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
and speak comfortably to him Let no unseemly action nor uncivil word proceed from him Let him not forsake his Patient for any cause whatsoever Let him consult with God in the beginning of all his cures and heartily give God thanks for the performance of them Let him love godliness and honesty and be an unblameable servant to God and Nature These are the principal and chief Characters by which every diseased man may make choice of his Physician of whom I shall say with the learned Fernelius Medicus remedia confert non solum ut naturae minister fed interdum ut adjutor interdum etiam ut opifex primarius A Physician doth cure not only as Natures servant but sometimes us her helper yea sometimes as the chief workman I shall not build my discourse Theorically but Practically and having in the former Book briefly desctibed the principal parts of man and the humane faculties and virtues thereon depending I shall in this Book declare the Causes Symptoms and Cures of Diseases in those parts which hinder them in the exercise of those humane faculties I shall treat of each disease simply and distinctly and leave this Aphorism to the consideration of the ingenious Simplex affectus simplici remedio compositus composito propellendus A simple Disease is removed by a simple remedy a compound Disease is expelled by compound Medicines CHAP. II. Of Diseases of the Head MAny Diseases are incident to the Head of Man I shall treat of them in order according to the places which they possesse which I shall devide into three parts First the Membranes Secondly the substance of the Brain Thirdly the Nerves which nourish the Brain The Membranes is the first pannicle within the Skull called Dura Mater or without the Skull called Pericranium which are subject to these Diseases viz. the Head-ach the inveterate Head-ach and the Megrim In the substance of the Brain which is the seat and instrument of the intellectual faculties of the Soul viz. imaginations judgment and memory are defects also viz. the depravation of those faculties as a Frensie Melancholy and Madnesse Sleepy Disease Lethargy The Ventricles of the brain are subject to many distempers as Vertigo Falling sicknesse the night Mare the Apoplexy Palsy Convulsion trembling and quaking and Catarrhs Of inveterate Head-ach â—…d the Megrim The inveterate Head-ach is called in Greek and Latine Cephalaea it is a disease of long continuance very painful and upon every light occasion invadeth the Patient with sharp fits that he cannot indure noise nor light but desireth to lye still in the dark sometime this Disease is with continuance and sometimes with intermission The Cause This Disease is caused through blood or other humors abounding or by sharp humors or vapours within or without the Scull inflaming the Head sometimes weaknesse of the Head is the Cause The Sign If fulnesse of humors be the cause of the Disease then is the Head very heavy and lumpish if the humors be sharp the pain is felt with pricking shooting if there be inflammation the Head worketh like the Pulses if wind be the peccant cause there is found distention or stretching out without heaviness or beating if two or more of these Symptomes appear together judge accordingly Note that if the pain be felt superficially or outwardly than is the perieranium grieved If it be felt within which is known by the pain at the roots of the Eys then is the grief within the Dura Mater Hemicrania or the Megrim differeth not from Cephalaea saving if in the Megrim one half of the Head is afflicted whereas in the other the whole Head by the aforegoing Symptoms you may discover the humour offending The Cure As there are diversity of Causes so there is of Cures If the Disease be ingendred of plenitude of humors and the whole boy appâ—…â—…ll it is not amiss to begin the cure with the evacuâ—… of the whole body and if age strength and the season consent open the Gephalick or head Vein If flegmatick and viscuous humors be the Cause it is good to extenuate and make thin the humors thus Take of Oximel scilliticum and syrup of Staechas of each half an ounce distilled water of Marjerom Betony and Parsley an ounce mix these and make a potion for the morning Or else make a decoction in this manner Take Mint Calamint Marjerom Betony Sage of each half a handful the seeds of sweet Fennel Annis and Parstey of each half an ounce the roots of Asparagus Fennel and Parsley of each two ounces Peony root half an ounce shread the hearbs bruise the seeds slice the roots and take out the pith and boil it in a quart of water till half be consumed strein it and add of syrup of Betony compound one ounce and Oximel simplex as much and make a potion for three times take it at night two hours after a light supper the Body thus prepared you may come to purge and evacuate the peccant humours Take half a dram of Pill Cochiae the greater in the morning and keep the Chamber they which are most commendable are pills of Hiera with Agarick Take half a drachm at night two hours after a light supper take some warm broth in the morning and keep the house thus do for a week or longer in like manner you may use Pill Alephanginae and order your body as before and remember that grosse and clammy-humours will not follow a sudden purgation and therefore often purging is used that so they may be drawn out by little and little Also clisters are necessary because they cleanse the bowels and pull back those humours and vapours which ascend and annoy the head Take of Mallows Pellitorie of the Wall Endive Succorie Violet-leaves Cammomell-flowers of each one handfull sweet Fennellseed halfe an ounce Linseed Two drachmes boile them in a quart of Spring water or rather cleare posset-drink till halfe be consumed streine it out and to the decoction adde of the pulpe of Cassia Fistula one ounce Oile of Rue halfe an ounce Benedictae Laxativae half an ounce The Body being purged by discretion it is not amisse for the patient to make use of some diet drink that hath power to warme the braine to exsiccate and concoct crude humours to attenuate the grosse cut that which is tough and expell the thinnest either by Urine or insenfible transpiration You may make it thus Take of Guajacum Sassufras the Root of Salsaperilla of each two ounces English Liquoris and Cinamon of each one ounce Coriander-seed halfe an ounce infuse them 24 houres in 4 quarts of Spring-water the vessell standing in hot embers and close covered afterwards boile it gently to the consumption of halfe sweeten it with honey whilst it is hot let the Patient drink halfe a pint in the morning and dispose himself for sweat and if he drink it for his ordinary drink 15 or 20 dayes more or lesse as necessity requireth it is the better If the Patient become costive
month with Manna Syrups of Roses and Rubarb and every change of the Moon take a dose of the powder before mentioned and oftener if need require To conclude if the Disease be caused by some evill effects in the mouth of the Stomach you must labour to free the Stomach from the humours that offend For the Cure of the Vertigo I shall say nothing but refer you to those Medicines propounded for the Cure of the Falling-sicknesse and to the 2. Chapter viz. Of the cure of Cephalaea proceeding from cold crude and phlegmatick humours it being my present task only to epitomize not to write largely of the cure of Diseases CHAP. VII Of the Palsie PAralysis or the Palsie is a disease wherein the whole Body or part thereof as Atm Hand Leg or Tongue doth lose sense or motion or both Sometimes it followeth the Apoplexy Here note that the Faculty of sense and motion floweth from the Brain as from its proper fountain and is conveyed to all parts of the Body by the Sinews the proper Organs of sense and motion Hence it commeth to passe that if that faculty of the Brain be obstructed that it cannot descend to all parts that all or some of the 〈◊〉 of the Body lose either motion or sense or bâ—… according to the part obstructed The Causes The Palsie is caused by abundance of grosse and clammy humours which stop the sinews and hinder the animal faculty that it cannot come from the Brain or fountain to the members It may be caused by vehement cold or by some inflammation or swelling near the Back-bone or the sinews may be crushed by some binding or hurt by some wound or Ulcer or the like The Signs and Cure There need no more Signs to know this disease by than what hath been declared in the explanation of it This disease for the most part happeneth to old folk and surprizeth them in the Winter time therefore Phlebotomy for the most part is unnecessary and dangerous If plenitude of humours or blood appear open a vein on the sound side draw blood sparingly lest you cool the Body too much Let what part soever of the Body be affected yet you must not forget the Brain but you must purge corroborate and strengthen it If you find the originall of the distemper in the Brain you must apply Medicines which have power to extenuate dissolve and discusse such as are described in the second Chapter for the cure of cold and phlegmatick distempers of the Head To the purging Medicines you may add these Pillulae Fatidae de opopanace Arabicae and Trochisci Alhandall taken in a convenient quantity as you shall be instructed in the next Book and sutable to the season of the year and aâ—…â—f your Patient Let him abstain from drinking â—f strong beer and Wine and let most of his drink be the decoction of Guiacum and the bark of the same and if you add Cephalick hearbs to these it will be the better This Decoction is commendable viz. Take of Guiacum ground two ounces of the bark of the same half an ounce the root of China and Salsaparilla of each two drachms Sasafras three drachms Lignum Aloes and Galanga of each two scruples the root of Angelica Peony and Fennel of each two drachms the seeds of Peony and sweet Fennel of each one drachm Betony ground Pine Sage of each one handfull the flowers of Lavender Rosemary Stechas and Cowslips of each one pugil Cinamons and Polipodium of the Oake of each half an ounce Infuse them in six quarts of water twenty four hours then boil it gently to the consumption of two quarts strein it and add to the decoction of brown Sugar candy and syrup of Stechas of each four ounces Let the diseased take half a pint in a morning three or four mornings as a preparative to purging you must purge once in a week with one of the aforenamed Medicines having respect to the age and strength of your Patient season of the year Or you may prepare the aforesaid water by distillation thus Take of the simples aforenamed and infuse them 24 hours in four quarts of water and two of White-wine then distill them in Balneo Mariae as you shall be taught in the fourth part of this Treatise to a pound of this distilled water add one ounce of the syrup of Staethas and a drachm of Theriaca diatessaron divide it into three parts for three mornings It is convenient to set Cupping glasses to the part affected without scarifying of it but easily drawing the humours and spirits to the place afterwards you must rub and chafe the parts it is convenient to bathe the paralytick part and cause it to sweat with the decoction of Bur root and Elder leaves hot-houses often profit much but much better it is if they can come to natural baths which proceed either from Nitrous hituminous or sulphureous Mines as the Bath of Bath You may safely Bathe two or three times in a week and afterwards annoint the Member with some convenient Liniment viz. Take of the Oyls of Foxes Castor Earth-worms and Rue of each one ounce Unguentum Nervinum and Martiatum of each half an ounce the distilled oyl of Rosemary one drachm Oyl of Spike six drops mix all these and make a soft ointment with which annoint the Back-bone and the other parts that are diseased afterwards wrap them up warm with the skin of a Fox or Hare If the Palsey be caused by an inflammation or hard swelling in any part the cure of the inflammation or swelling cures the Palsie also If bruising of the sinews by pinching or binding be the cause remove the bruised blood and the cure will ensue If the Spondills of the Back be out or broke and that cause the Palsie or Resolution the cure of the cause taketh away the effect If the Palsey ensue a wound or Ulcer in the Head Back or any particular Sinew if the Sinew be curable the Palsie ceaseth CHAP. VIII Of the Covulsion SPasmus Cramp or Convulsion is a disease when the Sinews are drawn or plucked up against a mans will Of this there are two sorts viz. a true Convulsion when there is a constant retraction of the Muscles and the Limb remains unmoveable or a convulsive motion when the retraction is every time new and the Members moved divers ways They differ likewise in their Causes for a true Convulsion proceedeth either from repletion or inanition a convulsive-motion from irritation or provocation Again they are thus divided a true Convulsion is either total by which most part of the Body is contracted or partiall by which one particular member suffereth contraction The Universal Convulsion is caused from the Brain when the Face is plucked together as well as the whole Body or from the marrow of the Back when the Muscles that move the Head and Back are drawn together A particular Convulsion is made from the contraction of the Muscle of some part comming from the
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-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
for which purpose this Gargarism is good Take Violet-leaves Mallows and Parsly of each one handfull whole Barley four ounces Figs and Raisons stoned of each three ounces the seed of Flax and Fenugreek of each one ounce Spring water a quart boyle it to the Consumption of halfe straine it and add four ounces of the syrrup of Jujubes use it as the other before When the humors are suppurate if it break not make incision then cleanse it with Plantane water and Hony of Roses There is another Tumor under the Tongue called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latines Ranula because it representeth the hinder part of a Frog also because they that are thus affected when they speak do Croake like a Frog This humor is a loose and soft carnosity under the Tongue the tumor therein contained is somtimes hot though for the most part it is cold slimy and pituitous matter which when it is opened is like the white of an Egge somtimes mixed with yellow This disease is not for the most part accounted dangerous unlesse it be in a Child or the humor be Cancrous If nothing prohibite you must begin the Cure with blood-letting that so the humors may be the more obedient you must likewise purge the peccant humors with discretion then you may endeavour to disolve and discusse the humor thus Take of green Mugwort and Hysop of each one handfull Common Salt and Salt Armoniack of each two drachms Galls one drachm beat them well together rub the place often with it But if it submit not to this way of Cure as it seldom doth you must open it with a large Orifice and if you open it on both sides it will be the better Some commend a Cautery of iron after you have opened it squeez out the matter with your finger then wash it with White-Wine and Hony of Roses or thus Take of White Wine and Plantane water of each two ounces dissolve a drachm of Allum then add twenty drops of the Oyle of Sulphur with an ounce of syrrup of Mulberrys make a Lotion and wash the place till it be whole Somtimes the Tongue suffereth a Palsie by which it is deprived of its motion Somtimes it followeth an Apoplexy and somtimes it is joyned with a Palsey which afflicts half the body somtimes it is only in the Tongue when its nerves and moving Muscles are prejudiced by some moist or pituitous matter Somtimes those Nerves may be cut and the Palsie may follow Avicen confirmeth this opinion by an example in his time of a certaine man being cupped and scarified by which the small Nerve was cut and caused a relaxation of the Tongue If this Palsie follow an Apoplexy and the other parts of the body be affected and the Patient be old it is incurable If you have hopes of recovery you must take away the Antecedent cause lodged in the braine and you must dissolve and discusse the conjunct cause viz. the humors which obstruct the Nerves and hinder the motion of the Tongue If you see occasion you may make use of Phlebotomy it profiteth much to open a Vein under the Tongue you may purge with Pills or Cephalick Apozems you may rarifie the humors by sweating drinks cuppings vesicatoryes Cauteryes may be applyed for discussing and drawing forth of the humor let Gargarisms Masticatories and Errhies be followed for strengthening the braine and dispersing offending humors therein contained make use of Fumigations Powders and Quilts for the head for the making and application of which I refer you to the second Chapter of this Book CHAP. XXI Of the Diseases of the Teeth THE Teeth also are subject to Distempers viz. the ache and foulness and rottenness The Tooth-ache is caused by a Flux of Humours either hot or cold which flow to the Membrane Nerves or to the substance of the Teeth Sometimes Worms are bred in hollow and rotten Teeth of an Excrementitious Humour which causeth pain sometimes Wind contained between the Cavity and the Nerve doth cause pain The External Causes are cold Air and South Winds Likewise the debility of the part as hollowness or rottenness of the Teeth do sometimes cause pain Every cause is known by its proper sign for if a hot Humour falling upon the part be the cause the pain is more violent the Patient is sensible of heat about the Teeth and Gums hot Medicines encreasoth pain Signs contrary to these do declare the Humour peccant to be cold If the cause be Worms the pain is with intermission and their motion may be felt If Wind cause the pain it is exceeding violent with sensible extension yet quickly ending after the use of discussing Medicines If it be a hot Humour that causeth the Tooth-ach it is good to open a Vein on the same side by which the Humours are revelled and though the Humour be cold yet Phlebotomy may be needful to revel the Defluxion but it must be regulated according to the age and strength of the Patient The next day you may purge the Humour that principally offendeth Cupping is sometimes requisite and fâ—r the most part Vesicatories to the Neck and behind the Ears are successful to draw back the Humours Astringent Medicines to the Temples are good to hinder the Defluxion Of Plaisters these are good Emplastrum de Mastiche ad Herniam and Gum Elemi spread and applyed to the Temples and behind the Ears Riverius commendeth the Root of Comfry bruised and applyed as before to hinder the Defluxion Riverius Physitian to Henry the Great commendeth this Plaister Take of Cyprus Nuts Red Roses Mustard seed torrified Mastich and Terra Sigillata of each one drachm and an half Steep them in Vinegar of Roses twenty four hours and then dry them Opium three drachms dissolved in Aqua Vitae Pitch and Colophonia of each one drachm Yellow Wax melted in the expressed Oyls of Henbane and White Poppy as much as is sufficient to make an Emplaister which must be applyed as before The Oyl of Bitter Almonds or Vinegar put into the Ear is good to stay the Defluxion if it proceed from a hot cause If the Humours be cold put the Oyl of Rue or a Clove of Garlick into the Ear and wash the Teeth with Red Wine wherein is boiled the Roots of Bistort Cinquefoil Tormentil the Leaves of Vervain Peny-royal and Galls and anoint the Checks or the Check on the same side with the Oyls of Camomel Rue or Roses to asswage the paâ—n If the Tooth-ache come from a hot cause boil the Leaves of Henbane spotted Arsmart Housleek and Nettle Roots in Vinegar and wash the Teeth and to asswage pain anoint the Checks with the Oyl of Lillies Roses sweet Almonds Or you may make a Cataplasm with Barley and Bean Meal the juyce of Housleek and Milk and the aforesaid Oyls and if you add a small quantity of Opium to it it will not be amiss But take this Caution that if the Checks be swelled beware how you
swallow it by which it may be known as also by looking into the mouth You must make use of such Evacuations Revulsions Derivers Repellers as are prescribed in the ninth Chapter of a Catarrh And you must make use of Gargarisms which restrain and dry Take of Plantane Purslane and Shepheards purse of each one handful Cyprus nuts Pomegranate flowers and Red roses of each one ounce Galls and Allum of each one drachm boile them in a quart of Spring water to the consumption of half strain it out and add to it Bolearmenick a drachm Sirrup of Mulberys and Hony of Roses of each one ounce gargarise the mouth therewith Powders are better which have an astringent and drying property Take the Roots of Bistort flowerdeluce and Tormentil the Flowers of Pomegranates and Red Roses of each half an ounce Burnt Allum and long Pepper of each one scruple make them into fine powder and depressing the tongue blow it upon the Uvula If this doth not perfect the cure the superfluity must be cut off this operation must be performed very warily for if you cut too much it will be prejudicial to the speech if there be an inflammation in the Columella you must extenuate such accidents before you cut it lest a greater inflamation follow or a flux of blood if the Uvula be greater at the bottome then it is at the top then it is fitter and safer to cut If the Uvula be onely inflammed you must make use of such medicines as are prescribed for the cure of the inflammation of the tongue There are other distempers of the throat viz. the inflammation and Ulcers of the Tonsills or Almonds of the throat occasioned by a defluxion of crude Phlegmatick and Viscid humors mixed with blood or by excessive drinking of wine or strong liquors or by a greedy devouring of meat they who are thus afflicted swallow with much difficulty and pain and many times have a Feaver For the cure administer a cooling Clister open the Vein under the tongue and if blood abound open the Cephalick-Vein in the arme use all other convenient revulsions Then make a Cataplasme of Barly meal the Seed of Flax and Fenugreek and the Leaves of Mallows bruised with new Milke sufficient and apply it to the throat Then use astringent Gangarisms you have examples enough in the foregoing Chapters If the inflammation increaseth and the pain be sharp and vehement in the Evening then expect suppuration then you must surther it by gargarising with a decoction made of Hysop Figs and the Seeds of Marsh mallows or with aquamulla When it is perfectly rotten squeez it gently that the matter may run forth or else open it with a sharp instrument and let the Patient hold his head down that the matter may the better run out then wash it again with aquamulsa till it be healed For the cure of the Ulcers of the Tonsils you must observe the same rules prescribed for the cure of the Ulcers of the mouth CHAP. XXV Of the Quinzie ANgina or the Quinzie is a disease of the Jaws and Throat by which breathing and Swallowing are hindred withour defect of the breast and Lungs there are two sorts of Quinzyes Legitimate and Bastard Legitimate Quinzy is accompanied with a feaver and inflammation of the part which Galen and the antient Greekes have divided into four sorts the first they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the inflammation is in the inward proper Muscles of the Larynx the second they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the outward Muscles of the Larynx are in flammed the third they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the interiour muscles of the pharynx are inflamed the last they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the exerior muscels of the Jaws are inflamed a Bastard Angina or Quinzy cometh without a feaver The cause of the first is blood either pure or mixed with Choler flegm or melancholly flowing from the head to the jugular veins the cause of the Bastard Angina is caused by much flegme falling into the jugular veins and by its glewinesse obstructing the passage of the spirits or by a Tumor in the Vertebrae of the neck caused by a deflux of cold flegm removing the Vertebrae from its proper seat or causing a luxation thereof by loosening their Nerves and making them slippery between the joynts or lastly this may happen by some fall or stroak or some external cause The Legitimate Quinzy may be known by the difficult swallowing and breathing without fault of the breast or Lungs pain about the Jaws and threat red nesse heat and a feaver their sorts may be distinguished by their proper signes In the first there is great hinderance of respiration the patient is almost strangled cannot breathe except he open his mouth and hold his neck streight In the second there is lesse difficulty of breathing but greater of swallowing especially of drink which flyeth out at the nose In the third there is some red tumor about the Jaws less difiulty of brething then in the first but more then in the second The last doth hinder the breath but little or not at all the outward parts of the neck are red and painfull The bastard Angina may be known by the abundance of flegm and humors flowing to the mouth If it comes by Luxation the motion of the head and neck is hurt and a preternatural cavity appeareth in the neck I shall not need to spend time to shew the signes of every distinct humor predominating reason or other parts of this book will informe you A Legitimate Quinzy is an acute disease and very dangerous for want of freedome in respiration therefore the first is worst and the patient in most danger of strangling the other are more or lesse dangerous as they more or lesse hinder respiration If the matter fall upon the Lungs or the swelling vanish away without critical or artificial Evacuation it is very dangerous and for the most part deadly If the patient foame at the mouth it is a signe of death saith Hippocrates in his 43 Aphorism because it is a signe of streightnesse and violent heat about the heart which squeezeth the moisture out of the Lungs and sendeth it to the mouth in a foame Every Quinzy requireth a hasty and speedy cure for it sometimes killeth in one day read Fernelius Lib 5 pag. 284. Let the physitian open the Cephalick Vein and if the body be naturally plethorick and blood the cause of the disease draw as much as the Patients strength will bear and reiterate Phlebotomy according as necessity requireth give a Glister first or after or both or as often as need requireth you must speedily make use of other revulsions as cupping glasses with scarification to the shoulders vesicatories frictions and ligatures to the lower parts purges must be administred and if you find the case desperate you need not Question the time of the day Trallianus reporteth that he was forced to open a
Vein and to purge the same day or else his Patient had bin strangled To derive the humor from the part it is good to open the Veins under the tongue called Ranulae If the ease be desperate open the jugular Vein and if the blood cannot be stopped make use of Galens Emplaister against a flux of blood You must make use of Gargarisms which have power to allay the inflammation somewhat to repel Take the leaves of Plantaine Nightshade Woodbine Strawberry and Cinqueoil of each one handful the flowers of red roses and pomegranates of each one pugill boile them in a quart of running water to a pint Strain it and adde four ounces of Sirrup of Mulberies But beware lest repelling medicines drive the matter to the Lungs The oyle of Vitriol mixed with water sufficient to allay its sharpnesse often taken is good to allay the inflammation of the stomack Liver and veins also the parts inflamed in this distemper Then you must apply loosning and resolving Liniments adding such things as easeth pain Take of the juice of Mallows Chamomel and Orpine of each two ounces the oyle of Chamomel sweet Almonds and Lillies of each one ounce hens grease and frish Buter of each three ounces boile it to the Consumption of the juices and make a Liniment You must apply such things as have power to dissolve among those which have a peculiar property against the Quinzy as Riverius teacheth Take of a Swallows nest and Album graecum of each one drachm powder them flowerdeluce roots and Chamomel of each halfe a drachm Hens grease and oyle of Lillys of each one ounce yellow wax a little make a Liniment Orpine hath a peculiar faculty against the Quinzy if the bruised hearb be outwardly applyed and the juice sweetned with hony often swallowed Let us not forget the old and vulgar medicine viz. album graecum and hony mixed and administred like a Lohock For sqeemish stomacks or such as delight in dearer medicines you may prepare this lohock Take of Species Diatraganthum frigidum and diapenidion of each one ounce Lohock Epinis et Sanum et Expertum of each halfe an ounce mix them and with the Sirrups of Mulberies and Jujubes sufficient make a lohock and take as before If it tend to Suppuration make use of the first Liniment prescribed in this Chapter Cassia newly drawn held in the mouth and gently swallowed easeth pain and maturateth the humors when it is ripe and will not easily break you must open it with a crooked incision-knife or drop a little oyle of Vitriol upon it when it is open let the Patient hold down his head that the matter may run forth then wash it often with barly water and hony of roses CHAP. XXVI Of the Asthma Asthma is a difficulty and shortnesse of breathing which cometh from the stuffing of the Lungs and the obstruction of the Bronchion or gristles of the wind pipe and is naturally with out a feaver yet sometimes it may be joyned therewith This disease is divided into three sorts the first is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is a difficulty of breathing caused by the stuffing of the substance of the Lungs and not the gristles and is not accompanied with snorting and this is the least of the three The second is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the bronchia of the Lungs are filled with flegm and doe make a great noise with snorting and wheezing in which the Diaphragma and the intercostal muscles between the ribs and the Abdomen are violently moved The third is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which the Patient fetcheth his breath with much difficulty with his neck stretched upright the aforesaid Muscles together with the Muscles of the breast and shoulders violently moved This disease is caused for the most part from flegm which falleth from the head into the Lungs and obstructeth the wind-pipe sometimes humors brought thither by Arteria Venosa flow to the Bronchia and causeth Asthma with snorting but if they fall into the substance themselves or into the smooth arteries it causeth an Asthma without snothing There needeth no more signes for the discovery of this disease then what may be gathered from its description As to the prognostick I say that this disease is Chronical hard to be cured unlesse the Patient be young and of a strong Constitution if a child hath this disease if it be not speedily removed it dieth of a Catarth In men it ends in Chachexia or the dropsy If it turne to a pleurisy or peripneumonia it is deadly You may begin the cure with blood-letting if the body be plethorick or Corpulent for when the Veins are empty of blood the respiration is free But you must beware of phlebotomy in such bodies where you fear diminishing the natural heat lest flegme increase You may openthe Saphaena or ancle-Vein without danger you must in the next place purge the head of Phlegmatick humors which are prescribed in the second Chapter of this Book It oftentimes hath bin proved that vomitting is good in this case that the stomack may be emptied of flegm and thick vapors which puffing up the stomack compresseth the diaphragma and causeth difficulty of breathing one ounce of Tobacco water sweetened with Sugar will cleanse the stomack by vomit Let the Physitian be careful how he administreth vomits to weak people Sharp Glisters are good in this disease for revulsion but let them be given in small quantityes lest the fulnesse of the Bowels compresse the diaphragma The Patient must make use of such things as extenuate and make thin the humors Take of Coltsfoot-water two ounces Cinamon water one ounce with an ounce of Oximel Simplex and take it in the morning Then let him make use of such as have an Expectorating quality Take of the powder Diatraganthum Frigidum the powder of Liquorish and Colts soot of each one drachm the roots of Elecampane and Marsh mallows Candied Conserve of roses and Violets of each halfe a drachm the flower of Brimstone and Sugar Candy of each a scruple with oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn and Sirrup of Maidenhaire make a Lohock And let the Patient take the quantity of a Nutmeg Morning and Evening and halfe so much every two houres this I have often given with good successe In the extremity of the Fit rub the breast with a cloath to open the pores then anoint it with this following ointment Take of the Oyle of Chamomel Dill Rew and sweet Almonds of each two drachms the Roots of Elecampane and Flowerdeluce in powder of each one drachm the meale of flax-seed and Fenugreek a drachm Saffron one scruple with wax sufficient make an ointment Out of the fit to perfect the cure you must endeavour to stop the defluxion and to cleanse the Lungs For the first you may find sefficient remedies in the ninth Chapter of this book adding such which respect the breast to them Let your medicines not be
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
and the Troches of Amber of each half a Drachm with Sirrup of Comphrey make an Opiate and let the Patient take a little often Take of the Powder of Rubarb one Ounce the Troches of Sanders two Drachms mix it and give the Patient two Drachms twice a day it evacuateth the Matter and strengthneth the Bowels Both the Sirrup Magistery and Tincture of Coral availeth much and the Decoction of Juniper Berryes in red Wine is no lesse effectual If it continue long and your Patient's strength much decay give Laudanum among your other Medicines The Fume of Fleabane and Mullein taken through a hollow Chair is excellent The Conserve of Hips is good against a cholerick Flux you may mix with it such things which are astringent I shall say no more of the Cure of this Disease but refer you to the next Chapter Onely this if the Disease come by consent of other parts seek the Cure in their proper Chapters CHAP. XLVII Of the Dysentery or Bloody Flux 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a bloody Loosenesse of the Belly depending upon the Ulceration of the Intestines but it is commonly taken for every Bloody Flux the Latines call it Tormina because of the Torture the Patient endureth Galen mentioneth four kinds of Fluxes which he calleth Dysenteries The first is when any usual Evacuation of Blood as the Haemorrhoids or at the Nose is omitted or impedited or any part of the body is hurt and by that means the Blood is sent to the Intestines and voided by the Belly The second is when watry Blood is voided by reason of the weakness of the of the Liver of this I shall treat hereafter The third is when Blood mixed with Melancholy and burnt by reason of long Retention in the Liver and Spleen is evacuated and shineth The last and that which I am now to discourse on is when Blood and Excrements are mixed together and sometimes also Matter is mixed therewith and is evacuated with Torture to the Patient by reason of Ulceration in the Guts this is the proper Dysentery The internal Causes are sharp and ulcerating Humours yellow green and black Choller Salt Phlegm in the Head bred by Heat or in the Belly by putrefaction which being brought to the Guts and sticking to them ulcerateth the part The Causes external are all things which make sharp and evil Humours Meats which soon putrify Fruits which are soon rotten all things unripe the Air thus qualifyed the Winter cold and dry and the Spring very wet and ful of South Winds cause Dysenteryes in the Summer Or if the Winter be wet and full of South Winds and a dry Spring and the North Winds blow much such a Season produceth Dysenteryes Sometimes the Air is infected and produceth a contagious and epidemical Dysentery which is so infectious that the Excrements of the Sick being cast into a Privy infecteth all that sit over it The Diagnostick Signes are often and bloody Evacuations with Pain in the Belly Watching Thirsting Loathing of Meat sometimes a Feaver If the small Guts are affected the Pain is vehement like the pricking of Pins because they are of more exquisite Sense they go not to Stool presently after the Pain and the Blood is mixed with the Excrements The contrary judge if it be in the great Guts the Pain not so sharp they go to Stool presently after and the Blood swimmeth on the top of or a little mixed with the Excrements You may judge of the Humour causing this Disease by the Colour of the Excrements Age and Temperament of the Patient and Season of the year Thus the Prognosticks are made Dysenteryes caused by black Choller are deadly if it be not Critical because the Ulcer groweth cancerous be sure you judg aright between Melancholy and Blood congealed If Loathing of Meat and a Feaver accompany it it is dangerous If pieces of Flesh be voided it is deadly Much Watching great Thirst black bloody and stinking Stools without a Mixture of Humours Hiccough cholerick Vomitings Pain in the Liver and Midriff are for the most part deadly Signes If Choler or sharp Diet be the cause of this Disease it is easily cured salt-Phlegm is worse because it sticks longer to the Guts If this Disease happen to one troubled with a disease in the Spleen or the Gout it is good saith Hippocrates because the Matter is sent forth but this is rather a Diarrhae a then a Dysentery To cure you must evacuate sharp Humours you must asswage Pain cleanse consolidate and dry the Ulcer and stop the Flux To evacuate the Humours you must purge every second third or fourth day according to your Patients Age Strength Season of the year and the like Rubarb is exceeding good in this Disease given a Drachm or a Drachm and an half or two Drachms Or made into a Potion thus Take of Liquorish scraped and sliced and Raisons of the Sun of each three Drachms Tamarinds and yellow Myrabolans of each two Drachms boil them in Barly and Plantane water to three Ounces in which streined infuse a Drachm of Rubarb thin sliced then add one Ounce of the Sirrup of Roses solutive and make a Potion if you think it not strong enough add of Diacatholicon three Drachms or you may give the Rubarb in Powder in the aforesaid Decoction If the Dysentery be accompanied with a Feaver and Inflammation of the Bowels open a Vein and let the Patient bleed according to his Strength Sometimes vomiting is profitable to revell the Humours which fall from the Stomach to the Intestines Omit not vomiting if you find the Stomach very foul Especially if the Sick be inclinable to vomit for then Nature dictates the right way and ought to be imitated In the mean while you must give asswaging mild and cleansing Clisters afterwards glutinous and astringent Thus Take of the Roots of Marshmallows Butter-burr of each one handful Camomil Flowers one Pugil the Seeds of Flax and Fleabane of each two Drachms boil them in Barly water or Milk Chalybeated or Mutton Capon or Sheeps Head Broth to a Pint strain it and dissolve therein the yolks of four Eggs well beaten Oyl of Roses and Sirrup of Quinces of each one Ounce and make a Clister If the Ulcer want cleansing add Century and Wormwood to the former Decoction and to the strained Liquor add Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an Egg the chymical Oyl of Wax of each one Drachm When there is need of more binding and glutinating make a Clister thus Take of the Roots of Comphry Tormentill and Bistort of each one Ounce Plantane Shepherds purse Knot-grasse and Mous-ear of each one handfull Pomegranate Flowers Mirtles Acorn cups and Cypresse Nuts of each one Drachm parched Rice French Barly and red Roses of each one Pugill Make a Decoction in Smiths water to a Pint of the straining add of the Juyce of Plantane and Yarrow of each one Ounce and the yolks of two roasted Eggs. Or insteed of the Juyces you may add
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
that you make a distinction between the Haemorrhoids and the clefts of the Fundament which are like those chops which are in the lips caused by sharp Northerly winds and the Tumor called Condiloma which is in colour black as the Haemorrhoids are in form long and not in the Veins whereas the Haemorrhoids are in the Veins and round There is also in the Fundament sometimes to be found a carnuons swelling called Thymi and sometimes in the privities of Men and Women and they are like the flowers of Thyme they are little white or reddish without pain the Haemorrhoids are for the most part black greater and painfull The piles are greater then the former they are called Fici they are blew and painfull are like the Haemorrhoids onely they are a carnuous swelling and the Haemorrhoids is a swelling of the Veins The Piles are of a Maligne quality and do sometimes ulcerate The swelling of the Haemorrhoids is not dangerous unlesse it be inflamed and Gangrene Or if it suppurate and come to an Ulcer and chance to turn to a Fistula which may prove incurable To cure you must bleed and make such revulsions prescribed in the former Chapter likewise open the Saphaena You must not use strong purges lest you draw more humours to the place yet you must keep the body soluble least the voiding of hard dung greatly encrease pain keep the body soluble by this or the like Medicine Take of the leaves of Lettice Burrage Buglosse and Mallows of each one handfull Polypody of the Oak three ounces Liquorish Raisons stoned and Currant of each half an ounce Buglosse Burrage and Violet-flowers of each one Pugill Boil it in running water to a pint and an half Strain it and infuse therein an Ounce of Senna the liquor being kept hot six hours then put in of Cassia newly drawn one ounce and let it stand an hour strain it and Clarify it and sweeten it with two ounces of syrrup of Violits make four potions thereof and give it twice in a day first and last Then you must apply such things to them which hath power to case pain viz. the Oil of Peach-kernells Sweet Almonds Nuts Egs Box or oils of the seeds of Poppy or Henbane Of these may divers Lineaments be made good to appease pain discuss the Tumor and to dry the Ulcers Take of the oyl of Eggs made in a Leaden Morter the oyl of Violets and Roses of each one ounce Populeon half an Ounce the Oyl of Box two scruples with Hens Grease and Goats Suet sufficient to make a Liniment and apply it or take of the juice of Purslane and honey of each two ounces white Diachylon mollified with the Oyl of Chamomell two Ounces Opium six grains make an Unguent Horstius commendeth wild Flax made into an Oyntment with Hogs grease To discusse the Tumor the Balsome of Sulphur is much commended or this Cataplasme is good Take of Plantane Pilewort and Mallows of each a like quantity make a decoction in Milk till the liquor be half wasted strain out the hearbs and make a Cataplasm with the crums of white bread adding to it the Oyl of Violets Roses Myrtles and the like Or a Cataplasm made of the heads of Leeks is much commended Green Elder leaves boyled to slime and applyed and often renewed are very good The Lungs of a Sheep or Goat taken hot and some slices thereof applyed or if the sick sit upon them it oftentimes proveth effectuall If you see good you may make a fomentation with Mullein Mallows Marshmallows Pellitory of the Wall Flax and Fenugreek seed in Milk water or Oyl or all of them or with a great quantity make a Bath Or a fume made of the powder of Darnell Mullein Pilewort dried and thrown upon hot coals and the Sumen received The decoction of yarrow Mullein and Pilewort is a good Medicine to take inwardly or a Syrrup made of their Juyces against both Haemothoids and Piles If they will not open bleed them with Leeches or rub them till they bleed If the Piles be ulcerated the Balsom of Sulphur the Oyl of Egs stirred in a Leaden Morter is good to cleanse them To conclude those that are subject to these distempers ought to have an Issue in the Leg. CHAP. LIII Of a hot distemper of the Liver A Hot distemper of the Liver is either with or without matter but for the most part a hot distemper of the Liver doth produce hot and cholerick humours It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is caused either by hot weather violent exercise anger or such like passions of the mind hot or spiced nourishment drinking much Wine or any thing that is naturally hot This distemper is known by loathing of meat the body Costive and hot especially the palms of the hands and soles of the feet the whole body groweth lean a bitternesse of the mouth and for the most part a Feaver if there be plenty of humours the patient vomiteth or evacuateth downwards Choller he is the worse for hot and the better for cold things This distemper though not very dangerous in it solf yet may be the cause of many diseases It is hard to cure it if the stomach be cold because what you give to cool the Liver increaseth the distemper of the stomach To cure it you must cool the Liver and evacuate Choller First give a Laxative and cooling Clister then open the Liver-Vein in the right arm and draw as much bloud as the patients strength will well bear either at once or at severall times Then make an Apozeme to purge Choller thus Take the roots of yellow Docks or Muncks Ruharb Sorrel Succory and Licoris of each one Ounce the Leaves of Endive Succory Fumitory Dandelion and Burrage of each one handfull of the great cold seeds of each three Drachres Of the Cordiall flowers of each one Pugill Tamarinds one Ounce boil them to a Pint and an half then adde to infuse of Rubarb and Senna of each half an Ounce Syrrup of Succory with Rubarb and of Roses Solutive add at the last and clarify it aromatize it with two drachms of yellow Sanders Let the Patient take it four mornings Let his ordinary drink be Barly-water and put therein the Syrrup of Lemmons or Maiden-hair or if he delight in things that are sharper make it sharp with the spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol Whey likewise is very good it is best if it be made by turning the milk with Vinegar or the juice of Lemmons and add such things as I advised for the Barly water Likewise you may prepare Juleps to cool the Liver Take the waters of Endive Succory Sorrel and Buglosse of each one ounce the Syrrups of Lemmons Sweet Apples and Pomegranats of each one ounce of the Syrrup of Corall compound half an ounce the Oyl of Vitriol ten drops mix them and make a Julep for four doses Or Take of the Conserve of the flowers of Buglosse Violets and Succory of each one
Hydropicall person eate his meat and digest it well and be not sick after have no cough nor pain his tongue not rough nor thirsty if he be in a naturall order without physick and medicines work easily with him if he be not faint and his Urine change according to his Diet he may easily be cured For the cure you must consider if the disease hath its originall from obstructions Tumors c And seek the beginning of your cure out of their proper Chapters Afterwards you must labour to evacuate the matter whether it be in the Abdomen or whole body first make an Apozem thus Take of the roots of Parsly Smallage Fennell Elicampane Bruscus Danewort and Madder of each one ounce The Leaves of Agrimony Wormwood Maidenhaire the tops of St. Johns wort and Century of each one handfull the inward bark of the roots of Capers Ash and Tamarisk of each four drachms Liquorish one ounce the seeds of Fennell Parsly and Juniper berryes of each half an ounce the flowers of Broom Beans and Elder of each one pugill Julep roots two drachms boile them in a sufficient quantity of water wherein steel hath been quenched to a pint and an half strain it and add to the Liquor one ounce of Senna cover it and let it infuse six houres strain it and dissolve therein of the syrup of Harts-tongue one ounce and the syrup of Succory with Rubarb three ounces Clarifie it with the whites of Eggs and aromatize it with two drachms of Cinnamon or yellow Sanders give it four mornings Afterwards once a week give this pouder Take of Senna Jallap Mechoacah Turbith Gum and Hermodacts of each one drachm Cream of Tartar and Salt of Wormwood of each two drachms Cambugia half a drachm Diamher Diarrhodon abbatis and Fennell seeds of each two scruples make a fine ponder and infuse one drachm in a quarter of a point of White-wine all night and let the Patient take it in the morning Of these and such like may be prepared medicines of all formes Some commend the juyce of flowerdeluce roots taken with hony or manna the dose is three ounces and Platerus in his Observations doth highly extoll it Chimists do much commend the extract of black Hellebore Mercurius vitae and Diaphoreticus Mercurius dulcis antimonium Diaphoreticum and such like but let the physitian beware how he gives medicines of this nature except his Patient be strong the like caution let him observe in giving of purging medicines especially such as purge with violence But rather let him if his Patient be weake give discussive and Diuretick Clisters thus Take of Mallows Marsh-Mallows Chamomell pellitory of the wall and Mercury of each one handfull the seeds of Annis Sweet Fennell Caraway Dill and Bay-berryes of each two drachms the flowers of Broom and Melilot of each one pugil boyle them in Posset drink or Mutton broath to a pint dissolve in the strained liquor of Oyle of Camomell Dill and Rue of each one ounce Diacatholicon or Diaphaenicon of each one ounce and if you see good add half an ounce of Benedicta Laxativa and make a Clister you must principally give such medicines which purge by Urine the steeled-wine prescribed in the 55. chap. is very good in the preparing of it you may add if you see occasion any of the aforementioned ingredients which provoke Urine The Spirit of Vitrioll Tartar and Salt is much commended if it be administred in some Diuretick decoction The salt of Wormword and Juniper profiteth much Or you may make a Lee of the Ashes of Juniper and White-Wine giving five or six ounces thereof which Lee alone hath cured some Dropsies saith Mathiolus the same I have known my self Bleeding is prohibited and upon good grounds too unlesse the disease come from stoppage of the Termes or Hemorrhoids bleed not then unlesse it be in the beginning of the disease and the Liver in its naturall condition Issues Blisters and Scarifications are likewise forbidden because they gangren for the most part yet in the beginning of a Dropsie the lower parts being exceedingly swelled I made an Issue in the Leg out of which an incredible quantity of water issued and the Patient perfectly cured Among Evacuations Sweatings are not the least profitable especially in Anasarca but in Ascites and Tympanites the Liver being dry besides the difficulty of procuring it it rather hurteth then profiteth All the time of the cure forget not to strengthen the Liver that you may hinder the encrease of water as well as purge it have recourse to the 55 Chapter of the Obstruction of the Liver Hollerius commendeth this opiate Take of Currance cleansed half a pound boyle them in Sack till they be as thick as a pultis heat and strain them then add of the Conserve of Rosemary flowers Citron peels Candied and Cinnamon of each one drachm the pouder Aromaticum Rosatum Diamargariton Calidum and Diacinamon of each two scruples Lignum Aloes half a drachm Saffron half a scruple mix them and make a soft Electuary Then make a fomentation for the belly with these or hearbs of the like nature Agrimony Danewort Chamomell Calamint Elder Mallows Marsh-Mallowes Marjerom Melilot Broom Penny-royall Rue Snakweed Southern wood Tamarisk Wormwood and the like the seeds of Parsly Dill Cummin Fennell Bay and Juniper berryes foment the belly with spunges dipt in the decoction of these or lay the hearbs themselves in a bag hot to the belly Afterwards anoynt the belly with the oyle of Dill Chamomell Rue Flowerdeluce and the like Or you may make Unguents Cataplasms or Emplasters This harmlesse Cataplasm I have found profit much Take of Wormwood Chamomell Mayweed and Danewort of each two handfulls bruise them in a stone morter then boyle them in Vinegar and Hony then with Bean and Barly meale and Cow-dung dryed of each a like quantity make a Cataplasm Galen commendeth a Cataplasm of Snailes bruised with their shells and layd upon the Navell and there keep it till it falls off of its own accord Radishes bruised and laid to the Belly and Reynes worketh by stoole and Urine To conclude If the body be strong you may use strong purgers in your Cataplasms but if the body be weak forbeare In Anasarca you may often and strongly purge watry and flegmatick humors In Ascites and Tympanites more seldome and gentle In Ascites order your internall and externall medicines principally to purge water in Tympanites let them be Carminative and discussive In every of them have a speciall respect to the Liver and if it be too hot as it somtimes happeneth give cold things mixed with warm openers Let their meat be of the dryest and let them shun sweet-meats as a Plague For drink let them abstaine from it as much as can be and drink none but what is made with Wormwood Tamarisk Elecampane Juniper c or let them only hold it in the mouth to coole and asswage their thirst let them chew Mastick for it draweth water from the
Greek is a Disease which modern Writers call Scalding of the Urine it differs from Stranguria in this that more Water is made and with farr more pain Any thing that can wound the Sphincter-Muscle or passage of the Bladder may be the Cause The usuall Cause is either a mixture of sharp Humours with the Urine or sometimes the sharpnesse of the Urine caused by the eating of hot and sharp Meats or by the hot Distemper of the Bowels Liver or other parts or from evill Concoction in the Stomach or Liver by which the Blood is not freed from salt and tartarous Humours which being sucked to the Kidneys is sent to the Bladder causeth pain Filthy Matter comming from an Ulcer in the Reins or Bladder may be the Cause he who is troubled with a Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins is seldom free from scalding Urine To conclude the Stone or large Gravel may be the Cause The Knowledge of this Disease is evident the Signes of the Causes are easily gathered If it be caused by the Stone Inflammation or Gonorrhaea it is known by their proper Signes If from sharpnesse of Urine by the mixture of Humours the Urine will be thin and high coloured or in it will appear a mixture of Choller Phlegm or Matter the Patient hath eaten hot things or else hath some hot Distemper This Disease is not very dangerous unlesse it continue long and ulcerateth the Neck of the Bladder Sometimes it is hard to be cured especially if the Patient be old The Cure must be wrought by taking away the Cause If a mixture of sharp Humours make the Vrine sharp first make use of Phlebotomy which is good to correct the hot Distemper of the Liver and other parts make use of this Evacuation as often as the Patient's Constitution will bear and the Distemper require then to derive it from the part affected open the lower Veins Then purge with Cassia Manna Rubarb Mirabolans Tamarinds and such things which purge gently if you give it with the Decoction of Plantane Mallows Lettice Purslane and the like it will be the better A gentle Vomit is much commended as a good Revulsion Cooling Clisters are good Inwardly the Whey of Goats milk or Mineral Waters that cool are good for ordinary drink Or this Julep Take of the Roots of Marsh and common Mallows of each one Ounce Lettice Endive Purslane and Violet Leavs of each one Handfull Jujubes and Sebestens of each one Ounce of the four great cold Seeds a Drachm the flowers of Violets Roses and water-Lillyes of each one Pugil boil them in Spring Water to a Pint and an half strain it and add of Jujubes Violets and Poppyes of each one Ounce and an half Oyl of Vitriol twenty Drops make a Julep for four Doses to be taken Morning and Evening If there be no Feaver give Milk by it self The Troches of Winter Cherryes is good If the pain be very great let the Patient when he maketh Water put his Yard into warm Milk or a Decoction of Mallows and other cooling Herbs Or inject Milk Plantane-Water or an Emulsion of the cold Seeds into the Passage Baths and Fomentations made of cool Herbs are good and if the Privities be anointed with Unguentum Populeon the Oyl or Unguent of Roses Oyl of Lillyes and the like it profiteth If the Liver Reins or other parts by their Heat be the Cause use Medicines that are good to cool them If the Liver be too hot bleed the Haemorrhoids or make an Issue in the right Leg. If it come from the Stone Inflammation or Vlcer of the Bladder or Kidneys cure them according to the Rules in their proper Chapters but the cooling Medicines before mentioned are good to allay the Symptomes CHAP. LXX Of Pissing of Blood THough Blood may come from divers parts of the Body to the Passages of the Vrine yet I shall here speak onely of that bloody Vrine which is made from the defect of the Reins or Bladder The usual Causes are much sharp Blood which corrodeth the Veins or plenty of Blood which bursteth them Sometimes a Stone in the Reins or Bladder being moved by Riding or violent Excercise by its roughnesse teareth the part A Fall or Stroak vehement Motion lifting or carrying may break a Vein Sometimes the Weakness of the Reins being not able to divide the Vrine from the Blood may cause this Disease This Disease is apparent to the Senses for when Blood is mixed with the Vrine it appeareth like Water wherein Flesh hath been washed with Clods of Blood at the bottom if it stayes too long in the Bladder it looks black The place that is pained shews the part affected If it come from the Reins it is more mixed with the Urine then if it come from the Bladder If it come from the Bladder it is in a lesser Quantity If it come from the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder the Signes mentioned in their proper Chapters will appear If it come from Repletion or Sharpnesse of Humours the Abundance of Blood Choller Melancholy or such Humours appear in the Body If it come by a Blow Fall violent Exercise c. the Patient is able to inform This Disease if it be violent and continue long is very dangerous for sometimes the Patient falleth into a Consumption sometimes into the Dropsy Sometimes it causeth a Stoppage of Urine and sometimes an Vlcer breedeth in the place from whence the Blood Floweth If Blood or sharp Humours abound begin the Cure with blood-letting after a while for derivation let the Haemorrhoids and the Saphaena or Ancle-Vein be opened Then purge the chollerick Humours with those Medicines that are prescribed in the 30 Chapter Of Spitting of Blood After you have purged sufficiently give things that knit the Veins and stop Blood For this purpose give four or five Ounces of the Juyce of Plantane and a Scruple of the Troches of Amber or of Gordonius Morning and Evening Forestus in his Observations doth much commend Sheeps Milk six Ounces with one Drachm of Bolearmenick is the Dose The Decoction of Knot-grasse Purslane Horse-Tail Comphry roots Plantane Pomgranats Quinces and the like Likewise the Powder of red Coral Blood-Stone Sanguis Draconis Terra Sigillata given with the Water or Juyce of Plantane is good Giye cooling Juleps to allay the Heat of the Blood Apply such things to the Loins as cool and astringe thus Take of the Roots of Bistort Comphry and Clowns-Wound-Wort of each one Ounce Horse-Tail Plantane Purslane Knot grasse and Shepherds purse of each one Handfull Pomgranate peels half an Ounce Sumach Myrtle Berryes and Hypocystis of each two Drachms Acorn cups red and yellow Sanders of each one Drachm red Roses three pugils boil them in Smith's Water and Vinegar therewith soment the Reins Then anoint the Loins with Unguentum Comitissae and Refrigerans Galeni and if you would have it bind more add the juyce of Plantane or such like Sanguis Draconis c. Then wear a
and it will be more powerfull it a little Bolearmenick Sanguis Draconis and Terra Sigillata be given with it Among a multiplicity of Medicines which are astringont and proper for this Diseale I shall insert but one or two Zecheus doth highly commend this following Electuary Take of Gum Arabick and Gum Tragant of each two Drachms Corall of both sorts Eg-shells burnt Harts-horn Dill Seeds Amber of each four Scruples Hony of Roses as much as will make into it an Electuary give half an Ounce in the Morning and fast two howers after it This Julep I have found of great virtue Take of the distilled Water of Plantane red Roses Oak Leavs and Knot grasse of each four Ounces infuse therein a whole Night of the Flowers of Comphry Buglosse and red Roses of each one Pugill strain them out and make it sharp with Oyl of Vitriol with the Sirrup of Comphry and red Roses make a Julep for four or five Mornings Draughts Whatever part sendeth pblegmatick Matter to the Womb you must seek its cure from its proper Chapter To conclude the Medicines prescribed in the former Chapter are good against this Distemper Outward Remedies as Fomentations Unguents Fumes Pessaryes and Injections such as are prescribed in the Chapter aforesaid are usefull here CHAP. LXXV Of the Mother THis Disease is called the Hystericall passion Uteri Strangulatio by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we call it the Mother and Strangling of the Womb. It is caused by the Seed menstruall Blood or other excrementitious Humors retained besides the intent of Nature in the Womb and there putrified and corrupted breedeth venemous and malignant Vapours which arising doth afflict divers parts of the Body Now these Vapours do not alwayes afflict but when they are stirred up by some cause the most noted are sweet odours sweet meats eaten anger terror and grievous passions of the mind these and such like bring Women subject to this Infirmity into their Fits wherein their breathing is impaired sometimes to appearance abolished the Body becomes cold their Speech gone and Pulse intercepted so that they ly for dead and sometimes have been laid out for burial and yet have revived Sometimes these choaking Fits are not so extream yet is accompanied with other hystericall Symptomes as Vomitings Ravings Convulsions Swoonings and the like Sometimes the Patient feeleth herself as it were choaked by an halter or rope this is caused by abundance of Vapours and Winds ascending from the Womb sometimes seconded by hypocondriack Melancholy which Vapours compressing the Diaphragma and Lungs hinder Respiration and the Patient feeleth herself as it were strangled Others will have it proceed from the Nature of the malignant Vapours whose property is to cause Suffocation Sometimes she loseth her Breath without pain or sense of Strangling by reason of the stupefactive Power of these Vapours which taketh away the vitall Action from the Heart and so hindreth Respiration For Nature having ordained the drawing of Breath to cool the Heart and the Heart is extreamly cooled by these venemous Vapours having no need of the cool Air Breathing ceaseth For the vitall Spirits being destroyed the Animall which are made of them must needs lose their functions We may also say that these venemous and stupisying Vapours do fly up and assault the Brain and hinder the Influx of the animall Spirits whereby the Motion of the Diaphragma and the Muscles which serve for Respiration are hindered Likewise the Womb being filled with these flatuous Vapours doth ascend towards the upper parts as it were by a convulsive Motion which causeth a Compression of the Midriff and Muscles of Respiration Sometimes these sharp and malignant Vapours ascend to the Head and disperse themselves into the membranous parts and cause divers pains pricking and smarting and sometimes stretching and swelling sometimes they cause pains beating like the Pulse Sometimes the Falling-Sicknesse cometh from the Womb by reason of sharp and malignant Vapours which having gotten a powerfull Acrimony do sharply smite the nervous parts These Vapours assaulting the Heart the Heart laboureth to expell them hence ariseth Palpitation Likewise it causeth a great Pulsation in the Back The Stomach doth oftentimes suffer much by this Distemper according to the Nature of the Humours afflicting or part of the Stomach it gets possession of as Want of Appetite or a depraved Appetite that is destring Food which Nature disdains as Coals Chalk c. Loathing of Meat Vomiting Belching Hiccough and pain in the Stomach If in the Womb menstruall Blood is retained it floweth back by the Voins into the Liver from thence shed abroad into the whole Body hence cometh Swelling Feavers and other Diseases If it flows back to the Spleen Swelling Stopping Melancholy and hypocondriacal Diseases are bred Lastly Women have pains in their Loins Thighs and other parts which are caused by these Vapours conveighed from the Womb. Therefore to know this from other pains mark well the Signes of this Disease Much may be gathered from what huth already been said remembring this you must not expect all the Symptomes in one but some in one and some in another the Breathing faileth Sense of Strangling Coldnesse of the Body the Pulse ceaseth and the like which I have mentioned before There goeth before the Fit a Noise in the Belly below the Navill Belching Inclination to Vomit Wearinesse Stretching the Face pale and wan As it gathers Strength it bringeth Suffocation or Choaking afterwards all the vitall animall Actions are depraved diminished and as it were abolished the Womb may be felt in divers parts of the lower Belly gathered round like a Ball tossing and tumbling to and fro When the Fit begins to be over a moist Humour floweth out of the Womb the Body beginneth to be warm they have a Colour in their Face they open their Eyes they sigh they begin to move and so by degrees are freed from the Fit Signs of the Causes are thus known If the Seed corrupting in the Womb hath been the Cause there hath preceded those things which might gather together or excrease Seed and cerrupt it in the Womb as flourishing Age high keeping and an idle life Sanguine Complexion and ripe for Generation or one formerly accustomed to the Actions of Generation and left it of if any such fall into this Disease and have their monthly Purgation well you may judge that Corruption of Seed is the Cause If it come from the Putrefaction of menstruous Blood the Menstrues are stopped or come not down well and the Woman wanteth no carnall Embracements If evill Humours be the Cause the Woman enjoyeth camall Excercise and hath her monthly Purgation but her Body is full of evill Humours Prognosticks we make thus This Disease is seldom mortall but of long continuance the Patient is in great danger if it continue long because Respiration being so often hurt there is danger that the native Heat be suffocated Young Women when they come to bear Children for the most part
of the root of Night shade finely powdered and Hogs-grease make an oyntmnt or you may use unguentum è Solano or the white of an egg and Stiptick Wine and such like Then you must consider if the distemper be hot or cold if hot whether it is of the whole body or the part only if the whole body be distempered it is a Fever and you must seek the cure in the second book if the distemper be in the Member only foment it with the decoction of Plantane Roses and such like with the Oyl of Roses unguentum album populeon c if the member suffer by a cold distemper which you may know by the swart colour loosnesse and softnesse of the part then you must apply heating medicines unguentum Basilicon will do very well in this case If a Convulsion happeneth you must consider what is the cause if repletion or fullnesse of phlegm be the cause let the place wherein he lyeth be naturally or art ficially hot and dry let him lye free from perturbation and trouble let his sleep be moderate and only in the night Let him be very moderate and sparing in his Diet which ought to be rere Eggs Barly Cream the flesh of Chickens Capons and Hens Raisons Pine-Kernells sweet-Almonds of hearbs Sage wild Time Hysop Marjarome and such like Let the phlegmatick humor be purged and the convulsed part anointed with the oyle of Nard Bays Castor Rue Nutmeggs c. Vesalius commendeth this following oyntment Take of oyle of sweet-Almonds Hens grease and the marrow of Calves feet of each nine drachms oyle of Violets six ounces the fat of a Kid and Calfe of each fifteen ounces boyle them in the decoction of Mallowes the root of March-Mallowes and the seeds of Quinces till it be consumed then strain it and bring it into the form of a Liniment If Convulsion come by repletion of blood and inflammation open the middle vein and draw blood at severall times give Clysters and deal with this inflammation as with another If emptinesse be the cause of Convulsion direct a moist diet rest of body and mind and much sleep To the diet aforesaid add small stone fishes let his drink be Barly-water and if a little Liquoris and Cinamon be sodden therein it will be the better herbs proper for him are Lettice Spinach Arach Borage Buglosse Mallow and such like of fruits Melons Gourds Damask Prunes Peaches ripe Grapes c. The conserve of Violetts Borage Buglosse Diatraganthum frigidum and bathe his body or the part with warm water and oyle or anoint with the oyle of sweet Almonds Be sure to remember to have respect to the greatnesse of the disease the season of the yeare the age strength and constitution of the Patient Swooning often happening to wounded persons if vioient pain be the cause labour to appease the pain you have rules enough before going If it be occasioned by unmeasurable Evacuation cast Rose-water or cold water into his face use strong Ligatures and fricarions to the extream parts If some venemous quality by reason of a bite of some venemous Creature or wound with some venemous weapon be the cause of this symptome you must seek the remedy in the third Chapter If Raving and Madnesse happen appoint a mean diet betwixt hot and cold labour to provoke sleep to loosen the belly and to expell all perturbations of the mind If the body abound with blood and nothing forbid it open a vein then alter and prepare the humors with Juleps made of the syrup of Roses Violets Water-Lillyes Poppyes and Endive then empty the body with Manna Cassia or some such gentle thing or with an Emollient Clister but above all have a speciall regard to the wound because pain there may be the cause therefore let it be often opened and bathed with Vinegar and oyle of Roses or something that may powerfully appease the pain If the Palsie happen you must be very circumspâ—ct and appoint such a Diet as for the Convulsion let his drink be honyed water and boyle therein Sage and Cinamon or this Take of Cinamon two ounces Ginger half an ounce graine of Paradice Galanga and long Pepper of each one drachm Cardamoms one drachm and an halfe Nutmegs Cloves and Mace of each one drachm boyle them in water to the wasting of a third part strain it and sweeten it and let the Patient drink two or three ounces in a morning For medicines internall or externall go to the seventh Chapter of the second book If the wounded person be costive and he begin to suffer prejudice thereby give him some Lenitive medicines or a suppository If he suffer by stoppage of Urine give him somwhat which gently provoketh Urine see the 68 Chapter of the second book If Vomiting happen and it ceaseth not in due season Take Leaven half a pound the juyce of Mint extracted with Vinegar as much as is needfull boyle them in to the form of a Cataplasm lay it warm to the Stomach If the Patient feel heat and astonishing about the wound anoint the woâ—nd with the oyle of Camphire If the wound swelleth with heat and pilleth under the finger boyle Water-Cresses and Water-Lillyes in Rose Vinegar and apply it If there appeare the Flux of the Sinews which is a viscous liquor from the Nerves dresse it with a vulnery oyle and lay on Emplastrum Sticticum If the wound putrifie and goeth back from healing swelleth with heat looks black blew or swart Take of Litharge one pound Allum one pound and an half Salt two ounces Frankinsence four ounces Roman Gum five ounces of Wine Water and Vinegar of each one pound boyle them a quarter of an hour and apply it warm If there grow a Pustulous Fistula that is when the wound is healed too soon without any firm foundation so that it putrifie underneath and break out again in this case Paracelsus adviseth this Cerat to be used Take of common oyle Virgin Wax and Litharge of Gold in Powder of each one pound boyle them together into the formes of a Cerate to which add Opoponax prepared with Vinegar and Mummy of each three ounces Aristolochia Mastick Frankinsence and Mirrh of each half an ounce Turpetine three ounces Oyle of Bayes two ounces Camphire two drachms mix them upon the fire afterwards make it up with oyle of Camomel So much for the generall cure of wounds and their accidents CHAP. VII Of Sanguine Tumors FIrst Phlegmon is a Tumor begotten of pure blood and is for the most part incident to the fleshy parts the Antecedent cause is abundance of blood In which Tumor are three things considerable first the part that sendeth it either by reason of its plenty strength or streightnesse of passages Secondly the part receiving it either by reason of weaknesse largenesse or opening of the passages or by the lownesse of its scituation Thirdly the part drawing it which it doth either through heat or pain within it The conjoyned cause is much blood
the Pupilla like water they call it Aqua-water but when it is gathered thick about the Pupilla it is called a Cataract If Choler be the humour mixed with the watry humour the Cataract appeareth somewhat citrine or yellow if melancholy then is the Cataract more dull and blackish If it be white as chalk it signifieth a thick and compacted matter if it be of the colour of Pearl then slime and transparent flegme is the humour offending There are two sorts of Cataracts a true and a Bastard-cataract A true Cataract doth for the most part effect one eye onely and if both be affected they are not alike nor affected at the same time as in the spurious Cataract In a true Cataract or Suftnsion a derk matter appeareth in the Pupilla which doth not in the other But here let the Reader beware lest he fall into error for this doth not always hold as a sure distinguishing rule for if the humour be as thin as the warry humour nothing appeareth and many upon this ground have thought it to be Gutta Serena but there is a great difference between Gutta Serena and this for in Gutta Serena the sight is quite left or at least much diminished and no fault appear in the Pupilla But it is not so in this Suffusion which cannot be seen for the sight is but a little diminished because the humour being thin and transparent the objects pierce it like glass Though I need say nothing of the signs of this Disease it being easie to gather the signs from the causes yet I shall and a few words In the beginning of a Suffusion certain small Bodges as hairs flyes cobwebs gnats wool and such like sly before the eyes as it grows on the symptomes are more evident and the objects appear as through a glass when it is perfect the Pupilla is changed in colour and the sight is totally lost what the colours denote I have already laid down If the matter of the Cataract appear dark it lyeth between Chorion or Uyea and Cornea and the Pupilla is dilated and white or red veins appear about the circle of the eye if the contrary appear judge that the matter lyeth between the Christalline and Uvea If the matter lye deep the Pupilla is contracted if higher enlarged When the Cataract if newly begun and the Patient can see as thoug a clad if he be young and the season sutable it may be cured On the contrary if it be confirmed and the matter gross it yields not to medicines but must be couched with a needle And seeing I speak of couching give me leave to tell you that 't is a dangerous operation and often attended with bad success but if you finde it needful and likely to be prevalent make use of a near-handed Chyrurgeon and that you may know whether it be likely or no to be cured consider a few rules Sign of care by couching are these If when the sound eye be shut the Pupilla of the eye affected appear larger and perceive some light there is hopes of cure if the contrary appear judge accordingly A black green yellow and hard Cataract never yieldeth to medicine seldome to the Needle Attempt not the operation on old men nor children You must also consider before you attempt this operation whether the Suffusion be ripe and sit for couching or whether it be not grown too hard The first you must try thus press down the eye affected with your finger and if you alter the shape of the Suffusion and when your finger is off it returneth to its former station then is it thin and not ripe but it the contrary appear it may be couched with a Needle But here note that it must be moderate and not too compact but like a skin that will rowl upon the Needle if it be thick and solid like chalk or hail it cannot be couched For the cure you must observe the same rules prescribed in the former Chapter you must use and abstain from the same kind of diet you must use general and particular Evacuations you must revel the humours offending and strengthen the head and eyes Then you must come to Topical medicines and though I am almost of Galens opinion who saith they are little worth for they promise more then they can perform yet Experience hath taught and Authors have confirmed that Cataracts which have not been of long continuance but taken in the beginning have been cured by Topicks after the use of the medicines before mentioned therefore I shall insert a few of them and leave the Ingenious to find out more First you must make a Fomentation of such things as have power to mollifie and dissolve Take of Celendine Fenel Eye-bright of each one handful of Rue Vervain Clary of each half a handful Melilot Chamomel Flowers and Red-Rose leaves of each one pugil Fenugreek seed one ounce boil them in a pint and a half of Spring water to the consumption of the half pint then put in a half pint of White-Wine and let it boil a little Strein it out and with clothes wet it in the liquor soment the eyes every morning so long as you see occasion If you wash the eyes with Red-Wine sometimes it hinders the defluxion discusseth and dissolveth It is good to let a child lick the eye after it hath eaten sweet Fenel seeds Infuse Crocus Metallorum in White-Wine and wash the eye with the Wine or after a sufficient infusion pour off the Wine clear and with sweet Fenel and Fenugreek seed of each one ounce of Aloes half an ounce Saffron a drachm beat them and searse them into fine powder the blood of a young Pidgeon hot the weight of them all with the aforesaid Wine what is sufficient to make a soft Pultis and apply it warm to the eye at night take it off in the morning Or slit a young Pidgeon and lay it to the eye Then you must come to make use of Topical Medicines called Collyries which many times by Galens favour hath good success if the Cataract be not too much confirmed Take the leaves of Rue Fenel Vervain Celendine and Eyebright of each one handful Centaury the less Burnet Avens Sage of each a half handful Fenel roots and the roots of round Birthwort of each a half pound Red rose leaves and White-violet leaves of each one ounce Radish seed and Fenugreek seed of each one drachm Ammoniacum and the Natural Balsome of each a drachm Tutty two drachms pouder those that are to be poudered the heaths and roots shred and sliced put to them White-Wine honey and the urine of a Boy as much as may wet them all viz. Of White Wine three parts of the Urine two and honey one then distil them in Balneo Marîae drop the water into the eyes morning and evening regarding the course and medicines before prescribed Josephus Quercetanus in his Pharmacopaea doth much commend this following Water viz. Take of the water of the
Couch-grasse Garden and Horse-radish Maddir Marsh and common Mallows Liquorish Onions Parsly Knot-grass the Leavs of Bettony Camomill Penny-royall Marsh-Mallows Pellitory of the Wall Maiden-hair Parsly peart Filipendula Saxifrage Savin Burnet Goats-Thorne Kidney-Wort Melilot Golden-Rod the seeds of Nettles Parsly Gromwell Burdock Winter Cherryes Bay Ivy and Juniper Berries the four cold Seeds the stones of Hips Haws Medlers c Of these you may make Decoctions Powders or distilled Waters and the like the Description of which sot brevity sake I will omit Quercetanus in his Dispensatory commendeth this following Powder Take of the inward skins of Hen's Gizzards and their white Dung of each half an Ounce the inward skins of Egg shels dried and powdered two Ounces and an half Rupture-wort and Cinnamon of each four Scruples the Stones of Medlars two Drachms the Seeds of Annise and Fennell of each one Ounce powder them and give half a Drachm or a Drachm in white-Wine Goats Blood prepared is excellent and the Water distilled from it in Balneo Mariae doth wonders And some do commend the Urine of a Goat taken out whilst he is alive and drunk and the Entrails applyed Chymists do highly extoll their Salts and Experience tells us that if they be well prepared and carefully administred they work no small effects viz. the Salt of Bean Cods or stalks of Camomill Tartar vitriolate Oyl of Vitriol the Spirit of Salt Mercurius Dulcis c. Zacutus Lusitanus commendeth the naturall Balsom a few drops thereof taken with Oyl of sweet-Almonds Crato had as good an Opinion of Filberts eaten and confirms his opinion by Experience Minerall Waters are good for they do not onely dissolve the slimy Tartarous Matter which breeds the Stone but also allayeth the hot Distemper of the Liver and Reins Of all Diuretick Medicines Turpetine is the safest given the Quantity of a Nut with Sugar every Morning for Diureticks taken very often for the most part hurt by carrying the Humours from other parts to the Reins but Turpetine seldom or never worketh any evill effect You may use it thus Take of Venice Turpetine washed with Saxifrage Water half an Ounce Cassia newly drawn six Drachms Ruharb and Liquorish in Powder of each half a Drachm mix them and make a Bolus To conclude give Clisters often or if you see it more convenient purge the Body between your Diuretick Potions for the reason before given your best Purgations are Cassia Diaphaenicon Rubarb and such like If the Liver and Reins are distempered by Heat make use of those Medicines prescribed against the hot Distemper of the Liver If Crudities in the Stomach be the Cause seek Medicines out of the Chapters which treat of the Diseases of the Stomach If you do carefully consider the Cause or from what part of the Body the Reins fetch their stony Materials and order your Medicines accordingly with prudence and reason by the blessing of God you may find the Cure of the Stone not to be so difficult as it is commonly adjudged For my part I have cured several people who have been grievously vexed with this Grief for which Mercy I do and shall praise God CHAP. LXIII Of the Stone in the Bladder I Shall speak nothing of the Cause of the Stone in the Bladder the material and efficient Cause being the same with that of the Reins This Disease happeneth to Children oftner then to people of riper Age who are more subject to the Stone in the Reins because Children eating much and often their Urine is thick and the expulsive Faculty in the Reins is stronger in them then in men and sendeth the Urine speedily to the Bladder where being long kept by reason of much sleep or play the Urine settleth and is retained till it by Heat becometh a Stone for the passage is narrow in Children and the Urine not being very sharp doth not powerfully provoke the expulsive Faculty Fernelius was of an Opinion that the Stone in the Bladder was alwayes first bred in the Reins and falling from thence into the Bladder and getting fresh Matter there encreaseth Fern Lib. 6 cap. 13. pag. 317. Many times it so happeneth but daily Experience teacheth that many have the Stone in the Bladder who never had pain in the Reins especially Children The Knowledg of this Disease in the beginning is difficult but when the Stone is grown great is evident enough to the Patient's sorrow The first sign is pain in the Neck of the Bladder reaching to the end of the yard especially after pissing The yard itcheth and the Patient handleth it often He feeleth a great Weight about the Neck of the Bladder when the Stone is grown great the Urine suddenly stoppeth and he is in pain like a Woman in travel his yard standeth often and he maketh Water with most ease lying upon his back because then the Stone falleth out of the Neck of the Bladder When he hath need to make Water he is also much provoked to goe to stool by reason of the consent of the Sphincter Muscles of the Anus and Bladder being moved by the Branches of the same Nerve Many signs more I might insert but these I think sufficient for the ingenious To be fully satisfyed the best way is to make use of the Catheter This Disease is alwayes exceeding painfull and no lesse dangerous if the Stone be like Flint it can never be dissolved if soft or brittle it may be dissolved by the long use of strong Medicines but sew there are that have Patience enough to make use of so many Medicines The Cure is not altogether so difficult in Women as in Men because the passage in them is wider In the year 1656 I cured a Woman who was a long time grieved with the Stone and intended to venture upon the last and terrible Cure by Cutting with in the space of a Month having first dissolved part of the Stone by Medicines she voided a Stone without the help of manuall operation in bignesse two Inches in length an Inch and an half without prejudice to the Uritery parts she was then aged 63 and is yet a live and lusty to praise God for so great a deliverance For to perfect the Cure you must do as you are taught in the foregoing Chapter so that I need not here repeat any thing onely lay down the Medicine so much commended by Horatius Augenius it is thus prepared Take of Sows or Wood Lice prepared a Drachm or four Scruples Aqua vitae two Scruples the Broth of red Cicers nine or ten Ounces take it in the Morning fasting Sennertus also commends it and this Medicine likewise Take of Salt of white Tartar one Ounce Parsly water one Pint mix them and strain them with a brown paper If after the use of Medicines you find the Neck of the Bladder wounded or much pained by the roughnesse of the Stone make a Decoction thus Take of the Roots of Marsh Mallows Fennel Coughgrasse and Cammock of each one
and Tormentill Bolearmenick Sanguis Draconis Pomgranate Rinds Balaustians red Roses the Whites of Egs Vinegar Oyl of Roses of unripe Olives and the like If the Patient be strong and easy to vomit give a gentle Vomit to carry away the Humours in and about the Stomach soon after vomiting purge strongly Sweating Medicines are very good to discusse the wheyish Matter if a Feaver be present give Harts-horn with Carduus water In a Gout without a Feaver the Decoction of Sassafras Salsa and China may be given it is not amisse if the Heat thereof be allayed by boiling with it Endive Succory Sorrell Burrage Buglosse and the like The Waters of Bath do provoke Sweat and do readily and profitably discusse the Matter contained in the Joynts Forrestus commendeth the Decoction of the Root of the great Burdock for this purpose Likewise a Decoction of Elder Bay Leavs Sage Rosemary and such like receiving the Vapour in a sweating Tub. Afterwards come to locall Medicines Amatus Lusitanus doth commend the Milk of a Goat milked warm upon the part affected or you may make a Cataplasm with it and white bread and the Musilage of the Roots of Marsh-Mallows the Leavs of Henbane Violets and the like and if the pulp of Cassia and Venice-Treacle be added it will be much more effectuall The distilled Water of Frogs Spawn is very good against the pains of the hot Gout if the part be bathed therewith with it you may mingle the Oyl of Calves Feet or with the Flowers of Camomill Melilot Roses Mullein Mallows beaten you may bring it into the form of a Poultis Green Tobacco leavs are much commended and so is a living Whelp laid to the gouty part When the Pain rageth violently use Narcoticks as Plantane Lettice Henbane Housleek Night-shade Mandrakes Purslane and Poppy Heads but be sure you let them not ly on too long for they are inimicall to the naturall Heat and to the Nervs Some do commend this Fomentation Take Spirit of Wine well tinctured with Saffron four Ounces Camphire one Scruple boil them a little and dissolve one Drachm of Opium and bathe the pained part The Oyl of Wax is good to ease the Gout and the Oyl of Mans Bones is preferred before all other and it is thus made Take the Bones of a man fresh and unburied break them small and let them ly in Oyl till they have drunk up as much as they can then distill them in a Retort The Root of Briony and Cuckow-pintle bruised mingled with Cow dung is an excellent Cataplasm I might here fill a Volume with Receipts against the Gouts but passing by all I shall onely insert one or two out of Quercetanus his Dispensatory Take Brine Salt and the Urine of a Boy of each equall parts distill them and dip linnen Cloaths in the Water and apply them to the place affected changing them often Take green Elder Leavs and Flowers of each one pound beat them in a Morter and macerate them in Aqua-Vitae three dayes then distill them till all be dry use it as before Take of rectifyed Spirit of Wine two pound of the best Hony one pound distill them in Balneo Roris from which will come two Liquors the first waterish the second strong and sulphurous keep them by themselvs To the Foeces add of orientall Saffron whole one Ounce and an half Venice Turpetine two Ounces Castor six Drachms Tartar calcined white half a pound Salt dissolved one Ounce Phlegm of Vitriol not seperated from the Spirit four Ounces Lye made of the Ashes of Vine Branches two pound macerate them twenty four hours then distill them till all be dry keep this also by it self To the Dregs remaining pour on the former Water which you kept macerate and distill as before Lastly put all these Waters together and distill them in Balneo Roris wet linnen Cloths therein and apply it to the gowty place Riverius Lib. 10. Ch. 1. p. 378. prescibeth another which he accounts inferiour to none which penetrates into the Roots of the Disease and resolveth and attenuateth the salt tartarous and stony Matter in the Joynts and he supposeth it to be that which the aforesaid Quercetanus reservs to himself as his Master-peice to brag of it is thus made Take of â—…slaked Lime four pound slake it in River water as much as is convenient and let it stand in a Wine Cellar the space of three dayes that the Salt may be extracted the better afterwards boil it a little and strain it through Hippocrates Sleev In twenty Pints of this Liquor quench first Plates of Steel then of Copper made red hot seven or nine times thirdly ten Ounces of Vitriol calcined till it be white fourthly half a pound of Antimony melted in a Crucible fifthly half a pound of Litharge or Ceruse heated in a Crucible sixthly white Precipitate once washed one Ounce and an half lastly Erasse burnt and finely powdered half an Ounce after all this let the Water stand in a Cellar the space of 10 dayes afterwards boil it and strain it and apply it with linnen Rags To raise Blisters upon the part hath been found by experience to be very effectuall In the use of all Medicines take speciall notice which do harm or hurt for the Nature and Complexions of Men are divers and the Excrements bred in severall men are of divers kinds Hence it is that the same Disease doth much differ in severall persons and what cures one doth prejudice another Therefore the Physitian ought to have severall Medicines in readinesse and use thâ—se that Reason and his Experience doth approve of To prevent its return let the Patient bleed twice in a year viz. at Spring and Fall and purge 4 times in a year and make use of sweating Drinks and frequent sulphurous and nitrous Baths The Sciatica differeth nor from the other Gout onely in its Scituation which is in the Hip extending the pain to the top of the Buttock the Loins and Ossacrunt and reacheth down the Hip and Leg even to the Foot This peculiar Prediction belongeth to this Disease that if it continueth long it putteth the Hip out of Joynt The Cure is performed allmost in the same manner with the other Gout First open the Vein in the Arm on the same side afterwards open the lower Veins on the same side viz. Vena Poplitea about the knee or the Vein neer the outward Ancle called the Sciatica Vein if you open the Vein on the contrary side it will not do amisse bleeding the Haemorrhoid Veins by Leeches doth wonderfully help those that are Hipgouty for there is a great consent between those Veins But be not too forward to let Blood unlesse you find Blood to abound Then let the Humours be purged strongly by Pillulae Faetidae or Hermodactylls or the Powder of Hermodactylls compound but beware how you give the latter except to strong Bodyes Mercurius Dulois with Scammony is much commended and the Chymists do much esteem of
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
two or three Choclearies either by it self or mixed with Syrup of Myrtles dryed Roses or Syrup of Comphry and if the Flux of Bloud be very violent give a scruple of the Tincture of Corral with it CHAP. II. Of Syrups OF syrups there are three sorts syrrups made by infusion juyce and decoction syrrups made by infusion are made of flowers and such flowers as soon loose both colour and strength by boyling as Violets Roses Clove-gilly-flowers Peach-flowers c. and they are thus made Having picked your flowers to every pound add three pints of water made boyling hot put them into a Pewter-pot with a close cover and keep it hot twelve hours If you would make your syrrup very strong put in more fresh flowers as often as you please having strained it out put the liquor into a Pewter-Bason and to every pint add two pound of fine Sugar put it upon a Chaffin-dish of Coales and melt it stirring and scumming it till the Sugar be perfectly melted without boyling Secondly to make a syrrup of the juyce of an hearb you must make choice of such hearbs as are full of juyce then beat it in a stone Morter presse out the juyce put it over the fire and clarifie it that is scum it as long as any scum arise then boyle it till a quarter of it be consumed to a pint of this add a pound of Sugar boyling it to a syrrup and scumming of it You may know when it is enough if you coole a little in a spoon After this manner you may make syrrup of Wormwood simple of Betony Buglosse Borrage Chamomell Carduus Endive Succory Strawberryes Funtitory ground Jvy St. Johns-wort Mercury Mous-care Plantane Purslane Apples Raspberies Sage Scabius Scordium Housleek Colts-foot and such-like and when you have done so and would know what they are good for see the virtue of the Simples Thirdly Syrrups made by decoction for the most part are compounds though you may make Syrrups of Simples by decoction the operation is thus Take of what hearb root flower or seed you please and bruise it a little if you make a Syrrup of roots or wherein there are many roots let the roots macerate in the water twenty four houres then add the hearbs and the rest and boyle it till half the water he consumed then let it stand and when it is almost cold strain it through an hypoeras-bag without pressing to every pint of the decoction add one pound of Sugar and boyle it till it comes to the thicknesse of a Syrrup or new hony After this manner the most part of the Syrrups following are made except they be made of flowers or juyces Take this for an example Take of common Worm-wood meanly dry half a pound red Roses two ounces Indian spicknard three drachms old White-wine and juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half steep them a whole day in an Earthen Vessell then boyle them gently strain it and adding two pound of Sugar boyle it into a Syrrup according to art This Syrup is very good for cold and Flegmatick Stomachs it helpeth concoction strengtheneth the Stomach and Liver provokes an Appetite breaks wind and is good against the Jaundise the dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus Acetousus simplex vel compositus Syrup of Vinegar simple or compound These Syrups cut Flegme and tough Humors they coole the body quench thirst and ease any stuffing in the Stomach and are good to prepare the body for a Vomit especially the first if you use it so take from one ounce to two or three in other cases take it with a Liquorish stick Syrupus de Agno Casto Or Syrup of Agnus Castus I conceive by its composition it was intended to prevent immoderate Letchery and nocturnall pollutions for without doubt it dryeth and cooleth the naturall seed thereby restraining venereall thoughts for my part I can say nothing of it by experience Syrupus de althaea Syrup of Marsh mallows This is a fine cooling opening slippery syrup good against the paines of the Stone Gravell or Chollick You may give an ounce or two it is so safe and harmlesse you cannot err in the giving of it Syrupus de Ammoniaco Syrup of Ammoniacum It opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and cooles the parts and helps all diseases arising from their Obstructions and heat as Scabs Itch Leprosie and such like You may take an ounce or more if you see occasion Syrupus de Artemisia Syrup of Mugwort It helps the coldnesse wind paines and all other diseases of the Womb it strengthens the Nerves corrects the blood opens the pores and provokes the Termes You may take an ounce at a time or from half an ounce to two Syrupus de Betonica compositus The compound Syrup of Betony It is good against diseases in the Head and Stomach proceeding of Cold and Wind Vertigoes and Madnesse it concocteth Melancholly and provokes the Termes The dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Bizantius Simple and compound It strengtheneth and freeth the Liver from Obstructions and diseases thence proceeding cures the Yellow-Jaundise cuts tough Flegm and is good against the Rickets Take it with a Liquorish stick or from half an ounce to two Syrupus Botryos Syrup of Oake of Jerusalem This Syrup is commended in the Asthma and cold diseases of the breast Coughs and shortnesse of breath Take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Capillorum Veneris Syrup of Maidenhaire This strengthens the Stomach and Lungs and helps their infirmities it also cleanseth the Reins of Gravel for the first take it with a Liquoris stick for the last give an ounce or two Syrupus Cardiacus a Cordial Syrup It comforts the Heart and revives drooping Spirits it is good for people in Consumptions it is of an opening quality and expels those Vapours which offend the Brain Take it from one ounce to three Syrupus infusionis Caryophillorum Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers This Syrup is good in any Feaver Pestilential or not it strengtheneth the Heart Liver and Stomach and refresheth the Vital Parts The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and an half It is so harmless you cannot err in the taking of it Syrupus de Cinnamomo Syrup of Cinamon It strengtheneth the whole Body and helpeth Digestion and comforteth the Stomach and Womb and cheareth the Spirits Take one ounce in a Cordial Syrupus aceto sitatis Citriorum Syrup of the Juyce of Citrons This Syrup hath a refrigerating cutting attenuating penetrating faculty it allays Choller and tempers the heat of the Heart cools the bloud and is therefore good against Feavers Pestilential or not small Pox or Measils it resisteth Poyson The Dose is from one ounce to four Syrupus corticum citriorum Syrup of Citron Pills It is of a most grateful savour and most pleasant odour it strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Heart amends the heat of them and resisteth Palpitations Faintings Swoonings it strengtheneth the Vitals is profitable in
white Poppy heads meanly ripe and newly gathered in number twenty steep them in three pints of warm spring-Spring-water the next day boyle them till the virtue is our then strain out the Liquor and with a sufficient quantity of good Sugar boyle it according to art that you may make it into Lozenges They are good against thin humors distilling from the head upon the Lungs Stomach and Throat they provoke sleep and coole the body in Feavers Saccharum Tabulatum simplex periatum Lozenges of Sugar simple and pearled commonly called manus Christi It is cooling and very Cordiall and therefore is good in Feavers and for weak people who are subject to Hectick Feavets and Consumptions Saccharum Tabulatum Compositum Lozenges of Sugar compound Is is very good for cold Stomachs and it frees the Stomach of Choller and Flegm and is good against Wormes Saccharum Penidium Sugar Penies For the most part they are used in other Compositions of themselves they are good against Coughs Saccharum Rosatum Sugar of Roses They strengthen weak Stomachs easeth pains in the Head restoreth loft strength they cherish a weak Brain and comfort drooping Spirits stay vomiting and pissing of bloud they are convenient for people in Consumptions to carry them in their pockets and now and then cat a bit of them In like manner are all the rest to be taken CHAP. VI. Of Troches THey are also called Placentule or little Cakes they were invented principally to keep Pouders from losing their virtue by the intromission of the air which this Form doth resist and keep it pure the longer Besides they are convenient for a man to carry about him when he travelleth their form for the most part is little round and flat The general way of making them is thus Take what quantity of Gum Tragacanth you please the like quantity of Rose-water or any other fuitable to the Distemper you aim at put it in a Galley pot and cover it in six or seven hours the Gum will be turned into Musilage with which you may make any fine Powder into Paste with the Paste you may make Troches or little Cakes and print what you please upon them Then dry them in the shaddow and keep them for your use Trochisci de absynthio Troches of Wormwood are thus made Take of the Leaves of Red-Roses Wormwood and Annis-seeds of each two drachms Juyce of Maudlin made thick the Roots of Asarabacca Rhubarb Spicknard Smallage seeds Bitter Almonds Mastich Mace of each one drachm Juyce of Succory as much as is sufficient to make Troches They strengthen the Stomach and provoketh an appetite open Obstructions of the Liver and Bowels and carry away Watry and Chollerick Humours The frequent use of these Troches will be beneficial to such as are inclinable to the Jaundise or Dropsie The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm and an half Agaricus Trochiscatus Agarick Trochiscated They purge Phlegm and Choller mixed and free the Head and Brain thereof purge gross and viscous Humours from the Stomach They are seldome or never used alone therefore I forbear the Dose Trochisci Albi the white Troches They are cooling and drying and of great virtue if a drachm of them be finely poudered and mixed with an Injection for the Yard ulcerated Trochisci Alexiterii Troches against Poyson They are good against all Pestilential and Epidemical Diseases and a good Preservative in Pestilential Times and they strengthen the Heart Take a little now and then Trochisci Alhandal It powerfully purgeth gross Humours from the exterior parts it is good in the Palsie sleepy Disease Apoplexie and Convulsion coming from a cold cause The Dose is from two grains to four It is violent and best mixed with other milder Medicines or given in a Clister Trochisci Aliptae Moschatae They are commended for Children that cannot swallow their Milk well The Dose is from two grains to six given in Breast-milk Others say it is very good for Barren Women taken inwardly and outwardly mixed with a Plaister for the Womb. It is very dear and good for Ladies Trochisci Alchelengi Troches of Winter Cherries They are a good Medicine to allay the heat of Urine and give ease in Ulcers of the Reins Bladder and passage of the Urine and is good against the Stone The Dose is from half a drachm to two drachms Trochisci Bechici Albi Nigri Pectoral Rouls white and black They are very good for a Cough and Hoarsness The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Berberis Troches of Barberies They are very good in any Flux cooling in Feavers and allay unnatural heat in any part The Dose is from half a drachm to two Trochisci de Camphora Troches of Camphire They are good in Burning Feavers against the heat of Bloud and Choller and against the hot distemper of the Stomach and Liver or any other part against the Jaundice Hectick Feavers c. The best way is to take a little often Trochisci de Capparibus Troches of Capers They are very profitable against schirrhous Tumors in the Spleen and openeth Obstructions of the Liver and are good against the Hypochondriack Melancholy The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Carabe Or Troches of Amber They are good to stop fluxes of bloud in any part of body The Dose is from one scruple to four Trochisci Cypheos It is used in Treacle and Methridate It is good against Ulcers in the Lungs and other parts of the body Trochisci de Eupaterio Troches of Maudlin These Troches are good against the Jaundice and the Dropsie and is good in any Tumor in the Liver or Splean Trochisci Galliae Moschatae They strengthen the Womb the Brain Heart Animal and Vital Spirit Trochisci Gordonii They are good against any inward Ulcers or Ulcers of the Yard and to cool the body in Feavers Take half a drachm with Syrup of Marshmallows Trochisci Hedichroi They strengthen the Heart and Brain they are of a heating quality therefore good for such as have cold Stomachs they are seldome used alone Trochisci Hysterici Troches against the Mother They serve principally against Fits of the Mother expels the Birth and After-Birth cleanseth a Woman after her Labour The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Ligni Aloes Troches of Wood of Aloes It chears the Heart and Vital Spirits it is good against Heart-qualms and Faintings and against the Dropsie and is a pretty Medicine for a Stinking-breath The Dose is half a drachm Trochisci è Myrrha Troches of Myrrh They powerfully provoke the dead Child after Birth and Womens Monethly Purgations The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Trochisci de Plumbo Troches of Lead It is good to cure Ulcers in the Eyes Trochisci Polyidae It is good in green Wounds and Ulcers Trochiscide Rhabarbare Troches of Rhubarb They have a cutting attenuating strengthening and Choller-purging quality by Urine and otherwise they are
Ounce Liquorish two Drachms Camomill and Saxifrage of each one Pugill Winter Cherryes twenty Red Cicers four Ounces Raisons of the Sun two Ounces the four great cold Seeds a Drachm and an half French Barly four Ounces boil them gently in the distilled Water of Saxifrage Cammock and Parsly of each half a Pint when it hath boiled a while add half a Pint of white Wine and let it boil till half be consumed to the straining add six Ounces of the Sirrup of Marsh-Mallows drink three or four Ounces in the Morning To the Region of the Bladder must be applyed mollifying and asswaging Fomentations If all Medicines fail and the Patient's pains unsupportable Necessity requireth the dangerous Operation of Cutting Let the Physitian prepare the Patient's body by Purging Bleeding and Diet according to the Constitution and Condition of the Patient's Body and let the Patient prepare his Soul for God CHAP. LXIV Of the Inflammation of the Reins and Bladder THis Disease is a Tumor in those parts caused by the flowing of Blood or Choller unto them The Causes of this Inflammation are natural unnatural or preternatural Natural when there is a natural haereditary Infirmity in the parts or great Heat originally which violently draw the Humours thither Causes not natural are Gluttony Drunkennesse much Venery great Passions of the mind violent Excercise Stoppage of some usual Evacuation as the Terms or Haemorrhoids all things which cause Repletion or evill Concoction and drive the Humours to the inward Bowels Things preternatural may be the Cause as a Stroak Wound or Bruise upon the Reins or Bladder constant Feavers the Matter of the Pleurisy or Empyema carried away by the Urine Heat or Stoppage of the Urine the Stone or Exulceration of the part may cause an Inflammation The Inflammation of the Reins is known by those Signes a weighty and beating Pain about the part which extendeth it self to the adjacent parts the Patient cannot help himself nor ly otherwise then upon his back If he doth sneez or move his Body the pain encreaseth he hath a Numbnesse in the Leg on the same side he maketh Water with difficulty he hath a constant sharp Feaver with Watchings Dotings and dangerous Symptomes He vomiteth Choller Phlegm and other Humours the Urine is first thin and yellow afterwards thick and red If the Bladder be inflamed the Patient is vexed with a sharp Feaver Watching Vomiting c. as aforesaid The Share becometh hard and hath vehement pain he hath almost continuall Provocation to go to Stool as in the Disease Tenasmus Prog The Inflammation of these parts do threaten continual danger of Death Convulsions Dotage Watchings cold Sweats are the Messengers of Death If the Inflammation suppurate and the Imposthume break and the Matter be evacuated by the Urine there is hopes If the Haemorrhoids bleed there is hopes that the Inflammation will cease You must begin the Cure with a mollifying and cooling Clister to the Decoction for the Clister prescribed in the Chapter of the Stone in the Reins add of Cassia and Diaprunes Lenitive of each half an Ounce Sirrup of Violets one Ounce the Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clister Then open the Liver-Vein on the same side the Inflammation is If the Bladder be inflamed open the Liver-Vein on the right Arm draw as much Blood as your Patient's Strength will bear And if you open the inferior Veins it is a good derivation Then give the Clister again and as often as need requireth but remember to give it in a small quantity least it oppresse the Tumor Use Cupping and Scarifying Frictions and Ligatures to the extream parts to draw the Humours outwards You must allay the Heat of the Blood by cooling Juleps in which use no Diuretick Simple lest it carry Humours to the part and increase the Inflammation in the declination of the Disease Diuretick Medicines may be given You may make a cooling Julep thus Take of the distilled Water of Endive Lettice Plantane and Purslane of each four Ounces Sirrup of Pomegranats two Ounces the Sirrup of Water-Lillyes and Violets of each one Ounce Oyl of Vitriol as much as sufficeth to give it a gratefull Relish mix them for four Mornings and Evenings Draughts Or you may make an Emulsion of the Seeds of Sorrel Letrice Purslane Poppy Almonds Pine-Nuts and the like The great cold Seeds are diuretick and must not be used in the beginning of the Disease for the reason before given Nor ought you at first to purge till the Declination then you may profitably purge with Medicines which are gentle as Manna Cassia Rubarb Tamarinds Diaprunes lenitive Sirrup of Roses c. Outwardly you may apply Cataplasms Liniments Unguents that are cooling repelling and if the Inflammation be in the Bladder astringing when the Defluxion is stopped use Softners and Dissolvers If the Strangury or any other dangerous Symptome appear converse with their proper Chapters If the Tumor tend to Suppuration which you may know by the encrease of the Feaver and Symptomes trembling and vomiting you must help Nature with mollifying Cataplasms the Chapters of Inflammations of other parts will advise you If the Tumor appear outwardly you must open it with a Cautery or Incision-knife If it break and the Matter fall into the Abdomen it brings sudden Death or a Hectick Feaver If the Tumor grow hard and the Feaver gone it breeds the Dropsy evill Habit or some such Disease and is incurable for the most part you must deal with it as with the Schirrhus of the Liver CHAP. LXV Of the Ulcer of the Reins and Bladder THis Disease is caused either from an Imposthume broken there from Sharpnesse of the Humours or from a Stone which doth corrode them This Disease is known by the voiding of much Matter with the Urine To know whether the Reins or the Bladder be diseased take a few Rules If the Ulcer be in the Reins the pain is there the Matter is more concocted more in quantity and more mixed with the Urine making it appear like Milk which standing settleth to the bottom sometimes much Blood is voided and pieces of Flesh which sometimes stops the Passage When the Ulcer is in the Bladder contrary Signes appear the pain is neer the Privityes the Matter is lesse in Quantity and not well concoct but of divers Colours and stinketh sometimes Matter is voided without Urine If the Ulcer be old callous and hard snotty Phlegm is voided such as is voided if there be a Stone in the Bladder for the most part little Skins like Scales or Bran are voided As all inward Vlcers are dangerous so are these much more because the continuall Flux of Humours with the Vrine to the part doth nourish the Vlcer The Violence of the pain causeth Watchings and a Consumption of the whole Body If the Vicer be taken in time and the Patient yong it may be cured else not The Cure must be performed by evacuating the peccant Humours by cleansing drying and healing the