about the third day but if the burning be in the third difference all the bladders must be cut and the Eschar must be taken away by the emollients or if it be great by scarification deeply even to the quick that passage may be made for emollients the dark fumes may breath forth or take it off with a pen knife Lay a defensive on the part If a Gangreen be feared we must prevent it Par. l. 11. Unguent of Alabaster is excellent to bring it to Cicaâ—rise Combustion by Gunpowder leaves a filthy colour with grains of powder which oft times can be put out neither by scarification nor cuppings nor vesicatories Combustion by thunder is most cured by internal Cordials and Topicals of Rue leaves Onions Theriac c. All Topicals must be made of Antidotes If the bone be broken withal common glutinatives restrain the venome c. Lay on medicaments of Angelica Roots Swallow-wort Rue leaves and also a defensative Burning of the Eyes drop in warm milk Forestus cured his son by an Emulsion of Quince seeds made in Rose water the other emollients are useful Combustion of the joynts will admit of no sharp remedies but softnesse first premising generals CONCUSSION of the Brain is made from an external cause So Hippocrates tels us of a woman killed with a box on the Ear. The signs are vomiting as in the fracture of the Scul Prognostick If the Blood be poured forth between the pia and dura mater it is past hopes The cure is made by Revulsives and Repulsives as by opening a Vein in the Arm give a Clyster A repelling Cataplasm laid on of Scordium Beans of each six ounces Oyl of Roles three ounces Vinegar what may serve the use of this is until the fourth day Cupping glasses fastned to the shoulders the next day open the Vena puppis which is above the Lambdoides The next day a Vein in the Fore-head under the tongue from the fourth day we must use Resolvers as the Cerate of Vigo or unguent of Alabaster a plaister of Ivy gumm The last remedy is to open the Scull after the second moneth Fabcent 4. obs 2. Par. l. 9. Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 20. CONTUSION with running forth of blood is when the blood is pressed forth of the Vessels by extension or breaking The cure The blood gone out of the Vessels must be evacuated either sensibly as by opening a Vein by cupping scarifying Leeches so the sick have not a continual and vehement Feaver or by internal Resolvers and sweating Baths thin Diet So Galen opened a Vein commonly though there were no fulne's then he exhibited 4 ounces of Oxycratum Topicals must be first Repulsives then dissolvers as Unguent of Alabaster which is alwayes good but at the beginning of a Feaver If a Gangreen be neer which is known by the hardnesse of the Tumor and wannesse for if it be soft it is a small contusion it must be strongly resolved with a little bag torrified c. or scarify it or open it with a knife cure it as a Gangreen Effectual is the root of Solomans seal prest bruised and laid on or steeped in wine If it be with a wound first lay on an astringent after a digestive to the parts about causing suppuration Par. l. 11. otherwise a suppurative hath no place on the part affected If it chance to infants Caesar Arantius was wont to use Section whereby by their crying and pain he brought them into very great danger Afterwards growing better skilled the first day of all he layed on a linnen cloth wet in whites of Eggs and Rose vinegar which must be often made wet after that until the ninth day he laid on a Cataplasm of flowers of Red roses leaves and berries of Myrtils of each two ounces meal of Beans and Barley of each one ounce Wormwood Betony of each half an ounce Cummin seed with black wine make a Cataplasm add oyl of Roses and Camomil of each one ounce lay it so great that it may lye on the neighbouring parts also After the tenth day he laid on the plaister Diapalma or Diacalcithcos Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 21. and concerning swellings Contusion with a fracture or wound of the Scull If much blood be run out between the Scull and the films which is known by the blood running forth at the Nostrils Ears by the heavinesse of the Head stupidnesse sleep If the Bone be pressed down and presse on the Brain which is proved by the Fingers If pieces of the Scull prick the Films which is known if while the sick bloweth his Nose he feeleth them prick or or there be a delirium the Scull must be opened or lifted up But if there be none of these first opening a Vein and giving purges of choler it is cured by a plaister of Ivy Gum So Forestus cured one by only oyl of Hyperici Vidus Vidius Lanfrancus say That it is oftner cured by Medicaments and safer then by the drepane Contusion with flux of blood by and upon the upper parts In this case 4 things are feared First Least the blood should run out too much 2. Lest it should strangle the sick 3. Lest it should congeal 4. Lest it should putrefie and seeing that congelation requires Dissolvers Ruptures means that consolidate we must apply to that which urgeth most Wherefore after opening of a Vein when blood is more seldome cast forth and seems not so fluent exhibit a resolvent as Posca allayed with water or Medicaments of the Hares runnet or Kids Avens Mugwort Red coleâ— Betony Rhabarb Rhapontick Terra sigillata Sperma ceti Crabs eys Harts horn Coral prepared Bole armenick Chervil water Decoction of our Lady leaves of the lesser Dasie Hyericon Fumitery Scabious Angelica roots Swallow-wort Seeds of Carduns Benedictus Madder Mumie is not useful for it causeth vomit c. Par. l. 11. Afterwards we must joyn together with all we can do as in spitting of blood Amber If there be paine of the Belly from congealed blood purge it forth with Rheubarb c. If there be a Cough stop the Rheum CONVULION is a depraved motion of the Muscles The cause is not Emptinesse because Hellebour will do it because it seldom happeneth in hectick and burning Feavers nor is it Repletion because in Plethory it comes not nor doth Hellebour fill The subject is the Muscles especially the nervous and fibrous parts of it when their expulsive faculty is urged whereby the animal faculty is drawn into consent as in vomiting and coughing c. If it stick fast to the part it causeth Convulsion but if the vapour or matter be moveable it causeth a convulsive motion If the muscle that is one or of one kind be affected as the bending Muscles there is a Convulsion but if two that are contrary there is made a convulsive motion In a convulsive motion the Brain is affected also but in a Convulsion but seldom If convulsion come from a wound it comes from
the sharpness of the matter when parts are contracted beyond their extension they are dislocated distorted that they cannot again be extended Prognosticks In Hippocrates Aphorism a Convulsion growing suddenly if a loosnesse of the Belly or a Feaver come upon it it is ended If they escape four days they are well The cure If it be by consent the part that principally offends must be cured If it be by essence opening a Vein is good or cupping-glasses with scarifying If the Legs be drawn set them to the Hips if the Hands set them to the first Vertebra of the Thorax If the Tongue the Eye-lids set them to the first Spondils of the Neck Purging chasing sharp Clysters anointing of the Back bone are good Topicals must be resolvent beginning from the milder oyis of Camomil Dil c. Goole-grease c. Internals must be as in the Palfey The Mouth drawn awry must by no means be opened with Instruments If it be from a wound the soul matter must be wiped away and Inflamation must be cured If from eating Mushroms Galen gave Hens dung with Oxymel for a great secret The Nerves hardned by too great dryers cannot be cured CRISES Though they be imperfect the matter being not yet concocted yet are they good For. saw when a Crisis was often repeated yet the sick escaped so from an Apoplex a Palsey from a Lethargy swellings under the Ears is good Fern. l. 2. c. 1. saith that profitable Crises are not made by bleeding 1. Because alwaies red blood runs fresh 2. Because it pulls not away the root of the disease without an irregular flux See Aph. 25. s 4. Zach. answererh l. 1. histor 64. that that blood appeareth red because it droppeth out by drops so that the heat of it is taken away by the ambient aire wherefore the cold will not suffer the Heterogeneous parts to be separated from the good So the blood remaineth red In the Arm it floweth out by heaps so that the heat remaining the grosse parts are separated from the good CHILD-BIRTH In hard labour some have the bones of the privities stretched out Paraeus will have it that the bones without names are separated from the Os sacrum Also they may be distended with the Perinaeum and the bone of the Crouper Wherefore those that are in labour must not bear upon the Perinaeum And Topicals must be applyed to the Perinaeum and to the Crouper bone and of the Privities Signs A most greivous pain which if it cease suddenly the Child being not delivered the Mother dyeth The Cause Hard labour is either the fault of the Mother when the expulsive faculty is weak or of the Child when it is greater and not well postured or of the Passage namely when the membranes are too strong the Neck streight from ayre too hot or cold In women of the first Child from plenty of Excrements driness If the Child be dead or the Physitians hand put in not the Mother seeleth any motion the water runs forth If the Secondine be thrust forth before the Child If the pain be greater the breath stink the Perinaeum be cold If the Mouth of the Womb be soft and hot it is the Birth The cure The places must be softned by all means The Child-bed Woman must be placed in a Bed as in cutting of the Stone or in a stool that she may lean on the side of the Bed Let her hold her breath and not cry Cause her to sneeze give her Clysters sharp suppositories Put stinking things to her Nostrils Let her drink Beer with Butter and oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce Let her Belly be empty feed her sparingly anoint her with oyl of Amber Give her one drop of it with Vervain water Also let her take first of all Cinamon water or take white Dittany Amber of each one dram and half give half with hot wine Oyl of Cinamon oyl of Hasle-nut tree the powder of the Secondine torrified five or six berries of Juniper taken with Figs five times wonderfully helps forward delivery Dittany Cassia lignâ—a Myrrh Many have been delivered by taking half a dram or one dram of pills of Asa foetida Powder of Ladies Bind to the thigh an Eagles Stone which also draweth the Matrix to it wherefore use it not long Also Coral Roots of knot-grasse green Coriander bound to the soles of the Feet or to the Hips Use none of these till the Moon of the ninth moneth be past They that have broad shoulders bring forth great children with the Child let the Secondine be taken out gently or presently after lest the Matrix follow If there be many children so many Secondines there are If it stay behind it must be taken forth with medicaments or by the hand The Navel being tyed the Womb must be swathed with a swath-band The Secondine being drawn forth put in the Matrix It is a wonderful secret to drive out the Secondine for the Terms stopped strangling of the Matrix the dead child a Mola bruise the green leaves of Lovage and drink the juyce pressed out with wine or Mugwort water In the Winter give Lovage seed boyled with Mugwort water Also one scruple of the Trochis of Mirrh with two ounces of wine If it help not it must be taken forth with the hand see Paraeus or by incision The oyl of Hazle-nuts Bitter things kill the child If the after burden come sparingly away by chafings c. they must be drawn in the lower parts to the womb A vein must be opened in the Ankle Topicals Clysters must be emollients If some days after child-birth be past a Purge of Rheubarb Agarick are good Give things to attenuate the blood and the five opening Roots c. If they flow too much cure them as Diarrhaea Pains after child-birth are either in the belly or in the womb which are like to a Tenesmus when the force of expelling is prolonged They proceed either from the cold Ayr or clots of blood or blood too sharp Senn. cureth it by removing the cause he prescribes not purgatives but internal heaters and Topicals For. holds for a secret beer boyld with Camomil flowers or without purging the Ladies powder or the infusion of Camels meat Cinamon c. If the privy member be broken when it is cured again at every child bearing it must be opened with a rasour Feavers of one day continuing sometimes many days called Feavers of milk do commonly go away of themselves if they be really continual putrid Feavers they proceed from the suppression of the Terms or the vitious provision of the humours CHILD-BLANES are an inflamation of the Feet by the Winter cold Preservatives are socks wet in Aqua vita and keep them warm They are cured as Aples and Egs congealed if they be put into cold water or rubbed with snow So the cold being drawn forth which is known by the pricking pain abated the part must be fomented with milk boyld in Rosemary c. The
effect is called Die Breun it cometh with shaking As led by the Hand they shew the pain of the stomach and cannot endure to be touched there for it is hard There is an unquenchable thirst and a delirium They almost all fall into deasnesse and swelling behind the Ears The Cure If it come by contagion giving a gentle remedy to bring forth the dung give presently an Antidote but if there be pain of the stomach anguish heat nauseating those humours must first be taken away by purging or vomiting with Agarick Senna leaves Diaphaenicon Rosarum Mesves c. Vomits here are often the most profitable The humours being voided or if there were no such the first or second day open a Vein though the first day the spots should appear so there be strength Almost all who neglected bleeding at the first died If there be Vomiting or Scowring it is more safely let alone Open the Liver or Medias of a Vein in the Foot which is most commodious of all chiefly in women Also it may be done on the third day After the third day Vomits Purges for opening a Vein is mortal Cupping glasses instead of opening a Vein may be set to the lower parts then we must fight with Antidotes yet with such as do not increase the Feaver One dram of Species liberantis Bezar stone Harts horne flowers of Brimstone Amber Zedoans all things of a Pome-citron The roots a part and Bezar a part are all most effectual Afterwards Diureticks may be given The drink must be neither wine nor beer let it be the decoction of Harts-horn with spirit of Vitriol or Barly water with juyce of Lemmons Symptoms of Feavers Pain of the Head is cured by general means by Topicals Many commend a Radish root cut in slices and laid to the feet first washed with Salt and Vinegar Juyce of Housleek and Alces of America For Housleek on houses is full of juyce in the greatest heat but flags in a cloudy aire because it draweth the dryer vapours for its nourishment The root of Rhodia is commended one ounce with Rose water half a pound boyl them apply the decoction with a linnen cloth to the Head The unguent of Alabaster with Populeum must be anoynted on the Coronal suture Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone and moystners that are of the strongest as with the water or juyce of Housleek Sal prunella spirit of Vitriol Barley water Thirst if it be from heat of the Lungs the Mouth is dry they can hardly speak which cannot be quenched with drink but it will presently come again Here it is better to take in the coldest Aire than to drink It is good to hold cold water in the Mouth preserved Cherries Lettice leaves Purslane preserved or sprinkled with cold water Oxycratum pieces of Pome-citrons conserves of Sorrel pieces of Cucumbers Gourds first sprinkled with Sugar Crystal Tamarinds Strawberries garden Currence to hold in the Mouth The decoction of the Roots of Sorrel which will look like red Wine Give drink in the vigour If the cause be in the stomach the humour must be voided namely that is hot and sharp The white Feaver is a disease or a symptome with a pale colour of the Face languishing of the Forces heavinesse of the limbs loathing of meat panting of the heart difficulty of breathing sadnesse a flegmatick swelling of the Face Hands and Feet from depraved nourishment and plenty of crude humours proceeding from an ill disposition of the Bowels Liver Spleen Stomach and so from obstruction of the Vessels about the Womb and the Bowels that are neer and from thence the Courses being stopped The cure is the same as for Leucâ—phlegmatia yet so that the Womb must be regarded as in the stopping of the Courses yet so that the Bowels must be looked too A lenitive opening a Vein unlesse the disease be inveterate the Blood and Forces being corrupted Purgatives Aperients Diaphoreticks Marriage unlesse the Cacochymia be too great are good cheifly Steel after general Remedies The root of Scorsonera taken any way Bezar stone A FICUS cancerated Fab. obs 1. c. 1. A cancerated Ficus in the right Ey A fit Dyet being prescribed a Clyster given water of Borrage Sorrel Betony being drunk with syrup of the juyce of Lemmons and Pomegranates a Vein being opened and Leeches set behind the Ears on the same side and cupping glasses applyed to the Shoulders an infusion of Rheubarb and Senna being given made of waters of Betony Eybright Agrimony with syrup of Roses and the Feet being washed in the decoction of hot things he washed the Ey with distilled water against the Cancer and applyed an Intercipient to the fore-head Yet the Tumor increasing when out of it at once there flew 73. ounces of blood and a half by Chirurgery he took out the Eye The fear of the Patient stopped the Flux of blood and a painful Ligature about his Limbs wherefore a Lenitive drink is ordered and a Cordial or water of Buglors Roses Violets balm of each one ounce syrup of Citron pills and Sorrel of each one dram confectio Alkermes one dram Powder of Diamber half a dram and to the Heart was â—aid an Epitoeme sowed between of flowers leaves seeds cordial powders made up with Cotton on red Sarsnet The stomach was annointed with a stomach ointment The Chirurgical part being done a powder of the Author to stay blood with the white of an Egg was plentifully cast on A defensative was laid to the Fore-head and a Digestive to the wound And lest nature should again send the humours thither he set a Settace between the first and third Spondiâ— A FISSURA on the Nipples or Chaps It proceeds from violent sucking and a cholerick humour It is not credible that it comes from drinesse here as it doth in other parts It is prevented if in the three last Moneths or the last Moneth only two cups of wax like to Acorn cups or Fox gloves be made and filled with Rosin of the Firr tree and laid to the Nipples and held there with linnen cloths when the Rosin is spent we must put in more Topicals must be emolient also the juyce of Crab-fish with Cream If they cause pain when the Child sucketh lay on the Nipples a cup of pewter or silver peirced through and covered with the Dug of a Cow new killed for so the Child will suck and yet not touch the Nipple with his Lips General remedies are Coolers and such as purge choler The same way all other Chaps are cured A FISTULA is a winding Ulcer white straight callous from dried fleam and oft times is without pain Signs Prognosticks Fistulaes with notable rottennesse of the bones as of the Huckle and the Hip-bone which pierce to the Bowels which are in a part that hath principal Nerves the Body being weak are to be left by Prognosticks Signs Diagnostick Prove them by a leaden Probe a wax Candle If there be
helps or with a Pole or Ladder or an Instrument to set bones called Ambi. Dislocation of the Channel-bone is taken by many for Luxation of the Shoulder for the Symptoms are the same Also in 3 days the binding must be unloosed and the part must be moved variously but gently lest it should grow crooked The Thigh dislocated forward the Groins swellâ— the Buttocks are wrinkled only the hinder part of the heel toucheth the ground the urine is stopped If backward the Buttocks swell there is a hollowness in the Groin The Leg is shorter then that which is sound the Knee cannot be bent the Heel toucheth not the ground the sick stands by a staff If outwardly after some time the pain abateth the flesh about it groweth hot the head of the Bone in a neer place makes a new cavity so that the sick can go without a staff the Leg is made shorter the knee and Foot look inwards he cannot go on his Heel the Leg can be bent the whole Leg is something lesse If inwardly the lameness is less they cannot bend their Leg the Foot is longer they go with their Leg athwart outwardly leaning on a staffe they rest more on their Heel then their Toes at last a new Cavity being made they go without a staff The night MARE is the hurt of breathing and of animal actions with an Imagination of weight The Cause Senn. will have the cause to be oft times a grosse vapour stopping the hinder part of the Head But Plat. and Fern. say it is fleam and melancholy sticking about the Midriff which swells either by drunkennesse or crudity pressing the diaphragma and the Lungs and the grosse vapour exhaling into the Throat and Brain stops the Voice and troubleth the sences These two causes may be joyned together Prognostick It threatens an Apoplexy or Melancholy It is evil if it oppresseth those that are partly waking and if a cold sweat follow The Cure The sick must be raised from the fit he must be cured by General and Topical Remedies as is the Apoplex a Wolfs skin is commended for a covering of the Head Anniseed strewed in the Bed is thought to help by the smell It is familiar to children by over-eating wherefore they must not sleep presently after eating Honey is good for them to lick One dram of Piony roots must be infused in Beer for to drink MILK The more whey it hath the more it cleanseth the more Cheese namely when the whey is evaporated by long boyling the more it bindeth and gleweth Medicaments made of Milk in Summer every day in Winter must be renewed every other day for it will grow sharp and cause pains Milk hath a hot spirit in it and will make one drunk Scal. ex 87. saith that the Tartars use the thin part of Milk separated by subliming to make themselves drunk for all fat things afford spirits for Chymists and oyls differ from spirits scarce any thing but in the manner of their substance The first note of good Milk is that if you poure one drop on the Nail it will stick and not run off If it run off hardly it is too thick 2. A milky colour 3. Tast 4. Smell MILK wanting If it be for want of blood it is cured by meats of good juyce by Medicaments that breed Milk and open the Passages these are moderatly hot and attenuating The leaves roots seed of Fennel all green and new which must be observed of others also Parsley roots new Dill Basil Anniseed Rocket seed one dram or two of Earth-worms soaked in juyce of Fennel burnt Powder of Cows udder By Internals Topicals MILK too much is taken away by Revulsives Diet moderate Repellers not laid to the Brests but above the Brests by the Arms to those Veins Resolvers laid to the Brests If there be Inflammation feared you may lay Repellers to the Brests also Some happily anoint the Brests with Honey Some put in a linnen cloth wet with Vinegar of the decoction of Saffron green leaves of Nut-trees Others lay on a linnen cloth smeered with Rape-oyl and they put another over this anointed with Honey and they bind the Brests moderately Singular are leaves of Sage Smaliage Rue Chervil cut small incorporated with Oxycratum laid on warm thrice a day Topicals are also made of Mints Calamints Smallage Agnus Castus Coriander Hemlock MILK cloddering it is made by a fermenting humour but whether this be made in the Brests Senn. is doubtful because there is no hollowness there and he thinks that if Milk stay long in the Brests the whey exhaleth and the rest clodders It differs not from curding of Cheese The cure The Diet must be resolving Topicals besides Generals must be Resolvers as in a Scirrhus beginning as oyl of Lillies coming by degrees to stronger Remedies of Fennel Dill Parsly Smallage Balm Mallow-leaves Coleworts c. Inwardly give Fennel-seed Cumin Smallage Agnus Castus Eringo roots Mints Saffron Coriander-seed c. Screvelius also often cured it with green Chervil and Fennel of each a like fryed in a Pan with Butter and applyed MADNES The cause is the heat of the animal and vital spirits whereby they very easily endure cold yet it makes no Feaver though it last many years Platerus will have it to be a hidden quality The antecedent cause is either the Seed corrupted or burnt blood and the sick sing There are signs of Plethory or burnt Choler and the sick are rash bold or black Choler and there are signs of Melancholy or poysons as the blood of a Cat or Love potions Wine thunder-struck congealed Men possessed with devils speak things unknown or Emroids stopt or an Ulcer shut up The Cure must be begun by opening a Vein so Platerus saw many cured who were kept in Bedlam-houses by letting them blood threescore times here and there repeating it Choice of Veins is not necessary you must open the Emroids and Ulcers closed then you must alter Give them Whey to drink purge them the Heart must be cheered as we shall shew in melancholy Sleeping Medicaments Emperical things are the Brain of a Ram that never leaped a sheep the Brain of a Dog of but one colour Box-leaves Roots of yellow water Lillies Amulets are roots of Eringo Briony St. Johns wort Nitre is commended because it fixeth volatil things Spirit of Vitriol Let Topicals be Coolers and rather Moistners as oyl of Roses Camomil c. warm The juyce of live Crabs is held for a Topical that is specifical MARASMUS one is burning or a Hectick Marasmodes another is cold and dry It is called a Hectick of old age or a disease from old-age a third is with swooning which is hot in respect nf the Feaver cold in respect of the swooning MELANCHOLY is the vexation of the Mind fastned upon one thought without a Feaver or Fury proceeding from a Melancholick Phantasme The immediat Subject are the Brain and the Heart as the affects shew For. saw Melancholy with a Feaver
plentiful and clammy If it be corrupt and that from too weak a Medicament there is a stink and the Ulcer appeareth whitish If it corrode there is pricking pain alwayes increasing It is cured by Generals Topicals detergent as with spirit of Wine Fleshy excrescence in Ulcers cometh either from too much blood or because Sarcoticks are laid-on that dry not sufficiently If the first the flesh is good if the latter loose spongy If the first it is cured by fasting c. The latter with greater Dryers Epuloticks and Corrosives without pain The green water is good which Senn. oftimes commends as Take raw Alum Verdigrease of each two drams boyl them in eighteen ounces of Wine till a fourth part be consumed strain it then add Camphir one dram dissolve it in spirit of Wine one ounce and add it to the former If the Ulcer be with a hard Circumference and the hardners will not yield to Emolients the hard and wan flesh is most fitly cut out to the quick flesh that scarifying may be made and strong Detergents used If the Ulcer be with a Tumor eating not only the Cucula but also the flesh it is called an eating-Ulcer It comes from a sharp humour not so thin as in Wild-fire nor so thick as in a Cancer It is cured as an Ulcer with tumor and distemper That Ulcer is very ill bound up three or four times a day unless it be by reason of extream pain Let there be an Ulcer within the Leg alittle above the Ankle afflicting with great pain that is hollow corrupt joyned with corruption of the Bone circular with brawny swollen Lips compassed with inflammation and swollen melancholly Veins Suppose this be propounded to be cured Generals first premised first of all you shall ease the pain taking away the cause of it by Softners Coolers Narcoticks so the pain with the Inflammation being asswaged wash away the rottenness In the mean time by the way you shall make the Ulcer corner-ways you shall cut off the brawny substance of it you shall correct the putrefaction you shall make the Bones scale the Ulcer being cleansed must be filled with flesh brought to cicatrise Par. Querc commendeth the Sugar of Saturn to be miraculous Vulnerary drinks An ULCER of the Eye is known by sight and if it be in the Cornea there preceedeth a white Push a little Ulcer the Cicatrix is made white if it be in the Adnata it will be red It is cured by Generals Revulsives Intercipients laid to the Temples Anodyns Detergents as with Sugar Honey Myrrh Saffron Frankincense water of Strawberries three parts Sugar one part distilled when they have been eight days in digestion in Balneo Rue Horehound Ey-bright water Infusion of Sarcocolla Aloes c. bound in a linnen clout and pressed forth Take Frankincense Mastick of each one scruple Myrrh Aloes Succotrine of each half a dram Tutty prepared one dram Sarcocolla infused half a dram powder them mingle them with the white of an Egg and juyce of Quinces make Troches to be dissolved in Fennel water Give internal means to restore the sight as Take Conserve of Ey-bright one ounce and half Betony Rosemary of each one ounce roots of Elecampane candied two drams Fennel candied half an ounce extract of Rue seed half a scruple the essence extract or spirit of Valerian roots half a scruple Siler mountain one dram Sage Rue Vervain of each half a scruple with syrup of Betony or Staechados make an Electuary let it be taken at Bed-time Strew salt of the powder of Ey-bright on their meats Montan. ep 75. relates that he saw one use it by the Nostrils because the Ulcer was not well cured Vitriol in small quantity dissolved in much Rose water serveth instead of all Detergents For. premising a Lenitive purgeth with Fennel Ey-bright Senna leaves Pillulae Lucis to one dram Opening a Vein Cupping Scarifying fomentation of Mallows two handfuls flowers of red Roses one dram and half Quince seeds one dram and half cleansed Barley one pugil boyl all in ten ounces of fountain water add water of Mallows Roses of each half an ounce soment it twice in a day he dropped in the Collyrium following Take Troches that are white of Rhasis for the Eys without opium two scruples Rose water two ounces mingle them and drop it in lay upon it a double linnen cloth wet in the former fomentation after that in the fomentation was infused Fenugrec seed exactly washed two drams and half of Quinces two drams in a Nodulus after that Ey-bright water half an ounce was added to the Ey water after that in the same Collirium was put a little Sarcacolla soaked in Brest milk then a little Frankincense Saffron with the Mucilage of Fenugree seed At first let the sick sleep on the opposite side until the matter break forth in the side affected Venatius for an Ulcer of the Eye ill cured was commanded to forsake Padua An ULCER of the weeping flesh namely an Aegylops For. because of the danger doth not willingly undertake the cure of it If it were not yet ulcerated after Generals there is need of repelling means after that add Discussives as rank nuts If it be suppurated open it in time cleanse it Verdigrease of it self is a secret If it be with rottennesse of the Bone there is need of a Canstick Fab. cured them with Setons An ULCER of the Ear. Signs are pain burning great pricking in the Ear matter This sometimes is sent forth from the Brain inflamed which is easily known Sometimes as in children from the impurity of the Brain without an Impostume in the Veins of the Brain and Passages of the Ears matter is bred and there is no pain and the matter once spent is heaped up again The cure By Generals Topicals Detergents as juyce of Betes Horehound oyl of bitter Almonds juyce of Onions with Honey of Roses or Mel Rosarum the side is anointed with unguent of Alabaster juyce of wake Robin Briony the matter that comes forth must be put-by with wooll with Honey-water afterwards with Wine then with Oxymel The Probe must be wrapped with Wool The pain is taken away with a piece of Frankincense infused in Milk till it be dissolved and drop'd in by drops If there be Plethory and the matter runneth not yet out of the Ulcer pain urging a Vein is fit to be opened Galen for old Ulcers ufeth scales of Iron powdred beaten with Vinegar and seven times dryed then with Vinegar it is boyled to the thickness of Honey The matter must be drawn forth by a great Syringe unless it come forth it self An ULCER of the Nostrils If it be new and stink not it is easily cured if old and stinking hardly it is called Ozaena which oft times gives suspition of a Cancer It is most difficult to cure it hath crusts The Cure Generals premised also the decoction of Guaicum and a vulnerary drink Let the Topicals be Astringents and Discussives mingled
tincture or wine or oxymel or syrup or electuary or roles of steel The dosein substance for middle age is 1 scruple or not under 2 scruples nor above 1 dram and half be administred It is given best in the Spring and Fall for in Summer the hear in the Winter the cold hinders Let it be taken fasting and after that let the Patient walk one hour or two if the party be weak walking may be omitted Let him dine four hours after At first let it be given every third day and afterward every day Some the first days cast it off again but sometimes it is conveniently given to 30 days We must see that the steel passe thorough the Belly which is known by the black Excrements and if it come not so every 4. day we must purge with pills or Clysters After the tenth day purge gently and abstain two days from the use of it That it may descend the sooner you may add purgations to it correctors give it in pills 2. The Patient may go to the sharp waters and hot baths they that drink of them purge forth black excrements by reason of the vitrials The sowre waters called Swalbacenses Griesbachienses Egranae the hot Baths of Baden Carolius Also medicaments made of Tartar 2. The weak parts must be corrected and strengthned by internal and topical means so a cold stomack by inward heats a hot liver by topicals or by cooling Clysters or give the pulp of the citron with the shell for so it will longer stay in the stomack or whole grains of pepper Or to a man that is long fasting give some Cooler which will presently go to the Liver especially if he do not exercise moderately or give such heats that are below the heat of the Liver and which for that do not increase its distemper as Egrimony Fumitory Succory So the stomach being strengthned you may safely give cool things that concern the Liver or give such things to drink the mixture whereof is not discovered by a new and first concoction but by the second and third as Spirit of Vitriol If it come from the Courses stopt a vein must be opened ANEURISMA Is not a humour from the running forth of the arterial blood as Galen and Platerus c. will have it for so the bloud should as well spread it self broad waies because it would colour the skin because it would easily putrisie but it is a humour by the opening of the inward coat of the Arteries and by dilatation of the outward coat it is opened either by unskilful opening of a vein when as the outward coat which is the softer groweth together again and the inward coat remaineth open or from some external cause Sen. l. 5. p. 1. c. 42. Fabr. obs 44. cent 3. Diagnostick signs It is a soft humour yielding to the touch sometimes with sometimes without pulsation it differs not in colour from the other skin it yieldeth to the touch and sometime not Prognostick New Aneurisms may be cured but old not Section is most dangerous it proceeds oft times from hard child-birth also in the throat The Cure Lay on an astringent some repelling remedy A plate of lead any way The manner of cutting see in Sen. l. cit but it must not be attempted See Pareus l. 6. APPETITE Wanting the Cause Because there is either no sucking or it is not perceived 1. When nourishment aboundeth in the whole body 2. When raw humours grosse stick in the stomack 3. When there is obstruction of the veins 4. From the use â—f far sweet and clammy things Sucking is not perceived 1. When the brain is hurt 2 By reason of some disease in the mouth or the stomach as from distempers which whether it be hot or cold exceedingly causeth want of appetite Oft times it cometh from drinking of wine from worms from the matrix Some will have the Devil to be the cause of long abstinence who conveyeth meat into the body and yet there are no signs of it and the same things doth naturally happen to Beasts Some say it comes from some hidden quality some they are fed by the aire but what shall be changed into the nature of the body wasted Some say they are fed by vapours that are inherent in the aire but why then are not all men nourished the same way Some live by drinking water but many drink no water Some say that fleame sticketh in the body that cannot be wasted but many of these were not flegmatick but rather dry and costive and so old men would live long without meat Some will have it that they live by their grease melted and turned into blood but it is false that their grease is melted and floweth to the stomach and is changed into blood and by hunger it is not changed into nourishment but is discussed Fort. Liceous saith that there is no necessity of nutrition because neither the soul nor the body stand in need of it so old men are lesse nourished also generation and augmentation ceaseth Senn. saith that the cause is by reason that nothing or else not but in a long time is consumed because of a certain proportion of the humour to heat So Scal. Ex. 328. writes that coals of Juniper will keep fire a whole year unwasted but that disposition is brought upon the humor when by diffusion of a melancholy humour it is fixed that it cannot receive the activity of heat Now a peculiar quality is communicated to a melancholick humour from the Matrix for they were almost all maids at those years that the Courses are wont to break forth Signs Diagnostick If there be no sucking the forces cannot fail and there are signs of repletion but if it come from obstruction the Belly is loose If sucking be not perceived the forces are cast down Progn Aph. 33. s 2. Respiration Appetite in the sick is is excellenr Aph. 6. s 6. Want of appetite in children is dangerous but if want of appetite fall upon the beginning or vigour of the disease it is not so dangerous for they want little nourishment and if they eat well they are the worse If it fall upon the declination that is ill If in a disease the appetite be cast down and it suddenly come again that is deadly for the Brain is hurt unlesse a Crisis went before it The Cure The cause must be taken away sharp and sowre things cause hunger as also scowring things as figs sauce If it proceed from the matrix there are signs of the matrix affected Symptoms somtimes abate and there are many symptoms present How aid shall be given to the matrix See concerning Suffocation and distemper of the matrix Senn. l. 3. p. 1. s 2. c. 2. ANTHRAX or a Carbuncle is a Tumour that riseth from adust blood that is extream hot making an eschar on the part affected of a diverse colour like a rainbow with a little wheal on the head The Cause is grosse adust blood
whence worms like Cantharides are brought forth Sometimes the whole matter lyeth upon one part whence the whole body is freed from pain an Impostume groweth which endeth in a Fistula 2. Without swelling this often causeth learnesse with weaknesse of the joynts Diagnostick signs There are wandring fierce pains all the body over especially in the back and the Loyns First It seaseth on one part only then suddenly it fasteneth on the next the most are bound in their bellies their Urine is like to those that are well but that sometimes little worms like those thar breed in rotten cheese swim in the bottom of the urinal and are mingled with the excrements of the belly Some have a good stomach others not Prognostick The cure often extends to some weeks The Cure Empiricalls are Earth-worms provided divers wayes Some give the ashes of a quick Mole burnt with wine at the decrease of the Moon Dogmaticalls Take Serna powder 2. drams infuse this 12 hours in Betanywater 6 ounces strain it hard adde Diacarthamum half an ounce mingle it Take roots of Devils-bit 1 ounce round Birthwort 3. drams Sage Betany of each one handful Southernwood Rue Perwinkle Savin of each 1 pugil boyl all in fair water with 4 ounces of this decoction for a dose passe through a colender 5 Earth-worms thrice washed in wine powdered then mingle Treacle half a dram cinamon in powder 1 scruple Sugar what may suffice drink it and sweat upon it repeat this for some dayes together The Impostume is broke with Plantane and salt beaten in a mortar and applyed the Impostume being broken some lay on a Cataplasm of Salomons seal with Ale with the roots of the Oke-fern Others do strew on the powder of a Mole H. de Bra. ASTHMA is the hurt of Breathing without a Feaver with a noise and frequency of breathing from the straightness of the wind-pipe if it be taken properly the disease is stubborne and long The Cause use increased by the straightnesse of the wind-pipe obstructions from the plenty of the humours the thicknesse stone hard swelling that matter is seldom sent from the head it is often collected by degrees it is most commonly sent by the vein-artery or the arterious vein for should it flow often from the head there would be a cough because those that are asthmatical are commonly Cachecticall and their feet swell because it often ceaseth without expectorating because by suppression of the Emrods ariseth constipation from some swelling humour compression by sinking down and growing together constriction by grosse vapours rising from the womb Whatsoever is troublesome to the instruments of breathing if it cannot easily be removed it causeth one to Cough if hardly it causeth Asthma for there is not strength enough to cough it out but if more hardly it causeth Orthopnoea and if it cannot be cast out it is a strangling Catarrh Diagnostick signs If it come from a thick cause bred by leisure an Asthma comes by degrees and it is continual If it floweth thither it increaseth at sometimes an in Autumn winter in the night If it come from the Brain there be signs of a Catarrh If it come from the Liver there is a swelling of the Feet and an ill habit If a thick humour stop the Wine-pipe there is a Cough with a noise it is bred by degrees there is Catarrh the Patient is sound If the fleam stick in the stomach there is a Cough with a sound and seldom any thing is expectorated and the disease being obstinate and lasting long killeth a man If it proceed from the drinesse of the Lungs so Heurnius saw a mans Lungs so dry that they were like a dry Apple there is no spittle the whole body is lean Prognostick It strangleth children old folk cannot be cured Aph. 40. s 2. young people hardly It is dangerous in a sharp Feaver It is sometimes changed into Peripneumonia a Dropfy and an ill habit of the body The cure In the Paroxism the cause must be pulled back by chafings Ligatures Cupping-glasses Clysters and opening a vein if the forces will admit if the humour be thin they must purge Topicals must be emollient and resolving When the Paroxysm is extended beyond the fourth day Vesicatories must be laid ro the Back against the region of the Lungs Out of the Paroxysm the matter prepared must be evacuated then expectoratir â—eans must be given The Breast muâ—â— be annointed If it come from a Catarrh the Brain must be purged The Catarrh must be hindered Use of old Treacle is excellent as of Diacalaminth as of Aqua vitae with Elecampane then dry the matter with a decoction of Guaiacum let the diet be attenuating the drink thin wine water and honey motion before meat must not be sudden or vehement for so many have been choked APHTHAE The cause is sometime a fault in the Mouth when humours are collected in it or of the whole Body as in malignant acute Feavers or of some part as of the Head Lungs Liver Spleen Belly Matrix in children sharp milk corroding the Tongue also milk corrupting which sendeth forth sharp vapours The difference Some are new some old some malignant some not some are on the Tongue some come on the Palate some from Blood some from choler Signs diagnostick Little swellings are seen sometimes red sometimes black sometimes white sometimes black and stinking Prognosticks Stinking black ulcerated crusty inveterated in children are mortal because you cannot apply means to them by reason the parts are soft moyst whence they easily corrupt corruption of the bone in those that are of years is dangerous If they happen in acute pestilent Feavers they are deadly The cure For children take away the sharpnesse of Milk from the Nurse by general and Topical means Give the child a draught of Honey of Roses Diamoron with Oxymel First give astringent Syrups then add discussers if the Milk concoct ill suckle it not so often If that be in vain bring them to suppuration laying Figs on them or boyl Bran in water til it grow clammy strain it and add Honey to the liquor or with Milk or Mucilage or syrup of Juleps or Gargarisms or Pills to hold under the Tongue and Lohocks for Infants Where the Patient is of years the humours must first be temperd 2. The conineut cause first requires astringents and then Resolvers If they be malignant Actius prescribes the Green water or Aegyptiac or to dip the Probe in scalding Oyl or in Aqua fort is which is not strong enough to work on mettals this following repelleth Take water of Honey suckle Plantaine Nuts of each 3 ounces Flowers of dry red Roses 1. pugil strain it and dissolve in it syrup of Pomegranats and Diamâ—ron of each 1. ounce mingle them The Spirit of Vitriol 2 drops and of Honey 1 ounce is good Crato Ep. 183. For inveterate Aphthae the ashes of Fennel-root burnt either alone or mixed with Honey are most profitable Least they should proceed
the corrption is poured into the Chest The worst of all is ulceration Rupture is a lesse evil an opening is easily cured An ulcer of the Brest is curable but not of the Lungs The Cure If it come by rupture or opening the only Indication is to stop the blood and to heal it Therefore if a Vein be broken by coughing let the Catarrhs be stopt by all means See for the Catarrhs After that the blood must be stopt by all kinds of revulsion the quality of the blood that exceeds must be tempered the Choler must be purged by mild remedies Aloes and Scammony must be for born let Honey be mixed with all medicaments because it openeth the Passages Then we must consolidate with Syrup of Comfrey Fennel which see in Senn. Take for six days every morning 4 ounces of juyce of Nettles 1 dram of blood-stone with the water or juyce of Knotgrasse Trallianus giveth 4 Scruples It is given in Roles Electuaries infusion until the liquor be red See bleeding at the nose If all be in vain you must give Laudanum opiatum or some other Narcotick The continual use of Germander is most profitable Crato ep 184. Rul Nettle-seed Manard commendeth the Roots of the sharp Dock If matter run out by corroding of a Vein in the Brest or else spittle with blood it is cured as a Consumption which commeth from the Lungs being corroded BLEEDING at the Nose The cause is either the mouths of the Veins opened or plenty of blood and there are signs of plethory of some urging of the expulsive faculty by some sharp humour and then there are signs of Cacochimia or the weaknesse of the Retentive faculty and then often at times and for very small causes the Nose bleeds or from outward causes as provocation tickling anointing with hot things or from diairesis or diapedesis if the blood be watery if flegmatick Cacochymia do trouble the Patient Differences It either comes from the Veins of the Nose or of the thick membranes of the third sinus and then for revulsion Banhinus admonisheth that Topicals must be applyed to the hinder part of the Head oft times it cometh forth of the Artery If it be critical it must not be stopped Prognostical Melancholick and flegmatick People endure it the worst The Cure If it come by the mouth of the Veins opened by Plethory that must be taken away and the blood must be pulled back from the Nostrils by opening a Vein on the same side and make a narrow Orifice draw away at times one ounce or two or sometimes four by cuppings ventoses must be applyed to the Liver They stop it better if they be applyed to the Foot on the same side and to both Feet if blood run out at both Nostrils Yet this caution must be used that they must not stay long on the same place but before they cause fainting they must be taken off Forest will have them with scarification to the Legs and Shoulders painful Ligatures must be made to the Limbs Use chafings with Salt and Vineger You must not stop the blood by internals and topicals until revulsion be made Internals are good in any form For. gave Hogs dung mixt with Bole Armenick that it might not be discerned for this oft times stops an uncurable bleeding at the Nose Take seeds of Purflane Plantain Sorril Endive white Poppey of each one dram Roots of great comfrey ounce boyl these in sufficient water to nine ounces to the strained liquor add the syrup of Myâ—â—ils Pomegranates Poppey water Lillies of each half an ounce mingle them the juyce of Nettles and the seed blood stone The last help Narcoticks These that follow Heurnius holds for secrets Take white Poppey seed half a dram of white Henbane one scruple blood Stone one scruple red Coral one dram mingle them make a powder and with Conserve of Roses six drams for one Dose Also water of Nettles one ounce powder of Mans Skull one scruple mingle them the juyce of Nettles Purslane Plantain Yarrow By Topicals Hogs dung applyed to the Nose cold water poured upon the Wrists if there be a Feaver Let the Mouth be kept full of cold water if any thing be drawn up into the Nose this serveth at all times Juyce of Nettles and Plantain must be put into the Nose Also glutinous medicaments and Epithems and Fomentations the ashes of white paper burnt must be put into the Nose A piece of chalk held in the ring finger on the same side The Testicles must be fomented with cold water a spunge wet in Oxicratum must be put under the Arm-pits a Prony root must be held under the Tongue the Stone of a Carp held in the Mouth the root of Nigella chewed held to the Nose a Bank doller must be bound close between the Eye-brows with bands the flowers of the lesser Dasie must be held in the Hand The same taken inwardly do suddenly dissolve clotted blood Moss water of Frogs spawn If it come from Acrimony of the matter the Choler must be purged out and temperd If it proceed from diapedesis the watery humours must be purged use the decoction of Guaiacum the meats must be thickning c. Heurnius useth first Cupping glasses and Ventoses to the Feet and Liver afterwards to the second spondil of the Neck then he useth chafings Ligatures after that blood-letting then Internals and Topicals that Moss which is called Crepituslupi BLEEDING of Wounds This proceeds from solution of continuity of the Veins and Arteries It is more hardly cured if the Artery be cut long or overthwart-waies then if it be cut crosse in two for oft times Physicians perswade that if the blood cannot be stopt the Artery shall be cut crosse asunder The cure Those things being used we said before first the Orifice of the Wound or rather of the Vessel must be stopt either by pressing of the Fingers till it clots or when this in Arteries hath no place in which the blood congealeth not and but seldome in Veins the Vessel must be stopt with the Fingers or with medicaments The most convenient is that Toad-stool which is called a Fuss or that Matter beaten Intercipients must be laid upon the part affected If in vain Par. bids to take and bind the mouth of the Vessel toward the root with a needle or a thread with as much of the flesh as the part will suffer for which end we are sometimes constrained to divide the skin that covereth that part and to be long before we unbind it But if the condition of the part will not admit of this we must apply Causticks that may make a crust which Sen. alloweth not cooÌ„mends rather in the place of them Vitriol which is not escharotick but when it is burnt but when it is Crude it binds vehemently and burns but little Some strew on it powder of Crude Vitriol Others conveniently dissolve it in liquor and apply it unlesse Nerves be undet Sometimes we are forced to cut
is the Receipt of Antonius Fuchsius an Italian which see in Senn. l. c. the excellent water of Fab. and many more see Senn. l. c. CARUS is a deep sleep with losse of sence and motion the spirits being hindered yet the breathings remain free The Cause is the compression of the Scull and the Brain So Fern. saw a man for three moneths in a Carus not remembring that the Scull must be opened Forestus cured one that lay in a Carus fourteen days Obstruction of the Brain overcooling concussion motion troubling the animal spirits by a stroke or fall hurting the temporal muscle and the Carotick Arteries Narcotick force worms the Matrix the fume of coles the Moon beams Signs Diagnostick Deep sleep if pricked they feel draw themselves in If there be a Feaver it followeth the fits It differs from an Apoplex and Swooning as before from a Catoche because in Carus the Eyes are shut nor doth a man abide in the same stare he was taken From a Lethargy because a Lethargy is alwaies with a Feaver In a Carus ask questions and the sick will not answer Prognostick Carus coming upon a Feaver is mortal The Cure If it come from the first cause it is cured as a depression of the scull If from the second as an Apoplex and flegmatick Head-ach If from the third as a commotion of the Brain If from the fourth it is cured according as the hurt is If from the fifth it is cured by Antidotes as poysons are but they must be raysed the common way A vein must not be opened There is no better remedy then the eating of Cresses in saller either boyled or leasoned Forest CATALEPSIS The sick remain stiff in the same fashion they were taken yet sometimes they hear a little see remember and tell it afterwards if any thing be put into their Mouths they swallow it and go if they be driven by force The Souldiers in the siege at Mets held their Spears in their Hands the Horsmen followed the Troop both of them no lesse then almost quite frosen The Cause is a freezing vapour fixing rising from Minerals in the ground or from a melancholick humour fixing the spirits not those which already are flowen to the part but such as are subservient to the imagination in the Brain but the cold Aire brings not a Catoche but a Sphacelus and stupidity The Cure First they must be raysed 2. It is cured as head melancholy Vinegar must not be mingled in Topicals for that fixeth them also A vein may be opened if there be Indications Senn. Forest A CATARRH is a Symptome in things put forth whether it be taken generally for any kind of defluxion or specially for a defluxion upon the Lung The The Cause of the defluxion is known yet the pain draweth not but by the weaknesse of the part it cannot discusse it Lau. de Catarr The humours are things natural not natural and preternatural a hot Liver a cold Brain which is often the cause of a hot defluxion when salt steam is gathered in it and so contrarily The chief difference is from the place whence so it may arise from the Spleen or otherwise by consent and then many medicaments are in vain laid to the Head It is with or without a Feaver Signs Diagnostick or the causes are proper and collected by concourse as colour tast motion heat pain sostness of the part affected or that sends the matter If it come from the Brain it afflicteth easily long and continually If there be Intermission and if there be signs of some other part affected as the belly or Courses stopped they are caused from some other part The Cure If it come by consent that part must first be respected Revulsives draw not from the Head but pull from the part first affected yet the Brain must be strengthned If it proceed from a proper passion of the Brain and fall with force upon the Brest things that derive and stay are useful If not the 1. cause must be evacuated by generals then by topicals Also in a cold Catarrh a Vein may be opened if the Liver be hot 2. The humour prepared being evacuated the Head must be dryed by Internals and Topicals Also in a cold Catarrh conserve of Roses is commodiously mingled with hot Cephalicks Revulsion must be made by setaces chafings cupping glasses Gallen layeth on a plaster of new Pigeons dung for three hours left it should burn too much upon the place shaved for it heats and dryes wonderfully One grain of the whitest Frankincense taken at bed time is a secret The decoction of Guaiacum wood drying Cephalick powders Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 11. Med. Pract. If the Catarrh be hot give a purge a Vein must be opened Purgatives after preparatiues must be administred and Topicals that dry and corroborate must be applyed If there be danger of choaking we must draw it back by all our might with Pigeons dung Causticks Clysters Lotions Ligatures Chafings Cuppings Vesicatories Errhins Topicals and Generals We must stop it by internals also by Laudanum opiatum and Narcoticks Let the diet be drying the supper little sleep sparingly change his manner of lying if we will hold the Catarrh in the Head let the Head lye backward if it do more harme in the Head then in the Breast let the Head be lifted higher Laur. de Cat. For. Senn. CHOLERICK Passion moist is a continual and immoderate casting forth of a naughty humour both upward and downward The Cause is a sharp humour corrupted strugling about the stomach and Spleen and mesentery and Veins or poyson taken Signs diagnostick There is no Feaver but pain Inflation vomiting purging Prognostick It kills in three or four days if it end in 18. hours it hath been often healthful The Cure 1. If the vomiting be little it must be furthered by drinking much warm water for a little will turn to choler Decoction of hulled barley with Sugar or syrup of Roses Goats whey or of Cows with syrup of Roses 2. If vomiting be immoderate the belly must be moved therefore give whey or broth with Manna or syrup of Roses solutive Cast in a Clyster emollient and cooling with Diacatholicon Cassia If the belly purge too much cause vomiting 3. If they void too much Revulsives are profitable as Ligatures of the upper parts if they vomit of the lower parts if they purge too much Also the matter must be temperd by internal and topical means A most present remedy is half a dram of Crystal alone or mixt with other things laudanum opiatum must be given often if we fear swooning 4 The Forces must be strenthened by Internalls and Topicals CHOLERICK dry Passion is the casting forth of a windy vapour above and beneath with Inflation of the Belly and noise with the pain of the sides and loyns The Cause is the weaknesse of the stomach which breedeth winds or a clammy tenacious humour with a strong heat of the stomach and Intestins which
Feet and Hands must be bathed in water wherein Turnips especially frozen are boyled or anoint the part with oyl of wax or Bays also with Honey Turpentine If they be ulcerated anoint them with oyl of Roses boyled in the root of a Rape or Radish made hollow or with the ashes of Crab-fish with Honey and Oyl of Roses When the part is mortified it is cured as a Gangreen Child suffocated may be known if it were very well before if the Mouth and Nostrils be wet with froth if the Lungs diffected be frothy The COUGH The cause is 1. a naked distemper and then there preceeded Procatactick causes 2. A humour now what that is is known by by the spittle a Catarrh 3. Dissolved unity of the Lungs 4. Inflammation of the Liver Spleen Dropsy 5. Smoke dust sowre things and many external things Worms The cure The cause must be taken away and the Cough if it be from a Catarrh is cured as a Catarrh and by expectorating means If it come from a thin hot sharp matter after generals we must cool moisten thicken also this that followeth is good Take Honey Butter of each half an ounce Cummin-seed 1 dram mingle it give it by a spoon Forestus often prescribeth to short-winded people in a Consumption Take juyce of Colts-foot half a pound Mucilage of Marshmallowes drawn with barley water one ounce Sugar what may suffice make a Lohock fumes of leavs of Alchoof drawn up by a pipe are good 1. Generals being premised 2. If there be no Feaver 3. Whilst the forces remain 4. Fasting 5. Let it be first tried in the smallest quantity 6. If there follow difficulty of breathing it must be cured by moistnesse If there be fear lest by coughing a vein should break or the sick should be choaked or the Lungs corroded being forced to it we use Narcoticks especially if there be long watchings as syrup of Poppies Juyce of Hounds-tongue For. proved this that followeth often Take juyce of common Parsley half an ounce Womans milk one ounce powder of Cummin one scruple give it a boy to drink warm and anoint his stomach DIABETE The Cause is the retentive faculty or the Reins hurt either by plenty or by quantity of the Urines plenty of Urine is made from heat of the Liver Spleen melting the watry humour from the weaknesse of the stomach loosenesse of the passages It comes chiefly in burning and malignant Feavers Signs Diagnostick It beginneth by degrees that it can hardly be known there is heat in the bowels Prognostick It brings consumption and death if not cured at first The Cure Opening a Vein purging vomiting sweating are not good but internal and topical astringents and coroboratives which moderately cool Also Narcoticks may be used DIARRHOEA is a flux of the Belly caused by excrementitious humours The cause is the obstruction of the Veins of the Liver or weaknesse of the Liver or a preternatural disposition of the whole body with or without a Fever or a hectick Feaver burning Consumption Inflammation of the bowels whence followeth a Syntectick or melting flux or corrupt meat or worms or the Liver and choller or the Spleen and a melancholick humour or the Matrix or the Brain or hypercatharsis or toothing of Children Signs Diagnastick See the signs of obstruction and the weaknesse of the Liver If from corrupt meat such kind of meat was eaten or the stomach is weak If from the Liver or the Spleen there are signs of their infirmities and signs of any other part hurt are not Prognostick The Belly to be loose for one or some dayes is healthful so there be no Feaver and it stop in seven daies The cure If it come from obstruction first we must open by things that are good for the Liver then we must cleanse then we must bind and strengthen If it be from a sharp humour corrupt meat first we must cleanse and take off the acrimony of the humour as Take the decoction of unhulled Barley three ounces syrup of Roses one ounce Violets half an ounce A vein may be opened Then we must gently evacuate by Clysters Potions Pills of Rheubarb Mirobolans Mastick whereof make Pils which are safely given in all fluxes Take Citron and Chebul Mirobolans of each half a dram Mastick one scruple Spick fix grains with Honey of Roses make Pills Take first half a dram then I scruple not but when the greatest part of the matter is voided and if the Forces be much weakned In these two cases we must bind which is done within eight or twelve dayes first by Topicals and Diet after that by internals and all derivations as opening a vein and Ligatures to take away the flux If it come with a Feaver and be critical we must do nothing but prescribe Diet. Yet if it be too much the acrimony of the humour must be removed and we must bind and strengthen If it be more sparing we must help it forward If it be symptomical it must be cured as before If there be melting it must be cured by Restoratives and a little astringent also with Narcoticks as three heads of Poppy may be boyled in a Clyster If it happen to Children toothing it comes either from salt fleam flowing from the Head or from the Milk corrupted by a Feaver Give Honey syrup of Roses syrup of Succory with Rheubarb Then bind by Topicals DYSENTERY is an exulceration of the Intestins with a frequent bloody dejection and mattery with pain and torments of the Belly rising from a sharp eating matter peculiarly an enemy to the Intestins The Cause chiefly is a cholerick humour offensive to the Intestins by a hidden quality the remote cause eating of Grapes drinking sweet wine or cold water the humours being Coagulated and after that corrupting obs 46. cent 3. water running through leaden pipes that are old drank by reason of the plenty of Mercury and lead Ore Purgatives mingled with meat Poysons as Quicksilver Clouds malignant aire contagion Differences There are three degrees 1. Wherein are fat bodies mingled with a little moisture 2. Wherein are shavings of the Intestins 3. Wherein is the substance of the Intestins voided like peices of flesh The last of these is meant Aph. 26. s 4. Signs diagnostick They are known by the definition A Feaver is not alwayes joyned Aph. 3. s 6. It must be diligently distinguished from an Impostume in the Guts If the small Intestins be affected it makes a pricking pain blood is perfectly mixed with the dung or voided after it If the great guts either corruption swimeth above or sticketh outwardly unto them Prognostick These happen out chiefly about the Summer and beginning of Autumn Black spots behind the Ear with great thirst is mortal Women old men children are more greivously afflicted The Cure 1. The cause must be evacuated and tempered by opening a vein and purging by turns as with syrup of many infusions of damask Roses or rather first with simple infusions of Mirobolans Tamarinds Rheubarb
the infusion whereof we give to purge the substance to bind Mechoacan Senna leaves Diacatholicon Diapheaenicon Clysters in great quantity if you would scowre the guts but small to glutinate Antidotes against poyson as Bole armenick c. 2. If the pain be vehement sometimes we must cast in such things as ease pain Give broth of oyl of sweet Almonds apply internals topicals narcoticks 3. We must bind yet not before seven dayes unlesse it be with gentle means A powder of Elder berries of Turtles and Hares burnt is commended Also the juyce of ground Ivy taken The use of Wax in a roasted Apple The Apple is made hollow and filled with white and yellow Wax it is roasted it must be eat before meat by external topicals also whatsoever many would have by revulsives 4. The Ulcer must be cleansed and filled with flesh The Diet. Much drink is naught for a Dysentery and if they grow well too much exercise That snotty white matter is not the fat of the guts nor fleam nor crust but the humours coming out of the Veins changed by the part hurt as in the whites of women Question Whether Purgatives may be given Valesius denieth it com 4. in 4. Epid. Fuchsius Massarias because Galen useth them not because they bring the humour to the part affected Senn. affirmeth it Galen knew not Rheubarb Mirobalans yet he used Honey Milk and Crato for the second reason denieth that Cauteries can be good in the Gout Ep. 167. Whether milk be good It is not good if there be a Feaver and where the Body is impure It must be given warily if whey be much it clenseth if whey evaporate with long boyling it bindeth Whether drinking water milk steeled wine be good Crato denieth it Ep. 261. Doringus obs 42. cent 3. saith That water of fresh steel that was never yet quenched will trouble the Belly but if it be drank from steel often quenched it binds the Belly Wherefore if you will bind cast away the first water Senn. will not allow this because it is of an Homogeneal nature but thinks that steeled water must be drank sparingly for the more iron is communicated to the water the more it troubles the Belly and moveth vomit neither let it stay long but quench it suddenly for if it stay long in the liquor it is turned as it were into rust and troubles more Wherefore the first water must not be poured forth Crocus Martis made by reverberation alone is good but not by dissolving by water DYSURIA is diminishing of Urine it differs from Ischuria in degree only sometimes it is with but often without pain it comes not forth by drops but sometimes in due quantity by heaps The Cause is the sensitive faculty or expulsive of the Bladder hurt or some other diseases of the Bladder Signs Diagnostick If it proceed from fault of the Ureters or Reins there is no pain no heavinesse about the share It is called hot piss which is not a diminishing of urine but when the urine comes forth as it should only with heat See the Strangury The Cure When the cause is taken away For. applyed to the Secrets of a woman in a Feaver great with child Take green Pelletary 2 handfuls Chetvil one handful and half Oyl of Scorpions one ounce and half Butter two ounces it seldom faileth You may first give a Suppository or Clyster He cured another with oyl of Camomil and of Scorpions first anointing with oyl a decoction of Rue and Dill. Fernelius saith That one Ureter being stopped the Urine cometh forth by the other For. observeth the contrary DRUNKENNES Preservatives Bitter Almonds are commended five six or ten before meat as also Peach kernels which seem to help by their diuretick force Arculamus writes That if any man eat tops of Wormwood or Rue in the morning fasting he shall be defended from drunkennesse Coleseed eaten before meat is good Platerus avoids drunkenness by drinking very sparingly at first Mnesitheus Athen. saith three things must be observed 1. To drink wine mingled 2. Not to fill your self with Junkets at the second Course 3. Sleep not before you vomit The cure Vingegar drank recovers drunken men and other sowre things For. gave small beer to drunkards and bad them sleep if they sleep not they recover not but by abstinence the next day and by taking syrup of the decoction of garden Currance Leaves of Coleworts wet in Rose water cure a drunken man if after drink you lay them to his Head Those that are dumb after drunkenness will dye saith Hippocrates unlesse a Feaver come upon it DANDRAFF It proceeds from a salt watery blood and also cholerick Some hold it for a sign of a sound brain It portends no danger It is cured by Generals Topicals softesse afterward with Detergents as with urine pickle with the decoction of Lupius with Soot with the juyce of Squills Scarification and Leeches are good The DROPSIE called Ascites Is a tumor of the Abdomen Scrotum Thighs Feet from a watery humour which sometimes presseth the Diaphragma oft times it sweateth through into the Chest whence groweth a little Cough and in time it corrupteth whence cometh a Feaver and thirst from salt vapours The water is ingendred by the parts between the stomach and the Reins the Liver in Anasarca but not in Ascites for the whole body should be hurt unlesse we shall say that it is affected in the end The water is collected in the cavity of the Abdomen not by fault of the Liver nor by reason of the straight passages to the Reins but because of little urine They make water sparingly because the water stayeth in those places It holdeth up by reason of the attraction of the Spleen hurt and obstruction of the Vessels of it or Scirrhus For the smallest part of the wheyish humour is carried by the Veins to the Reins The greatest part is drawn by the Spleen from the stomach by the short Vessel and from thence by the Arteries it is derived to the Reins It cannot be made from the faculty of making blood only hurt for though the Chylus may changed into raw blood as in Anasarca yet it cannot all be changed into water and if it were changed yet the Reins can vent it forth It floweth down into the cavity of the Abdomen and the caule by the veins by way of anastomosis and diapedesis and dissolved unity the water is often times yellow Signs There is alwaies swelling of the Feet especially toward the evening and after exercise The feet often swell when men recover from sharp diseases and long from plenty of meat or some outward cause This tumor is not dangerous if you timely help it Prognosticks Anasarca is the safest because the natural faculty is lesse hurt and the blood comes nearer to natural blood then water Ascites if it proceed from a Scirrrhus is more dangerous then a Tympanum for the rest Tympanum is worse then Ascites If it proceed from a
faulty Liver a Cough is easily moved and the Belly is hard If the Belly be loose and moist without ease the parts as the veins about the small guts are affected with a hectick heat and are the cause of ît In which case purgatives are often mortal If it follow melancholick diseases it cometh from fault of the Spleen They that are in an agony hope well which is wonderful it is sooner cured in servants then Masters young men then old men Those that have their bowels sound they in the beginning are freed of the disease by vomit scowring sweat urine The Cure 1. The remedies must be varied 2. They must abstain for some daies between from Physick 3. We must not proceed to stronger remedies unless the milder be in vain 4. Let the form be rather dry The continent cause is evacuated by purging feldom by vomit If it wander in the Abdomen and the Mesentery by sweat and urine if it be on this side the Liver Purgatives are besides the common the juyce of the root or middle shell of the dwarf Elder pressed forth not boyled with Barley water or Raysins for should it be boyled it vanisheth The Dose is one ounce Oyl is pressed forth of the berries of Elders as out of Linseed it is given to one dram The extract of the berries of dwarf Elder The grain or seed of Ricinus one or two hulled they are called grana Tilli gutta gummi which some think to be the juyce of Ricinus The juyce of our Orris with Honey Raysins Gum traganth for given by itself it burneth the Throat The juyce of wild Cucumber is not so vehement as they commonly report Mucilages are added to it The golden Spirit of life of Rul which many say is nothing else then the essence of Trochis Alhandal For. commendeth or prescribeth these that follow Take the species of the lesser Indi one dram and half root of Mechoacan four scruples roots of Elecampane Burnet of each half a scruple make a powder give a third part with wine Or Take roots of Orris dwarf Elder Parsley Smallage Kneeholme Elecampane fern of each one darm Hysop Centory Wormwood leaves of Elder which are the best Savory Finger-ferne dodder of each one handful the middle barks of Elder Gratiola Betony of each half a handful Madder roots sweet Cane sliced of each two drams Anniseed and wild Carrot seed of each one dram and half seeds of wild Saffron bruised half an ounce leaves of Senna one ounce and half Polypod of the oak half an ounce Broom flowers half a handful Juniper berries one dram Sea cole half a handful Raysins one ounce Liccoris scraped half an ounce Cinger Cinamon of each one dram boil all in sufficient water to one pound and half to the straind liquor add syrup Bizantine or Eupatory and Calamine of each one ounce make a decoction Or Take Senna leaves half an ounce Anniseed one dram leaves of Mountain Pepper half a dram Roots of green Orris a little bruised three drams and half Sea cole half a dram infuse them in nine ounces of whey boyl them and presse them out add honey of Roses two ounces for to take at twice being first strained If there be a Feaver For. puts for Mountain Pepper 4 drams and half of Rheubarb Spicknard one scruple Or Take juyce of Orris half an ounce whey two ounces and half raw Honey one ounce and half boyl them and strain them add Spicknard half a scruple Cinamon one scruple Diagridium three grains Apply purgative Topicals Liverwort and juyce of Scurvey-grasse taken daily to one ounce strengthen well Crato Ep. 123. gives with great successe the extract of the root of Orris He puts Henbane under the feet in the same Epistle For. with the only use of Garlick cured many Topicalls are Take unguent of Agrippa two ounces juyce of dwarf Elder or Elder 1 ounce boyl them to consumption of the juyce make an ointment for the Belly and the Feet If there be a Scirrhus apply emollients A certain old woman cast Frogs called land-roads alive into a pot and boyled them with oyl of Olives she annointed the Belly Feet with that miraculously This following is a secret of For. Take of the roots of dwarf Elder green six handfuls roots of Briany one pound outward bark of Elder four handfuls leaves of wild Cucumbers two handfuls Red cole six handfuls Mallow leaves two handfuls Marsh mallow leaves three handfuls grosse Bran five handfuls Camomil flowers three handfuls Mellilot flowers two handfuls dry Wormwood three handfuls boyl them sufficiently in sufficient quantity of water beat together add unguent Agri three ounces Barly meal half a pound make a Cataplasm for the Legs unto the Knees Or take juyce of Orris juyce of the roots of dwarf Elder and of Elder juyce of Briony of each one ounce unguent of Agrippa three ounces boyl them for a soft ointment A woman died by a Vesicatory applyed to her Feet Fab. obs 49. c. r. Gradus saith that it wonderfully draweth watery humours to it if living Frogs be put into an artificial Bath Paracentesis hath only place when the forces are strong and the Bowells safe otherwise the Belly quickly swelleth and other remedies are but vain when the Navel is lifted up into a large and light bladder Sanctorius saith That the Vessels of the Navel may be so dilated with an Instrument that they may void out the water If it swell not below the Navel on the right side if the Liver be ill on the left if the Spleen let it be cut three or four fingers from the White line and put in a Pipe closed with linnen that nothing may come forth but by little and little when the Physitian pleases as in Empyema The Scrotum is conveniently 〈◊〉 as is taught of Feb. cent 1. obs 48. In an that are Hydropical Rondelet saw the Pancreas hardened Sweat unlesse Nature brings it to that of its own accord will hardly profit Internals are and insensibly take away water Theriacal salts for to sweat Let Steel topical Resolvers and Fomentations alone A spunge steeped in Wine wherein Salt Bran and Mugwort are boyled Thirst is not taken away by water but by Oxycratum If there be a Feaver mingle cold things with hot burnt braffe made up in Pills from one dram to one dram and half Above the Ankle four days skin is profitably opened with a penknife a little deeper then when a Vein is opened and it must be rubbed with salt least the blood grow together and so the water is happily let forth Put Henbane leaves under the Feet A Dropsy from melting comes in a hot burning Feaver from burning heat it is cured by things that cool heat and by such as void water The Dropsy Tympanites it scarce differs from Ascites for you shall seldom find wind without water so contrarily It is also called a dry Dropsy The Cause is wind shut up in the Abdomen and also in the Intestins
ERYSIPELAS The Rose or Holy fire it is made not of pure Choler for that exulcerates and it would become the Shingles but from the Cholerick or more hot part of the blood Signs A Feaver with quaking shivering great pain and heat a Rose colour It is distinguished from Phlegmone 1. Because if you lay your Finger on the Rose the part groweth white the blood flying away it is not so in Phlegmone unlesse the part be pressed 2. The heat pain and Feaver are greater so that the part is often lifted up into a little bladder 3. The colour of Phlegmone seemeth blackish but of Erysipelas yellowish Prognostick Aph. 26. s 6 7 2. The Cure If there be Plethora the antecedent cause must be evacuated by opening a Vein and purging aster that the endeavour of nature must be furthered by sweating Antidotes with water of flowers and Rob. of Elders Theriac c. Some roast a Nutmeg wrapped in Flax or Hemp in the Embers and with Colambine seed so roasted they give it with Scabious water for an excellent Antidote Commonly they lay on a linnen or woollen red cloth or Barly meal The common people abhor moyst things yet a linnen cloth wet in Elder water and strongly wrung forth is fitly laid warm to it Topicals as for Scaldings if they be cold they easily cause a Gangreen better therefore is the oyl of Elders which they call golden milk then the water of Elder flowers also the water of all flowers lean bran Wierus writes for a secret That the Gall of a Carp anointed warm with a Feather upon the part affected and then a dry linnen cloth laid over it will do it If you will use cold things use them so long till the heat be something abated which the Patient will declare The Diet must be cold and moyst which also serveth for Preservatives The EYES Affected either the Coats Adnata and Cornea are affected as EYES inflamed which if it be but light from smoke heat of the Sun drinking of Wine it is called Taraxis if it be very great so that the white swell above the black it is called Châ—mosis if it proceed from Plethory or Choler only that is known by the signs it is cured by Generals by those that pull back the precedent cause first being removed The temporal Veins must be tyed Letting blood is good in the Arm of the same side though it come from Choler the Choler altered must be purged Open the Vein of the Forehead A Setace is most effectual for a long disease These first done you must come to Topicals Most often it is taken away by Generals alone Mercurial Galen Mercatus warn us that we do not apply Topicals in the begining to an Inflammation of the Eys for many have been blinded with multitude of remedies Apply them very sparingly yet to the Fore-head and Temples Repellers are safely applyed at the first Milk dropped into the Eys corrupteth and groweth sharp unlesse it be changed every hour Alwaies add to Repellers Scowrers as to Milk Saffron Sarcocolla Opiats thicken the optick Spirits let them be seldom used Alwaies mingle such things that are proper for the Eys Cold things are good for a sound Eye for preservation warm things inclining to cold if you would repel to heat if you would discusse You must not at the same time apply a Repeller to the Eye and to the Temples For. dropped into the Eys the white collyrium of Rhasis without opium half an ounce dissolved sometimes in Milk sometimes in rose-Rose-water also with opium in extream pain In the declination Sarcocolla alone soaked in Milk to one dram or dissolved in water of Fennel Ey-bright oyl made of the flowers of Succory or Blew bottles made by setting them in the Sun An Emulsion of Poppy seed Saffron Opium of each three grains with a Cataplasm Fon. commendeth Crocus metallorum Ruland with Ey-bright water Hipp. commends Wine But Zwinger in his Theater reports that P. Ramus at Paris by too much watching fell into an Ophthalmy who when as J. Sylvius bad him to drink wine according to the Aphorism the disease increased mightily that he grew almost blind Gallen commends a Bath after Universals Sarcocolla is soaked in milk often and sparingly powred on lest it grow sowre If Chemosis be made beat the yolk of an Egg with the flesh of a Fly and with a clout lay it on Gal. EYES inflamed being dry if it be without pricking it is with hardnesse of the Ey-lids it is called Sclerophthalmia If the Eys itch with pain and swell not but are red it is called Xeropthalmia If they itch with a little flux it is called Psorophthalmia It is cured with Generals softning Topicals One gave counsel to his Patient to lay the white of an Egg with Rose-water to the Eye Roots of Celandine bruised laid on with leaven and the leaves roots bruised to be laid to the Soles of the Feet In all Inflamations of the Eys that are very great that which followeth is profitable before other Remedies Take white lead washed one ounce white Starch six drams Gum Traganth Sarcocolla Tutty prepared of each half an ounce Camphir Opium of Thebes of each one dram Rose-water what may suffice make a Mass Dissolve a little of it in Rose-water and drop it into the Eye with a Feather Infinite have been cured with it A HAW in the EYE is a little nail it is a nervous membrane commonly rising from the inward corner sticking close to the Coat adnata sometimes stretched forth to the Apple of the Eye rising from Ophthalmia the small Pox or some continual Flux The Skin is not membranous but something made up of the swelling Veins It is often Cancerous it is discerned from the weeping flesh because the roots of the Nail ever inclineth most to whitenesse Prognostick If there be a beginning of suffusion the nail may not be cured that which toucheth the pupil of the Eye should it be taken away by Chirurgery yet the scar will hinder the sight Those that are white and with narrow bottoms are more easily cured The cure Besides Generals and Astringents Topicals applyed to the Temples must be first emollient then detergent The powder of Egg-shells soaked in Vinegar and dryed are effectual if you strew the powder into the Eys For. saith there is a red nail that is moveable He prescribed first of all this that followeth Take Mallow leaves four handfuls Night shade two handfuls by reason of the Inflammation if there be any Violets water Lillies flowers of red Roses of each one handful make two little baggs boyl them in the water wring them out and moderately hot lay them to the Eye four times After this Take Camomil flowers Melilot of each one handful Fenygrec seed three ounces make two little bags five times in a day foment the Eys with them After fomentation a Collyrium was still dropped in of the juyce of Mallowes Fennel Rue very well clarified Purging was continual with
all night wash your Eys with the water Water of bread kneaded with powder of Rue Fennel Ey-bright Use of Spectacles weakneth the sight unlesse you wear them for need Dud. Ep. 27. Fab. cent 1. obs 27. by often washing the Eys with cold water the sight is darkened from too much sneezing voluntarily groweth blindness Oft times things actually cold may be applyed to the Eys but not to the Ears Zach. l. 1. hist 56. For. prescribeth three medicaments for the Eys The first is of Crystal which he would use to read with The second of green glasse which he would use sometimes The third like a Pyramid not bored through of thick green glasse whose Basis should be broad enough to cover both the Eys For. used this following secret in many There is a muddy Fish greater then an Eel it is called Aelpuick the Liver whereof bound to a tyle must be set against the Sun and the liquor dropping from it must be received by a Vessel underneath With this anoint not your eys but your Ey-brows and upper Ey-lids Concave glasses profit by the circumference for those thick glasses represent all objects greater as Convex glasses make them lesse and plain glasses equal They that have Owl eys desire but little light They that have plenty of humours in their Eys have black Eys because the plenty of the humours cannot be transparent enough Cat-eyed that have but little humours cannot bear much light See the Vlcer of the Eye Epihora it is a thin watery humour like to tears in the Eys It is cured by Generals Driers Revulsives astringent Topicals c. EY-LIDS Roughnesse It is the ruggednesse of the inside of the Ey-lids with itching and rednesse and oft times with pushes like Millet seed from a sharp humour A callous roughnesse Besides Generals Revulsives Intercipients Topicals must be emollients afterwards Coolers as Rose-water or water of Dandelion lastly detergents Par. saith this that followeth is best of all If you dissolve a little Vitriol in much water of Roses Aloes Myrrh Saffron The Ey-lid inverted may be rubbed with Fig-leaves Hordeolum is a little swelling on the top of the Ey-lids neer the Brows which suppurating is like a Barly corn It is contained in a Vessel Foment it with white wax or hens grese or fasting spittle or rub it with the body of a Fly the head being cast away For. premising Generals foments it with white wax or Hens grease washed with Rose-water hot then with the decoction of Barley and Camomil Then with the blood of a Tuttle Pigeon Patridge He used on himself Rose-water two ounces Vitriol one dram he dropped one or two drops in a day into his Eye Or Rose-water two ounces Aloes half a dram If this help not it must be cut If the matter be stony as hail it is called Chalazion Ectropium is when the inward part of the lower Ey-lid appeareth inverted from a Palsey or Convulsion or wound ill cured For. cureth this with Astringents as Rose-water where in burning iron hath been quenched that which followeth he oft times proved Take new butter nine times washed in water sufficient then wash it nine times in juyce of Plantain then three in Rose-water two ounces and half Tutty prepared once washed in Rose-water and Aloes washed in Plantain water white Sieff with Opium of each one dram and half Camphir washed one scruple make an unguent anoint with it in the Evening and wash with hot water Hares Eys is when the upper Ey-lid is shorter then it should be it is either natural or from a scar or Convulsion or when Infants in their Cradles look alwaies backward or upward It is cured by Emollients If it be from a scar Incision is made above it in form of a hooked Moon An unguent must be put into the wound Aquap contrarily with rains fastned with glew to the Ey-lids joyns both Ey-lids together Hydatis is a fat substance as a piece of fat lying under the skin of the upper Ey-lid whence the whole Ey-lid in Infants becometh Oedematous The cure is made by cutting that part The whole Eye must be covered with the white of an Egg and rose-Rose-water Lay on salt chewed with Cummin seed and Sage to dry it unlesse pain hinder Hydatica are bladders full of water in the Lungs and the Liver c. Essere are little swellings something hard with exceeding itching they suddenly seize on the whole Body like stingings of Bees they vanish of themselves They are made from watery humours They foreshew a Tertian and must be cured as a Tertian FASCINATION Is a bewitching whereby by the sight praysing or touching Men Beasts Corne do dye Fascinations of the first and second kind prevail not by force of words but by the Devil Signs If the learnedst Physitians doubt of the cause of the disease if it be forthwith in the state if preternatural things as stones are voided It is cured by prayers by purging the melancholick humours by vomit A FEVER of one day is a Feaver risen from the heat of the vital spirits to this belongeth Synoche of many days rising from the overheating of the Spirits and the thinner part of the Blood Signs Diagnostick 1. It beginneth from a precedent cause is a sign inseperable 2. The Urine is like to those that are sound 3. The pulse is next to natural 4. The heat is mild easy 5. It seizeth us without cold or shaking The causes of the heat are 1. Motion 2. Corruption 3. Nearnesse to heat 4. Constipation of the Body 5. mingling of hot things The Cure is made by Bathings frictions unguents A Putrid FEAVER Cause of putrefaction is concoction hurt by natural things and things not natural and preternatural 2. Stopping of the Pores either by Astringents or drinesse or heat of the Sun or stopping of the Vessels by plenty of clamminess or the humours 3. The calling forth of natural heat by a one dayes Feaver anger c. 4. Nearnesse to a putrid thing Signs diagnostick 1. The heat is sharp biting 2. They begin without a procatarctick cause which is a proper sign 3. The Urine Pulse differ much from natural 4. They begin with cold a proper sign 5. It returneth by fits a proper sign Question May we purge in putrid Feavers I deny Because Purgatives are hot and inflame the Feaver 2. Because before and in the dog-days Purgations are difficult by reason of the hot ambient ayre how much more by reason of a Feaverish 3. Because Purgatives are contrary to nature 4. Because neither in the beginning nor in the augmentation for all things are crude nor in the state for nature is troubled from digestion and rest is better Aph. 29. s 2. nor in the declination for in that no man dieth c. It remains that it is best to purge in the end Zach. l. 1. hist 6. 3. Whether a Feaver may rise from putrefaction It is denyed 1. Because putrefaction is no heat 2. Because all putrid things are cooled at
wounds are not so dangerous To the scraped Bone never apply moist or oily Remedies but Cephalick powders unlesse there be fear of inflammation by extream pain If the Membranes be hurt also when the Skull is opened if it be not open enough the Membrane must be uncovered something must be applyed to stop the blood chiefly that excellent remedy of Galen of Aloes one part Frankincense half as much To ease the pain powre in Pigeons blood which is also detergent and for to wipe off more use Honey of Roses with the juyce of Smallage and if need be Egyptiac Mathiolus commends especially oyl of Eggs. Oyl of Hypericon is good Mastick and the Cephalick ointment which you may find in Senn. Turpentine with Aqua vitae juyce of Calamint Nip Many apply to the Dura mater Oyl of Roses and other Moistners because it strengthneth and hinders the defluxion Others require only dryers because the Tympanum and Nerves delight in dryers so do all Ulcers because oyl offends the Nerves because cold is an enemy to the Nerves Senn. distinguisheth If the Membrane be white pure unhurt driers are useful as Honey of Roses with four drops of Aqua vitae but if the Membrane be touched and there be fear of inflammation from pain Oyl of Roses Omphacine is good then it varieth according to the temper as in soft Bodies and Children Oyl of Roses is good for strong Bodies Rosin of the Firr-tree or oyl of Hypericon mingled with it if it must be drier put in more Rosin then oyl In Summer oyl of Roses in Winter Rosin of the Firr-tree The Dura Mater by reason of the aire alwaies looseth its motion and the superficies of it resolveth into scales sometimes with a stink which frights those are not skilled by practise in it but this is common and superficial it is washed off with Honey of Roses Senn. in this case prescribed in alClyster roots of Piony one ounce seeds of Piony two drams The scales of the bones must not be pulled away by force but we must further the motion of them not the falling off we must further the Callus to come 2. Is a Contusion when the bone is pressed down yet so that it is not broken into many shells It is reduced with a Cupping glasse with a great flame but this causeth fluxion the sick with his Mouth and Nostrils shut must force his breath upwards which succeedeth in children or lay on a cleaving Plaister or raise it with a Trepan or a Trefine A Plaister of Ivy Gum sodders bones wonderfully 3. Is Effracture when the bone broken into Splinters is thrust inward those Splints must be taken out or the bone must be cut away either with Beaks or Rasps or with Pullers and with a leaden hammer it must be broken Sometimes a Bone so pressed down settles to his natural equality 4. Is Sedes when the print of the blow remains in the Bone it is reduced as a Contusion 5. Is Resounding when either some other part or place is cleft then where the blow was but the place of the Counter-Fissure is guessed at If the hair being shaved off a Plaister be laid on of liquid Pitch Wax Turpentine Aloes for hence if any place appear to be more swollen moister softer it is likely the Fissure is there so that the Patient also thinking of no such thing is compelled now and then to put his hand upon that place Signs Prognostick There are four Fractures wherein a Chirurgion may be deceived 1. When the Fissure under is very small as a hair 2. When the inward place is Fissured the outward remaining unhurt 3. When a Bone pressed down forthwith returns to its natural posture 4. When the Bone receives the blow in one place and the Fissure is in another Fab. cent 1. obs 17. In a Fracture of the Scul anger was mortal Obs 19. A venereous act obs 20. Too great noise langhter immoderate sneezing obs 24. Let the aire be most carefully hot Fab. c. 3. obs 22. A Cucupha is common for the wounds and contusions of the Head Also the roots of Aveus the leaves and flowers of Betony c. FUNGI Oft times by the hole made with the Trepan comes forth Sponges namely a Fungus red flesh The Subject of them is the Membrane hurt The Cause are grosse vitious humors They are cured by evacuatives also by Topicals Take Savin in powder two drams Ocre one dram make a Powder which sprinkled on them consumes them Par. Faby hath another Powder FURY of the Womb is a delirium with an unmeasurable desire of Venery growing from the heat of the Seed and of the Matrix communicated to the whole Body It is cured by Coolers opening of a Vein and purging of black Choler Specificals are such as quench the Seed as Lettice Water-lillies Willows Purflane Agnus castus Rue Dill Hemp-seed chiefly Corals Emralds All these beaten anointed to the Teflicles extinguish Venery We must cool by Internals and Topicals See the water of Chastity in Senn. l. 1. p. 2. â— 10. l. 4. p. 2. s 3. c. 5. The FROG It is a swelling under the Tongue that is common to children seldome it hath the nature of Inflammation but rather of Oedema The filth of it is like the white of an Egg and sometimes yellow The Cause is a Tartareus humour or fleam coming from the Head The cure is by Generals besides Topical Resolvers as powder of Salt Hysop Pomegranate Pills of each two drams rub it with this Senn. requireth Cutters and Resolvers For. nseth the powder aforesaid as also Plantain water half a pound Honey of Roses half an ounce flowers of wild Pomegrantes one dram and half Allum half a dram let them boyl these are Astringent and may be are good at the first Senn. looketh to the declination or the state If in vain Pareus provides a Plate of Iron-bored through equal to the Mouth when it gapeth wide and he applyeth it so to the Mouth that the swelling may be answerable to that hole afterwards by the hole make a burning with an Iron crush out the filth and wash the Mouth with a decoction of Barley Sugar and Honey of Roses leave none of the humour for it makes it come again Gal. will not willingly open it with an Iron for fear of a Flux of blood A wound also made under the Chin the matter will presently come forth which is done if the Mouth cannot fitly be opened For Children Senn. mingleth powder of Sage or Origanum with Honey of Roses and spirit of Vitriol two drops or Cuttle-bone Sal gemmae Pepper of each one dram make a powder he layeth under the Chin or upon the Chin a Plaister of Goose dung FRECKLS Either come from heat of the Sun namely where the colour is changed into swart It is prevented if the Face and Hands be anointed with the white of an Egg beaten with rose-Rose-water or with the emulsion of the four cold seeds It is cured in women by
rubbing them with the green leaves of Cherry-tree or with Rose-water wherein Camphir hath been dissolved Others use Cherrytree-gum dissolved in Vinegar with a little Oate-meal Or from an inward cause as in women with Child in Maids from their Courses stopt eating of roots of red Beets c. The spots are swart sometimes as broad as ones Hand they are cured by an emulsion of Hemp-seed and the juyce of Bugloss root pressed out A FELLON Is a swelling at the ends of the Fingers with inflammation pain a Feaver tossing from a venomous humour it is held incurable Pareus often made Incision in the inward part of the Finger even to the Bone according to the length of the first Joynt it is effectual so it be done before it be ripe Let much blood run forth Then the Finger must presently be thrust into strong and hot Vinegar wherein Treacle is dissolved to call out the venome to asswage the pain Fab. obs 97. c. 1. In the beginning very often cut by degrees the only Superficies of the Skin when spots appeared which being cut the watery blood ran forth he laid on Aqua vitae with Treacle and he cured all GANGLIUM is a Tumor about the Bones of the Joynts which are covered only with skin The Cause is the weaknesse of a Nerve or a Tendon from a stroke or labour so that it cannot concoct its nourishment It belongs to Scirrhus Tumors not to Oedema as Scrofulous Tumors do It differs from Atheroma by the inequality and resisting of the Tumor It is cured by Generals The Topicals must be emollient then apply heat to it to discusse the Ganglium or break the Bladder with your hands lay on a Plate of Lead cut or burn it if you may on the Joynts you may not Bring it to suppuration if the rest be in vain A GANGRENE The hot fire as a Sphaecelus is a cold fire It is first made by too much cold 2. From a venemous quality 3. Transpiration being hindered or from superfluity of humors as in Inflamation 4. From too much outward heat 5. For want of nourishment and influence of heat which causes exstinguish al natural heat Signs If it come from the 1. cause there proceedeth a pricking pain rednesse then coldnesse numnesse If from the 2. there is swooning a continual Feaver a delirium If from the 3. the pain and pulsation is diminished without any resolution or suppuration of the Matter the colour is wan and it stinketh The part if it be black is colder then a Marble-stone and most soft If it neither move nor feel at all if it stink much and green corruption floweth it is a Sphacelus yet oft times some motion is perceived even in a Sphacelus namely when the head of the Muscle is not hurt it moveth the benummed Tendon wee must beware we be not deceived by it The Cure Evacuate the humour if there be any prescribe a Diet. The Heart must alwaies be corroborated by inward and outward means If it be from cold and the Gangrene be not yet either rub the frozen part with Snow Senn. of a Gangrene afterwards give Theriac with wine to make him sweat when the cold is something abated gentle Chafings with oyl of bitter Almonds and with Milk of the decoction of Rosemary are profitable But if a Gangrene be you must rather scarify as in that which followeth c. If it come from the second cause besides Generals opening a Vein Purgatives not violent sweating means and Cordials take place And 1. Incisions must be made if it pierce to the bone eschewing Vessels or scarification will suffice or we must burn it 2. The Incisions must be washed with a sharp decoction that is detergent of Scordium which is principally good here roots of Angelica 3. Put in Aegyptiac with Tents into the cuts so often untill the dead flesh be consumed to be cut off with a rasor which the smell colour sense of the part will shew 4. Apply over the whole part a Cataplasm that is drying and resolving 5. Upon the part affected an Astringent If it be from the 5. cause repelling means have no place unlesse there be a manifest Gangrene If there be a Sphacelus some make incision in the sound part some in the dead because in this there is no fear of symptoms or bleeding Senn. distinguisheth If the putrefaction spread no farther but ceaseth which when it falleth out there appeareth a Circle exactly red and very tender about the part affected let the incision be made in the dead part otherwise not Senn. likes Pareus his way how he stoppeth the blood See Senn. Oft times the sick many days after complain of the pain of their Foot that was cut off Also there is a Gangreen Scorbutical which beginneth commonly from an internal cause without any manifest cause about the end of the Foot with black and blew spots with a crusty dry Ulcer that yields no matter It lasteth sometimes above six Months It seizeth on the Tendons which do not so soon corrupt as the flesh it is with most bitter pains GONORRHEA comes either from the retentive Faculty hurt from a cold and moyst distemper or from watery sharp Seed provoking the expulsive Faculty It is insensible If it be from distemper it is corrected by contraries chiefly with the water and juyce of Mints Astringent Baths Driers by Generals and Topicals yet we must distinguish well whether it be Seed or a flegmatick humour that runs forth It maketh a consumption of the Back which alwayes accompanyeth Gonorrhea GONORRHEA Venereous is an inflammation of the Parastatis from unclean copulation with sharp matter pain heat of the urine extension of the Yard which may last at the least ten years The Cure At first you must cool and moisten by Clysters Lenitives opening of a Vein Generals Topicals In the declination use Resolvents as Turpentine If in making water the heat be intollerable let the Patient make water with his Yard put into a Pot full of warm Milk or water If there be an Ulcer cast in detergent means as Barly water syrup of Roses Plantain water Honey of Roses Pareus oft times addeth a little Aegyptiac Make it cicatrise with a drying and an Astringent injection If in vain then make recourse to Guaiacum GUTTA Rosacea Sometimes it is a preternatural rednesse without Pustules Bladders or Ulcers Sometimes with Pustuls and Bladders Sometimes with an Ulcer which lastly also is called Noli me tangere It infects the Nose chiefly The Cause is hot thick Blood bred from the fault of the Liver which by its thicknesse can neither go back nor be discussed It is hard to be cured The Cure The blood must be cooled by Diet opening of a Vein Cupping glasses with scarification and general means as purging the cholerick humour the Topicals are the water of all flowers which is distilled from Ox dung first let the Face be softned with the vapour of warm water Lac Virginis water of
of Eggs another with the liquor of Snails strewed with salt the place being first rubbed with a sharp cloth he cured with oyl of Nuts decoction of Southern wood Mugwort oyl of Juniper Conies-fat Goats dung ashes of Walnut shells Mouse ashes with Honey Fat of green Frogs dried first using the Ly of the ashes of Frogs produceth hairs every where even in those that are Lepers ashes of Nigella with goldsmiths water cured one that was bald by Quick-silver For. used Goats milk and nervous things hot urine The fat of a Pike the froth of lean flesh Monav. Ep. 284. commends Ladanum chiefly HAIRS are made black by the decoction of astringent things by Internals purging fleam By Topicals the green shells of Wal-nuts Cypress-nuts Galls boyld oyl of Nuts Cadmia a Ly wherein Coliquintida is boyled Myrobolans as well inwardly as applyed outwardly Cloves Bean-stalks They are made yellow if they be washed with Ly of the Ashes of the old Cole-worts adding Barley straw Some to that Ly add green wheat Liccoris shavings of Box or put Saffron in the Ly the decoction of Broom flowers Mullens with yellow flower Citron Pills water and oyl of Honey They are made to curle if you wash them in the decoction of the root of dwarf Elder or anoint them with Harts-horn and oyl of Olives The ends of the Hairs cleave from a burnt humour It is cured by a cooling Diet by purging black choler by an emollient fomentation Worms which shorten the Hair are described by few they can scarce be seen by the Eyes they eat the ends They are killed by Vinegar of the infusion of Nettle-seed also by Scabious Southern-wood Centory c. Platting of the Hair Die Mahrflechten it troubles Men and Horses It began in Poland It is hereditary springing from the water and aire If the platting be cut off the poyson slips in again and makes dangerous affects Opening a Vein and purging are useless here HICKOP The Cause is the rending of the upper orifice which proceedeth from humours vapours rising from the Womb Hypochondres driness inflammation of the Liver a Wound of the Membranes of the Brain The cure The Ancients held their breath held cold water in their Mouth they sneezed If it be vehement Hickop cure the symptom neglecting the cause by Narcoticks as by syrup of Violets Poppeys or this following of For Take seeds of Dill or Carways one dram white Poppey seed two scruples Manus Christi with Pearls one ounce make a Nodulus infuse it in small Beer If it be by consent take away the cause if from cold by heaters if from wind likewise If it be from too much evacuation it is cured by sharp moistners If it be from plenty of meat evacuate it If it be from poyson first give a Detergent then Specifical to drink If from worms drive them out Castoreum Cumin bound to the left Wrist For. anointed the Back-bone against the Region of the Stomach with oyl of Violets he gave syrup of Violets to moisten and syrup of Mints to strengthen Astringents of syrup of Mints Wormwood are not good till the matter be evacuated YELLOW JAUNDIES is a spreading of the Gall. If it come from the straightness of the Passages or from the Vessel of the Gall the Excrements of the Belly are white there is no Feaver but heavinesse it cometh suddenly without losse of strength If effectual remedies do not profit the straightnesse proceeds from the stone If there be signs of the Liver affected that is affected If it lasteth long it threatneth a Dropsy The cure First we must open and chiefly by Dodder than which there is nothing better Saffron Agrimony Hore-hound Centory the lesse Germander Wormwood The yellow stone found in the Gall of a Bull is profitable One dram of Earth-worms with juyce of Succory roots of greater Celandine Elecampane Tartar Vitriolated Cremor Tartar dissolved in steeled Wine spirit of Salt A decoction of Straw-berries 3 handfuls Raysins four ounces Hore-hound half a handful For Children seeds of Columbines Openers and Purgatives may be mingled After that we must evacuate Galâ—l de vi purg denieth here to open a Vein For. useth it in Plethorick Bodies The Purgatives may be strong For. gave a woman with child that had the Jaundies half an ounce of Electrary of the juyce of Roses Rheubarb one scruple Diagridium one grain Spicknard three grains with water of Balm Hops Fennel of each one ounce at once It is a sign the obstruction is opened when the excrements of the Belly are again yellow coloured and the urine is not so yellow as it was If it proceed from the Colick when the Passage for Choler is stopped by stâ—am and winds it is cured as the Colick From the Colick come the Jaundies from the Jaundies the Colick If it come from heat of the Liver without a Fever here is too great quantity of choler from thence groweth a Feaver the Urine and dung are yellow the hands and Feet are hot The Cure Opening a Vein is convenient if there be Plethory the distemper must be corrected and the cause evacuated If it be critical the urine and dung hold their natural colour it must not be cured If it be symptomatical on a day that is not critical the matter not concocted invadeth It is taken away the Feaver being cured If it come from inflammation of the Liver it is cured as an inflammation of blood If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes Rondeletius promiseth health to women with child if these things following be laid to their Wrists and Feet Take the leaves of Missleto of the Oke two handfuls Celandine Hore-hound of each half a handful beat them in a mortar with a little wine Par. useth this that followeth Take goose dung two drams white wine three ounces drink it two hours before meat Querc gives Goose dung one dram or half a dram or dung of a white Hen half a dram for four days BLACK JAUNDIES It is commonly thought to come from the Spleen when the melancholick humor is not attracted Platerus saith preternatural Choler is the cause of it which is collected in the Vessel of the Gall and is corrupted in the meseraique Veins and gets a green and black colour from corruption Because in the Spleen there is no cavity no hollownesse nor can it be carried to the hollow Vein because it invadeth suddenly It is cured as the Yellow Jaundies by steel c. If the colour cease not it must be discussed by sweaters also by a dry Bath and after the Bath rub the Body with emulsion of Hempseed A Tench cut through the back layd to the Abdomen or Soles of the Feet draws forth the yellow and black humour The ILIACK Passion is the motion of the Guts turned wherein the Chylus is not rightly distributed and the dung is retained and at last are cast forth at the Mouth The cause is said commonly to be the inflammation of the Intestins from the hardnesse
and plenty of dung also from a Hernia or from poyson Yet Senn. doth not believe it can be from obstruction of the small Guts for the Excrements could not come forth at the Mouth but he saith that as in vomiting the circular fibres of the stomach so in the Iliack Passion the cause is in the winding of the small Guts because Clysters in the Iliack Passion are often cast forth by vomit and Suppositories also The cause of that motion is 1. The inflammation of the Intestins 2. Retention of the dung 3. Ulceration Most commonly it seizeth on the small but sometimes the great guts also Signs Diagnostick The Belly stopt Vomiting more then in the Colick the pain lesse If the small Guts be affected vomiting and nauseating is greater Prognostick All Iliack Passions are dangerous When the dung is vomited up it is mortall Aph. 44. s 6. Aph. 10. s 7. it killeth in four days The cure Emollients are useful internals and Topicals One ounce of oyl of sweet Almonds is singular Let the Fundament be alwaies fomented with Emollients Apply Emollients to the Abdomen A Bath is good fat broths softning Clysters If it come from inflammation it is cured as inflammation of the Guts If from the dung hardned it is cured as the Colick If it cannot be cured Hippocrates with a pair of Bellows separates the guts from the dung by blowing them and then giveth a Clyster If it come from Hernia it is cured as a Hernia IMAGINATION of it self neither alters nor moveth because it is an apprehending power and the action of it is immanent but only by accident so far as it maketh for desire or hate and so the natural Faculty of moving is drawn into consent which either sends or brings back the humours and the Species It produceth diseases only by frights and fears whereby the humours are moved and corrupted But if the imagination be of a great Nose a great Nose is not made It cureth not a disease by it self but so far as it makes confidence and joy It affects the Infant with ill conformation by the Passions of the mind and the motion of the humours and spirits proceeding thence whereby the forming faculty is troubled In a determinate conformation when bloody spots are made like Mulberries the Imagination doth represent such forms to the forming Faculty as the soul of the Mother so affected affects the soul in the Seed and that the Infant Regiment of INFANTS The Navil string being cut off if the Infant be plethorick let the blood run forth if it be lean let the blood be pressed inward with the Hand yet the Infant will have fewer Small-Pox if the blood be not pressed in with the Hand as Riol observed If it be of a reddish colour and cryeth aloud it is sound Let it be washed with wine of the decoction of Rose leaves Myrtils c. Galen bids strew it with Salt but amiss An Excrement like to chalk sticking in the Mouth must be wiped out with a stick tied in a clout wet with oyl of sweet Almonds Honey and Sugar All the common Joynts must be unfolded Before the Tet be offered to it give it Honey or syrup of Roses with oyl of sweet Almonds and Sugar Some say that the Mothers Milk is not good for the Child till the excremental blood that is with the after-burden be purged away But the condition of the Milk must be considered if it be bad give it not if it be wheyish Spiegelius saith it cannot hurt but it doth much profit Put no great light nor a candle neer the Child Let it ly one Month on the Back and afterwards on the side Let the light be right over against the Eys wherefore the sides of the Cradle must be vailed that the Child may look only straight forward Hanging Cradles are the best Let them sleep more then wake The Body of the Infant must be daily rubbed gently After four Months the Hands and Arms may be let loose from swath-bands Let it never accustome it self to one Breast only for so it will use but one Hand After some moneths make it Pap of Wheat-meal a little dried at fire or of the whitest Bread before it have teeth solid meats must not be given it When the teeth come forth use it to more solid meats Let it not stand too young Put it in a little Cart to learn to walk put a roundle about the Head The Child must not be removed from sucking till the number of its teeth be compleat It is best weaning it when the Moon increaseth in Spring and Autumn INFANTS Feavers They proceed either from corrupt Milk or breeding of Teeth or Worms The Nurse or Mother must be purged with Diacatholicon syrup of Roses c. Give the Infants Alteratives as the juyce syrup of Violets syrup of juyce of Lemmons water of Endive Succory Violets The Back-bone must be anointed with the Mucilage of Flea seed with oyl of Violets and Wax Lay an Astringent as oyl of Quinces to the stomach Heurnius commendeth this which followeth Take conserve of Violet flowers two ounces Borrage half an ounce Pulp of Cassia new drawn one ounce Mucilage of Flea seed half an ounce the Dose is one or two drams Syrup of Roses Violets of Succory with Rheubarb Cassia may be given c. Senn. saw a Child dy by 3 drops of oyl of Amber given to it by an old wife the Belly is loosened most conveniently by suppositories clysters whey syrup of Roses A disease of Infants called Siriasis which is an inflammation of the Brain and the Membranes which there followeth upon a hollownesse in the forepart of the Head and the Eys It comes from flegmatick blood corrupting also from milk too hot Women call this Das blatt Schissen because the Membrane of the Fountain falleth and causeth a hole In three days commonly it killeth the Belly must be loosned with oyl of Roses the Fountain must be anointed afterwards add oyl of Camomil the Nurse must use cold and moist Diet and dwell in a colder aire Fear in sleep if it come from worms or a Feaver it is cured by a particular way If it come from corrupt Milk Vomit removeth it Give Honey of Roses solutive with Milk confection of Jacinth or Coral Hang upon the Infant outwardly a Wolfs tooth Corals the horns of Italian Beetles which they call the flying Hart. Watchings If they proceed from corrupt Milk take that away if from worms remove them The Nurse but not the Childe must take sleeping Medicaments Washings of the Feet are rather profitable of Dill Mallow leaves Willows Vine leaves c. The soles of the Feet are profitably anointed with the marrow of Harts bones Oyl of Dill new is safely applyed to the Head to the Nostrils oyl of Violets with a little juyce of Lettice for an Ointment Moisture of the Ears which unlesse it be cured the Bones corroded will cause deafnesse the pain must be mitigated with
pains it is best to commit them to Nature rather then to open them Great effusions of blood are from the outward Vein The Cure The blind Piles if they swell we must take care to void out the blood Chafing with sharp things with leaves of Mercury Pellitary Borrage cold with juyce of Beets Sowbread Centory the lesse yet lest the pain should increase we must add Anodyns Oyl of Elder and the liquor that is made of the flowers of Mullens in a glasse set in the Sun is great help if you anoint them with it Pilewort the lesser Celandine inwardly outwardly worketh marvelously But if the pain be great and there be fear of Inflammation open a vein in the Arm after that in the Ankle if the pain cease not After the opening of a Vein set on Leeches when they are fallen off let the blood run till it stop of it self or let the sick sit over a Bath of hot water by the vapour whereof the blood is moved let a vessel swim in the water to receive the blood or let it be drawn with a Cornicula The pain is appeased with cooling Axodyns both injected applyed Also with Moistners chiefly oyl of Violets injected to one ounce A certain woman applyed the ashes of burnt Cork with the yolk of an Egg oyl of Roses mingled and it was miraculous Section is not safe because it will easily ulcerate Purging by Hiera will provoke heat and Tumors in the Fundament and the Piles Solen Also Chafing of the neather part Fume of Mother-wort boyld in Wine the same But if they were never wont to run nor there be hoeps that they will run we must use means premising Generals Purgatives of the second sort For. that they may dry up by digestives and driers as with Bole-armenick Mulleus Pilewort Plantain Yarrow Hypericon Scabious Dogs-tongue root of the lesser Celandine in Fomentations Insessions Vapours the smoke of Brimstone Onions boyled with Butter Amatus when all other remedies failed took an Orange made hollow filled with oyl of Roses and Lavender-seed upon hot embers and laid it on hot and oft times renewed it If they run but little the ways must be softned and Aloes must be given If they run too much the cure must be with Revulsives Alteratives Astringents Prevention is by Purgatives c. Rulandus stopt them on himself with little red bags applyed by turns filled with Acorns beaten or Oke leaves boyld a long time in Wine Senn. observed so did Plat. and Fern. that oft times without blood or pain snotty and whitish filth which some falsly take for putrefaction was sent forth for a long time after long melancholick diseases riding The matter is made of corrupt blood as the Whites in women are like to whites of Eggs. See Topicalls PILES of the Matrix As in the Fundament so in the neck of the Womb Piles are found if the Veins in those parts are extended they are found out by Speculum The Cure Generals premised the pain must be abated every way by Insession c. If the pain be not or abated if they bleed not but swell the Ancients did only Scarify them but rather let them be dryed by Generals and by Driers If they swell much we must use means to evacuate them by Softners in form of vapour and by Chafing setting on of Leeches The last means is Incision which yet is dangerous They are painful and by their pain alone are they known from the Courses FRENCH-POX is an occult disease of the Liver and the other parts whether it be cold or hot with plenty of naughty humours it is bred from unclean copulation Fiorav saith it was bred from eating mans flesh Leoninus from the Stars and moisture in the year 1493. Others say from a Leprous man lying with a whore Hurtenus l. 6. de Guai thinks it was brought from Spaniola It is cured 1. By Guaicum China roots which want smell and cast and are not hot Sarsoparilla leaves of Saponariad as Take bark of the wood one ounce pour on water six pound Zwinger op 234. or Take shavings of the wood one pound the bark one ounce infuse them in ten pound of pure water boyl them till three parts be wasted Laur. With the froth kept anoint the Fore-head the Temples c. Drink every morning eight ounces To the reliques add of the wood two ounces water twelve pound boyl all to five pound for drink Boyl the dregs again to wash the Hands c Fore-head 2. By Quick-silver which Senn. thinks to be hot See Fern Laur. Par. who acknowledgeth two parts to be in Quicksilver which thing Senn. rejecteth It is poyson though quick it doth lesse harm because it soon runs through It is pressed through a Rams skin then it is given to a Dog who shits it forth it is cooked in Vinegar with hearbs for the Nerves Senn. thinks this profits little with Hogs grease c. Let them stay on the skin and not peirce so deep to the bottom Take Hogs grease six ounces fresh Butter three ounces oyl of Worms and of a Fox of each one ounce and half boyl in these Sage Rosemary c. Quicksilver prepared six ounces Wax what may suffice anoint the insides of the Feet Hands and the Joynts and back lest spitting should cause Ulcers in the Mouth For. prevents that with a Gargarism of oyl of sweet Almonds When you are anointed hold a gold Ring in your Mouth give Pills of gold dust so the reliques of the Quick-silver will stick to the gold Mercury doth not cure the disease but taketh away the cause by a Purgative quality 3. By Plaisters 4. By Fumes which way is the most dangerous as Take Vermilion one ounce Mastick Mace Tutty of each two drams Benioni Myrrh Storax Frankinsence of each half an ounce make them up with Turpentine and take a fume of it If an Infant be affected the Nurse for five days must preserve her self with Treacle water let her alwaies wash her Nipple The pushes of the child must be anointed with Unguent of Elecampane and a little Mercury Paercus for the Plague and spotted Feavers used an ointment with Mercury If they refuse the decoction of the wood Take Sarsaparilla three ounces Bark of Guaicum one ounce Cinamon one dram and half Senna leaves half an ounce Sugar six ounces make a powder the Dose is half a dram The quantity of Senna is variable Let him sweat in the morning upon it own hour and beware the North wind Monav. cp 242. and Zac. l. 1. bist 72. holds the Spanish disease to be well known and to proceed from too much Venery Unguent of Mercury must be new made for by fermenting it looseth its Porces Par. l. 20. c. 5. holds that the Pox is poyson by it moisture only Let not the diet be thin to lessen the Forces because the disease is chronical only in acute diseases which are short a thin diet is profitable Small Wine is allowed
Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the flâ—sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
precede signs of the Aire affected for Beasts have died Fishes they have left their dens the waters being half dead c. If it come from corruption of humours that is known by the signs there are Spots Botches Pushes The Urine is naught a vehement Feaver afflicts also a Tertian a Quartan intermitting witnesse Pareus l. 21. Those that are scabbed are lesse troubled with the Plague A Botch to go before the Feaver is good to follow naught The Moon decreasing is deadly for the Terms come forth weaker Arist l. 7. de H. Anim. c. 2. Preservatives Chambers must be clean so much as we can A sign of this is If Eggs shaked be not corrupted and stink in 24. hours in a place infected or new Bread from the Oven So if shaked Eggs be put between him that is infected and one that is sound the Eggs but not the sound party will be infected So to those that are about to dy they put hot bread to their Mouths that the Chamber may not be infected 2. Let the Body be cleansed with moderate Purgatives and such as expel poyson as Agarick c. By convenient Diet. 3. We must preserve by taking Antidotes as Pills of Ruffus half a dram yet in old men childing-women and such as have the Emroids cauttiously Elixar vitae of Paracelsus For. commends this following even for Infants every day so much as a nut Take Nuts Figs Rue of each alike beat them severally in wooden Vessels Mingle them with syrup of juyce of Citrons it is very good Also this that followeth is to be taken to the quantity of a small Nut. Take confection of Nuts one ounce and half old Treacle Mithridate of each two drams right Bole-armenick Terra sigillata of each one dram and half with syrup of Lemmons or in Winter with syrup of Citron Pills mingle it He gave it in the Winter with Wine in the Spring with Carduus water or Scabious in Summer with Sorrel water Sometimes he added half a dram of Confectio Liberans Every morning he washeth the Face with water and Vinegar of Roses with a sweet Nodulus An unguent for the Nostrils as oyl of Scorpions to anoint the Wrists Temples Heart Nostrils Troches to be held under the Tongue A little bag for the garments Epithems Fab. obs 34. c. 2. Monavius ep 248. approves the powder of Arsnick Toads Crato is against it Ep. 167. In the Pestilence at Lausanna none died that had an Issue Fab. had two c. 4. obs 23. We must anoint under the Nails the Arm-pits and Groins Bags must be kept in the Wardrobe of cloths The Cure To open a Vein is not good if the Plague arise from contagion or fault of the air If twelve hours be past if there be spots a Flux or Botches otherwise before the eighth hour giving first a Lenitive Clyster you may do it When there is a Botch or Carbuncle draw blood on the same side setting a Cupping glasse to the Botch lest the venom be drawn inward Fern. opens the Head Vein in the Arm if the Carbuncle be under the Arm-pits the Liver Vein of the same side if it be in the Groin Thigh Hip Leg Ankle with scarifying and cupping yet he alwaies did it before eight hours After two hours he gave an Antidote if it were vomited up he gave it again He purged not before the third oft times the fourth day with Lenitives as Rheubarb Agarick Epithym c. Cassia is not convenient by reason of its moisture nor Rose water for its Astringency To drink cold water in the Plague and malignant Feavers is deadly Let them eat lustily though they have no stomach The first day he will not let them sleep on the second and third he willingly provokes it with unguent Populeum Senn. Once he moveth sweat after he opens a Vein if need be All before eight hours past Par. commends salt of Mugwort If spots comes forth Paraeus anoints the sick with Quick-silver as if they had the Pox. PTHYSICK It either followeth the Pleurisy or it proceeds from a sharp Distillation or the breaking of a Vein See Aph. 16. s 7. Rondeletins holds it commeth most from the third cause by ignorance of the Physitian who neglecting Revulsives will cure spitting of blood with Astringents There is a lingring putrid Feaver joyned with it or a Hectick from an Ulcer of the Lungs which lasts sometimes twenty years Signs of the beginning of it are a long during Cough then something bloody then mattery is cast forth the Body wasts there is a lingring Feaver hard breathing matter coming forth by Coughing the Hairs fall c. How matter is distinguished from fleam See Aph. 81. s 4. 11. s 5. The Cure The cause must be purged by Rheubarb c and Lenitives not strong Clysters It must be revulsed intercepted The disease or the Ulcer requireth detergents and Mundificatives or Expectorating means for the spittle must be bound up no way afterwards we must glutinate Fracastorius comendeth a Lohock of Turpentine with Myrrh and Bole to be miraculous Laur the juyce of ground Ivy half a pound Sugar six ounces make a syrup let him take often with a spoon Water of Alehove with Sugar of Roses To use old conserve of Roses or Species Haly against the Prhysick Erast ep 272. saith that all who had an Ulcer in their Lungs though it were not discerned yet they died by the use of Vitriol waters Conserve of Roses must be often given in great Doses Vulnerary Potions as also the decoction of Guaicum China are much commended unless there be a Hectick Feaver Fumes are good taken at the Nostrils See Cough Also the smoke of Tobacco Topicals let him often take Conserve of Roses or a little preserved roots of great Comfrey For. giveth by turns things to expectorate and glutinate and at last remains upon them that consolidate PRIAPISM is a stretching of the Yard without lust and it is not asswaged by Venery It is cured as the Fury of the Womb with Mints Especially with the root of water Lillies by hunger Vomit Chafing of the upper parts A PUSH A Fellon differs from Phlegmone by the smallness blood thickness it suppurateth of it self it paineth is an acute little swelling It is cured by suppurating medicaments after that by Sarcoticals Psydracia are red Pushes of the Forehead and the Head They are cured with Driers as with white Chalk with juyce of Housleek and with Vinegar and Lytharge Ceruss and oyl Phlyctenae called wild-fire they are little blisters from a yellowish matter and sharp they last to the fourth day Besides Generals Topicals must be Coolers and Moystners They are opened with a Needle the Ulcers must be dryed Pushes of the Cornea are cured as Ophthalmia All these comming again are most dangerous because they set upon the Forces cast down by the former matter because those that grow well require much nourishing and diseases returning require slender Diet we must deal warily here and
rather fight with medicamentary aliments then with Medicaments POYSON must alwaies be brought out the same way it went into the Body Opening a Vein purging have no place before the third day All unctuous things as Oyl Butter c. are good So Causticks will not ulcerate the part anointed with Oyl If it were taken by the Mouth the first care is to cast it forth by Vomit with fat things adding Antidotes against Poyson If it be got to the Intestins then cast in fat Clysters or give Purgatives with Antidotes as Scorzonera Citrons Sorrel Agarick Aloes Lastly give Specificals Outwardly on the Arteries beating anoint the oyl of Caravita often proved the Basis is Hypericon and Scorpions hide it in a hot carcase Sweaters Milk for meat If it were communicated outwardly let it be cured as these that follow so if one have taken Cantharides sublimate or the like use injections drinks decoctions Baths Topicals and all Internals must be Coolers Moystners If it be the biting of a mad dog close not the wound before fourty days but as often as it would cicatrice keep it open with ashes of a Vine or Fig-tree First of all make hard Ligature above the wound that the poyson spread no further Secondly Call it forth wherefore let the blood run out largely scarify the wound and enlarge it by cutting set Cupping glasses to it also other Artractives to which always add Theriac juyce of Hypericon c. as Doves-dung Urine Pickle Ducks-grease Aqua vitae Wine Vinegat Salt old Treacle Mustard Wash it with most forcible Chafing Garlick Onions Leeks Rue Germander hot Fowls dissected laid on hot but nothing doth so much good as an actual Cautery so the Poyson be not sunk too deep into the Body The Eschar scarified deep must not be removed by oyly means because they hinder transpiration Fab. obs 87. cent 1. old Treacle dissolved in Aqua vitae surpasseth all Remedies Par. with this wash the part strongly and let linnen cloths wet therein be laid to it on which lay attractives Sorrel sharp Docks beaten and laid on the juyce the decoction is good Use these till the pain and various colour cease and laudable quitter be made 3. Specificals also Coolers must be given as cause shall be With Galen above all is the ashes of burnt river Crabs two spoonfuls with one spoonful of the powder of Gentian root and strong Wine Cauteries after the third or the seventh day will not do good An Issue is profitably made on the place affected If it pierce to the inward parts we must purge forcibly by Hellebour also by Antimony saith Paraeus Wash all the Pulses every six hours with oyl of Caravita which they of old called the oyl of the great Duke of Hetruria or with the oyl of Scorpions of Mathiolus Pliny above all commends the root of the Eglantine Eat Garlick Diaphoreticks are most profitable Bird-lime of the Oke the wood is most effectual taken or applyed If madness be at hand lay Sinapisms to the Arms and Thigns Give Antidots in a double Dose whether they will or not Sleep must be avoided till the force of the poyson be broke Let them eat their fill They that come to fear the water are past cure unless they know themselves in a glass A mad Dog seeing the water is afraid of it other dogs fly away If they be taken they fawn on him If a house-Dog refuse to eat or smell to a piece of Bread sineared with the filth of the wound the Dog that bit was mad RENUNCIATIO is called a great wound 1. For the greatness of dissolved unity 2. For the principallity of the part 3. For the ill custome of the Body hurt Let the Chirurgion suspend his judgment until the ninth day lest he be deceived RINGING in the Ears The cause is some matter sticking in the Ear that moveth the Faculty Oft times it is wind lifted up from divers parts The Cure varieth Generals premised some bid take the Fume of Hemlock-seed boyled in Vinegar Fumes of Vinegar and the vapour of it with one Gall. Some apply hot bread sprinkled with Spirit of Wine to the Far resolâ—ing oyls sneezing before supper and in the morning apply Topicals for when they are fed the head is filled STONE of the Reins The cause is Tartar a andy and stony constitution of the Reins Fernelius faith a driness of the Reins Platerus heat Also Venery exercise presently after meat Meat Ayre Drink Concoction hurt Signs diagnostick A burning and painful making of water snotty Urine Belly stopt Fab. obs 63. c. 1 Sense of pain in the Glans obs 66. c. 1. Astonishment of the Leg on the side affected because the Muscle Psoas is pressed or the Nerve of it there is Nauseating and Vomiting from the Nerve of the sixth conjugation It is distinguished from the Colick pain 1. Because in the Colick the pain is most acute because the pain is extended above the Reins 2. Pain of the Colick is moveable of the stone fast 3. In the Colick rather the Belly in the Stone the water is stopt 4. The Nephritick pain by reason of the Ureters descends oft times to the Testicles but in the Colick not so 5. The Colick is most commonly sharpest on the left side by the straightness of the Colon there The cure In the Paroxysm cast in an emollient Clyster evacuant or give such a Potion of Bolus c. 2. If the Body be Plethorick open a Vein in the Arm but if it flow to the part affected in the Ankle 3. We must use all emollient internal means and external as a Cataplasm of the leaves of Pellitary Mallows beaten and boyled with the Mucilage of Linseed Fenugrec a Bath of Marshmallows and a Semicupium of softning things Internals are syrup De Althaea Fernel Also that of Eorestus so much approved Take seeds of mallows Marsh-mallows of each 3 drams red Chiches 3 drams the four great cold seeds of each 2 drams hulled Barley 2 ounces far Figs 12 Sebestens 7 scraped Licoris 1 dram boyl all in four pound of water to two pound Crato applyed Crab-fish boyled in Milk Milk with crumbs of Bread or Take juyce of Purslane thickned one dram Gum Arabick half a dram make Pills The Passages thus loosned give Diureticks to the Patient sitting in a Bath that the Stone may be moved Crato used this that followeth Take Marsh-mallows 2 drams great Raysins stoned 3 drams Veronica and ground Ivy of each one Pugil boyl them and give a draught thereof Or another of Turpentine c. If this be in vain give such things will break the Stone as blood of a Goat or of a Kid hot applyed outwardly also oyl of Scorpions The Patient must ride two miles upon a trotting horse or must go up many stairs till he be weary having taken a Diuretick or chafe him from above nether-wards with oyl of sweet Almonds set on a dry Cupping glasse to his Reins then a little lower then one
another obliquely even unto his Groins But when the pain is extream they must nor be used This must be done until the Stone fall into the Bladder Paraeus L. 16. For. Lib. 14. STONE of the Bladder When the Stone is fallen into the Bladder the pain abates Therefore then if the Forces will endure it the sick must ride or go a journey on soot also he must drink freely and forbear to make water after it as much as he can that the water being augmented the Stone may be driven forth with it In the mean while outwardly and inwardly Diureticks must be applyed When in is come into the Ureter we must be careful that it get not back but with the Fingers it must be brought to the utmost Glans the Passage being made slippery if it stay in the Glans it must be pulled out with Hooks if that be in vain it must be bored out with a piercer included in a Pipe But if it be far from the Glans and can by no Art be got out then the Yard must be cut on the side with a straight line nor above because of the Vessels not beneath for it is a Membranous part In the mean time the Ureter must be tyed with a Thread that it get not back again and the fore-skin must be drawn out as much as may be that it may cover the whole Glans Incision being made and the Stone taken forth the skin must be let go again that the whole skin may cover the Yard that is cut for so the uniting will be the easier The last remedy is cutting for the Stone See Senn. Paraeus Chirurgery I. 16 The extream means are Narcoticks but warily exhibited Crato ep 121. cured the greatest pains discussing the winds by Clyster the heat of the Bowels being increased he so anointed the Navel with oyl of Turpentine Juniper Nutmeg the Stomach with only oyl of Nurmegs he gave by the Mouth the decoction of Veronica with Wine or the decoction of Turneps with Sugar-Candy Butter or Oyle of sweet Almonds but the shell must be taken off and the water of the first boyling must be thrown away he anointed also with the water of whites of Eggs. Fernelius saith that all Stones of the bladder come from the Reins because al slimy matter is voided from the Bladder by-Urine wherefore every Stone of the Bladder if you break the shell there is a Kernel in it that was wrapped up by it it is of an ash colour and rough Fab. cent 4. obs 5. see Hist of Guilh. Laurembergius who cured a Stone of the Bladder with Medicaments Senn. l. 3. p. 8. s 1. c. 2. Waters sent to the Bladder by a Catheter can break a Stone there and one may make tryal of it by stones taken out of the Body The SHINGLES rise from yellow pure thin Choler it eateth because the choler is sharp it causeth small creeping Ulcers and excoriations that are not deep with wanness Some call it Formica but not properly The Cure is by Generals The continent cause must first be cooled as by Lettice c. It sheweth when the heat is abated digestives discussives which are useful If there be Pushes the Coolers must not be moist but dry as Willow leaves Knot grasse Aquapendens used this following Take the juyce of Tobacco three ounces yellow wax two ounces Rosin of the Pine-tree one ounce and half Turpentine one ounce oyl of Myrtils what may suffice make a Cerat For. applyed leaves of Colts-foot Paraeus found unguent of Elecampane with Mercury to be a sure remedy The oyl of Birch branches dried collected in a pewter vessel is commended If it spread daily touch the edges of the Ulcers with the oyl of Vitriol or with Aqua fortis So Pareus cured uncurable Ulcers Par. l. 6. SHIVERING It differs in degree from vehement cold The Subject is the Muscle The Cause the expulsive Faculty moved and so it belongeth to the Symptoms of the natural Faculty but because the animal faculty riseth up also to expel the mischief it is referred to animal Symptoms Gal. and others make the remote cause to be cooling and the motion of the influence of heat from the Center to the Circumference and contrarily but in vehement cold stirred up by Choler also where sharp things are put into an Ulcer or a spark falls upon the Body vehement shaking goeth before cooling Therefore the cause is some troublesome thing suddenly rending the sensitive parts in the circumference of the Body and stirring up the expulsive faculty The opinion of Galen is sometimes true In Feavers extream shaking cometh from the rending of the sensitive parts as of the stomach c. yet so that it draweth into consent the parts in the circumference of the Body as also by the vapours sent thither Cure particular is not requisite for this for it followeth other diâ—eases In Feavers the back must be anointed with hot things as with oyl of Camomil SPOTS natural according to Senn. are bred from imagination of the Mother Par. l. 23. they are made from a part of the menstruous blood sticking yet to the sides of the Matrix from a fresh Flux or from a kind of dew distilling out of the Veins before the time the greater sort incurable also those that are like Warts and wan they are to be washed with the blood of the secondine also with the Courses or the Mothers fasting spittle SPITTING often is of that spittle which is bred in the first concoction and in the third in the Brain and which falls upon the Tonsils it is concocted and voided by the Mouth sometimes it is sharp sometimes white c. The cause is fleam from the Brain or stomach chiefly falling in the morning it comes not alwaies from cold but oft times in diseases from burning heat It cometh also especially that which is made after meat from affection of the Hypochondres the Scurvy It oft times preserveth from diseases It is cured if the cause be taken away as the Catarrh by Dryers and Evacuaters SAHAFATI must not be cured in an Infant for it preserveth it from the Epilepsie yet if we must do something let the Nurse be purged gently wash the Head with decoction of Mallows Borrage Barley this being done lay on warm Cabbadge leaves anointed with Butter or of Ivy also the leaves of Orache anointed or roots of Marsh-mallows boyld in Boys urine Topicals are allowd or the juyce of Fumitory Scabious Elecampane Lytharge oyl of Nuts Hogs grease For. hath an infallible remedy for Boys and Infants Take the yolks of Eggs roasted hard sixteen Myrth one dram root of Cuckoe pint half a dram black Hellebour six grains fry them in an iron frying pan without flame until they froth then presse out the oyl and fry them so often and presse them out till they will froth no more cast away the dregs and keep the oyl in a close vessel for your use In those that are of years it is
cured by Digesters and chiefly by remedies that evacuate fleam and melancholy Till these be often used Topicals are not good which must be to soften the crusts afterwards the juyce or decoction of Fumitory sharp Dock Celandine Ivy leaves Scabious Bean-meal Galen only used burnt paper soaked in Vinegar and anointed the part affected and so cured many Urine Brine For. puts this following for a secret Take Salt butter Hogs grease of each one ounce Brimstone half an ounce Quicksilver killed with spittle one dram a certain Boy was killed by Quicksilver laid to his Head and Vitriol one scruple then Butter Hogs grease Brimstone must be melted a part in a Mortar then add the rest Cresses fried or beaten with Hogs grease Lastly it is cured as the Small-Pox with the the decoction of Guaicum fasting spittle with liquor dropping from green wood in burning Plum tree Gum things that expell the matter or Carduus Benedictus and Harts-horn are good Balsam of Peru or Turpentine boyled with water or juyce of Tobacco The SCAB A certain woman did happily cure all Scabs with juyce of Cresces and Goose grease SCIRRHUS is a Tumor which is made of melancholy or natural fleam dried by degrees in the part and is without pain Platerus saith that it may be made from nutrimental juyce thickned and hardned Diagnosticks It is hard and without pain though it be pressed The colour is wan if it be from melancholy it is cold Prognostick That which hath lost all feeling is past cure They are cured either by resolution or suppuration this is more rare and more dangerous It followeth Erysipelas Inflammation c. The Cure is wrought by Emollients we must never moysten or resolve alone but either by Courses it must be moistned and dried or together as the Ancients warn us A fume of Vinegar with a fire-stone resolveth excellently The antecedent cause must be evacuated A SCIRRHUS of the Liver followeth obstructions frequently It is seldom known there is an ill habit of the Body little Urine without a Feaver See the rest in Obstruction of the Liver It is cured as before ever adding Spicknard Saffron Mastick If the Convex part be so Topicals are principal Goose dung Sarsoparilla Fern root Succories Emollients Steel SCIRRHUS of the Spleen is known by the touch there is difficulty of breathing a wan colour weight on the left side when the Belly is full there is straightness about the Spleen If the Mouth stink the Gums be eaten Ulcers in the Legs will not be cured it is an old Scirrhus The Cure Lenitives premised Alteratives Evacuatives Opening of a Vein is seldome convenient Aperients are good to which add Vinegar and Oxymel Coolers are Succories four great Cold seeds c. chiefly Fern root Amatus denyeth Harts Tongue to be good for the Spleen We must purge by course For. exhibited this following opener for fifteen days after the use of Generals Take Fern roots half an ounce of Dodder two drams boyl them in eight ounces of White-wine and Beer to the wasting of a third part strain it and drink it at once The most effectual means is the decoction of the Tamarisk wood as Guaicum is wont to be boyled especially if it be boyled in steeled water Steel water of quick Lime Ammoniacum with Hemlock See Senn. Some tried waters natural others drink of the wood they were preserved from falling further but not cured these were made worse I think by too much drying For. values much the following Topical Take of oyl of Cappars one ounce oyl of Lillies sweet Almonds Camomil fresh Buttet of each half an ounce juyce of Bryony Sow-bread of each half an ounce boyl them to the wasting of the juyces adding Ammoniac dissolved in Vinegar two drams and half Hens grease Marrow of Calves Legs Mans fat of each half an ounce Powder of bark of the roots of Tamarisk Cappars Miltworst Fern root of each one dram Powder of the seeds of Agnus Castus Broom of each one scruple a little wax make an Unguent or a fomentation of water wherein fire-stone is quenched Fumes motion before meat is good If it be incurable they are kept alive by Diet and by purging in Spring and Autumn The SCURVEY Which in the year 1486 invaded Germany as Spangenb saith is an ill habit of the natural parts from a melancholik humour especially corrupted The Subject is that hollowness of Spiegelius into which the Liver Spleen Stomach unload their Excrements The fountaine is in the Liver the Spleen yet the Liver oft times and oft times the Spleen hath been safe The seat are the Veins and Arteries The Cause immediate is a tanateous humour bred from concoction hurt either of it self or by outward error a watery blood oft times mingled with other things if it become malignant is the next cause if it be not already the antecedent cause for it is malignant It is generated by reason of concoction hurt by things natural not natural preternatural and by the volatil salt that is in meats and ventilation wanting So Platerus determins that meat and drink may become blood under the form of vapours So it is cured by remedies full of volatil salt as by Scurvey-grasse out of which if either by length of time or by boyling the volatil salt should exhale they grow unprofitable Wherefore juyce and conserve are most profitable So meats that breed the Scurvey abound with fixed salt to be cured by volatil Vinegar makes for this and meats hardned by smoke Signs There preceeded grosse Dyet sorrow which if did precede there will be no disease but will be joyned with the Scurvey Signs at the beginning are willing laziness heavinesse of the Abdomen difficulty of breathing after exercise weaknesse of the Legs with pain the colour groweth wan a man seems to grow fat Afterwards happeneth an itching redness of the Gums a small Pulse the water sometimes clear sometimes troubled after this stinking of the Mouth a bloody swelling of the Gums the Teeth are loose the Legs have lead coloured spots and purple specks innumerable The appetire seldome fails The sick say they are sound some on certain days with and without a Feaver are more afflicted Some are boundin their Bellies others loose The Feet are spotted sometimes they swell are made lesse There are Ulcers on their Legs a crooked melancholy vein under the Tongue All symptoms of the animalfaculty Dropsy Gangrene oft times Scabs a bastard Pluresy bleeding at the Nose bloody stools opening of Veins in the Legs The Jaundies shortness of breath Wild-fire heat pain of the soles of the Feet noise of the Bones moved spongy flesh under the Ey-lids In hard breathing the sick shew the cause to be under the Diaphragma red little sands in their urine also Tartareous matter pain of the whole Body pains increasing about the Joynts pain of the Belly oft times with breach of the Peritonaeum That pain differs from the Colick because this when the Belly is loose vanisheth the
To the Temples but set it neer by them In the Winter and full Moon Trepaning is more dangerous for the Brain swelleth It must be done in three days yet Paraeus in Winter and Summer used it after ten days When it cometh to the second Table the blood runneth forth but not alwaies for in some places the Skull is thin TREMBLING The cause is a preternatural moving Faculty burdened by the fault of the animal spirits or Nerves or nervous fibras in the Muscle If the spirit by reason of disorderly motion hath not its influence from the Brain as in anger joy fears frights for from hence the vital spirit is variously moved and so the generation of animal spirits is wanting a distemper cold and moist of the Nerves or from malignity as trembling from Quicksilver Vermilion in Gold-smiths which For. cured with only Goats milk nervous remedies from Obstruction wine The Cure If it be from a want of the spirits it is cured by Restoratives if from a humour with distemper it is cured by Generals Topicals Chymists coÌ„mend the essence of Balm in cordial water A Bath wash the trembling parts in water of Cinque-foil or decoction of Juniper berries with Wine let them dry of themselves or with water of infusion of Mugwort A Lotion with their own water Sage beer meat seasoned with Sage flesh of Storks wood Pigeons a Hares brain fried Infuse Juniper berries all night in water then let them infuse in Aqua vitae eight days swallow ten berries every day the decoction of Guaicum Monav. ep 240. after Generals giveth the extract of Calamus he foments the hands with a decoction of Wine with Sage and Aqua vitae VEINS swollen with melancnolick blood are cured by Chirurgery for above and beneath the Vein it is bound and when it is made naked of the skin the Vein is cut and the blood being let out it is cured But since this cure is difficult and oft times leaves malignant Ulcers Hier. Fabric cuts the vein bound not with great Incision but by prickings that are small Then he layeth on Medicaments of Bole armenick Dragons blood Mastick with Gum Traganth steeped in Wine of Pomegranates or Verjuyce made like a Candle and he layeth this long waies on the Vein and upon the Medicament a reed made hollow to hold on the Medicament for so the Vein consumes If there be an Ulcer joyned with it the Vein must be cut out VERTIGO is when all things seem to turn round Scotoma is when over and above the sight is darkned Why they than look down from on high should be taken with a Vertigo the cause is natural for that by looking on a thing that breedeth fear the spirits are dissipated from terrour the spirits are drawn in again whence follows a contrary Motion the common sense and imagination are primarily hurt The Cause of Vertigo is the circulation of the spirits animal by a thin vapour Scotoma is from a thick The antecedent cause sticketh either in the Brain and there be signs of the Brain affected or in the Liver Spleen Hypochondres and there be signs of them affected or from some outward cause Prognosticks They that in a Vertigo see a green or purple colour encline to the Epilepsy they that see black to the Apoplexie they that see red are thought to be more subject to madness The Cure Let the Patient alone in the fit and if the cause ascend from the lower part Revulsion must be made by frictions the Face must be sprinkled with Wine give Suppositories Clysters put sweet smells to the Nostrils hot or cold rub the Nostrils with oyl of Amber c. rub the Temples with Rosemary water the Forehead with wild Marjoram annoint the Palate with Theriac Senn. alloweth also opening a Vein but with caution If an Apoplex be feared for preservation is Carway seed soaked in Wine and then dried if daily half a spoonful be long chewed about bedtime and lastly be swallowed When the fit is over open a Vein as the Head Vein It is cured as the Head-ach by Generals Topicals Bears-ear is commended the water or extract of Scorzonera a dryed silk-worm is strewed on the Crown Take dung of a male Peacock for a Man or a female for a woman one dram infuse it all night in white-wine strain it through a linnen cloth give it for a Vertigo from a new Moon till a full Moon If it come from some other part by consent the humour prepared must be evacuated the Vapour intercepted revulsed discussed we must strengthen VOMITING too much is cured by Revulsives Clysters Oyls Frictions and principally by heating the extream parts Give Astringents before meat put Cupping glasses to the bottome of the stomach Topicals A crust of bread infused in Mint water and Vinegar of Roses sprinkled with Mastick powder baked opium An ULCER is the solution of continuity from something that corrodeth with the taking away of some parts they differ in form one is circular c. in subject in cause Diagnosticks The cause is known by the signs when raw thin quitter runs forth plentifully with pain pricking it is then beginning In the increase the matter is better and more sparingly c. If the Rest diminish it is the declination Prognosticks White matter or rather ash colour light and equal is good See Aph. 45. 4. s 6. Aph. 65. 67. 2. 21. s 7. The Cure The humour must be evacuated by Generals we must apply Digestives yet it is safest even at the beginning to mingle Detergents with Digestives unequally as Turpentine with juyce of Smallage yolks of Eggs oyl of Roses Saffron The part affected must be observed as in Phlegmone If the Ulcer be scowred too much it becommeth dry the flesh is consumed the Lips grow red there is a sense of biting If it become more dry and there be a good colour and neither quitter nor matter run forth of the Ulcer we must use Sarcoticals The purer the Ulcer groweth so much the more mild must Detergents be A scar is made with Powders or Emplaisters that heal but not in a moist form If there be for example a dry distemper the Ulcer being so long let alone the dryness must be cured most fitly with a fomentation of water and oyl warm and by Emollients If the distemper be with matter which is known by the swelling pain and plenty of Excrements before all the matter must be evacuated the parts strengthned the humour reâ—ulsed intercepted repulsed the best Repellers are Issues made in the opposite part And without these oft times Ulcers cannot be cured and old Ulcers cannot be closed unless an Issue be made in the opposite part Lay Sarcoticks on the Mouth of the Ulcer yet without biting stronger then otherwise The circumference must be washed with Repellers or some resolving Cataplasm laid on The Medicaments must be oft times changed Guido brought on the skin with a Plate of Lead If it be foul the filth shews
The Head must be dryed by all means First of all let the Crust be removed by a vapour of warm water with Fat Butrer washed in Rose water the Crusts must be cast out by sneezing Afterwards Verjuyce with Honey is good juyce of Hore-hound Calamint juyce of Pomegranates boiled in a brasse vessel Mirrh Allum Rondel cured Ozaenas which neither French men nor Italians could cure by the fume of Candles made of red Wax lighted received at the Nostrils through a straight Tunnel Celsus commendeth juyce of Cresses with Allum The juyce of Calamints or Galens powder Some commend this that followeth Take red Roses Myrtils sweet Calamus Angelica Gentian Mace Cloves of each half a dram Camphir Ambergrease of each four grains Musk six grains make a powder If that fail Salt Armoniac with Vinegar An ULCER of the Stomach is cured by Generals as opening a Vein Lenitives Vomit is mortal With easy meats Raw Honey is detergent when you must glew together add Gum Traganth with an Astringent decoction without Acrimony Let the meat be moyst a decoction of Figs Dates Prunes Raysins milk yolks of Eggs drink Hydromel and a vulnerary Potion An ULCER of the Bladder comes also by Cantharides Yet Senn. though he had applyed them to all parts of the Body a hundred times never observed it Signs are pain in the Privities so oft as the sick maketh water matter blood a Tenesmus difficulty of urine Priapismus The matter is more tenacious and clammy then matter of the Reins It is cured by tempering the humors by Coolers and Moisiners then we must scowre by Internals and injections Principally the Troches of Gordonius are profitable See them Conserve of Roses Bole armenick Milk oglutinate Vulnerary drink ULCER of the Reins The urine is made without impediment matter is mixed with the urine it stinketh lesse See Aph. 76 77. 81. s 4. It is cured as an Ulcer of the Bladder Whey Make an Emulsion of the four cold seeds with Milk If the matter come forth sparingly glutinate use vulnerary drink WEARINESS One kind is not natural or drying which followeth labour another natural this is either ulcerating which makes a sense of pricking in the circumference of the Body from a sharp vapour or humour as from cholerick or black Choler or extensive from Plethory or any humour that is not sharp or from hot blood which they that feel complain that their parts are as it were bruised or broken and it ariseth from Plethory and Cacochymia together or of leannesse when motion is difficult by reason that the flesh and fat of the Muscles is consumed after long diseases The Cure When Wearinesse riseth from the humours about the Muscles and in the circumference of the Body they must be taken away If from Cacochymia that must removed by rest sleep spare diet and that breeds good juyce and by moderate drinking of Wine In ulcerating weariness Purging in extensive opening a Vein in Phlegmonodes both these are good if it be from labour it is not onely cured by rest but by labour but not-so-much WHEALES angry or Pimples of sweat rising in the Neck Brest Arms c. they proceed from cholerick sweat exasperating the skin of which see Aph. 21. s 3. WHEALS rising in the night that vex us in the night and are of divers colours It is never greater then a Bean it exulcerateth it is cured as the cause is WORMS A Lotion of bitter things kills Lice a shirt stayned with Saffron and worn a while wonderfully a washing with Lavender water Barly bread and Paper burnt of each a like quantity made up with Bores grease takes away Cyrones WORMS are either round or the Bots or broad these either Gourdfashion or lesse like to a Gourd Signs of round worms are pain and great prickings of broad worms an obscure pain other signs are common They are cured by things that kill worms as by Corallina to one dram in powder Tanfey seed roots of Primrose Wormwood Hore-hound Citron seeds Angelica bitter Almonds Powder of worms is suspected by Tabexnae Montanus Water of the decoction of Graffe Harts-horn shavings of Ivory juyce of Lemmons Plantain Purssain Endive Sorrel To children give grasse water one ounce with syrup of juyce of Lemmons or some grains of Salt are put into the Mouth Spirit of Vitriol Elixar proprietatis broad worms require stronger Medicaments as many Walnuts chiefly roots of Fern of which powder half a dram may be given to an Infant to those that are grown one dram or two drams Treacle dissolved in juyce of Lemmons Hiera Yet sweet things must be mingled here and Clysters that are sweet must be given to allure them downwards being killed cast them forth with Diaturpeth with Rheubarb in rouls Sebestens with a decoction of syrup of Peach flowers Aloes Agarick The Bots are cured by suppositories For anointed the Belly with this following Take oyl of Egs Lillies Oxgall juyce of Onions fried with new Butter of each two drams mingle them He gave this following Take Aloes half a dram red Coral or Diatraganth frigid ten grains with Scabious water make three Pills lest the Aloes should cause heat let him sup upon it one spoonful of juyce of Citrons He gave a child of three years old more then one scruple of burnt Harts-horn Those things that are applyed outwardly as Gall c. must not be laid to the stomach Heurn used this following for children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb two drams to half an ounce Grasse water one ounce for one Dose every other day For. cured a Boy that for one year was miserably afflicted with the decoction of Wormwood and little Centory to another he gave juyce of Pomegranates one spoonful oyl of Olives half a spoonful mingle them It is a secret of the French Queens The same gave what followeth for one Dose to a great bellyed woman in a Feaver Take Harts-horn burnt seeds of Zedoary Purssain of each half a scruple mingle them For children let Harts-horn burnt be put into Raysins without stones For the Bots the experiment of Aetius is good namely a Suppository made of old salt Bief the fat being taken off WARTS A Nail a swelling of the Fundament namely when a wrinkle of the skin groweth hard Thymus namely a Wart with a narrow bottom and a large supersicies of a colour reddish like Thyme flowers A Fig wart is a great Thymus a Crest from preposterous Venery These are oft times malignant The cause is thought to be a flegmatick melancholick humour Platerus takes it to be the moist nourishment of the skin and the Cuticula Warts are oft times contagious The Cure By Medicaments as Fallop commendeth the leaves and juyce of Willows Purstain stampt being wet with its juyce also leaves and flowers of Marigolds Figwort roots of Cuckoe pint Sow-bread fresh Celandine Nigella with urine The liquor that runs from the flowers of Mullens set in the Sun in a glasse of its own accord Gum Succory the juyce running from