there is a gross clammy flegm with a cold distemper which oppresseth the heat and it laboureth to conquer it and so causeth wind that stretcheth and is disturbant This pain is allayed by belching or vomiting flegm It is worst after meat when it is only from a cold distemper without matter For the natural heat being weak or oppressed with cold or windy meats doth dissolve them but yielding to the burthen doth not concoct them and thence ariseth wind For the Cure of this the first intention is to evacuate what is preternatural The second is with thin and hot medicines that extenuate wind to abate it and after good diet the first thing is to keep the belly loose by a Lenitive or a Suppository then if there be gross flegm at the bottom of the stomach vomit with Oxymel of Squills or the decoction of Radish Dill Arrage sometimes before sometimes after supper as the Patient is easie or hard to vomit As Take Radish two ounces stamp them add Mead or decoction of Dill strain and drink it warm for luke-warm things provoke Vomit by relaxing Or Take Dill seed Radish seed each an ounce and half Agarick a dram in Powder Boil them in water to half to six ounces strained add Syrup of Vinegar or Oxymel of Squills if the matter be very thick an ounce then give and tickle the throat with a feather If by straitness of breast or the like he cannot vomit prepare the flegm with Honey of Roses Oxymel Syrup of Stoechas and the Decoction of Rue Pennyroyal Calamints Hysop Organ great hot Seeds and purge flegm with Pil. aureae of Hiera with Agarick or simple Hiera Electuary Indi major Benedicta laxativa or the like after flegm is purged use to chew Ginger or Elicampane candied but chiefly roots of Masterwort to which I give the Prerogative in this disease Then use Diatrionpipereon Diacalaminth Dianisum Diacinamomum Electuary of Bay-berries Mithridate Treacle or the Powder of Cummin with a little Salt and Chicken Broth or Wine or Chamomil boiled in Wine with Anise Cummin Nutmeg and Oyl of sweet Almonds I suppose there is no Remedy like it also Castor half a dram Cloves half a scruple drunk in Wine or Poli montane in Wine or Oxymel or Vinegar of Squills which cuts vehemently given an ounce twice in a day in Wine Aegineta saith that the bone of a Hogs foot burnt and drunk discusseth wind Also Cinnamon water of Mathiolus alone or with Aqua vitae or Sack with Cinnamon Galangal or Wine with Rosemary Carrot seed Cummin Caraway Bay and Juniper-berries or give this Hippocras to dainty palates Take Sugar four ounces Cubebs Grains of Paradise Galangal Ginger each a dram long Pepper half a dram Cinnamon four drams Sack two pints strain them But remember to use very hot things very seldom whether simple or compound before the gross flegm be purged or vomited For all sharp things or that are very hot if they fall upon clammy flegm do raise wind which they cannot discuss and instead of Cure will do hurt and that which is good after purging is bad before Beware then you use not too weak Remedies that cannot overcome or too strong out of order and so cast the Patient into a Tympany It is good outwardly to bind the stomach strait to hinder wind and further concoction and to foment the stomach with Oyl with Rue Calamints Rosemary Cummin Anise Smallage Carrot seed Bay-berries boiled in it or boil them in Wine and foment or use Oyl of Mace or Cloves These by their thinness open the skin and extenuate discuss the wind and strengthen and warm and restore the suffocated heat and refresh by a propriety of substance You may make of these an excellent Oyntment thus Take Oyl of Mace by expression six drams Oyl of Wormwood Mastich each four drams Wood Aloes Nutmeg Cubebs Cloves each half a dram Musk Benzoin Saffron each six grains Make a Powder and with Wax make an Oyntment anoint with it hot before meat after the former Fomentation and Oyntment apply a Bag of Feathers or this Take Organ Wormwood Mints each half a handful Milium Aniseeds parched each half an ounce Chamomil Lavender Rosemary flowers each a pugil Bay-berries a dram Nutmeg half a dram Powder them grosly and quilt them in thin red Silk sprinkle Wine on it and apply it hot to the stomach Also a large Cupping-glass applied three or four times without Scarification to the belly so that it may comprehend the Navel doth often make a perfect Cure Or a hot Tile in a double cloth wet in Wine changing it when cold Thus much of the inflation of the stomach CHAP. XX. Of the Cure of windy Melancholy THis is hard to be cured for divers causes For besides the vehement obstruction of the Meseraicks with gross crude Melancholy and flegm which constantly send up wind there is a great distemper of the bowels Hence come great accidents namely stoppage of excrements from a hot Liver that drys and sucks up the moisture difficult breathing from the stomach swollen and pressing the Midriff pain of stomach from wind that stretcheth and a cold distemper belchings vomitings and putrefaction from obstruction in time by the venomous vapours whereof the Soul fainteth and there is a doting This inequality of parts hath contrary indications for Cure For the heat of the Liver requires cooling and the cold of the stomach heating And it is plain that the medicines that cut gross humours and extenuate and prepare and evacuate and discuss wind must be very hot and hot things increase the heat of the Liver and the veins and heat abounding disperseth what is thin in the humours and thickens the rest and fixeth it more and makes more wind from that humour On the contrary cold things by congealing to thicken the matter stop the passages and abate the natural heat of the stomach hinder concoction cause crudities and wind Therefore the only way is to cure by moderate Preparatives and Purges and because moderation doth little good in so great a disease it is very hard to be cured But let not difficulty frighten but begin valiantly with this Clyster Take Polypody roots Senna each an ounce Mallows Pellitory Beets red Coleworts each a handful Chamomil flowers a pugil Aniseeds six drams boil them to half to a pint strained add Diacatholicon and red Sugar each an ounce Oyl of Dill two ounces with a little Salt make a Clyster Or give this Potion Take Senna four drams Agarick a dram Ginger and Asarum roots each half a dram Infuse them twelve hours in Succory water then boil them with Aniseeds bruised to four ounces strained add two ounces of Manna Syrup of Roses an ounce Or if he be poor Confectio Hamec Electuary of Dates each a dram Syrup of Roses an ounce give it in the morning The next day if there be no hindrance open the Basilica on the right side or on the left if the Spleen be stopt to five
purge with these pills Take Pilulae aureae a dram Troches of Alhandal three grains with Syrup of Stoechas make five Pills give them at midnight Or thus Take Agarick two drams Sal Gem Ginger Turbith each half a dram infuse them in Hysop and sage-Sage-water each two ounces strain and add Elect Ind. Maj. two drams Electuary of juyce of Roses a dram Syrup of Stoechas an ounce This done often and the pain cease not let us use Topicks as Galen lib. de compos med sec loc saith sometimes wind or clammy matter is sometimes so fixed in strait passages that it requires long Cure Therefore it must be attenuated and the part dilated and the part strengthened that no more come or breed Therefore after preparatives and purges use cupping to the head without bleeding if blood abound not or scarifie the shoulders if blood abound This is very good Or roast a Turnep and take off the top and apply it hot behind the Ears and then another and so till the wind and pain pass away apply it to the side of the part pained or to both if the pain be all over This is good also for the Toothach from wind Or use Castor or Scents that pierce and extenuate or Gith-seed steept in Vinegar or anoint the Nostrils and Ears with Oyl of Castor or Spike or Oyl in which were boiled Castor Rue Calaminths Piony-seeds Then use Masticatories to take away the reliques and discuss the wind Take Mastich Pellitory-roots white Pepper bark of Capar-roots each half a dram with Vinegar of Squills make Troches to be chewed after a stool in the morning Or Take Roots of Pellitory Stavesacre each two scruples Nutmeg Ginger white Pepper each half a scruple Mastich two drams with Vinegar make Balls or discuss wind and evacuate with Neesings Take white Hellebore two scruples and half Stavesacre white Pepper each a scruple Ginger Cloves Gith seed each half a scruple with Turpentine and Wax make Errbines like great Cloves Or snuff up the juyce of red Coleworts or Danwort roots Orris with Marjoram or Bettony-water and Honey When we think the Brain is cleansed then dry and strengthen and discuss wind with a Lixivium As Galen lib. 7. de facult natural it is made of water and ashes one pound of ashes to three pints of water take most ashes of Willows and Vines and fewer of Colewort and Bean stalks This cleanseth dryes and consumes wind and tumours of flegm with Marjoram Bettony Asarabacca Bay and Juniper-berries and Rosemary boiled in it Or Take Wormwood Sage dryed Rosemary each a pugil Frankincense Milium parched red Roses dry Chamomil flowers each two drams Juniper-berries and Piony seeds each a dram Cloves long Pepper Cubebs Wood Aloes each a scruple make a Quilt of Silk Then give Diacyminum Diatrionpeperion Diacalaminth or Confection of Bay-berries fasting chiefly if the wind be cold or from a cold cause But if it be hot as Galen lib. 2. de compos med sec loc first repel with cold things then mitigate and concoct with Repellers then discuss with few Repellers by degrees ceasing from them till the medicine be most digestive and attenuating and less anodyne and then discuss Vinegar is a repeller attenuater and a discussive it is cold and thin like a clear North-wind but it must not be used along being too strong but with Oyl of Roses Purslane juyce or Nightshade or use Oyl of Roses with the White of an Egg and Vinegar with Stuphes to the Forehead CHAP. XV. Of the Cure of the Noise in the Ears from Wind. IF wind gets into the Organof Hearing and sticks there strongly as by the ringing hissing rustling cracking and murmur is gathered after general and particular evacuations as in the Chapter before use Cutters and Dryers to the Ears as Oyl of bitter Almonds of Castor Cummin Rue Spike with Vinegar and Honey if you will more discuss and attenuate Aetius saith Castor and Spike Oyls with Vinegar and Oyl of Roses do wonders dropt into the Ears and juyce of Leeks with Breast-milk or Oyl of Roses Or Take Nitre Mirrh each a dram white Hellebore half a dram Castor a scruple grinde them with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar and drop it in But first sume with a Funnel evening and morning with this Decoction Take Calamints Marjoram Centaury the less Rosemary each a handful Juniper-berries a pugil Bayes and Wormwood each half a handful Lupines ten or twelve Earth worms washed in Wine and tyed in a Clout half a pugil Water one part white Wine two parts boil and keep it for a Fume then drop in the former Or this of Solenander and stop with black Wool Take Oyl two ounces Oyl of Leeks bitter Almonds each an ounce juyce of Rue Radish each half an ounce Sack an ounce and half boil them in a glass till the Wine and the juyces be almost consumed Then add powder of Lavender Coloquintida Castor and Mastich each two grains Then stop the glass and set it three hours in Balneo then set it in another vessel in the Sun till it be clear then strain it add a grain and half of Musk. While the Fume is used chew Beans or Pease to open the passages of the Ears that the Fume may penetrate Or thus Take juyce of Garlick Calamints each an ounce Aqua vitae Oyl of Bayes and bitter Almonds each half an ounce Aloes Mirrh each a scruple Saffron four grains make a fine Powder fill two great hollow Onions therewith cover them and roast them under the Embers and strain out the juyce drop often some into the Ears chiefly morning and evening after fuming Also Wine with flowers of Chamomil and Lavender boiled therein discusseth wind very well if dropt hot into the Ears and often or a Bag made of the same and Rosemary and Lavender flowers Wormwood and Calamints and quilted and applyed after the Fume and Oyntment for all night lying upon it all the time of the use of these use Clysters that are gentle at seasons to keep the belly open lest the binding in of the excrements should heap up more new matter to cause the disease CHAP. XVI Of the Cure of the Toothach from Wind. WE shewed that wind would move very swiftly and in a moment go through the thickest bodies it is no wonder then if it get into the Nerves under the Teeth and cause intolerable pains by stretching and by its coldness Therefore the Cure is to being with common Evacuations by emollient Clysters As Take Diacatholicon an ounce and half red Sugar an ounce Oyl of Dill and of Chamomil each an ounce and half Salt a dram dissolve them in the common Decoction for Clysters a pint If after the excrements are discharged you desire to dissolve more the thickness of the wind and revel make this Take Rue French Lavender Beets Centaury the less each a handful flowers of Elder St. Johns-wort Chamomil each a pugil Bay-berries Cummin seed each half an ounce Agarick Senna each half an ounce
boil them and to a pint add Electuary Ind. maj Hiera Logodii each four drams Honey of Roses two ounces Oyl of Bayes three ounces Electuary of Bayes two drams make a Clyster If they will not take Clysters give Pills of washed Aloes of Hiera aureae Cochic after preparation and abatement of pain But if pain be great and the matter small omit preparation and evacuation and fall upon that which most disturbeth therefore asswage pain speedily apply a small Cupping-glass without much flame twice or thrice to the shoulder then take Gith Cummin seed Pellitory and Parsley roots each half an ounce boil them in Wine to the consumption of half wash the teeth with it hot it will discuss and attenuate and amend the cold distemper and draw out much slimy matter which breeds wind Or boil Pellitory roots half an ounce white Pepper a dram in Vinegar and wash the mouth therewith or you may make a Bag and apply it to the Tooth thus Take Calamints Hysop Chamomil each a handful Milium parched Bran Salt each a pugil Cummin half an ounce make a Bag. Then put a red hot Iron into an earthen Jug and pour into it three or four spoonfuls of Vinegar and let the Bag take the Fume at the mouth of the Jug The Women hold it for a great Secret to apply a roasted Turnep behind the Ears for it revels strongly and abates pain to my knowledge I never allowed Narcoticks in this Disease for they thicken the wind too much and make it fix like a cloud upon the Nerves and roots of the Teeth and congealing makes a little ease but increaseth the Disease But if the pain be intolerable to refresh Nature you must use Narcoticks with hot things to abate their force and look both at the Symptom and cause Thus Take Pellitory Pepper each a scruple Opium half a scruple bind them in a Clout and infuse them two or three hours in Vinegar and apply it to the Tooth Or Take Henbane seed Stavesacre and Pellitory each a scruple and with Vinegar make a Pill hold it at the Tooth for an hour it abates pain wonderfully and doth no hurt yet I could wish that only Discussers might remove pain CHAP. XVII Of the Cure of a windy Pleurisie THe pain is great which is from wind in the side when it gets into the cavity of the Breast or between the Membranes that are under the Ribs for then as in a true Pleurisie there is a Cough restlesness and sometimes a Fever thirst and stretching pain which may be distinguished from a true Pleurisie by many signs yet Hippocrates for better security bids us soment with hot things and if the pain increase it is certainly from a defluxion and chiefly of hot matter if it abate it is from wind or a small defluxion which easily breaks forth when the skin is made thinner by the Fomentation It is not good to use Fomentations only but to give Clysters to make passage for the wind for in this disease the excrements are hard by idleness or driness when the moisture is gone to the veins or from much flegm that is gross which stops the passages therefore give a common Clyster first then a stronger to purget see the precedent Chapter If he will not take a Clyster give this Medicine Take Diacatholicon four drams Electuary of Dates two drams species Hierae s half a dram with Sugar make a Bole. Or give this Powder in Cock-broth or Wine Take Senna four scruples Rhubarb half a scruple Diagredium two grains Aromaticum rosatum eight grains Sugar a sufficient quantity After Evacuation open the Liver-vein on the side affected if there be much blood or great pain otherwise not then use Fomentations and the like to the part Take Calamints Pennyroyal Rosemary each one handful Rae Bayes each half a handful Juniper berries and Chamomil flowers each a pugil seeds of Foenugreek Line and Bran each three ounces Boil them to half then put the Liquour and Herbs in a Bladder and apply them or use a Cloth or a Sponge dipt in it do this often This concocts the thick and crude spirit extenuates and discusseth after this anoint with Oyl of Chamomil or bitter Almonds and apply a hot cloth Or make a Bag of Rue Thyme Wormwood Lavender Rosemary Chamomil Gith seed Cummin Carrot Bay-berries as in Chap. 16. When the wind is thus discussed it is good to apply a great Cupping-glass six fingers breadth below the part without Scarification but with a great flame twice or thrice this will discuss the wind easier it would not at first be discussed by a Cupping-glass If this will not do but the wind is bred still from clammy flegm prepare it thus by Inciders and Extenuaters Take roots of Orris Parsley Elicampane each an ounce bark of Dwarf-elder roots and of Tamarisk each four drams Sage Rosemary Hysop Roman Wormwood each half a handful Dodder a handful of the four great hot Seeds each two drams Raisons stoned a pugil Liquorish four drams boil them to half to a pint strained add Syrup of the five Roots two ounces of French Lavender Oxymel of Squills each an ounce and Sugar and a dram and half of Cinnamon make an Apozem for four draughts to be taken twice a day Then purge flegm thus Take Agarick four scruples Ginger half a dram infuse them in fennel-Fennel-water and white Wine twelve hours strain and add Benedicta laxativa three drams Electuary of the juyce of Roses half a dram Syrup of Calamints an ounce Or Take Turbith a dram Ginger half a dram Sugar two drams give it in powder with white Wine or Broth. Afterwards repeat the Fomentations Oyntments and Cupping-glasses and use Diacyminum or Electuary of Bay-berries or this Confection Take Conserve of Borage flowers candied Elicampane each half an ounce species of Diacyminum Dianisi Bay-berries each a scruple Cinnamon half a scruple with Syrup of Citron peels make an Electuary give a dram fasting in a decoction of Chamomil flowers and Aniseeds in white Wine It is good also to foment with Spirit of Wine and Oyl of bitter Almonds and apply a hot clout You must do the like in inflations of the Lungs CHAP. XVIII Of the Cure of a windy Palpitation A Palpitation is a Symptom of the Heart namely an elevation and depression of it preternaturally caused by wind and it is more dangerous then another palpitation because the part is most noble For if it be strong or last long it so weakens the vital faculty that it turns to fainting or sudden death Therefore presently strengthen the Heart with good Diet and Physick discuss wind and remove the cause Let the air be clear hot and dry not stinking or cloudy make it so by art if it be not naturally clear and sweet by sweet cordial things Let him abstain from strong passions of mind chiefly from sudden fear and shamefulness and from much Wine but moderate doth well and Venery and sleep in the day cold
drink and from all things mentioned in the Chapter of prevention Keep the Belly loose by Clysters or Suppositories Take Marsh-mallow roots two ounees the five Emollients each a handful Aniseeds an ounce Chamomil flowers a pugil Agarick Senna each four drams boil them to a pint strained add Diacatholicon red Sugar each an ounce Hiera with Honey half an ounce Oyl of Chamomil Dill each two ounces Salt a dram make a Clyster Or make a Suppository of boiled Honey and a scruple of Hiera simple or for the tender sort make one of the Yolk of an Egg and Salt a Candles end a Fig turned inside outward or the like All know I suppose that little food is to be used not too moist or windy of good juyce and easie concoction chiefly roasted with Hysop Fennel Balm Borage Cloves and other hot and dry Cordials Some object against bleeding that it weakens the vital strength which is weak before nor can the disease be cured by it being not in the blood but I answer with Galen lib. de loc affect 5. that bleeding is a wonderful help in all Palpitations And he saith that this palpitation comes often suddenly upon young and old without any manifest accident and bleeding doth always good to such and cures them if they use an extenuating diet afterwards For bleeding doth good more by revulsion of humours from the Heart then weak and attracting by its motion then by any other way in regard there is then a cold distemper and the wind is cold Open therefore the Liver-vein in the right Arm and bleed by degrees for revulsion except there be any hindrance from age strength or the like Then use extenuating Diet and cutting Medicines that expel wind to correct the cold distemper of the Heart and strengthen it and consume flegm that breeds wind and stir up natural heat and restore the animal and natural actions Let Medicines be hot and such as strengthen the vitals as Diacinamomum Diacalaminthum Dianisum Aromaticum rosatum Diamoschu dulce and amarum Mithridate Treacle with Wine or in Electuaries As Take Citron peels candied an ounce and half Conserve of Borage flowers an ounce Aromaticum rosatum a dram Diamoschu dulce Diacalaminth each two scruples Citron and Melon seeds blanched each half a dram red Coral and Coriander seeds each a scruple with Syrup of Borage make an Electuary give as much as a Walnut in Wine three hours before meat Or make these Lozenges Take Aromaticum rosatum Electuary of Bay-berries each half a dram Cardamoms Citron seeds and red Coral each half a scruple Diacyminum a scruple make Lozenges with Sugar dissolved in Balm water of a dram weight give one three hours before meat and another at bed-time with four ounces of Wine or this Hippocras Take white Sugar four ounces Cinnamon three drams Ginger half a dram Electuary of Bay-berries and grains each two scruples strong Wine two pints Filter it or give every day four hours before meat half a dram of Treacle with Wine wherein Mace and Cinnamon are boiled Anoint the Heart or make an Epithem of Oyl of Spike with Amber and Musk or with Wine in which Balm Rosemary Cummin Bay-berries were boiled with Oyl of sweet Almonds and Cloves powdered Nutmeg and Cinnamon This is for the richer sort Take water of Balm and Citron flowers each half a pint Sack three ounces Mace Cloves Nutmegs each a dram Diambra four scruples Citron and Basil seed each two drams Saffron a scruple make an Epithem apply it hot before meat Or use this Bag. Take Rosemary flowers Borage and Chamomil flowers each a pugil Citron seeds Wood Aloes Cinnamon each a dram Cloves Cubebs Cardamoms each half a dram Saffron a scruple Beat them gross and make a quilted Bag sprinkle it with Sack and apply it to the Heart Thus must you cure a palpitation only from wind without a cause that feeds it If there be gross flegm that breeds the wind first prepare thus Take Balm Borage Bettony Calamints Rosemary each half an handful Stoechas Peach flowers each a pugil Aniseeds Cardamoms each two drams Raisons stoned a pugil Bruise them and steep them twelve hours in Rhenish Wine and balm-Balm-water each half a pint in a glass then boil them in Balneo Mariae three hours stopping the glass Clarifie it and add Syrup of Citron peels and Bysants each two ounces cordial Species a dram give it for four mornings Then purge thus Take Agarick a dram and half Ginger half a dram Infuse them twelve hours in the decoction of Balm Dodder Calamints and Hysop then give it three or four boils and strain it add to four ounces an ounce of Syrup of Stoechas Elect. Indi maj Benedicta laxativa each two drams give it at five in the morning If the matter be so clammy and thick that these will not do prepare it four days longer with such as do more extenuate and cut as with Oxymels Syrup of the five Roots water of Balm Scabious Hysop or with the Decoction of Organ Calamints Hysop Pennyroyal Bettony Rosemary or give with the Syrups two scruples of Treacle or Mithridate or a dram of Dianisum or Diacalamints and then purge against thus Take Turbith a dram Diagredium two grains Ginger half a dram Sugar two drams Powder them give it with Chicken-broth in the morning after these preparatives and purges give the former strengtheners If the wind that causeth palpitation come from a melancholy humour as in the Hypochondriack Melancholy prepare it with Syrup of Fumitory Apples juyce of Borage Epithymum or of Citron peels in the Decoction of Fumitory Pennyroyal Borage Dodder tops of Hops Wormwood roots of Polypody and Bugloss and purge with confection of Hamec Diasena and Diacatholicon or with the Syrup of John Montanus that is very excellent which is here described Take of all the Myrobalans each half an ounce Polypody Senna Epithymum each an ounce Liquorish Cloves seeds of Citrons each two drams black Hellebore half an ounce Bruise and steep the Myrobalans twenty four hours in seven pints of Fumitory water or in seven pints of the juyce then add the rest and boil them to half strain and divide it into six parts and add to each of Syrup of Fumitory an ounce and half Syrup of Citron peels half an ounce so that there be six ounces of the Decoction and two of Syrups This is Montanus his Apozem against Melancholy Give the other things mentioned Electuaries and Lozenges and Epithems in the order before mentioned CHAP. XIX Of the Cure of the puffing of the Stomach THe inflation of the stomach is a preternatural extension of the Membranes of the stomach by wind with pain In this the proper action of the stomach is frustrated which is concoction in regard the faculty of embracing the food doth not every where compass it by reason of weakness but there is a vacuity between the stomach and the meat This pain is sometimes before meat most sometimes after Before meat because
wind prepare the matter with this Apozem Take Elicampane roots Madder and Asarabaccaroots each six drams bark of Danewort roots and Capar roots each four drams Germander Ceterach Hysop each a handful Roman Wormwood half a handful Carrot and Aniseeds each three drams Juniper-berries and Currans each a pugil boil them to half to a pint strained add Sugar and a dram and half of Cinnamon for four Doses Or Take the Decoction aforesaid four ounces Syrup of Calamints an ounce Oxymel of Squills two drams and so for the other three Doses Then Take Dialacca two scruples species of the Electuary of Bay berries Diarrhodon each half a scruple with Sugar dissolved in fennel-Fennel-water and Wine make Tablets of a dram weight give one with the Syrups After preparation purge flegm thus Take Turbith two scruples Ginger one scruple Senna powdered half a dram Sugar two drams give it in Broth fasting Or Take Agarick four scruples Ginger half a dram infuse them fourteen hours in three ounces of Bettony water strain and add Electuary Indi major three drams Syrup of the five Roots an ounce give it in the morning The day after give this Electuary Take old Treacle half a dram Conserve of Rosemary flowers and of Borage flowers each a dram If any matter remains prepare and purge again in this way of acting you shall cure the wind and strengthen as well as evacuate the flegm Moreover the stretching of the Hypochondrion is not long without flegm for pain attracts it and the extension of the passages receives it and its coldness hinders the Liver so that crudities are by degrees laid up therefore consider both but that chiefly which urgeth most When it is from wind only give a Clyster or a Lenitive rather then a strong Purge and cutting Apozem and the Tablets mentioned to unstop them And discuss wind with Wine wherein Cummin Anise Cubebs Juniper-berries Cardamoms and Cinnamon were boiled or in which Diacurcuma and Treacle each half a dram are dissolved Or this Hippocras Take Treacle a dram Cardamoms Cubebs each two scruples Cinnamon three drams Sugar four ounces strain them But use hot things warily if there be Plethory or a hot Liver Foment the Liver with the Decoction of Wormwood Pennyroyal Bay-berries in Wine or with Oyl wherein Rue Wormwood Cypress roots and Galangal are boiled and apply Bags and apply large Cupping-glasses twice or thrice with much flame but not before flegm is perfectly evacuated otherwise the flegm will be more fixed and cause a true Schirrus CHAP. XXIII Of the Cure of the flatuous Obstruction of the Spleen GAlen saith the Spleen doth often return to the touch although it be not schirrous but windy this is cured as the Liver but it is often more stubborn and requires peculiar Medicines and stronger both Apozems and Purges if there be gross humours as often there are As Bark of Capar roots Tamarisk and Dwarfe-elder inward bark of the Ash-tree Ceterach Harts-tongue Centaury the less Polypody hot Seeds as Agnus castus Epithymum Senna Vinegar of Squills Oxymels Syrup of Fumitory and the like of which you may make cutting Apozems that discuss wind and then purge with Confectio Hamec Diasenna and Electuary Indi majoris Use strong Fomentations chiefly if the vapours be gross of strong Wine with Wormwood Bay-berries Rue and hot Seeds boiled therein or of Vinegar as I do with Agnus castus seeds Rue Calamints Bay-berries Horebound Centaury Broom flowers roots of Danewort or Orris boiled in it If these do not suffice foment with a Lixivium of the ashes of Coleworts Oak or Beans adding Aqua vitae and Oyl of bitter Almonds Then apply a Plaister of a mixed faculty as that of Sulphur and Allum But if the wind be not much and that thin and without matter to feed it and the body thin you must use gentler Medicines both inwardly and outwardly And sometimes a Cupping-glass alone will do the work If you desire more read the former Chapter CHAP. XXIV Of the Cure of the Tympany THe Tympany is the third sort of Dropsie and is from wind bred from a weak natural heat It is superfluously gathered between the Peritonaeum and the Omentum or Cawl and gets into the other Membranes of the Abdomen or Paunch and stretcheth it violently all over till it be very great and is known by the noise rumbling and sound like a drum when struck with the finger-nail At first it was only a wind that could not be discussed then it grows thicker like a Cloud and at last turns to water whence a humour is gathered with the cloudy wind The Cure after good order of diet which you may find before is by concoction of the humours and their evacuation bewaring lest with strong Remedies as Mesereon Chamelaea Coloquintida Briony Spurge or Antimony which many use you destroy the natural heat For it is manifest that such Medicines do shake the strongest bodies if afflicted with a long and old disease and bring dangerous pains destroy strength and disperse the spirits But labour to strengthen the natural heat that it may overcome and expel what hurts Nature Therefore prepare the matter thus Take roots of Masterwort Elicampane Madder bark of the roots of Dwarfe-elder each three drams roots of Orris Asarabacca each two drams Organ Calamints each a pugil Soldanella or Sea-bind-weed an ounce Gratiola or Hedg-Hysop two drams Aniseeds and Bay-berries each half an ounce Boil them in two parts of Wine and one of Water or in Wine alone three or four hours in Balneo strain and add Sugar drink a glass morning and evening then purge with these Pills Take Pills of Hiera with Agarick Turbith Rhubarb each two scruples Soldanella a dram Asarum roots a scruple Troches of Alhandal Elaterium Nutmeg Galangal Cinnamon Pepper Cubebs each half a seruple Powder them and with Juyce of Orris make a Mass and with Oxymel of Squills make five Pills of a dram give them at midnight Or give our Pills of Soldanella good against all Dropsies as Take Pills of Agarick a dram Troches of Alhandal half a scruple tops of Soldanella Gratiola Cinnamon each a scruple with juyce of Orris make five Pills of a dram give two or three at the most at midnight and repeat the Apozem before mentioned sometimes with the Pills for the one discusseth wind making it thin and the other prepares and purgeth the humours and let the stomach and other parts be strengthned with these Electuaries Take juyce of Orris four drams Cinnamon Galangal each two drams Cloves and Mace each a dram Zedoary two scruples Soldanella half an ounce Powder them and with Honey make an Electuary give as much as a Nutmeg every day or other day Or this Take Electuary of Bay-berries four drams Conserve of Elicampane roots two drams Dianisum Diagalanga Diacyminum each a scruple Oyl of Juniper a dram with Syrup of Stoechas make an Electuary Or give this Potion Take Cinnamon water two ounces Aqua vitae four drams some drops of Oyl
cold raiseth no vapours because it cannot extenuate nor dissolve nor concoct so vehement heat overcomes for the most part what is comprehended extenuates the food beyond the generation of vapours except it be such as easily turns to wind If the heat be weak it dissolves the food but doth not concoct perfectly and hence comes wind And as in external things as a cold season chiefly when the North wind blows makes the air clearer and a very hot season makes the air pure but the middle constitution of air produceth clouds so it is in Animals heat when very weak or very strong doth not cause wind but the mean between both But Galen 12. Meth. med saith that wind is not only from a mean but vehement heat as appears by their generation there mentioned and by his way of cure For he saith if by any accident a vaporous spirit be joyned with gross glutinous humours that cannot break forth of the body there is very great pain and that from two causes obstruction or heat For obstruction keeps the wind in and gross glutinous matter when it is hot causeth wind And a little after how then saith he shall we cure those pains which a cold humour shut up in the guts hath caused Not by Cataplasms and Fomentations which heat violently for all clammy humours that are gross and cold are discussed into wind by things that heat except they also strongly digest Therefore they must be cut and concocted at the same time by attenuaters which are not too hot From these words of Galen it appears that a vehement heat doth not hinder breeding of wind or discuss them being bred but will cause them from the subject matter to breed anew when they were gone Therefore Lib. 3. cap. 43. he saith we must beware of nothing more in the abundance of such humours then immoderate heat that will melt them and turn them into wind but not digest them The Italian Doctor knew this well who as Paul Aegineta saith cured almost all Colicks with cold remedies and Paul knew it when he wrote that pains from cold clammy and tough humours are to be cured with respect that the medicines be not vehement hot for so they will be melted and turned more to winds Also strong heat doth not only make wind of flegm which it cannot consume but also of any over-much moisture received as in such as have drunk too much Wine or Beer or Broth or stuffed themselves with any gross or clammy food which the heat cannot consume So vehement heat also raiseth wind This is clear in Feavers also in which though preternatural heat abound much drink swells the belly because Nature is thereby restrained Therefore three things are required in the breeding and understanding of Wind heat naturally too weak or so by oppression that the part be sensible and fit and the matter proper to produce wind CHAP. VI. Of the Differences of Wind bred in the Body THe wind is of divers natures one sort is quiet another moved The quiet is gross and of flow motion cloudy and cold that brings seldom any Symptoms but a swollen Belly and Hypochondria without much pain This troubles such commonly that drink thick sweet Ale or Milk or Water between meals chiefly for that corrupts concoction and weakneth the action of the stomach as if you should pour cold water into a boiling Kettle and thence there will be cloudy vapours and fluctuations that will swell the Belly like a Drum which will fall with sobriety and a stool or two But if it stay long between the tunicles of the guts it threatens a dangerous Colick A moved wind because it is thin and running about with great pain is like a changeable Proteus It is either cast out or retained goes forth with or without noise by the mouth or Fundament By the mouth the belch is sour or smoak-like and unsavory by the Fundament it is with or without noise These are of so much concernment in the body of man as the Stoicks according to Cicero Lib. 9. epist epist 22. said that a fart ought to be as free as a belch And Claudius Caesar made an Edict to give leave for any to fart at meat because he knew one endangered by refraining through modesty Suet in vita Claudii cap. 23. But when wind is sent out at neither part but detained it causeth a swelling a Symptom of the stomach not able through weakness to expel the abounding cloudy spirit Also Galen 3. Symp. caus lib. 6. cap. 6. saith there are divers parts of the guts in which the wind moves which though they have not distinct names yet may they so be declared that any ingenious person may understand what kind and how much the excrement is and in what part it chiefly moves For if it sound sharp and shrill it is carried through the strait gut and is more pure and aerial If it puff up it will make a small noise while it goes through the small guts but not so sharp and shrill All these noises are in the spaces of the empty gut usually make the less noise the lower they go Other noises are humming like that of Pipes which cannot give a pure sound by reason of the matter they consist of and the passage being large makes the sound greater Such winds are in the thick guts when they are empty and if any moisture be contained in them it will cause a kind of Bombus which is a rumbling which shews a moist stool to be at hand because it is from Nature moving and it is moist because it rumbled before Also the noise that follows the stool if it rumbles signifies more stools but if it be pure and clear it shews that either the gut is empty or that hard excrements are in its upper part That which is shrill is from the straitness of the passages and little moisture We might here add the different sounds of the wind in the ear but we shall reserve that for the eleventh Chapter where we shall speak of the pains of the ears CHAP. VII How many kinds of Diseases are produced by Wind. GAlen made three chief sorts of Diseases a Similary Instrumental and a Common which is the solution of unity A similary disease is that which overthrows the natural constitution An Organical or Instrumental is that which hinders the fashion in conformation number magnitude or composition The Common is when unity is dissolved in part Let us see which of these wind will produce Hippocrates Lib. de flatibus saith when a body is full of food and much wind prevails and the meat lies long in the stomach and cannot get out for abundance and the lower belly is stopt or bound wind goes over all the body and gets chiefly to the parts full of blood and cools them And if the parts be cooled where the blood comes there is chilness over all the body For when all the blood is cold the whole body must be chill Galen
the native heat through the body concoct humours and make the members active for their duties loofens the belly and sends forth wind so powerfully that there is no remedy like it and nothing safer nor better then seasonable exercise with a spare diet Eat therefore little and that with mustard or other attenuating and heating sauce except the constitution be sanguine or cholerick Sage Hysop Savory Fennel Marjoram Pennyroyal Calamints are to be used and roasted meat with Spices Sage or Rosemary Let his bread be well leavened and with Fennel Anise Parsley or Gith seeds His Wine strong when wind breeds from weak heat If the body be cholerick or plethorick drink little wine and that with water Let the powders following be taken after meat presently they do very much good They strengthen and constringe the stomach and suffer not the vapours of the food to flye into the head stir up the natural heat quicken concoction digest the Chyle drive excrements downwards and discuss wind exceedingly As Take Aniseeds candied three ounces Fennel seed an ounce and half Coriander prepared an ounce Cummin Caraway Seseli steept in white Wine each a dram dryed Citron peel gross Cinnamon each four scruples white Sugar twice as much Take a spoonful after meat and drink not after Or thus Take Coriander prepared Caraway Aniseeds each an ounce red Roses Mastich each a dram and half dryed Mints a dram Nutmeg Cinnamon Cubebs each half a dram make a fine Powder and add Sugar of Roses eight ounces give a spoonful after meat At night when concoction is almost finished chew Elicampane candied or Ginger a dram and swallow it or Gentian roots or Masterwort candied Cubebs or two or three grains of white Pepper only broken they wonderfully help a slow weak concoction and expel wind and they do the like in the morning fasting after going to stool If the belly be bound give Lenitives as three drams of Turpentine washed in white Wine in Wafers before dinner or half a dram of Rhubarb chewed and swallowed or a scruple of washed Aloes an hour afore supper or Carthamus seeds husked with Figs I allow not Cassia it is windy Thus much for Diet if it be tedious and do not cure take these medicines CHAP. XIII Of the common Cure of windy Diseases SOme will wonder that I shall order the cure of Symptoms mentioned which of themselves admit no Cure But we do it for the profit of the Reader For he that discusseth wind takes away the cause he that corrects the distemper and mends the faults in conformation and restores the solution of unity cures the disease But he that cures the pains that come from the diseases looks at the Symptoms Therefore we have called windy Diseases Symptoms looking at the pains they produce for the better method and then we have ordered the mitigation of Symptoms and the Cure of Diseases The knowledge of the disease gives the indication of cure The disease is the distraction of the parts by wind that stretcheth them which pain doth follow as a shadow and the disease vanisheth with the cause and the parts come to their old natural habit Therefore diseases from wind are to be cured by three sorts of remedies 1. By diet that is attenuating hot and dry 2. By medicines that open obstructions and cut gross clammy matter and purge which you shall find in every Chapter 3. The discussing of wind speedily before the strength abate by pain which is done by medicines of thin parts which if there be pain will abate it and strengthen the weak heat and extenuate the thick spirit and open the thickness of parts Also according to the difference of parts the medicines must be altered because the faculty is stronger or weaker CHAP. XIV Of the Cure of the Pain of the Head from Wind. WInd tyranizeth in divers places as Galen de compos med secund loc lib. 2. saith wind breeds in the stomach and guts for want of heat sometimes from the nature of the food and the organs are so filled and puffed up by reason of the weakness of the comprehensive faculty that they stretch and thereby have pain the same may be in parts of the head for a vapour or clammy humour that feeds it may be so fixed in the strait passages of the Brain that it will require a long cure First therefore whether it be wind alone in the passages which is known from the motion of the pain from place to place and by stretching without heaviness and beating or if there be much flegm that feeds it and so there is heaviness with stretching and sense of cold or if it flye to the head from parts below it is much concerned as to the cure Yet we begin in all windy diseases the same way partly by revelling from the head to the body partly by applying remedies to the part affected we revel by Clysters and Purges You may make Clysters thus Take Mallows Mercury red Coleworts Calaminth each half a handful Chamomil flowers Bran each a pugil Boil them to a pint and half add Diacatholicon red Sugar each an ounce and half Species Hierae simple two drams Oyl of Dill three ounces Salt a little make a Clyster Give it before meat not luke-warm for such things puff up but hot and that by degrees lest by force it drive the wind more upwards and cause more pain This is an excellent medicine which without trouble opens obstructions and empties out the hard dung and wind and draws it from the head After this give one of the Carminatives or Wind-breakers Take Althaea roots two ounces Mallows Calamints Pennyroyal Rue Sage each a handful flowers of Chamomil Stoechas Rosemary each a pugil Anise and wild Rue seeds and Cubebs each three drams Coloquintida a dram Boil them to a pint strained add Electuary of Dates an ounce Hiera Logodii two drams red Sugar an ounce and half Oyl of Rue three ounces Sal Gem a dram give it before meat It revels strongly from the head expels wind with the excrements But if the Piles or distast will not allow a Clyster give this Laxative in Costiveness Take Diacatholicon an ounce species Hierae simple a dram with Sugar make a Bolus or a Potion Take Lenitive Electuary six drams Electuary of the juyce of Roses a dram Syrup of Rose solutive an ounce and half dissolve them in the decoction of Flowers and Cordial Fruits After Laxatives if the head be full of gross humours give potions that attenuate and cut of Hysop Pennyroyal Calamints Sage French Lavender and Rosemary-flowers with Syrup of Stoechas Honey of Rosemary Or Take Hysop Sage Calamints each a handful flowers of Stoechas Rosemary Chamomil each a pugil male Piony-seeds an ounce Anise Carrot Parsley-seeds each two drams Boil and to a pint strained add Syrup of Stoechas Honey of Rosemary each an ounce and half Cinnamon a dram make an Apozem for divers draughts The humours thus prepared and the wind attenuated at least