or three Days then press it out very hard and add the same quantity of Sarsaparilla as before do this for eight or ten times the ostner the better add to the Spirit of the best Gum of Guiacum in fine Pouder half a Pound the Balsam of Peru and Tolu of each two Cunces mix them all together in a Glass Resort lute a Receiver to it and digest it for ten days then draw off all the Spirit with a gentle heat in Balneo Mariae when it is cold break the Retort and take out the Pouder and keep it for use It is an efficacious Medicine against the Rheumatism Gout Venereal Pox and all Chronical Diseases The Dose is half a Dram in a Spoonful of Whey or Milk or any other Vehicle every Morning fasting or mix it with an equal quantity of factitious Cinnaber in fine Pouder and give it every Morning and Evening for some time Electuarium Antiscorbuticum nostrum Our Electuary against the Scurvy c. Take of the Berries of Bays Ivy and Juniper of each four Ounces the Seeds of Dwarf-Elder Burdock Ash Broom Peony Gromwel the Bark of Elder of each two Ounces Let them be all bruised and boiled in the Juices of Elder-Berries and wild Cucumbers of each one Pound the Juice of Buckthorn-Berries four Pound 'till half of it be boiled away then press it out very hard and boil it to the Consistence of a Pulp to every Pound of it add an equal quantity of white Sugar and boil it again 'till it be almost as thick as an Electuary then dissolve in it whilst it is very hot the same weight of pure Nitre as there is of Sugar To every Pound of the Electuary add four Ounces of Balm of Gilead two Ounces of our Balsamick Pouder before mention'd one Ounce of factitious Cinnaber in fine Pouder and two Drams of Oyl of Juniper mix all together according to Art It is an excellent Cathartick in all Diseases which requires Purging for it potently evacuates all vitious Humours promiscuously out of the Body it cureth the King's-Evil Rheumatism Gout Dropsie Scurvy dry Belly-ach and all curable Diseases The Dose is from two Drams to an Ounce It may be given in the form of a Bolus or dissolved in Ale Whey or any other liquid Vehicle and taken in the Morning fasting Sal Chalybis noster Our Salt of Steel or Iron Take the finest Filings of Iron or Steel rectified Oyl of Vitriol of each one Pound mix them together in a large Earthen-Pan well glazed let it stand for two or three Hours then pour into it two or three Quarts of fair Water and it will presently effervesce and the Salt will stick about the Pan take it out and keep it for use Tinctura Chalybis The Tincture of Iron or Steel Take the finest Filings of Iron or Steel four Ounces rectified Spirit of Nitre half a Pound mix them together in an Earthen-Pan well glazed when the Effervescency is over let it cool and add to it Spirit of Wine rectified five Pound mix it well together then filter it through brown Paper and keep it for use Both of these Medicines are great Aperitives opens all Obstructions cures the Rickets Green-sickness Stoppage of the Terms Yellow-Jaundice c. they strengthen the Stomach kills Worms and purifies the whole Mass of Blood You may give from half a Scruple to half a Dram of the Salt in any Vehicle every Morning The Tincture may be taken from ten to forty Drops at a time in Beer Ale or Wine Aqua Styptica nostra Our Stiptick Water Take of pure white Vitriol Roch-Alum of each four Ounces let them be poudred and calcined in a Crucible 'till it be red-hot then quench it with wine-Wine-Vinegar and calcine it again Take it out of the Crucible and dissolve it in a Gallon of spring-Spring-water add to it two Ounces of Saccharum Saturni then strain it and keep it for use It cures the Itch and all other Eruptions the grieved Parts being wash'd with it three or four times in a day It likewise cureth hollow Ulcers and Fistula's the Gonorrhaea in Men and the Whites in Women You may inject it with a Syringe warm twice in a day AN INDEX OF THE CHAPTERS Comprehending all the Diseases of this BOOK The Contents of the First Book Chap. Page I. OF the Head-ach 1 II. Of the Palsie and Apoplexy 13 III. Of Convulsions and the Epilepsie 22 IV. Of the Night-mare and Vertigo 35 V. Of the Lethargy Coma Carus and Catalepsie or Catochus 38 VI. Of the Phrensie and Madness 44 VII Of Catarrhs 55 The Contents of the Second Book Chap. Page I. OF Shortness of Breathing 69 II. Of the Pleurisie and other Instammations 72 III. Of the Consumption or Phtisick and Hectick-Fever 83 IV. Of the Palpitation of the Heart 92 V. Of an universal Languishing as also of Swouning and Syncope 96 VI. Of Fevers in General 103 VII Of Intermitting Fevers 116 VIII Of Malignant Fevers and the Calenture 124 IX Of the Plague or Pestilence 129 X. Of the Small-pox and Measles 136 The Contents of the Third Book Chap. Page I. OF the thirsty Disease 141 II. Of Hunger vitiated or of a depraved Appetite 144 III. Of want of Appetite or loathing of Victuals 148 IV. Of the Hiccet or Hiccough 152 V. Of Belching 156 VI. Of Vomiting and of the Cholerick and Iliack Passion 158 VII Of Pain in the Stomach and of various Pains of the Guts as Colick c. 168 VIII Of Worms 179 IX Of Loosenesses or Fluxes of the Belly 185 X. Of the dry Belly-ach 196 XI Of the Yellow-Iaundice 202 XII Of a Cachexy or ill Habit of Body 207 XIII Of Dropsies 211 XIV Of the Scurvy and Hypochondriack Suffocation commonly called Fits of the Mother 222 XV. Of the Green-sickness and Suppression of the Courses 231 XVI Of the immoderate menstrual Flux and the Whites in Women 237 XVII Of the Falling down of the Womb and Fundament 242 XVIII Of Barrenness 245 XIX Of Abortion or Miscarriage 249 XX. Of hard Travel in Child-birth 252 XXI Of Nephritick Pains and of the Stone in the Reins and Bladder 257 XXII Of extraordinary Pissing 269 XXIII Of involuntary Pissing commonly called Pissing in Bed 272 XXIV Of the Stoppage of Urine and the Strangury 274 XXV Of the scalding or sharpness of Urine 277 XXVI Of Venereal Affects 279 XXVII Of the Rachites or Rickets 288 XXVIII Of the Gout and Rheumatism 303 Praxis Medicinae Reformata OR THE Practice of Physick REFORMED BEING AN Epitome of the whole Art Wherein is briefly shewed The true Causes Signs Prognosticks and Cure of most Diseases BOOK I. CHAP. I. Of the Head-ach THE Head-ach may be divided into three Kinds The first is the momentany Head-ach it Cephalalgia is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caput and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dolor The second is an inveterate Head-ach and is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod
Cause of all continual Fevers not putrid If the Stomach by Dietetick Errors as in Eating or Drinking too much sour Fruit or Juices be over-charg'd with Acids it may prove hostile injurious and a morbisick Cause of that which we call the Heart-burning c. with sour Belchings and sometimes a Nauseousness even to Vomiting In this Case after the Operation of a gentle Emetick you may administer half a Dram of the Pouder of Pearl Crabs-Eyes or any of the Testaceous Pouders twice or thrice in a Day to absorb the peccant Acidity Chalybeates may be also safely administred Likewise in all Chronical Diseases caused by the over-sourness of the Juice of the Pancreas c. as aforesaid after general Evacuations the finest Filings of Iron turn'd to Rust may be given to half a Dram at a time in a stued Prune or any other Vehicle twice in a Day because the Stomach by its incisive Acidity together with other accidental or concomitant Acids doth penetrate the Particles of the Iron and rarifie its Vitriolick Salt which will not only help Digestion but kill Worms and circulates with the Blood and Lympha and will in time purifie the whole Mass of it But if Choler be peccant as aforesaid causing Fevers and other Acute Diseases then after Evacuation by Vomiting or Purging I commend acid Liquors and Juices as Lemons c. Also purified Niter may be given in all Fevers But here we may note That it is the Nature of all Acids to coagulate and thicken the Blood and its Serum wherefore we must be cautious that we do not let Blood nor give too many Acids in the Small-Pox and malignant Fevers because in these Distempers the Blood is preternaturally viscid and therefore it abounds with too much Acidity of which you may read more at large in the ensuing Treatise I come now to mention some choice Specificks for the Cure of Diseases for the Sake and Benefit of the Poor who have not Money to pay a Doctor for his long Receipts nor the Apothecary for Medicines SAlt Niter purified is an efficacious Medicine in the Cure of most Diseases it may be poudred with an equal Quantity of white Sugar and given to half a Dram at a time every six Hours in all Fevers the whole time of Sickness and also before and after because it is an acid Salt and contains in it a volatile incorruptible Sulphur and by reason of its Acidity it refrigerates the inflamed Blood and powerfully checks the preternatural Fermentation of it and preserves its natural Consistency For by the subtilty of its Spirit it insinuates it self into the whole Mass of Bloud and penetrates into all Parts and so strengthens and recreates the Heart as to make it resist and overcome all Putrefaction and therefore it is a great Antidote against the Plague and all contagious Fevers If it be dissolved in any liquid Vehicle and drank a little often it will dilute the Lixivial Salt of Choler and being mixed with proper Catharticks and Balsamick Medicines it will conduce much to the Cure of most Chronical Distempers also for it discusseth Wind opens all Obstructions and causes the vitious Humours to precipitate and to be evacuated both by Urine and Stool Quicksilver boil'd in Water with a few Raisons of the Sun to sweeteen it and the Liquor drank freely killeth Worms The Quicksilver may be boiled a thousand times and always have the same weight so that the Water partakes of Mercurial Irradiation by which it becomes destructive to Worms A strong Decoction of Ground-Ivy or Alehoof sweetned with Sugar-Candy and a quarter of a Pint of it taken twice or thrice in a Day helps Distempers of the Breast and Lungs and a strong Infusion of it in Aqua Vitae or Brandy cureth the Colick The Decoction of Herb Robert and Patronichia or Whitlow-Grass with Leaves like Rue given inwardly every Day 'till the Mass of Blood and Juices of the Body be impregnated with the Vertues of the Herbs cureth the King's-Evil The Juice of Penny-royal clarified and a little sweetned with Sugar-Candy and given the quantity of a Spoonful three or Four times in a Day cureth all sorts of Coughs Cows and Goats-milk boiled in an equal quantity of Water wherein unslak'd Lime hath been quenched and a little Cinamon and the young Bark of the Oak bruised and boiled in it 'till a third part be consumed cureth all kinds of Fluxes Glauber's Sal Mirabile is an excellent Lenitive Cathartick It may be safely given to Men Women or Children in all Diseases where purging is necessary The Dose is from half a Dram to an Ounce dissolved in warm Whey or Milk and Water A few Drops of rectified Oyl of Vitriol mixed with a quarter of a Pint of fair Water to a light Acidity a little sweetned with white Sugar and drank every Day for some time killeth Worms and quencheth Thirst in Fevers If you mix an Ounce of rectified Oyl of Vitriol with two Ounces of Oyl of Ben or pure Oyl of Olives stirring it 'till it be well incorporated you have a good Balsam to ease Pain and cure an Inflammation in any part by anointing once in a Day or two you may apply a Colwort-leaf or a Plaister of Diachilon or a Poultis of White-Bread and Milk with a little Butter in it to the grieved part after anointing but you must have a care that it does not touch your Linnen A strong Tincture of Catechu or Japonian Earth with half its weight of Jesuits Bark both in fine Pouder in small Cinamon-Water cureth Catarrhs and all sorts of Fluxes Take a quarter of a Spoonful thrice a Day in any Vehicle Sweating is good in most Diseases if Strength permits Virginia Snake-Root and the Root of Contra Yerva bruised and boiled in fair Water and sweetned with a little Sugar and given a quarter of a Pint every four Hours to any that are bitten with an enraged Viper soon cureth the Patient especially if you bathe the part bitten with the same Decoction without Sugar so hot as can be endured Gambogia finely poudred and mixed with an equal quantity of pure Niter and given to half a Dram at a time twice or thrice in a Week soon cureth the Yellow-Jaundice and Dropsies The best Gum Arabick given at least a Dram twice or thrice in a Day either in Pouder or dissolved in small Ale or any other convenient Vehicle doth wonderfully mitigate the Sharpness of Urine A strong Decoction of woody Nightshade a little sweetned with Sugar and given to a quarter of a Pint every Morning will purge gently and open all Obstructions and cure the Yellow-Jaundice Dropsies c. The Decoction of Hearts-Ease sweetned with Sugar-Candy cureth the Pleurisie and other Inflammations It is an excellent Antivenerian c. and therefore it may be a chief Ingredient in Decoctions to cure the French-Pox A Decoction of Groundsel is an universal Medicine for all Diseases coming of Heat It purgeth gently and if the Stomach be
tegit Calvarium The third is a Pain on one Part of the Head before behind or on one side this is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hemicrania cranium and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dimidium There is little difference between Cephalaea and Cephalalgia only per Cephalaeam affectae partes multo redduntur quam in Cephalalgia debiliores These Distempers are caused by Halituous Vapours and Humours fuming up from the Stomach and other Parts to the Head 1. If the Pain be external so that the Signs combing of the Head be troublesome then the Pericranium is affected But if the Pain be internal reaching to the Eye-roots then the Dura mater is invaded with the peccant Humours 2. If there be pricking distending Pain with great Pulsation it is from sharp bilious Humours or Halitus but if the Pain be heavy it is caused from viscous Phlegm or Melancholy 1. If a violent Head-ach come suddenly Progn on a healthy Person and the Party become dumb and snort 't is a mortal sign unless a great Fever do immediately happen 2. If corrupt waterish Matter or Bloud do issue out of the Nostrils Mouth Ears or Eyes especially on the fourth Day the sick will suddenly recover but if the Pain be very violent and do suddenly vanish without a Crisis 't is doubtfull 3. If the Pain be without a Fever accompanied with noise in the ears deafness or megrim with numbness of the extreme parts an Apoplexy or Epilepsy is at hand 4. Those that have Cholerick stomachs are most subject to a Hemicrania and if it continue long it causeth weakness of the Eyes and sometimes blindness If the Head-ach proceed from Phlegmatick Cure Viscous humours abounding first give this Clyster Take of Vervain Betony Mallows Mercury Clyster of each one handfull Let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in a Quart of Posset-drink 'till half of it be boiled away then strain it and dissolve in it one ounce of the Electuary Caryocostinum Oil of Chamomel two ounces mix it for a Clyster Sour things and all that have a Lixivial salt either fixt or volatile and all Aromaticks do correct and amend the viscous Phlegmatick humours Let these forms serve for example Take the Waters of Baum and Mint of Iulep each three ounces Cinamon-water and aqua Coelestis of each half an ounce Syrup of Fennel and Mint of each six drachms Spirit of Salt as much as will make it of a gratefull taste mix it and give three spoonfulls of it often Take salt of Tartar vitriolated half a drachm Cream of Tartar one drachm Powder white Sugar-candy two drachms make it into a fine Powder for four Doses which may be taken every morning and evening in white or Rhenish wine For the Rich you may prepare a medicinal Wine This may serve for example Take the Roots of Elicampane Calamus aromaticus of each one ounce of Rue Sage A medicinal Wine Vervain sweet Marjoram of each three handfulls Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed of each an ounce and half Orange-peel half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and infused in two quarts of White-wine It may be given to three or four ounces in the morning fasting with twenty drops of Elixir proprietatis you may also give it by it self at dinner and supper When the Wine is used fresh Wine may be put to the Ingredients for a second infusion But farther to correct and gently evacuate the viscous Phlegmatick humours This opening Apozeme is effectual Take of the five opening Roots of each two ounces Liquorish an ounce and half Apozeme Guiacum half a Pound Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed the Berries of Bays and Juniper of each half an ounce Vervain Betony of each one handfull let them be cleansed bruised and infused in two quarts of Rain-water very hot for twenty four hours then strain it out very strongly and add the best Manna Syrup of Roses solutive with Senna of each four ounces tincture of Cinamon three ounces salt of Tartar vitriolated half an ounce mix it and give three ounces every morning fasting If there be need of stronger Physick you Purging Pills may administer these purging Pills Take of Extract Rudii pil foetidoe Cochioe of each half a drachm Mercurius dulcis twenty grains mix it for three Doses If the pain be old and stubborn apply Vesiccatories to the Neck also Leeches to the Temples and Haemorrhoids or open the jugular or frontal Vein which hath often prov'd effectual Errhines Sternutatories and Apophlegmatisms may also be used and Ventoses with Scarification if need require Baths of Sulphur whether natural or artificial with Cephalick Herbs are good to bathe the Head and whole Body Some approve of the fume of Amber taken into the Mouth and Nostrils Also spirit of cranium humanum or spirit of salt Armoniack held to the Nose in a narrow-mouth'd Vial giveth present ease in all cold Pains of the Head Also you may touch the Nostrils and Temples with Oil of Amber or Nutmegs or apply this Epitheme to the Temples and Forehead with Linnen-rags Take the Waters of Vervain and Betony of each one ounce Vineger of Roses Ointment Epitheme of Alabaster of each half an ounce Laudanum opiatum one scruple mix it Cold distempers of the head may also be corrected by hot Cephalicks quilted in a Cap for the Head Take of sweet Marjoram Stoechas Vervain For a'quilted Cap. Betony Sage Flowers of Chamomel of each one handfull Nutmegs Cloves Wood of Alloes the Roots of Galangal Cyperus Calamus aromat of each half an ounce let them be all beaten into Powder for a quilted Cap. Before you put it on let the Hair be shaved close and the Head gently rub'd for some time the better to open the pores Let the Sick abstain from fat and viscous Food and let the mind be compos'd to chearfulness If the Juice of the Pancreas abounding in the Body be over sour it causeth a vitious Effervescency being oppos'd by Choler and Phlegm in the small guts from whence sour and ungratefull vapours may be sent to the Stomach and thence to the Head If the humours be over sour the sense of Signs hunger will be encreased notwithstanding the Pain of the Head This distemper is to be cur'd by giving Cure those things which temper and amend the acid Juice in the Body and do prevent its encrease Those things abounding with either a lixivial or volatile salt do powerfully destroy this acid Juice as Pearl Crabs-eyes Coral Chalk Amber Bloud-stone Filings of steel c. Take this as a form of a Powder Take of Crabs-eyes Pearl red Coral prepar'd Powder of each half a drachm white Sugar half an ounce let it be made into fine Powder for six Doses which may be taken morning and evening in two or three spoonfulls of the following Cordial Julep Take Waters of Baum and Mint of each Cordial Iulep three ounces
Scurvigrass-water two ounces Cinamon-water Syrup of Worm-wood of each one ounce and half Oil of Juniper one drachm mix them together for a Julep of which you may also give two or three spoonfulls every fourth hour I prescribe no Purgers in this Distemper because I am taught by large Experience that the sour Humours in the Body may be stirr'd up indeed but not purg'd unless with very great gripes which will doe more hurt â—â—an good The encreâ—â—e of the acid Juice may be prâ—â—â—nted by abstaining from the use of acâ—â—â— Let the Patient's diet be moist and fatty as fat Broths Jellies aromatiz'd c. When the Head-ach proceedeth from a hot cause if the Patient be costive first give this Clyster Take of Mercury Violets Lettice Mallows Dandelion of each one handfull Damask Clyster Prunes twenty let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two pints of Fountain-water till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Electuary lenitive one ounce and half Oil of Lillies two ounces mix them for a Clyster After its operation you may open a Vein and draw eight or nine ounces of bloud Some Authours will not consent to Phlebotomy in any Head-ach except the Pain be intollerable but I have had sufficient Experience that it may be done safely in any Pain of the Head Elixir proprietatis taken in Wormwood-wine to the quantity of half a drachm at a time a little before meat doth wonderfully conduce to amend the vitious quality of Choler Choler may be evacuated by vomit most commodiously by Antimonial preparations Take of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum one ounce Oximel of Squills half an ounce Give it in the morning Vomit But if the Patient be averse to vomiting the Choler may be evacuated by stool by this or the like Cathartick Take of Baum-water one ounce Cinamon-water two drachms Syrup of Roses solutive Purging Potion the best Manna of each half an ounce Powder of Cream of Tartar twenty grains Diagredium ten grains mix it for a Potion which may be given in the morning fasting Also these most gratefull Tablets of Scammony may be prepared and kept for use Take Cristals of Tartar two ounces Scammony one ounce white Sugar four Troches ounces with Gum Dragon dissolv'd in Rose-water as much as is sufficient let it be made into Troches according to Art Half a drachm of these Troches may be given to a Child with carefull governing a Man or Woman may take two drachms of them They who are fearfull of Scammoniats though safe and potent let them take the following infusion Take of choice Rhubarb two drachms Cream of Tartar one drachm infuse them Purging Infusion in four ounces of Endive-water for a night then strain it and add Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of Cicory with Rhubarb of each half an ounce Cinamon-water two drachms give it in the morning fasting This Electuary is also an excellent Cholagogue Take the Pulp of Damask-prunes ten ounces Powder of Scammony Cream of Tartar Electuary of each two ounces Rhubarb ten drachms Cinamon half an ounce yellow Sanders two drachms the best Manna Syrup of Cicory with Rhubarb of each eight ounces mix all together into an Electuary according to Art The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce taken either in a Bolus or dissolved in a sufficient quantity of Endive-water or any other convenient vehicle These excellent Medicines do not onely purge Choler abounding but purify the Bloud and other Humours and here we may note that if a purging Medicine do not operate according to Expectation it may safely Observation be repeated the same day without any danger If the Head-ach be accompanied with a great Fever and Thirst be augmented the following Medicines will much conduce to asswage it Take of Barley-water two pints Cinamon-water two ounces Syrup of Violets four Iulep ounces salt Prunella half an ounce mix it and give the sick three or four spoonfulls of it often This Tincture is also very effectual Take of Barley-water two pints Red-rose-buds Tincture one ounce spirit of Vitriol twenty drops or as much as is sufficient to make it of a good Tincture let it infuse all Night then strain it and add Syrup of Jujubes four ounces mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every three hours If an Emulsion may please better take this following form Take of sweet Almonds one ounce the Emulsion four greater Cold-seeds of each half an ounce white Poppy-seeds two ounces let the Almonds be blanched and all well beaten in a stone Mortar then with four pints of Barley-water make an Emulsion strain it and add Syrup of the Juice of Limmons Diacodium of each three ounces Cinamon-water two ounces of which let the sick drink often four spoonfulls at a time You may also have a little fine Sugar and salt Prunella equally mixt which may be kept in the Mouth to deceive the Thirst. But where rest is hindred by the Choler abounding and cannot be obtain'd by the Emulsion which gently procureth sleep you may dissolve two grains of Laudanum opiat in two or three spoonfulls of it and give it at night or you may order this or the like Julep Take the Waters of Lettice Water-lillies of each two ounces Syrup of red Poppies Iulep one ounce Cinamon-water half an ounce Laudanum opiatum four grains Oil of Vitriol six drops mix it and give four spoonfulls of it to cause sleep This Epitheme may be applied to the Temples and Fore-head with Linnen-rags Take the Oils of Violets and Water-lillies of each half an ounce the waters of red Roses Epitheme Lettice and Houseleek of each two ounces Vineger of Roses half an ounce mix it You may also anoint the Temples and Fore-head with this Ointment Take the Ointment of Alabaster Populion Ointment Oil of Mandrakes of each half an ounce mix it Let the Patient's diet be Mutton or Veal-broth without salt When a salt Catarrh or the like spittle is the cause of Thirst augmented you may administer a Pill of Styrax or Cynoglosson which will temperate the saltness of the humours and if salt serous matter abound in the Bloud you may purge it by Stool and Urine for which there are variety of Medicines prescrib'd in the Chapter of Catarrhs CHAP. II. Of the Palsie and Apoplexy THE Palsie is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. a solvendo eo quod nervorum genus resolutum facultate animi Paralysis defluere prohibita sensu motuque destituatur It may be also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. dimidia Apoplexia In Latin it is called nervorum resolutio vel relaxatio It is a Privation of sense and motion of one side of the Body or of some particular part The Apoplexy is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoplexia ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 percutior attonitum reddo In Latin 't
ounce to people of age a Child may take from half a drachm to a drachm either by it self or dissolv'd in Whey or parsley-Parsley-water or in any other convenient Vehicle After universal evacuation hath been made and the Patient's stomach be still nauseous this vomit may safely be given Take the Infusion of Crocus metallor Vinegar Vomit of Squills of each one ounce give it in the morning with Care After the operation of it give some of this Cordial Julep Take the Waters of Sage Couslips Lillies Cordial Iulep of the Valley of each two ounces Cinamon-water one ounce Syrup of Peony-flowers Stoechas of each six drachms Spirit of Castor two drachms Spirit of Salt as much as will make it of a gratefull taste of which you may give the sick three or four spoonfulls every fourth hour To correct a slow ferment and also to amend Phlegmatick viscous humours a Medicinal Wine may be prepared for the rich in this form Take the Roots of Galangal Elecampane Medicinal Wine of each half an ounce the tops of Wormwood Mint and Calamint of each one handfull Powder of Cinamon Anise-seed of each half an ounce Nutmegs two drachms let them be cleansed bruised and insused in six pints of White-wine The sick may drink of this Physick-wine at dinner and supper adding to every draught five or six drops of Elixir proprietatis When the wine is almost consum'd more may be poured on till it cease to be Aromatical External means for the Palsie and Apoplexy are also to be used Bathing is much commended both natural and artificial and how excellent it is daily experience doth manifest This artificial Bath or one like it may be prescrib'd where a natural sulphureous or nitrous Bath cannot be had Take Sage Penny-royal Betony Organ Bath sweet Marjoram Hyssop Rue Time Ground-pine of each six handfulls Flowers of Chamomel Melilot of each four handfulls Roots of Briony Pellitory of Spain of each four ounces Bay-berries Juniper-berries of each three ounces Brimstone six pound Salt-niter two pound let all be bruised and boiled in twenty Gallons of Spring-water till the third part be consumed Let the sick be well bathed with this as often as strength will permit After bathing anoint the hinder part of the Head and Neck and down the Vertebra of the Back with this Oil upon which let a Fox-skin drest be worn Take Chymical-oils of Juniper-berries Oil. Turpentine Spike of each half an ounce Oils of Chamomel Earth-worms Rue Foxes of each one ounce Spirit of Castor two drachms mix it This plaister may be applyed to the Head Take Galbanum Opopanax of each half an ounce Mustard-seed white Pepper Euphorbium Plaister Castor of each two drachms Chymical Oil of Sage and Rue of each twenty drops Oil of Spike and Turpentine of each a drachm make it into a Plaister which you may spread on leather and apply it warm to the Head Or you may make the quilted Cap as is prescrib'd in page 6. to wear constantly Oil of Nutmegs is good to embrocate the Ears and Nostrils also Errhines Sternutatories and Apophlegmatisms may be used with good success Take Castor sweet Marjoram Betony Sneezing Powder Root of white Hellebor of each a drachm beat them all into a fine Powder Blow up some of this Powder with a quill into the Nostrils to cause sneezing Let the Patient's diet be such as may not breed Phlegm and let it be thin and spare as Water-gruel in which boil some Mace or you may make Broth of Mutton c. in which boil Sage Rosemary Time sweet Marjoram Couslips c. Of this broth you may make Panado's with the Crums of white Bread and the Yelk of an Egg. Let Anise-seed or sweet Fennel-seed be baked with the bread Abstain from all clammy Diet as Fish and Milk c. and eat little or no supper CHAP. III. Of Convulsions and the Epilepsie THE Cramp or Convulsion is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Convulsio Spasmus It is a very painfull involuntary Contraction of the Nerves and Muscles towards their Original There are generally two sorts of Convulsions viz. A true Convulsion and a Convulsive motion A true Convulsion is either universal or particular Of the universal there are three Kinds The first is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin tentio ad anteriora when the Body and Head is drawn forward The second is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin tentio ad posteriora when the Head and Body is drawn backward The third is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek and distentio in Latin in this the whole Body is inflexible The particular convulsions are various If it be in the Eye it is called strabismus That of the Mouth is call tortura oris c. The Falling-sickness or Epilepsie is called Epilepsia in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 invado quod sensum atque mentem pariter apprehendat It is called also in Latin Epilepsia vel invasio item morbus hominem ita invadens ut retineat sistat sensuum actiones because the mind and senses in this disease are suddenly surprized It may be called morbus caducus a cadendo or morbus puerilis because it is most subject to Children or more properly noverca puerorum quod eos male tractat It is also called Herculeus Elephantiasis a magnitudine because it is difficult to cure Some call it morbus lunaticus because the sick are most subject to the fits at the change of the moon but enough of the Names The Epilepsie is an universal Cramp or Convulsion of the whole Body with deprivation of sense and motion in the time of the fit The parts affected are not onely the Brain Cerebellum and Spinalis medulla but all the Partes affecte Nerves and Museles The causes are either external or internal Causes The external may be by the biting of some venemous Creature or by a wound or puncture of a Nerve or Tendon Sometimes it may be caused by surfeiting or drunkenness and also by the taking of Hellebor c. It may be also caused by a mineral Gas fuming from the Mines of Lead or Antimony c. which infecteth the Air with noxious metalline exhalations of a venemous malignity which is many times the cause of Convulsions as they can tell by experience that live near those Mines The internal causes are acrimonious and flatuous Vapours rising from the small guts because of over viscous Phlegm and the over acidity and tartness of the Juice of the Pancreas which causeth a vitious effervescency of the humours by which the Lympha is also rendred very sharp These sour flatuous Vapours continually ascending to the Head together with the spirituous substance of the Bloud and going forward into the Ventricles of the Brain and Cerebellum and so to the first spreading of the Nerves and corroding them causeth an inordinate
mortal so likewise is it very pernicious if it turn either to the Lethargy or Convulsion In the Mania or Madness if the stomach or appetite decay and the sick be very fearfull and hath continued long it is most difficult to cure but if the party be merrily conceited it is not so dangerous 3. If the swelling of the Veins in the Legs called Varices or the Haemorrhoids or Menses or any other flux of bloud should happen to them that are mad or frantick there may be hopes of recovery And that we may pass on to the cure of Cure these lamentable diseases let the following Golden precept be speedily observ'd Principiis obsta sero medicina paratur Cum mala per longas invaluere moras For unless speedy help be procur'd for the Phrensie it killeth the party in a short time and likewise Mania or Madness becomes oft by degrees so stubborn and rebellious that it can be cur'd onely late or never Ttherefore the friends of the sick are to be admonish'd to consult with the honest Physician so soon as the signs begin to be manifest for when it hath taken deep root it is hard to be eradicated or overcome unless by an Herculean labour First therefore let a Clyster be administered Take of Mallows Marsh-mallows Violets Clyster Lettice Beets Pellitory of the wall Mercury Centaury Water-lillies of each one handfull Damask Prunes twenty Boil them in a quart of Barley-water till half be consumed then strain it and add Electuary Lenitive Syrup of Violets Roses Solutive of each one ounce Oil of Violets two ounces Common Salt one drachm Mix it for a Clyster After the Operation of it you may open a Vein in the Arm. But if Menses or the Haemorrhoids be suppressed then open the Saphena in either Foot and let the orifice be made pretty large because thereby sharp and fatty vapours may more plenteously be effus'd together with the bloud whereby the troublesome heat will be the better temper'd and not a little diminisht Neither will it suffice to let bloud once but this evacuation is oft to be iterated till by the diminisht feverish heat it appears that the cause is remov'd or overcome But let Phlebotomy be warily done where choler abounds because sanguis est fraenum Bilis wherefore I advise the young Practitioner to take away but little bloud at a time which may be done so often as need requires either by an instrument or leeches to the Haemorrhoids Ventoses with scarification may be applied to the shoulders also Vesiccatories to the armes thighs inter scapulas in extremis morbis extrema sunt adhibenda remedia Choler over plenteous in the body may be safely diminisht by a mild chologogue for example Take of Dandelion Succory Sorrel of Iulep each two handfulls Tamarind-fruit two ounces Boil them in a quart of Barley-water till half be consumed Strain it and add the waters of Cinamon and Fennel of each one ounce The best Manna Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb of each three ounces Spirit of Niter twenty drops Let the sick take oft a draught of this Julep till the body be made soluble but if there be a strong constitution of body I refer you to those excellent Medicines prescribed in page 8. 9. of this book which evacuates choler more powerfully by stool But where the Stomach is full and nauseous let a vomit be administred without delay and here I prefer Antimonials before all o-thers both because they do most happily empty any humours promiscuously and because they are most friendly to humane nature bringing all the humours by degrees after a peculiar manner to a most laudable state And because in this distemper the sick is always attended with a greivous and furious raging let those things be given which will not onely promote sleep but powerfully temper the sharp cholerick humours To this end I commend any fixt Mineral Sulphur of Vitriol or Antimony which will temper the Acrimony of choler and free the bloud from such matter perhaps before all others But where these choice Medicines are not to be had Opium well prepared will conduce beyond any commonly known Medicine which may be used both Internally and Externally This Cordial Opiat is of great virtue Take the Waters of Sorrel Lettice Penny-royal Opiat Fennel of each two ounces Cinamon water Syrups of red and white Poppies of each one ounce Laudanum ten grains Tartar vitriolated half a drachm Oil of Vitriol ten drops mixit and give two spoonfulls of it often whereby the body may the sooner be reduc'd to sleep and the mind to tranquillity The following Epitheme and Linament may be used outwardly to give ease and promote sleep Take the Waters of Betony red Roses of Epitheme each two ounces Vinegars of Roses and Marygolds of each half an ounce Opium twenty grains Mix it Let Linen cloaths be dipt in it being warm and applied to the Forehead and region of the Temples and as often as the cloaths are dry moisten them with the same till pain be diminisht and sleep follow Take Populion half an ounce Opium dissolv'd Linament in Oil of Poppies half a drachm mix it for a Linament wherewith anoint each region of the Temples and spread some of it on brown Paper and apply it Let the diet be very thin and cooling Avoid hot spices Wine and other strong Liqours Dieta and let the common drink be Barley-water with Syrup of Limmons Pigeons cut asunder and applied to the Soles of the Feet do many times avail by drawing down hot Vapours and Fumes from the Head By this you may know how to cure not onely Phrensies but all ravings and watchings which are ingendred by Fevers for it will not be very hard from what is aforesaid to frame or join such helps as may conduce to the same In mania or madness when Phlegm is over viscous and the Juice of the Pancreas too tart and harsh exceeding and over-ruling the other humours in the Body whereby sharp halituous Vapours are continually rais'd disturbing the sick both in Body and Mind Speedy care must be taken to correct and educe the vitiated humours to amend and discuss the hurtfull flatuous Vapours and also to compose the immoderate passions of the mind Volatile Salts and Aromatick Oils do not onely correct viscous and acid Phlegm but sour and tart Vapours also for they have power to cut and dissolve that which is viscous to temper and correct that which is sour and tart and to discuss and dissipate what is vaporous and windy The following Julep whose power is singular and stupendious may be deservedly preferr'd before many others Take the Waters of Parsley Fennel Mint Iulep Penny-royal Scurvigrass of each two ounces the Waters of Treacle and Cinamon of each half an ounce Syrups of Fennel Poppies and the five opening Roots of each one ounce Laudanum opiat twenty grains Spirits of Salt Armoniack and Niter of each twenty drops Oils of
medicines to cure them for if the matter be thick and viscous it must be attenuated and cut with Aromaticks and afterward evacuated with Phlegmagogues So likewise serous and salt Catarrhs are to be temper'd with Oily things and Opiats and the plenty of humours to be diminisht with Hydragogues by which means the cure will be the sooner performed For viscous Catarrhs accompanied with a Cough I commend these following medicines Take the Waters of Hyssop Mint of each Iulep three ounces Cinamon-water Syrups of Fennel and red Poppies of each one ounce and half Laudanum opiatum six grains Spirit of Salt Armoniack twenty drops mix it of which you may give three or four spoonfulls every three hours By the frequent use of this Aromatick Julep the viscous Phlegm will not onely be attenuated but the over sharp Vapours will be discust and the other humours temper'd After the Phlegmatick humours c. are thus prepared it will be convenient to evacuate them downwards by gentle purgation with powerfull and effectual Phlegmagogues and such are all mercurials Colocynthis Hermodactils c. to be taken chiefly in the form of Pills Take Extract Rudii pil ex duobus of each one drachm Mercury dulcis half a drachm Purging Pills Oil of Cloves four drops mix them for three Doses If the sick be averse to Pills give this Potion Take of Rhubarb Agarick Hermodactils Polypodium of each two drachms Cinamon Purging Potion Cloves of each one drachm Sage Rosemary of each one handfull sweet Fennel-seed Juniper-berries of each three drachms bruise them and insuse them in Hyssop-water very hot for the space of a Night then strain it and dissolve in it Syrup of Roses solutive Electuary Diaphaenicon of each one ounce mix it for a Potion Every night give the Patient a Pill of Styrax or Hounds-tongue to stay the Rheum and to give ease and rest If the Catarrh be serous and hot accompanied with a Fever and the sick have a costive Body this Clyster will be effectual Take the common decoction for Clysters Clyster twelve ounces Diacatholicon Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each six drachms Oil of Chamomel two ounces common Salt one drachm mix it for a Clyster After the operation of it you may open a Vein in either Arm and take away eight or nine ounces of Bloud Then give this purging decoction Take Borage Lettice Purslain Endive Purging Decoction Violets of each one handfull the four greater coldeeds of each one drachm Damask-prunes ten Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed of each two drachms let them be bruised and boiled in eight ounces of the pectoral decoction till half be consum'd then strain it and dissolve in it Syrup of Roses solutive Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each half an ounce Spirit of Niter six drops mix it for a Potion You may give this Potion twice in a week which will both temper and gently evacuate the serous and acid humours and flatuous Vapours will also thereby be discust and gently educ'd To cause rest and thicken the Rheum let one of these Pills be given every Night to bed-ward Take of Laudanum three grains Powder Pills opiat of Olibanum Extract of Saffron of each four grains with a little pectoral Syrup make it into four Pills Or you may give a Pill of Styrax every Night going to bed When the Rheum flows down from the Head into the Trachoea arteria it stirs up a Coughing more or less according to the Tussis sharpness and plenty of the humours which are many ways vitiated wherefore a Cough may be diversly cur'd according to the diversity of its cause If the humours be over sour they may be corrected with Pearl Coral Crabs-eyes c. If the Rheum be too serous and salt the aforesaid pil Estyrace Cynaglos c. is excellent to temper it Becchical Troches both white and black are not onely effectual but gratefull to the sick in this coughing distemper If the humours be thick and viscous they require sourish sweet things and Aromaticks to attenuate and cut them The fore-mention'd Julep may be prescrib'd in this Case When the salt sharp and serous humours abounding are corrected and temper'd they may be diminisht by Hydragogues The Hydragogue Electuary prescrib'd in page 18 is an effectual and gratefull medicine which may be often us'd to the profit of the sick Children may take from one drachm to two and Adults to half an ounce of this excellent medicine once or twice a week As in other distempers always so let me here admonish you in general to be very diligent to attend to the medicines that most conduce to every particular Body whereby they may be prefer'd before the rest and as long as they profit continue in the use thereof that so the health of the sick may be every way promoted When much bloud is voided by coughing Sputum Sanguinis there is great danger wherefore we must hasten the more to its cure left the opportunity here if any where urgent be lost by delay for the singular substance of the Lungs is easily infected and corrupted but difficultly restor'd and repair'd wherefore bloud carried down from the Head into the Lungs and raising a Cough is to be stopt in its efflux To this end let a Vein be opened especially if a Plethora concur or there be a notable heat of Bloud or a suppression of its wonted emptying After bleeding let the over great heat be allay'd with sour and tart medicines for example take the following Decoction Take of Plantane Housleek Wood-sorrel of each two handfulls boil them in Barley-water Decoction one quart till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of Jujubes three ounces Salt prunella one drachm Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls every three hours The flux of bloud may be stopt by conglutinating medicines which have power to close the Vessels either broken by violent coughing or corroded by the sharpness of the descending Rheum Take the Waters of Comfry Plantane of each two ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water distil'd Astringent Julep Vinegar of each one ounce Syrup of Mirtles Comfry of each six drachms Powder of Dragons-bloud red Coral prepar'd of each one drachm Laudanum opiat six grains Oil of Sulphur per Campanam twenty drops mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every two hours This choice medicine often taken will cure the most ruptions of vessels and will soon stop the flux of bloud beyond expectation but I advise that a sparing use of it should be continued for some time after the disease is cur'd to sense whereby the affected parts may be strengthned against the access of a new evil The bloud distilling into the sharp Artery of the Lungs will soon corrupt and turn into purulent matter if not prevented by convenient medicines which hath power to dissolve the coagulated bloud that it may be the easier expectorated The following form may be
prefer'd Take the Waters of Hyssop Fennel of Pectoral Iulep each two ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water distill'd Vineger of each half an ounce Syrup of Hore-houud one ounce Powder of Crabs-eyes Antimony Diaphoretick of each half a drachm mix it and give two or three spoonfulls every two hours If the Lungs be ulcerated the Cure thereof will be promoted if you add two or three drops of Balsam of Sulphur with Oil of Annise-seed to every spoonfull that you give of the aforefaid medicine or in any pectoral Decoction it must be given oft in a day the better to finish the Cure In all Catarrhs if the Rheum have been long you may use a Decoction of China which will wonderfully temper the humours or you may add lign sanctum sassaphras sarsaparilla c. which will dry up the Rheum by degrees The sharp humours being temper'd and the matter of Rheum partly evacuated by Phlegmagogues and Hydragogues c. outward means that dry up Rheum are likewise to be used as Caps for the Head Perfumes Errhines Sternutatories Masticatories Apophlegmatisms c. Ventoses with Scarification may be also applied to the Neck and Shoulders and Fontinels may be made in the Neck and Arm for they have been often profitable in Catarrhs Also Vesiccatories applied to the Coronal future and inter scapulas will avail much Let the Temples and parts adjacent be anointed with Oil of Amber Oil of Nutmegs c. and let the Fume of Amber or Mastick be often drawn up into the Nostrils Also a Sternutatory such as is prescrib'd in page 21. in the Cure of the Palsie is very effectual to cause sneezing twice or thrice in a day A Cap may be also quilted for the Head of the following things with Cotton-wool and red Sarcenet Take of sweet Marjoram Betony Baum For a quilted Cap. Bazil Red-rose buds of each half a handfull the Berries of Mirtle and Juniper the Seeds of Peony and white Poppy of each one drachm Calamus aromaticus Nutmegs Cloves Frankincense Mastick Styrax calamitis Laudanum of each two drachms let them be all beaten into a gross Powder for a quilted Cap. Also this following Powder may be prepar'd to fumigate the Head and Cloaths morning and evening Take of Olibanum Styrax calamitis Amber Powder to fume the Head c. of each two drachms red Roses Coriander-seeds prepar'd Mastick Gum of Ivy Cloves Mirtle-berries white Poppy-seeds of each one drachm let them be all beaten into a gross Powder Also this Masticatory may be often used Take of Mustard-seed Roots of Pellitory Masticatory of Spain Master-wort Capers Mastick Amber of each one drachm let them be all beaten into a gross Powder and tye up some of it in a Linen-rag and chew it in the mouth every day before Dinner and Supper Or you may chew either Mastick Amber or the Root of Pellitory of Spain by it self which will draw the serous humours away by spitting Errhines may also be used they are either moist or dry the dry are made with Pepper Betony Rosemary Stavesacre c. The liquid are made with the Juices of Rosemary Ivy Beets Mercury sweet Marjoram c. And it may here be noted that when Rheum doth flow down to the Throat Lungs c. then Errhines may be used but when the humours flow to the Eyes Nose c. then use Masticatories for a Revulsion Revulsio enim est humoris fluentis attractio in partem contrariam The Spirit of Salt Armoniack held to Note the Nose in a narrow mouth'd Glass doth wonderfully conduce above all others not onely to dissolve the viscous phlegmatick humours obstructing the Glandules But also temperates the acid Saltness of Catarrhs Plaisters may be also applied to the Head being first shaved to dry up the Rheum and strengthen the Brain This may serve for Example Take of the Plaisters ad Herniam and Plaster for the Head Cephalick Taccamahac of each half an ounce mix it and spread it on leather and apply it to the Head Let the Rheumatick live in a warm and dry Air and use a drying Diet with moderation in eating drinking sleeping and all other things Jejunet vigilet sitiat qui Rheumata curat BOOK II. CHAP. I. Of Shortness of Breathing SHortness or Difficulty of Breathing is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiro vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. afflo calidum ori Asthma It is a disease in which the Bronchia of the Lungs are so stuffed with viscous Phlegm that the sick can hardly breathe but with wheasing blowing or puffing and do make a great noise with snorting in which the Diaphragma and intercostal Muscles are violently moved If the Lungs onely are stuffed it is without snorting and is then called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aegre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiro In this the conduits of the Lights are much stopped causing hardness or straitness of breath and pursiness But if the Patient fetcheth breath with much difficulty with the Neck stretched upright it may then be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rectus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiro i. e. erecta cervice spirare The cause of this disease is the Juice of Cause the Pancreas growing more sour by its obstruction joined to viscous Phlegm in the small gut by which it becomes more flatulent and being stir'd up in its effervescency with Choler it riseth to the Thoracick passage by the Lacteal Veins and so to the Heart and Lungs and filling the airy conduits thereof and sticking there it causeth a breathing with snorting The same humour is also carried to the Stomach which causeth many sour Belchings in this distemper and if these flatuous humours become more sharp than viscous so often as they come to the Lungs they pierce into the sharp Artery and do so provoke and molest it that thereby the Lungs are compelled to cough by which the Expiration of Air is deprav'd If there be much moisture contain'd in Progn the sharp Artery it will be the easier expelled by the help of coughing but if the Trachea Arteria be affected with driness then nothing is spit out though with great and much labour but the universal Body is wearied in vain with indeavouring to cough whence there is sometimes raised a vehement Pain both of the Head and Hypochondries and other parts yea sometimes a Rupture is bred by it and the Urine and Excrements are thereby often involuntarily extruded 2. If this disease be not speedily removed it will prove chronical and hard to be cur'd unless the Patient be young and of a strong constitution for otherwise it will end in a Cachexie or Dropsie An Asthma or wheasing Anxiety may Cure happily be cured in the beginning by an Antimonial vomit especially in those who do vomit easily because the Phlegmatick humours which are contained in the sharp Artery c. are thereby
immediately brought up but if vomiting hurts the sick the humours may be evacuated downwards by gentle purgation with powerfull and effectual Phlegmagogues and Hydragogues such as is prescrib'd in the Chapter of Catarrhs page 56. 57. If the Patient hath a costive Body let carminative Clysters be often administred and if the Body be plethorick let a vein be opened either in the Foot or apply Leeches to the Haemorrhoid veins which will much conduce to free the respiration Such medicines as have an expectorating quality and have power to temper and discuss the over sharp vapours may be often us'd in a little quantity The following Julep may be commended in this case Take of the pectoral Decoction half a pint Pectoral Iulep Cinamon-water Syrups of Hore-hound Fennel of each one ounce and half Spirits of Salt Armoniack Niter of each twenty drops Laudanum opiatum ten grains Oil of Sulphur per Campanam ten drops mix it Quercetanus his Syrup of Tobacco is commended in this distemper Also Tobacco taken in a Pipe or chewed in the mouth draweth abundance of viscous Phlegm out of the Stomach and Lungs Many more medicines might be inserted but I refer you to the Chapter of Catarrhs where you may be throughly furnished CHAP. II. Of the Pleurisie and other Inflammations THE Pleurisie is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 latus quod tunicoe costos succingentis Pleuritis lateris dolor It is also called in Latin Pleuritis Inflammatio it being an Inflammation of the Pleura and also of the intercostal Muscles and other adjacent parts as the mediastinum pericardium diaphragma c. It is attended with many Symptomes as difficulty of breathing shooting and pricking pain of the sides which is the more Signs exasperated by coughing and is common in this distemper the Patient hath also a continual acute Fever which is most commonly symptomatical The Inflammation of the Lungs is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 circum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Peripnmonia pulmo quod a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiro It is also called in Latin Peripneumonia Peripneumonicus morbus It is not different in the causes or signs from a Pleurisie The cause of the Pleurisie and Peripneumony Caus and all other inflammations is an obstruction of the Capillary vessels in the inflamed part by glutenous Phlegm carried together with the bloud through them and if a Plethora concur the bloud and humours will soon be stagnated and become acrid and fervid which preternaturally distends the vessels by which circulation of the Bloud is hindred so that at length the vessels break and the Bloud is poured into the part affected which there corrupts and increaseth the pain and inflammation and consequently produceth a tumour whee the putrid bloud and humours being â—y degrees corrupted are converted into â—urulent matter for the bloud being stagnated or standing still in any part the sâ—irituous and more volatile and sâ—btle parts that are wont to temper both the acid and salt parts do afterward begin to vanish whence both being made sharper do more fiercely rise up one against another and stir up an hot Effervescency because of the Oily parts of the bloud present yea by degrees do so corrupt the bloud as it turns it into matter which is different according to the variousness of the bloud corrupted 1. The sooner the inflammation and Tumour Progn comes to suppuration the more easie will be the Cure 2. If a Pleurisie follow an Inflammation of the Lungs there may be hopes of recovery but if a Peripneumony follow a Pleurisie or Quinzy 't is dangerous and for the most part mortal 3. If much matter be expectorated by coughing and there still remain difficulty of breathing 't is an ill sign so likewise is it if in coughing nothing be spit up 4. If the Pleurisie or Peripneumony remain above twelve days an Empiema will inevitably ensue for the bloud standing still is by little and little collected in its vessels and beâ—ng peccant in a great excess it distends them more and more till at length they burst whence there happens an effusion of bloâ—d into the Cavity of the Breast and being there collected and corrupted into matter it constitutes a suppuration called Empienâ—a Empiena Cure To â—ure a Pleurisie and any Inflammation and Aposteme following it is required that 1. The obstruction of the vessels be opened that the Circulation of the Bloud stopt and standing still may be restor'd 2. That the Bloud effus'd out of its vessels if possible may be discuss'd before it turns to matter 3. That if the Suppuration cannot be hindred it must be promoted with all expedition that the purulent matter collected might be evacuated 4. That the cleansing and consolidation of the Ulcer be speedily performed An obstruction of the vessels by viscous Cure Phlegm or bloud coagulated in them may be cur'd by volatile Salts prepar'd not onely of several parts of Animals but also of Scorbutick plants viz. Dandelion Hedge-mustard Scurvigrass Garden and Water-cresses c. To these may be referred Crabs-eyes the Jaws of a Pike the Bone of a Harts-heart Mummy Sperma coeti Antimony Diaphoretick Opium prepar'd c. as also all fixt metallick and mineral Sulphurs These volatile medicines have an egregious Power of dissolving all things coagulated and conglutinated in Man's body and of reducing the same to their wonted fluidity and do mildly promote sweat hence it is that often by one such Diaphoretick given in season both a Pleurisie and Piripneumony and also Inflammations of other parts have been most happily and safely cured without Phlebotomy But where a Plethora concurs after a stool hath been procur'd by a carminative Clyster let a vein be opened for thereby the bloud standing still will be restor'd to its wonted Circulation for some of the bloud being let out there will be a larger space made in the veins for a more brisk and swift motion of the universal Mass of it After a sufficient quantity of bloud is taken away it will be profitable to give a Sudorifick This may serve for example Take the pectoral Decoction four ounces Sudorifick the Waters of Hyssop Fennel Parsley Juice of Horse-dung clarified distilled Vineger of each three ounces Treacle-water Cinamon-water Syrups of the five opening Roots and of red and white Poppies of each one ounce Powder of Crabs-eyes two drachms Mummy Sperma coeti of each half a drachm Laudanum opiatum ten grains volatile Salt of Harts-horn half a drachm Spirit of Salt Armoniack twenty drops mix it Let the sick take often a spoonfull of this Julep which is rich in volatile Salt and powerfully corrects the acidity of the bloud by the help whereof the clottering of it will not onely be hindred but it s over thick parts incided and by degrees attenuated and it s over thin parts will be discust and evacuated together
approv'd of then such things as cut and purge phlegm downwards may be administred for example Take of pil faetidae one drachm Mercur. Purging Pills dulcis Powders of Troches Alhandal Scammony prepar'd Tartar vitriolated of each half a Scruple Salts of Amber and Worm-wood of each one Scruple Spirit of Salt Armoniack Oil of Amber of each ten drops with Syrup of Buckthorn make it into a Mass for Pills Take four or five of these Pills four hours before the coming of the fit which will both cut and purge the viscous Phlegm out of the Body and also educe other peccant humours After purging or vomiting let the sick often take the following Powder in a glass of generous Wine or in two or three spoonfulls of the Cordial Diaphoretick before mention'd to provoke sweat as is there directed Take Volatile Salt of Harts-horn Salts of Powder Amber Worm-wood and Carduus Tartar vitriolated of each ten grains Sugar of Pearls the weight of them all mix them for two doses You may take a dose of it two or three hours before the access of the fit which will wonderfully conduce to dissolve the obstruction and cause a breathing sweat Let these evacuations be as often reiterated as occasion requires If the intermitting Fever hath continu'd long or the sick hath a Plethorick body let a vein be opened By these few forms the young Practitioner may easily invent other effectual Medicines in some things to be varied as the distemper requires CHAP. VIII Of Malignant Fevers IN the Chapter of Fevers in general I told you that Synochal or continual Fevers were without any fit to their last and complete ceasing and likewise I did distinguish them into putrid and not putrid Those that are not putrid have little or no malignity in them but the putrid are always accompanied with malignity A malignant Fever differs from others in Difference this that it draws its putrefaction immediately from its own matter putrefaction being joined with it from whence the vital strength is suddenly and unexpectedly dejected or far more grievous Symptoms occur than are wont to be observ'd in such a like disease Malign Fevers are either more acute ending in few days or longer continuing more days And they are either contagious and epidemical raging among many in the same time having a common cause as the Air or Food vitiated c. Infecting others or else they are not contagious Among contagious Fevers we may not Calenture neglect to speak something of a Calenture because it is a contagious distemper assaulting not onely those which use the Sea but also many that live near the Sea-shore in Sea-port Towns c. are subject to it The signs of this disease are a great pain Signs of the Head sometimes with violent raging fits and delirium the rest of the Body being in good temper the sick do fancy the Water to be a green Meadow and will indeavour to get into it The cause of a Calenture is the intemperature of the Climate together with ill diet causing strong obstructions and an ill habit of body by which flatuous vapours are encreas'd in the body and in time ascend to the Head The cause of the malignity in this and all other putrid fevers is a sharp volatile salt Cause of Malignity in the Air which is drawn into tbe Lungs by degrees and weakens the liquor of the glandules which is naturally sourish and makes it sluggish and of little force whence the natural consistency of the bloud is diminish'd and the separation of the Animal spirits often hindred The sharp volatile salt aforesaid may be also swallowed down with food or spittle into the Stomach or it may enter the pores of the body by which not onely the liquor of the glandules but the bloud also may be infected hence depends the variety of symptoms which may be observ'd in these Diseases In Malign fevers there oft precedes a light Signs shivering after which a gentle heat soon follows the pulse is frequent and unequal though little and weak and sometimes deficient the sick is often drowsie and possest with a kind of Lethargy and when they sleep they are often vex'd with turbulent dreams they are often grip'd in the Stomach and troubled with loathing and vomiting accompanied with the Head-each raving giddiness c. also there is great thirst weariness and unquietness of the whole body sometimes there happens cholerick and fetid loosnesses and also a haemorrhage at the nose or womb doth often concur 1. If tumors in the glandules and spots and Progâ— little pimples divers both in colour and greatness do break forth in many parts of the body they are signs of great malignity 2. If the sick get no ease after sweating promoted by Art there is little hopes of recovery also if the extreme parts soon wax hot and again are presently cold 't is an ill sign First to preserve and defend the body from Cure all malignity and infection in time of contagion I commend the frequent and moderate use of sour and tart things mixt with all things potable for the Patient's drink or food as Barberries Quinces Oranges Pomgranates Limmons Wood-sorrel Verjuice Vinegar c. In the beginning of malign Fevers and also the Calenture if a loathing urgeth part of the acrimonious volatile salt adheres to the tunicles of the Stomach wherefore in this Case first administer an Antimonial Emetick which is well prepared mild and fixt because it hath an admirable sulphur in it whereby any sharpness is wonderfully temper'd and the Malign Poison is thereby in part sent out by Vomit and Stool After the Operation of the Emetick let a Cordial Sudorifick be presently administred that the remaining part of the Malign Poison may be driven forward and expelled most safely and commodiously out of the Body The following Cordial may serve for example Cordial Sudorifick Take of Epidemical water Spirit of Vinegar of each one ounce The Waters of Treacle and Cinamon of each half an ounce the Waters of Carduus Scabious of each two ounces Syrups of the Juice of Carduus Clove-gilliflowers of each one ounce and half Antimonie Diaphoretick Bezoar-mineral of each one drachm Venice-treacle two drachms mix it Let the sick take a quarter of this Diaphoretick Julep and dispose the Body to sweat and after half an hour take one or two spoonfulls more and so go on till a profitable Sweat follow In the interim if the sick be thirsty let them drink a little warm Broth temper'd to a gratefulness with juice of Oranges Citrons or Verjuice c. whereby the breaking forth of the sweat will not onely be promoted but also the hurtfull Acrimony of the peccant Salt will be corrected and asswaged After this excellent medicine hath been sufficiently and rightly us'd so that you perceive the Malign Poison to be carried out of the Body yet you must persist in the moderate use of it as likewise in the
Laudanum prescrib'd for it will much conduce to ease the sick of all these symptoms If there be a Bubo apply a strong Vesiccatory and when the Blister is well raised open it and dress it with Mustard and Basilicon of each equal parts after cure it according to Art If there be a Carbuncle apply Leeches or Ventoses with scarification or the Actual or Potential Cautery after which often apply Mithridate 'till the Eschar be separated then dress it with Unguent Basilicon and Aegyptiacum or else you may use Butter of Antimony 'till the Ulcer be well cleansed and fitted for the last consolidation which may be performed by any desiccative Medicine CHAP. X. Of the Small-pox and Measles THE Small-pox and Measles are called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin Morbilli quasi parvi morbi vel parvorum morbi They are also called Variolae Pustulae ex vario vel varium facio quod cutis fit varia Because the skin is of various forms These distempers are most commonly attended with a Malign Fever which oft proves Epidemical Contagious and Mortal and therefore may justly be termed Pestilential The Small-pox is a cutaneous Eruption or large Pustules something like to Warts on the Skin with Inflammation which in few days comes to suppuration if the sick recover The Measles are little Pustules in the Skin with a deep redness and may be best perceived by feeling they are usually discussed in five or six days without suppuration There is an other sort of Pustules or Tubercles like little Bladders incident to Men Women and Children which are without Inflammation or redness and also without a Fever Some call them Cristals others Blisters but Country people call them Swine-pox Hen or Chicken-pox c. To these also may be referred those red fiery spots which break out about the fourth or fifth day in Malign Fevers all over the Body and if the sick recover they vanish about the eighth day after which the Cuticula cometh away in flakes this is commonly called the Scarlet Fever The signs of the Small-pox approaching Signs are pains of the Head shining before the Eyes with redness and swelling of the Face and sometimes bleeding at the Nose also a grievous pain of the Back which reacheth to the Neck with great heat and pricking all over the Body there is often loathing of the Stomach and vomiting with trembling of the Heart great terrour in sleep difficulty of breathing and sometimes raving and convulsion The cause of the Small-pox and Measles Causes is an ill quality or impurity of the Mothers bloud with which the Child was nourish'd in the Womb which doth communicate pollution and defile the mass of Bloud and after the Child is born when there is an ill disposition of the Air proportionable to the disease there followeth a peculiar effervescency or ebullition of the Bloud and other humours by which nature is inraged and provoked to cast forth the impurity The excrementitious matter is either thin or thick if it be thin the Measles follow if thick the Small-pox are produced And if there be a Malignant constitution of the Air it causeth not onely a purging forth of the corrupt matter of the Bloud c. but corrupteth the whole mass of Bloud and so produceth a dangerous and Epidemical Small-pox If they come out red and soon ripen or Progn turn white being round pointed and outward in the skin if the voice and breathing be free without any grievous symptoms there is no danger but if there be a great Fever which is not abated after their eruption with great thirst and difficulty of breathing also black or bloudy Urine or Stool Hemorrhage at the Nose Mouth c. doth signifie a great acrimony and malignancy of the bloud that nature is compelled to evacuate it by such preposterous ways and are most commonly mortal signs So likewise if it be long e'er they come out and they be green blewish or black and sink in again the sick is in great danger of Death As for the Cure of these distempers if they be Malignant or Epidemical let the same Cure means be used as is prescrib'd in Malignant Fevers but if there be little or no sign of Malignancy you may first administer an Antimonial Emetick and after its operation give this or the like Cordial Take the Waters of Carduus Dragons Cordial Iulep Treacle Scordium compound of each two ounces Venice-treacle two drachms Syrups of the Juice of Limmons Carduus Saffron of each one ounce Confection of Hyacinth one drachm mix it for a Cordial Let the sick take two or three spoonfulls of this every half hour till a sweat be promoted after sweating keep the Patient in a warm Room till the danger be over Before the Eruption if there be eminent signs of a Plethora and the sick be adult Phlebotomy may be used with good success Phlebotomy Bezoar and Gascoign's Powder and Diascordium are commonly used in these Diseases You must endeavour to defend the inward parts with the pectoral decoction to which you may add a little Saffron Also a Saffron Stay in which is put a few Sows called Millepedes bruised is excellent to defend the Throat For the Eyes this water is good Take the Waters of Plantain white Roses Water for the Eyes of each three ounces of Camphire Saffron of each ten grains mix it Or you may use Womens milk and Saffron If the Throat and Mouth are inflamed make a Gargarism with plantain-Plantain-water and Gargaris Syrup of Mulberries To defend the Nose put up this with a rag or feather Take of red rose-Rose-water Vinegar of red Roses of each one ounce Powder of red Nodulas Saunders Camphire of each one drachm mix it When the Small-pox begins to dry anoint them often with Oil of sweet Almonds and Oil of the Yelks of Eggs which will prevent their pitting OF DISEASES OF THE BELLY BOOK III. CHAP. I. Of the Thirsty disease THIS is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sitio to be thirsty In Latin 't is called sitis morbosa Thirst is the first natural Passion of Mankind and also of Beasts as is manifest by their first sucking milk out of the Breast to asswage it The causes of thirst augmented are either Cause external or internal The external are the Air over heated by the Sun over salt Food too much exercise of body vehement passions of the mind as much anger c. prolong'd watches the Body either too costive or too loose much sweating Urine voided too plentifully any notable Evacuation of Bloud Milk or Seed c. The internal Cause is deduced for the most part from too sharp Choler carried down into the small Gut where it raiseth such an Effervescency with the Juice of the Pancreas flowing thither that thence are elevated salt Vapours to the Stomach and Gullet and there produceth a sense of drought It
gangrene of the Guts attended with a violent vomiting of the excrements 'till death do put a period to the Patient's misery These evils are often encreas'd by fomentations too hot apply'd as also by a preposterous and strong rubbing of the swell'd part and violence us'd to repell the Guts The immediate causes of the cholerick Causes of the cholerick passion passion are sharp putrid cholerick humours collected in the Stomach and Bowels because of external errours commited in diet or by the taking of poison uncorrected which doth immediately disturb and corrupt all the humours The cause of vomiting bloud is to be deduced Causes of vomiting Bloud most commonly from the Pancreas by reason of some vessel open'd by its over sharp juice caused by a vitious effervescency with Choler from whence most of it is driven up to the Stomach to be vomited out whilst some of it may descend downward to be voided by stool This distemper may also be caused by bloud flowing out of the vessels of the Stomach or Guts either broken by vehement Coughing or corroded by sharp humours 1. If vomiting be from repletion or be critical Progn 't is a good benefit of nature and therefore must not be stopped but if it be symptomatical 't is an ill sign especially if it be caused by inflammation of the Stomach or adjacent parts or by poison taken 2. If the cause of Ileos be from excrements indurated in the Gut Ileon it may be cur'd if taken in time but if it be from a Rupture of the Peritonaeum 't is dangerous and for the most part mortal especially if there be inflammation and Tumour of the Guts c. 3. If the sick vomit bloud 't is dangerous neither is the cholerick passion without danger The Cure of this manifold vomiting may Cure be performed diversly according to the variety of each cause If vomiting be rais'd too much by an Emetick or any other nauseous thing taken it may be represt by this aromatick Opiate or one like it Take of Mint-water four ounces Tincture Cordial Opiate of Cinamon half an ounce Syrups of Mint Erratick Poppies of each six drachms Laudanum opiatum six grains Spirit of Nitre twenty drops mix it Let the sick take a spoonfull of this every quarter of an hour till the vomiting ceaseth If a Catarrh be the cause of vomiting look for the cure in its proper Chapter If the cholerick passion be caused by Cure of Cholerick Passion poison or plentifulness of cholerick humours in the Stomach c. then nothing hinders but that a gentle Antimonial Emetick may be given to which may be added those things which will temper the too great effervescency of the aforesaid humours For example Take of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum Vomit Mint-water of each six drachms Cinamon-water two drachms Syrup of Erratick Poppies half an ounce Laudanum opiatum two grains mix it After the evacuation of the peccant humours upward and downward an Opiate may be profitably used because it will not onely temper the Acrimony of Choler but asswage the acid juice and stupefie the outward sense and procure rest which will be very gratefull to the sick Take the waters of Fennel Plantain Mint Cordial Opiate Purslain of each two ounces Cinamon-water Syrups of Myrtles Purslain white Poppies of each one ounce Confect de Hyacintho Diascordium Venice-treacle of each two drachms Laudanum opiat eight grains Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it Let the sick take two Spoonfulls of it often which will conduce to amend the faultiness of any humours whether acrimonious salt or sour for in the disease of Cholera it will powerfully asswage the too much effervescency that is raised in the small Gut staying the fierce motion of the troubled humours A bloudy vomiting requireth speedy help Cure of bloudy vomiting whence soever the bloud cometh The following Astringent medicine will wonderfully conduce to the cure Take the waters of Plantain Comfrey Astringent Iulep of each three ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water distill'd Vinegar of each an ounce and half Syrups of Mirtles Quinces of each one ounce Powder of Dragons-bloud half a drachm Laudanum opiatum six grains mix it The sick may take two or three Spoonfulls of this Astringent Julep every hour with good success for it will cure the most ruptions of Vessels and stop the flux of bloud beyond expectation After Vomiting is supprest if the Patient be troubled with belching of wind c. in this case the following exemplary mixture may bear the praise for it doth not onely conduce to curb and discuss wind remaining as well in the Stomach as Guts but it doth temper and correct both Phlegm and Choler and hinder wind in its rise and will dissipate it when it is bred Take the waters of Mint Fennel of each Carminative Iulep four ounces the Carminative water of Sylvius Syrup of Mint of each two ounces Spirit of Niter twenty drops Chymical Oil of Mace ten drops Laudanum opiatum ten grains mix it Let this be taken by Spoonfulls often or more slowly as pains or stretchings do more or less urge If bloud be thought or feared to be clotter'd in the cavity of the Guts to dissolve it you may add to the above mentioned Carminative Julep pul ocul Cancror Antimon Diaphoret Sperma Coeti of each one drachm The voiding of matter by vomiting and stool is not to be staid but mildly promoted seeing it is wholly unnatural and hurtfull to the Body but its new rise is to be hindred as much as may be seeing it is bred of bloud which is the fuel of our vital fire and the sustenance of all parts of the Body Among all the medicines that move or promote the voiding of matter and hinder the continual breeding of it out of corrupt bloud I prefer and commend Antimonials rightly prepar'd as well Emeticks as other preparations of it as Antimonium Diaphoretic and above all a Balsam made artificially of its flowers which will powerfully conduce to alter and correct the harms befalling the Body by matter and hinder the new producing of it Also Balsam of Sulphur with Oil of Anise-seed is excellent to cleanse and consolidate any inward Ulcer if two or three drops of it be taken often in a day in any pleasant healing vehicle In all preternatural vomitings keep the Belly open so that the sick may have at least every day a stool either by Nature or Art and let the peccant humours remaining be emptied out by siege with these or the like Pills Take Extract Rudii half a drachm Resin Purging Pills of Jallop Salt of Wormwood Tartar vitriolated of each ten grains Oil of Cinamon three drops mix it for two doses to be taken in the morning The cure of Ileos or Iliaca passio may Cure of Iliaca passio for the most part be performed by the aforesaid medicines But for the sake of young Practitioners I shall add some few directions for
juice of the Pancreas too acid as experience teacheth in outward things for if you pour Spirit of Vitriol to oil of Turpentine it will presently raise an effervescency join'd with a notable heat and burning This burning pain is chiefly felt in the region of the Loins because there is the conflux of Choler and the juice of the Pancreas and from thence ariseth vitious sharp vapours which produce griping pains of the Stomach and pricking pains in the Guts as also other wandring pains therein If the pain be chill and cold it is caus'd from the juice of the Pancreas very acid and sharp which raiseth a vitious effervescency with Choler not oily and phlegm together as we may observe if we mix Spirit of Vitriol with any volatile Salt not oily how it will raise an effervescency coupled with a notable Chilness and Coldness onely sensible hence we may conclude that the operation of the acid Spirit in producing cold is much promoted by phlegm The cause of the Colick is over viscous Cause of the Colick phlegm mixed with Choler peccant both in its Saltish acrimony and volatile oiliness by which the viscous phlegm is rarifi'd into Wind and if the excrements are contain'd beyond their course they harden and adhere to the Gut whereby the natural ferment is vitiated and the windy blasts are more and more rarifi'd and being shut up and remaining in the Cavity of the Gut Colon it causeth a violent distension and contraction of it But if the aforesaid humours be mixt with the juice of the Pancreas over sharp acid and harsh then there is a wonderfull sense of contortion in the part affected urging and writhing from place to place according to the winding or rolling of the Gut If this wind pierceth through the Guts Observation into the Cavity of the Belly it expandeth the Peritonoeum and so inflateth the whole Abdomen and causeth a Tympany Tympany These Distempers are all dangerous and Progn sometimes mortal especially if a violent Fever be complicated with them We must vary the cure according to the diversity of the causes Cure A burning corroding pain may be cur'd by tempering too fat Choler with Acids as Spirit of Niter c. being mixt with Opiates For example Take the Waters of Fennel Fumitory Iulep Sorrel Succory of each three ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water distill'd Vinegar Syrups of Violets and white Poppies of each two ounces Laudanum opiatum ten grains Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it Let the sick often take a Spoonfull of this Julep till the heat and pain be diminished and sleep be procured The following Emulsion is also profitable and therefore may sometimes be given for a change Take the four greater cold Seeds white Emulsion Poppy-seeds of each one ounce French Barley boiled four ounces with two quarts of Barley water let it be made an Emulsion and add to it Syrups of Violets and white Poppies of each two ounces Salt prunella half an ounce Spirit of Niter thirty drops mix it and give four Spoonfulls every two or three hours If Choler be two plentifull let it be educ'd with this or the like mild Cholagogue Take Damask-rose water two ounces Purging Potion Manna Diaphaenicon Electuary of the juice of Roses of each two drachms Tartar Vitriolated ten grains mix it and take it in the morning The Cholagogue Electuary of Sylvius is also excellent of which you shall have the receipt at the latter end of the Book Chilness and cold pains may be cur'd by tempering the over sharp acidity of the juice of the Pancreas Lixivial Salts both fixt and volatile are excellent in this Case as also any Aromatick Spirit of wine Treacle water c. with which may be mix'd Coral Pearl Crabs-eyes Antimon Diaphoret c. and let the body be compos'd to sweat The following forms may serve for example Take the waters of Treacle Fennel Syrup Cordial Diaphoretick of the juice of Carduus of each half an ounce powder of Crabs-eyes Antimony Diaphoretick Salt of Wormwood of each ten grains mix it and give it the sick to cause sweat You may also give some of this Cordial Julep to uphold the Spirits when they sweat Take of Tincture of Cinamon the Carminative Cordial Iulep Spirit of Sylvius of each half an ounce the waters of Mint Baum of each two ounces Syrups of the juice of Oranges Clove-gilliflowers of each one ounce Laudanum opiat four grains Oil of Cloves six drops mix it and give two or three spoonfulls of it often Let Sylvius's Carminative Plaster be spread on Leather and applied to the region of the Stomach and Navel As for the cure of the Cholick let an Emollient Cure of the Cholick Clyster which discusseth wind be given often at least twice in a day Take the roots of Marsh-mallows one Clyster ounce Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Marsh-mallows the Flowers of Melilot Chamomel of each two handfulls the Seeds of Anise sweet Fennel Dill the Berries of Bays and Juniper of each one ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of Whey till half of it be consumed then strain it and add Electuary Diaprunum Cariocostinum Benedicta laxativa of each half an ounce Oils of Dill Chamomel Roses of each six drachms Oil of Harts-horn ten drops mix it for two Clysters The smoak of Tobacco may be blown into the Clyster-bladder and given with it with good success Besides a Clyster may be made of Canary wine or warm Cows Milk and a little Honey or Malossus and given sometimes to soften the hard excrements and to dissolve those that are too viscous whereby they may be the easier evacuated and also Wind invited to an easie outlet To drink the Decoction before prescrib'd will much conduce to ease the sick also of the same ingredients you may make fomentations and Cataplasms But if the Patient do not care for the trouble of such medicines you may anoint the Belly with this ointment Take Ointments of Marsh-mallows Martiatum Ointment Oils of Capers white Lillies of each one ounce Oil of Bricks half an ounce mix it After which apply a large Plaster of Sylvius's Empl. Carminative Empl. to the Belly The following Julep taken often by spoonfulls will much conduce to ease the pain and discuss the wind Take the Waters of Mint Scurvigrass Fennel Carminative Iulep Lovage Penny-royal of each one ounce the carminative Spirit of Sylvius Tinctures of Cinamon and Castor of each half an ounce Syrups of Mint Fennel and Mirtles of each six drachms Oil of Mace distill'd ten drops Spirits of Harts-horn and Niter of each twenty drops Laudanum opiatum ten grains mix it for a Julep The Oil of Harts-horn is a very Potent though ungratefull remedy in this disease Also the Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Anise-seed Amber or Juniper is excellent in vanquishing this rebellious distemper After the violence of pain is abated you may purge the Body
with this following Decoction Take of Guiacum four ounces Roots of Purging Decoction China Sassafras Lovage of each one ounce Seeds of Anise sweet Fennel Berries of Bays and Juniper of each two drachms let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of Fountain-water till half be consumed strain it and add of the best Manna Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb of each four ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water two ounces Spirit of Niter two drachms mix it and take two ounces of it every Morning and Evening The following Pills with Gums will be also very usefull and potent to educe the viscous Phlegm c. Take Galbanum prepar'd with Vinegar of Purging Pills Squills two drachms Resins of Jallop and Scammony Powders of Castor Mastick Mirrh Vitriol of Mars calcin'd to whiteness of each half a drachm Saffron ten grains Powder of Troches Alhandal two Scruples Oils of Harts-horn Cloves of each ten drops beat them all into a Mass for Pills Let the sick take three or four of these Pills in the morning fasting which will kindly expell the vitious humours After which let them take some of the aforesaid Julep to procure rest and ease Oily volatile Salts and Spirit of Niter are excellent not onely to correct Choler and other peccant humours but do potently discuss wind CHAP. VIII Of the Worms WOrms may be generated in all parts of the Body those which are bred in Ulcers may more fitly be called Maggots in Latin termetes but I shall onely treat of those which are bred in the internal parts of the Body Every man living in all places and climes doth more or less suffer by the frequent generation of these little intestine Enemies especially the weaker state of Man as Infants and the female Sex whose ferment or digestive heat being not sufficiently master of their great moisture part of it is turned into putrefaction which corrupteth the humours Wherefore it is no wonder that active Nature being never at rest by the quickning animating heat which causeth Concoction doth frequently generate Worms either in the Stomach or Guts according to the various occurrences of matter and seminal dispositions There are three or four kinds of these inbred disturbers which we may take notice of The first are called in Latin Teretes a terendo quod quasi terendo rotundum sit vel ex Teretes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. terebrando They are long and round like Earth-worms but whiter they are more common than the rest and are bred in the Guts but do sometimes get up into the Stomach The second are called lumbrici Lati longi because they are broad and long They are also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex Taenia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tendo i. e. fascia extensa Because they are something like a womans Head-band This worm is full of joints and is a native of the Jejunum which is a fit place to nourish these Milk-suckers or craving Vermine there being the most supply of milky Juice by reason of the numerous lacteal Vessels Some of these worms have been of an incredible length Pliny lib 11. nat hist. cap. 33. affirmeth that some have been thirty foot in length If you peruse Schenckiu's his observations lib. 3. pag. 411. you may reade variety of such Histories The third are called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à Ascarides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 salio In Latin they are called Vermes exigui intestinorum quod ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 è sordibus nascantur They are little and slender some call them Arse-worms because they commonly lye in the Intestinum rectum near the Sphincter Muscle There is another kind of worms though seldom seen in the Colon like the Botts in Horses they may be called in Latin Vermina Vermina ex vertendo quod rependo torqueant sese vertant cum quodam minuto motu Ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 serpo The material cause of all worms is most commonly the inconcocted part of the Chylus which is produc'd of such nourishment as easily putrifieth in the Stomach as green fruit c. which gives sufficient matter to these intruding Vermine This part of the Chylus being crude and unfit for sanguification is left undrawn by the lacteal Veins in the intestines where it is mixed with pituitous humours and elaborated by the temperate heat of the guts which is the efficient cause of such like generations The form which lay hid in this matter before is afterward generated by the temperate heat of the Bowels and according to the diversity of the latent forms sundry sorts of worms are bred In the aforemention'd title of Schenckius you may reade of the stupendious Figures of Worms set down by learned and famous Men in their Monuments The signs of worms are many If they be round there is a pinching or Signs of Teretes gnawing pain in the Belly especially being hungry also a stinking Breath a frequent dry Cough Loathing and sometimes Vomiting and Looseness with distention of the Belly and a symptomatical Fever the sleep is often disturb'd with horrible Dreams and starting and gnashing of the Teeth the Face is pale the Nose itcheth wherefore Children that have them do often rub and pick their Nose If the long broad worm be in the small Signs of Taenia guts the party hath an insatiable Appetite the Body consumeth having quick stools after eating in which there is often a substance like to the Seeds of Cucumbers If the small worms called Ascarides be Signs of Ascarides bred in the intestinum rectum there is a painfull itching in Anus with provocation to stool in which they often come away If the short thick worms like Botts be bred Signs of Vermina in the Colon there is a wringing troublesome pain and they often come from the Patient night and day without any Excrements or motion to stool These last mention'd are of all others the worst and most difficult to destroy especially Progn if they continue long and grow numerous because they enclose themselves in a Cystis or Bladder for shelter which they run out and in to as a Coney into her Burrough whereby they defend themselves from the power of those things which are given to kill them The broad long worms are also hard to destroy and if the round ones continue long and are many they cause Convulsions and sometime Epilepsie and if they come out alive in acute Fevers it betokeneth great Malignity of the morbifick matter which they labour to shun The Ascarides are not dangerous for they may be easily killed with Clysters As for the Curation it is perform'd by two Cure indications the first is by killing of them the second by expelling of them when killed And here the place or residence of the offending Vermine is to be considered viz. whether it be the Stomach or Bowels if the Bowels whether the most external as the
Dysentery doth proceed either from the Cause of a Dysentery thickness of the bloud by reason of over viscous phlegm being mixed with Lympha or the juice of the Pancreas too acid accompani'd with sorrow of mind whereby the bloud doth become too gross for its wonted circulation through the Capillary Vessels of the Guts wherefore it causeth a great distension of them till at length they burst and pour out the bloud into the cavity of the Guts Or else it may be caused from Choler too salt sharp and plenteous in the bloud whereby it doth become extravagantly serous and eager through extraordinary fermentation extremely agitating the humours to a Colliquation especially where fierceness of anger or great heat of mind do concur by which the bloud is the more rarifi'd to pierce through the tender restraint of the vessels and doth flow out by indirect ways sometimes by great loss to the endangering of life A Tenasmus is caused by a phlegmatick viscous Cause of Tenasmus humour joyned with a sharp acid humour which doth fret the Gut about the siege stirring up a troublesome Ulcer there The flux of the Hemorrhoids and of the Cause of Hemorrhoids c. Liver is to be deduc'd from much serous matter mixt with the bloud and also relaxing the vessels The Hemorrhoids are either critical which useth to ease the sick or symptomatical and much weakneth them The signs of Fluxes are manifest from Signs what hath been said 1. If any looseness continue long with loathing Progn 't is an ill sign especially if it be with a Fever 2. If the small Guts are affected the pain is sharper than when it is in the thick Guts 3. In the Dysentery if the dejections be very bloudy or black and fetid with great Thirst Hicket c. for the most part they are mortal signs but if the erosion be onely in the internal membrane of the Gut and there be no great pain nor other bad symptome there is great hopes of recovery If the bloud and humours be too thin and Cure serous they must be corrected and evacuated Chalk and Harts-horn or any other burnt bone reduc'd to powder and given often in a small quantity doth imbibe and correct watry moisture and also over much fatness which may be the cause of a looseness After which the peccant humours may be evacuated by stool with Hydragogues and by sweat and urine with Sudorificks and Diureticks Toasted Rhubarb will satisfie to many indications seeing that it doth not onely evacuate water together with Choler abounding but will soon correct the over-loose body by its mild tartness Wherefore when the Bloud doth abound with much serous liquour let the sick take this Powder in a little Broth. Take the Powder of Jallop Cinamon of each fifteen grains Powder of Rhubarb Purging Powder tosted half a drachm mix it After the operation of it you may give the following Cordial by spoonfulls Take the Waters of Plantain Comfry Cordial Iulep of each two ounces Cinamon-water half an ounce Syrup of Mirtles one ounce Confectio de Hyacintho Diascordium of each one drachm Laudanum opiat four grains mix it It will be also convenient sometimes to educe the humours by urine and sweat for which I commend the following Decoction of China c. Take the Roots of Burdock the five opening Decoction Roots Sarzeparilla Contra yerva of each one ounce China four ounces Gromwell-seeds Juniper-berries of each half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of fountain water 'till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of the five opening Roots six ounces Spirit of Niter one drachm mix it Lâ—t the sick take a quarter of a pint of this warm twice or thrice a day and especially in the morning fasting which will the easier procure a breathing sweat or else urine more plentifull by which the serosity of the bloud will be consum'd by little and little so that the bloud and humours will thereby become more pure If a Dysentery or Bloudy-flux arise from a sharp humour corroding the Vessels it may be cur'd by correcting and tempering the sharp acid humours and consolidating the Vessels fretted The following Powder is excellent to correct and amend the aforesaid acid humours and stop all fluxes of bloud Take the Powders of red Coral Pearles Powder prepared white Chalk Dragons bloud of each half a drachm mix it for six doses which may be taken in three spoonfulls of the following Julep every two or three hours Take the Waters of Plantain Comfry of Astringent Iulep each two ounces Tincture of Cinamon Syrups of Quinces Mirtles of each one ounce Laudanum opiat ten grains Oil of Juniper ten drops mix it If there be an Ulcer in the thick Guts and Clysters can come to the part affected let the following be often injected and instruct the sick to retain them so long as they can Take new Milk wherein Steel hath been Clyster quenched one pint Honey of Roses one ounce Venice Turpentine half an ounce the Yelk of one Egg Balsam of Sulphur four drops mix it The following Bolus may be sometimes given in the Morning fasting Take the Powder of Rhubarb tosted two Purging Bolus Scruples Nutmeg one scruple make it into a Bolus with Conserves of red Roses And this Bolus may be given at Night going to bed Take Diascordium Conserves of red Roses Bolus Opiat of each half a drachm Laudanum opiat three grains mix it By the frequent use of these choice Medicines the Ulcer will be cleans'd the Gripes asswag'd and the Consolidation of the ulcerated Gut both in the Tenasmus and Dysentery c. will be wonderfully promoted But if the Ulcer be in the small Guts the following vulnerary Decoction will more conduce to the Cure Take the Roots of Comfry Plantain Knot-grass Decoction of each two ounces the Tops of Saint John's wort Sanicle Germander red Roses of each one handfull Shavings of Harts-horn Cinamon of each half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in three quarts of fountain-Fountain-water wherein steel hath been quenched till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of dried Roses Tincture of Cinamon distill'd Vinegar Syrup of Marsh-mallows of each two ounces mix it and give the sick four spoonfulls every two or three hours If you add two or three drops of Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Anise-seed to every dose of the Decoction c. it will be the more effectual both to cleanse and consolidate the Ulcer The flux of the Hemorrhoids if it be symptomatical and weaken the sick is then to be hindred which may be effectually done by the afore-mention'd Medicines If much serous Liquour can so dilute the Bloud and relax the Vessels that part of it may be carried out of them into the Guts and produce a Flux like the washing of Flesh commonly called a Flux of
the Liver it may be cur'd by driving forward the serous Liquour out of the Body by Sudorificks and Diureticks and also by tart strengthning things that repair the hurt of the loosened Vessels The Diuretick decoction of China before mention'd is excellent in this case to be taken as is there directed Also the following Diaphoretick may be sometimes used with good success Take the Waters of Treacle Cinamon of Sudorifick each half an ounce plantain-Plantain-water two ounces distill'd Vinegar three drachms Confectio de Hyacintho Diascordium of each one drachm Powder of Crabs-eyes Antimony Diaphoretick of each half a drachm Syrups of Mirtles dried Roses of each six drachms mix it for two doses Also the Powder and astringent Julep prescrib'd in page 192 193. is excellent to corroborate the loosened Vessels c. Anoint the Belly with the Oil of Quinces Mirtles Roses Wormwood c. mixed with unguent Comitissae which is also good in all Fluxes of the Belly CHAP. X. Of the dry Belly-ach THIS cruciating disease may be called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin Spasmus Abdominis quod sub umbelico est ad Pubem and because of the additional Torments it may be also named Tormen Abdominis quod dolore torquetur Abdomen This disease doth also need as well the Name as the invocation of Miserere mei Deus the sick being in such extreme misery that 't is incredible to all but them that have endur'd it The most urgent and exquisite pain under this affect being in that most tender and sensible part viz. the Belly may seem to have some Alliance with the Iliack or Colick passion and indeed they are sometimes its Concomitants but much different from it The causes of this lamentable Distemper Causes are either external or internal The external general occasional cause is contracting Cold in the Region of the Belly c. which doth cramp not onely the Muscles of the Abdomen but also the tender Fibres of the Intestines cruciating all the affected parts with obdurate Contractions which is more aggravated when the Moon doth come to opposition with the Sun Which may be also observ'd in all Spasms and convulsive motions that about the full of the Moon the tide of such nervous diseases doth rise highest Especially in those places where the direct aspects of the nocturnal luminary have the most power which demonstration will evince to be between the Tropicks which many of our Mariners who have sailed that way can tell by wofull experience Another external procuring cause of this grievous disease is a mineral Gas ascending from the Caverns of the Earth infesting the Air with its poisonous Fumes whereby not onely the tender fibrous and nervous parts of the Belly are oft times crampt with Convulsive spasms but the mineral Fumes being inspired with the Air into the Body produce most eminent apparent evils as the Corruption of the Chyle into porraceous and adust Choler from whence followeth irritating Vomitings and the Constipation of the Belly with obdurateness of the excrements which inflames the Bowels and entails Signs a Symptomatical fever with a heavy and slow pulse and as the pain doth aggravate more and more there is want of sleep and rest with other uneasiness and commotions of Body and Mind as the Operatours in Chymistry have sometimes experience of to their cost and trouble in mineral preparations for if a Vessel chance to break the sharp and acid Vapours or Gas of the mineral immediately seiseth the Animal spirits of all that are in the Elaboratory by which they are mov'd unequally against the will through the Nerves to the Musculous parts which causeth Convulsive motions with trembling and shaking of the Limbs and other accumulated evils The like grievous Symptoms though not so violent happen to many People that inhabit near the mineral Mines in Hungaria and also in some Places of England as Derbyshire c. Where there are Lead-works from whence mineral Fumes continually ascend from the separating Oar which infesteth the Air and is a great producer of such Convulsive effects At the first seisure of this evil the Muscles of the Abdomen and sometimes those of the Breast and Back through contractions prove hard and painfull as in our ordinary Cramps which Symptoms will evince that these Vapours are peccant in an acid Acrimony The internal Cause is also sour Vapours arising most commonly out of the small Guts which the concurring symptoms consider'd and weighed with an attentive mind will confirm for these Vapours being sharp are driven forward into the Nerves and gnawing them with great pain aggravate and produce this Convulsive spasm 1. If this miserable and afflictive Distemper Progn hath continu'd to a long durance it causeth such obstructions in the fibrous and nervous Passages of the Muscles that thereby Lameness and an Atrophy soon succeeds increasing the Weakness of all the Members of the Body till at length it ends in a Paralitical resolution of them 2. If a pregnant Woman or a Woman after Abortion be afflicted with this grievous evil it is very dangerous and many times mortal As for the Cure we must endeavour to Cure ease the pain and strengthen the weak parts with all expedition The pain may be eased and diminish'd as well by internal as external Anodynes and Narcoticks to allay the violent Motion of the Animal spirits and abate the grievous Spasms succeeding The following Cordial Diaphoretick opiate is excellent in this Case Take the Waters of Fennel Peony Treacle Diaphoretick Opiate of each one ounce Syrups of Stoechas Peony Scurvigrass of each half an ounce Powder of Crabs-eyes Antimony Diaphoretick Bezoar-mineral Salt of Tartar vitriolated Salt of Amber volatile Salt of Harts-horn of each one scruple Tincture of Castor two drachms Spirit of Salt Armoniack Oil of Cloves of each four drops Laudanum opiat six grains mix it and give four spoonfulls every three hours By the frequent taking of this Volatile and Anodyne Sudorifick the peccant humours will be temper'd and diminisht and the inordinate involuntary and impetuous motion of the Animal spirits will be reduc'd and brought to tranquillity by which the binding Constrictions of the Belly-ach will be the easier remov'd Bathing in this distemper hath been often us'd with admirable success for by the frequent use thereof the cutaneous and muscular Fibres will not onely be relax'd from contracted Spasms but the pores will be also kept open for the constant discharge of transpiring Particles A natural Bath such as is in the City of Bathe is excellent but when it is not to be had an artificial Bath may be very usefull for the ends propos'd For example Take of Elder Dwarf-elder Vervain Betony Chamomel Bays Rhue Time Hyssop Bath Ground-pine Organ Penny-royal Sage sweet Marjoram of each six handfulls Flowers of Stoechas Chamomel Melilot of each four handfulls Roots of Pellitory of Spain Briony Master-wort Virginia Snake-root of each four ounces Spicknard Berries of
infused in two quarts of White-wine for two or three days then strain it and add Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb six ounces mix it and give four ounces of it in the morning fasting If any like Pills better I commend the following Take the Resins of Jallop and Scammony Purging Pills Tartar vitriolated Mercur. dulcis of each half a drachm Oil of Juniper one scruple make it into Pills with Venice-Turpentine of which you may give twenty grains at a time in the morning fasting The following Pills are also very effectual Take of Elaterium Gambogia Resin of Jallop Pills of each ten grains Oil of Nutmegs six drops make it into Pills with Venice-Turpentine for two doses The obstructions in the Lacteal veins or Lymphatick vessels may be cur'd by Medicines that do powerfully cut and happily open the said obstructions This Aromatick Sudorifick may be commended for these intentions Take the waters of Treacle Scurvigrass Sudorifick Fennel of each one ounce waters of Parsley Fumitory of each two ounces distill'd Vinegar half an ounce Syrups of the juice of Carduus and the five opening Roots of each six drachms Powder of Crabs-eyes Antimony Diaphoretick Salt of Amber Beans Worm-wood of each one scruple Spirits of Salt Armoniack Niter of each twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls of it every two or three hours After the Vessels are freed from the noted obstruction by the medicines before-mention'd or such like they will be easily consolidated again by conglutinating food in which you may boyle the Roots of Comfry Plantain and Solomon's Seal for the more quick and easie cure In a Tympany the dulcifi'd Spirit of Niter is excellent being taken in Broth or Sack three or four times in a day from six to twelve drops at a time for it doth correct both Phlegm and Choler and hinder Wind in its rise and dissipate it when it is bred Also the following exemplary Julep doth curb and discuss Wind remaining as well in the Stomach as Guts Take the Waters of Mint Fennel of Carminative Iulep each four ounces the Carminative Spirit of Sylvius Syrup of the juice of Mints of each two ounces Laudanum opiat eight grains Spirit of Niter one drachm Salt of Amber half a drachm Chymical Oil of Mace ten drops mix it and take three or four spoonfulls every three hours You may prepare a Medicinal Wine for the rich very beneficial in Dropsies Take the Seeds of Anise Fennel Caraway Medicinal Wine Coriander Berries of Bays and Juniper of each two ounces Salt of Tartar half an ounce let them be bruised and infused in three pints of White-wine for three days then strain it and add Spirit of Niter half an ounce Salt of Amber two drachms Syrup of Mint three ounces mix it and take four or five spoonfulls of it often Sweating is very profitable in all Dropsies either in Bed with the forementioned Sudorifick or in a Bagnio or Hot-house by which the water standing beside nature in any part of the Body will by degrees be emptied through the pores of the Skin Also it may be necessary especially in persons more elderly to use warm Baths That which is prescrib'd for the cure of the Belly-ach in page 201 202. is also very profitable in Dropsies into the which it may be agreeable to descend at evening before Bed-time and there to continue so long as the Patient can well endure without fainting after which Frications may have their proper use and great benefit And to strengthen the cutaneous Fibres and restore their true tone for their better service of the offices of Nature let the affected parts be anointed with the following fragrant Balsamick Ointment Take of Flanders Oil of Bays Nerve-oil Ointment Oil of Earth-worms of each two ounces Oil of Mace by expression half an ounce mix it Galen commendeth a Cataplasm of Snails bruised with their shells and laid upon the Navel But a Pultess prepar'd of the ingredients of the Bath and applied to the affected parts will be more effectual to discharge the Ichorous water Or you may make a Cataplasm after this manner Take the tops of Elder Dwarf-elder Vervain Pulcess Worm-wood Chamomel of each two handfulls Horse-radish-roots four ounces let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of the juice of Wild-cucumbers till they are very tender then strain it and beat them very well and add Barley-meal one pound and with the same liquor boil it into the consistence of a Pultess Let the Patients diet be drying and let them drink moderately you may infuse Juniper-berries Tamarisk and Elicampane-roots in their ordinary drink And for the benefit of those Physicians and Chirurgeons that live in the West-Indies there groweth almost every where in moist places a large Cane much like the Sugar-cane the Planters generally call it the dumb Cane because they that taste it are presently dumb and unable to speak for two or three hours after which the Tongue returns to its former use and volubility without any prejudice The reason why this remarkeable Plant doth so affect the Tongue upon the touch of it is its power of attracting such plenty of moisture into it as doth distend all the Vessels thereof and render it immoveable till the crouded moisture be gradually discharged Hence we may conjecture and indeed experience teacheth that of this Plant may be prepared diversity of medicines as Cataplasms Oils Ointments c. Which will be effectual to attract and easily and kindly discharge the swollen part of the Ichorous water which may be used for some time after the evacuation of it the better to prevent a farther accumulation or return of the Disease Likewise may medicines be prepared by a skilfull Artist of this Plant very effectual to be taken inwardly not onely against Dropsies but the Scurvy Gout c. If these choice medicines are not to be had and nothing be effected by other means A harmless Paracenthesis may be instituted in the Dropsie of the Breast or Abdomen provided the Apertion be made by such a little hollow instrument as is describ'd in page 81 82. of the Cure of the Pleurisie for by such a small wound there is no danger to the sick But this operation must not be delay'd lest the humour collected get an hurtfull Acrimony and by degrees corrode and corrupt the Membrane and hence the substance of all the parts contain'd and so make the Disease incurable CHAP. XIV Of the Scurvy and Hypochondriack Suffocation commonly called the Fits of the Mother THE Scurvy being a Hypochondriack disease it will not be amiss to treat of them together The Scurvy is called in Latin Scorbutus it is a Complication or Concatenation of Diseases generated by the Conjunction of divers Causes contributing to a scorbutick Deformity The Scurvy is generated or planted essentially in the vital Principles or digestive Offices and therefore it is not discerned by sense but the effects are distributed throughout the Body and
of the Vessels by viscous Phlegm may be cur'd by the frequent use of such medicines as have power to loosen the peccant humours and again make them fluid All fixt metallick and mineral Sulphurs and also volatile Salts prepar'd not onely of several parts of Animals but also of scorbutick Plants such as are the juice of Hedge-mustard Scurvigrass Garden and Water-cresses Dandelion c. conduce before all others to loosen and dissolve Phlegm coagulated or Bloud clotter'd as having an egregious power of dissolving all things coagulated and conglutinated in humane bodies and of reducing the same to their wonted fluidity and moreover to move sweat which together being mildly promoted the desired dissolution of the aforesaid viscous humours c. will be obtained much easier and sooner An example of such a Sudorifick I have here set down for the sake of young Practitioners Take the Waters of Treacle Dandelion Cordial to cause Sweat Parsley Scurvigrass Fennel Syrups of Hedge-mustard white Poppies of each half an ounce Spirit of Salt Armoniack Harts-horn of each ten drops Laudanum opiatum four grains mix it The following is also very effectual Take the Waters of Fennel Hyssop of each two ounces distill'd Vinegar six drachms the carminative-Carminative-water of Sylvius half an ounce Syrup of the five opening Roots one ounce and half Powder of Crabs-eyes one drachm Sperma Coeti Mummy Antimony Diaphoretick of each one scruple Laudanum opiat four grains mix it Let the sick often take two spoonfulls of either of these mixtures especially in bed to promote the power of the medicine and to facilitate a sweat by the help whereof the mention'd power of the Sudorifick will the better come to the place of obstruction and will attenuate loosen and make fluid the matter obstructing the whole Mass of Bloud will also become more fluid and moveable being rarefi'd by the volatile Salt of the medicine If the Patient be plethorick let the Saphoena vein be opened for by opening and breathing a Vein the motion and circulation of the Bloud will be the better restor'd for a larger space being made for the universal Bloud it will circulate more swiftly and potently The phlegmatick viscous humours must be corrected and evacuated by Phlegmagogues The following medicines are of great efficacy Take of Salts of Mugwort Ash Amber Tartar vitriolated of each ten grains Powder Powder of Cream of Tartar white Sugar-candy of each half a drachm mix it and give it in white Wine in the morning fasting The next day you may administer the following Pills Take of pil foetidoe ex duobus of each half a drachm Amber prepar'd Steel Borax Purging Pills Mercur. Dulcis of each one scruple Mirrh Castor Saffron of each twelve grains Oil of Cloves Spirit of Salt Armoniack of each six drops make it into ten Pills for two doses which may be taken in the Morning fasting If a medicinal Wine be acceptable to the sick the following or one like it may be used Take the Roots of Horse-radish the five opening Roots of each one ounce Savin Medicinal wine Vervain Penny-royal Hyssop Calamint Mugwort of each one handfull Senna Cinamon sweet Fennel-seeds Juniper-berries Orange-peel Liquorish of each half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and infused in one Gallon of White-wine for three days then strain it and keep it for use You may add more wine to the ingredients so long as there is any Aromatick taste Four or five spoonfulls of this Wine may be taken two or three times a day with which you may mix Salt of Tartar vitriolated ten grains Elixir proprietatis six drops If you expect a laudable success you must persevere awhile in the use of these or such like medicines CHAP. XVI Of the immoderate menstrual Flux and the Whites in Women THE monthly terms being immoderate may be called in Latin mensium fluxus immodicus And the Whites in Women Alboe mulierum fluxiones The causes of too many Courses are either Cause external or internal The external Causes may be by an Ulcer in the Matrix or some outward Violence and sometimes by too much Coition The internal Causes are either a sharp serous humour abounding in the Bloud increasing its fluidity or else an over great heat in the Womb stirring up a more potent and therefore a swifter rarefaction of Bloud provoking an expulsion of it either by breaking or some other preternatural opening of the vessels of the Womb. The white Flux of the Womb is an excrementitious humour flowing from it This distemper is subject not onely to Women but sometimes to Maids also These humours may be bred in the Cause of Whites Womb either by a cold or hot distemper therein The cold doth render it unable to digest its nourishment A hot Distemper corrupteth it hence cometh this excrementitious humour Also Abortion Contusion Inflammation Imposthume or Ulcer in the Womb may weaken and dispose it to breed such humours The signs that distinguish between this Signs Distemper and an Ulcer in the Womb and Gonorrhoea are these 1. If there be an Ulcer there the Womb will not admit of Coition without pain and the matter which floweth from her is stringy and more digested and sometimes bloudy 2. In the Gonorrhoea the seminal matter cometh in a small quantity and seldom except it be gotten by acting with an unclean Person then the Urine is sharp with many other malignant Symptoms All long Hemorrhagies of Bloud are dangerous Progn especially those of the Womb If it be caused by exulceration and be in elderly Women 't is incurable The white Flux is not very dangerous but is often difficult of curation especially in old Women because they abound with Phlegm and 't is hard to divert the humours from this Chanel it being the sink of the body through which the superfluous humours of a healthy Woman are every month evacuated If this distemper continue long it may breed great evils as Barrenness Falling out of the Womb c. These diseases may be both cured by the Cure same medicines If the courses have continued too long the following mixture will soon stop the flux of Bloud and will cure most ruptions of vessels Take the Waters of Plantain Comfry of Astringent Iulep each three ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water Syrups of Mirtles Quinces of each one ounce and half distill'd Vinegar one ounce red Coral prepar'd one drachm Dragons Bloud one scruple Laudanum opiat six grains mix it and give three spoonfulls every four hours When the flux of Bloud is stopt you may purge with the following Take of Manna one ounce Powder of Purge Rhubarb tosted Cream of Tartar of each half a drachm Resin of Jallop four grains mix it and take it in broth If the Patient like Pills I commend the following Take Resins of Jallop and Scammony extract of Rhubarb Agarick Salt of Amber Purging Pills Powder of Dragons-bloud of each ten grains Oil of Mints six drops with Syrup of
is incurable according to Ovid Tollere nodosam nescit medicina Podagram But if there be no Knots in the Joints and the Patient is laborious and the Body is for the most part soluble and there be swelling of the Veins called Varices then it may be happily cured 3. If it becomes habitual to the sick the morbifick Idea is implanted in the vital Spirit and transfer'd through the seed which makes it Hereditary The Cure of the Gout will consist Cure 1. First in defending the afflicted Joints as well against future Pain as freeing them from that which doth molest at present 2. In the universal amendment of the juice of the Pancreas 3. In the correcting and evacuation of the vitious Choler 4. In the altering and diminishing of Phlegm any way peccant To asswage the present Pain I commend the following Medicaments which will conduce much to mitigate the sharpness of the acrimonious humours in all Gouty people and ease the part affected When there is excessive heat you may bathe the Gouty part with this Fomentation very hot with wollen Stuphs which must be often renewed Take the Waters of the Spawn of Frogs Fomentation Fumitory Elder of each one quart Vinegar of Mary-golds one pint Opium Camphire of each half an ounce mix it according to Art But when the Pain is more corroding than burning I commend the following to be used as the former Take of Treacle-water half a pint the Waters of the Spawn of Frogs Parsley of each one quart Opium Camphire of each half an ounce mix it After Bathing with either of these apply this Cataplasm Take Powders of the Roots of Marsh-mallows Pultess Flax-seed Barley-meal of each four ounces new Milk three pints boil it to the Consistence of a Pultess and add Oils of Flax-seed Earthworms the Ointment Martiatum of each three ounces Camphire half an ounce mix it according to Art Where exceeding heat doth concur and the Body abounds with sharp Choler instead of sweet Milk you may substitute Butter-milk Also a Pultess made of the Crums of White-bread new Goats or Cows milk and Saffron with Oil of Lin-seed and Earth-worms may be deservedly commended to asswage any Pain If the sick be very phlegmatick and impotency of motion doth afflict more than pain then Opiats may be omitted and things more Aromatical may be used in all external Applications The following Pultess or one like it may serve for Example Take the Powders of Orris-roots the Cataplasm Flowers of Chamomel and Elder Cummin-seeds Barley-meal of each four ounces the Tops of Wormwood Mints of each four handfulls boil them in two quarts of water of the Spawn of Frogs to the Consistence of a Pultess when it is almost cold add Treacle-water Oils of Chamomel Earth-worms of each three ounces mix it Also the Root of Briony and Cuckow-pintle bruised and made into a Pultess with Cow-dung is excellent If you add Volatile Salts of Animals or Vegetables to your Medicines whether Fomentations Cataplasms or Ointments they will be the more effectual You may prepare an excellent Volatile Salt of Earth-worms of great Virtue for the Gout which may be resolved into Liquour by fermentation and putrefaction If the Gouty Patient do abound with Phlegm or the Juice of the Pancreas exceed in an acid Acrimony causing a corroding Pain it may happily be mitigated and remov'd with Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Amber with which let the grieved part be embrocated and it will forthwith raise a very hot Effervescency which will presently cease again and remove the great Pain in a moment even to admiration After the pain is over you may apply one of the former Cataplasms or some Anodyne Ointment to comfort and by degrees restore again the membranous parts The following Linament may serve for Example Take Oils of Earth-worms Scurvigrass Linament Saint John's-wort of each one ounce Chymical Oils of Rosemary Rue of each twenty drops mix it Afterwards you may apply a Plaster of De minio cum sapona In the mean time inward means to take away the Cause and ease the pain must not be neglected If the Patient have a plethorick Body after a Stool hath been procured by a Carminative Clyster with Electuar Caryocostinum c. Let a Vein be opened Bloud drawn from the Vena poplitis or sciatica Vein hath been succesfull in the sciatica But Leeches applied to the Hemorrhoidal veins are effectual in all Gouts Two or three days after bleeding you may administer the following Pills Take of Pills Hermodactils faetidae ex Purging Pills duobus Mercur. dulcis of each one scruple mix it for two doses and give them in the Morning fasting Or you may give half a drachm or two scruples of pul Arthriticus in any convenient Vehicle But if the sick be inclining to vomit administer an Antimonial Emetick You may purge and bleed so often as you see occasion Issues near the part affected and also to raise Blisters upon the part have been found by experience to be very effectual Also bathing and sweating in nitrous or sulphurous Baths either natural or artificial are much approv'd of That which is prescrib'd in the Chapter of the Belly-ach is very effectual which may be used as is there directed I might fill a Volume with receipts against the Gout but I shall onely commend the following water or spirit to be often taken inwardly in any fit Vehicle the quantity of half a spoonfull at a time Take the Roots of Orris Angelica Saffaphras Water against the Gout of each two ounces the Tops of Ground-pine Penny-royal Sage Mother of Time the Flowers of Saint Johns-wort Chamomel Prim-roses Rosemary Lavender of each three handfulls the Berries of Bays and Juniper of each one ounce Castor two drachms let them be all cleansed bruised and infused in six quarts of Spirit of Earth-worms compound for the space of twenty four hours then distill it in an Alembick according to Art The Rheumatism is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rheumatismus ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fluo it being a distillation of Rheumatick humours not onely affecting the Joints but the adjacent parts yea sometimes the whole Body especially the Muscles Membranes and Periostium of the Thighs Legs and Hip-bones The humour is of a very malign Nature and soon causeth a Cariosity of the Bones if it be not prevented The Cause is the same with the Gout but sharper Cause 'T is seldom mortal but may be of long Progn continuance with great Pain so that the Sick cannot endure to be touched In the Cure of this Distemper Phlebotomy Cure must be often repeated and carminative Clysters often administred Foment the pained parts with stale Urine made very hot wherein Castle-sope is dissolved after which anoint with this following Take Spirit of Salt Armoniack Oils of Linament Guiacum Bricks of each two ounces in which dissolve Opium one ounce Spanish Sope four ounces
nauseous it may cause Vomiting It is very safe and may be given in all Distempers where Purging is necessary The fresh Herb boiled in Milk 'till it be tender and then strained out and the Herb bruised and boiled in the same Milk with Crumbs of White-Bread or fine Oatmeal into the Consistence of a Poultis and a litle Oyl or Hog's-fat put to it and applied to any Inflamation or Swelling it will soon give Ease and either dissolve the Tumor or bring it to Suppuration Native Cinnaber finely powdred and washed from its volatile malignant Salt often in warm Water and rectified Spirit of Wine burnt over it two or three times doth Wonders in curing most Chronical Diseases The Dose is from ten Grains to twenty in any Vehicle Missleto dried and finely poudred with double its weight of white Sugar and a few Drops of Oyl of Amber mixed with it half a Dram of this Pouder given twice or thrice in a Day cureth Convulsions and the Epilepsie Crude Antimony flux'd at least an Hour with decrepitated Sea Salt in a strong Fire and afterwards washed from the Salt in warm Water is friendly to Nature and cureth Fevers The Dose is from five Grains to ten in any Vehicle The Jesuit's Bark finely poudred and given from half a Dram to two Drams or more at a time infused in Wine and drank at the going off of the Fit and afterwards every four Hours is such a Specifick for the curing of all Intermitting Fevers or Agues that it seldom fails especially if the Patient be well purged before he take it You must continue the use of it for at least ten Days that the Particles of the Pouder may be continually conveyed into the Bloud by which the Febritick Ferment may be destroyed Give the Sick a little Broth of Mutton or Chicken with a few Crumbs of White-Bread or any other Food easie of Digestion within half an Hour after the taking of each Dose which will mix with the Chile and the Bloud will be impregnated with the Vertue of it It also cureth all kinds of Fluxes Three or four Drops of the Juice of Ivy or of Asarabacca clarified and dropt into each Ear warm every other Night and the Ear gently stopt afterwards with Cotton or Wool will soon cure Deafness snuff up the Juices into each Nostril also to purge the Head Two Grains of each of the aforesaid Herbs dried and finely poudred and snuffed up each Nostril at Night going to Bed twice in a Week will purge the Head of Rheum and cure an inveterate Head-ach Tooth-ach and Inflammation of the Eyes c. The Syrup of the Juice of Buckthorn-Berries or of wild Cucumbers taken an Ounce at a time with two Drams of pure Nitre dissolved in Ale or Whey twice or thrice in a Week cureth the Dropsie The Pouder of Olibanum or Mastick or equal parts of both mixed with old Conserves of Roses and taken the quantity of a Nutmeg twice or thrice in a Day cureth a Catarrh especially if you blow some of the Pouder into the Throat every Night going to Bed to strengthen the Salival Glands Lapis Haematites or the Bloud-stone being applied to the bleeding part will stop the Hemorrhage It is likewise an excellent Medicine taken inwardly being repleted with the Primum ens Auri from which being finely poudred may be drawn a Gold-like Tincture with a strong Aqua Regis made of the rectified Spirit of Nitre and Sal Armoniack to which you may add four times the quantity of rectified Spirit of Wine Take twenty Drops of it in a Glass of Ale or Wine two or three times in a Day It cureth most Chronical Diseases The true Lapis Nephriticus cureth the Stone being prepared and taken after the same manner Ens Veneris is good to cure the Rickets three or four Grains of it may be given to a Child twice a Day in any Vehicle Half a Dram of the fine Pouder of Gum of Guiacum mixed with an equal quantity of factitious Cinnaber in fine Pouder given every other Morning in a Spoonful of Milk or Whey for thirty or forty days cureth the Venereal Pox and most other Chronical Diseases Oyl of Walnuts or Linseed-Oyl by expression either exhibited inwardly or given in Clysters to four Ounces at a time giveth Ease in the Stone and Collick c. A Dram of Oyl of Amber unrectified mixed with an Ounce of Populion cureth the Piles Purified Honey is a universal Balsam It cureth Sore-Eyes being spread on a fine Rag and applied mix it with Gargarisms for sore Mouths and with Injections for hollow Ulcers c. The gross Pouder of Mastick is excellent to smoke in a Pipe for a Defluxion of Rheum on the Lungs c. Saccharum Saturni dissolved in Water mortifies sharp Humors in the Eyes and all other Inflammations it is a great Anodine cures Burnings and Scaldings in a short time stops Bleeding and prevents Accidents in Amputations for it resisteth Putrefaction If you give half a Dram of it twice a day in any Vehicle it will soon quench the Flame of Lust. Half an Ounce of burnt Alum mixed with two Ounces of White-wine-Vinegar cureth an Inflammation in any part being spread on a Rag and applied Sulphur of Copper or Vitriol called Sulphur of Venus is an incomparable Anodine far exceeding any Opiate Roman Vitriol calcin'd to redness stoppeth all Fluxes of Blood in a moment and cures Wounds by the first intention You may dissolve half a Dram of it in three or four Spoonfuls of warm Water and dip a Pledget of Lint in it and apply it to the Wound keeping the Lips of it close But if the Wound be deep it must be injected with a Syringe Any other Vitriol is of the same Virtue but not so potent Half an Ounce of Quicksilver mixed with an Ounce of Pomatum spread on a long Linnen Rag two Inches broad and covered with another Linnen Rag for a Girdle worn for some time cureth the Itch. But you must purge once or twice in a Week to prevent Salivation The small Bone in a black Snail's-head used as an Amulet to hang about the Neck and Rings made of an Elk's-hoof or of the Teeth of a true Sea-Horse and worn continually are all of the same Virtue and cureth the Cramp The Hand of a dead Man or Woman being laid upon a Scrophulous Tumor and there kept 'till the Patient do feel the Coldness of it penetrate to the innermost parts of the Swelling it will dispel and cure it by often doing It likewise cureth a Dropsie of the Belly The Roots of Contra yerva or Counterpaison Virginia Snake-root and Zedoary all or either of them is good against the Plague and all contagious Fevers any way used Here followeth some Receipts of choice Medicines which I use in my own Practice Pulvis Balsamicus noster Our Balsamick Pouder TAke of Sarsaparilla grosly poudred four Ounces let it be infused in two Quarts of rectified Spirit of Wine for two
Gold But if the Patient's body be costive and there be eminent signs of a Plethora or great fulness of Bloud then let a carminative Clyster be first administred and after its operation let a Vein be opened and draw seven or eight ounces of bloud at a time and if there be occasion let it be reiterated for I always prefer it s repeated less diminution as need requires sometimes instituted in the same day before great evacuations made suddenly which hath brought many Evils to the sick It matters little what vein be opened unless in Women because of the monthly Terms either at hand or hindred And seeing it is the duty of every honest Physician to be Natures helper he ought to endeavour to remove all impediments whereby the sick may be cured more quickly safely and pleasantly without demurs to magnifie the Cure and inflame the reckonings Wherefore since the first curative intention of most Fevers is the discharge of the first turgent Monitor from the Stomach and adjacent parts by vomiting as is before said Let the Patient upon the discovery of the assaulting Enemy take an Antimonial Emetick and if one doth not suffice let it be reiterated by which the Morbifick matter will be evacuated nature calmed and the contemperating of the incited or enraged nonnatural heat will be the easier performed But here the Sex is to be consider'd the Female not so well enduring this evacuation Cautio because Emeticks cause great Commotions and flatuous Vapours in them which may also prevent or corrupt natures own intentions in her great discharge of turgent humours Wherefore administer no Emetick to them except they vomit very easily but rather let the peccant humours be diminisht or emptied out gradually by the following decoction to be taken twice a day to three or four ounces Take the Roots of Parsly Fennel Plantain Purging Decoction Peony Dandelion Succory of each two ounces the Leaves of Endive House-leek Fumitory Damask-roses of each one handfull Let them be cleansed bruised and infused for a Night in one quart of Fountain-water very hot then boil it gently till a third part be consumed strain it and add Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb the best Manna of each two ounces Powder of Cream of Tartar and Tartar vitriolated of each two drachms Oil of Sulphur twenty drops mix it all together This pleasant Medicine will conduce much to correct the salt sharpness of Choler and will also amend its Oily inflameableness and separate it from the Bloud and mildly dispose it and the rest of the abounding humours to be voided out by stool After these Evacuations give the sick the following Medicine twice a day in a little thin broth or Water-gruel Take Salt of Amber volatile Salt of Harts-horn Volatile Powder Tartar vitriolated of each six grains mix it This excellent volatile Medicine is both abstersive and Diuretick and will cleanse the Stomach and Intestines of the remaining Sordes and expell them by Urine In the Declination of the Fever if sleep be wanting this following Julep will much avail both to cause rest and refresh the spirits Take the Waters of Carduus benedict Fennel Cordial Iulep of each two ounces Treacle-water Syrup of red Poppies of each one ounce Laudanum opiatum six grains Salt of Wormwood half a drachm Spirit of Salt twenty drops mix it and give the sick three or four spoonfulls every three hours By the frequent use of this Cordial Julep or one like it all pains will be eased nature quieted and relieved and the importunate thirst allayed But if thirst still urgeth give the dulcified Spirit of Salt or of Niter in Posset-drink and all the Liquids they take from six to ten or twelve drops at a time If you fear there be any Malignancy in the Fever give the sick eight or ten grains of Bezoardic mineral every fourth hour in a spoonfull or two of the aforesaid Julep or good sound Canary-wine to keep the Patient in a breathing sweat As for the Cure of Fevers attended with grievous and furious raging and watchings c. I refer you to the Chapter of Phrensies which is full to this purpose I shall now give some directions to young Physicians and Nurses and so conclude this Chapter of Fevers in general 1. First give no Opiats in the beginning of a Fever because they tye up the Archaeus of the Stomach and first passages thereby hindring it from expelling the occasional cause of the Disease 2. Give the sick neither Mithridate nor Diascordium as is the common custome nor apply it to the Wrists nor Stomach nor any thing else that is nauseous whilst Nature and the Disease are strugling but if the Patient tends to coldness you may moisten a piece of Rose-cake or a tost of stale Bread in Sylvius's Spirit or for want thereof in Brandy dulcified and apply it to the Stomach twice a day which will revive nature and fortifie it against the invading Enemy 3. Give no meat whilst the disease is on them for the Stomach is not fit to receive it neither hath it strength to digest it and therefore it will become a recruit or supply to the Disease except it be speedily vomited up again 4. If it be a Child give it not any Milk and if it Suck wean it for Milk is the first matter and foundation of this disease in them neither give it Beer nor water nor any cooling things to correct the heat because it will weaken nature and strengthen the Disease But hot Posset-drink turn'd with White-wine or sound Beer with a little Vinegar may be drank liberally after the Cause is removed 5. If the sick be Adult you may give two parts of Water and one of good Wine either French Wine or Sherry but Malaga or any other sweet Wine is not so good 6. When the Patient begins to recover the plainest broths and gruels are the best till then a little is too much and if you did use Salt and Vinegar instead of Spice and Sugar it would agree better with them CHAP. VII Of intermitting Fevers AN intermitting Fever is that which returns after intervalls sometimes longer sometimes shorter in divers Fits whence according to the divers space of every access or fit the same gets also divers Names for if a new Fit return daily answering the precedent in proportion it is called a Quotidian If it comes every other day it is called a Tertian If the fit return after two days intermission it is called a Quartan and so forward although Quintans Sextans c. are seldom observ'd And here you may note that intermitting Fevers do but seldom return in the exact Observation intervall of natural days of twenty four hours but return quicker or slower for the most part wherefore then they are said to anticipate the expected time for some hours which is disliked or to come later which is commended by some Although it matters not whether the fits anticipate or come