pease is effective because the decoction of red pease is very diuretick and wholsome to those which are troubled with the stone The black pease cures poisons and bruises the stone The seed of the herb Saxifrage and White-plant especially cures the stone of the reyns There are some gums which expel the stone as the gum of Cherry trees drunk with wine There are some stones as Lyncurias which heals the stillicidium or dropping of urine and being drunk expels the stone So also there are some herbs and roots as Sorrel Seaholm Betony Vervin Scordion Mugwort the root of Dogs tooth Sperage Penniroyal Five finger grass the rozen of the Fir tree water Nosemart the root of the lesser Pimpernel and the root of the Nettle got in a dry place so the bloud of the Goat breaks the Adamant as also the Stone so also the powder of a Hare a Hedge-sparrow burnt glass the Lark the stone in the bladder of a Bore the little bone taken forth of the hinder joynt of the Hare the bones of the Medlar Stonecrop the gum of plums Corals and little stones of the Lobster-fish and those stones which are found in the heads of some fishes the shells of eggs forth of which young ones are excluded CHAP. XXVIII Of the diseases of the Bladder Causes and Signs THe bladder is more often affected The strong passion of the bladder is nothing but a straightnesse caused in the neck of the bladder from an obstructing stone with the Stone but very seldom with the Inflammation and Impostume sometime with the Exulceration The stone of the bladder is twofold 1. is in uncoth parts that is that which depends of the excrement of meat and drink which is conveyed from the ventricle to the reyns and from thence to the bladder The 2. is a tartar which proceeds from the salt of urine of bloud and it proceeds from the excrement of tartar or flesh The stone of the bladder is generated from the salt of urine by the Element of fire of the Microcosm The Galenists affirm the cause of this to be crass and crude juice which flows through the veyns with the urine into the cavity of the bladder where it sticks as dregs and being dryed by the heat of the place it becomes a stone Fernelius leaving their opinion saith that he found that Lib. 6. de part morb Sympt Cap. 13. every stone contained in the bladder attracts some beginning from the reyns from which it falls with a Nephritical pain if it be greater it sticks a while in the bladder and for the most part it persists and stays there and is augmented there by the aboundance of excrements which stick there untill it become a perfect and confirmed stone Read the signs of the inflammation stone and exulceration in the Galenists Diabetes Diabetes is an immoderate avoiding of urine accompanied with great thirst that is a passing is a flux of urine it is so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is passing or flowing The Diabetes is caused from the tartar of the reyns when the reyns are alltogether obstructed with tartar that tartar or coagulated matter desires moisture which when it hath attracted it the mechanical spirits of things are inquinated and corrupted with tartareous and styptical tinctures so that they cannot separate pure things from impure things but they transmit crude matter unto the bladder and expel urine as an excrement The Ischuria is contrary to this because Ischuria is a preternatural and involuntary retention of urine with an impotency to piss the urine is alltogether supprest neither is any urine avoided One cause of this suppression is astriction or obstruction and Stranguria is a frequent and painful provocation to piss with the avoiding of urine by drops this proceeds from tartar The Stranguria is a droping of urine when as urine is made by drops it is sometime with much endeavour but with no pain sometime with a vehement pain but in vain That which is made by drops is called the Ischuria that which burns and pricks is called Dysuria The Dysuria is a difficulty of urine when Dysuria is a difficult avoiding of urine forth of the bladder as urine is avoided hardly and not without pain Theophrastus lib. 1. paragr writes that the Dysuria proceeds from the most sharp tartar of the stomack The Styptical and most sharp flowers of tartar being resolved in the stomack are permixt with the aliments and conveyed with them unto the bladder Michelus in his Chymical Apology fol. 209. saith you Galenists call the tartareous resolution of the blood sometime the Exulceration of the reyns sometime the Putrefaction of the bladder sometime the Apostem of the reyns sometime the Stone of the bladder because you see slimy things bloudy crass and stinking evacuated with the urine with great pain Theoph. in tract de tartare de morbis tartareis Cap. 21. saith that there is not a more excellent medicine for the consummated stone then crystal and these words he had added he is happy which can prepare it this is the preparation Take of Crystal of sal Armoniacum pulverize them and elevate them after the manner of the Spagirians and that seaven times extract Ascali from this elevated and sublimated crystal let the dosis with distilled water be in the water of Petrosiline c. The salt of tartar and the oyl of tartar which is of a golden colour will effect the same so also take a little March Hare and dip it in Rhenish wine untill she be suffocated and dye then burn the whole substance of it in a Pipkin give of this powder with a modicum of theriaca unto the patient before he go into the bath after he comes out of the bath let him make water before he eat or drink and then the patient shall find the stone resolved wonderfully he may also take this powder with the water of Parsley The Crabfish expels the sand and stone of the bladder and reyns very effectively he that useth it often need not fear the stone Theophrastus lib. de renib Cap. 15. burn the bloud A most certain experiment and the skin of a Hare in an incocted pipkin that they may be bruised to powder give a spoonful to the patient in hot water in the morning with a fasting stomack the stone being liquified and resolved is avoided with the urine We have seen this and therefore not to be doubted of he that doubteth let him make an experiment and let him put a most hard stone in hot water and a spoonful of his powder and the stone will presently resolve with an admirable virtue which is beheld in the powder So also take the stone cut out of mans bladder Theophrast tract 2. de morbis ex tartaro saith bruise it in a mortar extract the oyl by the Alembicum as the oyl of philosophers of which give in white wine for the space of 14. days every morning and evening
the second maturity have happened in the third circuit which have begun the third praedestinations and that continually unto the consumption of all resolutions defined in the resolution of the root Paracelss lib. de tartaro Cap. 1. All the kinds of the The Cure Fevers are comprehended in the cure of tartar So also in the same Chapter Every medicine which resolves the tartar or expell's it presently cures the Feaver wherefore in the cure of the Feaver there must be made forthwith a resolution consumption destruction and consumption of the nitrous sulphureous impurities and that by insensible sweat transpirations urine avoiding of the belly and vomits Lib. 2. de vita longa cap. 5. For the removal of the Feavers there must first be made a purgation of the Feaver then a specifical cure and causal diminution is to be made The best cure of the Feaver is that which Paracel calls Diaceltaâ—esson and it is Antimony It resolvs expells the sulphureous tinctures by vomit stool urine insensible sweat transpirations furthermore there must be administred the spirit of Vitriol in which the specifical cure consists The universal cure against all Feavers especially quartan is salarmoniacum seven times sublimated and made altogether spirital must be taken hot in a draught of wine or ale and make the patient sweat Let him use this medicament eight days with a fasting stomach in the morning it is sour and maketh hungry These following are available against all Feavers the quintessences of Opiates of Theophrast the sweet oil of Sulphur the red oyl of Vitriol made of Vitriolum Ungaricum and drunk out of the water of Barley the Philosophers stone the less Centory boyled in ale and mixt with Sugar by reason of the bitterness let him take a good draught in the morning the flowers of Antimony being fixt in hot wine and let the patient be well covered in his bed and let him sweat Let him take of the Salt of wormwood in wine and let him sweat The juice of Wormwood mixt with sugar is a very good remedy against the Feaver the oyl of Wormwood he better salt of the Succory and Carduus Benedictus So also the salt of Gold and tartar of Gold and the spirit of Vitriol are very good It is be observed in certain Feavers especially in the tertian and in all other Astral Epidemical Mercurial and Auripigmental diseases that a vein be not cut for it hath come to pass that It is to be observed that â— vein be not cut in astraâ— diseases many having these diseases after the cutting of a vein have dyed Yea surely this is known very well by experience The especial and immediate cause of the generation of worms is putrefaction though Paracels seem somewhat to go from this assertion The Cure killing and expelling of worms is deprehended to be in specificals of which kind are the essence of black Ellebor Saint Johns wort the extract of the leavs of the birch tree and the salt of Vitriol So also those which expel putrefaction and corruption of which kind are Diaphoreticks Diaphoretical Mercury fixt Mercury the Diaphoretical Gold of life These secrets especially in the more principal members kill resolve and expel worms The Pica hath a common root with Pica is a bad appetite of bad things which are disconvenient for the nourishment of man Woolfs hunger the powers and sciences of the root or star of transplantation cause the difference betwixt them The cure of it is contained in the resolution consumption and expulsion of the tartareous and pearlish tinctures The resolution and reduction may be effected by a sour and hungry medicament and by no help of another or specifical purgation or Mercurial administration The Contracture as we may see in the Cholick and Contracture other Contractures is generated from sour stiptical tartareous and pearlish spirits which by the sending forth of fruits of flourishing inquinate and corrupt the vital spirit which penetrates through all the members and body for all the more principal and interiour members by their vertues expel and drive away the enemy and strange guest from their globes and centres unto the less principal and weak parts and for the most part to the outwardest parts of the body which are farthest from the vital fountain where it seateth it self and produces the malice into act The Cure of the Contracture consists in resolution reduction and expelling of tartareous Vitriol and Stiptick spirits The Indications of the Contracture as the Paralysis and the Appoplexie are found and exist in fixt Diaphoretical Gold of life in Antimony and the essence of Gold the less principal or potent are the water of Tartar the spirits of Vitriol the tinctures of Pearls and Corals Concerning the cause and difference of the Contracture read the book of Paracels de membr contract tract 1. For the cure of the same read the 2. tract and his book de morbis tartareis cap. 11. fo 297. The trembling of the hands is caused from cold tinctures Trembling which fly unto the sinews by reason of conspiration The cure of it is the spirit of Turpentine taken inwardly and the oyl of it annointed outwardly So also the spirits of Vitriol doth cure it The Erysipelas is generated from the Erysipelas is a hot red little and deprest tumour caused from small and cholerick humour boyling under the skin and it is seated in the superficies of the skin roots of inflammation existing in the flesh as also in the more principal members which expel those inflammatory seeds with great force and vertue from their Globes and expel them from the Centre unto the superficies The true cure of it is made by Diaphoreticks and expulsion of the poyson It is manifest that if external medicaments be administred for the Erysipelas which are lesse convenient and wholsom and expel the poyson from the Superficies unto the Centre then the patient is in great danger of death and that he will scarcely escape The Measils and Flowers of the skin are begot from Measils are many great moist and somewhat white pusâ—les bursting forth in the superficies of the body with a Feaver impure blood especially the menstruum which hath Mercurial seeds which of themselves vanish away yet they are expell'd by stronger renovating and restoring medicaments and are safely cured by them as are the essence of Antimony Diaphoretical and fixt Mercury Diaphoretical Gold of life the water of Pease from the signature it expels the nature of the Measils unto the superficies and cures it by a Diaphoretical faculty wherein it excells The Cure of the Rheum flowing unto Rheum is a preternatural deflux of the phlegmatick humour from the brain to the inferiour members the members thighs and feet is Mercurial medicaments and Diaphoreticks as also the Tartar of Vitriol Ellebore the essence of Iron Corals Antimony Utricus Porta sayeth that it hath his original from the remaining excrements of the most pure blood of the mother wherewith the child is nourished in the matrix neither will he grant that the infant is nourished with menstruous blood Notwithstanding it is probable that the spirital aliment wherewith the child is nourished is somewhat infected with tinctures and spiritals of the menstruous blood which may be conjectured from the vaporous substance and spirituality of these blossoms FINIS Take notice there is extant an exquisite book Intituled The Doctors Dispensatory or The whole art of Physick restored to practice being very necessary for such as study Chemical Physick Also newly made publick the divine Services and Anthems usually sung in His Majesties Chapel and in all Cathredals and Collegiate Choirs in England and Ireland Both Sold by Nath. 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onely deprehended and known from the affects CHAP. VI. Of the differences of Stars namely of the Benign the Mean and the Extreme hurtful IF the inferiour bodies be as the superiour which is confirmed by the Testimony of the Holy Ghost and of Hermes then all the stars in the Firmament do contain in them the anatomy of Diseases and Death but many are found forth whose resolutions are wholsome for in the inferiour Globe Nature hath set before our eyes Gold Silver Gemms Balmmint Roses Violets Betony Wheat Barley Wine Milk withall which Nature refreshes the vital spirits continually as with food and aliment Again we see the herbs and medicamental simple bodies Lettice Cassia Rheubarb Polypody or Oakfern Vinegar Agarick the herb Trinity Arsemart Cuckowpitle and others of that kind Lastly some do shew poison manifestly as Arsenick Wolf-bane Poppy Hemlock Antimony Vittiol Mercury Scammony Devils Milk Colocynth all which resist mans Nature and intend present death As the inferiour Globle yields unto us three Orders of all fruits of the Earth and Water common to things and kinds namely that some are wholsome unto men and necessary for life as is said of Wheat and Wine Some are indifferent and mean as is said of Cassia of Lettice Polypody and Rheubarb Some are altogether contrary to mans Nature as Arsenick Hemlock Woolf-bane Even so we distinguish all the stars in the visible Heaven into three Orders First some stars have the anatomy of Soundness whose resolutions are necessary for the health of Animals and they have also the sincere conditions of Nutriment neither is there any poisonful property found in them by sense or effect These stars answer in the inferiour Globe to Gold Silver Gemms Balmmint Rose Wheat Wine Milk Secondly some stars have tinctures and medicamental properties but yet lighter admixt in their exaltations and their resolutions which rise at the several times of the year and are frequent These stars in the inferiour Globe agree with Lettice Cassia Cuckowpintle Arsemart Agarick and others of this kind Thirdly some stars in the resolutions of the seeds shew the poisonful properties of Arsenick Auripigmentum Sulphur Woolf-bane Libberdsbane by manifest testimonies of the effects These stars in the inferiour sphere have these nigh and of affinity with them namely Mercury Antimony Arsenick Sulphur Woolfbane Scammony Ellebor the herb Devils Milk Colocynth c. From these it is manifest that natural things and fruits of the Elements as well of the superiour as of the inferiour sphere are divided into three Orders Into those which are benign and friendly unto mans Nature and into those which are indifferent and mean and lastly into those which are extreme hurtful and bring present death and destruction as all fruits of aliments and resolutions of seeds whether they be alimentary or medicamentary or extreme hurtful CHAP. VII Of the differences of Stars of which some Benign some Malicious THough it be not our purpose to handle of the differences of stars in this place and to explain their Nature and properties in particular Seeing that it belongs rather to Astronomy and Astrology notwithstanding seeing that this knowledge of stars in this Doctrine is especially required we will briefly say somewhat of it The first of all we must consider which Planets are benign which are malicious and hurtful and this of erring stars Concerning the fixt stars we have distributed them into seven Orders cap. 1. of this Treatise and that in regard of the Planets and dominant stars to whom the fixt stars do as it were serve and imitate the Nature of their dominant Planets That the benignity and clemency as on the contrary the malignity of the Planets might be made manifest we have divided the erring Stars or Planets into two kinds The clement or benign and the malignant The benign or clement Planets are the Sun Jupiter Venus Mercurius The malicious or malignant are Mars and Saturn The indifferent Planet is the Moon After the same manner the signs of the Zodiack are to be explained which the Planets or erring Stars illustrate and illuminate and for the Nature of the guests the Houses or Guesthouses are made friendly or malignant Notwithstanding for the most part they shew and exercise their malice in their proper houses as Saturn in Aquarius Capricorn and Libra which is the house of exaltation So Mars in Aries Scorpio and in Capricorn which is the house of exaltation It is to be observed that there are four triplicities of the Stars in the Zodiack and there are three signs attributed to every Planet which are indued either with good or malignant qualities by reason of the quality of their Planet Again those signs in the Zodiack are twofold in regard of the Elements Some are fiery and aery Some watery and earthly Saturn hath a triplicity in the fiery and aery signs Mars in the watery and earthly signs so that Saturn and Mars are thought to comprehend the whole necessity of things by their malignity for the Moon and Venus which otherwise are numbred amongst the benign and mild Planets when they are in the ends of Saturn or Mars they are made partakers of their malignity so that they are deprived of their good and friendly Nature unto men and take upon them the unfriendly Nature and malignant to their inseriours for these signs which are very much Saturnal and too much Martial are hurtful and unfriendly spirits naturally to the spirit so that we say the Signs or Planets are infortunate and contrary to mans Nature by Saturn or Mars unless they be in their Houses or Kingdoms that is either when they are there or have their Aspect thither either in Opposite or Quadrate We call the Opposite Aspect that which is betwixt those which are distant very far amongst themselves We call the Quadrate Aspect that when as one is distant from another the fourth part of the Heaven that is it is distant the third space of the signs and then the confluence doth somewhat mitigate the malice of Mars so Jupiter doth temperate the malignity of Saturn and bruises his poisonful glass The Aspect of Saturn or Mars unto the Moon exists every where ill and malignant And thus much of the Nature Property and Difference of the erring stars Now concerning the fixt stars and especially the signs All are not indued with poisonful and malignant properties manifestly but use and experience hath observed four namely Piscis Aquarius Scorpio and Cancer these are also malignant Pleiades Hyades the Constellations of Pisces which represent stupefactive somniferous Poppies and the Mandrakes tinctures as also the Sulphureous and Vitriol tinctures In like manner Bootes and Vrsae have the poisonful properties of Aquarius so also of Scorpio and Cancer The Satuâ—nine and Martial stars obtain the poisonful properties but more forcible and grievous of Auâ—ipigmental spirits Arsenick Armonial and Sulphureal spirits The revolutions or circular motions of these stars are made with great Eclipses and Conjunctions Hippocrates lib. Epidem
grievousness of the Fever five grains of Laudanum and therewith the Fever was expelled and he sleeped six whole hours The grains of the oil of Pearls and the herb Sena administred in his proper liquor extinguishes the inflammation of the Brain The strengthning of the Brain is made by the green liquor of Silver the secret of Vitriol the oil of Bread the liquor of Saphire the liquor of Musk the balm of Sulphur the water of Silver The tincture of oriental Saffron being applied about the Nostrils or Temples will help the Frentick or Sottish men Bartholomeus extols and commends the essence of Topaze lib. 16. cap. 96. The Urine of the Frentick which is of a pale colour fore-shews and Prognosticates death green Urine with a green circle shews the most present danger of death The said green Liquor of Silver being an Excellent Medicine for all Infirmities of the Brain is thus prepared â„ž pure Silver dissolve it in Aqua fortis and precipitate it with Salt water then dulcifie the Calx with hot common water the more the better till it be fully free from the Salt tast which being done mix it well with flowrs of Sulphur then reveâ—berate it under a Muffel to a vrey subtil Calx upon which put a high rectified Spirit of Wine Tartarized and set them to digest in Balaneo moneth then distil off the Spirit of Wine and return it on again which work of Cohobation must be reiterated seven times and then have you your foresaid Calx in a Liquor which you must set in Balneo again to digest a moneth then will it become a pure green juice most prevalent in all affects of the Brain much conducing against the Stone in Reins and Bladder and very succesful in all hot Fevers CHAP. IV. Of Out-raging Madness WHen black Choler is begot by the adustion of melancholy or bloud or yellow choler then the Mania invadeth and possesseth which comes often unto the melancholy waxing hot This black humour as likewise melancholy is collected sometimes in the films of the heart sometime in the whole body sometime in the head alone when this humour is hot it causes horrible and Out-raging doting but if it puâ—rifie Of the Causes Differences and Cure of the Mania Cap. 1. Of the Treatise of Diseases of Mad-men The Mania is a great Sottishness without a Fever it bringeth a Fever but if it only boil vehemently then it causeth a solitary Out-raging madness without a Fever and also it adjoyneth the signs The Mania is of us called a furor or Out-raging madness which immitateth the doting of the melancholick neither in thought word or deed but yet with brawling chiding and shouting as likewise the man possest with it is of a terrible look Again the Mania doth impel and possesse the patients with a greater violence and trouble and perturbation of the mind so that they invade men immodestly and fiercely like wild beasts with their teeth nâ—ils and hands The signs and proper adjuncts of those which are Out-raging are demonstrated by experience The cause in which all the Galenists insist and agree of shall be manifested by Paracelsus whether it be true or false The Mania according unto Paracelsus is twofold The one which invadeth a sound man and it is a disease the other is a symptom of a disease as in the Plague and Fevers Paracelsus in his book de morbis amentum writes in the second Chap. that the Mania rises from three principles or beginnings and in the same Chap. he divides the Mania into two kinds The one is that which rises from pain when as a vapour remains in the Head the other riseth from sublimation and is coagulated in the Head In the Cure we must respect these two causes viz. that the vapours from pain be consumed and dissipated and that that be resolved and reduced which is coagulated of sublimation The Mania hath his original either from Bloud Veins Ventricle Intestines Reins Liver Spirit of Urine and the Lungs de morb amentium cap. 2. It cannot be sufficiently known where the mine and procreant cause of the Mania is for it is an astral disease The true cause of Mania is in what part of the body soever Mercury lyeth hid and is reverberated into slime and is dissolved in very strong water which being dissolved is mixt with the spirit of life and inflames it there is such a subtileness in this strong water that it will not bide in the bottom but rises up unto the top The extreme acrimony of that humour appears from sneesing which provoking quality rises from the greatest acretion which comes to pass if any receive in at his Nostrils the smell of the spirits of Aqua fortis Salt and Vitriol This reverberation of Mercury proceeds from too much heat as for example If the spirit of Salt be mixt with the spirit of life it is of such a subtilty and power that as soon as it comes to the Brain it causes the Mania and extreme madness The Cure of the Mania is twofold the one which refrigerates and coagulates the faulting matter The other which altogether disperses and consumes the matter of which it is generated The refrigeration and coagulation of the matter faulting is caused by the curing of the Falling-sickness Receive of the oil of Camphora Ê’ of the oil of Musk Ê’ mix them and administer them at every time This medicine is most excellent in the cure of the Mania for it doth wonderfully coagulace the matter of the Mania and it extinguisheth the heat of the body and the boiling of the bloud and it altereth the matter as cold changes Water into Air. This oil may be applyed outwardly about the Templâ—s and Fore-head Also these remove the Out-raging madness by a secret specifical vertue The quintessence of Silver the quintessence of Lead the quintessence of Iron the quintessence of Quicksilver the dissolving of Christal and Coral so also the appropriate extraction of Camphora the extraction of Gold The medicines which remove the hurtful matter of the Mania are these which may be applyed either outwardly or inwardly Chief sleeping medicines the quintessence of Mandragora of Opiates of the Poppy Henbane The chief Cure of the Mania consists in Laudanum prepared with Pearl lib. 2. cap. 4. he setteth down a secret of Salt Peter which so strengthneth the Brain that neither turning of the Head nor the Phrensie nor Mania can hurt it By that Salt Peter he understands in that place distilled Salt Peter with the Spirit of Wine alcosiated and rectified Again let it be circulated untill it be made spiritual volatile and essential which essence is to be administred with claâ—ied Wine Pythopaeus says that he cured some which were Out-raging mad with the spirit of Lead Read Theophrastus Tom. 7. fol. 186. he understands by Gilla Salt Peter The said Laudanum prepared with Pearl â„ž old Opium â„¥ 4. cut it in thin slices put them in a Pewter dish so that they touch not
administred in the appropriated water removes and takes away the Falling-sickness though man hath been troubled with it for twenty years The Galenists administer Atomatical medicines and Muscatum Diacastorium Diamoschatum Dulce Elplerisarcaticon Hieralogodion and Oleum Benedictum Phrisius in speculo medicinali and Ruffus in Autidotario commends syrup of Stecados Phrisius in speculo fol. 67. administers Magna Therica and Sage pillulae faetidae The Galenists say that conserves or conduits and also Trochisses and Eclegmata respect and cure the head and other cold distemperatures of the sinews of the head so also the flowrs of Rosemary and of Galingale and of Marigold with Betony and Briony administred in the morning and evening of the quantity of a Walnut Sometime Aromatical powders are mixt with Sugar or appropriated syrup which mixture they call a confection But certainly it is well said of some of more sincere Philosophy that the Galenists flatter and palliate the diseases but they do not cure them which the experience of the cure of the Falling-sickness doth testifie for if crude and imperfect medicaments effect nothing in the curing of the Falling-sickness then the sick are neglected of those false Physicians as if they were incurable for the cure of the Falling-sickness is not in Sage Marigold and Marjorum It is no wonder that they believe not the original of the Falling-sickness when as they cannot see it with their sense The Remedies of the Falling-sickness are twofold Coporal and Spiritual some are good for the younger sort only some for old men some for maids some for old Women some cure by coldness not by that external quality but by the Narcotical and coagulative virtue some cure by their specifical vertue some by their sleeping power and vertue The oil of Amber is good for Infants and the younger sort one drop of it being administred in the water of Fennel unto the Infants so also the water of Selondine is most excellent for the younger sort and Infants being anointed upon their nostrils as the oil of Amberâ—is likewise it is good for them to receive ij drops of the oil of Corals and one drop of Aurum potabile at the first dosis at the second dosis two drops at the third dosis three drops at the fourth dosis four drops it is a most strong thing therefore it is to be given with judgment Let three drops of the oil of Amber be administred in the liquor of the water of the Lillies of the Vallies unto the younger which are about 18. or 19. years of age Let there be taken also yellow oil from the smoak of Oaks and let ij drops be administred to the more aged in the water of the Lillies of the Vallies and they will take away and remove the Falling sickness The remedies of the Falling-sickness are fourfold in The 16. Chap. below dâ— morbis pulmonum regard of the four Elements The most grievous fiery Falling-sickness is cured by the essence of Antimony Paracel in Laboryntho fol. 222. The destroyer of the Microcosm takes unto it Realgar that is the being of poison and threatneth death unto him by infection The conserver of the Microcosm takes unto it the slowrs of Antimony and overcomes the destroyer if so be they be conferred with the internal Balm of mans Nature they are the chief and especial vertues against all the kinds of poison The aiery Falling-sickness is also expelled by the secret of Selondine The aiery Falling-sickness is cured by Theriniâ—tis which is a kind of Manna and there is the same signature of it and the Plantain The essence of crystal and the Misledine of the Oak cure the watery Falling-sickness The Falling-sickness from the stars of the Earth is cured by the seed extracted of Piony Poppy The universal remedies are potable Gold quintessence of Gold the magistery of Pearls the tincture of Corals the magiâ—â—ery of Antimony external Sulphur Reverberated Mercury the oil and plegm of Roman Vitriol called the Hungarian Vitriol and the water of crude Tartar of the oil and plegm of Vitriol in water or wine in the morning or at night for the consuming of the paroxism you may read more in the book de morbis amentium sub cura caduci in Paracel tract 2. cap. 1. The compound Indications â„ž of Camphora the shaving of an Elks hoof of the scul of man of Unicorns horn of all the kinds of Saunders of each of these Ê’ of Corals of Oaks misledine of the grains of peony of each Ê’ij let all be pulverized most small and let them be put into a pound of the secret of Vitriol let them be digested for a moneth and afterward administer them Muffetus in dialog apolog fol. 45. Joannes Crato after many dimications with the Chymists was wont to call native Lead the Loadstone Michael in Apol. fol. 167. natural Cinnaber and not factitious is the chief secret unto the Epileptick The green Spirit of Vitriol which cureth all sorts of Falling-sickness is thus prepared â„ž blue Hungarian Vitriol distill the fleam from it and when the Spirit beginneth to ascend change the Receiver and receive the Spirit by it self if you will or rather distill off only the fleam Then take fresh Vitriol and distill all its fleam as before so do with more fresh Vitriol untill you have store of the fleam â„ž then pure fresh Vitriol and dissolve it in all the said fleam that you distilled and being well dissolved put it in a very high glass with an Alembeck upon it and a receiver well luted unto it then in ashes distill the green Sâ—iâ—it But be sure that your glass be high and tapering a Bolt head is best so that at very end it be so narrow as the smallest head that is made may but go on else the fleam will come over with the spirit and so weaken it and lessen its effect This spirit being carefully distilled will be like a spirit of wine and you may administer of it a spoonful at a time for any Falling-sickness which it cureth with much ease and safety CHAP. VIII Of the Glewish moisture THe glewish matter is a glew of his part from which it proceeds from that part there rises a pain and paroxism the radical matter from which the actions proceed being separated and forsaking the member as the Apoplexy or Paralysis The Apoplexy is when as this glewish moisture forsaketh The Apoplexy is a preternatural affect of the head whereby the whole body is suddenly deprived of sense and motion with the hinderance of breathing a principal member The Paralysis is when it forsaketh the less principal member as sinews muscles eyes ears hands arms sides and feet The glew of the body is a nutriment of his member What the glew is and a conservation of the retentive and motive vertue from the faculties of the digestive vertue This glew hath an attractive retentive and motive vertue for example whatsoever the Reins attract the glew attracteth that
been well purged by Antimony being dissolved pour therein as much oil of Vitriol then abstract the oil of Vitriol from it again then pour on as before and draw it off again thus cohobate it twelve times every time have a care that your Gold be not left dry but somewhat moist and therefore the surest way were to perform this work in a boiling Balneo Having then cohobated it twelve times the last time drawing off the oil of Vitriol and oil of Salt pour upon your Gold the best spirit of wine rectified to the highest and set it in a Cellar or some cool place where let it stand for some dayes and part of the Gold will crystalize take out those Crystals and distil off some of the water and set the rest to crystalize as before so do until all your Gold be in Crystals which dry upon clean brown paper in warm air Take the dry crystals make them into subtil powder and pour upon them good spirit of wine then put them for some dayes to digest in a gentle Balneo afterward abstract your spirit of wine by degrees very gently and the true Essence of Gold will remain behind like an oil CHAP. IX Of the Spasm THough the Spasm be properly a kind of the Falling-sickness and is referred of Paracel lib. 3. Paragraph parag 30. unto the cure of the Falling-sickness notwithstanding seeing it is an insolent The Spasm is a preteternatual motion whereby the body is pulled violently and continually into a preternatural place either wholly or in part with an impotency of bending and acute symptom and hurt of the sensitive and motive faculty which is able to kill man we will handle briefly of it in this Chapter De tartarolib 2. tract 2. cap. 1. The spasm is not a disease but a fore-runner of adisease Parag. lib. 3. Parag. 3. The cure of the spasm is referred unto the Falling-sickness De tartaro lib. 2. tract 1. cap. 5. 6. The Tetanus contracts the members the spasm extends them Read Thurnenseriusin Neptuna lib. 6. cap. 44. The convulsion is a torpor therefore The definition of the Spasm the spasm or convulsion is a perpetual voluntary contraction of the sinews and muscles unto their original The Galenists say that the cause of the spasm is contained in the beginning of the Back-bone and it somtime infests and annoys the whole body sometime some parts That which is of the whole body doth so straitly gird it that it cannot be bended when the body is crooked forward then it is Emprostothonos when it is crooked backward Emprostothonos Opistothonos Tetanus then it is Opistothonos when it is equally bent then it is Tetanus that is a distention a convulsion of the parts sometime it is in the eye in the skin of the fore-head in the root of the tongue the chin in the lips whereupon the girning laughter is caused sometime The girning laughtor it is in the arm in the hand and the thigh and in that sinew or muscle which is destinated for the motion of the member There are many causes of the Convulsion with the The cause of Convulsion Galenists all which Hippocrates reduceth unto two Into evacuation and repletion Convulsions are caused from evacuation which arise from a burning Fever or from the potion Ellebor or some other medicaments or from immoderate effusion of bloud or from immoderate watchings or from hunger or from immoderate labour But every Convulsion which rises from flegm or drunkenness surfetting or from the supprest accustomed evacuations or from the intermitted evitation is to be referred unto repletion They make the immediate cause of it to be flegm impinged fast in the sinew Besides these two kinds they bring another which they call a flatulent Convulsion The cause of it is a clammy and crass vapour implanted in the couples of the sinews and here they come at last unto Paracelsus and explain in some sort the cause of the Convulsion Paracelsus in his tract de Cholica writes that winds are generated and caused The cause according unto Paracelsus from too much meat or drink and crudities which penetrates through the whole body and are exasperated by anger The spirit of Salt is mixt with the wind and peirces through all the pores of the body and enters into the concavities joynts glew and spirits of it In those places in which it is conservant it causes a Convulsion or Spasm The paroxism dures until the wind and spirit of Salt be consumed De morbis amentium tract 1. cap. 1. de origine suffocationis intellectus he saith that the spasm is generated from cold that is from wind and acetosity that is the spirit of Salt until the wind and spirit of Salt do vanish the symptom is to be marked to what diseases the spasm chances The spasm concurs Unto what diseases the Spasm happons in the Apoplexy of the heart in the red Jaundies in the Plague in Wounds in the gutta in the suffocation of the understanding in the Falling-sickness in the Cholick and falling disease of the matrix The especial indication is to comfort and strengthen The intornal indication of curing the interiour members with internal medicaments Furthermore the cure of it is referred of Paracelsus unto the Falling-sickness to cherish and corroborate the external members and sinews with calefying medicaments you may read the internal cure and medicaments at the end of the Falling-sickness The external medicaments are Oils and Balms which are to be applied in the affected place as the oil of Euphorbium and the essence of Euphorbium corrected and inwardly applied and administred let the dosis be ℈ with a competent decoction It is very available against the Paralysis and Spasm and it evacuates the flegm though clammy crass and impinged or fastned in the sinews or joynts without perturbation The essence of Castorium Bevers stone extracted with the spirit of wine a drop of which being administred with the decoction of Rosemary flowrs Sage and Betony cures the trembling Convulsion and all the hurts of the sinews Outwardly there may be applied in the Convulsion Sage and Betony especially if it be be caused from evacuation or repletion and when those things ought to be evacuated which are contained in the sinews preternaturally The oil of Turpentine distilled and applied inwardly and outwardly cures the Convulsion and Spasm by it the Back-bone may be knit and the place of the Navel and also of the affected place The essence of temperatory administred cures all the kinds of the spasm Emprostothonos Opistothonos and Tetanus Carrecterius Inherberiosus de 4. gradu Canceri writes â—ol 2 6. of the Water-lilly which hath red and white flowrs it being dried in the Septentrional shade and being hanged upon the roof of the house or the walls he which hath the Spasm or Convulsion will be cured in a moment of time All simples do perform this which encrease in the waters
fol. 233. saith that he which hath the Uva or inflammation of the jaws let him take Salentine and burn it in a pot and use it with honey and water Mathiolus against Dioscorides Alexander Benedictus lib 7. cap. 5. 6. and Gualterus Ruffius in Germanica gorargia last Chap. and last part cap. 29. The Syrup of Jujuba and Violets ana mixt together cures the hurt jaws also take the diamorum of prune water and the juice of roses and mix them the mixture being hot let there be made a Gargarism or diamorum â„¥ with the water of Sage and Prunes ana â„¥ ij and the spirit of wine mixt with Camphora â„¥ ss let them be mixt for a Gargarism A notable The Ulcers of the jaws water for all the Ulcers of the jaws Take the half quart of the spirit of wine of Camphora put it in the spirit of wine let them stand covered over-night the next day take one quart of Rhenish wine and put unto them the powderings of Alume Ê’â—iij of Frankinsence Mastick and Myrth ana â„¥ ss and make them boil tâ—ke them from the â—ire and pour in the spirit of wine with Camphora and boil it untill the third part be consumed strain it and keept in a glass Paracelsus de tartaro lib. 2. cap. 5. There is the same cure of the pruâ—ella and the Plague He that will cure the prunella totally it is necessary The cure of the prunella that first he cure the Fever for the prunella or Squincy rises from the Fever in regard of the tongue or jaws The Fever rises from the opilation of the Liver the opilation from the poison of Arsenick Our general Diaphoreticks expel this Arsenicks poison altogether so also our Alexipharmacum or preservative against poison removes these obstructions and comforts nature and so the Fever ceases The chief medicine is the Laudanum perlatum of Paracelsus given in the water of prunes for it extinguishes the heat of the spirits but it doth not remove the cause it self afterwards there must a regard be had of the tongue and jaws The best medicine for the Squincy is common salt prepared and dissolved Cure of the Squincy in the water of prunes and let there be made a Gargarism thrice in the day in the morning noon and night shave the tongue and wash it with Fountain water let the knife be made of Willow wherewith thou shavest the tongue this is more often proved in Ungaria Saluiter is thus prepared Take Salt Peter melt it in a mortar which Goldsmiths use and put into it being melted a little Sulâ—hur of the magnitude of two pease by this means it is purged from impurities and becomes crystaline Those which have the Squincy let them eschew baths Read Phrisius in spâ—culo lib. 2. part 3. cap. 1. Gualâ—erus Riffius in Chirurgia Germ. and last part Chap. 30. Bartholomeus Anglus lib. 7. cap. 27. Alexander Benedictus lib. 7. cap. 15. unto the 27. Read Cataphrastus de ulceribus cap. 41. So also take two or three of the fishes Cancer put them in a mortar bruise them affuse with he distilled Vinegar of wine and Rosewater mix them and strain them through a cloth and make a Garâ—arism Theophrastus tractat 2. de tartaro cap. 1. saith that the prunella is an inclusion of the air in the â—iver therefore when this air hath an egress it is pestilent Take of prune water of purged Laudanum mix them c. The cure of it is the same with the cure of the Plague CHAP. XVI Of the hurts of the Lungs their Symptoms causes and Signs BY the name of Lungs we understand all the vessels which are in them and the rough artery The affections which happen unto the Lungs are the peripneumonia obstruction the imposthume and such like The obstruction is frequent in the Lungs as in other more principal Members or Bowels The causes of The causes of the obstruction of the Lungs the obstructions in the lungs are diverse The aboundance and clamminess and thickness of humours the Grando the Stone or liquid and coagulated tartar The tartar is the cause of many obstructions all obstructions are cured by tartar The affections which rise from the obstructions of the Lungs are the Cough the Asthma the strangling Rheum and oftentimes the Phthisis The aboundance of humours flowing into that only membrane which compasseth the throat with pain and also stopping it obscures the voice and brings hoarsness The too much roughness of the throat or artery whether it be caused from smoke or crying or cold causes this hoarsness But if the distillation fall into the hollow pipe of the throat it causes a little cough with a certain straitning of the provoking acrimony But if it fall into the breast and Lungs it causes a great Cough bursting out from the bottom of the breast This comes to pass when Nature endeavours to cast forth any thing which is molestuous by his acrimony or obstruction The Cough is a preternstural sounding motion of the Lungs accompanied with the violent blowing with a violent blowing and sending forth of breath even as when any thing falls into the throat while we eat or drink But certainly if that which distils into the Lungs be very small then it is hardly cast forth by coughing but much more hard it is and difficult to cough forth that which is crass and clammy in the Lungs neither can it easily be wiped away or removed or blown forth by breathing When the distillation is little and light then the symptoms which accompany it are light but when much and grievous distillation comes suddenly upon one then a certain strangling difficulty of breathing vexes him and he breaths often swiftly and very vehemently Furthermore the crass and clammy humour which possesses the Lungs and his artery troubles one The dry Cough with a dry cough vehemently by which any thing is scarcely extended it causes the breathing to be difficult and while one breaths it causes a ratling or noise in the The cause of the noise in the throat while one breaths The cause of the Cough from Paracelsus throat because it â—ops the passages by which breath should go forth That which Paracelsus doth write doth not repugn these that we have said he saith that a cough is generated from tartar by tartar he doth not only understand the sand hail like matter and stones but every crass slimy and excrementitious and clammy matter which at length comes to be tartar This crass and clammy humour with the time thickneth and dryeth more and more notwithstanding by the force of heat it comes to be a vitreous or slimy flegm or tartar of things An aboundance of it being collected in the pipes of the Lungs produces the Asthma The Asthma is a great difficulty of breathing accompanyed with a sound perceived either inwardly or outwardly in the breast The Dysponia is a difficulty of breathing to which those are obnoxious which are
of Centory Almond and Bitterwort are counted secrets c. The living Spider hanged about the neck in a Nutshel upon the fork of the breast untill the disease be expelled which is in five or six dayes space at the death of the Spider This specifical is to be applyed when the Jaundies is an Epidemical disease The Jaundies of the principal members is thus to be known namely when it cannot be cured by the help of purgations In brief all diseases which cannot be helped by the help of purgations consist of Jaundies unless certain and apparent significations of the tartar or the other disease be repugned from hence are many chronical diseases These are signs of all the members viz. The colour of the face from the Liver debilitation compression of the stomach heaviness of the shoulders pain of the back pain of the back-bone and principal members loathing disdain of meat defect of sleep and that at length they become to have the Paralysis the cure of this is made by Diaphoreticks of Mercury and Antimony If one which hath the tartar be put into a bath the pain is quickly expelled by Raperoots CHAP. XXII Of the Diseases of the Milt and the Causes and Signs of them THe more grievous diseases of the Milt The Apostem of the Milt is a tumour caused from crass and lent humour in the substance of the Milt besides Nature The Schirrus is when the humour thickneth and hardneth in the Milt by reason of the resolution of humid and small parts by heat The inflammation is when the humour boileth in the Milt and so distends the substance of it and makes a tumour preternaturally are the distending tumour the obstruction the Schirrhus and inflammation Read the Galenists and Symphorianus for the causes of these diseases c. The cure The liquor of tartar expels all the affects of the Milt Paracels lib. 2. de viribus memb cap. 8. so also the oil of Tamarisk and the tincture of Hearts-tongue cure all the affects of the Milt Those medicaments do also the same which resolve reduce and consume the tartar and which open obstructions The water of Sulphur and Pitch or Bitumen open obstructions so doth Ale made with Hearts-tongue Barthol Anglus lib. 16. cap. 45. Hot iron if it be extinguished ofen in wine or milk it makes the wine or milk to cure the diseases of the Milt and other diseases The general medicine of the Galenists against all the affects of the Milt is the root China Concerning the Liver and Spleen indurated read Galen de arte curativa lib. 2. cap. 5. Paracelsus de morb tartareis cap. 14. In the tartar all the kinds of poison are when the poison of tartar and the flowrs of tartar go forth and disperse they infect the vital Elements CHAP. XXIII Of the diseases of the middle of the bowels or Mesenterium of that part which is called Pancreas COncerning the tartar of the Mesaraical veins and the symptoms thereof read Paracels lib. 3. paramir de origine morbor ex tribus principiis parag lib. 1. de tartaro tractat 2. cap. 3. Tartar is begot in all the cavities passages and vessels of the whole body as also in the Mesentery and mesaraical veins which are conveyed from the Belly to the Liver Tartar being heapt and collected by daily nutrition and impression at length obstructs the veins whereby aliment may less be able to attract aliment from the Liver These veins being obstructed the Liver and parts of the body being destitute of aliment fall into pining and consumption But when that tartar sends forth his flowrs which are the poison of tartar for in the tartar all the kinds of poison are which are indued with malignant qualities then they infect the vital Elements from whence inflammations and other incommodities issue Fernelius a most Judicious man writes thus of the mesenterium and that which is called pancreas lib. 6. de partium morbis symptomatis cap. 7. I affirm saith he and profess that I have oftentimes marked the causes in these places of the choler melancholy Diarrhaea dysenteria cachexia atrophia languor of lingting and erring Fevers and lastly of occult diseases by whose expulsion and removal health is restored Obscurity hath been a cause to many of ignorance and why the affects of these parts are pretermitted and not celebrated in the writs of old writers The The cure tartar in the mesentery and mesaraical veins which is often the cause of the phthisis fever inflammation and most grievous diseases as well chronical as acute is resolved reduced and consumed by true precipitated Mercury so also the confections of Antimony which works by vomit and stool Little or nothing is effected by other medicaments in this case the inflammation being present Diaphoreticks and such as corroborate nature and the vital Elements are to be administred of which we have often spoken The said true precipitated Mercury prepare thus â„ž pure crude Mercury dissolve it in good Aquafortis made with two parts Vitriol and one part Salt Peter being all dissolved distill off all the Aquafortis at last with strong fire and then put fresh Aquafortis upon the remaining Mercury which also distill from it again and so do the third time with fresh Aquafortis so will the Mercury remain behind red as Cinaber upon which pour a well rectified oil of Vitriol and distill it off strongly again then pour it on again and distill it off as before thus cohobate with the same oil of Vitriol six times and after that with good spirit of wine ten times then with the distilled water of Bugloss and Borage dulcifie it Lastly neal it red hot in a crucible and so is the true precipitated Mercury finished CHAP. XXIV Of the diseases of the Intestines and their Causes and Signs THe more grievous diseases of the Intestines are the Obstruction Astriction Inflammation Imposthume and Ulcer The obstruction interpels and hinders either the descending of the aliment or the evacuation of excrements which are especially functions of the Intestines The Obstruction of the Intestines according to Paracelsus is caused from tartar which is generated in Lib. 1. de tartaro tract â—â— cap. 2. fol. 224. the Intestines when the salt of the thing and the salt of Nature are commixt and when the excrementâ— of the belly stay longer in the Intestines This commixtion if it be continual and increased by little and little by the efficacy of heat at last it doth so incrass that it obstructs the Intestines altogether and doth as it were kill them and becometh the cause of occult and difficult diseases Fernelius saith we testifie that these are true which notwithstanding are not thought probable unto Galen This tartareous and styptick matter being collected long in the cavities of Colon and the blind gut sometime congeals into stones which stop the way altogether for the excrements and hinders them whereby they may less be able to descend to the belly
have a strong body he may be cured and there is hope of life but if the belly be melted and altogether ulcerated there is no hope of life The principal cause of the Dysentery is Gods punishment which is set down Levit. 26. and Deut. 28. God punishing man useth second causes as his instruments and infects the air with the properties of Saturn Arsenick Colocynth and Ellebor which men attracting by breathing do inquinate and corrupt the Balsam of life their body is transmutated by those corrosives purging tinctures so that the excrements may eject and cast forth the humid radical nutriment by the superiour The bloudy dejection of the belly and inferiour members The bloudy dejection of the belly is seldom caused of the imbecillity of the Liver often from the opened internal Haemorrhoides The Lumbrici or worms especially of all the parts The Lumbricy are great worms of the body do occupy and corrode the guts And these worms are of three kinds round broad and long small and short concerning which read Galen in Aphoris Hippocrat Comment 6. Sectione 26. Concerning the Causes and Signs thereof read the Galenists The Cholick and the Iliack differ 1. The Cholick is The difference of the Cholick and the Iliack in the gut which is called Colon but the Iliack is in the small gut which is called Ileon 2. The Iliack is above the Navel below the Ribs The Cholick is below the Navel 3. The pain of the Iliack is greater than the pain of the Cholick 4. The Iliack casts forth excrements and worms by Vomiting but so doth not the Cholick Theophrast saith that the Iliack passion of which we speak in the obstruction of the guts rises from tartar which sticks in the small guts Mix the fat of Yew with the oil of distilled Chammomum The Cure of the Iliack dip a linen cloth in it and put it upon the affected place and if the pain cease not give somewhat inwardly and this dissolves the tartar so also anoint the affected place with the oil of Juniper and Laurel-berries Barth Anglus lib. 7. cap. 8. It is cured also by the Salt and oil of common Salt or Sea-salt or Salgemmae Thurnens in pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. lib. 5. cap. 7. The Cholick is cured by the spirit of Vitriol three or The cure of the Cholick four drops of it being taken in water or by the Balm of Sulphur or oil of Turpentine The Cholick is begot from Salt therefore it is necessary that mans Salt and natural Salt of mans body be corrected by the Elemented Salts All kinds of stones which are found in the heads of Fishes being bruised and given in wine mitigate the cholical passion and bruise the stone which lyeth fixt in the Reins Theophrast saith that the constipation is to be removed and taken away by the quintessence of Corals and it cures the Cholick so also anoint the belly with the oil of Chammomum and put upon the round of the belly an hot ointment and a hot cloth The water of Quicksilver doth altogether expel the Cholick it hath a sowr taste whose process is thus Quicksilver is The preparation of the water 〈◊〉 Quicksilver first reduced into water then infuse other crude and purged Quicksilver into half of this water which turns into water and ascends the vessel Twelve or thirteen drops of the spirit of Turpentine administred in the appropriated or alone is a most present Remedy so is The cure of the Caeliaca Laudanum Opiatum The cure of the Caeliaca is that the obstruction of the Milt Mesenterium or Liver be taken away with medicaments which resolve the tartar and that the attractive vertue be strengthned For the curing of the Leintery let the tartar be expelled with the medicaments mentioned above in the obstruction Quercit de medic Spagir praeparat cap. 3. saith that the Spagirici extract a most subtil substance our of Iron especially out of steel which they make thinner than the water of the fornance And they prepare their crocus Martis forth of which they make an oil for the Diarrhaea Lienteria and Dysenteria and flux of the Liver and the corroboration of the Ventricle and all the Haemorrhaegies both internal and external it is a most excellent medicine and no biting medicine if the conserve of Roses be mixt with it Read the cited places There is a Caution to be annext that the flux of the belly must not be stayed too unseasonably and too suddenly with astringent medicines for that is wont to be done for the most part with the danger of life Such medicaments are to be given which strengthen Nature that it may expel contraries for it hath known best the mean and limit of staying or stopping neither are purgging medicines to be given which the Galenists counsel Terrasigillata with the common Lemnia put in the drink and let him still drink of it and sometime a piece of Lutum put to cures the Lyentery the Diarrhaea the Dysentery and divers fluxes of the belly Johannes Montanus saith that he cured very many with this medicament The Diarrhaea is cured by the water of the stone called Eat-flesh or by terra sigillata especially by the red terrasigillata or Lemnia Austriaca which is found and digged not far of from Neustadium Read Theophrast lib. 1. parag Titled de morbo dissoluto so also the first tract lib. 1. praeparationum lib. 1. tract 2. praepar tract 3. The general preservative method for the Dysentery is The preservative method reconciliation with God and in the next the air is to be altered with Laurel-berries and White-ash Let them take of Lingwort and Pimpernel ana ℥ ss of black and white Frankincense ℥ of Citrine and white Amber ℥ of Mastick Asedulcis and Camphora ana ℥ Let them be pulverized and commixt and insperst upon to coals Thirdly the body is to be purged from impurities and there must be a temperate diet Fourthly Alexipharmical and Diaphoretick medicines or pestilential potions are to be administred One day in the morning let him take of Alexipharmical Medicines about the quantity of two Pease The next day let him take three drops of Diaphoretick or Pestilential potion in a convenient drink This preserves from all infections and strengthens the balsame of nature As soon as any shall feel himself infected let him take The Curative method of Alexipharmicum the next day of the Pestilential potion or our Diaphoretick and this every other day he ought to continue some few days in taking of the Pestilential potion or Alexipharmicum untill the poison be alltogether expell'd All those have erred exceedingly which have endeavoured according to Galen to cure the Dysentery without antidotons expulsion of poison which experience testifies After the expulsion of the poyson let him use appropriated curatives prepared Spagirically about the magnitude of a bean until the Flux be stencht alltogether Let the younger sort take of it
about the quantity of a pease If that the sucking babes have this disease let their nurses take this medicine as also let the children take it in their milk The Curative is extracted from these which follow viz. from a piece The description of the Curative of Armenian clay crocus Martis terrasigillata strigoum Corals Haematites Tormentill Shepheards purse Plantain Bittany the yellow Gallingale Mastick Frankinsense and red Saunders Because they have almost lost their strength and have sought the Physician too late they must take the Laudanum of Paracelsus to the younger sort five grains must be given to those which are come to age ten grains must be given This is the most notable medicament whereby most dangerous symptoms are cured Read Paracels lib. 1. de morbo dissoluto The spirit of Vitriol by his sowerness kills those The Cure of the Worms worms four drops of it in broth drink or meat and the flowers of Sulphur and Salt of Sulphur do profit wonderfully The citrine Stecados boyl'd in wine expels all worms out of the belly The same is wrought by the oyl of wormwood anointed upon the Navel The oyl of bitter Almonds expels worms by bitterness Take an oxes gall whole and put it upon the Navel of the child and all the worms will fly out of the body Take earth-worms dryed and pulverised in milk or other liquor and they will expell all worms through the belly Theophrast in lib. de vermibus Cap. 10. Read the preparation of Tinn Copper and Turpentine Theophrastus bids us take against the worms embaulmed ale and drink it with wormwood So also with bruised Juniper it kills the worms Centoryexpels and kills all the worms The flowers of Maudlin decocted in wine make the worms come forth The water of the flowers of Peach and the extract of the flowers of the Birch being mixt and administred or every one given by it self expels the worms The powder of Tormentel effects the same Thurnens lib. 2. Cap. 15. in Pisone CHAP. XXVI Of the diseases of the Fundament THese diseases doe happen unto the fundament viz. Inflammation Impostume Fistula Rhagades Scissura Condyloma and Haemorrhois The inflammation is The inflammation of the fundament often wont to be caused in the fundament when the blood sends forth the flowers of the seed of Arsenick and deposes the Sulphureous Arsenical seeds in the flesh The Impostume remains from the inflammation which oftner bursts forth in the cavity of the rectum intestinum then in the skin though very much filth sooner prepares a way in the softer parts The Impostume being burst the Ulcer remains purulent and filthy and that in a short time degenerates into the Fistula The Rhagades rise from the salt of the Haemorrhoides yet it is The Rhagades are Clifts or long Cuts of the lips of the Fundament an acute salt c. There are long ulcers of the Fundament by which the laps of the compassing muscle of the straight gut are cut like to those which dilacerate the under lip hands and feet The Condyloma is a tubercle or push begot The Condyloma or Ficus is a little red tubercle about tâ—e circle of the Fundament straight in the root yet broad in the top The Haemorrhoides are the Flux of blood forth of the Orifices of those veyns which are opened in the side of the Fundament like a Wart Grape or Mulberry The Haemorrhoides is the opening of the mouth of the veyn which is in the fundament from whence the bloud flows as we see at many times of the year It is derived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the blood flows through it They call the Ficus Morsca or Morsica The Fundament falls down sometime of it self sometime by the violence of The falling of the Fundament is a hanging forth of the Gut of the Fundament without the Orifice of the Fundament avoiding and the compassing muscle of the straight gut is wholly inverted and turned The cause is the resolution or looseness of the muscle caused from the aboundant perfusion of humour by which reason it is observed that this disease is usual both to children and those which are come to years If any Inflammation happen it is to be cured by Diaphoreticks The Cure If an Ulcer remain from the Impostume when as it is not rightly cured by external medicaments it is to be cured by internal medicaments and potions The Rhagades and Condyloma are cured by the oyl of Turpentine and Cammomum and nointing of Eggs. So also by the Salt of Pellitory brought into liquor Paenotus tract de sale fol. 241. saith that the Haemorrhois and the blind and external Ficus or Marsea is cured by the water of Mercury Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. Cap. 7. So also by the water of Sulphur Pitch and Musk. So also by heâ—bs as Fengreek false Ditany Dodder and Lunary So in Pisone lib. 5. Cap. 2. anoint with the balsome of Sulphur of Rulandus Paracels de natura rerum lib. 9. not far from the end saith that this disease may be cured by the oyl of Turpentine Cammomum and eggs Let it be opened with corrosives as other ulcers but yet with such as do not hurt the straight gut as are white Vitriol Atramentum or black pitch The oyl of the Laurel and oleum Hispanicum are applied to stir up the internal Haemorrhoids The brayed Onion is good to stay the Flux of the Haemorrhoides Hogs Fennil applied after the manner of an emplaister and Rubifolia administred with the nointed fruit of Palm are good for the same Read Theophrastus lib. 1. praeparat tract 11. The oyl of Corals and the oyl of Iron have the preheminency in this cure and they are true medicaments from anatomy and signed art In the curing of the falling down of the fundament astringent Medicines are to be administred Take of the Armenian earth prepared of Mastick the blossome of the wild Pomegranat Capula Acorn and Sage mix them and make a powder sprinkle this powder upon a linnen cloth and put it in the fundament and thereby the ligaments of the Fundament are strengthened and the gut Colon which went forth The said Oyl of Iron is thus prepared â„ž good spirit of Salt and as much true spirit of Vitriol distill them over together and look well to your fire leâ—t the glass break in that double spirit dissolve clean filings of Needles filter the solution through brown paper then put it in a glass Cucurbite set thereon an Alembick lute a large receiver to it then give fire by degrees distilling first the fleam then with stronger fire the Spirits so long as any will come over then let it cool and in the Alembick you shall find flowers which set in a cool and moist air and they will dissolve into pure red Oyl which keep for you use CHAP. XXVII Of the Diseases of the Reins their causes and signs FEw diseases happen unto the
and it will dissolve and expel the stone very strongly Take of Saxifrage Fennil Parsley Pepper Smallage Millet Gold and Sperage in one spoonful of hot water and it will bruise the stone within two days So also of Lethontrib as Taberna Montanus in his book of Physick part 2. cap. 17. Some take Ivie and mix it with water of Parsley and give this mixture evening and morning If any cannot make water for the stone let him drink Juniper water Read the Archidox of Theophrast de baccis Juniperi This is a most approved medicine against the stone and all the affects of urine viz. Disuria Stranguria and Ischuria Take of Salnitrum lib. 1. â—let it be burnt in a melting pot otherwise the best matter will go out then put some particles of Saltpeter by little and little into the red melting pot so the fierceness of Saltpeter doth not fly away which otherwise is wont to happen in common preparations In the hot earthen pot Saltpeter is changed into common salt let it be dissolved in the spirit of wine and administred in the bath So Saltpeter resolves the salt of tartar and expels it by urine The sweet Diaphoretick Mercury cures all ulcerations of the superiour ureter bladder and yard The Gonorrhaea is cured by the sweet balsame of tartar The essence of Pearls cures the impotence of Venery in as much as it rises from the solution of strength or obstruction of the bowels The tincture essence and solution of Corals effect the same The Inflammation of the bladder is extinguished by Alexipharmical and Diaphoretick medicines Theophrast in his book de veneno saith that the Stranguria and Disuria are cured by the expelling of poyson in the stomack this is the reason because the root Mine or cause of the Stranguria and Disuria lye hidden in the ventricle the root being expell'd the flower or fruit is removed which it hath produced in the stomack and transmitted to the bladder Penotus tract de Salibus fol. 226. Those which cannot retain their urine let them burn the Bladders of Goats and pulverise them and put unto them of the Salt of Saint Johns wort which is to be drunk with wine The Salt of Antimony is a secret in the Strangury and Disuria The urine of the spotted beast congeals into a stone which is called Lincurius and it cures the dropping of urine as also if it be drunk it expels the stone of the bladder A Potion against the Stranguria Take of benedictum laxativum of the water of Fennel and Parsley mix them and let them be given to drink betimes in the morning with a fasting stomach and it expels the Strangurie You may read more in Alexander Benedict lib. 23. cap. 26. c. and pag. 542. the title is adurinae stillicidia Phrisius in speculo part 4. lib. 2. tract 7. cap. 5. Theophrast lib. 1. de morbo dissoluto Cardan lib. 1. cap. 1. de rebus mirabilibus saith that Hippocrates administred the juice of the Beetle for the Strangurie Ale made with Mallow takes away the obstruction of the passages of urine The spirits Vitriol and almost all salts even the subtilties of Saltpeter common Salt sal maris and sal gemmae cure the affects of the bladder Thurnens in Pisone lib. 4. cap. 7. fol. 118. 119. CHAP. XXIX Of the diseases of the Cods their Causes and Signs THe Cods and the Testicles which are contained in them are both tabefacted and diseased with the Inflammation and hard Schirrous tumour and with all the kinds of the The Inflammatory Sulphureous and Arsnick Spirits beginning to bud in the Cods and Testicles bring forth their flowers agreeable to the root and then the Cods are distended with a tumour there also accompany this tumour hardness redness heat and a launcing pain which is sharpened by a light touch The Fever for the most accompanies it and the ill cured Inflammation oftentimes it leaves a tumour the proper heat being extinguished redness heat and pain are removed only hardness persists and continues something of which for the most part remains incurable The Inflammation of the Cods and Testicles is poysonful The Cure and therefore it is to be expell'd by Alexipharmical and Diaphoretick medicines as also their concomitating symptoms The juice of the notable herb Hernaria being affused with wine stays the descent or falling down of the guts in the space of nine days as also the disease is so cured thereby that it will not invade again The juice of Enula Campana with the juice of Rue doth very much avail with those which have the bursting or falling down of guts especially if the rupture or bursting be from wind so also the subtilties of common Salt Sal maris and Sal gemmae are very effective The wild Cumin boiled in wine and gum put to it and applied after the manner of a plaister doth most excellently cure it The herb Flixwort is a chief secret in the Rupture Inwardly in the Rupture of the Navel take the herb Panax apply or lay it on a Dogs skin and put it upon the Navel and it will hinder the egress of the guts Read Rulandus de thermis pag. 161. In the tumour of the one seâ—â—icle and the pains of the veyns about the Croines administer two or three drops of Vitriol in the spirit of wine the next day in the spirit of Turpentine after the same manner CHAP. XXX Of the affects of the Womb their Causes and Signs THe Inflammation of the Womb as of the other parts proceeds from the being of poyson whose generation depends of the superiour causes Paracels in Chirurg tract 4. lib. 3. places the Cancer The Cancer is a hard malignant rough and pale tumour possessing and exulcerating some member of the body amongst the affects which is not only generated in the breast or Paps of Women and Shoulders of Men but in the ribs ventricle arm feet matrix or in the neck of womens privity and it is as well begot in men as women from the Realger of blood and it is a Mercurical salt of transplantation The Schirrhus of the womb is caused from tartar effused through the substance of the womb there congealed Paracels de origine morborum invisibilium saith that the Mass is generated from the Image and similitude of the copulation and that it is a monster of the imagination The cure the root Fosterer and Mine of Inflammation is the same in all the parts though the vehemency of the symptoms differ The same cure The Ulcer is more easily cured by internal and specifical medicaments than external and that by sweet Diaphoretical Mercury the essence of the liquor of the Cedar and by certain specifical medicaments as Selandine Câ—ntory Pâ—iola Silvatica and Horsetongue The Cancer in womens womb or neck of her privity is begot from menstrual poyson viz. when as the menstruum is supprest Wherefore in the cure of the Cancer those are to be removed which hinder the purgation