thin plate of Lead about the Reins pricked full of holes Let the Patient's ordinary drink be Beer in which is tunned Mastick-wood sliced and cut small Plantane and the Herbs before named If the Liver be distempered with Heat conferr with the 53 Chapter If the Stone or Gravell be the Cause use no strong Diureticks because they provoke the Flux but that which I have known very effectuall in this case I shal here commend and put an end to the Chapter Take of the four greater and lesser cold Seeds of each one Drachm Quince Seeds half a Drachm the Seeds of Marsh-Mallows white Poppy and Winter Cherryes of each one Scruple make an Emulsion with the Decoction of Marsh-Mallows and give two three or four spoonsuls in the Morning and if you add a little Oyl of Vitrioll it will be the better Venice Turpetine made into Pills with the Powder of Rubarb half a Drachm taken in the Morning doth gently cleanse the Reins CHAP. LXXI Of the Green-sicknesse THis Disease is called by some the Virgins Disease the white Feaver the white Jaundice but vulgarly the Green-sicknesse It is an evill habit of the Body proceeding from the Obstruction of the Veins about the Womb Liver Spleen and Mesentery causing a heavinesse unweildinesse of the whole Body difficulty of Breathing panting of the Heart and Head-Ach a desire after Food that is evil and a loathing of good The Veins about the Womb being obstructed that Blood which Nature hath ordained to go thither having not free passage runs upwards and oppresseth the Heart Liver Spleen Diaphragma stops the Vessels and destroys the naturall Heat hence it cometh to passe that the Stomach and Bowels cannot concoct well as they ought to do so Crudityes are dispersed throughout the body and make an evill Habit. Sometimes by this means the Hypocondria is swelled which depressing the Diaphragma causeth Shortnesse of Breath This grosse Blood being carried in the great Artery to the Heart which least it should be suffocated by it labours for its deliverance often moving of its Arteryes causeth a Palpitation and Beating of the Temples The Stomach by this means being filled with Crudityes and excrementitious Humours causeth a Loathing of Food and a desire after such things which ought not to be eaten as Salt Chalk Coals Ashes Oat-meal Wheat Tobacco-Pipes c. which Disease is called Pica Malacia and we have spoken of it in the 35 Chapter of this Book This Obstruction is caused many wayes as drinking cold Drink to Bedward eating raw or unripe Fruits Some go to Feasts and upon a full Stomach dancing and sporting all Night disturb the naturall Frame of the Body and want Rest others sleep too much and sit long at their work as Seamsters Bonelace-makers and the like By these and the like means Concoction is hurt the naturall Heat is extinguished and the Body filled with crude Excrements and thick slimy Humours which cause Obstructions This Disease is easily known and you may know the diseased if you do but veiw their Faces which are pale and white sometimes of a Lead colour blew or green the Face and Eye-lids the Legs and Feet swelled The whole Body is unweildy and lazy When the body is stirred by Exercise or Walking especially going up a hill or steep place there followeth Palpitation of the Heart and Shortnesse of Breath Beating in the Temples and great Head-Ach behind if the Womb be obstructed before if the Hypocondria be afflicted there is great loathing of wholesome Meat and desiring the contrary the Pulfe is swift and quick as in a Feaver and when the Disease comes to the hight the Terms are stopped This Disease continueth a long time yet is seldom dangerous sometimes by long continuance it breeds Corruption in the naturall parts Dropsyes Feavers Consumptions which end in Death If the Veins of the Womb onely are obstructed a Husband will cure her Women that have a long time been in this condition bring forth weak and sickly Children and sometimes they are barren This Disease is cured by opening the Obstructions evacuating the filthy Humours and strengthning of the parts The Obstructions are opened by such Medicines as are mentioned in the cure of the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen you may add to them such things which respect the Womb as Mugwort Fetherfew Pennyroyall c. If the Spleen be obstructed add such things which are proper for that as Caper-bark Ceterack Spleenwort c. Open the Saphaena or Ancle-Vein but first if the Maid be full of Blood open a Vein in the Arm. Then purge often with such Medicines as are prescribed in the Cure aforenamed and make use of such Medicines as powerfully open Obstructions there prescribed Zacutus Lusitanus doth much commend the Conserve of Mugwort given thirty dayes together drinking after it a little of the distilled Water of Savin in which Rubarb hath been infused The Salt of Mugwort is very good and Faecula Brioniae mixed with the Conserve hath an effectuall and powerfull operation If the Obstructions are stubborn and not easily opened make a Bath thus Take of the Roots of Marsh-Mallows Briony Elder and Lillyes of each two pound Balm Fethersew Mallows Mercury Maddir Mugmort Nep Pennyrorall and Violets of each three Handfulls the Seed of Flax and Fenugreek of each two Ounces boil them in a sufficient Quantity of Water and let the Patient bathe her self in the Morning and Evening two dayes let the Decoction be renewed the second day The next day open the Vein under the Ancle if the Terms be stopped as for the most part they are in this Disease then give Medicines that powerfully open Obstructions when you find that the Obstructions are opened which you may easily perceive by the decay of the aforenamed Symptoms then you must discusse the peccant Humours that remain in the Veins and other parts of the Body by Sweats for which you must use the Decoction of Guajacum in cold constitutions or of China and Sarfa in those that are hot In the mean while every fourth or fifth day give a purge to cleanse the Body of the crude Humours which cannot be sent forth by Sweat CHAP. LXXII Of the Stoppage of the Terms MEnsium Suppressio or the Terms stopped is when a Woman of ripe Age hath little or no Evacuation of Blood by the Womb once in a Month yet gives not suck nor is with Child Divers Diseases of the Womb may cause this Suppression viz. A cold and dry Distemper which thickneth and bindeth the Womb. A hot and dry Distemper dryeth the part Inflammation Tumor Ulcer or Erosion of the mouths of the Vessels in Abortion or Tumor in the adjacent parts by compression may cause this Stoppage The Vessels of the Womb may be obstructed by thick and phlegmatick Humours or they may be compressed by a Tumor in the parts adjacent The cause may be in the Blood when it offends in Quantity Quality or Motion in Quantity when there is
and speak comfortably to him Let no unseemly action nor uncivil word proceed from him Let him not forsake his Patient for any cause whatsoever Let him consult with God in the beginning of all his cures and heartily give God thanks for the performance of them Let him love godliness and honesty and be an unblameable servant to God and Nature These are the principal and chief Characters by which every diseased man may make choice of his Physician of whom I shall say with the learned Fernelius Medicus remedia confert non solum ut naturae minister fed interdum ut adjutor interdum etiam ut opifex primarius A Physician doth cure not only as Natures servant but sometimes us her helper yea sometimes as the chief workman I shall not build my discourse Theorically but Practically and having in the former Book briefly desctibed the principal parts of man and the humane faculties and virtues thereon depending I shall in this Book declare the Causes Symptoms and Cures of Diseases in those parts which hinder them in the exercise of those humane faculties I shall treat of each disease simply and distinctly and leave this Aphorism to the consideration of the ingenious Simplex affectus simplici remedio compositus composito propellendus A simple Disease is removed by a simple remedy a compound Disease is expelled by compound Medicines CHAP. II. Of Diseases of the Head MAny Diseases are incident to the Head of Man I shall treat of them in order according to the places which they possesse which I shall devide into three parts First the Membranes Secondly the substance of the Brain Thirdly the Nerves which nourish the Brain The Membranes is the first pannicle within the Skull called Dura Mater or without the Skull called Pericranium which are subject to these Diseases viz. the Head-ach the inveterate Head-ach and the Megrim In the substance of the Brain which is the seat and instrument of the intellectual faculties of the Soul viz. imaginations judgment and memory are defects also viz. the depravation of those faculties as a Frensie Melancholy and Madnesse Sleepy Disease Lethargy The Ventricles of the brain are subject to many distempers as Vertigo Falling sicknesse the night Mare the Apoplexy Palsy Convulsion trembling and quaking and Catarrhs Of inveterate Head-ach â—…d the Megrim The inveterate Head-ach is called in Greek and Latine Cephalaea it is a disease of long continuance very painful and upon every light occasion invadeth the Patient with sharp fits that he cannot indure noise nor light but desireth to lye still in the dark sometime this Disease is with continuance and sometimes with intermission The Cause This Disease is caused through blood or other humors abounding or by sharp humors or vapours within or without the Scull inflaming the Head sometimes weaknesse of the Head is the Cause The Sign If fulnesse of humors be the cause of the Disease then is the Head very heavy and lumpish if the humors be sharp the pain is felt with pricking shooting if there be inflammation the Head worketh like the Pulses if wind be the peccant cause there is found distention or stretching out without heaviness or beating if two or more of these Symptomes appear together judge accordingly Note that if the pain be felt superficially or outwardly than is the perieranium grieved If it be felt within which is known by the pain at the roots of the Eys then is the grief within the Dura Mater Hemicrania or the Megrim differeth not from Cephalaea saving if in the Megrim one half of the Head is afflicted whereas in the other the whole Head by the aforegoing Symptoms you may discover the humour offending The Cure As there are diversity of Causes so there is of Cures If the Disease be ingendred of plenitude of humors and the whole boy appâ—…â—…ll it is not amiss to begin the cure with the evacuâ—… of the whole body and if age strength and the season consent open the Gephalick or head Vein If flegmatick and viscuous humors be the Cause it is good to extenuate and make thin the humors thus Take of Oximel scilliticum and syrup of Staechas of each half an ounce distilled water of Marjerom Betony and Parsley an ounce mix these and make a potion for the morning Or else make a decoction in this manner Take Mint Calamint Marjerom Betony Sage of each half a handful the seeds of sweet Fennel Annis and Parstey of each half an ounce the roots of Asparagus Fennel and Parsley of each two ounces Peony root half an ounce shread the hearbs bruise the seeds slice the roots and take out the pith and boil it in a quart of water till half be consumed strein it and add of syrup of Betony compound one ounce and Oximel simplex as much and make a potion for three times take it at night two hours after a light supper the Body thus prepared you may come to purge and evacuate the peccant humours Take half a dram of Pill Cochiae the greater in the morning and keep the Chamber they which are most commendable are pills of Hiera with Agarick Take half a drachm at night two hours after a light supper take some warm broth in the morning and keep the house thus do for a week or longer in like manner you may use Pill Alephanginae and order your body as before and remember that grosse and clammy-humours will not follow a sudden purgation and therefore often purging is used that so they may be drawn out by little and little Also clisters are necessary because they cleanse the bowels and pull back those humours and vapours which ascend and annoy the head Take of Mallows Pellitorie of the Wall Endive Succorie Violet-leaves Cammomell-flowers of each one handfull sweet Fennellseed halfe an ounce Linseed Two drachmes boile them in a quart of Spring water or rather cleare posset-drink till halfe be consumed streine it out and to the decoction adde of the pulpe of Cassia Fistula one ounce Oile of Rue halfe an ounce Benedictae Laxativae half an ounce The Body being purged by discretion it is not amisse for the patient to make use of some diet drink that hath power to warme the braine to exsiccate and concoct crude humours to attenuate the grosse cut that which is tough and expell the thinnest either by Urine or insenfible transpiration You may make it thus Take of Guajacum Sassufras the Root of Salsaperilla of each two ounces English Liquoris and Cinamon of each one ounce Coriander-seed halfe an ounce infuse them 24 houres in 4 quarts of Spring-water the vessell standing in hot embers and close covered afterwards boile it gently to the consumption of halfe sweeten it with honey whilst it is hot let the Patient drink halfe a pint in the morning and dispose himself for sweat and if he drink it for his ordinary drink 15 or 20 dayes more or lesse as necessity requireth it is the better If the Patient become costive
by the use of this diet drink let him take a Clyster as often as need requireth and once in seaven dayes let him take some purging medicine that day omitting the diet drink This bole taken in the morning two houres before meat is exceeding good to strengthen the head after due evacuation of the peccant humours viz Conserve of Roses and of Rosemary-flowers of each two scruples of Venice Treacle the weight of both with a little fine Sugar make bole and administer it as before Likewise may Gargarisms be made and used in manner following Take the root of Masterwort a drachme Long-Pepper and Nutmegs halfe a dram Mustard-seed one scruple beat them to powder and put them in a linnen cloth and chew it halfe an hour which will purge the head of grosse and phlegmatique humours Somtimes it is convenient to use Sneezing-Powders and you may make them in this sort Take the Leaves of Marjarom Rosemary and Betony dryed two scruples white Hellebore Cloves Nutmegs Cubeba of each halfe a scruple beat them into fine powder and by the help of a quill provoke sneezing Also a quilt to corroborate and strengthen the Brain may be thus made Take of Wood-Betony dryed one ounce the flowers of Rosemary and Stachas a Drachm Red-rose-leaves two drachms Frankinsence Mastick Benzoin Mace and Cloves of each halfe a Drachme beat them to powder and quilt it in Silk or Linnen and apply it warme I might here reach you to make Plaisters to corroborate the braine to attract or resolve the humours but I forbeare here for brevityes-sake and referr you to its proper place where I shall treat of the making of Plaisters and their uses If the distemper hath its originall from Cholerick humours let him use meats and drinks that are naturally cold and moist it is convenient that the humours be prepared quenched and concocted for which purpose you may use this medicine following Sirrup of Violets one ounce of Water-Lillies halfe an ounce distilled waters of Endive Succory and Lettuce of each one ounce mix them and drink it in the morning fasting the humours thus concocted and made mild and obedient unto nature may the better be removed by purging medicines To which purpose take fine Rubarb two drachms Spickuard one scruple cut small and infused in the distilled water of Endive Succory and buglosse of each one ounce for the space of twelve houres dissolve therein a drachme of the electuary of the juyce of Roses and make a purging potion Pills of Reubarbs and Alephangina may be safely used in this case the dose is a scruple or halfe a drachme taken at night going to bed Pill aureae or golden Pills taken halfe a drachm in the morning purgeth cholerick and other offensive humours from the head Clysters in this case profiteth much Take of the decoction for a Clyster before described adde one ounce of Cassia fistula Hiera picra halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce Salt halfe a drachme mix them and make a Clyster After purging of the Cholerick humour it is convenient to coole and strengthen the head by outward medicines oyle of Roses and oyle of Cammomell mixed with a little white-Wine-Vinegar is good to anoint the head but if there need greater cooling you may adde to the oyles juyce of Housleek Purslane Nightshade or Sorrell If the sick cannot sleep anoint the forehead with oyle of Water Lillies and Poppy If the symptomes declare wind to be the cause let the Patient eschue all meats that do breed windinesse empty the belly with Clysters that are made of such things as do naturally dissolve windinesse viz. The seeds of Annise Sweet Fennell Carraway and Comin of each one ounce boile them in a quart of posset-drink till halfe be wasted streine it and adde to the liquor Catholicon and diaphaenicon of each halfe an ounce This Clister doth not only purge the intestines and those parts about the Liver but also pulleth back those vapours which ascend to the Head To the outside of the Head may be applyed repulsive medicines as Vinegar Wormwood Melilot Mints Pomegranate-rinds Shephards Pouch Purslane Lawrell Nutmeggs c After a moderate use of these adde medicines that have power to mitigate concoct and digest as Camomell Linseed Fenugreek Saffron yelks of Eggs Hens and Goose-grease Lastly apply medicines that have power to discusse viz meale of Lupines and Barley Lilly-roots Nigella oyles of Dill and Rew. CHAP. III. Of the Frensie THe Frensie is an inflammation of the braine and membranes thereof caused by the abundance of blood or choler occupying those parts it differeth from madnesse in this that a fever is joyned to the Frensie Some that are thus grieved do erre much in imagination others are acute in imagination but want judgment to regulate their cogitations and some are deprived of memory Symptoms and Signes They who are thus greived are in a continuall Fever are mad and cannot sleep Somtimes they sleep and are much troubled therein They often rub their eyes which are red and somtimes dry somtimes afflicted with a hot rhume The tongue is rough sometimes they bleed at Nose they snatch and catch at the bed-clothes their Pulse is weak and hard like the motion of a sinew they breathe seldome If choler be the cause of the I hrensie they rage very furiously and can scarcely be ruled if blood be the cause they somtimes laugh and rejoyce This disease according to the opinion of the wisest Physitians for the most part is deadly and incurable The Cure For the cure of this distemper the blood or cholet afflicting the braine must be discussed pulled back repelled and evacuated so that the distemper of the head be removed the strength of the head and of the whole body be preserved It is convenient as soon as the disease is discovered to open a Veine having first administred a Clyster thus made Take of the Leaves of Violets Mallows Endive Beets and Lettuce of each one handfull of the root of Marsh-Mallows an ounce of the flowers of water-Lillies and the tops of Dill of each halfe a handfull let them be boiled in a sufficient quantity of Barley-water then streined out to a pint of this decoction dissolve Cassia newly drawne Sirrup of Violets Diaprunum Lenitive of each halfe an ounce browne Sugar one ounce and make a Clyster You must soone after the Patient hath had a stoole open the Cephalick or Head-Veine but if blood do abound open the Basilick or Liver-veine or the middle Veine first and after a while breathe the cephalick Vein If you find that suppression of Menstrues or the hemorrhoid hath been the cause of the distemper you may first open the Veine under the Ancle called Saphaena and afterwards open the Cephalick Veine If the age and strength of the Patient forbid not you must bleed him often in the Cephalick Vein if the body be weak open the Veine under the Ancle be sure not to draw too much blood at once least the sick faint
too drying lest they thicken the humors and encrease the disease Then you must endeavor to unstuffe and cleanse the Lungs and wind pipe with the before named Lohock or of the like nature I could insert many which I omit for brevitie sake Quercetanus his Sirrup of Tobacco is very good the Tincture of dryed Tobacco as much as a pease held in the mouth and swallowed by degrees draweth abundance of flegm out of the stomack and Lungs or if you take Tobacco in a pipe it is good The juice of red Coleworts made up into a Sirrup and a little Spirit of Sulphur added to it may be taken an ounce in the Morning Or you may make Tablets of great virtue thus Take of the Roots of Elecampane and Licorish of each one ounce the Leaves of Colts foot Maiden haire Scabius and Woodbetony of each a drachm Lac Sulphuris two drams Saffron two scruples make them all into fine Powder and with the Mucilage of Gum Traganth made with Coltsfoot water make Tablets which let the Patient hold in his mouth often Platerus highly commendeth the preparation of a Cock thus Take an old Cock kill pull and draw him stuff him with these things following Fox Lungs fresh or prepared one ounce Raisons stoned and figs of each two ounces Elecampane one dram Hysop Savory Horchound Thyme Calaminth Peneroyal dryed of each one drachm The Seeds of Fenel and Annise of each one drachm Carthamas Seeds bruised and the Roots of Polypody of each half an ounce White Tartar one drachm Salt half an ounce the Yolks of two Eggs Fresh Butter half an ounce Cut and bruise them according to the precepts of Pharmacy and few them up into the Belly of the Cock boile him in a large Vessel and soe much water as will cover him and no more till his flesh come off from his bones strain it and add to every ten Pints one Pound of Hony that it may not quickly corrupt let the Asthmatick person take a Porrenger full every morning in which dissâ—lve of Manna and Cassia newly drawn of each half an ounce It will be the better if presently after he take a dram of Venus Turpetine with penids in form of a Bolus or otherwise The Patient may continue taking this Cock-broath a Moneth or longer CHAP. XXVII Of the Pleurisie and inflammation of the Lungs A Pleurisie is an inflammation of the Membrane Pleura and the internal intercostal muscles girding the sides within the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines also Pleuritis The matter causing this disease for the most part is Cholerick blood which doth easily penetrate the Membrane but seeing other humors may cause it it is either Sanguineous Cholerick Phlegmatick or Melancholick but what ever the humor offending be Choler it hath for its Vehicle The signes of a Pleurisie according to Galen are five first a pricking pain of the side caused by a Cholerick humor in the Membrane extending it self either towards the throat or the Hypochondria Secondly a continual sharp Feaver which is either Symptomatical comming from some Sangnineous Tumor about the part or essential that is when a Feaver first invadeth the Patient and the boiling blood is expelled to those parts Thirdly difficulty of breathing because thâ— heart being inflamed as well as the rest greedily desireth refreshment and he parts inflamed cannot sufficiently distend themselves to draw in the cold aire Fourthly a hard Pulse like a Saw which is caused by the stretching out of the Membrane by which defect the Arteries are distended Fifthly and lastly an often and troublesome Cough because nature doth strive to expel those troublesome humors from the part affected also some of the matter sweateth from thence into the Lungs which causeth a Cough I might here add another signe viz. spitting of blood or bloody matter but because it happeneth not in all Pleurisies nor at all times I omit it You may partly judge of the humor peceant by the constitution of the Patient and season of the Year The particular signes are first of blood bloody spittle stretching and pricking pains full Veins especially about the Temples red Urine and the like Signes of Choler are yellow spittle a burning Feaver a hard and quick pulse the pain more acute and pricking restlesnesse bitternesse of the mouth and yellow Urine The signes that shew Phlegm are much sweet and frothy Spittle the Feaver remiss little thirst the pain heavy but not violent the pulse not so hard the Urine white and thick the Spittle black and tough the pain and Feaver moderate a dry Cough the tongue black and rough the belly bound the Urine red and darke are signes of Melancholly As to the prognostick I say This disease afflicting old men women with child Asthmatical persons or such as have had it often is dangerous If the Feaver be violent the breath fetched with dissiculty the Cough raiseth up no matter or the Spittle very bloody or very white and glutinating green tustick black much Spitting and yet the pain abates not the spitting cease and the pain continue all these are dangerous signes On the contrary plentiful vomitting Choler in the beginning of the disease blood or Choler mixed with the spittle c. are good signes The Cure of a Pleurisie consists in the revelling Deriving discussing digesting maturating and expectorating the peccant humors if the Feaver be essential seek its cure in its proper place Bleeding is a very natural remedy for a Pleurisie which you must moderate according to the constitution and strength of your Patient and the violent or remiss symptoms If your Patient spitt freely forbeare blood-letting lest his spitting be stayed and his life endangered Twice or thrice in a day or oftener as you see occasion administer cooling Juleps to restrain the heat of the boiling humors make a Iulep of Poppy water and Sirrup of Violets After bleeding prepare a fomentation Take of Mallows Violet leaves Chamomel Pellitory of the wall of each one handful the roots of Marsh mallows and Lillies of each four ounces the seeds of Flax Commin and Fenugreek of each one drachm boile them well and put them with the liquor into a hogs bladder and foment the side afterwards anoint it with this following Liniment Take of Fresh butter and Hens grease of each two ounces the Oyles of Chamomel Lillys Dill and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce The Chimical oyle of wax a scruple mix them and make a Liniment some slit a live-Hen and apply it some the Lungs or the paunch of a sheep hot others apply hot bread out of the Oven dipped in Butter Then you may make an Emulsion of blanched Almonds and the great cold seeds thus Take of Almonds blanched and steeped in Coltsfoot water one ounce the four great cold seeds of each half an ounce the seeds of Lettice and white Poppy of each one drachm beat them in a Marble morter pouring on by degrees the decoction of Barly Liquorish and Plantane a
Vlcer You must parge the Humours which flow to the part affected with gentle Medicines such as are prescribed in the Chapter aforegoing If there be Repletion or Inflammation in the part let Phlebotomy be used Evacuate the Humours by gentle purgers mentioned in the Chapter aforegoing Mercuvius Dulcis doth cleanse and heal the Vlcer Turpentine is a good cleanser It is good for the Patient to vomit often After due Evacuations you must use cleansers as the Milk of Cows Goats or Asses which are very good and cleanse with their wheyie part and heal with their cheezie but give it not in a Feaver Let the Patient drink Water and Sugar thin Hydromell or Barly Water In Hydromell if there be a Feaver boil the cold Seeds Mallows Liquorish c. Waters that spring from Allum and Iron Mines are good for they correct the Heat and cleanse the Ulcer The Decoction of China Guajacum Sarsaparilla and the like is good to dry up the Humours to purge the crude Matter in them that have the French Pox and have no Feaver nor Flux of Blood But lest the Bowels should be inflamed give cooling Broths at Night After the use of cleansers you may see by the Vrine when the Vlcer is cleansed viz. when it appeareth white and clean without any dreggy or filthy Matter then you must give astringing glutinating and healing Medicines Take of Conserve of Roses four Ounces Bolearmenick Terra Sigillata red Coral and Sanguis Draconis of each two Drachms the Seeds of Lettice Purslane and Plantane of each one Drachm red Roses and Shavings of Ivory of each two Scruples with Sirrup of Comphry make an Opiate Or you may make of it a Masse for Pills with Venice Turpentine or if that cause pain with the Juyce of Liquorish Chymists do much commend Antimonium Diaphoreticum Mercurius Dulcis Diaphoreticus To allay the vehemency of the pain you must sometimes mix Anodines with your Medicines as Laudanum the Sirrup of Poppyes and the Emulsion of the cold Seeds Outwardly foment the Region of the Kidneys thus Take of Camomil Mallows Melilot Pellitory of the Wall and Violets of each one Handfull the Roots of Marsh-Mallows and water-Lillyes of each two Ounces the Seeds of Flax Fenugreek and Winter-Cherryes of each three Drachms make a Decoction and foment the part Then apply this Liniment Take of the Oyl of Violets and Sweet Almonds of each one Ounce and an half Oyl of Roses one Ounce of the Musilage made of the Seeds of Marsh-Mallows and Fenugreck of each two Ounces Saffron one Scruple make a Liniment If the Ulcer be in the Bladder you must make an Injection twice in a day with new Milk Whey Hydromel or Barly Water with Hony of Roses to cleanse afterwards add Astringers and Driers as the white Trochts of Rhasis or of Gordonius or boil in Whey or Barly-water the Roots of Comphry Allum Mirth Tragacanth and the like CHAP. LXVI Of extraordinary Pissing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diabetes is a quick and plentifull making of Water after which followeth violent Thirst and a wasting of the whole Body The Cause of this Disease is a hot Distemper of the Reins which draweth Water violently from the Veins which causeth a great Thirst after drink which as soon as it is taken is carried to the Reins where burthening the retentive Faculty and provoking the expulsive it is soon sent to the Bladder Some attribute it to choletick sharp and salt Humours in the Kidneys which draw Water thither as such Humours which stick to the Tunicles of the Stomach in Feavers cause Thirst Others will not admit of this opinion because the Kidneys onely suffer in this Disease and that Choller and other burnt Humours are first bred in the Liver They say there is a venemous Quality bred in the Kidneys Galen himself is of this opinion that divers kinds of Poisons may breed in the Body of Man In Lybia there is a Serpent called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dipsacos which name the Greeks give this Disease from the unquenchable Thirst with which it is accompanied which Serpent if he biteth any man infecteth him with such a Poyson as begets an unquenchable Thirst The Signes of this Disease are clear from what hath been said viz. An unquenchable Thirst an extraordinary Pissing and voiding the Drink as soon almost as it is drunk and a Decay of the whole Body This Disease is deadly if it be not taken in the beginning and the Patient yong for it brings a Consumption If you judge the Patient curable you must labour to allay the hot Distemper of the Kidneys to correct their poysonous Quality to thicken the Humours which flow to them and to strengthen them First give mollifying and asswaging Clisters and purge if you see occasion as you are taught in the Chapter Of the Inflammation of the Kidneys Gentle Vomits do evacuate and draw the Humours from the Ureters If nothing forbid open a Vein in the Arm. To correct the Distemper and thicken the Humours make a Julep thus Take of the distilled Water or the Decoction of Plantane four Ounces of Lettice Poppy and Purslane of each two Ounces the Sirrup of Myrtles Comphry and Quinces of each one Ounce the Sirrup of Poppyes half an Ounce the Spirit of Vitriol twenty Drops mix them and make a Julep If you will have a Medicine more astringent or binding thus Take of the Seeds of Plantane Purslane and Coriander prepared of each one Ounce the Flowers of red Roses Pomegranats and yellow Mirabolans of each half an Ounce Nutmegs half a Drachm Corall and Pearl prepared burnt Harts Horn Bolearmenick and the Roots of Tormentill of each one Scruple make them into Powder Or if you please make them into a soft Electuary with the Sirrup of Myrtles Comphry or Quinces The Milk of Asses Cows Goats or Sheep is good especially if Flints be often quenched therein Sweating is a good Remedy if it be provoked by outward means or with China Sarsa and such mild Medicines for it drives the watry Humour outward but beware of strong Medicines least they purge by Urine and encrease the Distemper Outwardly foment the Loyns with things which cool and bind as the roots of Sorrel Plantane Pomegranate-peels Sumath Seeds c. boiled in Vinegar afterwards anoint with the Vnguent of Roses Sanders and Comitissa CHAP. LXVII Of involuntary Pissing THis Disease consisteth in the hurting of the retentive Action of the Bladder Some are subject to this Distemper while they are awake which is the worst Others are subject to it sleeping onely which is not so bad because then the animall Functions are lesse excercised There are two Causes of this Distemper First the Weaknesse and Loosenesse of the Sphincter Muscle of the Bladder Or Secondly the exquisite Sense of the Bladder and the Sharpnesse of the Urine which stirreth up the expulsive Faculty with consent of the Will The first Cause is apparent in sucking Children weak people and such whose
Greek is a Disease which modern Writers call Scalding of the Urine it differs from Stranguria in this that more Water is made and with farr more pain Any thing that can wound the Sphincter-Muscle or passage of the Bladder may be the Cause The usuall Cause is either a mixture of sharp Humours with the Urine or sometimes the sharpnesse of the Urine caused by the eating of hot and sharp Meats or by the hot Distemper of the Bowels Liver or other parts or from evill Concoction in the Stomach or Liver by which the Blood is not freed from salt and tartarous Humours which being sucked to the Kidneys is sent to the Bladder causeth pain Filthy Matter comming from an Ulcer in the Reins or Bladder may be the Cause he who is troubled with a Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins is seldom free from scalding Urine To conclude the Stone or large Gravel may be the Cause The Knowledge of this Disease is evident the Signes of the Causes are easily gathered If it be caused by the Stone Inflammation or Gonorrhaea it is known by their proper Signes If from sharpnesse of Urine by the mixture of Humours the Urine will be thin and high coloured or in it will appear a mixture of Choller Phlegm or Matter the Patient hath eaten hot things or else hath some hot Distemper This Disease is not very dangerous unlesse it continue long and ulcerateth the Neck of the Bladder Sometimes it is hard to be cured especially if the Patient be old The Cure must be wrought by taking away the Cause If a mixture of sharp Humours make the Vrine sharp first make use of Phlebotomy which is good to correct the hot Distemper of the Liver and other parts make use of this Evacuation as often as the Patient's Constitution will bear and the Distemper require then to derive it from the part affected open the lower Veins Then purge with Cassia Manna Rubarb Mirabolans Tamarinds and such things which purge gently if you give it with the Decoction of Plantane Mallows Lettice Purslane and the like it will be the better A gentle Vomit is much commended as a good Revulsion Cooling Clisters are good Inwardly the Whey of Goats milk or Mineral Waters that cool are good for ordinary drink Or this Julep Take of the Roots of Marsh and common Mallows of each one Ounce Lettice Endive Purslane and Violet Leavs of each one Handfull Jujubes and Sebestens of each one Ounce of the four great cold Seeds a Drachm the flowers of Violets Roses and water-Lillyes of each one Pugil boil them in Spring Water to a Pint and an half strain it and add of Jujubes Violets and Poppyes of each one Ounce and an half Oyl of Vitriol twenty Drops make a Julep for four Doses to be taken Morning and Evening If there be no Feaver give Milk by it self The Troches of Winter Cherryes is good If the pain be very great let the Patient when he maketh Water put his Yard into warm Milk or a Decoction of Mallows and other cooling Herbs Or inject Milk plantane-Plantane-Water or an Emulsion of the cold Seeds into the Passage Baths and Fomentations made of cool Herbs are good and if the Privities be anointed with Unguentum Populeon the Oyl or Unguent of Roses Oyl of Lillyes and the like it profiteth If the Liver Reins or other parts by their Heat be the Cause use Medicines that are good to cool them If the Liver be too hot bleed the Haemorrhoids or make an Issue in the right Leg. If it come from the Stone Inflammation or Vlcer of the Bladder or Kidneys cure them according to the Rules in their proper Chapters but the cooling Medicines before mentioned are good to allay the Symptomes CHAP. LXX Of Pissing of Blood THough Blood may come from divers parts of the Body to the Passages of the Vrine yet I shall here speak onely of that bloody Vrine which is made from the defect of the Reins or Bladder The usual Causes are much sharp Blood which corrodeth the Veins or plenty of Blood which bursteth them Sometimes a Stone in the Reins or Bladder being moved by Riding or violent Excercise by its roughnesse teareth the part A Fall or Stroak vehement Motion lifting or carrying may break a Vein Sometimes the Weakness of the Reins being not able to divide the Vrine from the Blood may cause this Disease This Disease is apparent to the Senses for when Blood is mixed with the Vrine it appeareth like Water wherein Flesh hath been washed with Clods of Blood at the bottom if it stayes too long in the Bladder it looks black The place that is pained shews the part affected If it come from the Reins it is more mixed with the Urine then if it come from the Bladder If it come from the Bladder it is in a lesser Quantity If it come from the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder the Signes mentioned in their proper Chapters will appear If it come from Repletion or Sharpnesse of Humours the Abundance of Blood Choller Melancholy or such Humours appear in the Body If it come by a Blow Fall violent Exercise c. the Patient is able to inform This Disease if it be violent and continue long is very dangerous for sometimes the Patient falleth into a Consumption sometimes into the Dropsy Sometimes it causeth a Stoppage of Urine and sometimes an Vlcer breedeth in the place from whence the Blood Floweth If Blood or sharp Humours abound begin the Cure with blood-letting after a while for derivation let the Haemorrhoids and the Saphaena or Ancle-Vein be opened Then purge the chollerick Humours with those Medicines that are prescribed in the 30 Chapter Of Spitting of Blood After you have purged sufficiently give things that knit the Veins and stop Blood For this purpose give four or five Ounces of the Juyce of Plantane and a Scruple of the Troches of Amber or of Gordonius Morning and Evening Forestus in his Observations doth much commend Sheeps Milk six Ounces with one Drachm of Bolearmenick is the Dose The Decoction of Knot-grasse Purslane Horse-Tail Comphry roots Plantane Pomgranats Quinces and the like Likewise the Powder of red Coral Blood-Stone Sanguis Draconis Terra Sigillata given with the Water or Juyce of Plantane is good Giye cooling Juleps to allay the Heat of the Blood Apply such things to the Loins as cool and astringe thus Take of the Roots of Bistort Comphry and Clowns-Wound-Wort of each one Ounce Horse-Tail Plantane Purslane Knot grasse and Shepherds purse of each one Handfull Pomgranate peels half an Ounce Sumach Myrtle Berryes and Hypocystis of each two Drachms Acorn cups red and yellow Sanders of each one Drachm red Roses three pugils boil them in Smith's Water and Vinegar therewith soment the Reins Then anoint the Loins with Unguentum Comitissae and Refrigerans Galeni and if you would have it bind more add the juyce of Plantane or such like Sanguis Draconis c. Then wear a
they are cured Old women are seldome or never cured To women with Child it is very dangerous and threatneth Miscarriage To Women lying in as dangerous by reason of their Weaknesse It is good for a Woman to sneez in the Fits for it signifyeth Strength of the Brain and it disperseth the Vapours from the Brain I shall lay down a few Rules first to give present ease in the Fit secondly to give perfect Cure First lay her down in such a posture that her Neck and Shoulders may ly high her Thighs and Privities low shooting downwards that so the Womb may be the better reduced Let her lower parts be rubbed and bound so hard as to cause pain And if her Fit be inveterate apply Cupping-Glasses to her Hips and Share If she swoon rub the Bottoms of her Feet with Vinegar and Salt and course Cloths Hollow in her Ears and bend her Fingers and if need require apply Epispastick Cataplasms to her Feet Put strong and stinking things under her Nose as Leather and Fethers burnt Brimstone fited Assafaetida Castoreum and the like But take this Caution carefully to distinguish between this Disease and the Falling-Sicknesse for in the latter such Smells are hurtfull The Warts that grow upon a Horses Legs being dryed and powdered and a Fume made thereof under the Patient's Nose is very good in the time of the Fit The smoak of Tobacco blown into the Mouth and Nostrils is likewise of great efficacy to free the Woman from the Fit-Whilst you do this you must apply Musk or Civet wrapped up in cotton Wool to the Womb. Then blow thâ—s Powder into her Nose Take of white Pepper Mustard Seed Pellitory and Castor of each one Scruple mak it into a very fine Powder and blow some up her Nose if you judge it not strong enough add a little white Hellebore or Eaphorbium Or let her Nose be anointen with Oyl of Amber If the Fit be of long continuance give her a laxative carminative or wind-expelling Clister if one doth it not give another Afterwards give another made of Vinegar and Water and let her drink a little Vinegar and Water Apply Emplastrum Hystericum to the Navel or a Plaister made of Galbanum Caranna Assafaetida and Tachamahaca If you find the Sick troubled with plenty of Wind and Vapours bathe and soment the Belly with Fomentations made of emollient carminative and discussing Herbs and Seeds If the Sick be a married Woman let her have carnall Conjunction with her Husband as soon as ever the Fit is over If that cannot be had that is if she be a Maid or Window let a Mid-wife tickle the Neck of the Womb with her finger anointed with the Oyl of Musck Cloves or the like that so the offensive Sperm may be avoided You may in the Fit give Pills made of Assafaetida Castor Faecula Brioniae Mirrh and the like and if the Fit be violent give Pillulae Faetidae Oyl of Amber given three or four drops in some convenient Waters are very good The After-Birth of a Woman that lyeth in of her first Child dryed and powdered and a Drachm given in some convenient Liquor is excellent Quercetanus his Powder made of Elder-Berryes taken a Drachm in Wine is very good For the Cure you must consider whether the Woman be with Child or not and be carefull how you administer stinking Medicines for fear of Abortion but rather outward Medicines then inward Whatever part of the Body suffer by this Disease either Brain Heart Liver c. take care to free and strengthen the part seek the means in their proper Chapters The Patient must once in a Month be purged with such Medicines as principally regard the Humour offending adding thereto things that are hystericall If the Body be full of Blood open a Vein or bleed the Haemorrhoids if Nature requireth it After generall Evacuation make use of sweating Decoctions or let the Patient frequent sulphurous Baths These Pills are much commended Take of the Troches of Agarick one Drachm and an half Hiera of Colloquintida one Drachm the Seeds of Carrots and Agnus Castus of each one Scruple Mirrh Castoreum and Diagridium of each half a Scruple Venice Turpetine as much as will suffice to make all into a Masse let ber take half a Drachm or two Scruples twice or thrice in a Month. Or Pillulae Faetidae taken half a Drachm once in a Month doth very much cleanse the Womb. Then make use of this Sirrup much commended by Mercatus Take of the Juyce of Mercury and the cream of Carthamus Seeds of each six Ounces the Water of Scorzonera seven Ounces Sugar as much as will make it into a Syrrup while it boiles add of Confectio de Hyacintho of Alchermes and Powder of the Electuary de Gemmis of each two Drachms let the Dose be two or three Ounces Assasaetida and Castor made into Pills with Hony have a peculiar property against these Firs many use the former with good successe tyed up in a thin ragg or farcener and hung about the Neck and for this purpose the Liver or Flesh of a Wolf or the Pizzell or Stones of a Fox dried and hung about the Neck with a string resting upon the Navell vitriolated Steel or the Salt thereof given with Sugar from two to twenty grains according to the Strength of the Patient is much commended for opening Obstructions and cooling the Womb. Eight dayes before she expect her monthly Purgations let the Woman sit in a mollifying and resolving Bath that so the Humours may be resolved and flow forth with her Courses Lastly Issues made in the Thighs are good for they derive and turn aside evill Humours from the Womb. CHAP. LXXVI Of the Inflammation Ulcer and hard Swelling of the Womb. THis Disease is a Swelling of the Womb which is caused by Blood mixed with Choller or other Humours flowing to the part vehement Excercise or immoderate Copulation some Blow or Fall upon the part Meats that are sharp and sretting or such things as naturally offend the part as Cantharides or Pessaryes that are of a sharp Nature Abortion hard Labour in Child-bed or a violent handling by an unskilfull Midwife The Signes of this Disease are Swelling Heat Pain about the Region of the Womb the Body feavourish If the Inflammation be in the Neck of the Womb the pain is felt towards the Groin if in the former side the Bladder suffereth if in the hinder side the strait Gut will be sensible thereof and the Pain is violently felt about the Loyns If either side of the Womb be inflamed the Thigh and Groin on the same fide will be heavy and pained If you consider the Const tution and present Temper of the Patient you may easily guesse what Humour offends If it be purely Blood the Symptomes are more mild if Choller be mixed it is more vehement if Phlegm or Melancholy the Distemper is more fixed and lasting but the pain is not so vehement If the
Juniper and Bay-berryes of each one drachm boyle them in Wite-Wine to the Consumpoion of half sweeten it with Honey give every second or third day three ounces in the morning If the conjoyned cause be fit to be resolved then use meanes that can mollifie attenuate disperse and sepetate such as is Diachylon Commune and Magnum Diapalma many unguents Liniments and Plaisters may be made for the purpose aforesaid which I heare omit If the matter be unfit for resolution then have you two wayes to empty it that is suppuration and incision This plaister is good to ripen it Take the roots of Marsh-Mallows and Lillyes of each one pound boyle them soft and beat them in a Morter Garlick and Onyons boyled of each three ounces the oyle of Lillyes and Buster of each two ounces Hogs grease and Goose grease of each two ounces and an half the Meale of Wheat Fenugreek and Flax seed sufficient the Yolks of two Eggs make a plaister when it is ripe open it with an instrument or ruptory of Chantharides or Arsnick If it appeare filthy cleanse it with Unguentum Apostolorum Egyptiacum or such like afterwards incarnate and Cicatrize it If it submit not to medicines it must be taken out by manuall operation which only belongeth to an expert and able Chirurgion seeing the whole cure is difficult and ought to be managed by an able brain and skillfull hand I omitt any further discourse of it it being my taske principally to instruct people of mean Capacity There are three other phlegmatick Tumors which lye under the generall notion the first is called Atheroma and is a Tumor without pain and change of colour which is a humor contained in the membraines or Nervous Coats it is clammy like sodden Meale Starch and somtimes mixed as it were with haires peeces of bones c. Meliseras is a Tumor somwhat thinner and almost of the substance of Hony otherwise agreeing with the former Steatoma is much like the two former save that the humor contained is like suet and the Tumor doth encrease and is much enlarged in processe of time the inward causes of them all are Flegmatick humors with which the body doth abound The first is thus known the Tumor is long and ridged being pressed returneth to its place again but slowly by reason of the clammynesse of the humor the second Tumor is rounder and thinner being pressed yieldeth and returneth speedily the last is hard yieldeth not to the pressing of the finger for the humor is like Suet. The first must be dealt with by corrosives and incision the second by discutients corrosives and incision the last no otherwise but by incision alone The diet preparatives and purges which are proper for Oedema are here to be used If you find the Tumor fit for resolution apply discussive plaisters a plaister made of Cyclamen is much commended Take of Cyclamen otherwise called Sowbread as much as you pleass Hogs-grease and Brimstone of each equall parts beat them into the form of a plaister If it will not be resolved consume it with eating medicines among many of this nature this following is commended Take of the Scales or flower of Brasse half an ounce of red Arsenick and black Ellebore of each two drachms with Oyle of Roses make a plaister make a deep eschar and make incision through it and apply a Caustick The Cure may be performed only by incision but the Chirurgion must beware that the Tunicle which holdeth the matter be not broken lest some part of the humor be left to the hinderance of his operation CHAP. X. Of Melancholly Tumors THe true and Legitimate Scirrhus is a Tumor hard without pain yet sensible The antecedent cause is Melancholy abounding in the body the conjoyned cause is the humor fixed in the part The first is known by the Melancholly constitution of the Patient a diet and course of life which is apt to breed Melancholly The second viz. the conjoyned cause is known by a Tumor hard and scarce yeilding to the touch in colour between red and black of dull sense These Tumors if they be timely and carefully dealt with may be cured by resolution Sometimes they become indurate and somtimes they degenerate into a Cancer Let the Patient live in a Temperate aire let him use moderate exercise and avoid excessive affections and passions of the mind let his body be kept soluble and let his meat be such as is of good nourishment and easie digesture and let him therein be moderate Let the Melancholly humors be prepared by Juleps made of the syrups of Fumitory Borrage Buglose Endive Succory Rubarb Harts-tongue Epithymum and Vinegar with their distilled waters This Apozem is very effectuall Take the root and leaves of Sorrell Borrage Buglosse and Fumitory the leaves of Maidenhaire Succory Endive Dandelion and Hops of each one handfull Balm half a handfull the four great cold seeds beaten of each two drachms the seed of Purslane two drachm Anise and Fenell of each one drachm Raisons of the Sun stoned six drachms Polypody one ounce Senna one ounce and an half Time and Epithymum of each two drachms the Flowers of Violets Borrage and Buglosse of each one pugill make a decoction in two pound of which dissolve the juice of Odoriferous Apples and of Buglosse of each four ounces boyle it againe to a pint and an half then sweeten it with Sugar as much as is convenient Clarifie it then Aromatize it with the Powder Diamargariton Frigidum and Diatrâ—…aganthum Frigidum of each one drachm make an Apozem for four Doses The humor prepared purge it with such things as purge Melancholly these simples are proper Sena Polypodium Epithemum Fumitory Cassia Lapis Lazuli and Mitabolans black Hellebore and such like Look for compound Melancholly Purgers in the next book The conjoyned humor must be dealt with by such things as soften seperate and discusse as the grease tryed out of flank Wooll Butter the oyle of Almonds Camomel Dill Lillyes c the fat of a Cock a Duck Goose Fox Bear Lyon Sow Calfe Stag Eagle Vulture Bee-Glew Wax fat Figgs Marsh and Common Mallows Lillyes Branck ursine Ammmoniacum Bdellium Galbanum Styrax Tarr Rozin and such like of which you may make unguents and plaisters This plaister of Calmeteus is of great virtue Take of fat Figgs in Number twelve boyle and stamp them Ammoniacum Bdellium Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar of each two ounces Liquid Styran one ounce the Musilage of Maâ—sh-Mallow roots of the seed of Flax and Fenugreck of each two ounces Oesipus and fresh Butter of each one ounce oyle of Lillyes three ounces with Wax as much as sufficeth make a Plaister A Cancer is a hard unequall round and venemous Tumor of a black colour hoe and painfull it is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it hath this name for these reasons first because the veins about it filled with Melancholly blood are stretched out like unto the
covered four or five days then distil them as aforesaid To make it stronger do thus When you have distilled any Hearb as aforesaid in a common Still by putting a Paper under them to prevent burning and drying the Cake overmuch Put the Water and the Cake together into a hot Still or Alembick and let them stand warm 24 hours then distil them and if you would have the Water yet stronger pour this Water upon more Cakes and do as before and if there be any Oyl upon the top of the Water separate it thus you shall have a very strong and excellent Water Or if you perform this distillation in a glasse Gourd in a gentle Balneo that is in warm-water your water will be very good and far excelling the water distilled the common way To know the virtue and use of these waters you must find the virtue of the hearb by some Herball or History of Plants and Hearbs If you would have a distilled water out of flowers which shall retaine the smell of the flower do thus Take Roses Violets Honey-suckles or what other flower you would distill pick them being first gathered in a fair and Sunshine day infuse a handfull or two of them into two quarts of the best White-wine the space of half an hour not much longer lest with the subtill spirit the carthy part also come forth then take them forth and infuse in the same Wine the same quantity of flowers do so eight or ten times Then put the Wine into a glasse body or Gourd and close the joynts well with Lutement and distill it in a gentle Balneo or place your Glasse over the Vapour of hot water that so the subrill spirit only may assend By this meanes you shall have a water of a most fragrant odour You may distill a water strong of the vegetable out of dried hearbs thus Take of any hearb dried or seed or root if you please a pound put it into twelve pints of clear spring water let it stand warm as aforesaid then distill it in a hot Still or Alembick to this distilled water add more dried hearbs and distill againe as often as you please till your water become like a Spirit Or if you add White-Wine to the hearb it will be the stronger which leads me to the distylled waters prescribed by the Colledge of Phisitians of one of which I shall set down the manner of distilling and content my self in describing the virtues and quantity to be used of the rest Spiritus aqua Absynthii minus composita The Spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition Take of the Leaves of dried Wormwood two pound Annis seed half a pound sleep them in six Gallons of small Wines twenty four hours then distill them in an Alembeck adding to every pound of the distilled water two ounces of the best Sugar Let the two first pound you draw off be called the Spirit of Wormwood the rest wormwood-wormwood-Water the lesse composition In the same manner omitting the Anniseeds you may distill the Spirit and Water of any hearb root flower or seed whatsoever Spiritus aqua Absynthii magis composita The Spirit and Water of Wormwood the greater Composition Take of common and Roman Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Salme of each two handfull the roots of Galanga Ginger Calamus Aromations and Elitampane of each three drachms Liquoris one ounce and Raisons of the Sun stoned three ounces the seeds of Annis and sweet Fennell of each three drachms Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms and Cubebs of each one drachm let the things that are to be cut be cut and bruised that are to be bruised and all of them infused in twenty four pints of Spanish Wine for twenty four houres then distilled in an Alembeck add two ounces of white Sugar to every pint of distilled water Call the first pint the Spirit of Wormwood the greater Composition The vertues are these it heats and strengthens the Stomach and Lungs helps Concoction and stays Vomiting it kills Wormes in the Stomach and Belly expells wind mitigates the paines of the Teeth The dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Spiritus aqua Angelicae magis Composita The Spirit and Water of Angelica the greater Composition It comforteth the heart and vitall Spirits it rarefieth and discusseth flatuous humors it is good against Poyson taken against the Pestilence it is prevalent and a good preservative in pestilentiall times and against ill Aires It is good against Crudities of the Stomach and diseases of the Matrix proceeding from a cold cause The dose is from two drachms to six Spiritus Lavendalae Compositus The Compound Spirit of Lavender This is a very chargeable Spirit and is of great efficacy against passions of the Heart Convulsions Cramps Palsies Apoplexies and all sleepy diseases vertigo and comforts a cold brain The dose is the same with the former Spiritus Castorei Spirit of Castor It resisteth Poyson and is good for such as are bitten by Venemous Creatures gives speedy delivery to Women in Travail and easeth the Fits of the Mother It helpeth Deasness proceeding from stoppage mixed with White Wine and dropped into the Ears It is good against the Diseases mentioned in the former The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Give it in something that is cooler Aqua Petasitidis Composita The Water of Butter bur Compound It is good against the Pestilence and a good preservative in Pestilential Times it gives ease to those who are short-winded easeth the Fits of the Mother it dryes up moist Humours in those that have Sores hard to be cured The Dose is two three or four drachms in some cooling Cordial Aqua Raphani Composita Radish Water compound This Water is good against obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Womb prevaileth against the Scurvey and cleanseth Women after their lying in The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Peoniae Composita The Compound Water of Peony This is very prevalent against the Falling Sickness and Convulsions If the Fits come daily take it Morning and Evening If it come Weekly take it at the New or Full Moon the first or last Quarter If the Disease decline give it onely at New and Full Moon In the Fit it is good to rub the Jaws Nostrils and Temples with it The Dose is from two drachms to six Aqua Bezoartica Or Bezoar Water It withstands Melancholy and is good for such as are in Consumptions It strengtheneth the Heart and Vital Spirits It is Diaphoretick and is good in Pestilential Feavers The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Give it with other cooling Cordials Aqua Spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis The Magistral Water and Spirit of Earth-Worms I conceive this was composed for a Restorative for such people that have lingring Diseases occasioned by obstruction of the Liver Spleen and Kidneys as the Evil Habit Hypochondriack Melancholy Scurvey c. The Dose
is from half an Ounce to an Ounce Aqua Gentianae Composita Gentian Water Compound It is a good Preservative against the Pestilence caseth pains in the Stomach and helpeth Digestion and drives out old Colds openeth Obstructions of the Liver easeth the pricking pains in the sides and is good against the yellow Jaundies it provokes the Terms and expelleth a dead Child or After-Birth The Dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Aqua Gilberti Gilberts Water This Water is a very great Cordial it strengtheneth the Heart and reviveth languishing Nature it may be taken from half a drachm to a drachm it is so costly that it is almost out of the reach of ordinary people Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae It is a very cooling Water and profitable in Feavers and to allay the heat of bloud it giveth rest by sleep You may take from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Theriacalis Or Treacle Water This Water is of excellent vertue against the Pestilence and other Feavers it is a very good counter-poyson and good for those that have been bit by any venemous Creature or such as have the French Pox for it driveth forth all vitulent Humours from the Heart and is a great Cordial The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Brioniae Composita Or Briony Water Compound This Water is Hysterical easeth the Fits of the Mother it expelleth the After-Birth and provoketh Womens Courses Let Women with Child forbear it Let those that have occasion take from half an ounce to an ounce in the Morning fasting Aqua Caponis Or Capon-Water It is good for such whose strength is decayed by Feavers or other Sicknesses it is an excellent Medicine for those that are in Consumptions or wasted by a Feaver Hectick or Marasmus Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Limacum Magistralis Or the Magistral Water of Snails It openeth Obstructions of the Lungs and purgeth them of Flegm and is very good for the Consumption of the Lungs Take half an ounce or an ounce Aqua Scordii composita Or Compound Water of Scordium This is a good Preservative against the Pestilence gives rest in Feavers and is friendly to the Stomach and Womb. Take it from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Imperialis and Aqua Mariae It strengtheneth and corroborateth the Heart and is therefore good for such as are subject to Faintings Swoonings and Palpitations of the Heart and is a Preservative against Apoplexies The Dose is from one drachm to three Aqua Mirabilis This is of admirable force and virtue to preserve the Body from the Apoplexy and all Diseases of the Nerves It is very good against the Palsie Convulsion and Cramp and is good for cold Stomachs From two drachms to half an ounce is the Dose Aqua Papaveris composita Or Poppy Water compound It is good against Surfets and Feavers thereâ—from arising it provoketh sleep cooleth the bloud and concocteth the Humours Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Cinnamomi Cinnamon Water It strengtheneth the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves It cleareth the sight is an Antidote against Poyson and biting by venemous creatures and is good against a stinking Breath and nauseousness of the Stomach It is very friendly to the Womb and is of an attenuating opening digesting and strengthning virtue From two drachms to six is the usual Dose in cold Diseases you may take more Aqua Caelestis This also prevaileth against Malignant and Pestilential Feavers restoreth such as are in Consumptions comforteth the Heart and reviveth drooping Spirits It is very hot in operation You must scarcely exceed half a drachm for the outmost Dose without the advise of a Physitian In Feavers mix it with cooling Juleps Aqua Melissae Bawm Water It restoreth Memory lost it maketh all the Senses acute it strengtheneth the Heart Brain and Stomach and for those who are troubled with cold Stomachs and Brain it is a Jewel It maketh the Heart glad the Tongue nimble in those who are subject to the Palsie in that Member the Teeth white and the Breath sweet The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Menthae Mint Water It cools and strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Spleen helps Concoction breaketh Wind and stays Vomiting The Dose is from one drachm to three Ordinary Aqua Vitae Annise-seed water Usquebath and such like are commonly used and most people know they comfort a cold Stomach and is good against hurt of Digestion coming from a cold cause It breaks Wind and the like Tinctures are made of any Hearb or other Simple by first bruising them and putting to them as much Spirit of Wine as will cover them three or four fingers cork it up or seal it and let it digest in a Bath as long as you see good If you know the virtue of the Simples you cannot be ignorant of the Tincture To make Physical Wines is easie Take this one for an Example Take a handful of dryed Wormwood for every Gallon of Wine stop it in a Vessel close and let it remain in steep So you may prepare a Physical Wine of any Hearb Flower or Seed whatsoever either simple or compound Physical Vinegars are prepared thus Take of Red-Rose Buds gathered in a dry time the Whites being cut off and dryed in the shadow three or four days one pound Vinegar eight Sextaries set them in the Sun fourty days then strain out the Roses and repeat the infusion as often as you please Thus may you prepare Physical-Vinegars of any Flower As the Hot Waters and Spirits are best for cold Bodies and hot Diseases so on the contrary are Vinegars best in hot Diseases and may be externally used These I thought good to add the Treatise of Distilled Waters For the preparation of Distilled Waters of this nature read Quercetanus his Dispensatory one of which I shall here insert having prescribed it in the afore going Books which is his Distilled Water against spitting of bloud Take of the Roots of Bistort Comphry and Tormentil of each one ounce the Leaves of Knotgross Yarrow Speedwel Winter Green Sanicle Shepherds Purse with its Root of each one handful of the tops of the Blackberry Bush and Mastick Tree of each half a handful the Seeds of Sumach Myrrles Plantane Barberies and white Poppy of each 6 drachms the Flowers of Water-Lillies Gourds Quinces and Red Roses of each two Pugils let them be mixed and beaten then macerated in Balneo for the space of four days in the Juyces following viz. Plantane Purslane Sorrel and Agrimony of each two pound Let them be afterwards strongly pressed out then add of the Juyce of Acatia Hypocistis of each two Ounces Terra Sigillata and Bolearmenick of each half an ounce Electuarium Diatraganthum frigidum of each two drachms Macerate them for four dayes and distil it in Ashes till it be dry Let them who are troubled with spitting of bloud or any inward Wound or Bruise take
Medicines are such as are made of Quicksilver Mesentery is that which holds the guts together Morbifick or morbifical matter is that which is the cause of the Disease Mortification is a deading or losing of sense in any part Mollifie Is to soften Mundifie Is to cleanse Musilage is made of Gum Tragacanth dissolved in water or by beating of any Seeds or Roots that have a flimy faculty Muscle is a part which serves for voluntary motion of the body it is harder and less sensible then a Sinew and softer and more sensible then a Ligature N. NArcotick Medicines are such as cause sleep by dulling and stupefying the Brain and Semes Nauseousness inclination to vomit Nerves Sinews Nitre Salt-peter the true Niter is rarely found Nidorous Smelling of Burnt-Fat Oyl c. Nocturnal Pollutions Is when a man sheads his Sperm in his fleep Noxious Hurtful Nutrition Nourishment O. OBstruction stopping Oblîque crooked athwart Obnoxious subject apt lyable Obscure dark hid secret c. Occult hidden unknown Oedema A Flegmatick Swelling white and without pain or but little pained Omentum The Caul that covereth the Guts Opiate signifieth any medicine which hath Opium in it sometimes any soft Electuary like Treacle Optick Nerves are the Nerves which bring nourishment from the Brain to the Eyes Opthalmia inflammation of the Eyes Organs Are peculiar parts fitted for some notable service as the Eye to see the Ear to hear c. Orifice The Mouth or Passage into any thing the hole that is made in the Vein by letting of blood or in a wound Original Foundation or beginning Os Sacrum The great Hip-bone on which the Ridge-bone resteth Os Cribosum Is the Bone full of holes above the Nose through which the Snot issueth Oval Is the shape of an Egg. Oxycrate Is Vinegar and Water mingled Oxyrrhodine Vinegar of Roses and Medicines made therewith P. PAralysis Paraplegia The Palsie Paroxysme Is the Fit of an Ague or any other Disease Palliative Cure Is the mittigating the Symptomes of a Disease Peripneumonia Inflammation of the Lungs Pericranium The skin which covereth the skull Pellicl's Little thin skins Perspicuous Clear to be seen as in a Glass Peritonaeum The inner coat of the Belly Peccant Humours Are the Humours that offend or cause the Disease Perforated Bored through Peristaltick motion of the Guts Is when the Guts contract themselves to cast forth the Excrements Paenineum Is the Ridge-like space between the Privities and Fundament Preposterous Unnatural unfitting Perturbation Is trouble Perspirable To be breathed thorough when the Pores of the Body are open Pernicious Deadly destructive Penetrate To enter Phrensie Is raging and madness joyned with a Feaver Phlebotomy Blood-letting Phlegmon A Swelling caused by blood Pharmacopaea A Dispensatory a Description of the making of all Medicines Pia Mater The inner Cauls and Films which cover the Brain Pituitous Flegmatick Periodical By course or fits Pessaries A kind of Suppositories made of Wooll to be put into the Matrix Plethorick Too full of blood Plenitude Fulness Pleura The Membrane which cloatheth the Ribs on the inner side Pores Little holes in the skin through which vapours and sweat issueth forth Potential heat or coldness Is contrary to actual which is so in operation not to sense Ponderous Weighty Potent Powerful Pomander A thing formed like an Apple to smell to Prognostick Signs Is fore-telling what will become of the Disease and the Patient Privation Loss Preternaturally Otherwise than the course of Nature requireth Precede Go before Preparing of the Humours Is separating them from the good blood making them thin if they be too thick thickning them if they be too thin to the intent they may be better evacuated Probable Likely Profound Deep Producing Causing or breeding Procatarctick causes The primary and first working causes Precipitated Thrown down cast down Protraction Is lengthning out A Pugil is as much of Hearbs as can be taken up between the Thumb and Fore-finger Pulsation is beating of the Arteries Pupilla is the middlemost round circle of the Eye which we call the Sight Putrid Rotten filthy stinking Pustula A Pustule Push or Whelk Pubes The hairy part above the privities of men and women Pus Matter Corruption filthiness which runs from a Boil Imposthume or such like Quitter is the same R. RAdical Moisture is the Fundamental Juyce of the body which preserves Natural Heat Raucedo Hoarsness Rarefying Making thin Repletion Overmuch fulness of blood and humour Resolution Weakning or dissolving the strength of any part Revulsion Drawing back blood or humours from the part affected Repelling Driving back the humours to the affected part Relaxing Slacking Remitted Abated lessened Restriction Limitation exception Reliques The remainders of an Humour Retraction Drawing back Retentive faculty The power of Nature to hold or keep its nourishment Reduced Brought back again Refractions Breaking of the Presentation of visible objects Recruited Made up repaired restored Resolving Medicines are such as loosen and scatter humours gathered into any part Repercussives Such as drive back the Humours Relaxation Looseness Refrigerating Cooling Respiration Breathing Reflux Flowing back again Recipient part Is the part which receiveth the humour offending Regression Is going back Reiterate To repeat Ruption Breaking S. SAnguineous Bloody Sanies Matter Saphaena The Vein which passeth by the Ancle on the in-side of the Foot Scarification Lightly cutting the skin to draw blood by a Cupping-glass Scorbutick persons Who are troubled with the Scurvey Scituation Place or Posture Scirrhus A hard Swelling without pain Serous Like Whey Sediment The Setling or Dregs of any thing Sealing a Glass Is to make the Neck red-hot and soft and work it with a pair of Tongues till it be firm and cannot receive or let out the Air. Seton Is an Issue kept open with a Skein of Silk Sincere Pure and unmixed Sinews or Nerves Are small Strings which carry the faculty of Sense and Motion from the Brain all over the Body Spurious Bastard counterfeit not perfect Spinal Belonging to the Back-bone Sphacelus Is when the Flesh and Bone in any part is dead Spasmus Cramp Speculum Oris Is an Instrument to hold open the Mouth or Throat Sphincter The muscle of the Arse Spadarap A Cere-cloath Specifick Peculiar and hidden Stuphs Hot-houses Stows to sweat in Strangulation Strangling choaking Sternon The Breast-bone Stupor Dulness Sternutations Medicines to provoke Sneezing Stupifying Benumming taking away the sense of Feeling State of the Disease is when the Disease is at the height Suppository is to be put up into the Fundament to loosen the body Sudorifick That causeth Sweat Subeth Dead asleep Superficies is the out-side of any thing Sutures The Seams of the Head where the Skull is joyned Superfluous Too much unnecessary Suppuration is when the matter in an Imposthume is inclinable to break Suppression Stoppage Suffocating Choaking Suffusion is a shedding abroad of Humours Sulphurous Pertaining to Brimstone Sympathy is fellow-feeling a Disease is said to come by sympathy from the Disease
to the Treasury for as that groweth rich the common people grow poore So as the Spleen encreaseth the other parts decay CHAP. VIII Of the Reines and Kidneys NOw I come to a few words of the Reines and Kidneys which are placed within the region of the Nutrites backward and they are ordained to cleanse the blood from the watry superfluities They have two passages by the one is drawn the water from Venakelis by two Veines which are called Venae emulgentes the Emulgent Veines and by the other is sent the same water to the Bladder and this is called Poros Urithedes The Kidneys are made of a hard substance and full of hard concavities and therefore the sores of them are hard to cure they are harder in substance then any other fleshy member and that for two causes the first is that they be not much hurt by the sharpnesse of the Urine The other is that the Urine that passeth from them might be the better cleansed by them The Heart sendeth an Artery to convey to them blood heat Spirit and Life And from the Liver there commeth a Veine which bringeth nutriment to all blood Their fatness is as of the other members made of thin blood congealed and cradded by cold there is ordained the greater quantity in this place because it should temper the heat of the Kidneys which they have of the biting sharpnesse of the Urine The next thing that offereth it selfe to our consideraon is the Bladder which is compounded of two nerveous panicles in complexion it is cold and dry whose neck is carnous and hath two Muscles to withhold and to let go in man it is long and is contained with the yard passing through peritoneum but in women it is shorter and is contained with the Vulva the place of the Bladder is between the share bone and Longaon commonly called the Arse Gut In women it is between the aforesaid bone and the Matrix In the Bladder is implanted the Ureters which bring the Urine or water from the Kidneys thither and privily entereth into the holes and pannicles thereof which is don by a naturall motion between Tunicle and Tunicle till the Urine findeth the hole of the nether Tunicle where it entereth privily into the concavity And the more the Bladder is filled with Urine the streighter be the pannicles compressed together The holes be not set one against the other so that if the bladder be never so full none can go back againe This is the Micocrosmicall Ocean into which all the Rivers of the body discharge themselves There must needs be more then a watry substance in it for many times in dileases it is plentifully made though the patient drinketh little or nothing And it is observed that Creatures that drink nothing will make water Physitians oftentimes foretell many things by their colour thinnesse and thicknesse Salt you know is hid in meats and that plants have very much Salt in them you may find by distilling them And it is very well known that by the Chymicall art many kinds of Salt may be fetched out of Urines The artificiall Chrysocolla is made of Urine Nitre is made of earth moistned with the Urine and Dung of living Creatures The Urine hath a sympatheticall relation to the constitution of the body The Arabians say among the rest Abenzoar that a man that is bitt with a mad dogge in his Urine the picture of Doggs may be seen but this is attributed to the force of the Venome which changeth a mans constitution and maketh it like to a dogs Sennert us himselfe saith that it doth so much corrupt the humours that little Creatures like Puppies are bred in the body If we credit the writings of wise honest and learned men which not to do were uncharitable we shall find that wormes and many kinds of living Creatures have been bred in the Bladder We read of a Woman that voided one that way a span long and a Maid many as big as Woodlice One voided one like a Magpye another who had the Stone in the Bladder voided two with Horns sharp head back and belly crusty black and like a Tortoise only their belleys were red Another voided a living Scorpion and another shell-fish The passage of the Urine from the Bladder all know yet sometimes men are known to void their Urine another way The Son of one Boninus urined a little beneath the Glans A maid at the Hague of a noble family made water at her Navell One by an Ulcer on his Buttock and another by the Belly For my own part I have known two young men who urined between the Testicles and the Fundament read Fernelius l. 6. c. 13. who affirme the same thing I need not tell you that stones are bred in the Urine of a faeculent matter mingled with Salt and stony juice somtimes small and sometimes great of severall shapes and forms sometimes like the Sea sand somtimes like peebles somtimes like Salt and somtimes they are found ragged and branching lively and excellently resembling the stock and branches of Corall few or none are ignorant of this Thus have I with as much brevity as may be described this Microcosmicall Ocean CHAP. IX Of the Generative parts I Shall herein use as much brevity as may be and shall write nothing but with a mind that is modest and with such a mind I desire it may be read The instruments of generation are of two sorts Male and Female their use is the procreation of mankind the operation is by action and passion the Agent is the seed the patient the blood Although this cometh to be spoken of in the last place yet it might have deservedly been put in the first for nature regards not only the conservation of its selfe but to beget its like and conceive its species Venus hath the principall government of the members of generation In which members there are many parts considerable but I shall only epitomize them First of the genitalls of men The first thing to the considered is that which Anatomists call vasa preparantia or preparing vessells which bring blood and vitall Spirits to the Stones they are fout in number before they come to the stones they make a curious implication intertexture or twisting the one with the other the Arteries into the Veins and the Veines into the Arteries which Physitians call Corpus Varicosum some call it Pampiniformis This interweaving reacheth down even into the substance of the stones their use is to mix the blood and vitall spirit together that so the Stones may have a fit matter to work on The Testicles or Stones are of a white soft and spungy substance full of small Veines and Arteries or else when humours flow to them they could not swell to such a bignesse their form is Ovall of their bigness few are ignorant Each stones hath a Muscle which the learned call Cremaster which serveth to pull up the stones in the act of Generation
not here trouble my selfe or the reader to insert examples of the aforegoing medicines the Chapters beforegoing together with every Artists ingenuity will sufficiently insorme Take this for a generall rule that when a Catarrh or Deflaxion is caused by excrementitious humours flowing from any of the inferior parts by reason of the naturall passage being stopped you must open the obstruction by often purging or by medicines regarding the nature of the obstruction and by that meanes turn the humours offending into their naturall channell after convenient Evacuations with internall and externall medicines labour to corroborate the head and dry up the humours Internall medicines may be prepared thus or after this manner Take of Coriander seed prepared and Coltsfoot dryed Nutmegs and Frankinsence of each halfe an ounce Liquoris Mastick and Cubebs of each two drachms flos Sulphuris three drachms Conserve of red Roses one ounce with a pound of white Sugar dissolved in Popy-water make rolls weighing three drachms or half an ounce Take one morning and Evening Or you may make Troches in this manner Take of the best Frankincense and juice of Liquoris of each one drachm Lac Sulphuris half a drachm Opium Saffron and Mirrh of each one scruple the oyles of Annise-seed and Nutmegs of each three drops with Diacedium as much as sufficeth to make Troches or if you please you may make them into pills and take halfe a drachm morning and evening It is good to apply bags of hearbs to the fore part of the head which have a drying quality shave the fore part of the head and apply the gum Sacamahaca spread upon a cloath in the forme of a plaister and add thereto a little Mirrh or if you make a fume thereof and shut the Chamber close it profiteth If the defluxion proceed from a hot cause you must administer medicines which have power to thicken the humours to repel and evacuate it you must likewise correct the distempers and fortifie the parts both sending and receiving and that you may so do you must revel or pull bâ—ck the humours by Phlebotomy if nothing hinder it You must thicken the humours by administring Juleps made of the Waters of Plantane Purslane Lettice the Sirrups of Poppies Violets Water-Lillies of dryed Roses and Meconium and such like Having thus thickned and prepared the humours you must evacuate them by gentle Purgatives Take of the Bestrhabarb a drachm infuse lit in any of the afore-named waters as much as is sufficient for a potion six hours in warm Embers strain it out and add to the liquour one ounce of Manna and as much Sirrup of dryed Roses and administer it To make the potion stronger you may dissolve therein Catholicon Diapranam Solative or Lenitive Confectio Hamech c. or such like having respect to the age and strength of your Patient and humour offending You must endeavour to restrain the Flux thus take of Conserve of Roses one ounce Diatraganthum Frigidum and Palyis Haly of each a drachm Bolearmenick prepared with rose-Rose-water a drachm with the Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds and Sirrup of dryed Roses make an Opiate and give the quantity of a Nutmeg to bedward These Troches are much commended take Gum-Dragant and Arabick of each two drams Bolearmenick and Terra Sigillata washed in Rosewater of each one drachm White Poppy seeds and Juyce of Liquorish of each half a drachm Sugar-penid one ounce with the Musilage of Quince-seeds extracted with Rosewater make Troches to be held in in the mouth day and night The Spirit of Sulphur and Vitriol given three or four drops in a convenient Julep morning and evening worketh no small effects against a defluxion especially if it proceed from an inflammation of the bowels If you find the Disease too stubborn to yield to these medicines you must make use of Narcoticks of which Laudanum is none of the worst four or five grains given at bed-time Faventius extolleth these Pills in a Salt Catarrh or defluxion of salt humours Take of the juyce of Liquoris two drachms washed Aloes one drachm Pillulae de Cynoglosso half a drachm with Sirrup of Violets make a Mass and take a scruple thereof at bed-time It is convenient to make pouders to apply to the head which have power to strengthen to stop the defluxion and consume the humours Take of white Amber Benjamin Mastich Nutmegs of each half an ounce Betony Sage Rosemary Lavender Marjarome of each half a handful Frankinsense graits of Kermes Red-roses Peony seeds and Poppy heads of each two drachms Sanders Myrtles Cyprus nuts and Pomegranate flowers of each one drachm make a powder for the lining of a Cap or Quilt or if you had rather you may make a plaister with the same Simples with Wax and Oyl of Rofes according to art and apply it to the head being first shaved CHAP. X. Of Diseases of the Eyes and first of the Diseases proceeding from Obstruction in the Optick Nerves IN the former book having given you a brief account of this worthy member and what varicty of wonderful operations God and Nature hath placed in so little a subject yet of the parts and faculties thereof it is too hard a task for the most exquisite Philosopher to conceive aright or for the most eloquent Orator to express such wonderful notions But seeing God hath indued every man with this member by whose curious inspection he is inabled to pry into all things it is the duty of every Naturalist to exercise this member in finding out its own constitution and curing the distemper and maladies to which it is subject For the benefit of those who want better helps I shall as briefly as may be discover the diseases and cures of the eye as they are in which work I adhere to the opinions of the wise and learned Physitians verified by Reason and my own Experience Sometimes it happeneth that the sight of the eye is totally extinguished and no fault appears in the eye And this cometh to pass either by obstruction or adstriction of the Optick Nerves and is called by the Latines Gutta Serena and Amauresis Obstruction for the most part is the cause of this Disease which happeneth by the flowing down of a watry humour upon the Nerves which causeth blindness or dimness of sight the like obstruction happening to the other Nervs causeth the Palsie Adstriction or compression sometimes happeneth by some moist humour gathered about the Optick Nerves as blood or filthy matter gathered In the brain sometimes bp humours sometimes by inflammation in malignant Feavers and may be the cause of this Disease For the Nerves being thus obstructed or compressed the animal Spirits cannos pass from the brain to the eyes To this I may add that in case by a wound in the head the Optick Nerves be cut without controversie it causeth blindness The sign of this Disease is the loss of sight and the eye appearing in its natural condition onely the Pupilla or sight
Sugillatio Sometimes the Cornea is made yellow by the Jaundise All these Diseases are easily discovered and their causes are laid down in the Description That which cometh after a Wound or Ulcer and is a Scar is not easily cured But the cure of the Pin and Web consists in Emollients attenuating and discussing medicines But the Antecedent cause must first be removed by universal evacuations such as are described in the 10. and 11. Chapters Then you must soften the hard matter with the decoction of Fenugreek Mallows Melilot Celendine Fenel and the like Then let a Child chew sweet Fenel-seed and afterwards liek the eye or make a Water thus Take of Honey a pint the juyce of Fenel-Brooklime and Celendine of each half a pint Sugar-candy dissolved in the juyces an ounce with the natural Balsome a scruple clarifie them together or distil them in Balneo Mariae and drop it into the eye The seed of Oculus Christi put into the eye is good If it be a scar after the use of the former medicines use the Water of Honey afterwards put a quantity of the Gall of an Ox to the Juyces before spoken of and thicken it with Gum-Traganth If the Eye be blood-shod and yieldeth not to the fore-going medicine you must seek its cure in the Chapter of the Cataract As for the yellowness of the Eyes caused by the Jaundise take away the cause and the effect ceaseth CHAP. XIV Of the Inflammation of the Eyes THis Disease is called Ophthalmia which is an inflammation of the Tunicle Adnata and is sometimes extended to the Cornea By the Latines it is called Lippitudo bloodshontess This Disease is divided into three kinds the first is called Taraxis by the Greeks and by the Latines Conturbatio and it cometh from an external cause viz. the Sun Smoke Oyl Dust or the like If it comes from an internal cause namely from distempers of the stomach it is called Phlogosis and is a light inflammation but is the Original of the true Ophthaliny which always proceeds from an internal cause accompanied with tumour redness and pain and a thick Exerement called Lippa from whence the Latines call it Lippitudo or bloodshotness The third sort is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in in Latine also Chimosis this is attended with vehement pain and the eye-lids are so inverted that they can scarcely cover the eye the red covereth most part of the Iris and it proceedeth from repletion and flegmy humours I might here shew you how Hippocrates hath divided these Diseases namely a moist and dry Ophthalmy the moist I have already spoken of the dry he calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it wanteth humidity and proceedeth from Choler and adust Melaneholy there are other subdivisions if there be itching joyned with it he calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and if it come with hardness of the eye-lids 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Galen mentions another which he calleth Ophthalmia Tabida which ends with a Consumption and loss of the eye this happeneth to them who have moist heads and weak eyes sit to receive a defluxion The immediate causes are defluxion or congestion and sometimes both The defluxion cometh from the head either by the internal veins which comes from the brain under the skull or by the external veins which come from the Pericranium to the Eyes These signs demonstrate the Disease and the cause thereof if redness appear without swelling it is a Contâ—rbation If swelling heat and tears be joyned to the redness then is it a perfect Ophthalmy but if it cover the black of the eye and invert the eye-lids then it is called Chimosis If blood abound and cause the distemper the eye and face will be red and the veins swelled If Choler be the cause the Patient feeleth a pricking pain sharp tears which corrode the cheeks and corners of the eyes If it proceed from Flegme the pain is heavy many slâ—my and glutinâ—…tious tears If Melancholy cause the grief the tumour is but small the colour of a dusky redness few tears the humour thick the constitution of the Patient melancholy If the defluxion come from the internal parts of the head the pain will be felt inwardly and about the roots of the eyes if through the exterior vessels the contrary signs appear the veins of the forehead are distended and there is much shooting about the Temples For the cure the external causes must be removed the antecedent causes evacuated revelled and repelled the conjunct cause derived and discussed and the parts affected strengthned Let the Patient observe an orderly and temperate Diet and eat such things that are of easie disgesture let him avoid all sharp and salt things and such as fume up to the head and such things as breed Choler Let him abstain from strong drink let most of his drink be Barley water Let him avoid all motion let him lie still as long as he is able and sleep as long as he can Let him keep his eyes shut and what ever you do endeavour to keep his body soluble Phlebotomy for the most part is convenient but let it be regulated and moderated according to the constitution strength age and sex of your Patient and nature of the Disease If the body be Plethorick and the Disease hath its original from blood you must take away the greater quantity for Galen in his book de curat per sang mis reiateth how one was cured of an Ophthalmy by bloed-letting first three pound and four hours after one pound understand this onely in the case before mentioned though I could instance many cases more cited by eminent Authors and Fathers of Physick yet let this serve for all to avoid prolixity If onely one eye be affected bleed your Patient on the contrary side If you finde a stoppage of any accustomed evacuations viz. the Terms or Hemorroid veins if the first be stopped open the Saphaena if the other bleed them with Leeches To make revulsion some do apply Cupping-glasses to the shoulders and back others open the veins of the head and temples sometimes the veins or the corners of the eyes and behind the ears and some bleed these veins by Leeches all which are very profitable for derivation When you have bled and made sufficient revulsion you must purge the humour that offendeth and causeth the blood to be inflamed but first let the humours be prepared then purge gently and often and if you see occasion after all this you may purge more strongly Prepare the humours thus Take of Endive Succory and Fumitory of each one handful Red. Rose leaves one ounce of the greater Cold-seeds half an ounce Of Lettice and Poppy-seeds of each two scruples boil them in a quart of Spring water to the consumption of half shrein it and with Sirrup of Violets two ounces and Sirrup of Fumitory one ounce make a Julep for three potions afterwards you must administer such medicines as have power gently to carry away the peccant
Pint and an half strain it out and dissolve Sirrup of Jujubes two ounces Sirrup of Violets one ounce make an Emulsion for three doses give it Morning and Evening If his Cough be violent let him alwayes have in his mouth Sugar of Roses Sugar Candy or penids or the Tablets of Diatraganthum Frigidum or with Sirrup of Violets and Jujubes you may make it into the form of an Celegma or Lohock If his spittle be thick and tough adde Oxymel Simplex or the Sirrups of Liquoris or Coltsfoot Let his constant drink be Barly water boile it in Currans Borrage and Bugloss Flowers Hartshorne Maidenhaire Coltsfoot Liquoris and such like give it warm You must not purge in this disease till the declination thereof and then use a gentle potion Many medicines there are proper and special for a Pleurisie as Stone-horse dung or White-hens dung soaked in Carduus water and strained give a quarter of a pint this hath a peircing and discussing quality by reason of the volatile salt in it and doth wonderfully disperse the humors in the Pleurisie An Apple made hollow and a dram of Frankincense put therein and rosted given to the sick drinking three ounces of Carduus Water after it and laid to sweat is good saith Quercetan Goats Blood also is good If the Sick fall into a loosness in the height of this Disease it is very dangerous in the declination it is good but if it so happen give him the Sirrup of Myrtles and do as you are taught in the Cure of Diarrhaea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or The inflammation of the Lungs is a disease not much different in the causes or signes from a Pleurisie but only in the part affected Sometimes this Peripneumonia commeth alone and sometimes followeth another Disease as the Quinzy or Pleurisit which is a dangerous Symptome on the contrary if a Pleurisie follow the inflammation of the Lungs it is a hopeful Symptome This Disease is more dangerous then a Pleurisie and for the most part deadly by reason of want of respiration and the nearness of the heart The cure is the same with the Pleurisie therefore I shall say no more of it CHAP. XXVIII Of Empyema EMpyema 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Collection of matter in the Cavity of the Thorax is a Disease which for the most part followeth a Pleurisie and Peripneumonia and sometimes a Quinzy when they are not carefully cured and the inflammation commeth to Suppuration and when the Imposthume breaketh the matter falleth into the cavity of the breast Sometimes blood falling into the Thorax by the breaking or wounding of a Vein may come to Suppuration or rather Corruption Sometimes flegm falleth from the head and other parts into the breast and there putrifying begetteth matter like quitter The signes of Suppuration beginning according to Hippocrates are these First the Pleurisie being not purged the Feaver increaseth while the matter is turning into Pus Secondly the sharpness of the matter touching the Membranes causeth quaking the Third is weight and sense of heaviness in the part To these we may adde the difficulty of breathing for although when the Imposthume is broken the Diaphragma and the Muscles of the Thorax move more freely yet the Lungs are oppressed by the matter lying about them But an old and confirmed Empyema is known by a lingring putrid and partly Hectick Feaver more violent towards night and much sweating a constant troublesome Cough the Cheeks grow Red the Eyes hollow the legs swell Pustles break out on the breast If the Suppuration break and the Feaver continueth are thirsty want appetite the pus green livid or frothy brought up with much difficulty and a loose belly all these are signes of Death or of long sickness the contrary are the signes of recovery They who in this condition doe lift up the whole breast when they breathe by reason of the matter contained are quickly choaked If the matter be not spit forth in forty dayes it turneth to a Consumption and death followeth The Supuration on both sides is more dangerous then that of one that on the left side the worst by reason of the left Ventricle of the heart If the matter flow plentifully by Stoole and Urine and the Patient strong and hearty it is a signe of recovery For the Cure you must endeavour to help nature in Suppurating the humors if Suppuration cannot be hindred by this or the like Cataplasme Take of Chamomel Melilot and Mallows of each one handful the Roors of Althaea one handful Figs and Raisons stoned of each four ounces after due boiling beat and strain them adding to the Liquor the Oyles of sweet Almonds Lilies and Fresh Butter of each one ounce with the Meal of Wheat Fenugreek and Flax Seed sufficient make a Cataplasm and apply it In the mean time let the Patient take of this Lohock Take of the Conserve of the Flower of Bugless Violets and Roses of each one ounce Maidenhaire Liquorish and Coltsfoot of each one ounce Oyle of Sweet Almonds newly drawn one ounce Sugar Candy one ounce Powder what is to be Powdered and with Sirrup of Liquorish or Colts foot sufficient make a Lohock and let the Patient take thereof often Venice Turpentine washed and with Liquorish powder made up into Pills are good to maturate discuss and cleanse give three drachms in the Morning But if the matter will not be spit up you must open it between the fourth and fifth Rib and apply a Plaister to draw out the matter giving the Patient a Wound-drink in the mean time If you desire particular direction herein read Hieronymus Fabricius ab aqua pendente in Libro de operationibus Chirurgicis CHAP. XXIX Of spitting of Bloud Sputum Sanguinis or spitting of Blood called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an unnatural Flux of Blood from the vital parts viz. the breast Lungs and Aspera Arteria The Immediate cause is Organical or common the Organical twofold either the opening of the Vessels called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Rarefaction called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The common Disease is twofold also as the breaking of the Vessels called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Erosion of them called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blood offending in quantity or quality may be the cause of opening rarifying breaking or Corroding of the Vessels To be further satisfyed therein Ipray you have recourse to the nineteenth Chapter of Bleeding at the nose Some external cause as Fall Wound or the like may be the cause of Haemoptysis Immoderate Cold may be the cause by hardening the Tunicles that they cannot be extended It is very difficult to judge of the part from whence it commeth If it comes from the head it is cast forth by Coughing hawking and there is a tickling in the Palat as in a Catarrh That which comes from the breast and Lungs causeth Coughing that which comes from the Lungs is Frothy that which comes from the breast is Blackish
when the Pain is under the Ensiformis it shews that the upper Orifice of the Stomach is affected a very sharp Pain that the Patient cannot rest and sometimes fainteth the Vapours sometimes offend the Brain and cause inveterate Head-Ach the Megrim Vertigo and Epilepsy In the other parts of the Stomach there are not so violent Symptomes but great Paines like the Chollick Thus you may know the Causes The Humours offending may be known by the Excrements avoided at the Belly or Mouth also Choller Phlegm Wind or Worms may be knowne by their proper Signes The Diseases of the Stomach or parts adjoyning causing this Disease may be known by their proper Signes Prog This Disease is more dangerous then any other Disease of the Stomach The danger is greater if a Feaver accompany it if the extream Parts be cold Death is at hand thus saith Hippocrates It is least dangerous if it proceed from Worms yet sometimes dangerous Symptoms appear and the Patient dyes sometimes if the cause of Wind cannot be removed a dry Dropsy followeth If it come from other Parts there begin your Cure if it be in the Stomach properly consider the peccant Humour If Wind be the Cause first administer a Clister Take of Camomil Penny-royall Miats and Pellitory of the Wall of each one handful the Seeds of Annise Fennel Cummin and Dill of each two Drachms make a Decoction in white Wine Posset Drink add Benedicta Laxativa half an Ounce the Oyls of Dill Rue and Chamomil of each half an Ounce the Chymical Oyl of Juniper Berries ten Drops make a Clister and give it or the like as often as need requireth Make a Fomentation with the Herbs and Seeds aforesaid or with others of the like Nature then anoint the Stomach with the Oyls of Sage and Cloves Chymical Oyl of Dill Camomil Rue and the like Then administer this or the like Julep which hath power to asswage Pain discusse Wind and strengthen the Stomach Take of Wormwood Pennyvoyall Century the lesse and Agrimony of each one handful the Flowers of Camomill and Juniper Berryes of each one Ounce the Seeds of sweet Fennel and Anise of each two Drachms Boil them in a Quart of white wine to the consumption of half sweeten it with the compound Sirrups of Wormwood and Betony of each two Ounces Let the Patient take a spoonful of this often and six spoonfuls Night and Morning this have I often proved with good successe let the Cause be what it will If the Disease be yet too stubborn to yeeld to ordinary Medicines make a Bath of mollifying Herbs and let the Patient sit in it giving inward discussing Medicines In vehement Pain some do give a Purge and mix Narcoticks with it to allay the Pain and this following is much commended by Forestus Take of Diaphenicon half an Ounce Philonium Romanum two Scruples with Camomil water in want thereof the Decoction make a Potion If Choller cause pain purge it administer Juleps cooling and thickning Foment the Stomach and apply a Cataplasm made of mollifying cooling and discussing Herbs and Seeds CHAP. XLII Of the Inflammation Ulcer and Imposthume of the Stomach The Inflammation of the Stomach is a Tumor comming of Blood sent into the Stomach and its Membranes from the Vena Porta by the small Veins which Blood is either pure and maketh a proper Phlegm or mixed with Choller and maketh an Erisipelatous or with Phlegm making an Oedmatous or with Melancholy making a Schirrous Tumor In a word all things that may inflame the Blood may be the Cause of this Tumor Diagnostick Signes are great Pain burning pricking distending beating even to the Back you may see or feel the Tumor belching and sometimes vomiting of Blood and the Breath is ferched difficultly and a burning Feaver If it be onely of Blood it is somwhat gentler but if it be with Choller there are grievcus Symptoms But be carefull to distinguish this Inflammation from that of the upper side of the Liver see the Chap. of the Inflammation of the Liver This Disease for the most part is deadly If the Inflammation be in the upper part of the Stomach or over the whole or much loathing of the Stomach or rumbling in the Belly all these are deadly Symptoms If the Inflammation kill not and the Feaver and Pain ceaseth and the Tumor remain then it turns to an Imposthume which being broken there remaineth an Ulcer which is known by voiding of Matter by Vomit and Stool But an Ulcer may be bred in the Stomach from other Causes as sharp salt cholerick Humours bred in the Stomach or sent thither from other parts the breach of a Vein which could not grow together again a Wound not well cured Poyson or corroding Medicines taken The Signes of an Ulcer bred in the Stomach are the same with the former to which I add these a constant lingring Feaver stinking Belching no Appetite a pricking Pain and Burning when any thing is taken which is hot cold sharp salt or sowr This Disease for the most part is deadly because Cleansers encrease Pain and Dryers cannot execute their Office but are hindred by Meat Drink and Chylus The Cure of theso Diseases must be diversly considered Purging is altogether prohibited lest more Humours be gathered to the Stomach but give an emollient and cooling Clyster every day such an one as is prescribed in the last Chap you must let Blood in both Arms as much as strength will bear bleed the Haemorrhoids if you see Occasion cup and scarify the Shoulders Back and Buttocks rub and bind the extream Parts and heat them with the Oyl of Spike or Flowerdeluce and the like You must give Medicines which are altering and strengthning and with them mix such which have power to dissolve This Julep is good Take of Barley water well clarified two Ounces Fennel and Purslane water of each one Ounce the Sirrups of Water Lillies and Violets of each one Ounce the Sirrup of Poppy half an Ounce Diamarganiton frigidum a Drachm mix them and make a Julep for three Doses give it Morning Noon or Night Foment the Stomach with â—he Decoction of cooling and mollisying Heâ—… Roots and Flowers and afterwards anoint it with Oyl of Roses Violets and the like Some commend Turpentine washed in Wormwood water given in Pills three or four times which will quickly dissolve or maturate the Imposthume If you find that the Imposthume tend to Suppuration apply this Cataplasm Take of the Roots of common and March Mallows of each one Ounce Camomill two handfuls red Rose leaves a handfull boil them well together and then beat them in a stone Morter then add of the Meal of Barley Flax seed and Fenugreek of each one Ounce with Hen's Grease and Oyl of Roses and Camomill alike QUantity sufficient to make a Cataplasm which must be applyed and often removed When the Imposthume is broken cleanse the Ulcer with new Milk and Sugar or Hydromell or Take of Barley water 3.
is sound and the Distemper may be taken away if the Humours which corrupt the Blood be evacuated In the Cure of this Disease your main work is to strengthen the Liver correct the Distemper and stay the Flux If it come from a cold Cause deal with it as with a Dropsy But if it come of a hot Cause as for the most part it doth you may gently evacuate the peccant Humours with Rubarb as you are taught in the Cure of the Dysentery Then you must give Medicines which strengthen the Liver Take of the Roots of Succory Sorrell Bloodwort and Monks-Rubath of each one Ounce the Leaves of Plantane Endive Succory Purslane Agrimeny and Dandelion of each one handfull Wormwood half a handfull Red Sanders two Drachms Coriander seeds prepared a Drachm red Roses one Pugill the shavings of Ivory and Spodium of each a Drachm boil them in Barly water to a Quart and in the straining dissolve of the Sirrups of Quinces Vinegar Simple and dried Roses of each two Ounces of the Oyl of Vitriol as much as will make it moderately sharp and make a Julep for six Doses to be given Morning and Evening First and Last The Sirrup of Myrtles of Succory simple or compound with Rubarb the Sirrup Tincture or Magistery of Pearl is very good and may be made use of as the former or made into a Julep with Plantane or other cooling Waters The Liver of a Wolf is much commended and it may be made into an Electuary Opiate or into any other form with the aforenamed ingredients The Tops of young Nettles boiled in Broth or Water are good and the juyce taken is more powerful to stop the Flux and to purify the Blood It is good to apply an Epitheme to the Region of the Liver made of the aforenamed Ingredients or as many of them as you think good It is convenient that among your Medicines which you give to stop the Flux you administer such as are restorative because in this Disease the Body is much consumed Riverius much commendeth this distilled Water and the truth is it deserveth commendation Take a fat Capon and a Partridge pull and draw them and filth ir bellyes with Succory Agrimony and Snails of each one Handfull Conserve of Roses three Ounces Plantane and Coriander Seeds prepared of each two Drachms Citron Myrabolans one Drachm the Leavs of Bloodwort half a handfull the Troches of Amber and Spodium of each four Scruples the Powder of the Electuary de Gemmis Triasantalon and Diamargariton frigidum of each one Drachm Sprinkle them with Styptick Wine and put them into the Fowls Bellyes boil them in a close Vessel in four Pints of Water till half be consumed then put them into a glasse Limbeck with three Ounces of good Wine and distill them in Balaeo give a little of the Water often by it self or with other Medicines CHAP. L. Of the Worms VVorms for the most part breed in the Guts therefore I shall speak of them here Galen Propounds three kinds of Worms the First are round and long and are called Teretes and are more common then the rest and are bred in the Guts but do somtimes get up into the Stomach The Second are called Ascarides they are little and smal like threds and they commonly ly in the lower part of the thick Intestines and over against the Sphincter-Muscle The third sort are broad Worms and long though seldome seen sometimes they are voided of an incredible length They are bred of such Nourishment as easily putrifieth in the Stomach hence it cometh to passe that Children and such as are gluttonous who eat much Fruit and such things as easily putrify especially more being eaten before the former is digested are troubled with Worms The Signes of Worms in the Guts are divers not in all alike a stinking and sowr Breath Stools like Cow dung in colour Gray like Potters earth Sometimes there is a continual Feaver Heavinesse Fainting Loathing Vomiting unquenchable Thirst and sometimes cold Sweats an unequal Pulse the Cheeks are sometimes red sometimes blew the Eyes shine the Nose itcheth the Teeth gnash a dry Cough There is pain in the Belly sometimes by Inflammation and sometimes by Distention some start in their Sleep Sometimes the Body pineth and the Patient hath an insatiable Appetite this is a Signe of flat Worms which eat up the Food The Ascarides are known by the itching of the Fundament and the Excrements are many times full of them Sometimes the eating away of the Gums is a Signe of Worms Though to Children and older Folk Worms are common and little feared yet many and dangerous Symptoms and Diseases are bred by them In the beginning of a Disease it is evil for Worms to be voided alive or dead especially alone without Dung if they be alive they signify great Crudity and Want of Nourishment if dead great Putrefaction by which they are killed In the declining of a Disease Worms comming forth with the Excrements is a good Signe The Cure of the Worms consisteth in giving Medicines to kill them and to evacuate them being killed The best way to kill them or at least to drive them to the lower Intestines are these Simples which follow viz. all the sorts of Wormwood Southernwood Calamint Dogs-tooth Century Horehound Dittany Hyssop Rew Savin Peach leavs Coriander seed Harts horn Lupines Mints Garlick Elecampane and many other of these Simples may several forms of Medicines be composed mixing with them such things as purge not onely to kill but also to carry away the Cause of Worms Rubarb is much commended because it may safely be given if a Feaver be present Take of Rubarb one Drachm yellow Sanders half a Scruple infuse them in Purslane water three Ounces strain them and dissolve the Powder of Rubarb and the Powder against the Worms which you may have at the Apothecaryes of each one Scruple Sirrup of Roses one Ounce mix them and make a Potion If the Feaver be not great add Hiera picra to your Potion more or lesse according to the strength of your Patient afterwards give a Clister made of the Decoction of Liquorish Raisons Figs or Chicken Broth sweetned with Sugar and Hony of Roses such Clisters are good to draw them down into the thick Guts Afterwards give a Clister made after this manner Take of Wormwood Southernwood Century of each one handfull Lupines half an Ounce the Seed of Wormwood and Coriander seed prepared of each two Drachms In a half Pint or a Pint of the strained Liquor according umo the age of the Patient dissolve one Ounce or two of the Oyl of Wormwood and Salt one Drachm and an half To bring them out being killed add to the former Clister Benedicta Laxativa Hiera picra and Cassia newly drawn of each three Drachms or more if your Patient can bear it Rondoleitus doth highly commend Diaearthamum and the Infusion of Agarick in Oxymel because it not onely killeth Worms but purgeth Phlegm and corrupted
Hydropicall person eate his meat and digest it well and be not sick after have no cough nor pain his tongue not rough nor thirsty if he be in a naturall order without physick and medicines work easily with him if he be not faint and his Urine change according to his Diet he may easily be cured For the cure you must consider if the disease hath its originall from obstructions Tumors c And seek the beginning of your cure out of their proper Chapters Afterwards you must labour to evacuate the matter whether it be in the Abdomen or whole body first make an Apozem thus Take of the roots of Parsly Smallage Fennell Elicampane Bruscus Danewort and Madder of each one ounce The Leaves of Agrimony Wormwood Maidenhaire the tops of St. Johns wort and Century of each one handfull the inward bark of the roots of Capers Ash and Tamarisk of each four drachms Liquorish one ounce the seeds of Fennell Parsly and Juniper berryes of each half an ounce the flowers of Broom Beans and Elder of each one pugill Julep roots two drachms boile them in a sufficient quantity of water wherein steel hath been quenched to a pint and an half strain it and add to the Liquor one ounce of Senna cover it and let it infuse six houres strain it and dissolve therein of the syrup of Harts-tongue one ounce and the syrup of Succory with Rubarb three ounces Clarifie it with the whites of Eggs and aromatize it with two drachms of Cinnamon or yellow Sanders give it four mornings Afterwards once a week give this pouder Take of Senna Jallap Mechoacah Turbith Gum and Hermodacts of each one drachm Cream of Tartar and Salt of Wormwood of each two drachms Cambugia half a drachm Diamher Diarrhodon abbatis and Fennell seeds of each two scruples make a fine ponder and infuse one drachm in a quarter of a point of White-wine all night and let the Patient take it in the morning Of these and such like may be prepared medicines of all formes Some commend the juyce of flowerdeluce roots taken with hony or manna the dose is three ounces and Platerus in his Observations doth highly extoll it Chimists do much commend the extract of black Hellebore Mercurius vitae and Diaphoreticus Mercurius dulcis antimonium Diaphoreticum and such like but let the physitian beware how he gives medicines of this nature except his Patient be strong the like caution let him observe in giving of purging medicines especially such as purge with violence But rather let him if his Patient be weake give discussive and Diuretick Clisters thus Take of Mallows Marsh-Mallows Chamomell pellitory of the wall and Mercury of each one handfull the seeds of Annis Sweet Fennell Caraway Dill and Bay-berryes of each two drachms the flowers of Broom and Melilot of each one pugil boyle them in Posset drink or Mutton broath to a pint dissolve in the strained liquor of Oyle of Camomell Dill and Rue of each one ounce Diacatholicon or Diaphaenicon of each one ounce and if you see good add half an ounce of Benedicta Laxativa and make a Clister you must principally give such medicines which purge by Urine the steeled-wine prescribed in the 55. chap. is very good in the preparing of it you may add if you see occasion any of the aforementioned ingredients which provoke Urine The Spirit of Vitrioll Tartar and Salt is much commended if it be administred in some Diuretick decoction The salt of Wormword and Juniper profiteth much Or you may make a Lee of the Ashes of Juniper and White-Wine giving five or six ounces thereof which Lee alone hath cured some Dropsies saith Mathiolus the same I have known my self Bleeding is prohibited and upon good grounds too unlesse the disease come from stoppage of the Termes or Hemorrhoids bleed not then unlesse it be in the beginning of the disease and the Liver in its naturall condition Issues Blisters and Scarifications are likewise forbidden because they gangren for the most part yet in the beginning of a Dropsie the lower parts being exceedingly swelled I made an Issue in the Leg out of which an incredible quantity of water issued and the Patient perfectly cured Among Evacuations Sweatings are not the least profitable especially in Anasarca but in Ascites and Tympanites the Liver being dry besides the difficulty of procuring it it rather hurteth then profiteth All the time of the cure forget not to strengthen the Liver that you may hinder the encrease of water as well as purge it have recourse to the 55 Chapter of the Obstruction of the Liver Hollerius commendeth this opiate Take of Currance cleansed half a pound boyle them in Sack till they be as thick as a pultis heat and strain them then add of the Conserve of Rosemary flowers Citron peels Candied and Cinnamon of each one drachm the pouder Aromaticum Rosatum Diamargariton Calidum and Diacinamon of each two scruples Lignum Aloes half a drachm Saffron half a scruple mix them and make a soft Electuary Then make a fomentation for the belly with these or hearbs of the like nature Agrimony Danewort Chamomell Calamint Elder Mallows Marsh-Mallowes Marjerom Melilot Broom Penny-royall Rue Snakweed Southern wood Tamarisk Wormwood and the like the seeds of Parsly Dill Cummin Fennell Bay and Juniper berryes foment the belly with spunges dipt in the decoction of these or lay the hearbs themselves in a bag hot to the belly Afterwards anoynt the belly with the oyle of Dill Chamomell Rue Flowerdeluce and the like Or you may make Unguents Cataplasms or Emplasters This harmlesse Cataplasm I have found profit much Take of Wormwood Chamomell Mayweed and Danewort of each two handfulls bruise them in a stone morter then boyle them in Vinegar and Hony then with Bean and Barly meale and Cow-dung dryed of each a like quantity make a Cataplasm Galen commendeth a Cataplasm of Snailes bruised with their shells and layd upon the Navell and there keep it till it falls off of its own accord Radishes bruised and laid to the Belly and Reynes worketh by stoole and Urine To conclude If the body be strong you may use strong purgers in your Cataplasms but if the body be weak forbeare In Anasarca you may often and strongly purge watry and flegmatick humors In Ascites and Tympanites more seldome and gentle In Ascites order your internall and externall medicines principally to purge water in Tympanites let them be Carminative and discussive In every of them have a speciall respect to the Liver and if it be too hot as it somtimes happeneth give cold things mixed with warm openers Let their meat be of the dryest and let them shun sweet-meats as a Plague For drink let them abstaine from it as much as can be and drink none but what is made with Wormwood Tamarisk Elecampane Juniper c or let them only hold it in the mouth to coole and asswage their thirst let them chew Mastick for it draweth water from the
Inflammation imposthumate and gather Matter the pain and Feaver encreaseth and the Patient hath shaking Fits and most of all about the Evening Sometimes it turns to an Ulcer which is known by avoiding of snotty Matter or Quittor out of the Womb. If it be party-coloured greenish or Lead coloured stinking and cometh away with great pain it is the worse If it depend upon the French Pox or Gonorthaea their Symptoms will declare the same Sometimes the Inflammation turns not to an Imposthume nor Ulcer but to a painlesse hard Swelling called a Schirrus which is thus known the Feaver and pain ceaseth and the Swelling remaineth there is a hardnesse heavinesse and Sense of Weight bearing down when the Woman standeth As to the Prognostick I shall say a word or two of either of them An Inflammation of the Womb is a dangerous and de adly Symptome especially if the whole Womb be inflamed If a Woman with Child suffer Inflammation of the Womb the Child dyeth and probably the Mother followeth Ravings Hiccoughs Coldnesse of the Hands and Feet and cold Sweats are the Messengers of Death If it imposthumate and turn to an Ulcer it ought not to be slighted because the Womb is of exquisite Sense and hath a fellow-felling with the principall parts of the Body If the Ulcer turns cancrous hollow or fistulous it is seldom or never cured but vexeth the Patient miserably all her life-time An Ulcer in the Neck of the Womb is most easily cured because Medicines may be applyed to them immediatly A Schirrhus or insensible hard Swelling is seldom cured because the naturall Heat is so weak in that part that it can hardly discusse such an hard and almost stony Substance If it be not cured it soon brings a Dropsy and if it be tampered with with over hot and moist Medicines it turns to a Cancer The Cure you must prosecute thus First in the Inflammation of the Womb give a cooling Clister then open the Basilick Vein on the same side the Womb is inflamed if all the Womb be inflamed repeat your Phlebotomy afterwards open the lower Veins Rubbings and Bindings are good and Cupping-Glasses fastened to the Loins and Back Purge the Humour offending with such things as purge gently Then give cooling Juleps or Emulsions to allay the Heat and sharpnesse of the Humours mix therewith Narcoticks to give ease and rest if the Patient be tired out Apply cooling Liniments and Cataplasms In Liniments use the Oyl and Ointment of Roses Galen's cooling Ointment Ceratum Santalinum and such like and with the Oyl of Roses white Bread and Milk make Cataplasms adding the Juyce of Henbane Night-shade Plantant and Sorrell or instead of the white Bread the Meal of Barly Flax and Fenugreek Seed Of such cool Herbs make Injections and Pessaries But use not cooling and repelling too long lest the Tumor be fixed and hardned but rather use softning and discussing Medicines with repelling such as these viz. Marsh and cōmon Mallows Mugwort Melilor Camomill Fenugreek If the Patient be subject to be costive give gentle purgers or mollifying and cooling Clisters If the pain be very violent make Injections with new Milk and a little Opium and make Pessaries of Philonium Romanum and a little Cotton and apply it If it tends to Suppuration apply a Cataplasm made of the aforenamed softning Herbs fat Figs Yolks of Egs Saffion Oyl of Lillyes and fresh Butter When it is broken we must endeavour to purge out the Quitter and cleanse the Ulcer You must often purge with gentle Medicines as Senna Rubarb Tamarinds Mirabolans Agarick Catholicon and such like that the evill Humours may be diverted from the Womb for such who are easy to vomit a gentle Vomit is very profitable Make a vulnerary Drink to cleanse and heal the Ulcer Take of Agrimony Burnet Mugwort Knot-Grasse Plantane and Yarrow of each one Handfull China Root half an Ounce Rha Ponticum one Ounce Currance and French Barly of each two Ounces boil them in Chicken-Broth and let the Patient take somewhat more then a Quarter of a Pint Morning and Evening Venice Turpotine washed in Mugwort Water or in the Water of any other Herb respecting the Ulcer is good to cleanse and heal it If the Humours be sharp and painfull inject the Emulsion of the cold Seeds Goats Milk or for want thereof Cows Milk with the Juyce of Shepherds Purse or of any of the Herbs aforenamed To dry and fill up the Ulcer make a Decoction of the aforenamed Herbs or of the like Nature made in Water wherein Steel hath been quenched or in Plantane Water add thereto Acacia Hypocistis Sanguis Draconis Bolearmenick fine Starch Aristolochia rotunda great Comphry c. Unguentum Egyptiacum de Plumbo de Ceruso and de Apio are very good in Injections and the Oyl of the Yolks of Egs stirred in a Leaden Morter is much more commended If the Ulcer in the Womb come by reason of the French Pox a Fumigation made of Cinnabaris or Minium taken into the Cavity of the Womb hath a peculiar property to cleanse and heal the Ulcer the same virtue hath Quick-Silver Ointments If it come to a Schirrhous Tumor you must purge the melancholy and rebellious Humours and give steeled and such Medicines which powerfully open Obstructions of the Womb or other parts Then you must prepare emollient and resolving Medicaments to be applyed outwardly as the Fomentation and Cataplasm mentioned in the 56 Chapter Of the Schirrbus of the Liver Likewise the Liniment there prescribed may serve here for an Injection To conclude you must use a great deal of care diligence and industry in this Cure lest that the Tumor become harder or which is most dangerous degenerate into a Cancer CHAP. LXXVII Of the Womb swelled by Wind or Water There is a twofold Dropsy of the Womb one from Wind which is like that sort called Tympanites the other from a watry and wheyish Humour answering to Ascites Some add a third answering to Leucophlegmatia which is seldom seen This Wind or Water is contained in the Cavity of the Womb or in the Membranes thereof or in certain Bladders It is caused by the weaknesse of naturall Heat in the Liver or Spleen from which parts Wind Phlegm or wheyish Humours are sent to the Womb or by the weaknesse of the Womb those Humours are collected Causes which weaken the naturall heat of the womb are many viz. cold aire heedlesly taken into the womb or staying in the cold or padling in cold water whilst the courses flow the use of cold meates and drinks add to these abortion hard labour immoderat flux of the Termes all diseases proper to the Womb. This disease is best discovered by signes which distinguish between this and the universall Dropsy of the Belly The Womb-Dropsy causeth a swelling chiefly in the lower Belly in the other Dropsy the swelling is in all parts in this the Body decays not nor there is not such a Thirst and Drinesse of
and Castor Then foment the Privityes and Share with a mollifying Decoction to which add Briony Roots and the Roots of wild Cucumber round Birth-wort and the like And put up a Pessary made in this manner Take of the Roots of round Birth-wort Orice black Hellebore Coloquintida and Mirrh of each one Drachm Galbanum Opopanax of each half a Drachm with Ox Gall make a Pessary and apply it If all this will not do you must implore the help of the Chirurgion If the After-birth be retained you must endeavour to expell it by such Medicines as expell the dead Child to which add these which are said to have a specifick property the Stones of a gelded Horse dried and powdered and given as much as will ly on a three pence two or three times as need requireth is commended by Gesnerus and Augenius Some commend the Juyce of an Onion given in Wine or an Onion held in the Woman's mouth between her teeth and the Juyce squeezed out and swallowed and a Draught of white-Wine drunk after it Or 20 or 30 drops of the Oyl of Juniper drunk in Wine or the Juyce of Lovage taken in Renish Wine If her Purgations flow immoderately that you fear the Death of the Woman or in case her Purgations be suppressed which may cause dangerous Symptoms have Recourse to the Chapters treating of those Maladyes Many Women are much troubled with after-pains which do much afflict them and these pains are caused either by the Thicknesse or Sharpnesse of the Blood or by Wind. If the Blood be thick you may know it by its clotting if thin by its Tenuity or yellow Colour If the Blood be thick give this Julep Mugwort water two Ounces sirrup of Violets oyl of sweet Almonds of each half an Ounce If the Blood be sharp add to the former the Musilage of Quince Seeds drawn with Violet Water half an Ounce If Wind be the Cause of these Pains which you may know by its Motion from one part of the Belly to the other then give inwardly and apply outwardly carminative Medicines Take of the Seeds of Carrots one Drachm of Annise Nutmeg and Cinnamon of each a Scruple make them into fine Powder and give it half at one time in Wine Foment her Belly with the Decoction of Bawm Bay Leavs Camomill Calamint Mugwort and the Seeds of Carrots Caraway and Cummin and lay on a Pultise made of boiled Onions Camomill Flowers the Seeds of Flax and Cummin beaten and Barly Meal CHAP. LXXXII Of the Gout and Sciatica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arthritis in Greek in Latine Articularis Morbus is the Joynt-Sicknesse caused by an Influx of Humours into them which causeth pain in the Membranes Tendons and Nervs Authors do commonly make four sorts of Gouts according to the diversity of the Joynts affected as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chiragra the Hand-Gout of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Hand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gonagra when it is in the Knees of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Knee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Podagra when it is in the Foot because the Greeks call the Foot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ischias the Hip-Gout or Sciatica of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hip. The immediate cause of the Gout is a wheyish Humour flowing to the Joynts and by its Quantity stretcheth the sensible parts or by its Sharpnesse twitcheth them and this Humour floweth not onely from the Brain and Head but from all parts of the Body The cause may be attributed to all Meats which encrease raw and wheyish Humours Meats of a grosse Substance hard to be digested and such as afford plenty of Excrements Gluttony Drunkennesse immoderate Venery therefore the Gout is called the daughter of Bacchus and Venus long Sleep and unseasonable Watchings Fear Sadnesse continuall care and intermission of such Excercises or Evacuations as men have been accustomed to and the like The beginning of the Gout is known thus there is a more exquisite and quick Sense in the Joynts then formerly they are easily hurt as by a new shooe walking the least touch against any hard thing Commonly a Feaver ushers it in and at its approach there is a kind of unusuall Heat felt in the Joynts and a Motion as if some living Creature were therein after which followeth a tormenting pain in the Joynts for the most part beginning in the great Toe and attended with Rednesse and Swelling The Signes of the causes or the Humours which are mixed with the wheyish Humours are thus considered If choller be mixed with the wheyish Humour the Urine is thin yellowish or red the pain great and violent the Feaver comes to the height the part is swelled is red or pale but very hot the application of cold things giveth ease If Phlegm be mixed there is a soft and loose swelling of the part the pain not so violent the Urine is thick and troubled little or no Heat and hot things give ease If Melancholy be the Humour mixed the Temper of the Body inclineth to Melancholy and there is a wearinesse felt all over the part is of an obscure Colour like Lead the pain deep and the Urine thick and melancholy The Gout is no dangerous Disease but it continueth long and is attended with violent pain for the most Part to the end of a man's life and sometimes it is a means of long life because Nature doth drive the vitious Humours to the Joynts which if they should fall upon the more noble parts would be a means of great Diseases if not death it self But in weak Bodyes that are decayed by Sicknesse or Age that Nature cannot expell these Humours to the Joynts many dangerous Diseases are ingendered He that hath no knots in his Joynts is inclinable to Labour and is for the most part soluble by a skillfull Physitian may be cured An haereditary Gout is seldom or never cured If the Veins of a gouty Person do swell with black Blood there is hopes that the Gout leavs him If the Gout doth not return at its season it is dangerous unlesse the matter be taken away by Medicines for it is an argument that Nature is weak and cannot expell it The Cure of the Gout is to be performed by stopping the Flux of the Humours into the Joynts by removing the Humours in the Joynts and to abate the Sharpnesse of the pain If the Patient be full of Blood and strong let him bleed in a great Quantity or let him blood often till the plenitude of Blood be sufficiently abated Then let him be purged with strong Medicaments which may evacuate the stirred Humour and turn the cause from the Joynts Whilst you are purging let Ointments or Plaisters be applyed to the Joynt above the part affected of an astringeing and drying property by which the Humours may be intercepted that they may not so much nor so forcibly fall into the Joynt Let your Ointments be made of the Roots of Snake-weed
Mercuriall and antimoniall Purges and many preferr Vomits before all Then apply resolving Decoctions made of the Roots of Briony Danewort the Leavs of Ground-Pine Mint Marjarom Sage Savin Rue Rosemary Pennyroyall c. the Flowers of Camomill Melilor and Mallows the Seeds of Flax Fenugreek Bay Juniper Berryes and such like and foment the part therewith Also Juniper Berryes fryed in a pan being first beaten with Salt and Bran and moistned with Canary Wine and put in a Bag and applyed warm With the aforenamed Ingredients Cataplasms may be made and with the Oyls following let the part be anointed viz. Oyl of Camomill Dill Nord Orice Rue Scorpions Tiles Turpentine of Foxes and the like the Ointment of Marsh-Mallows and Spanish Soap dissolved in Spirit of Wine This is much commended Take a good Quantity of Snails bruise them well in a Morter then make Paste with them and Rye Flower adding a little Spirit of Wine and fasten it to a Spit and roast it a Liquor will drop from it with which anoint the part for it is of excellent Virtue Then lay on this Plaister Take of Shio-Pitch Rozin of each two Ounces Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and Emplastrmm Diachylon cum Gummis of each one Ounce Brimstone and Hermodactylls powdered of each three Drachms Turpentine three Drachms and Wax sufficient make a Plaister If the Disease do still continue proceed to a Vesicatory add to the former Mass for a Plaister Cantharides their Wings taken off Staves-acre and Mustard Seed of each one Drachm In the whole course of the Cure let not frequent Clisters be neglected And if the Disease be old make an Issue in the Leg on the same side on the outside of the Leg. If you find Symptoms of a Catarrh which may occasion the Sciatica by a Defluxion of Humours make an Issue in the hinder part of the Head and use other means to correct the Distempers of the Brain See Chap. 9. by this means hath the Sciatica been cured when all other means failed Sometimes the Matter causing the Sciatica doth imposthumate and after it is opened there remains a filthy Ulcer which for the most part pineth the Patient away brings him into a Consumption The Cure whereof belongeth to an expert Chirurgion CHAP. LXXXIII Of one day-Feaver THis Disease is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephemera in Latine Diaria Febris in English One day-Feaver because for the most part it finisheth in one day of its own Nature It is caused by some internal cause as some hot fiery Swelling on some part of the Body or when some hot Excrements shut up in some part do offend the Heart by Retention of Excrements and Obstruction of the Vessels by which the Pores of the Skin are shut and Transpiration is hindered Or secondly it is caused by externall causes as vehement Motions of the Body or Mind by which the Spirits are inflamed by being heated with the Sun or Fire by Surfetting Drunkennesse especially with Meats and Drinks of a hot Nature By what hath gone before you may know this Feaver the Pulse is swift and great and so he fetcheth his Breath he is very hot and his Head aketh He hath no Shivering Cold nor Wearinesse unlesse it came by the Heat of the Sun or by cold You must give the Sick such things as are cooling moistning as cooling Broths Barly Cream Ptisan Drink small Beer and Sugar Water and Sugar or mix Sirrup of Violets Lemmons or Maiden-hair with his Drink If the Disease was caused by the Heat of the Sun give him cooling things and lay him in a cooling Lodging and anoint his Temples with Vinegar of Roses If he took his Feaver being in the cold provoke Sweat the like observe if the Pores be obstructed If it come by over eating and drinking let him take a Clister If evill Humours abound in the Blood and Body open a Vein and purge if putrified Humours lodge in the Stomach vomit If it continue above three dayes it degenerates into a simple Synochus putrid or Hectick Feaver CHAP. LXXXIV Of the Feaver Synochus non-putrida IF the Feaver aforesaid light upon a plethorick Body or one who is grosse and thick skinned it turns to a simple Synochus It is known by the corpulent and swelling Habit of the Body high Colour of the Face He breathes with difficulty he is much pained in his Head and his Temples beat strongly The Pulse is orderly but quick and full The Urine little differeth from its naturall colour yet a little thick and red and the Heat is not very violent It lasteth to the fourth and sometimes to the seuenth day if it ends not then it degenerates into a putrid Feaver The Cure is to be performed by blood-letting by cooling and by opening the Pores of the Body Before blood-letting if the Patient be costive and his Body foul give an emollient and laxative Clister Then give cooling Juleps made of the Decoction of Barly and cool Herbs or with their distilled Waters as of Endive Succory Sorrell Buglosse Borrage and the like with the Sirrups of Succory Lemmons Vinegar Violets Pomgranates and the like adding some drops of Oyl of Vitriol or boil in the distilled Waters Triasantalon or Diamargariton frigidum lest the Waters encrease Crudityes by their Rawness Or you may make an Emulsion of Almonds the great cold Seeds and white Poppy Seeds with Barly water or the distilled Water of the aforegoing cooling Herbs Galen adviseth to give the Patient cold water in great abundance till his colour fade but beware this Cure unlesse the Patient be strong corpulent and not full of ill Humours and that he take it in the height of the Fit I confesse I have seen many so cured and have experimented it upon my own Body but durst not advise it Anoint the Liver and Loyns with Unguentum Rosatum Refrigerans Galeni or Ceratum Santalinum Or make an Epithem of the distilled Waters of Endive Succory Sorrell c. the three Sanders and Powder of Diamargariton frigidum If the Disease end not quickly after bleeding purge with gentle things that do not heat nor much stirr the Humours as Rubarb Cassia Manna Tamarinds Sirrup of Roses Catholicon and such like CHAP. LXXXV Of continuall putrid Feavers I Shall describe the causes and Cures of all putrid Feavers in one Chapter for though there are divers sorts yet the Cure is almost the same in all therefore laying aside particular precepts let the Judgment and Dexterity of every Physitian put a difference between them I shall likewise wave many nice descriptions and definitions of Feavers first as not beneficiall to the young Student in Physick secondly as not befitting this Volume Synochus putrida is engendred of the same causes as the simple Synochus as the shutting up of the Pores of the skin and Obstruction of the Vessels by much Blood or clammy Humours by which means the Transspiration of fuliginous Vapours is hindered and Putrefaction is bred
Citrons These Powders are pood of Corall Pearls Ivory Harts-horn Diamargaritum frigidum Diatriasantalon Diarrhodon Abbatis Confectio Alchermes and de Hyacintho with these may the Ingenious make Electuaryes or other Compositions according to Art CHAP. LXXXVI Of the Hectick Feaver AN hectick Feaver occupies the solid parts of the Body as well as the Spirits it is an unnaturall Heat of which the Patient is scarce sensible This Feaver is either primary and begins of it self or secundary and followeth some other Feaver Some begin at the Heart and some at other parts as the Lungs Liver Spleen Kidneys Womb or other parts inflamed The causes of this Feaver are externall or internall Externall causes are all that may occasion any of the other Feavers The Internall Causes are burning and pestilentiall Feavers which do speedily consume the Moisture of the Heart or some lingring Feaver An Inflammation Ulcer Putrefaction of any of the inward parts may cause an hectick Heaver An hectick Feaver is known easily because it is continuall without encreasing or decreasing saving a little after Meat the Pulse is little frequent and quick the Arteryes are hotter then the other parts the Urine appeareth as of a healthy man but after long continuance there is an Oyl swims on the top and a Sediment like to Meal which signifieth the Wasting of the Body An hectick Feaver may be cured unlesse it be neglected till it come to the height that is when the Eyes are hollow dry with dry Excrements the Bones stick out and the Colour of the Face is gone the Skin is dry and the Midriff so contracted as if the Patient had no Guts then it is incurable If the hectick Feaver depend upon the Disease of any other part the Cure must be directed to that Discase and if it be joyned with any other Disease respect must be had to that Disease The Cure of the hectick consisteth more in a due observance of Diet then in Medicines His Diet must be cool moisten and soon nourish as Chicken Broths or Broth made of Hens Capons Veal Kid Mutton in which boil French Barly Lettice Endive Succory Sorrell Burrage Purslane and such like The Flesh of young Hares Pheasants and young Partridges are good Panados Water Gruell Barly cream Rice pottage with Almonds or the cold Seeds Boiled Meat is better then rosted and if the Patient eateth rosted Meat let Oranges and Lemmons be his Sauce For his Diet likewise may be prepared Gellyes made of Capons Knuckles of Veal and Mutton Calves Feet Sheeps Feet and such like adding Herbs or other Ingredients that are cooling moistning and cordiall New laid Egs boiled rear are good and of Fruit Apples are much commended especially Pippins because they breed cold Blood For his drink let him use Barly Water with cooling Sirrups Galen approveth of cold Water with which he saith he hath saved many from the Marasmos which is the Consumption of the radicall Moisture of the Body which commonly followeth this Disease Great care is to be used in the giving of cold Water to decayed people lest the heat of the Patient should be wholly extinguished Motion and much Stirring and Labour is not good yet a little Exercise before Meat may be allowed of But above all Excrcises let him beware of the Under-sheet Let his Sleep be moderated if he be costive provoke a Stool by a Suppository or gentle Clisters Purges are not to be allowed of because the Body hath more need of repairing then weakning yet if the Body be full of Excrements you may venture to give gentle Purgers as Cassia Manna c. Cooling and altering Juleps such as are prescribed in the Chapter before going the Patient make use of but let him beware of the too frequent use of them lest they diminish his Heat too much Such Epithems Unguents or Oyles mentioned in the aforegoing Chapter are good to temper the Heat of the Lover Lastly such Medicines mentioned in the former Chapter as strengthen Nature and revive the Spirits may be used and there is need enough thereof The worst Symptome that can attend this Disease is a Loosenesse if it so happen give Goats or Cows Milk wherein Steel hath been quenched or Rice boild in it or Sirrup of Quinces given with the Decoction of French Barly parched or such like CHAP. LXXXVII Of the Tertian Ague THis Disease is divided into an Exquisite and Bastard Tertian the exquisite is terminated in 12 hours but a bastard lasteth lenger if it exceed twenty four hours it is called Tertiana extensa a Tertian extended The Tertian Ague is Simple Double or Triple the Simple is that which cometh every other day the Double Tertian cometh every day and shall be distinguished from the Quotidian in its proper place and sometimes the Patient hath two Fits in one day The Triple Tertian is when the Patient hath three Fits in two dayes Choller and such things as engender it are the cause of this Disease viz. a hot and dry Distemper of the Spleen youthfull Age hot Air Watchings Cares Anger Fastings use of hot Meats and overmuch Exercise Those that have hot Livers that eat and drink liberally and such things as breed Crudityes Phlegm and melancholy Humours are subject to bastard Tertians by reason of the Mixture of Choller with the Crudityes The exquisite Tertian doth alwayes begin with shaking the Quotidian begins with a light Shivering or Coldnesse After the cold Fit followeth great Heat sharp biting and intolerable Thirst and sometimes all the Symptomes of a putrid Tertian Feaver In the bastard Tertian all the foregoing Signes appear but more remisse and more vehement then a Quotidian according as more or lesse Phlegm is mingled with the Choller this Disease cometh nearer to a Quotidian or exquisite Tertian A Legitimate Tertian seldom lasteth above seven dayes and is not dangerous unlesse some Malignity be joyned with it and the Patient be of a healthy constitution and temperate in eating and drinking judg the contrary if the Patient is otherwise qualifyed If the Patient's Lips break out with Scabs or if he fall into a Loosenesse these are good Signes for Nature is turning out the Enemy To work the Cure a cooling Diet must be appointed and withall moistning such as hath been prescribed in the Cure of continuall Feavers the same you must observe in the double Tertian But in the bastard and Single Tertian a fuller Diet is to be observed What ever the Patient â—ateth let him eat nothing before the Fit two or three hours that there may be a digesture but it is good if he go to Stool before the Fit to help the same give a Clister Clisters in an exquisite Tertian must be made of emollient and cooling Decoctions adding Cassia Catholicon Diaprunum lenitive and solutive c. In a bastard Tertian let the Decoction be emollient and cutting and dissolve in it Diaphaenicon Hony of Roses c. Purgatives ought to be the same for the exquisite Tertian as for the continuall
mollifieth the crustiness and caseth pain If it be corrupt and putrified you must make use of incision cautery or hot Iron Gangrena is a mortification of any part occasioned by exceeding inflammation but not fully accomplished but some sense remaineth Sphacelus is when the part is utterly deprived of senle is mortified so that if it be stricken burnt or lanced it feeleth no hurt The fleshy parts are not onely subject to this but even the Nerves and Bones The cause is adust bloud flowing to or lodged in the part Outward causes are cold Air or Medicines unmeasurable Heat or Venome Ligatures Compressions Contusions Gangrena is known by the loss of sense though not wholly black or swartish colour there is pain heat and beating of the Atteries In Sphacelus there is a total loss of sense black colour putrified stinking rotten being pressed yieldeth to the bottom and returneth not The first is difficult to cure the other more and not without cutting when the Bones and Sinews are affected it is incurable unless it be cured in the beginning the part affected dyeth and it creepeth to the near parts to the destruction of the whole Body In the Cure first temper the bloud by a cooling Diet as before and give preparing Juleps such as are afore prescribed Diminish the same by bloud-letting if nothing forbid it and by gentle Purges as Cassia Fistula Tamarinds Fumitory Catholicon Diaprunum Lenitive and the like Lay repressing Medicines to the parts round about Take of the Oyl of Roses and Myrrh of each three ounces and an half the Juyce of Plantane and Nightshade of each two Ounces boyl them to the consumption of the Juyces add to it white Wax one Ounce and an half the Meal of Beans Lentils and Barley of each half an Ounce of all the Sanders two drachms and an half Bolearmenick one Ounce the Powder of Myrtles one drachm mixe them for a defensive Give the Patient such things inwardly as chear the Heart and revive the Spirits This done draw up your forces against the conjoyned cause and first if nothing prohibit bleed your Patient and scarifie the place and wash it with Water and Salt cut the member or burn it with a hot Iron and leave nothing that is putrified to preserve the rest of the Body then apply Medicines whose property is to dry and resolve Quercetanus preseribes two Unguants of great force for the purpose Take of Honey two Ounces Crocus Martis and Crocus Veneris of each half an Ounce Myrrh and Round-Dirthwort of each one Drachm Camphire one Drachm and an half the Phlegme of Vitriol six Ounces Boil them to the consistence of an Unguent then add of Mercury Precipitate half an Ounce and make an Unguent Or this Take of Butter of Arsenick two Ounces Mercury precipitate half an Onnce Oyl of Myrrh two Drachms Mixe them with Honey being first washed with the juyce of Celandine When the putrifaction cealeth to go any farther remove the Escar as you were taught before then mundifie and heal it CHAP. VIII Of Cholerick Tumors FIrst Erysipelas or ignis Sacer is a Cholerick Fluxion chiefly consisting betwixt or about the skins The antecedent cause is Choller abounding and flowing to the part The conjoyned cause is the same Humour there setled The first is known by a Cholerick Constitution and Diet. The second is known by great heat small Tumour reddish or yellow colour soon vanishing in touching and quickly returning The pain is not with pulsation and beating but biting and pricking and the Patient is sensible of the motion of a Tertian Feaver Erysipelas about the head is a hard thing to cure and it easily gets into the Face and there spreadeth for the flesh there is thin and the humour light and active If it happen to the Womb of a woman with child it is deadly if it lye near the bone it is dangerous if it return from the outward parts to the inward it is very evil the like judge if it come to suppuration which it seldom doth but is sent forth by transpiration First order the Air to be cool and moist where your Patient lodgeth and his Diet of the same nature Bleed not unless bloud be mixed with Choller which is called Erysipelas Phlegmonosum Then prepare the Humours with Tuleps convenient made of the Syrups of Vinegar Simple Bugloss Maiden-hair Violets Water-Lillies Endive and Succory and their distilled Waters or others of the like nature When you have prepared the humour purge it either by Clister or Potion This Potion is much commended Take of the best Rubarb four seruples the Flowers of Violets and Borrage of each one drachm the decoction of Tamarinds sufficient insuse the Flowers and Rbubarb ten hours strain them and dissolve therein Diacatholicon three drachms Syrrup of Roses two ounces and make a Potion Vesalius You may alter or make variety of Potions as you see occasion Or empty your body with this Clister Take Marsh and common Mallows Violet leaves Camomel and Lettice of each one handful the seeds of Anise Fennel and the four great cold seeds of each one drachm the flowers of Borage Bugless Violets and Water-Lillies of each one Pugil Polypodium and Senna of each one ounce make a Decoction to a pint of which add of Cassia one ounce Diacatholicon half an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clister Add strength and aid to the part by cooling and repelling Medicines viz. Epithems and Liniments made of the juyce or distilled Water of Night-shade Housleek Stonecrop Fleabane and Henbane Purflane Lettice Endive Succory and such like the Oyl of Roses and Water-Lillies Vinegar Sanders the White of Eggs the Musilage of Quince seeds c. Compounds are the Unguent of Roses or Refrigerans Galeni and such like The conjoyned cause must be removed by Medicines which have power to evacuate and discuss Take of the Litharge of Gold one ounce washed Ceruse six drachms the juyce of Plantane and Womans milk of each one ounce and an half Oyl of Roses three ounces white wax as much as sufficieth to make an Unguent There are other Yumonis which do commonly associate with Erysipelas viz. Herpes Exedens or Miliaris which are called Chollerick Pushes and the Shingles The first is caused of a thick and sharp 〈◊〉 of yellow Choller slowing into the part which doth feed upon and eat the skin Herpes Miliaris are small Pastules rising upon the â—kin like the seeds of Millet from whence it hath its name It is caused of yellow Choller mixed with thin Phlegm These Humours abounding in the body will declare The cure of these differ little from the former appoint the same Dier and Medicines externally and internally making this difference In the first let the Medicines preparing be more cutting and the purging Medicines stronger because of the thickness of the Humour and let the outward Medicines be more powerfully discutient In the cure of Herpes Miliaris observe the same Diet to your Preparatives and such