to them that be not with childe nor brought to bed the other chanceth only to such For the cure Curatio Venae-sectio it is good first to open a vein in the arme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the inner or internal vein unlesse the Menstruis be stopped for then it is better to cut the vein on the ham or ankle afterward if the body be costive losen it with a cooling clyster and if you see cause you may give this gentle Apozem that cools and quencheth the Inflammation and openeth obstructions in the brest as followeth ℞ Apozema Syrrup Rosarum pal ℥ j. Syrrupus de Rhabarbaro ℥ ss Decoctio senae quantum sufficit fiat Apozema Let it be given the one half over night warm and all the rest in the morning warm eat nothing untill noon but take three or four spoonfulls of broath between stooles also apply outwardly this Emplaster following Emplaster Barley-meal lin-seed bolus armeniae saunders Oleum Nimpheae oleum Rosarum oleum Camomeli misce fiat Emplasterum But first anoynt it with oyle of Roses Ol. Rosar vinegar and juyce of nightshade also crummes of bread and faire water applied like a poultis with vinegar is good let them beware that they drink no strong beer wine hot waters nor spices but altogether soopings of a cooling quality no fish nor flesh that is hard of digestion if the milk be curded turn back unto the foregoing Chapter and that will direct you what to do If there be much pain ℞ Epithema Weckerus Florum camomilae mellioti althoae saenigraeci seminis lini anethi ana M.j. coquantur in aqua cui adde olei rosacei anethini ana ℥ ij aceti ℥ j. Spongia in eo madefacta mammis apponatur Weckerus de curatione inflammationis mammislarum lib. 2. pag. 465. Lastly if the inflammation be great you may foment with Aquaspermatis ranarum and oyle of Roses CHAP. XXII IMBECILITAS STOMACHI is caused through distemper of the working qualities without any flowing of humours Causa sometimes it is caused of an humour contained in the bosome and large space of the stomach which hath power either to heat cool movsten or drie or two of these qualities mixed together and sometimes it is caused of an humour stuffed and drowned in the filmes or coats of the stomack For the signe Signa in a cold cause there is dull and difficult concoction the taste of the nourishment is felt long after there is sharp belchings and little or no thirst but contrary in a hot cause there is exceeding thirstinesse abhorring of meat and bitter belchings and this is certain that if the cause be heat the patient is cased by administring of cold things if it be a cold cause then he is eased by hot things if that choller cause it there is such bitter belchings that there is cast forth bitter choller with bitternesse of the mouth For the cure if it come of a cold caule Curatio Pilulae as of phlegme purge gently with stomachal pills if they have gone a day and have not had a stool then take one pill an hour before supper Then take this cordiall Electuary following which is said to be good ℞ Electuarium Conserv Caryophilorum ℥ i. ss pul Aromatici Ros. ʒ i. ss pul Cinnamomi Nucis Muscatae anaʒ ss Syr. absynthii de Hysopo q. s f. Elect. Molle If necessity do require Methriditum adde two dragms of Methridate and take of it every morning the quantity of a Walnut curnel then eat a piece of Lozing aromat Rosat and drink after it a draught of Wormwood wine for that will prepare the stomack to the next concoction and also bathe outwardly with oyle of wormwood Oleum nutmegs cinnamon or mastick or the best is to spread honey on bread tosted and cast thereon the powder of nutmegs cloves and cinnamon and for the richer sort take this ♃ made as followeth ℞ Pulvis Rosarum Rubrum Absinthii menthae maioran siccae an ʒ ij ligni aloes spicae nardi calami aromatici ana ℈ ij fiat pul qui accip iatur cotone involvatur duplici linteo And this must also be remembred that oyntments emplasters and cataplasms must not only be applied before but behind also about the thirteenth Vertebra In a hot cause purge with Cassia Apozema and Rhubarb or else an Apozem and open a vein if you see cause Venae sectio and then this Electuary is said to be very good ℞ Electuarium Cons Rosarum ℥ j. Diarrhodon alb ʒ i. ss Syr. assato lymonum q. s f. Elect. Also direct Lozenges of Diarrhodon alb Triasandali and make him broath with cooling herbs currents and damask pruins also bread dipped in Posca is wondrous proper to be eaten Posca as for outward applications use oyle of Roses Oleum Quinses or the like but take heed of things that cool too much yet give him no strong beer no wine hot waters spices nor milk c. If chollar do abound with costivenesse of body purge with an Apozem made with Cassia Rhubarb Apozema Vomitus or the like If temperate provoke vomits with Stybium the infusion thereof CHAP. XXIII CANINA APPETENTIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an immoderate or dog-like appetite or desire of meat and when they cannot refrain their appetite they devoure in meat without measure then being heavy with the multitude of meats and the stomack being not able to bear the same they turn to vomiting then afterwards they fill themselves and turn again to vomiting like dogs the part affected is the mouth of the stomack The cause is a perpetual gnawing or biting of the mouth of the stomack Causa like unto a sucking sometimes it happeneth through a cold distemper of the mouth of the stomack sometimes through cold sharp and vitious humours sometimes it proceedeth through certain kinds of worms which do devour the meat that is taken into the stomack as fast as it is received sometimes through dissipation of whole body For the sign Signa if it be a cold distemper it is known by windinesse and rumbling sharp humours are known by four belchings dissipation is known by the excrements for they be scorched and lesse in quantity than before For the cure Curatio Pilulae in a cold cause it is good first to take stomacal pills also Hierapicra Galeniʒ 6. with wine infused with water or given in oximel fasting is good and to drink muscadell is good he must abstain from all soure and restrictive meats but let his meat◠be meats of good juyce if a child laboureth in this disease the body being bound Syr. de Rhubarb and a doubt of worms give it one ounce of Syrrup of Rhubarb or more according to the age and strength of the childe the one half over night and the other half in the morning warm either in
adhibitum Weckerus lib. 2. pag. 471. CHAP. XXXI ANOREXIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa or losse of appetite is for the most part caused through aboundance of cruid and raw humours lurking in the stomach or oppressed through nourishment corrupted sometimes it is caused by consent as from a defluxion of the brain from whence a thin wheyish matter is sent unto the stomach or else from the liver being strongly affected for it happeneth oftentimes upon the recovery of some sharp and acute disease that there is left behind a weaknesse of the stomach Also a chollerick humour pressing the mouth of the stomach may cause this evil and also it happeneth in fevers and especially in Synochus not putrified because through the aboundance of blood there is no attraction For the sign Signa in a hot cause there is felt gnawing in the stomach a desire to vomit and thirst sometimes a fever with rotten humours but contrary in a cold cause the part affected is the mouth of the stomach In a hot cause or chollerick humor Curatio Victus Ratio a cold diet must be prescribed moderate sleep quietnes must be used or provoked his body must be kept soluble if you see cause give a vomit Vomitus if otherwise purge with this Apozem following ℞ Syr. de Rhabarb ℥ j. Rosarum ℥ ss Decoct Apozema sennae q. s.f Apozema In time of year sallets are good with lettice succory vinegar and sugar and such like in a cold cause first vomit or else purge which you shall find to be most proper by the water with his meat let there be given mustard or else cloves cinnamon pepper and vinegar with sugar or tarragant is good with mutton or capers and to drink on mornings wormwood-wine is wondrous proper also Electuaries Lozenges Vinum absynth and the like but for the poorer sort first vomit or purge and drink wormwood beer Lastly refrain all kind of trash and take of this Electuary following ℞ Rosarum Ligni Aloës anaʒ vj macis Electuarium latificans Rhasis nucis moschatae galliae moschatae cardamomi utriusque cinnamomi croci ana ʒ ij cyperiʒ v caryophyllorum mastiches spicae nardi Asari anaʒ iij. melle emblicarum excipe moschi gr xv aromatiza Datur à . ʒ adʒ iij Rhasis If you see cause Ceratum you may apply outwardly Ceratum stomachale and use some of the oyles prescribed in the former Chapter CHAP. XXXII SITIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath a twofold cause natural and animal The natural is by natural inclination to require a cold and moist substance for to supply the place of the substance that was dissipated wasted and spent but the animal appetite is when the stomach feeling it self to be empty of moysture doth desire drink as happeneth in burning fevers Sometimes falt humours are the cause Causa and drinking of old wine the part affected is the mouth of the stomach either by it self or by consent with the heart or liver and chiefly by the inferiour parts thereof or with the lungs or by the veines of the Mesenterium or the Jejunum inflamed for those parts are accompanied with a hot and drie distemperature and indeed hapueth for the most part in hot and putrified fevers in hydropsies and such like As for the sign it is needlesse Signa for it may be known by the patients words if the stomach be heavie and dull it signifies repletion if falt humours that 's known by the patients eating of salt things if the cause be windinesse there is felt extension if chollar bitter belchings and extream thirst if sharp humours biting gnawing and such like If the cause be an hot inflammation Curatio he must abstain from hot things salt things and immoderate exercise and if a plethorick body Venae sectio open a vein and administer an Apozem made as you shall see fit and a Julep made as followeth Julepus Take French barley ℥ i. ss French pruins ℥ .iv. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water untill half be wasted strain it and adde plantin wator ℥ .ij. conserve of barberries ℥ j. mixe them and drink thereof often and hold the conserve of aforesaid in your mouth letting it dissolve by degrees adde to the julep loafe-sugar and if it proceed of drunkenness drink Aqua hordei if it cometh of salt humours Julepus as in the scurvie then drink Aqua fumariae syrrupus fumariae make a julep and drink thereof Also purging is good and refrain salt things But when it chance to those that have burning fevers then give them Posca that is Posca vinegar and water sodden together if you will Aqua spermatis ranarum you may adde conserve of barberries and Aqua spermatis Ranarum is very effectual mixed either with some cooling syrrup or conserve or given by it self a spoonfull at a time Sperma ant semen ranarum colligitur mense Martio Destillatur autem per alembicum vitreum Quercetanus CHAP. XXXIII NAVSEA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a naughty and wicked motion of the expulsive faculty of the stomach It is caused of a vitious humour contained in Causa the stomach being either hot or cold which humour either swimmeth in the concavity or hollownesse of the stomach or it is stuffed in the filmes thereof cleaving like bird-lime sometimes great exercise after meales sayling on the seas and over fat meats or stopping of the Menstruis may be the cause In a hot cause Signa you shall find the sign in the Chapter of weakness of the stomach if vitious humours do swim in the stomach then for the most part vomiting followeth If a tough humour like bird-lime be drowned in the cotes of the stomach it causeth a disposition to vomit but bringeth forth nothing also a dulnesse throughout the whole body As touching the cure of vomiting Curatio you must note in the beginning it ought not to be stopped if the sick be the better for it especially if such things be purged as ought to be it is also good and may be suffered if not it is evill for the cure Clyster the readiest way is sleep if it may be procured as in a hot cause if the body be costive administer a cooling clyster adding thereto oyle of violets ℥ .iij. or give gr iij. of laudanum Paracel which is good providing the body be first made soluble also infuse a piece of bread in white-wine vinegar or rose-vinegar and bruise it in a morter Ceratum and adde thereunto powder of cinnamon cloves red-roses or the like this may be applyed to their stomachs warm if children be troubled with vomiting give syrrup of Rhubarb Cataplasma such a quantity as fitteth the age and strength of the child and you may take cammomel wormwood mint and porret of either half a handfull boyle them in halfe a pinte of wine-vinegar and thicken it
arb Lupines Pistatium bitter Almonds Spicknard Stoecades Gentian root of Plantin the seed and leaves dried juyce of Anagallis the female succorie Alkekendgi Endive and Bruscus especially the decoction of these Curcum also Curcuma is good If the disease be inveterate use purging with Rhubarb pills and bleeding Venae sectio is good when the hollow part of the liver is vexed purge by the belly If the embossed part of the liver be vexed purge by urine but this Electuary following is good â„ž Electuariâ—â—on Rad. Ireos Camoepiteos sem anisi Apium anaÊ’ ij AsaronÊ’ ij.ss Cinnamomi zingiberis cammomeli Carawayseeds of either one dram Stoecades gentian and horehound of either two drams with oximel Scilliticium make an Electuary it purgeth vehemently by urine or â„ž Conservae fol. absinthii capill ven flor Opiata Riverius tamarisci an â„¥ j conser rad enulae camp cortic citri conditi an â„¥ ss myrabolan condit n. j. nucis moschat condit Ê’.iij confect alkerm. Ê’.ij pulver elect diarrhod abbatisÊ’ j salis absinthii Et tamarisci ana ℈ .ij. croci ℈ .j. ambrae griseae ℈ ss cum syrrupo conditurae citri fiat opiata River lib. 6. cap. 3. Lastly steel is an excellent opener CHAP. XLVIII HEPATIS INFLAMMATIO there is Causa as well as in other members and through the same causes that they be ingengred of If the liver be vexed with inflammation Sâ—gna there is felt pain and heavinesse all over the right side with swelling in the place he hath a sharp fever a small and drie cough insatiable thirst abhorring of meats difficulty of breathing the tongue is first red and after that black vomiting pure choller the body is costive the colour of the body is changed like Icterus they have the hicket In their fit they rave voyding forth sharp urine The inflammation that chanceth through causes in the crooked and hollow parts of the liver have the foregoing symptoms but if ingendred in the outward and round part of the liver it causeth greater pain in drawing breath and a greater cough than the other And sometime the Muscles leaning upon the liver be inflamed causing the skin round about to be stretched with swelling sometimes a swelling fashioned like the liver which is a true signe In the beginning open the liver vein Curatio Venae sectio which hath society with vena causa draw out a large quantity Clyster if nothing forbid the next intention must be to administer a cooling clyster foment with oyle of Quinces and Roses putting to it odoriferous wine Ceratum Ceratum Santalinum is good remember that restrictive things do exceed those that mollifle and loosen when the heat is vehement on the contrary when it decreases let those that mollify exceed the other beware you do not apply things cold but warm them a little Fomentatio foment with the decoction of wormwood mellilot red roses cammomel dill plantin endive and in vehement pain juyce of liqueris in hot water or juyce of endive with honey Vietus ratio for their diet Ptisan and chicken broath in the first boyle Apium in the second parsley also barley broath is good If the inflammation change to suppuration the aforesaid signes will increase as paines fever Decoctio Cataplasma ravings c. for this boyle figges in water and give him of it to drink Also take the root of AlthaeaÊ’ i. ss fenegreek and linseed ana Ê’ ij leaves of Althaea and mallows ana M. ij dry figges No. vj. boyle them in water untill they wax soft bruise them and make a cataplasme you may adde root of white lillies flowers of cammomel and mellilot to help break it so we use doves dung and mustard seed c. that draw to the superficies some with the decoction of polya sumitory roots of Camedrios c. when it s broken minister water of honey or decoction of Cicers If the matter avoyd by the veines provoke urine If by the belly purge gently with Goats whey and Cassia fistularis and clysters after that glutinate and joyn up Outwardly apply this Cataplasme â„ž Farinae hordei â„¥ .iv. rosa rubr santal Cataplasma Fontanus omnium seminis endiviae scariolae absynth mino an Ê’.ij succi endiviae q. s fiat cataplasma Vt artis est applicandum regioni jecoris Vel â„ž Oleirosati myrthill an â„¥ .ij. olei anethi â„¥ j. Fomentatio Fontanus aceti parum foveatur pars tepide Vel â„ž Succi endiviae aut cichorii Linimentum vel utriusque â„¥ i.ss nenupharini â„¥ .iij. cerae albae aceti parum fiat linimentum Fonta lib. 3. cap. 15. CHAP. XLIX LIENIS INFLAMMATIO Causa the spleen is nexed with inflammation as oft as hot blood flowes thither unnaturally It is known by heavinesse Signa and swelling of the left side which will not give place to the feeling also it 's known by pain stretching out of the place by burning heat and fevers and if abundance of humours rush in thither it is known by the greatnesse and swiftnesse of the ingendring the inflammation For the diet look Curatio into the foregoing Chapter First open the Salvatella vein Venae-sectio between the little and ring-singer wash the belly often with Clysters if he may not bleed this fomentation is good Fomentatio â„ž ol rosarum Cydoniorum an â„¥ ij ol cammomeli â„¥ .j. Aceti op â„¥ ss misce beware of applying any thing that is not first warmed the liver and spleen require one kind of medicine but the spleen the strongest Alwayes commix vinegar with something that is acceptable to the spleen If the spleen tendeth to suppuration and rotting you shall find plenty of remedies in the foregoing Chapter Lastly â„ž Linimentum Platerus Ol. Rosacei â„¥ .ij. ol de absynthio vel nardini â„¥ j. ol Chamom vel de meliloto â„¥ ss Satal omniumÊ’ j Spicae â„¥ ss cerae q. s fiat linimentum CHAP. L. LIENIS SCIRRHVS Inflammation of the spleen not rightly cured draweth together a hard swelling of the spleen Causa The cause is a certain humour cleaving stubbornly to the spleen but it is when hardnesse ingendreth without inflammation in over-much swelling It is easily known by touching Signa of what cause soever it be His diet must be easie of digestion Curatio Victus ratio Exercitium he may drink pure wine being without all restriction exercise before meat is excellent strong potions are good root of capers are good Harts-tongue the root and herb of Tamariscus sodden in vinegar or oximel juyce of centory drunk the decoction of bitter lupines rew and pepper Iron often quenched in wine is a convenient remedy if a fever quench it in Posca steele is commended also wormwood Cassia Chalybs Aniseeds c. you may make a fomentation with the symples above mentioned oyle of capers lillies and ireos are good Vng
the body by reason that the nerves are obstructed and so the free passage of the animal spirit is hindred 15. The fifteenth is the corruption of the extream parts possessed by putrefaction and a Gangrene 16. The sixteenth is they are troubled with terrible dreams for they seem in their sleep to see Devils Serpents Dungeons Graves Dead bodies and the like 17. The seventeenth is they are subtill crafty and furious and suspicious in all their dealings 18. The eighteenth is they desire venery above their nature 19. The nineteenth is if you wash their thick gross and livid blood you find a sandy matter therein 20. The twentienth is the Languidnesse and weaknesse of the pulse Also the urine is sometimes thick and troubled and oftentimes of a pale and ash-colour Lastly the face and all the skin is unctuous or greasie Cure cannot be promised to such as have a confirmed leprosie Curatio for it is scarce curable at the beginning Therefore care must be taken to free such as are ready to fall into so fearful a disease Such therefore must shun all things in diet and course of life whereby the blood and humours may be too vehemently heated Let them make choice of meats of good juyce Victus ratio Purging bleeding and bathing shall be prescribed by some learned Physician Gelding is much commended in this cause because it deprives them of the faculty of generation and makes them become cold moist which temper is directly contrary to the hot and drie distemper of leperous persons I have oftentimes after purging and bleeding used Vnguentum enulatum with good successe in the beginning of the leprosie â—nguentuÌ„ whilst the body was covered only with a scurf Let them drink the water and syrup of sumitory mixed together Julepus for the space of a whole year â„ž Rad. buglossae glycyrrhizae an â„¥ j. Potio purgans polypodii â„¥ ji passularum â„¥ ss prunorum sebesten ana num xx senae â„¥ .iij. thymi epithymi cuscutae an â„¥ ij anisi â„¥ ss florum borrag buglossae violarum an p. j. fiat decoctio de qua accipe â„¥ iij. quibus adde confect hamech Ê’ iij Syrupi ros lax â„¥ ij misce fiat potio Capiat mane For the poorer sort you may make use of Cassia Diasena Diaprunum Diacatholicon c. When he is extream thirsty Aq. sperm ranar. he may drink Aqua sperm ranarum with a little sugar or syrup of fumitorie I am perswaded it is an excellent water to kill the virulencie of this disease because it is extream cold and moyst for surely if it be so effectual in an ulcerated cancer it must needs be effectual in the leprosie Gesner saith that the dung of a Fox pounded with vinegar by anoyntment cureth the leprosie speedily Remember to keep accustomed evacuations which you may with this Bolus following â„ž Diaphoen Ê’.ij confect hamechÊ’ iij cumÊ’ j Bolus pul diasenae sacch fiat bolus vel cum decocto senae polypod fumiter borag bugloss Forestus epithymo prunis Lastly â„ž Rad. Serpentar VnguentuÌ„ utriusque Asphodeli vel liliorum enulae campanae betae croci sativi ana lib. j. pistentur optimè oleo rosaceo omphacino adde unguenti citrini lib. ss axungiae Serpentis â„¥ .iij. Terebinth â„¥ ss Platerus olei de frumento vel vitellis ovorum â„¥ i.ss ol de tartaro â„¥ ij Sulphuris vivi nitri an Ê’ iij. Litharg vel cerusae â„¥ ss borag ustaeÊ’ vj. mus s lini â„¥ ij succ lapatii fumariae limonum an â„¥ .iij. Tutiae prae sarocoll nutrit thur an Ê’.ij agitentur invicem in formam nutriti ungantur partes scabrae ulcerosae pustmlosae CHAP. XLVIII APOSTEMA HEPATIS The Apostume of the liver should have been placed amongst the distempers of the liver in the first book yet I think it better to place this Chapter here then to leave it out The cause is two-fold Causa external as a fall bruise or by going too narrow giâ—t c. Internal as gluttony indigestion of the stomack weaknesse of the vertue digestive of the liver Also humours gathered together in the liver and sometimes it happeneth through imperfect cleansing of the Gall Spleen Raines and Intestines Also through cold There is pain in the right side Signa tending upwards towards the ribs and shoulder blade as it were the plurisie He can hardly lye upon his sides and especially on the right side his face is very black he hath no appetite his urine is blood-red especially if the impostume be hot he hath a cough and also the hick-cough parbreaking short oreath retention of urine and great thirst If cold be the cause there is heavinesse and oppression â—uratio â—â—uae-sectio In a hot cause first the liver vein must be opened next you may open the Salvatella Venae sectio Victus ratio Then gentle clysters must be administred his diet must be of a cooling quality and â„ž Aquar ros solatri sempervivi plantag Epithema ana â„¥ .ij. aceti ros â„¥ ss camphor ℈ ss santal citrin vel rub Ê’.ij omnia bene invicem misceantur fiatque epithema hepatis The third day after the impostume is known take barly meal stewed figs Cataplas and dates beaten to pap and tempered altogether with oyle of roses and vinegar and apply it Inwardly let him â„ž Herbarum endiviae cichoreae Decoctio fumiterrae agrimoniae ana m. j. Rad. foeniculi apii petroselini ana â„¥ ss polypodii quercini â„¥ .ij. sem anisi foeni culi anaÊ’ i. ss passularum â„¥ ss aquae fontis quant sufficit fiat decoctio s a. â„ž decoct colati â„¥ ij.ss syrup Haustus de quinque Radicibus â„¥ ss misce fiat haustus In a cold cause take heed of bleeding Clyster Administer a clyster made with wormwood centaury field-mints seeds of anise and cummin decocted with a little coloquint And anoynt the place with oyle of spike Boyle in his broth Agrimony Germander the roots of Smallage Parsly and Fennel You may know when the impostume breaketh by the Patients shivering quaking swouning and vomiting and by his voiding of blood through the stoole and urine This plaster following is good to ripen Emplastrâ— asswage paine and strengthen the liver take barly meal and fenegreek meal of each one ounce Linseed meal three dragmes mill-dust roots of elecampane smalledge and wormwood of each five dragmes Cammomell melilot violets and roses of each three dragmes White lilly roots Pigeons dung Spica Romana of each one dragme Oyle of cammomel and violets as much as will suffice to make a plaster Afterwards cleanse him with Mellicraton Mellioraton or with the decoction of barly and figs. This Cataplasme following is good to help ripen the Apostume of the liver â„ž Cataplas Rad. althae ae mundatae â„¥ .ij. farinae hordeiÊ’ ij farinae faenugr sem lini pinguedinis anseris porci anae
have been taken with great swounings with wonderful successe â„ž Aquae mariae syrrupus è succo lujulae ana â„¥ .j. misce CHAP. XXVII SINGVLTVS is a motion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa as it were a a cramp raised through the expulsive faculty of the stomach which goeth about to expell hurtful and evil matter For the most part it is caused of fulness or emptinesse as Hippocrates doth affirm Hippocrates also somtimes it is caused of or through the biring of sharp humours in the stomach or coldnesse and sometimes hot fevers may be the cause when either the stomack or some other bowel is inflamed Fulnesse is knowne by heavinesse Signa and emptinesse of those things that went before you may know if the meat be corrupt by the burnt savour of it but you shall know sharpnesse by gnawing pricking and pulling 1. Prognosticks are if neesing follow upon the Hicket the patient is delivered so that it proceedeth of fulnesse 2. The Hicket coming in an Iliac passion is evill or coming with swouning or with distention of nerves or with dilerium is a deadly signe 3. Also coming upon the inflammation of the liver of the wombe of the brain or upon some notable wound is very dangerous and oftentimes deadly 4. In acute diseases and burning fevers and the pestilence it is for the most part deadly 5. Also if it happeneth through two much emptinesse it is alwayes evill 6. It is also evil if it cometh with vomiting for it threatneth danger of inflammation of stomach Cuâ—atio and braine As concerning the cure we must consider the cause If it proceed of emptinesse it is the more dangerous and therefore must be helped by giving fit and convenient nourishment that thereby that which is defective may be supplied If a flux of blood or an exceeding flux of the wombe do cause this infirmity we may give oyle of sweet Almonds either by it self or in warm water he is to be nourished with cordial broath there are some that cure this Hicket with drinking of milk that do refresh Amilum Victus ratio but the best is Amilum given with milk and the broth of an hen and the flesh thereof capons chickens and Rear-egges with the powder of Eringium is wondrous proper his drink must be white-wine diluted with water Oleum the back and stomach must be anointed with oyle of violets and sweet almonds If sharp humours have stirred up the hicket we must give such things as are sweet and fat as the fat of broath of henne or cock or two spoonfulls of clarified honey or penidice Mel. or pinecarnels with sugar or it may be purged Purgatio so that it be prepared before with drinking of Aqua mulfa if it proceed through heat Vomitus and biting sharpnesse then to provoke vomit is wondrous proper and to give all cooling things as julleps Apozems or juices Julepus Theriac or waters of succory and such like you may compose your juleps with syrrups of violets Nymphea of poppie or the like when the hicket is most strong we give new treakle If it proceed from a cold cause and the matter grosse and viscus prepare the humour with oximel and then a vomit or purge as you shall see cause and compose this Electuary following for them that are able â„ž Confect Caryophyllorum â„¥ .j. Cinamomi Electuarium Aromat Rosat anaÊ’ ss Syr. Hyssopi q. s.f Elect molle Also Lozenges are very proper Lozeng made of Aromaticum Ros Candid Ginger is very good Castoreum also ℈ ij of Castoreum in white wine but many times one purge or vomit is sufficient Dioscorides Dioscorides commends Aristoloch radix cum aqua Asplenum herba cum posca castorum cum aceto Also he commendeth Ineezing if Singultus cometh of fulnesse Dioseor lib. 2. cap. 4. CHAP. XXVIII DOLOR STOMACHI or pain of the stomach is caused divers and sundry ways Causa as when naughty venemous and gnawing humours be kept in the stomach whereby it chanceth that through intollerable gnawing they cause swouning Stomachae cardialgiae which they call Stomachia or cardialgia sometime pain of the stomach is caused through some stroak or fall and an inflammation may be the cause thereof In a hot cause Signa there is felt a sharp pricking pain gnawing in the mouth of the stomach bitternesse in the mouth vomiting of chollar and there followeth a great weaknesse and feeblenesse of the whole body in a cold cause the pain is lesse Curatio and more dull and slow in a hot cause give this Apozem following the one half over night and the other half in the morning warm â„ž Apozema Syr. de Rhubarb â„¥ j. Rosarum sol â„¥ ss Decoctio Sennae q. s f Apozema Or if you see cause Vomitus you may vomit with the infusion of Stybium and afterward you may take the seeds of paeony in water of succory If it proceedeth through some stroak or fall then this ♃ following is good â„ž Mixtura Mumiae gran j. boli arm gran xvj croci gran vij Let it be given the patient you may adde Sperma ceti and if the pain be intollerable then succour him with this ♃ following â„ž Syrrupi Rosati Absynth an â„¥ .i. ss Mixturae opii gran j. Boyle it very lightly with one boyling then let it be mixt with â„¥ .iij. of the broath of a chicken give it the patient to drink In a cold cause purge with such a purgation Purgatio as you shall think proper by the water or clysters according as you shall see cause such a one as may purge wind and flegme or perhaps melancholy with Cassia and after may be given the seeds of Nasturtium in Goats milk administring Syr. de absynth menthae mel rosati in aqua feniculi absynthii Julepus likewise Electuaries and oyles outwards are good Also â„ž Spec. Aromat ros Ê’.ij Spec. Diarrhod Abb. Tabulae Rondeletius Ê’ j Sacchari albi dissoluti in aqua menthae â„¥ .iij. fiant Tabulae secundum artem ponderisÊ’ ij Rondeletius Vel â„ž Spec. Imperialium â„¥ ss pinearum electarum Tabula Crato subtiliter incisarumÊ’ ij Spec. aromat ros Ê’.i.ss Sacchari in aqua rosarum dissoluti â„¥ xiij olei cinnamomi gr iij. moschi gr ij fiat confectio in morsulis secundum artem CHAP. XXIX TVSSIS Galen in lib. 1. cap. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Galenus Causa de Symtomatum causis doth affirm that a cold distemper of the instrument of breathing to be the cause of the cough also a humour distilling from the head to the Trachaea arterea going about within doth provoke the cough sometimes it is caused through cold or flegme descending upon the lungs sometimes it happeneth through heat dissolving the superfluous matter of the brain and so through a cattarrhal distillation the cough is
whil'st they are casting out there is also felt bitternesse of the mouth thirst a thin state of the body and other tokens signifying choller 5. If flegmatick humours be the cause all those forementioned signes are contrary 6. If humours flow from the head to the belly the egestious will appear frothy and the temperature of the brain will be very moyst 7. If through fullness of the body it is easily known 1. Curatio If it be caused through weakness of the instruments you shall find remedy in the Chapter of Imbecill stomach 2. If through the fulness or other causes and nature labour to help it self you must suffer it a while for being stopped the vitious humours are carried upwards and do cause pain in the head a frensie lethargy or impostumation behind the eares but if it shall continue long casting forth not only superfluities but melting as it were the state of the body and consuming the strength then labour to stop it 3. If through chollerick humours Apozema an Apozem of the infusion of Rhubarb is much praysed at the first taking of this disease Cassia and Manna is good then this julep following ℞ Aqua plantag Portulacae ana ℥ iv Syr. Julepus Mirti cons oxiacanthae ana ℥ .j. Make a julep and take steel gadds red hot Chalybs quench them in milk scum it and drink it is much commended if there be no fever if there be powre a fourth part of water to the milk and boyle it untill halfe be consumed 4. If chollar be in the bowels Clyster Electuarium give a clyster of the decoction of French barley with oyle of Roses or the like then make an Electuary with conserve of Roses Diatrion Santalon Syrrup Mirt. For the poorer sort take bolearmenia instead of the Diatrion sant Aliud with the conserve of Roses and Syr. Lujulae or Myrtills 5. If it be caused of flegmatick humours that be gross and tough minister the infusion of Agarick with Mirabol Emblici or use clysters made with the decoction of Centory and oyle of Rue Cataplasma after that apply the poultis outwardly upon the stomach which you shall find in the Chapter of Nausea page the 67. onely instead of vinegar use clarret or red-wine and a little cinamon and if he be over-greedy of meat let him use a spare diet 6. If it be caused through weaknesse of the vertue retentive bathe the body with oyle of of Myrtills soure mulberries dried in the Sun and beaten to powder Pulvis and drunk in some binding syrrup do marvellously stop This Lohoch following is good ℞ Cons Ros Rub. ℥ ss Diarrhod Abb. Diamoron Lohoch Cons Ros Rub. ℥ ss Diarrhod Abb. Diamoron Diatri sant Coral Rub. ana ℈ ij Balaustiae Rosarum Rub. anaʒ ss Mastic ℈ ss Bolus arme ʒ.i.ss Syrrup of Myrtills as much as will make an Ecligma or Loch with fine white sugar and plantin water leaving out the conserve and syrrup you may make Lozenges Rice-broath is good 7. If Diarrhaea cometh through Rheumatick matter see the Chapter of Catarrhus CHAP. XL. LIENTERIA is a certain lightnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or smoothnesse of the bowels even like as there chanceth a scarre on the outside of the body in this disease the bowels do not hold the meat but let it slide away before it be changed or perfectly digested in the same likeness that it was eaten It is caused oftentimes through a grievous flux Dysenteria by name going before Causa which causeth deep exulceration of the bowels and consequently scarres now the mouthes of the veines which draw nourishment from the bowels being obstructed and the bowels being become smooth will not suffer meats to be distributed but let them slide out before they be altered this disease is many times caused through debility of the vertue retentive in the stomach also sometimes when dropsie water is avoyded by the belly this flux Lienteria followeth Whatsoever causeth this flux Signa the sick do taste or feel no meat there is an evill plight of the body their excrements are pale cruid raw whitish unequal and very watery not mixt with blood or choller he feeles a burning all over the sides loathing of meat if soure belchings do happen it is a good sign the meats abide some while in the stomach For the cure let him be sparing of drink Curatio for much is forbidden in all fluxes 1. If it be ingendred through weaknesse of the virtue of the stomach search the cure in its proper Chapter as in Imbecill Stomachi Diarrhaea and the following Chapter But to be short minister those things that restrain and strengthen the stomach and bowels as syrrup of wormwood mints and wormwood wine Oleum is good use outwardly oyle of mastick wormwood mints and myrtills make the poultis that is set down in the former Chapter and strew on the powder of Cinamon Cloves Galingale Baulaustia or red Roses 2. Those that have a scarre the eating of sharp things are profitable for that it causeth a Refrication and rubbing upon the scarre it renueth natural heat therefore use scouring things with restrictive medicines with the meat use vergis the juyce of soure pomegranates lemonds or the syrrup of the same or of unripe grapes also a clyster of the decoction of Balaustia Clyster sloes French pruines unripe grapes and such like some Authours do much commend vinegar to receive the fume upon hot tile stones others the fume of Frankincense Laud paracel and Amber to be an excellent thing but in all fluxes Laudanum paracel judicially administred two or three graines is said to be a most sure help Actuarius Diacodion Weckerus Also for the same purpose Actuarius his Diacodion is wondrous proper the making of which you shall find in Weckerus his antidotary lib. 2. p. 786. After purging with Aloes or Rhubarb or Clysters you must strengthen the ventricle with this Opiat following ℞ Opiat Riverius Conservae ros antiquae ℥ vj. theriacae opt ʒ vj. mivae cydonior quantum satis Fiat opiata de qua capiat ℥ ss manè nihil superbibendo River lib. 5. cap. 4. Lastly make this oyntment following ℞ Ol. amyg amar arum ℥ .iij. ol nard cham Vnguentū Rondeletius an ℥ .j. vini albi ℥ i. ss decoquantur leviter quibus adde cerae q. s terebin abietinae ℥ ss spicae celticae schenant Cyperi galangae an ʒ.j seminis apii petro an ʒ ss fiat unguentum ungatur regio ventris circa umbilicum Nam in illis partibus obstructiones aperiendae sunt Rondel lib. 3. cap. 19. CHAP. XLI DYSENTERIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an exulceration of the bowels being tormented and fretted very much with pain some reckon four kindes of Dysenteria 1. The first is when blood is sent forth by circuit through some part of the body being cut off or through some
exercise of the former life let passe for a time 2. The second is when watery blood like the water wherein new killed flesh have been washed or soaked which chanceth through weakness of the liver is sent forth 3. The third is when there is sent forth an humour more shining and blacker than that which is natural being commixt of blood and Melancholy 4. The fourth kind in which by little and little and between whiles is cast out pure blood yet sometimes clodded and shavings of the bowels cometh out with pure blood and many times thick dung sprinkled with drops of blood of this fourth kind I shall treat at this time and let passe the other three The cause of this last kind is through exulceration of the bowels Causa caused many times through outward cold heat and moystnesse sometimes through pernicious medicines as scammomy eating of fruit or sharp and soure meates crudity and rawness or through sharp and gnawing humours flowing from the whole body to the belly or ingendred in the belly it selfe and this doth sometimes begin after Tenasmus the excrements are cholerick diverse and fatty because the fat that cleaveth within the bowels is melted so that when the Superficies of the bowels are bare and the exulceration abiding about it then the excrements be dreggy and bloody but when the ulcer is pierced deeper then there is sent forth filthinesse having as it were little pieces of parchment commixed with it so that if it be not stopped it eateth the places nigh unto it and sendeth forth such excrements as are wont to runne from dead bodies 1. Signa When the small guts are exulcerate there is pain about the Navill the excrements are chollerick the patient feeleth grief and frettings and gnawings so that the patient is not farre from fainting they are not thirsty and feverous the excrements are cruid and raw and the bowel Jejunium is exulcerate sometimes though seldom and sometimes they vomit and abhorre meats 2. But if the exulceration be ingendred in the great bowels there the ordour is pure and much heaped together coming out with windinesse and frothinesse mixed with fatnesse blood swimming aloft the knowledge of this greatly helpeth to the cure 1. Curatio If the exulceration be in the upper or small bowels you must cure it by medicines given at the mouth If in the great or lower bowels it must be done by clysters be the cause what it will endeavour to procure rest and give them little meat milk is good and Rice with milk if there be no fever marmalad of Quinces Plantin boyled in the juyce of French pruins with balaustia no flesh except Birds or Rabbits c. Chalybs steel quenched in running-water is good If the stomach be weak give restringent wine not very old amongst syrrups take plantin knotgrasse purslain sharp mulberries Balaustia Frankincense Terra lemnia and grape curnels all these restrain the tallow of goats swine geese and hens these asswage the acrimony which should be first looked to that thereby the patient may be eased Hares creem Harts-horn burnt the shells of Crabs running water and sage these drie up This clyster following is good for Dysenteria though the cause resteth in the great bowels as well as in the small and better â„ž Fol. Ros Rub. Plantag Centinodium Clyster Consol Maior prim veris ana M. ss BalaustiaÊ’j Rad. Consol Maior â„¥ ss Rice burnt one ounce seethe them all in running water wherein hath been quenched steel strain it and adde the juice of plantin Ê’ ij Bolus arm Ê’j goats tallow â„¥ .j. oyles of Roses Myrtills Quinces of either â„¥ .j. make a Clyster now though this Clyster be set down at large yet you may direct one for a poor body not so costly with some of the Engredients This clyster is most proper for the Dysenteria in the great bowels 2. If the exulceration be in the small bowels then give unto them such things as you shall find proper in Diarrhaea use syrrup of dried Roses Myrtils and Quinces apply this Cerate outwardly â„ž Ceratum Ol. Mastic Rosarum Myrti Cidoniorum an â„¥ .j. fol. Ros Rub. Plantag anaÊ’ j BalaustiaÊ’ j Bolus arm Ê’.j Mastic Ê’ ij Barley meal Ê’ ij wax and Rosin as much as suffiâ—eth to make a Cerate some medicines you may find in the Chap. of Colerica passio The infusion of Rhubarb is of some praised Infusio Oleum vitrtoli and of others suspected but oyle of vitrial is much commended in plantin water the distilled water of the spawn of frogs is an excellent Remedy Aqsperm ranarum if it be well made if the patient be weak make him broath with chickins with a little cinamon 1. Clyster If there be deep excoriation make a clyster with the decoction of brann and â„¥ ij of deer suet clysters of milk is good for either of them 2. Purgatio If it happens through contagion of Ayre at the first give a strong potion of Rhubarb infused in plant in water with a little cinamon and then a little treakle or methridate in cinamon or treakle water is excellent But after purging endeavour next to procure rest either with Laudanum or something else and then give a scruple of treakle or methridate in c. Theriaca mithridat as aforesaid forbare bleeding or purging except with Rhubarb many have been cured with Harts-horn burnt others take hard bones of Beef or Pork calcined or burned untill they be white made into powder and so drunk in ordinary drinks continually with some few drops of cinamon water and cinamon and nutmegs in powder are good This unguent following is wondrous proper to procure rest â„ž Olei nymphaeae VnguentuÌ„ violarum unguenti populeonis an â„¥ ss Opii gr iij. Croci gr iv fiat unguentum quo nares tempora inungantur Rauzonius Rauzonius Lastly let this chyster be administred for it is effectual in Dysenteria â„ž Succi plantaginis arnoglossae portulacae an Clyster Gorraeus â„¥ iij. boli armeni sanguinis draconis amili an Ê’ i. ss seni hircini vel capriniÊ’ j velÊ’ i. ss vel â„¥ ij fiat Clyster Gorraeus pag. 153. CHAP. XLII TENASMVS is a continual desire to go to stoole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with extension and straining out of the right gut called Intestivum rectum being stopped avoyding nothing except it be a little blood or filthy matter like snivel or snot 1. Causa The cause is sometimes through outward cold 2. Sometimes through sharp chollerick humours 3. Sometimes through salt flegme 4. Sometime through impostumation 5. Sometimes through inflammation ingendred in the streight gut 6. Sometimes the blind gut is stopped with hard dung 1. Signa The sign is as various if it be caused of cold it is known by the tale of the sick whether he hath set on any cold stone c. 2. If chollerick it is known by the colour
the next Chapter Fernelius This Electuary following is commended by Fernelius ℞ Electuarium Rasurae eboris cornu cervi an ℈ ij cinamomi electi margaritarum electarum Pulveris electuarii Aromatici rosati majoris electuarii triasantali an ℈ .j. cum unciis iv sacchari albi fiat electuarium Vel ℞ Linimentū Mucilaginis seminis faenugraeci extractae in aqua endiviae ℥ j. olei absynthii rosarum menthae de capparibus an ℥ ss macis caryophyllorum Rosarum rubearum pulverizatorum an ℈ .j. cerae parum fiat litus Fernelius consil 37. de cachexiae curatione Vel ℞ Vnguentū Rondeletius Ol. de absynth nard an ℥ .ij. ol cyton ℥ j spicae utriusque an ʒ.j cyperi sandali rub albi an ʒ.ss coralli rub ustiʒ i.ss cerae q. s fiat unguentum ungantur hypochondria Rond lib. 3. cap. 38. CHAP. LIV. ANASARCA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a dropsie causing all the body and flesh to be loose and wet like a spunge spitting when it is pressed It is called also Lupophlegmatia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. This kind of dropsie is caused through great coldness of the liver Causa or other parts that be cooled which bringeth the liver into the same affect as the coldness of the spleen stomach Bowels Lungs Reines and Midriffe sometimes through unmeasurable voyding of Hemroyds or Menstruis or through their retention for in all these the liver hath no unnatural swelling and yet the dropsie followes onely through refrigeration of the liver sometimes it waxeth hard as is seen in those that drink cold water and so cool the liver on heaps and so the dropsie follows before it be lifted up into a knotty swelling sometimes it followeth the Gout loathing of meat evil state of body Jaundies Caeliacus morbus and dysenteria The whole body swelleth Signa and is like a dead body and there is difficulty of breathing heavinesse naughty colour and thirst women are lesse troubled with the dropsie then men but children for the most part are taken with Anasarca this is least dangerous First if age and strength will suffer Curatio and that there be retention of Hemroyds or Menstruis draw blood Secondly purge with Jalap Jalapum Cambogiae Vinum absinth or Rhubarb or Gambogiae gr 12. with syrrup of wormwood also wormwood-wine and beer is good purge often and not too much at once Elder roots sodden in wine are good you shall find remedies enough in obstruction of the liver you must provoke urine with broom-flowers Vinum genistae M. ij in white-wine quar 1. also eringa roots boyled in broath are good Take wormwood flowers of broom hysop tops of red nettles ana M.j. chop them small seeds of annise fennel carraway ana ℥ .j. bruise them mixe them and knead them into a loaf of wheat bread lb. iv bake it drie then break it into small pieces and put it into a ferkin of strong drink when it is well wrought let it stand a week and then let the patient drink of it often or take a dry broom faggot half a peck of bean hulls three handfulls of dry wormwood Lixivium diuret and with dry ash burn them to ashes make lye of it you may make a small quantity for it will not keep for the liver Pulvis take powder of Diacurcuma ℈ .j. powder of Diatrion santalon Diarrhodon Abbatis anaʒ ss nutmegs spicknard an ℈ j.ss Aromat rosat ℈ .j. Rhubarb ʒ ss seeds of Endive fennel ana ℈ .ij. wormwood ℈ .j. sugar ℥ .j. commix them you may adde carraway-seed cummin aniseed parseley lovage liqueris c. biscake-bread with good stood store of aniseeds Also a poultis with beane-meale Cataplasma fenegreek laurel-berries wormwood and origan sodden in wine lay it all over the body If it swell you may adde melilote sage mints savory rew cammomel flowers myrrh castoreum peniroyal cardamume sothernwood bathe the swelled legs with bot oyles or if there be the gout with the dropsie this poultis following is good Cataplasma Take leven lb. ss Turpintine ℥ .iv. make them like a poultis or pulpe with white-wine vinegar spread it on a thick cloth strew one ounce of Cantherides in powder apply it one night to the swelled legges smalledge broath is good Victus ratio Exercitium with parsely rosemary c. A drie diet must be and exercise is excellent this drink is much commended Take a pint of the ashes of bean hulls put it into a quart of water and a quart of white-wine set it on the fire Potius diuretica and stirre it all the while untill it begin to boyle then set it by one hour or two then powre it from the ashes through a cloth and adde twelve ounces of syrrup of Dialthaea brue it together and drink a quarter of a pint at a time last at night and first in the morning mid forenoon and mid afternoon If bound administer a clyster twice or thrice a week candid Eringa roots are very good to eat at meals Hercul Saxon. Elaterium Hercules Saxonia in lib. 3. cap. 32. saith Fortissimum medicamentum est succus cucumaris agrestis qui dicitur Elaterium si dentur ejus gr iij. extracti per punctionem si enim per expressionem extrahatur dantur ejus grana octo vel decem And he did usually make pills therewith after this manner ℞ Pilularnm alephang ℈ .j. elaterii grana iij. Pilulae cum elaterio Hercul Saxon. vel iv misce f. pilulae In this disease the liver must be strengthened for which purpose ℞ Radic Apii ℥ i.ss radic Asari ℥ ss Epithema Platerus absinthii M.j. florum Bugloss Borrag Sambuci ana p. j. seminum cuscuteʒ ij endiviae ascetosae anaʒ j. santal omnium anaʒ i.ss Spicaenar vel casiae lign sqaenanthi anaʒ ss decoquantur in vino aqua pro fotu regionis hepatis Plater Tract 3. cap. 3. pag. 293. Rhasis in 7. contin Rhafis notat in cura hyposarcae singulariter rhabarbarum nam est medicina solennis curans eam à quacunque causa provenientem CHAP. LV. ASCITES 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this kind of dropsie swells the whole body except the upper parts thereof which are not puffed and if you strike it there is heard a sound like as a bottle that is not full of water being shugged The upper parts drie away It is caused through much waterish humours Causa heaped up between the skin or filme called Seritoneum and the bowels also weaknesse of the liver c. For the sign Signa the body doth not pit when pressed the pulse is feeble swift and small shortnesse of breath heavinesse thirst c. as in the former Chapter their legs swell Let his diet be easie of digestion Curatio Victus Ratio Soldanella as birds of mountains chickens partridge black-birds c. first purge
Paraphimosis 13. For the virulent Gonorrhaea annexed with it Gonorrhaea virulenta First direct a dry diet as biscakes raisons blanched almonds to make meales of them often 14. Then purge him with this potion following ℞ Potio purgans Decoct com ℥ vj. cassiae re extractae ℥ ss Syrrupus rosarum sol ℥ ss misce Let him take the one half overnight warm and the rest in the morning If he be a strong body put in ℥ ss or ʒ vj of Diaprunum sol instead of Cassia let him drink of the decoction of Sarsae and China constantly 15. And let him take halfe an ounce of washt turpentine in wafers 2 or 3 times and sweat once or twice if need be For this Gonorrhaea is the beginning of the Lues venerea and will certainly follow if not prevented with the aforesaid meanes And so much shall suffice for this most detestable and grievous evill which by Gods command hath assailed mankind as a scourge or punishment to restrain the too wanton and lascivious lusts of unpure persons CHAP. XIV SCORBVTVS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called by Pliny Sceletyrbe and Stomacace It is a disease obstructing the spleen whereby the course of melancholy is hindered which being mingled with the rest of the blood infecteth all the body The grosser part falling down stains the legs with spots the thinner part being carried up defiles the gums The cause is a grosse and corrupt diet Causa and also a full and delicate diet using no exercise may be the cause sometimes it followes a quartan fever The gummes are foul Signa and swelled with black blood the teeth loose black and leady spots in the legs and sometimes in the face There is weaknesse in the joynts difficulty of breathing being ready to die when they move but being layd they are refreshed they are greedy of meat costive of body yet some have a flux some have swelled and ulcerated legs so that their shin bone lye bare In some bodies it turnes into a kind of leprosie those that die of this disease their bodies are found to be spotted all over First open the vein on the left arme Curatio Venae sectio called Lienaria and draw away blood according to the strength and age of the Patient If it be possible draw blood from the Haemorrhodial vein Also if they abound with blood take the Basilica but if they be farre spent abstain from phlebotomy except it be by the haemorrhodiall veines Next give this Apozem following ℞ Decoctio com ℥ .vj. cassiae re extractae ℥ ss Apozema Syrrupus de epithymo cretens Syr. fumariae ana ℥ .j. misce f. Apozem Give him half over night and the other half in the morning warm For this disease admits not any vehement purgations Also morning and evening let him take a spoonfull or two of the juyce of scurvigrass and brooklime Becabunga called Becabunga you may put two or three ounces of it into posset ale drink it and sweat if possible Also this julep following is good to drink often of it ℞ Aqua fumaria p. 1. Syr. ejusd ℥ ij ol vitr gr Julepus vj. misce For children make this syrrup ℞ Syrrupus Succi chochleariae succi becabungae an li. iij. sacchar albis li.ij. charificetur succus cum abumine ovi fiat syrrup secundum artem Give the childe or weak body a little at a time often If the gummes be swelled with black blood let it out with an instrument Lastly this drink following I never knew fail ℞ Chochleariae m. vj. cortic radic Raphani sylvest Infusio ℥ ij Baccae Junip ʒ ij zingiberis piperis anaʒ j vini albi p. iij. Aqua fumaria p. 1. fiat infusio Stamp the scurvigrass and radish bruise the berries ginger and pepper and put them all into the wine and water let them stand a whole night strain it and let the Patient drink a quarter of a pinte at a time last at night and first in the morning Forestus If any man desire more knowledge of this disease let him read Forestus his observations in diseases of the spleen CHAP. XV. PRIAPISMVS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa is a disease in which the yard is extended in length and bignesse without any lusting It is caused either through immoderate opening the mouthes of the arteries or else of a vaporous spirit ingendred in the hollow and fistulous sinew or through long abstinence from carnall copulation Satyriasis If there be panting and beating of the yard with a desire to the act of generation then it is called Satyriasis They suffer as it were a cramp Signa the yard being puffed up and stretched out they quickly perish without sudden help And when they die their bellies be puffed up and their sweat is cold First open Mediana of the armes Curatio Clyster Venae-sectio then clysters made of beets mallowes and mercury adding Manna and Cassia but beware of purges and things that be diuretical to procure gentle vomits are good Aq sperm ranarum give him to drink a little Aqua sperm ranar. with sugar And keep him from sights and stories appertaining to lechery Let him drink barley water If a virulent Gonorrhaea be annexed with it then frictions on the fistulous sinew of ung argenti vivi helps him In this disease Forestus in his first Tome and 26. Forestus Book and ninth observation commendeth a vomit made with Asaron CHAP. XVI GONORRHAEA seu seminis profluvium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is excretion and shedding of seed against the Patients will without sicknesse of the yard It is caused through imbecillity of the retentive vertue in the vessels containing the sperm Causa or violent moving may be the cause The sperm is watery Signa and thin without aptetite to carnal copulation some feel not the fluxe others feel a certain pleasure but not like the pleasure that is in that Gonorrhaea which is found in plethorick bodies abounding with blood that lying on their backs in the night shed forth abundance of spermatick matter Also their bodies waxe leane especially about their loines with much weaknesse There is also a virulent gonorrhaea whose cure you shall find in the Chapter of Lues venerea 1. Curatio Victus ratio For the cure let him use a dry diet 2. Secondly let him give himself all the rest and quiet he can possible 3. Thirdly this powder is excellent ℞ Pulvis Sacchari restrin ℥ .ij. resinae ℥ .j. bolus arm ℥ ss nuc moschataeʒ ij mastich ʒ j. misce fiat pulvis Let the Patient take as much as will lye on a twelve-penny piece or a half crown at a time in a quarter of a pinte of warm milk from the cowes dugge evening and morning and sometimes in Rice broath will do well 4. If you please you make some of the powder into pills Palulae
with washt Venus-turpentine and let him take three over night and four in the morning for a week together 5. Emplastrū Also Emplastrum sticticum is very good to lay to his back spread on leather give him with his meats the seeds of Agnus castus and the leaves of rew Aq. sperm ranarum to eat purslaine and drink spawne-spawne-water will be good to extinguish seed Let him lye on his side And lastly he must eschew and exclude all thoughts belonging to carnal copulation and ℞ Succi myrtillorum vel succi foliorum myrti Linimentum Montanus plantaginis ana ℥ .ij. succi sempervivae ℥ .j. unguenti sandalini ℥ .ij. cum modico cerae albae reformetur linimentum pro renibus Montanus de renum vesicae affectionibus Consilium 301. pag. 738. CHAP. XVII CELE in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ramex and Hernia in Latin of the barbarous writers Ruptura there be seven kinds or nine 1. Enterocele or Ramex intestinorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the Peritonaeum do break and the bowels fall down into the Cods 2. Bubonocele or Ramex inguinis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the bowels do cleave or stay above the privie members 3. Hydrocele or Ramex aquosus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when a watery humour is gathered into any part of the filmes or skin of the Cods 4. Sarcocele 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Ramex carnosus is when there groweth hard flesh within the coats and tunicles of the stones 5. Epiplocele or Ramex omenti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the kall or filme that laps in the bowels do fall down into the Cods 6. Enteroepiplocele or Ramex omenti intestini is when the bowels do slip down with the filme 7. Cirsocele or Ramex varicosus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the veines which nourish the stones are spread abroad and swollen out of measure on heaps 8. Ramex ventosus Physocele or Hernia ventositatis is when wind is gathered into the skin of the Cods 9. Hyrophysocele or Ramex ventosus aquosus when wind and water is gathered into the filmes of the Cods They are caused by some violent accident Causa as a stroak leaping crying fall or lifting which do break the peritonaeum and so cause Ramex intestinorum or stretch it out more then it ought to be and so cause Ramex inguinis Or the vessels joyned together and increasing in the Cods or the vessels being broak and slidden down sendeth blood thither which being changed into a watery or wheyish substance causeth Ramex aquosus Ramex carnosus is caused through a stripe or blow upon the stone or stones The cause of the other ruptures are evident by their descriptions The signes of the two first is a manifest swelling in the Cods Signa or above the privie members It goeth back slowly but rolleth down quickly also the swelling is very great The signes of a watery humour is a swelling without pain firm and shining like the colour of the humour as dregs of blood or the like If it be on both sides of the Cods it s then a double rupture The signes of Ramex carnosus is hardnesse somtimes like a kernel and thenthere is neither colour sense nor feeling But if the humour be of a wicked nature then pricking pain doth vexe him You must lay the Patient upright Curatio yet so as his head may be lower then his buttocks and separate his legges then put up the bowels by little and little then keep them up by convenient trusses and ligaments But if the place adjoyning to the Cods or privie members be inflamed and very painful so that thereby the bowels are made disobedient to go up then you must use foments and liniments made with mallowes cammomel dill linseed fennegreek Fomentati and nourish the place with wooll dipt in oyle Also take Emplastrum ad Herniam spread some on a piece of lether and apply it Emplastrū let it lye on seven dayes being bound fast with his truss and let him give himself rest for thirty dayes this is an excellent help Also make a decoction with comfry roots plantin myrtill seed pomegranat flowers Decoctio and leaves of laurel boyle them in red wine and water of plantin and then sweeten it with sugar For a watery rupture look into the Chapters of the dropsies as Ascites c. A perfect rupture coming by the breaking of the Peritonaeum in men of full growth seldom admits of cure A certain chyrurgion did use to beat a loadstone into fine powder Historia and give of it to children in a little pap and then he anoynted the groine with honey and then strewed on it the fine filings of Iron this he did for 10 or 12 dayes together keeping up the bowels straight with a truss Thus have you had directions for the curing of the first second third fifth and sixth As for the fourth rupture it s more properly a chirurgious work Paraeus and if you please you may take Parey for your guide so likewise for the seventh As for the eighth and ninth look into the Chapters of the dropsies There is also Hernia Humoralis generated by the confused mixture of many humours in the Cod Hernia humoralis or between the tunicles which involve the testicle And there is Pneumatocele which is a flatulent tumour in the Cod Pneumatocele being round and shining both of them are cured by medicines which dissolve and trusses to keep up the Cods from falling Vnguentū Also clysters And take Helder cammomel fetherfew betony great valerian chickweed sention mercury hemlock smallage gomepheny and cellindine ana M j. chop them small boyle them in p. iij. of May butter and two penny worth of neats-foot oyle bathe the Cod with it or ℞ Fomentatio Forrestus Cumini baccarum lauri seseli rnt ana ℥ .j. fiat decoctio in vino leniter astringente lixivio foveatur pars Forest Tom. 1. lib. 27. obs 25. CHAP. XVIII MENSIVM SVPPRESSIO Causa is either naturally or against nature If naturally the woman is vexed with no grief of the body nor yet of the wombe If against nature it happeneth either through grossnesse or slendernesse of body the former have but little blood the latter no superfluous blood in them Also grosse blood bleeding at the nose c. sweating continual vomiting fluxes of the belly hardnes scars or a peece of flesh ingendred in the mouth of the matrice may be the cause also carelesness fear and sorrow There is heaviness a desire to vomit Signa abhorring of meat paines about the loynes thighes neck eyes and head sometimes fevers and blackish urine made with difficulty 1. A cold distemper is known by dulness a white and leady colour in the face and a watery thin and greenish urine 2. A hot distemper of
length the swelling will be destroyed and made plain Forestus Tom. 1. lib. 11 obs 45. Forestus doth much commend the fat of a cock to bathe the pimple called Hordeolum with and also the decoction of Cammomel CHAP. XI MYDRIASIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the dilatation of the pupil of the eye It happeneth either by nature Causa as from the default of the first conformation which is uncurable or by chance as a blow fall or contusion upon the eye which causeth the offspring of a humour to flow down from the brain First open a vein Curatio Venae-sectio then use cupping-glasses with scarrification and frictions whereby the defluxion may be hindered Take the blood of a turtle-dove pigeon or chickin reaking hot out of the veines and poure it upon the eye then apply thereto this Cataplasme ℞ Parinae fabar hordei ana ℥ iij. ol rosar Cataplas myrtillorum an ℥ i.ss pul ireos flor ʒ.ij cum sapa fiat cataplasma Also this fomentation following is good to foment with a spunge ℞ Rosar rub myrtill an m. j. florum melil Fomentatio chamaem an p. j. nucum cupress ℥ .j. vini austeri l. ss aq ros Plantag an ℥ .iv. fiat decoctio ℞ Syr. de betonica ℥ .iv. capiat ij Syrupus cochlearia bis in die Forestus To. 1. lib. 11. obser 28. CHAP. XII HYPOPYON 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the suppurate or putrefied eye Sometimes it is caused by a defluxion Causa and sometimes it cometh after an inflammation sometimes by a stroak through which occasion a vein being opened hath poured forth blood thither which may presently be turned into pus or quitture Evacuate the matter the Corea being opened at the Iris Curatio in which place all the coats meet you may cleanse the ulcer with Hydromel or the like There are divers other affects of the eyes as the Hydatis Hydatis Proptôsis or fatnesse of the eye-lids Proptôsis or the falling or starting forth of the eye Chemôsis Chemôsis or the turning up of the eye-lids Pterygion Pterygion Staphyloma or web of the eye Staphyloma or grape-like swelling These affects of the eyes and their cures are also so well known to expert chyrurgions that for brevities sake I will omit them without giving you either the causes signes or cures of them because I have been large in the former affects of the eyes So that the cure of the former may serve for the cure of these Forestus If you desire to be further satisfied see Forestus Tom. 1. lib. 11. de morb occul palpeb CHAP. XIII DOLOR AVRIVM pain of the eares Causa is caused in some through cold taken in a journey by cold winds 〈◊〉 also it chanceth to many through a hot distemper or inflammation sometimes sharp and biting humours do cause pain in the eares If cold be the cause Curatio Clyster administer a sharp clyster made with rew balme bettony wormwood bay-leaves and rosemary also a poultis of the same herbs Cataplas with oyle of cammomel would do well and drop into the cares a little oyle of bitter almonds make a cake of Rye-meal and water when it is well baked split it and lay on English hony apply it to the pained ears hot and upon the cake a hot brick or tyle so do three or four times I once used it with good successe ℞ Ol. amygd dul Chamaem an ℥ .i. ss ol Oleum lilliorum viol an ℥ .ij. misce injiciantur in aurem This is good in a hot cause If there be an impostume ℞ Seminis lini faenugr an ℥ ss flor Cataplas chamaem melil ros an p. j. rad bistortae ℥ j. fiat decoctio contundantur fiat cataplasma CHAP. XIV SONITVS AVRIVM sound and noise of the eares is for the most part ingendred of windy vapours Causa or of gross and clammy humours It may be caused through weaknesse of the members and of outward things as of cold heat or a blow on the head First purge with a dragm of head pills Curatio Pilulae Sternutamentum if nothing prohibit And let sweet fennel-seed be baked in his bread Every third morning let him take sneesing-powder and drop into the eares every night certain drops of oyle of rew Oleum and aniseed and keep the eares stopt with cotten wool This Electuary following is good ℞ Electuarium Conserv flor rorism ℥ ij species diambrae Dianthos an ℈ ij ol roris succini an Gut iij. Syr. de stoechade quant sufficit fiat Electuarium If the cause proceed from the stomach Vomitus Theriaca Venet. admiminister a vomit Lastly a dragm of Venus-treakle given in posset-ale wherein rosemary is boyled is excellent Forestus Vinum Forestus doth direct wine to be drunk in this affect and the decoction of Coriander seed prepared CHAP. XV. SVRDITAS gravis auditus deafnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and slow hearing It doth beginne sometimes at ones birth and sometimes afterwards It chanceth either through cholerick humours flying upwards Causa or through crude and grosse humours stopping the hearing First administer a dragm of head pills Curatio Pilulae cochiae Oleum or give him the infusion of senne and sweet fennel-seed Take an onyon rost it soft stamp it and strain out the juyce mixe it with a little fresh goos-grease and drop three or four drops at a time often into the ears and then stuffe them with black cotten wool and let him keep his head very warm The juice of coal-worts mixed with white-wine is good for the same purpose Fumigatio Stern tamentum Let him receive the fumes of frankincense and amber into his ears Also provoke sneesing Let him lean his ear upon a quill or reed having one end made fit for the ear and the other for the pot let there be in the pot wormwood mints marjoram stoechas rew seeds of dill and cummin sodden in water that the vapour may passe into the course of hearing Oyle of Rew and Castoreum Ol. caster are good to drop into the eares so is the vapour of vinegar taken with a reed ℞ Scoriae ferri ℥ j. decoq. Rondeletius in vino Injectio quod postea injiciatur in aurem CHAP. XVI PAROTIDES 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be inflammations which are wont to issue in the kernels which be by the eares It is caused of abundance of hot blood Causa which is either mixed with choller flegm or melancholy sometimes of humours compact in the head and sometimes Parotides breaketh out in feavers If fulnesse of blood be the cause Signa then there is vehement pain if cholerick blood they seem much like Erysipelas if of melancholy blood they do not vex with vehement pain they are hard but do not look red If of flegmatick blood in the swelling they
are adjoyning to the ulcer Galenus and maketh an eating ulcer Galen calleth it Dysepulotica that is difficulty to be cicatrized This following medicine is much commended by Galen Guratio Galenus being of certain and approved use for desperate ulcers which many have taken in hand and left as uncurable â„ž Soreas â„¥ .iij. aluminis scissilis calcis vivae an EmplastruÌ„ â„¥ .ij. thuris gallarum an â„¥ iv cerae lb. j. â„¥ iij. sevi vitulini lb. j. â„¥ .vij. olei veteris quantum sufficit fiat Emplastrum To be layed upon the ulcer and apply a defensative above the ulcer Mixturae for fear of inflammation Also take Soldanella half a dragm powdered rhubarb two scruples give the same to drink often with white-wine or syrup of wormwood with wormwood-wine is very good for the same purpose Radices solani cortex herba succus Cacoethe juvant Tagautius lib. 6. Tagautius p. 523. CHA. XLIII PARONYCHIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a tumor in the ends of the fingers under the nailes with great inflammation It is caused through a malign Causa and venemous humour which from the bones by the Periosteum is communicated to the tendons and nerves of that part which it affecteth There follow pulsifique pain Signa a seaver and restlesnesse You must begin with purging Curatio Venae-sectio and blood-letting Then make incision in the inner part of the finger even to the bone along the first joynt thereof This must be done before it come to maturation suffer it to bleed well then let him dip his finger in strong and warm vinegar in which some treakle hath been dissolved and then appease the pain with Vnguentum populneum or the like And take this oyntment following â„ž VnguentuÌ„ Sacchari rosati â„¥ ss axungiae gallinae Ê’ iij vitellorum ovorum n.j. butyri recentis parum fiat unguentum in mortario absque igne If a Gangrene and Sphacel happen the Chyrurgeon must make use of his cutting mullets to save the rest of the body If you please you may read Forestus lib. Forestus 5. de tumoribus praeternaturam Observatio 16. pag. 162. CHAP. XLIV EXOMPHALVS or swelling of the navel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is caused by the Peritonaeum either relaxed or broken by which occasion oft-times the Guts or Kall fall into the seat of the navel and sometimes superfluous flesh is there generated sometimes this tumour is an Aneurisma Sometimes it is caused by a flatulent and sometimes by a waterish humour If the fall be the cause Signa the colour is like the skin soft and almost without pain But if the tumor proceed from superfluous flesh it is hard and immoveable If from wind it sounds when you press it If by a waterish humour it is easily known If from the effusion of blood it is of a livid colour but if the effused blood be arterial then there are signes of a Aneurisma If it be caused by the falling down of the guts there is heard a noyse when you press it If the tumor ptoceed from the Kall and Guts you must force them into their due place Curatio Then may the skin be taken up and thrust through with a needle and double twined strong thred next let the sides be scarified then thrust it through with a needle three or four times and twich it strongly with a thred that the skin with the ligature may fall off But you may cut off the skin so distended even to the ligatures and then cicatrize it In a watery tumor a small incision must be made and the wound kept open untill the water be emptied CHAP. XLV GANGRAENA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Gangrene is a certain disposition and way to the mortification of the part which it seizeth upon dying by little and little When there is a perfect mortification 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is called by the Greeks Sphacelos and by the Latines Syderatio which according to Fallopius Fallopius Fabricius and Fabricius is an affect of a part already utterly mortified and therefore not to be cured but by amputation that the whole body come not to corruption thereby Or it is a perfect and total privation of sense being a mortification not only of the fleshy parts but also of the nervous parts even unto the bone and sometimes of the bone it self The cause of a Gangrene may be an exceeding effusion of blood and spirits Causa or a distemper of the four humours Also extream erosion or corrosion of caustick medicines or corrosive humours A venemous and poysoned blood great burnings and scaldings or overmuch hunger and thirst may be the cause Also a Gangrene may happen by the pricking of a nerve by a feaver precedent by a frost and also by extream cold by the biting of venemous beasts or mad dogs or through great incised wounds but especially confuted wounds and by unreasonable stripes Finally from all intercepons intersections or interruptions of spirits what or wheresoever mayproduce a Gangrene The signes of a Gangrene are these Signa an extinction of the lively colour which was in the precedent phlegmon Grievous pain and continual pulsation in the diseased part apparent by the arteries being at first very sensible but afterwards declining their due force The part agrieved seeming for the most part in colour to be blackish blewish or of a duskie or livid colour yea sometimes putrid and being opened a filthy Ichor of an unsavory smell proceeds from it If there be sence there is life and hope Curatio 1. First empty out abundantly the corrupt blood which is stuffed in the affected member Venae-sectio For this purpose some apply horse-leeches others cut the fullest vein about the affected member also deep scarifications are good 2. When you have drawn out blood abundantly by deep slashes or cuts the place must be splashed with salt-salt-water then lay on a medicine appointed for corrupted sores or wash it with hot vinegar or Mulsum twice a day 3. Vnguent Aegyptiacum When the fury of the evill is somewhat slaked minister Vnguentum Aegyptiacum whose wonderful affects have been often tried It is made after this manner â„ž Floris aeris aluminis roch mellis com an â„¥ .iij. VnguentuÌ„ aceti acerrimi â„¥ v. salis com â„¥ .j. vitriâ—li rom â„¥ ss sublimati pul Ê’.ij bulliant omnia simul ad ignem fiat unguentum When you have put in the Aegyptiacum apply this cataplasme â„ž Farin fabar hordei orobi lent lupin an Cataplas l. ss Seal com mellis rosat an â„¥ .iv. succi absynth marrub an â„¥ .ij. ss aloes mastiches myrrhae aquae vit an â„¥ .ij. oximelitis simpl quantum sufficit fiat Cataplasma molle secundum artem Somewhat higher then the part affected apply this following astringent defensitive â„ž Medicamentum Olei rosati myrtill an â„¥ iv succi plantag
moderate for too sound sleep drawes back the matter to the center and increaseth the feaver You must neither purge nor draw blood the disease increasing or being at the height unlesse there be a plurisie squinancie c. A gentle clyster is good in the state and increase of the disease Decoctio you must make a sudorifick decoction of figs liquorice husked lentils citron seeds the seeds of fenell and smalledge the roots of grasse raisins dates gold millet marygold flowers and harts-horne at the latter end of the boyling put in some saffron or ℞ Radic gram aspar foenic. an ℥ .iv. liquyr Syrupus ras ℥ ss fol. acetos m. ij fic n. xx flor cord p. j. fiat decoctio In lb.j. diss Syr. acetos simpl vel limon ℥ .iv. sacch parum fiat syr aro capiat serò mane ℥ iv donec tota faecta sit expulsio 1. You must defend the eyes Medicamentum when you first begin to suspect the disease with rose-rosewater or vinegar and a little camphire If the pain and inflammation be great then use Aloes Aliud and Tuttie washed in the water of fennel eye-bright and roses 2. You must defend the nose with a Nodulus Nodulus made with a little vinegar water of roses the powder of sanders and camphire 3. You must defend the jawes throat and throttle and preserve the integrity of the voice Oxycratum by a Gargle of oxycrate 4. The Lungs and respiration must be provided for by syrups of jujubes violets Syrupi white poppies and water-lilies 5. To prevent Pockarrs after they are ripe open them with a golden or silver needle lest the matter contained in them should corrode the flesh that lies under and after the cure leave pock-holes behind it 6. The pus or matter being evacuated Lini◠they shall be dried up with ung rosat adding thereto ceruse Aloes and a little saffron in powder 7. Olcum Being dried up like a scurf or scab anoynt them with oyle of Almonds or Roses or with some creame that they may the sooner fall away 8. Vnguentū If there be any excoriation through scratching then shall you heal it with Vnguentum album camphor adding thereto a little powder of Aloes or Desicativum rubrum 9. To help the unsightly scars of the face Lac virginale Ol. lil Goose Ducks and Capons grease are good and also oyle of lillies and Hares blood newly killed hot Many cry out against bleeding though it be done a little before the pox come out Phlebotomia for my part I have opened a vein ofttentimes with good successe on strong bodies so that the pox have come forth within 24 houres after bleeding without any danger Also Bezoar is excellent to send forth the pox Byzabar But the most familiar thing for children Diascordium is Diascordium Lastly the meazles are cured by resolution only Cons samb and not by suppuration For which purpose conserve of Eldern flowers is especially commended not only to be eaten but also to be rubbed upon the heated parts If there be great faintnesse Cordial take Aqua Mariae syr lujulae of either one ounce give him a little often CHAP. XLVII ELEPHANTIASIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paulus Avicennas Galenus or leprosie according to Paulus is a cancer of the whole body The which as Avicen addes corrupts the complection form and figure of the members or according to Galen This disease is an effusion of troubled or grosse blood into the veines and habit of the whole body 1. The primitive cause is Causa either from the first conformation or comes to them after they are born by the too frequent use of salt spiced acrid and grosse meats Also familiarity copulation and cohabitation with leprous persons Sweat and spittle left on the edges of the pots or cups for there is a certain hidden virulencie in the leprosie strong wines drunkennesse gluttony and a laborious life full of sorrows and cares The suppression of the Hemorrhoids and courses The small pox and meazles Also a Quartan feaver the drying up of old ulcers for that they defile the masse of blood and thus in conclusion the leprosie is caused 2. The antecedent causes are the humours disposed to adustion and corruption into melancholy by the torrid heat 3. The conjunct causes are the melancholy humours which are now pertakers of a venenate and malign quality and spread over the whole habit of the body corrupting and destroying it first by a hot and dry distemper and then by a cold and dry contrary to the beginnings of life which consists in the moderation of heat and moysture 1. The first sign is a falling away of the haires and you may perceive scauls in the head 2. The second is a numerous and manifest circumseription of round and hard pushes or pustules under the eye-browes behind the eares and in several places of the face like hard kernels 3. The third is the more contract and exact roundnesse of the eares 4. The fourth is A Lyon-like wrinkling of the forehead which is the reason that some term this disease Morbus Leoninus 5. The fifth is the exact roundnesse of the eyes and their fixt and immovable steddinesse 6. The sixth is the nostrils are flat outwardly but inwardly strait and contracted 7. The seventh is the lifting up thicknesse and swelling of the lips Also the stinch filthinesse and corrosion of the gummes by acrid vapours rising to the mouth 8. The eighth is the swelling and blacknesse of the tongue and as it were varicous veins lying under it Their face riseth in red bunches or pushes and is overspread with a duskie and obscure rednesse Their eyes are fiery fierce and fixed Some leprous persons have their faces tinctured with a yellowish others with a whitish colour according to the condition of the humour for Physicians affirm that there are three sorts of Leprosies one of a reddish black colour consisting in a melancholy humour another of a yellowish green in a cholerick humour another of a whitish yellow grounded upon adust flegm 9. The ninth sign is a stinking of the breath and also of all the excrements proceeding from leprous bodies 10. The tenth is a hoarsness a shaking harsh and obscure voyce coming as it were out of the nose 11. The eleventh is a morphew or defedation of all the skin with a drie roughnesse and grainie inequality such as appears in the skins of plucked Geese with many tetters on every side a filthy scab and ulcers not casting off only a branlike scurf but also scales and crusts 12. The twelfth is the sense of a certain pricking as it were of needles over all the skinne 13. The thirteenth is a cunsumption and emacination of the muscles which are between the thumb and forefinger Also their shoulders stand out like wings 14. The fourteenth is the diminution of sense or a numbnesse over all
℥ .j. cyperi schaenanthi pul an ʒ.iij ammon in aceto dissoluti ℥ .j. ol lilior mastic an ℥ .j. f. Cataplasma CHAP. XLIX GVTTA ROSACEA It is a preternatural rednesse which possesseth the nose and cheeks and oft times all the face besides one while with a tumor otherwiles without Sometimes with pushes and scabs by reason of the admixtion of a nitrous and adust humour It is worse in winter than in summer Let the Patient abstain from all hot and salt things Curatio Let his body be kept soluble And first open the Basilica Venae-sectis Sanguisugae then the Vena frontis and lastly the vein in the nose Let leeches be applyed to sundry places of the face then this approved oyntment following is good if the disease be inveterate ℞ Succi citri ℥ iij. cerus Vnguentū quantum sufficit ad eum inspiffandum argenti vivi cum saliva sulphure vivo extincti ℥ ss incorporentur simul fiat unguentum Vel ℞ Vng citrini recenter dispensati ℥ .ij. Vnguentū sulphuris vivi ℥ ss cum modico olei sem cucurb succi limonum fiat unguentum With one of these let the face be anoynted when you go to bed and in the morning let it be washed with sharp vinegar and rosewater Lotio wherein bran hath been boyled or with rose-water onely wherein bran hath been infused yet the former is most powerful To drie up the pustules ℞ Lactis virginalis lb. ss sulphuris vivi ℥ .j. Aqua distil succi limonum ℥ .iv. salis com ʒ.ss Let them be distilled in a glasse Alembeck and the water kept for the forementioned uses To kill ring-wormes and tetters Vnguent an oyntment made of Tobacco ashes or mustard dissolved in strong vinegar with a little sulphur is effectual for that purpose Lastly to smooth the skin after the using of the forementioned acrid medicines ℞ Tereb ven Linimentū tam diu lotae ut acrimoniam nullam habeat butyri salis expertis an ℥ i.ss olei vitel ovor ℥ .j. axung porci in aqua rosarum lotae ℥ ss cerae parum fiat linimentum ad usum If you want more read Platerus Tract tert Platerus Forestus ult pag. 175. c. Forestus lib. 2. de tumoribus praeter naturam pag. 59. CHAP. XLI PESTIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The plague is an horrid disease venemous and contagious lothsome noysom fearful and hateful to mankind yea and deadly for the most part being accompanied with variety of grievous sores as carbuncles botches blaines and also producing spots and discolourings of the skin and may fitly be called Flagellum Dei pro peccatis mundi the rod of God for the sins of the world for it produceth divers fearful and deadly accidents with great celerity seazing upon the animal vital and natural faculties and seldome or never goes without a feaver The material cause thereof is sin Causa Of the supernatural cause For it is a confirmed constant and received opinion in all ages amongst christians that the plague and other diseases which violently assaile the life of man are often sent by the just anger of God as punishments for our offences Yea when the Almighty will shew himself in his fury against dust and ashes he can put the host of heaven in his order to fight against us Nam astra regunt homines sed regit astra Dens for the starres govern mans body and God governs the stars And we have no way to escape his judgements but by prayer and unfeigned repentance This furious disease as it were disdaines any general method of cure when it is in his rage so that we must needs conclude Quicquid facimus mortale genus quicquid patimur venit ab alto that whatsoever man doth or whatsoever man suffereth all proceedeth from above And as for all other natural or efficient causes they are constellated put on and put off by divine providence viz. ex praescientia Dei by the foreknow ledge of God The terrestrial causes thereof are venemous Of the natural causes and stinking vapours arising by the warmth of the Sun and so communicated to the Ayre from dunghils sincks channels vaults or the like as also from unclean slaughter-houses of beasts unclean dwelling-houses Lanes Allies and Streets in great Cities as in London c. Also want of food unwholsom food and the eating of abundance of raw fruits may be a great cause of the increase of the plague See lib. 2. chap. 12. It beginneth cold Signa Of the precedent and accidental signes of the plague and with pain in the head and stomach and sometimes in the back being commonly taken for an Ague In some also it beginneth hot with pain and giddinesse of the head others find a general discouragement and weaknesse over all their whole body many are taken with great desire to sleep but it is not safe to permit such to sleep before a Diaphoretick be administred to send forth the venemous vapours by sweat In some it beginneth with a raging and fierce feaver so that their speech fail them and their eyes turn strangely to and fro in a fearful manner being in their slumbers oppressed with grievous and fearful dreames and fantasies In others it beginneth with sweatings with pain of the back and a stinking breath and such are ever very doubtful of cure and ten to one but they have inward carbuncles The one cheek is red and the other pale others have sweat drops on their noses a fierce countenance with grinding of the teeth And to be brief no symptome of any disease but is incident to the infected of the plague The signes that presage death are these that follow Prognostic namely when the Patient is possessed with swounding and faintings with cold and clammy sweats often changing of the countenance vomiting of sharp slimy and ill coloured flegm with greenish yellowish blackish or blood-coloured sanies or avoiding excrements either fatty blackish unctuous or unnaturally stinking convulsions contractions of the nerves graveling and pidling with the fingers plucking up of the bed-clothes a sudden flux of the belly of stinking matter rusty or of a greenish colour A sudden going back of an impostume carbuncle or Bubo Also it is a deadly signe in the pestilence to have a continual burning feaver the tongue drie rough and black with unquenchable thirst and great watching to have phrensie and madnesse together the hicket heart-beating and the face pale black of an horrid and cruel aspect bedewed with a cold sweat Also when the Patient is insensible of the departure of his urine and excrements There are some have ulcerous and painful wearinesse pricking under the skin with great torment and pain The eyes look cruelly and staringly the voyce waxeth hoarse and the understanding decaying so that the Patient talketh of frivolous things these shew the plague to be deadly Also if the urine be pale