags of hearbs to the fore part of the head which have a drying quality shave the fore part of the head and apply the gum Sacamahaca spread upon a cloath in the forme of a plaister and add thereto a little Mirrh or if you make a fume thereof and shut the Chamber close it profiteth If the defluxion proceed from a hot cause you must administer medicines which have power to thicken the humours to repel and evacuate it you must likewise correct the distempers and fortifie the parts both sending and receiving and that you may so do you must revel or pull bâ—ck the humours by Phlebotomy if nothing hinder it You must thicken the humours by administring Juleps made of the Waters of Plantane Purslane Lettice the Sirrups of Poppies Violets Water-Lillies of dryed Roses and Meconium and such like Having thus thickned and prepared the humours you must evacuate them by gentle Purgatives Take of the Bestrhabarb a drachm infuse lit in any of the afore-named waters as much as is sufficient for a potion six hours in warm Embers strain it out and add to the liquour one ounce of Manna and as much Sirrup of dryed Roses and administer it To make the potion stronger you may dissolve therein Catholicon Diapranam Solative or Lenitive Confectio Hamech c. or such like having respect to the age and strength of your Patient and humour offending You must endeavour to restrain the Flux thus take of Conserve of Roses one ounce Diatraganthum Frigidum and Palyis Haly of each a drachm Bolearmenick prepared with Rose-water a drachm with the Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds and Sirrup of dryed Roses make an Opiate and give the quantity of a Nutmeg to bedward These Troches are much commended take Gum-Dragant and Arabick of each two drams Bolearmenick and Terra Sigillata washed in Rosewater of each one drachm White Poppy seeds and Juyce of Liquorish of each half a drachm Sugar-penid one ounce with the Musilage of Quince-seeds extracted with Rosewater make Troches to be held in in the mouth day and night The Spirit of Sulphur and Vitriol given three or four drops in a convenient Julep morning and evening worketh no small effects against a defluxion especially if it proceed from an inflammation of the bowels If you find the Disease too stubborn to yield to these medicines you must make use of Narcoticks of which Laudanum is none of the worst four or five grains given at bed-time Faventius extolleth these Pills in a Salt Catarrh or defluxion of salt humours Take of the juyce of Liquoris two drachms washed Aloes one drachm Pillulae de Cynoglosso half a drachm with Sirrup of Violets make a Mass and take a scruple thereof at bed-time It is convenient to make pouders to apply to the head which have power to strengthen to stop the defluxion and consume the humours Take of white Amber Benjamin Mastich Nutmegs of each half an ounce Betony Sage Rosemary Lavender Marjarome of each half a handful Frankinsense graits of Kermes Red-roses Peony seeds and Poppy heads of each two drachms Sanders Myrtles Cyprus nuts and Pomegranate flowers of each one drachm make a powder for the lining of a Cap or Quilt or if you had rather you may make a plaister with the same Simples with Wax and Oyl of Rofes according to art and apply it to the head being first shaved CHAP. X. Of Diseases of the Eyes and first of the Diseases proceeding from Obstruction in the Optick Nerves IN the former book having given you a brief account of this worthy member and what varicty of wonderful operations God and Nature hath placed in so little a subject yet of the parts and faculties thereof it is too hard a task for the most exquisite Philosopher to conceive aright or for the most eloquent Orator to express such wonderful notions But seeing God hath indued every man with this member by whose curious inspection he is inabled to pry into all things it is the duty of every Naturalist to exercise this member in finding out its own constitution and curing the distemper and maladies to which it is subject For the benefit of those who want better helps I shall as briefly as may be discover the diseases and cures of the eye as they are in which work I adhere to the opinions of the wise and learned Physitians verified by Reason and my own Experience Sometimes it happeneth that the sight of the eye is totally extinguished and no fault appears in the eye And this cometh to pass either by obstruction or adstriction of the Optick Nerves and is called by the Latines Gutta Serena and Amauresis Obstruction for the most part is the cause of this Disease which happeneth by the flowing down of a watry humour upon the Nerves which causeth blindness or dimness of sight the like obstruction happening to the other Nervs causeth the Palsie Adstriction or compression sometimes happeneth by some moist humour gathered about the Optick Nerves as blood or filthy matter gathered In the brain sometimes bp humours sometimes by inflammation in malignant Feavers and may be the cause of this Disease For the Nerves being thus obstructed or compressed the animal Spirits cannos pass from the brain to the eyes To this I may add that in case by a wound in the head the Optick Nerves be cut without controversie it causeth blindness The sign of this Disease is the loss of sight and the eye appearing in its natural condition onely the Pupilla or sight
laid eggs boiled hard of Mirth Tutty and the white Troches of Rasis of each a drachm Sarcocol Frankincence Aloes and Ceruse of each half a drachm pouder them that are to be powdered and mixe them all in a stone morter then put them into a smal glass body with a head and receiver and distil it in Balneo This Water is excellent against Ulcers in the eys These three Diseases I thought good to annex to the cure of the inflamation of the eyes having a dependency thereupon CHAP. XV. Of the Cancer and Rupture of the Cornea SOmetimes a Cancer groweth up and is perfected in the eye of which there is two sorts either occult or ulcerated The occult is called a Cancerous Tumor or Cancer of the Eye The ulcerated is called a cancerous ulcer in the eye It is known by a blew leaden colour and unequal hardness the veins adjoyning are very full and blew and the eye the temples and the whole head is afflicted with a strong and pricking pain If the Disease be fixed and perfect it is incurable except it be taken away by manual operation but if it be taken in the beginning it may be cured you must administer convenient Physick and adjoyn a sutable diet You must draw bloud on the same side if you finde occasion bleed the Hemorrhoid veins by Leeches and apply them behind the ears after the use of these or the like revulsions purge melancholy often and gently once or twice a week if the body be strong enough purge with the extract of black Hellebore These remedies will much diminish the humours and decrease the pain after which you must use Topicks such as have prepared Tutty and the white Troches in them for which have recourse to the preceding Chapter The flesh of young Pigeons or Chickens applyed to the Cancer hath been found very available The Rupture of the Cornea is when the Tunicle is so divided that the watry humour and sometimes the Uvea cometh forth The cause of both is a Wound Ulcer or a great afflux of humours by which the Cornea is so distended that it cracks and the humours contained are let out and sometimes the Uv a shooteth out Paulus divideth this Disease into four kinds the first cometh forth like the head of a Fly and therefore he calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The second is when a greater part cometh forth and is like the stone of a Raisin and is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third is when the Eruption is so great that it seemeth like an Apple and is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The fourth is when the Uvea being come forth is hard and is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cure is very difficult alwayes but for the most part it is incurable After bleeding if need be and purging the peccant humours you must use astringent and glutinating medicines as the white Troches and the white of an Egg dropt into the Eye then make a Cataplasme to the part thus Take the root of Solomons Seal four ounces Quinces pared and fliced two ounces Red-rose leaves a handful Acatia a drachm Saffron two scruples boil these in red wine and Plantane water of each a like quantity as much as is sufficient to make a Cataplasme Afterwards to make a perfect consolidation take an ounce of the Mucilage of Gum Traganth made in Plantain water the clarified juyce of Plantain and of the root of Solomons Seal of each one spoonful of the white of an egg beaten to clean water and a womans breast-milk of both a spoonful washed Aloes prepared Tutty and Sarcocol of each two scruples Saffron one scruple pouder what is to be poudered and mix them for a Collyric CHAP. XVI Of the Diseases of the corners of the Eyes and Eye-lids SOmetimes there happeneth a Tumor in the corner of the Eye at the root of the nose if it do not break it is called Anchylops if it do break it is called Aegylops Sometimes this Tumor cometh without inflamation and is bred of a thick flegmatick slimy humour as the Tumors called Atheromata Steatomata c. of which you shall have a brief account in the next book When it cometh with inflamation it is like a Bile with shooting pain and very red and it cometh by thin and cholerick bloud flowing thither and then imposthumateth which being open produceth an Ulcer then it becomes hollow and is called Fistula Lachrymalis The Cure is very difficult because it is ill applying medicines the eye being so near If it hath not been of long continuance and the Orifice to be seen externally it may be cured by medicines But if it hath continued a year the Bone is foul and hard to be cured without burning If it turns to a Cancer it is incurable because medicines will enlarge it and increase pain and is known by the hardness and blewness of the skin the extension of the veins and extremity of the pain You must open a vein if nothing hinder and revel the humours by purging which you may do by these following Pills viz. Cochiae Arabicae Aureae and Lucis Majoris then you must endeavour to stop the progress by repelling medicines take the juyce of Night shade Shepheards purse and Knotgrasse of each two ounces Acacia the flowers of Balaustines Bolearmeniack Gauls Frankincense and Roch-allum of each a drachm boil them well together then with four ounces of white Wax and four drachms of Turpentine make a Cerate to be applyed to the fore-head Afterwards endeavour to resolve the humours Amatus Lucitanus commends this following Cerate Take of the Powder of Cockle-shels two drams Mirrh Aloes and Frankinsence of each half an ounce Sarcocol Sanguis Draconis and Ceruse of each three drachms Opopanax dissolved in Wine Vinegar and Bloud-stone of each one drachm and an half Saffron two scruples Wax and Rozen of each three ounces make a Cerate according to art and apply it to the corner of the Eye and Forehead If after all this it will come to Suppuration make use of such things as will hasten it least the humours corrode the part apply a Plaister of Diachilon Simplex If an inflamation approach apply a Cataplasme made with white bread and milk If it break not suddenly open it with a Launcet cleanse the Ulcer and heal it But if it prove a Fistula you must be the more careful first to cleanse it thus Take of Aqua vitae and Honey of Roses of each one ounce Mirrh two ounces with Allum and Verdegreece of each a drachm boil them together and make a Liniment Unguentum Aegyptiacum and Apostolorum is of great virtue in this case If the bone be foul it must be cured by an actual Cautery yet Fabricius Hildanus saith he cured a Lachrimal Fistula with medicines he applyed Euphorbium and upon the same an Emplaister of Gum-Elemi and this he did till he skaled the bone afterwards with the Tolutan Balsome a drop upon a little lint he incarnated and
too drying lest they thicken the humors and encrease the disease Then you must endeavor to unstuffe and cleanse the Lungs and wind pipe with the before named Lohock or of the like nature I could insert many which I omit for brevitie sake Quercetanus his Sirrup of Tobacco is very good the Tincture of dryed Tobacco as much as a pease held in the mouth and swallowed by degrees draweth abundance of flegm out of the stomack and Lungs or if you take Tobacco in a pipe it is good The juice of red Coleworts made up into a Sirrup and a little Spirit of Sulphur added to it may be taken an ounce in the Morning Or you may make Tablets of great virtue thus Take of the Roots of Elecampane and Licorish of each one ounce the Leaves of Colts foot Maiden haire Scabius and Woodbetony of each a drachm Lac Sulphuris two drams Saffron two scruples make them all into fine Powder and with the Mucilage of Gum Traganth made with Coltsfoot water make Tablets which let the Patient hold in his mouth often Platerus highly commendeth the preparation of a Cock thus Take an old Cock kill pull and draw him stuff him with these things following Fox Lungs fresh or prepared one ounce Raisons stoned and figs of each two ounces Elecampane one dram Hysop Savory Horchound Thyme Calaminth Peneroyal dryed of each one drachm The Seeds of Fenel and Annise of each one drachm Carthamas Seeds bruised and the Roots of Polypody of each half an ounce White Tartar one drachm Salt half an ounce the Yolks of two Eggs Fresh Butter half an ounce Cut and bruise them according to the precepts of Pharmacy and few them up into the Belly of the Cock boile him in a large Vessel and soe much water as will cover him and no more till his flesh come off from his bones strain it and add to every ten Pints one Pound of Hony that it may not quickly corrupt let the Asthmatick person take a Porrenger full every morning in which dissâ—lve of Manna and Cassia newly drawn of each half an ounce It will be the better if presently after he take a dram of Venus Turpetine with penids in form of a Bolus or otherwise The Patient may continue taking this Cock-broath a Moneth or longer CHAP. XXVII Of the Pleurisie and inflammation of the Lungs A Pleurisie is an inflammation of the Membrane Pleura and the internal intercostal muscles girding the sides within the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines also Pleuritis The matter causing this disease for the most part is Cholerick blood which doth easily penetrate the Membrane but seeing other humors may cause it it is either Sanguineous Cholerick Phlegmatick or Melancholick but what ever the humor offending be Choler it hath for its Vehicle The signes of a Pleurisie according to Galen are five first a pricking pain of the side caused by a Cholerick humor in the Membrane extending it self either towards the throat or the Hypochondria Secondly a continual sharp Feaver which is either Symptomatical comming from some Sangnineous Tumor about the part or essential that is when a Feaver first invadeth the Patient and the boiling blood is expelled to those parts Thirdly difficulty of breathing because thâ— heart being inflamed as well as the rest greedily desireth refreshment and he parts inflamed cannot sufficiently distend themselves to draw in the cold aire Fourthly a hard Pulse like a Saw which is caused by the stretching out of the Membrane by which defect the Arteries are distended Fifthly and lastly an often and troublesome Cough because nature doth strive to expel those troublesome humors from the part affected also some of the matter sweateth from thence into the Lungs which causeth a Cough I might here add another signe viz. spitting of blood or bloody matter but because it happeneth not in all Pleurisies nor at all times I omit it You may partly judge of the humor peceant by the constitution of the Patient and season of the Year The particular signes are first of blood bloody spittle stretching and pricking pains full Veins especially about the Temples red Urine and the like Signes of Choler are yellow spittle a burning Feaver a hard and quick pulse the pain more acute and pricking restlesnesse bitternesse of the mouth and yellow Urine The signes that shew Phlegm are much sweet and frothy Spittle the Feaver remiss little thirst the pain heavy but not violent the pulse not so hard the Urine white and thick the Spittle black and tough the pain and Feaver moderate a dry Cough the tongue black and rough the belly bound the Urine red and darke are signes of Melancholly As to the prognostick I say This disease afflicting old men women with child Asthmatical persons or such as have had it often is dangerous If the Feaver be violent the breath fetched with dissiculty the Cough raiseth up no matter or the Spittle very bloody or very white and glutinating green tustick black much Spitting and yet the pain abates not the spitting cease and the pain continue all these are dangerous signes On the contrary plentiful vomitting Choler in the beginning of the disease blood or Choler mixed with the spittle c. are good signes The Cure of a Pleurisie consists in the revelling Deriving discussing digesting maturating and expectorating the peccant humors if the Feaver be essential seek its cure in its proper place Bleeding is a very natural remedy for a Pleurisie which you must moderate according to the constitution and strength of your Patient and the violent or remiss symptoms If your Patient spitt freely forbeare blood-letting lest his spitting be stayed and his life endangered Twice or thrice in a day or oftener as you see occasion administer cooling Juleps to restrain the heat of the boiling humors make a Iulep of Poppy water and Sirrup of Violets After bleeding prepare a fomentation Take of Mallows Violet leaves Chamomel Pellitory of the wall of each one handful the roots of Marsh mallows and Lillies of each four ounces the seeds of Flax Commin and Fenugreek of each one drachm boile them well and put them with the liquor into a hogs bladder and foment the side afterwards anoint it with this following Liniment Take of Fresh butter and Hens grease of each two ounces the Oyles of Chamomel Lillys Dill and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce The Chimical oyle of wax a scruple mix them and make a Liniment some slit a live-Hen and apply it some the Lungs or the paunch of a sheep hot others apply hot bread out of the Oven dipped in Butter Then you may make an Emulsion of blanched Almonds and the great cold seeds thus Take of Almonds blanched and steeped in Coltsfoot water one ounce the four great cold seeds of each half an ounce the seeds of Lettice and white Poppy of each one drachm beat them in a Marble morter pouring on by degrees the decoction of Barly Liquorish and Plantane a
Pint and an half strain it out and dissolve Sirrup of Jujubes two ounces Sirrup of Violets one ounce make an Emulsion for three doses give it Morning and Evening If his Cough be violent let him alwayes have in his mouth Sugar of Roses Sugar Candy or penids or the Tablets of Diatraganthum Frigidum or with Sirrup of Violets and Jujubes you may make it into the form of an Celegma or Lohock If his spittle be thick and tough adde Oxymel Simplex or the Sirrups of Liquoris or Coltsfoot Let his constant drink be Barly water boile it in Currans Borrage and Bugloss Flowers Hartshorne Maidenhaire Coltsfoot Liquoris and such like give it warm You must not purge in this disease till the declination thereof and then use a gentle potion Many medicines there are proper and special for a Pleurisie as Stone-horse dung or White-hens dung soaked in Carduus water and strained give a quarter of a pint this hath a peircing and discussing quality by reason of the volatile salt in it and doth wonderfully disperse the humors in the Pleurisie An Apple made hollow and a dram of Frankincense put therein and rosted given to the sick drinking three ounces of Carduus Water after it and laid to sweat is good saith Quercetan Goats Blood also is good If the Sick fall into a loosness in the height of this Disease it is very dangerous in the declination it is good but if it so happen give him the Sirrup of Myrtles and do as you are taught in the Cure of Diarrhaea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or The inflammation of the Lungs is a disease not much different in the causes or signes from a Pleurisie but only in the part affected Sometimes this Peripneumonia commeth alone and sometimes followeth another Disease as the Quinzy or Pleurisit which is a dangerous Symptome on the contrary if a Pleurisie follow the inflammation of the Lungs it is a hopeful Symptome This Disease is more dangerous then a Pleurisie and for the most part deadly by reason of want of respiration and the nearness of the heart The cure is the same with the Pleurisie therefore I shall say no more of it CHAP. XXVIII Of Empyema EMpyema 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Collection of matter in the Cavity of the Thorax is a Disease which for the most part followeth a Pleurisie and Peripneumonia and sometimes a Quinzy when they are not carefully cured and the inflammation commeth to Suppuration and when the Imposthume breaketh the matter falleth into the cavity of the breast Sometimes blood falling into the Thorax by the breaking or wounding of a Vein may come to Suppuration or rather Corruption Sometimes flegm falleth from the head and other parts into the breast and there putrifying begetteth matter like quitter The signes of Suppuration beginning according to Hippocrates are these First the Pleurisie being not purged the Feaver increaseth while the matter is turning into Pus Secondly the sharpness of the matter touching the Membranes causeth quaking the Third is weight and sense of heaviness in the part To these we may adde the difficulty of breathing for although when the Imposthume is broken the Diaphragma and the Muscles of the Thorax move more freely yet the Lungs are oppressed by the matter lying about them But an old and confirmed Empyema is known by a lingring putrid and partly Hectick Feaver more violent towards night and much sweating a constant troublesome Cough the Cheeks grow Red the Eyes hollow the legs swell Pustles break out on the breast If the Suppuration break and the Feaver continueth are thirsty want appetite the pus green livid or frothy brought up with much difficulty and a loose belly all these are signes of Death or of long sickness the contrary are the signes of recovery They who in this condition doe lift up the whole breast when they breathe by reason of the matter contained are quickly choaked If the matter be not spit forth in forty dayes it turneth to a Consumption and death followeth The Supuration on both sides is more dangerous then that of one that on the left side the worst by reason of the left Ventricle of the heart If the matter flow plentifully by Stoole and Urine and the Patient strong and hearty it is a signe of recovery For the Cure you must endeavour to help nature in Suppurating the humors if Suppuration cannot be hindred by this or the like Cataplasme Take of Chamomel Melilot and Mallows of each one handful the Roors of Althaea one handful Figs and Raisons stoned of each four ounces after due boiling beat and strain them adding to the Liquor the Oyles of sweet Almonds Lilies and Fresh Butter of each one ounce with the Meal of Wheat Fenugreek and Flax Seed sufficient make a Cataplasm and apply it In the mean time let the Patient take of this Lohock Take of the Conserve of the Flower of Bugless Violets and Roses of each one ounce Maidenhaire Liquorish and Coltsfoot of each one ounce Oyle of Sweet Almonds newly drawn one ounce Sugar Candy one ounce Powder what is to be Powdered and with Sirrup of Liquorish or Colts foot sufficient make a Lohock and let the Patient take thereof often Venice Turpentine washed and with Liquorish powder made up into Pills are good to maturate discuss and cleanse give three drachms in the Morning But if the matter will not be spit up you must open it between the fourth and fifth Rib and apply a Plaister to draw out the matter giving the Patient a Wound-drink in the mean time If you desire particular direction herein read Hieronymus Fabricius ab aqua pendente in Libro de operationibus Chirurgicis CHAP. XXIX Of spitting of Bloud Sputum Sanguinis or spitting of Blood called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an unnatural Flux of Blood from the vital parts viz. the breast Lungs and Aspera Arteria The Immediate cause is Organical or common the Organical twofold either the opening of the Vessels called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Rarefaction called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The common Disease is twofold also as the breaking of the Vessels called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Erosion of them called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blood offending in quantity or quality may be the cause of opening rarifying breaking or Corroding of the Vessels To be further satisfyed therein Ipray you have recourse to the nineteenth Chapter of Bleeding at the nose Some external cause as Fall Wound or the like may be the cause of Haemoptysis Immoderate Cold may be the cause by hardening the Tunicles that they cannot be extended It is very difficult to judge of the part from whence it commeth If it comes from the head it is cast forth by Coughing hawking and there is a tickling in the Palat as in a Catarrh That which comes from the breast and Lungs causeth Coughing that which comes from the Lungs is Frothy that which comes from the breast is Blackish
Patient be weak and indisposed to Vomits give often Clisters or purge the Body with this or the like Pills Take de Aloe lota three Drachms yellow Myrabolans and Rubarb in Powder of each half a Drachm red Sanders and prepared Coral of each one Scruple with the Sirrup of Roses solutive make them into a Mass give a Drachm every other or third day and if the Sick be weak give but half so much If the Vomiting be violent give two Scruples and an half of Cochie the lesse with three grains of Laudanum in the morning Then you must strengthen the Stomach with the sirrup or conserve of Quinces conserve of Roses Mastick in a small quantity sirrup of Mints Plantane water made sowr with Oyl of Vitriol c. All these strengthen the Stomach and stay Vomiting of which you may make Medicines in divers forms Foment the Stomach with a sponge dipt in Plantane water Rose water and Rose Vinegar But First boil in the water a handful of Mints Or apply this following Cataplasm Take of Marmalade of Quinces or Quinces boiled soft in Rose water or Vinegar four Ounces the roots of Bâ—stort and Tormentill of each two Drachms Mastick Moce and Nutmegs of each two Scruples Sowr Leaven halfe a pound with the juice of Mints and Vinegar make a Cataplasm and apply it If your Patient vomit Blood the Causes and Sâ—gnes you may find in the 19 and 30 Chap. and the Medicines prescribed in the 30 Chap. Of Spitting of Blood ordered by an able Head-peece may perform the Cure CHAP. XL. Of Cholera 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek and Cholerica Passio in Latine is a Disease violently sending forth by Vomit Stool sharp and cholerick Humours this Disease is a symptom of the expulsive Faculty being hurt by Meats not well concocted and if the retentive Faculty be also in fault the Disease is the worse and more violent Some will have two sorts of Choller a moist and a dry A moist is that which hath relation to what hath been said The dry is more rare and cometh from a windy spirit produced in the Stomach by the fiery Heat of the Part corrupting the Meat or by Meats which are Rank and Windy and this is the opinion of Hippocrates himself Sennertus from the Hermetical doctrine addeth another Cause viz. Salt and adust Humours in the Hypochonaria which grow hot by the mixture of another Humour and demonstrateth it by the mixing of Aqua fortis and Oyl of Vitriol with Salt of Tartar which produce very flatuous Spirits So that the immediate Causes of this Disease are cholerick burnt sharp salt or rotten Humours in the Stomach Bowels Spleen Mesentery or some Nourishment of an evil Quality or some strong Medicine or Poyson taken The signes of this Disease are often and plentiful Evacuations of cholerick sharp and corrupted Humours by Vomit and Stool swelling with Wind Thirst and a Gnawing of the Stomach and Guts a Loathing which is appeased a little with cold Drink which is soon after cast up The Pulse is small and unequal Sweating with Convulsion of extream Parts Swooning and such dangerous Symptoms It is easily discovered whether the Cause come by some violent Medicine Poyson or offensive Diet. The internal Causes are known by the Quality of the Humours that are ejected If there be a continual Loathing and Gnawing the Disease is in the Stomach If a malignant Feaver be joyned it is in the Veins If it hath its original from some evil Food there is hopes that when the Matter is cast forth the Disease will end If it be very violent it is dangerous I had almost said desperate for the greater the Convulsions Swoonings and Coldnesse of the extream Parts be the nearer is Death at hand In the beginning of the Cure you may help forward Evacuations with gentle cooling and cleansing Clisters thus Take of Milk half a pint Sirrup of Violets and Lettice of each one ounce The Oyles of Roses and water Lillyes of each halfe an ounce The yelks of two new laid Eggs well beaten mix them and give it Or you make a Clister with Chicken Broth or Oxycrate It is good to open a Vein by which means the burnt and boiling Blood may be cooled revelled and asswaged but do it with discretion twice or thrice if the strength be not impaired by the first You must endeavour to qualify the sharpness of the Humours thus Take of the waters of Plantane Purslan and Mint of each two Ounces Sirrup of Quinces and dried Roses of each one Ounce Sirrup of Vinegar half an Ounce mix them and dissolve therein two Scruples of Theriack Andromachi and six drops of the Oyl of Vitriol give now and then a Spoonful But if the Patient hath someease and the Symptomes abate or appear not beware lest they suddenly return and destroy the Patient as it sometimes happeneth in this case Therefore nourish him and strengthen his Stomach with this restoring Opiate Take of the Gelly of Harts-horn made with Canary Wine four Ounces of the Conserves of Roses Burrage Bugloss and Clove-Gilliflowers of each one Ounce Confectio Alchermes half an Ounce Citron Barks and Nutmegs candied of each three Drachms the Essence of Cloves Mace Nutmegs and Cinnamon of each three drops with the Sirrup of Clove-Gilliflowers make an Opiate of which let the Patient take often the Quantity of a hazel Nut and more Mornings and Evenings To conclude the Medicines prescribed in the last Chapter against cholerick Vomitings may be useful here CHAP. XLI Of Pain in the Stomach Dolor Ventriculi or Pain in the Stomach is caused by naughty venemous and gnawing Humours contained therein the Ancients made this distinction viz. that if the upper Orifice of the Stomach which is of exquisite sense by reason of the great Nerve which it hath from the fifth Conjugation be affected the Pain is very sharp which maketh the Heart the most Noble part and near unto it sensible of the same from thence it is called Cardialgia But if the Membranes of the Cavity or lower Orifice called Pyloras be affected it is called Dolor Ventriculi or Colica Ventriculi especially if it comes of Wind. The Cause of this Disease is either Worms gnawing the Tunicles of the Stomach or Wind lodged in the Cavity of the Stomach which causeth Swelling and painful Distension or sharp and malignant Humours therein contained as salt Phlegm green and black Choller whose sharp Vapours cause Pain corrupt Matter from an Imposthume of the Liver or the Breast Diseases of the Stomach and the Parts adjoyning evil Humours from the whole Body in Feavers Choller from the Liver Melancholy from the Spleen and salt Phlegm from the Head all these may be the Causes of this Evill The external Causes may be evil and corrupt Nourishment or Meats that are too hot that breed Wind or Choller Meat taken in too great a Quantity Poyson strong sharp and deadly Medicines not well corrected Diagnostick Signes are thus taken
Ounces Sugar of Roses and the Oyl of sweet Almonds of each one Ounce make a Julep and give it The drinking of Mineral Waters is good Before you endeavour to heal it you must endeavour to cleanse the Stomach as well as the Ulcer Take of Cassia one Ounce Powder of Rubarb one Scruple dissolve it in Whey and drink it you may with this or the like Purgers which attract not the Humours to the part cleanse the Stomach as often as Necessity requireth Then fement the Stomach with the Decoction of Comphry roots Quinces Wormwood Roses Pomegranate flowers and peels Myrtles Galls Frankincense Mastick and the like then apply astringent Unguents and Emplaisters to the Stomach and inwardly give Medicines of the same Nature Take of the Conserve of Roses and Comphrey roots and of Marmalad of Quinces of each one Ounce Bolearmenick Sanguis Draconis Terra Sigillata of each one Drachm Gum Arabick Red Corall and Blood stone of each half a Drachm Hypocistis Sarcocol and Frankincense of each one Scruple with Sirrup of Comphrey make an Opiate a little of which let the Patient take often if his Stomach loath the often use of one Medicine let Troches be made of the Powders and the Musilage of gum Traganth or into any other form How to make Troches see the fourth Book Give him for his Food in the mean time Chicken Broth and boil therein astringent Herbs fresh Barley and China Root CHAP. XLIII Of the Chollick The attractive and digestive Facultyes are not only hurt but the expulsive Faculty which chiefly respects the Intestines may also be defective and cause many distempers in the Body the first of which is the Chollick This Disease took its Name from the Part affected which is the Gut called by the Greek Colon and the Disease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is caused by excrementitious Matter retained too long and by distending pricking or corroding causeth grievous pain Sometimes it is caused through Crudities bred by a cold Distemper of the Stomach and Intestines which causeth Wind to afflict the Guts being obstructed especially the Gut Coion sometimes cold grosse and phlegmatick Humours sticking to the Tunicles or Coats of the Guts cause constriction and divulsion and a gnawing pain also salt and sharp cholerick and melancholy sowr Humours by pricking and twitching the Cuts cause Pain Here note that if Wind or Humours remain onely in the Cavity of the Guts they might be easily excluded by evacuating cleansing and curminative Medicines but being for the most part fixed to the Coats of the Guts they are not expelled without difficulty There are other lesse usual Causes of the Chollick viz. Tumors in the adjoyning parts causing compression of the Guts Tumors and Inflammations in the Intestines causing Narrownesse Knots of Worms or Stones bred in the Guts which stop them sometimes a poysonous and malignant Matter engendreth a pestilent Chollick or Plague in the Guts The External causes are either a cold Aire which doth constringe the Belly or an Air too hot indurating the Excrements Raw Fruit Meats grosse and of hard Digestion in a Word every thing which disturbeth the concoction of the Stomach may here be taken for an External cause Diagnostick Signes are a very sharp pain sometimes moveable sometimes in the Region of the Stomach Liver Spleen Reins sometimes above and sometimes beneath the Nayel oftentimes in the left side so that by comparison of other Signes you must distinguish between this and the Spleen and Stone The Pain is like the Boaring of an Auger he vomiteth chole rick and phlegmatick Matter if the Stomach consenteth The pain is greater after Meat the Belly for the most part is bound that the Patient cannot so much as break Wind when he voideth Excrements they are windy like Cow dung with Water on the Top. The causes are also distinguished by their Signes If Phlegm be the cause the pain is not so violent the Sick hath used a phlegmatick Diet but if Wind be joyned with it the part seemeth as if it were boared through with a Wimble the Urine is crude and white yet sometimes the violent Pain enflameth the Spirits and the Urine appeareth yellow or red He is better for hot and the worse for cold things If cholerick Humours cause the Chollick there is a violent pulling and pricking Pain the Urine is cholerick a Diet breeding Choller went before he is the worse for hot Medicines there is great Heat Thirst and sometimes a Feaver If the Chollick proceed from Wind there is a stretching Pain and the Belly swelleth and the Wind rumbleth therein he findeth ease when he breaketh it If the Wind be in the Cavity the Pain is moveable and encreaseth and decreaseth If in the Coats of the Guts the Pain is fixed in respect of place and constant Prognostick signes are It the Chollick be gentle moveable and the Belly soluble it is easily cured on the contrary if the Pain be great and fixed the Belly bound the Patient wanteth Sleep vomiteth and is troubled with cold Sweats Hiccoughs Doting and Coldnesse of the extream parts it is alwayes dangerous and for the most part deadly An Epidemical and pestilent Chollick is very dâ—…ous If it come of sharp chollerick Humours â—…generateth sometimes into other worse Diseases as the Palsy Falling-Sicknesse and the Gout You must vary the Cure according to the diversity of Causes if Phlegm and Wind be the cause you must administer an emollient discussing and carminative Clister See Chap. 41 Of Pain in the Stomath three or four times in a day Or make a Decoction of emollient and carminative Herbs and boil therein three Drachms of Colloquintida If two or three Clisters provoke not to Stool make use of this Suppository Take of Hony sodden half an Ounce Hiera piera one Drachm Diacolo-Cynthidos one Scruple Salt Gemm half a Scruple mix them and make a Suppository It is not amisse if after all this you purge the noxious Humours mixing with your purge Narcoticks See Forrestus his Medicine prescribed in the aforenamed Chap. Or give an Ounce and an half of Manna of Oyl of Sweet Almonds newly drawn two Ounces give it in Broth. Then you must foment bathe or anoint the Belly See the aforesaid 41 Chap. The Bowels of a Wolf pulverized and the white Dung of the same is much commended if the Patient take a Drachm in white Wine The Electuary of Bay berries taken as much as a Nutmeg often easeth Pain This Medicine I have used with good Successe Take of Pellitory of the Wall Mints Parslypearch of each one handfull the Roots of Fennel Parsley Marshmallows and Butchers Broom of each half a handfull Juniper Berries one Ounce the Seeds of Aunis sweet Fennel and Cummis of each half an Ounce Bay berries three Drachms bruize slice and powder them Infuse them in white wine twenty four houres and distill it in Balneo after sufficient Evacuations give one Ounce Galen much commendeth the Application of a Cupping-glasse to the Navil
is sound and the Distemper may be taken away if the Humours which corrupt the Blood be evacuated In the Cure of this Disease your main work is to strengthen the Liver correct the Distemper and stay the Flux If it come from a cold Cause deal with it as with a Dropsy But if it come of a hot Cause as for the most part it doth you may gently evacuate the peccant Humours with Rubarb as you are taught in the Cure of the Dysentery Then you must give Medicines which strengthen the Liver Take of the Roots of Succory Sorrell Bloodwort and Monks-Rubath of each one Ounce the Leaves of Plantane Endive Succory Purslane Agrimeny and Dandelion of each one handfull Wormwood half a handfull Red Sanders two Drachms Coriander seeds prepared a Drachm red Roses one Pugill the shavings of Ivory and Spodium of each a Drachm boil them in Barly water to a Quart and in the straining dissolve of the Sirrups of Quinces Vinegar Simple and dried Roses of each two Ounces of the Oyl of Vitriol as much as will make it moderately sharp and make a Julep for six Doses to be given Morning and Evening First and Last The Sirrup of Myrtles of Succory simple or compound with Rubarb the Sirrup Tincture or Magistery of Pearl is very good and may be made use of as the former or made into a Julep with Plantane or other cooling Waters The Liver of a Wolf is much commended and it may be made into an Electuary Opiate or into any other form with the aforenamed ingredients The Tops of young Nettles boiled in Broth or Water are good and the juyce taken is more powerful to stop the Flux and to purify the Blood It is good to apply an Epitheme to the Region of the Liver made of the aforenamed Ingredients or as many of them as you think good It is convenient that among your Medicines which you give to stop the Flux you administer such as are restorative because in this Disease the Body is much consumed Riverius much commendeth this distilled Water and the truth is it deserveth commendation Take a fat Capon and a Partridge pull and draw them and filth ir bellyes with Succory Agrimony and Snails of each one Handfull Conserve of Roses three Ounces Plantane and Coriander Seeds prepared of each two Drachms Citron Myrabolans one Drachm the Leavs of Bloodwort half a handfull the Troches of Amber and Spodium of each four Scruples the Powder of the Electuary de Gemmis Triasantalon and Diamargariton frigidum of each one Drachm Sprinkle them with Styptick Wine and put them into the Fowls Bellyes boil them in a close Vessel in four Pints of Water till half be consumed then put them into a glasse Limbeck with three Ounces of good Wine and distill them in Balaeo give a little of the Water often by it self or with other Medicines CHAP. L. Of the Worms VVorms for the most part breed in the Guts therefore I shall speak of them here Galen Propounds three kinds of Worms the First are round and long and are called Teretes and are more common then the rest and are bred in the Guts but do somtimes get up into the Stomach The Second are called Ascarides they are little and smal like threds and they commonly ly in the lower part of the thick Intestines and over against the Sphincter-Muscle The third sort are broad Worms and long though seldome seen sometimes they are voided of an incredible length They are bred of such Nourishment as easily putrifieth in the Stomach hence it cometh to passe that Children and such as are gluttonous who eat much Fruit and such things as easily putrify especially more being eaten before the former is digested are troubled with Worms The Signes of Worms in the Guts are divers not in all alike a stinking and sowr Breath Stools like Cow dung in colour Gray like Potters earth Sometimes there is a continual Feaver Heavinesse Fainting Loathing Vomiting unquenchable Thirst and sometimes cold Sweats an unequal Pulse the Cheeks are sometimes red sometimes blew the Eyes shine the Nose itcheth the Teeth gnash a dry Cough There is pain in the Belly sometimes by Inflammation and sometimes by Distention some start in their Sleep Sometimes the Body pineth and the Patient hath an insatiable Appetite this is a Signe of flat Worms which eat up the Food The Ascarides are known by the itching of the Fundament and the Excrements are many times full of them Sometimes the eating away of the Gums is a Signe of Worms Though to Children and older Folk Worms are common and little feared yet many and dangerous Symptoms and Diseases are bred by them In the beginning of a Disease it is evil for Worms to be voided alive or dead especially alone without Dung if they be alive they signify great Crudity and Want of Nourishment if dead great Putrefaction by which they are killed In the declining of a Disease Worms comming forth with the Excrements is a good Signe The Cure of the Worms consisteth in giving Medicines to kill them and to evacuate them being killed The best way to kill them or at least to drive them to the lower Intestines are these Simples which follow viz. all the sorts of Wormwood Southernwood Calamint Dogs-tooth Century Horehound Dittany Hyssop Rew Savin Peach leavs Coriander seed Harts horn Lupines Mints Garlick Elecampane and many other of these Simples may several forms of Medicines be composed mixing with them such things as purge not onely to kill but also to carry away the Cause of Worms Rubarb is much commended because it may safely be given if a Feaver be present Take of Rubarb one Drachm yellow Sanders half a Scruple infuse them in Purslane water three Ounces strain them and dissolve the Powder of Rubarb and the Powder against the Worms which you may have at the Apothecaryes of each one Scruple Sirrup of Roses one Ounce mix them and make a Potion If the Feaver be not great add Hiera picra to your Potion more or lesse according to the strength of your Patient afterwards give a Clister made of the Decoction of Liquorish Raisons Figs or Chicken Broth sweetned with Sugar and Hony of Roses such Clisters are good to draw them down into the thick Guts Afterwards give a Clister made after this manner Take of Wormwood Southernwood Century of each one handfull Lupines half an Ounce the Seed of Wormwood and Coriander seed prepared of each two Drachms In a half Pint or a Pint of the strained Liquor according umo the age of the Patient dissolve one Ounce or two of the Oyl of Wormwood and Salt one Drachm and an half To bring them out being killed add to the former Clister Benedicta Laxativa Hiera picra and Cassia newly drawn of each three Drachms or more if your Patient can bear it Rondoleitus doth highly commend Diaearthamum and the Infusion of Agarick in Oxymel because it not onely killeth Worms but purgeth Phlegm and corrupted
little and flaggy she feels a heavinesse about the Loius and Hips she hath no appetite to eat nor desire to stirr she hath a shivering by Fits she hath Streightnesse of the Sides and Belly above the Navell and a pain in her Head plenty of Milk flowing from the Dugs shews that the Child is weak and danger of Abortion If pains about the Reins Loins and Share torment the Woman then know that Abortion is hard at hand the same judg if Blood or Water burst out and flow and the Scituation of the Child is changed from the middle of the Belly to the Bottom If any of these or the like Symptoms befall a Woman with Child after any externall cause of Abortion as Blow Fall c. let the Woman betake herself to her Bed and take such Medicines which prevent Abortion Prognosticks of Abortion are thus made Women are more endangered by Abortion then by a naturall and timely Birth because in a timely Birth the Vessels and Ligaments are loosned and opened of their own accord but in Misearriage they are broken in sunder the like you may perceive between the Stalk of ripe and unripe fruit Women many times become barren by Miscartiage because the womb is rent and its natur all disposition much altered Much bleeding seconded with Convulsions raving and fainting is alwayes deadly If an Inflammation of the Womb follow Abortion it is deadly In young Women who never bore Child before it is worst because the passage is narrower and they more unaccustomed to pains The bigger the Child is the more the danger Women who have moist and slippery Wombs do often miscarry and with little danger To prevent Miscarriage you must before and after she is with Child endeavour to remove all evill dispositions of the Body or Womb that may cause Miscarriage if Blood abound open a Vein purge the peccant Humours strengthen the Womb but if the Woman be with Child beware how you bleed except it be in the first month and the Body full of Blood and in this case let Purges be gentle and often reiterated To conclude to streng then the Womb fetch Medicines from the 73 Chapter CHAP. LXXXI Of hard Travel in Child-birth HArd Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travell and continue a longer time There are divers causes some whereof may be assigned to the weakness of the Womans Body Leannesse or Drinesse as well as Fatnesse of the Body her Age or Sicknesses as the Stone or preternaturall Tumor in the Bladder or any Disease of the womb Other causes may be assigned to the Child when its Body or Head is too big when there are two or when the Child is dead or when it endeavours to come forth with his Feet Hands Back Belly or Breech c. A cold and dry Air and Northern Wind streightneth the Body and driveth the Spirits inward and is obnoxious to the Child's first entrance into the world If the Air be more hot then ordinary it is as bad as the former for it dissipates the Spirits exhausts the Strength and introduceth feavourish Distempers into the Bodyes of Mother and Child Meats of a hard digesture or astringing quality taken a little before the time of Delivery Sleepinesse and Sortishnesse the Retention of Excrements all vehement Passions of the Mind want of an expert Midwife and Women to assist the labouring Woman may be causes of hard Labour Hard Labour is easily known to the Woman herself to the Midwife and the Assistants The time of a naturall Birth ought to be accomplished in the space of twenty four houres if the Woman continue a longer time it is hard Labour If her pains be weak and long before they return and more about her Back then Privityes the causes may easily be known many you may gather from the Relation of the Woman in Travell her Leannesse Weaknesse Fatnesse and Age is perceived Diseases of the Womb and Bladder may be known by their proper Signes The Bigness and disorderly Posture of the Child is soon seen by an expert Midwife If the Child be dead you may know it by these Signs the Breasts of the Woman become flat and flaggy her Eyes hollow and troubled her Face and Lips are of a pale and leaden colour her Belly is cold there is a Sense of Weight there is no Motion felt though you apply somthing wetred in the Decoction of Tansy warm to her Navell When the Woman turnes the Child sways that way like Lead If the after-Birth come away before the Child it is a Sign of the Death of the Child And if the Child cometh not away it soon putrifieth and stinketh and stinking Moisture floweth from the womb and their Breath stinketh Hard Labour is dangerous for sometimes the Mother sometimes the Child and sometimes both do lose their lives Sleepy Diseases and Convulsions if they befall a Woman in Travell death is at hand If the Woman be in Travell above three dayes it is likely the Child will dy If the Woman fall a sneezing in her Travell it is good saith Hippocrates If the Child be dead the danger is exceeding great especially if it be not brought soon away for it will cause Feavers Faintings Convulsions dead Sleeps and death it self In difficult Labour first all causes which hinder the Birth must be removed if it be possible then such things as further the Birth must be administred An Ounce of Oyl of sweet Almonds and a Drachm of Confectio Alchermes given in Broth is good Burn white Wine with a little Saffron and Cinnamon afterwards dissolve a little Alchermes this I have found very powerfull to hasten the Birth If you find this Medicine too gentle make a Julep of more efficacy thus Take of the Water of Mugwort and Vervain of each two Ounces the Sirrup of Maiden-hair one Ounce Confectio Alchermes half a Drachm Dittany of Creet and both Birth worts of each one Scruple Oyl of Cinnamon five Drops mix them and make a Potion Oyl of Amber fifteen Drops or the Extract of Saffron five Grains may be either of them mixed insteed of the Oyl of Cinnamon Provoke sneezing and open the lower Veins if need be Then let the Midwife anoint the Mouth of the womb with the Oyl of Lillyes and Sweet Almonds and the like and foment the Belly with a mollifying Decoction and in a dangerous case give a sharp Clister Some things have a peculiar property to help the Birth as the Stone Aetitis Loadstone and Storax held neer the Privityes the Eyes of a Hare taken out in the month of March and dryed use it as the Stones and when the Woman is delivered take them away lest it draw out the Womb. Some commend the Gall of an Hen applyed to the Navell If the Child be dead give the same things before mentioned but it is convenient to make them stronger by adding Savin Water and the Leavs of Savin dried the Troches of Mirrh
and Castor Then foment the Privityes and Share with a mollifying Decoction to which add Briony Roots and the Roots of wild Cucumber round Birth-wort and the like And put up a Pessary made in this manner Take of the Roots of round Birth-wort Orice black Hellebore Coloquintida and Mirrh of each one Drachm Galbanum Opopanax of each half a Drachm with Ox Gall make a Pessary and apply it If all this will not do you must implore the help of the Chirurgion If the After-birth be retained you must endeavour to expell it by such Medicines as expell the dead Child to which add these which are said to have a specifick property the Stones of a gelded Horse dried and powdered and given as much as will ly on a three pence two or three times as need requireth is commended by Gesnerus and Augenius Some commend the Juyce of an Onion given in Wine or an Onion held in the Woman's mouth between her teeth and the Juyce squeezed out and swallowed and a Draught of white-Wine drunk after it Or 20 or 30 drops of the Oyl of Juniper drunk in Wine or the Juyce of Lovage taken in Renish Wine If her Purgations flow immoderately that you fear the Death of the Woman or in case her Purgations be suppressed which may cause dangerous Symptoms have Recourse to the Chapters treating of those Maladyes Many Women are much troubled with after-pains which do much afflict them and these pains are caused either by the Thicknesse or Sharpnesse of the Blood or by Wind. If the Blood be thick you may know it by its clotting if thin by its Tenuity or yellow Colour If the Blood be thick give this Julep Mugwort water two Ounces sirrup of Violets oyl of sweet Almonds of each half an Ounce If the Blood be sharp add to the former the Musilage of Quince Seeds drawn with Violet Water half an Ounce If Wind be the Cause of these Pains which you may know by its Motion from one part of the Belly to the other then give inwardly and apply outwardly carminative Medicines Take of the Seeds of Carrots one Drachm of Annise Nutmeg and Cinnamon of each a Scruple make them into fine Powder and give it half at one time in Wine Foment her Belly with the Decoction of Bawm Bay Leavs Camomill Calamint Mugwort and the Seeds of Carrots Caraway and Cummin and lay on a Pultise made of boiled Onions Camomill Flowers the Seeds of Flax and Cummin beaten and Barly Meal CHAP. LXXXII Of the Gout and Sciatica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arthritis in Greek in Latine Articularis Morbus is the Joynt-Sicknesse caused by an Influx of Humours into them which causeth pain in the Membranes Tendons and Nervs Authors do commonly make four sorts of Gouts according to the diversity of the Joynts affected as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chiragra the Hand-Gout of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Hand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gonagra when it is in the Knees of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Knee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Podagra when it is in the Foot because the Greeks call the Foot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ischias the Hip-Gout or Sciatica of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hip. The immediate cause of the Gout is a wheyish Humour flowing to the Joynts and by its Quantity stretcheth the sensible parts or by its Sharpnesse twitcheth them and this Humour floweth not onely from the Brain and Head but from all parts of the Body The cause may be attributed to all Meats which encrease raw and wheyish Humours Meats of a grosse Substance hard to be digested and such as afford plenty of Excrements Gluttony Drunkennesse immoderate Venery therefore the Gout is called the daughter of Bacchus and Venus long Sleep and unseasonable Watchings Fear Sadnesse continuall care and intermission of such Excercises or Evacuations as men have been accustomed to and the like The beginning of the Gout is known thus there is a more exquisite and quick Sense in the Joynts then formerly they are easily hurt as by a new shooe walking the least touch against any hard thing Commonly a Feaver ushers it in and at its approach there is a kind of unusuall Heat felt in the Joynts and a Motion as if some living Creature were therein after which followeth a tormenting pain in the Joynts for the most part beginning in the great Toe and attended with Rednesse and Swelling The Signes of the causes or the Humours which are mixed with the wheyish Humours are thus considered If choller be mixed with the wheyish Humour the Urine is thin yellowish or red the pain great and violent the Feaver comes to the height the part is swelled is red or pale but very hot the application of cold things giveth ease If Phlegm be mixed there is a soft and loose swelling of the part the pain not so violent the Urine is thick and troubled little or no Heat and hot things give ease If Melancholy be the Humour mixed the Temper of the Body inclineth to Melancholy and there is a wearinesse felt all over the part is of an obscure Colour like Lead the pain deep and the Urine thick and melancholy The Gout is no dangerous Disease but it continueth long and is attended with violent pain for the most Part to the end of a man's life and sometimes it is a means of long life because Nature doth drive the vitious Humours to the Joynts which if they should fall upon the more noble parts would be a means of great Diseases if not death it self But in weak Bodyes that are decayed by Sicknesse or Age that Nature cannot expell these Humours to the Joynts many dangerous Diseases are ingendered He that hath no knots in his Joynts is inclinable to Labour and is for the most part soluble by a skillfull Physitian may be cured An haereditary Gout is seldom or never cured If the Veins of a gouty Person do swell with black Blood there is hopes that the Gout leavs him If the Gout doth not return at its season it is dangerous unlesse the matter be taken away by Medicines for it is an argument that Nature is weak and cannot expell it The Cure of the Gout is to be performed by stopping the Flux of the Humours into the Joynts by removing the Humours in the Joynts and to abate the Sharpnesse of the pain If the Patient be full of Blood and strong let him bleed in a great Quantity or let him blood often till the plenitude of Blood be sufficiently abated Then let him be purged with strong Medicaments which may evacuate the stirred Humour and turn the cause from the Joynts Whilst you are purging let Ointments or Plaisters be applyed to the Joynt above the part affected of an astringeing and drying property by which the Humours may be intercepted that they may not so much nor so forcibly fall into the Joynt Let your Ointments be made of the Roots of Snake-weed
Feavers In the Bastard add Agarick Catholicum Diaphaenicon Sena and such as the judicious Physitian shall judg suitable in respect of the Patient's Constitution and the Humors offending But to every Medicine cream of Tartar may be added for it openeth cleanseth and cools If the Patient be subject to vomit go that way to work as I said in the last Chapter Open a Vein draw Blood as often or as much as you see occasion Prepare the Humours with Juleps as you are taught in the last Chapter then purge If the Humours be stubborn and the Fit continue make a Decoction of Wormwood and Century with cool Herbs to qualify the Heat it is much commended after the use of that purge again If there be a Distension under the short Ribs apply an emollient attenuating and strengthning Fomentation What ever part of the Body is ill disposed have a regard to that in all your Medicines The Spirit of Sulphur is much magnified for extinguishing the Heat of Feavers and if the Humours be thin it sends them forth by Sweat give from half a Scruple to a Scruple in four Ounces of Purslane Water Or you may give it thus Take of Salt of Wormwood half a Drathm Spirit of Sulphur a Scruple Carduus Water four Ounces mix them and give the Patient to drink when the Fit approcheth and lay him to sweat Those things which are usually laid to the Wrists by the common people are not to be despised I shall not insert them nor more Receipts for the cure of this Ague First it being my cheifest end to describe the Causes and Signes of Diseases Secondly almost every womans Head is full of Medicines against an Ague CHAP. LXXXVIII Of the Quotidian or every day-Ague THis Ague is caused by Phlegm putrefying in the first Region of the Body therefore all things that breed Phlegm in the Body may be the Cause thereof The Diagnostick signes are such as testify Phlegm to abound in the Body as white colour pale dull Sense Softnesse and Fatnesse Profoundnesse of Sleep and Droaming of Water It comes with a cold shlvering little or noe shaking and for the most part it comes in the Night After the cold Fit the Patient feels Heat but mildly not scorching little Thirst the Pulse is small seldom and slow there is a Distension about the short Ribs the Fits appear more intense or remisse last longer or shotter as the Phlegm is simple or mingled with other Humours the Fit commonly lasteth twelv hours and then leaveth a feavourish Fit behind it Sometimes it lasteth twenty four hours and is almost like a continuall Feaver There is a difference found in respect of the Nature of the Phlegm for salt Phlegm makes the Patient thirsty sharp Phlegm hungry sweet Phlegm sleepy If the Phlegm hath no Tast it maketh him without Appetite Acid or glassy Phlegm by reason of its Coldnesse causeth shaking This Disease for the most part continueth long and is not without danger because it sometimes degenerates into a Cachexia Dropsy or Lethargy The Diet and Medicines must be such as have an extenuating cutting and dividing Quality The Cure must be performed almost in the same Manner as the bastardly Tertian Zacutus Lusitanus doth much commend the Decoction of Roman Wotmwood and Camomill Flowers if five or six Ounces be adminisred And the Decoction of China and Guajacum for many dayes but beware it dry not too much CHAP. LXXXIX Of the Quartane Ague AN intermitting Quartane is caused of Melancholy putrifying in the Body There are two sorts of Quartan Agues viz. a Legitimate and a Bastard Quartane a Legitimate is bred of naturall Melancholy which is the carthly part of our Nourishment in quality cold and dry The bastard Quartane is bred of preternaturall Melancholy which is bred of adust Choller and is hot and dry or by Melancholy mixed with adust Choller A Quartane Ague is either single double or triple the single is that which comes every fourth day The double is when two Fits happen upon two dayes one after another and the third day none The Triple Quartane is when Fits come every as in a Quotidian and double Tertian Diagnostick Signes of a Quartane are the Ague coming every fourth day and Melancholy abounding in the Body it begins with gaping and stretching heavinesse of the Body shivering and shaking follows as if it would break the Patient's Bones The Pulse is seldom and slow the Urine watry thin and white after a while it is higher coloured and thicker The bastard Quartane for the most part follows other Feavers or Agues by which Adustion of Humours is made and in it the Feaver Heat and Thirst is more violent and all the Symptomes are greater because the Humours are thinner A double Quartane is known by the course of the Fits A triple Quartane is distinguished from a double Tertian or Quotidian by Melancholy abounding and by the course of the Fits and chiefly in this that at first it was a simple or double Quartane Prognosticks are thus made This of all Agues is the longest of Continuance some continue half a year some a year and some longer It is good in this Ague for the Patient to void black Urine The bastard Quartane is not of so long continuance as the Legitimate because it proceeds from thinner Humours then the other The Legitimate is not so dangerous as the other which hath many times dangerous Symptomes especially if the Liver Spleen or any of the interior parts be damnified because it is sometimes degenerated into a Dropsy If any aged above sixty fall into the Quartane Ague it proveth mortall If the intermitting Quartane degenerate into a continuall it is for the most part deadly To bleed at the Nose in a Quartane Ague is but a bad Sign because the morbifick Humours are too thick for such an Evacuation If a bloody Flux come upon a Quartane Ague and continue but a while it is good A bastard Quartane is cured almost with the same Medicines which have been prescribed for the Cure of a Tertian to them adding such Medicines as regard Melancholy and free the Spleen from Disaffection Seeing the Legitimate Quartane is caused of Humours that are cold and dry thick and earthly we must use Medicines that do heat moisten and attenuate Let the Patient's Diet be heating and moistning of good Juyce easy of digesture and of thin substance as rear Egs yong Animals and Birds of Mountains Fishes of stony Rivers among Herbs Borrage Buglosse Spinach Fennell Parsly and Turneps Crato doth much commend the Broth of Turneps of Fruits Almonds Apples stewed Prunes Figs Raisons Dates and Pine-kernells Let him abstain from all Meats which are of a thick and clammy Substance and of hard digesture let him drink small Ale or Beer let him eat moderately and on the Fit day six hours before the Fit cometh let him be very moderate in drinking for much drink fills the Spleen and makes the Disease rebellious Having thus
condition escape If black or blew Spots come forth among the Pox it shews great Malignity and the Patient in great danger If the Excrements and Urine be black or livid they signify abundance of Melancholy and great danger For the Cure keep the Patient in a warm room and if you tender his life keep out the cold Air lest the Humours be driven inward Keep the Cloaths close about him but let them not ly too heavy Let his drink be Barly-Water and boil therein Sorrell Roots and Harts-horn and Figs if the Feaver be not violent let his Sleep be moderate Physitians for the most part advise the Cure to begin with blood-letting that is if the Patient be full of Blood and nothing forbid it but it must be done before or just as they be coming forth Purges are absolutely forbidden but if the body be very costive move it with a Suppository but do not provoke it Then endeavour the expulsion of the Matter thus Take of the Roots of grass Asparagus and Fennell of each four Ounces Liquorish half an Ounce Wood Sorrell two Handfulls twenty Figs the cordiall Flowers one Pugill make a Decoction to a Pint towards the latter end put in a little Saffron take four Ounces Night and Morning Bezar and Gascoins powder is good to send out the Pox and for Children Diascordium is a familiar Medicine We must endeavour to preserve the internall parts if you fear that the Liver Spleen or Guts should suffer to the former Decoction add husked Lentils two drams Gum Lac and Traganth of each one Drachm You must defend the Eyes with the Water of Roses and Plantane and infuse Camphir Saffron and if the Inflammation be great infuse Tutty You must defend the Lungs with the Conserve of Roses and Violets the Sirrup of Violets Jujubees Myrtles dried Roses Poppyes and such like You must defend the Throat with a Gargle of Oxycrate or you may make it with Plantane Water and Sirrup of Mulberryes or Pomegranates To defend the Nose put up a Nodulus made of Vinegar Rose-Water and the Powder of Sanders and Camphir When the Pox are out full ripe and begin to break anoint them often with the Oyl of Almonds it will be a means to prevent their pitting and where there are likely to be holes anoint with the Oyl of the yolks of Egs. The End of the Second Book The Third Book HAving in the former Book been more voluminous then I expected I shall be briefer in this and treat more theorically then practically And leaving the Description and Cures of Wounds Tumors and Ulcers in particular to the ingenious and expert Chirurgion I shall run over their Causes Signes and Cures generally and as briefly as may be CHAP. I. Of a Green Wound A Wound is a breach of Continuity fresh and bloody without Putrefaction or Matter It is caused by a Sword Bullet Arrow or such like which the Chirurgion may easily perceive Wounds in the flesh are easily cured in the Nervs Veins and Arteryes they are not without danger In the instrumentall principall parts as the Heart Liver Lungs Brain Spleen Midriff Wezand Stomach Guts or Bladder are deadly A Feaver Perturbation Swooning Convulsion and such like Symptomes are dangerous The Cure must be directed first to the cause secondly to the Wound itself thirdly to the part affected lastly to the Symptomes attending The Cause or outward things viz. a Bullet Arrow or such like sticking in the Body must be drawn out by Instruments or by Medicine what concerns the first I shall not meddle with the medicinall part I shall breifly handle The Simples availeable and of force for the purpose aforesaid are The Roots of Reeds and Birthwort the Leavs of Dittany Crow-foot Missletoe Thapsia Sagapenum Ammoniacum Opopanax Quick Lime burnt Frogs Galbanum Bears grease the Load-stone Mustard-Seed and such like Of these and such like you may prepare compound Medicines This Unguent of Vesalus is much approved of Take of Rozin of the Pine tree two Ounces Galbanum three Ounces of the Stone called Calamites one Ounce the Gall of an Ox one Ounce and an half of Turpetine three Ounces New Wax two Ounces first strain out the Wax Rozin and Turpetine after mix the Golbanum Gall and the Powder of the Stone and make an Unguent This Plaister is likewise good for the same purpose Take of Leaven one pound Oyl half a pound the juyce of Knot-grasse and Dittany or for want of it the Powder of the dried Herbs of each three Ounces Turpetine one pound The Bird Lime made of Missletoe Berryes Ammoniacum Galbanum and dissolved in wine of each one Ounce of Wax four Ounces mix them upon the Fire and make a Plaister Having thus far proceded and removed all things unnaturall from the Wound then must the Chirurgion if the Solution be great artificially join the gaping sides of the Wound by Seam Taches or stiching cloths and such like which I omit and shall lay down a few Rules to prevent pain Inflammation or other untoward Accidents which may happen to the wounded part or whole Body Inflammation is restrained by taking away the Cause of the Fluxion Now the Humours flowing to the part are either drawn or sent They are drawn by reason of the Pain and Heat of the Member which doth attract the Humours to it self They are sent thus when the whole Body is full of evill Humours and every part disburtheneth it self upon the weaker The Inflammation of the Part must be allayed with such Medicines that quench Heat and the Body must be purged and such a Course of Diet used as may somewhat free the Body from such Humours which are offensive and burthensome to Nature But before I come to treat of the removeall of such Accidents and evill Symptoms I shall briefly shew you the manner of Cure which ought thus to be performed After closing of the Wound dresse it with some agglutinative Medicine made of such Simples viz. Frankincense Mastich Aloes Rolearmenick Sanguis Draconis Sarcocolla Terra Sigillata Balaustines Pomegranate Rinds Cypresse Nuts Galls Horse-tail Tobacco and such like You may make a Balm thus Take of Turpetine a pound of Galbanum Gum Elemy Gum of Ivy Frankincense Mastich Myrrh of each two Ounces Aloes Lignum Aloes Galanga Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon Cubebs of each one Ounce Aqua Vitae three Ounces infuse and distill them to a Balm After the Application of this or the like Balsome lay on this Plaister Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar two Ounces Gum Elemy three Ounces Rozin of the Pine tree five Ounces Turpentine of the Fir-tree three ounces Oyl of Roses two Ounces make a Plaister Open it once in twenty four hours till it be whole thus may you cure a simple Wound in the Flesh If the Wound be hollow you must put in Tents twist them not too hard but so that the Sanies may come forth If the Wound be deep without losse of Substance you must consider whether the
and biting of venemous Creatures helps cold Stomachs and such whose meat putrifies therein stays vomiting of Bloud and old Cough and is good against all cold Diseases of the Liver Spleen Bladder Reins and Matrix The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Electuarium è Scoria serri It strengthneth openeth and gently purgeth the Stomach and Spleen and caseth the body of Melancholy and Splenetick Diseases The dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Confectio Humain It strengthneth the Heart and Brain quickneth the Senses and is a good preservative against the Pestilence The dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Diaircos Salominis It helps all cold infirmities of the Lungs Take it with a Liquoris Stick Magnum Antidotum Mathioli c. Mathiolus his great Antidote against Poyson and the Pestilence It is very good for that purpose See his Bezoar Water for particular virtues The dose is from a scruple to four Requies Mitigates the heat in Feavers and gives rest Give not above half a scruple at first it is scarcely safe inwardly to be given apply it ontwardly to the Temples and Wrists Electuarium Reginae Coloniens It is good against the Stone and Wind-Chollick The dose is a drachm Triphera the Greater Stops the immoderate Flux of the Terms and Hemorrhoids frees the body of crude humours strengthneth the Bladder rectifies distempers of the Spleen expels Melancholy and makes a good colour The dose is from a drachm to half an ounce Purging Electuaries Benedicta Laxativa It powerfully purgeth Flegmatick Humours from the Joynts it purgeth the Reins and Bladder The dose is from one drachm to a drachm and an half Caryo costinum It is a good Purge for wounded persons whose Wounds are inflamed it also purgeth hot Rheums Correct it or let it alone Three drachms or four may be given in a Clister Cassia extracta pro Clysteribus Cassia extracted for Clysters The dose is an ounce two or three given in Clysters it purgeth the Reins and cools them it easeth the pains caused by the Stone and is good to prevent the growing thereof Electuarium amarum majus minus the Greater and Lesser bitter Electuary They both purge Choller the first Flegm and the second Melancholy The dose of the first is from half an ounce to an ounce Of the other from one ounce to two Diacassia with Manna This is a gallant Purge for hot bodies for it gently looseneth and cooleth much and therefore is good in Feavers and in all Diseases wherein Choler doth abound The dose is an ounce or more as you find occasion Casia extracta sine cumfoliis Senae Cassia extracted without and with the Leaves of Sena They are both gentle Purges they cleanse and cool the Reins they cleanse the Bowels of Choller and Melancholy and is good in Feavers The dose of the first is an ounce and an half Of the other one ounce Diacarthamum It purgeth Flegm and yellow Choller effectually The dose is from one drachm to six Diaphaenicon It purgeth both Flegm and Choller it is good in Feavers and easeth the Chollick and pains of the Stone and freeth the Bowels of raw humours The dose is from two drachms to five Diaprunum Lenitive It cools and looseneth the body gently it is good in all kind of Feavers and hot Agues and is much commended in the Feaver Hectick The dose is an ounce to bedward Diaprunum Solutive Is the best purger of Choller and amendeth the hot distemper of the Liver The dose is from three drachms to six Catholicon It purgeth every humour abounding especially Choller It profiteth in Feavers it mollifieth and altereth the Humours and strengthneth the body it helps infirmities of the Liver and Spleen Gouts of all sorts Head-aches Tertian Quartan and Quotidian Agues The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Take it going to bed or in Clysters Electuarium de Citro Solutivum the Solutive Electuary of Citrons It purgeth Choller Flegm and Melancholy and carryeth away the rotten humours in the declination of a Feaver The dose is half an ounce Electuarium Elescoph It purgeth Choller Flegm and Wind from all parts of the body helps pains of the joynts and sides the Chollick it cleanseth the Reins and Bladder Confectio Hamech It purgeth Melancholy and yellow Choller it is good against Melancholy and Madness Scabs Itch c. The dose is from three drachms to an ounce Electuarium Lenitivum the Lenitive Electuary It is a fine purge fit for Feaverish persons and such as have Pleurisies it gently openeth and mollifieth the Bowels and purgeth without trouble or hurt Melancholy Flegm and Choler The dose is from an ounce to two Electuarium passulatum It cleanseth the Reins and Bladder and is a good purge for those that are troubled with Gravel or the Stone it purgeth Choler and Melancholy The dose is the same with the former Electuarium è succo Rosarum An Electuary of the Juyce of Roses It purgeth Choller and the dose is from two drachms to an ounce and an half Hierapicra Simplex It is the most excellent Medicine to purge vitious Humours which stick to the Tunicles of the Stomach The dose is from half an ounce to an ounce In Clysters from six drachms to an ounce and an half Hiera cum Agarico Hiera with Agarick The Virtues are the same with the former purgeth Flegm more effectually The dose is the same For the further knowledge of the Virtues see the Pill of Hiera with Agarick Hiera Logadii It purgeth effectually those Humours which cause the Palsie Apoplexy and such like Diseases The dose is the same give it onely to strong bodies Hiera Diacolocynthidos It easeth inveterate Head-aches Falling-sicknesses and such like Evils for it purgeth gross Humours from the farthest parts of the body The dose is from three drachms to six Triphera Solutive It purgeth Choller and Flegm Some account it profitable in the declination of Feavers and in hot distempers of the Stomach and Liver The dose is from two drachms to half an ounce CHAP. X. Of Oyles AS there are of other Medicines so there are of Oyls both simple and compound Simple Oyls are either by expression or infusion and decoction Oyls by Expression are drawn out of Fruits or Seeds as out of sweet and bitter Almonds the Seed of Rope and Flax by first beating them in a Stone-Morter and pressing out the Oyl in a Press Simple Oyls by infusion and decoction are thus made Take the Hearbs or Flowers of which you would make your Oyl beat them to two or three handfuls pour on a pint of oyl put them in an Earthen pot and cover it with a paper tyed about the top and set it in the Sun a fortnight then heat it by the fire and press out the hearbs then put in as many hearbs as you did at first do as before as often as you see good to make your Oyl strong enough then boyl it gently till the