Flux with Cold and astringent things If they itch and wax red from cold add sharp things These shall be mentioned in Ophthalmy and Epiphora If they itch or are rough from dryness of the Ey-lids use Anodynes and the Vapors of hot water into the Eye If the Eyes be heavy after Sleep The Cure of Contraction in the Eye or contracted open them by degrees and rub with a warm hand If an Ophthalmy true or false The Cure of true and false Ophthalmy be with a Flux of blood with or without Inflammation then use Topicks first to allay pain and stop Flux then to dry and after to degest and last of all to discuss the reliques Thus You must take away pain at first not only because it is troublesom but because it will bring a Flux and also cool and stop and allay the heat use this or that as the pain or Flux most requireth Thus Apply the white of a new laid Egg beat to a froath to take away pain by it self or with others Or that liquor that sweats out of a rosting Egg or the yolk alone or both together rosted The white boyled hard and beaten with Rose water and applied like a Pultis doth best take away pain and heat And all sorts of Milk especialy Womens are Anodyne Also Fresh Cheese doth the same Or Veal new washed and applied is a brave Emperical Medicine Or the Papp of sweet Apples roasted some think rotten Apples best The Mandrake Apples or love Apples do the same against pain but to strike back the Flux use sharp Apples and Pears or Quinces as the former Housleek Purslane Nightshade Henban Mandrakes green and bruised or heated in a cloth take away pain when applied If you will bind apply Plantane Bramble and Mirtle leaves beaten or boyled It is good to add Barley meal or bran to them all to make them stick Rose water is in great use to cool and if we will astringe take the water of the green cups of Roses or of Plantane Self-heal or Myrtle or if you will abate pain use water of Purslane Nightshade or Strawberries or the water of hard whites of Eggs. When we will take away pain and heat together First Take the white of an Egg with Rose water and Milk beat them And if you use the Decoction of white Poppies 't is better The second Take Fenugreek seeds half an ounce white Poppy seeds two drams boyl in Rose water and add the white of an Egg. The third Take crums of Bread steept in Rose water or Milk apply it or drop the juyce of it The fourth Use sweet Apples so boyled Or Bread and Apples The Chirurgions apply a Pill of Elder steept in Rose water Another Anodyne Take Mucilage of Fleabane Quinces Fenugreek Gum Arabick or Traganth dissolve it with Rose water and Milk If pain be great Take Mucilage of Fleabane seed and Fenugreek each an ounce infusion of Gum Traganth made in Rose water whites of Eggs each half an ounce Camphire five grains Opium two grains Saffron a grain Or this Emplaster Take crums of bread steept in Milk Pap of sweet roasted Apples and Barley meal each an ounce and an half Mucilage of seeds of Fleabane and Fenugreek each an ounce two yolks of Eggs Camphire half a dram Saffron three grains Opium two grains Oyl of Roses sweet Butter or Cream six drams the Unctious things are to keep the Medicines from being dry make a Cataplasam and put to the closed Eye Some apply it to the Forehead to ease pain or mix cooling juyces as of Purslane Nightshade if heat be great Or this Anodyne of Dioscorides Take the yolk of an Egg roasted and with a little Saffron and Oyl of Roses apply it to allay pain Or this Take juyce of Chamomil and Melilot each half an ounce Womans Milk and whites of Eggs each two ounces Rose water an ounce beat them and wet a clout for the eyes two grains of Opium added will allay pain Or this Decoction to foment Take flowers of Mallows Violets and Roses each a pugil Chamomil and Melilot flowers each half a pugil Fenugreek seeed an ounce Linseed and Fleabane seed each two drams white Poppy seed a dram boyl them An Anodyne Cataplasme Take Chamomil and Melilot flowers each a pugil Fenugreek seeds an ounce boyl them and strain add three ounces of crums of Bread two yolks of Eggs and a scruple of Saffron with a little Milk make a Cataplasme When you desire rather to repel and astring then cool Take Rose cup water two ounces juyce of Plantane an ounce whites of Eggs half an ounce mix them the juyce of Bramble berries added doth repel also if dryed An astringent Decoction Take Plantane dryed red Roses each a dram flowers of Pomegranats two drams boyl them in Rose and Plantane water When you will astring and also take away pain Take Plantane Purslane or Housleek in Winter Nightshade each half a handful Rose and Violets each half a pugil Fleabane and white Poppy seed each two drams boyl them in Water and two drams of Mandrake roots will allay the pain sooner Or this Cataplasme Take Pap of sower Apples or of Pares or Quinces boyled in Rose and Plantane water or the astringent Decoction mentioned or Wine as Galen prescribeth make a Cataplasm Or this Take the Pap of boyl'd Quinces or the other two ounces Barley flowers an ounce Sumach and Pomegranate peels each a dram with the juyce of Purslane Housleek and Plantane make a Cataplasm Somtimes ad dryers to the said repellers and Anodynes to consume moisture and when the heat is decreased and the disease increase the quantity and add digesters Eye-waters are madee of white Ceruss thus Take Ceruss washed with Rose water two drams Plantane or Myrtle water if you will repel or Womens Milk if you will asswage pain two ounces whites of Eggs half an ounce mix and apply them Or Take washt Ceruss two drams Mucilage of Fleabane and Quince seed or Line or Fenugreek six drams with Rose water and Milk The white Troches of Ceruss to make eye waters are thus made Take Ceruss washt half an ounce Starch two drams Gum Traganth infused in Rose water half a dram make Troches If pain be great add half a scruple of Opium dissolve these in Water and Milk when you have occasion Add Sarcocol when you will digest as in the Troches of Rhasis Take washt Ceruss ten drams Sarcocol steept in Womans Milk three drams Gum Traganth a dram with Rose water make Troches with a scruple of Opium if you please Somtimes add Camphire As Take washt Ceruss two drams Starch a dram Mucilage of Fleabane Fenugreek or Lin seed each half an ounce Sarcocal steept in Milk a dram Camphire a scruple Rose water two ounces Milk and whites of Eggs of each half an ounce add six grains of Opium or Decoction of Poppy or Henbane three or four grains of Saffron in the increase of the Disease 'T is counted a Correcter of
Milk or Sugar are good In meat give Eryngus and Satyrion roots and purple flowr'd Goats beard Purslane Bugloss Mallows Violets Endive Spinage Betts Colewort and moist fruits In drink which they love best because they must not endure thirst give these Wine that is of a middle sort between sweet and sower is most refreshing if it be strong dash it with water Wine taken much inflames and must not be given here or when there is a Phthisick or cough When the Consumption is manifest and there is no suspition of any remainder of the putrid Feaver give Milk for a long time every day rising from four ounces to a pint Womans Milk that hath been four moneths delivered is best the next is Asses which cure if it be curable Then Goats milk after the butter is taken out and if you fear it will corrupt add sugar If your fear a loosness infuse steel in it the rest shall be shew'd in the Phthisiek Make Almond milk with pine Nuts seeds of Melons and Gourds or Poppies into Emulsions Or give Cock broath strained from the sat continually or a Decoction of Capons flesh and Cray-fish Or Barley in Chicken broath Or this Julep Take Violet and Rose water each four ounces white Sugar half a pound Bugloss water two ounces boyl them to a Julep give it with boyled water or lean broath or Barley water Or thus Take juyce of Purslane highly commended in this cause three ounces of Bugloss an ounce boyl them to a Julep with Sugar give a good proportion often Some commend the juyce Burnet and Turneps Another Syrup Take Bugloss and Eryngus roots each two ounces Satyrion roots an ounce green Liquorish three ounces Lettice Purslane each a handful Violets Bugloss and Borage flowers each a pugil Jujubs and Sebestens each eight pair Cold seeds bruised two drams boyl them strain and infuse red Sanders a dram make a syrup with Sugar to be taken alone or otherwise Give Children that hate Medicines Purslane and Scabious water Also waters distilled from Snails Cray fish and Mans blood and from new milk Or these Take Capon broath of his flesh well boyled add a pugil of Turtle Cray fish or Frogs flesh conserve of Roses Borage Bugloss Scabious Violets each an ounce Diamargariton frigid Diatragacanth frigid each a dram Cinnamon two drams distil a wator from them Another very profitable Take the Lungs and Heart of a Calf the flesh of six Cray fish or seven Frogs four cut them smal and add Diatragacanth frigid six drams Cordial temperate species two drams Cold seeds hull'd and Purslane seeds each half an ounce Henbane seeds if there be a Cough a dram add Purslane and Linden flower water each three ounces Lilly water four ounces distil them in Balneo give this alone or with Julep of Roses There are divers restoring confections that are pleasant Marsh-pane thus made Take the past of which Marsh pane is made a pound Cold seeds cleansed an ounce Pine nuts two ounces steep them in Milk and bruise them Diapenides and Diatraganth frigid each a dram Diamargariton frigid half a dram make Cakes Or thus Take Capons flesh and Frogs Hips and Cray-fish tailes boyled in Purslane and Rose water each two ounces beat them add sweet Almonds blanched two ounces Pine nuts and Pistachaes steept in milk each an ounce Gourd seeds cleansed half an ounce white Starch two ounces Sugar four ounces Pearl half a dram sprincle them with Cinnamon water and make a past with Milk and yolks of two Eggs make Cakes Or thus Take flesh of Frogs Legs and Cray fish or Turtle flesh of the wood if you can get it each four ounces boyl them in Barley and Purslane water add the four great cold seeds each a dram white Poppy seeds two drams Raysons stoned and Sebesten each an ounce then add the species of the resumptive Electuary Diatragacanth frigid Diapenidies without species each half a dram Penidies and Sugar-candy each two ounces Pine and Pistacha Nuts each half an ounce make Cakes with Gum Traganth dissolved in Rose water They must often take Sugar of Roses or Sugar boyled in Violet or Purslane water Or this mixture Take conserve of Violets Purslane Bugloss of each an ounce Conserve of Roses half an ounce Diamargariton frigid a dram Sugar make a mixture For outward means and cold Air is better then hot and dry Baths do good by moistning and cooling the body which is hot and dry and by loosning the parts that nourishment may come to them The antients used them three waies first they bath'd in hot water to relax secondly in warm water to moisten and thirdly in cold to keep in the moisture by closing the Pores We use River or Raine water which is thought best so hot as may neither heat the body too much or cause thirst or sweat which must not be And he must not be in above an houre once or twice in a day before meat Some think it good to let the Patient take in the Fume of the Bath by a Linnen cloth before he goes in An artificial Bath is made of roots of Marsh-mallows Mallows Violets Purssane Bugloss with the roots Chamomil flowers in tripe broath Veal or Mutton broath that is fat And for the Rich we add milk Oyl or Butter I would allow of Sulphur baths if they be near used by degrees because they make the body Oyly as I have found by experience For this cause we anoynt after bathing or at other times morning and evening the Back Sides and Belly with loosning Oyls Or thus Take Mucilage of Fleabane and Quince seeds each half an ounce Gum Traganth infused in milk half a dram fresh butter an ounce white Hens and Ducks grease each an ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds and Violets each two onnces with white Wax make a Liniment Anoynt the Breast and Heart thus Take Oyl of Violets Gourd seeds and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce Ducks grease an ounce or use the resumptive Oyntment Some anoynt the Liver with the same but we omit it because the Liver will have little benefit thereby and the belly may be loosned therewith which is naught Neither do we put flesh in Oyntments as some do We apply Epithems to the Breast Heart and Pulses because the Arteries are hot As Take an Emulsion of sweet Almonds made with Decoction of Barley Purslane and Violets add fresh Butter and Capons grease Dip cloths therein and apply them warm A Cordial Epithem Take Violet Rose Purslane Scabious Bugloss and Borage water each two ounces juyce of Apples an ounce juyce of Housleek or Lettice half an ounce white wine an ounce If bruised Purslane be laid to the Stomach it is thought to be good And gentle Frictions after bathing to draw the nourishment The nourishers prescribed both strengthen and restore It is a good rule for Hecticks to eat often and little and for all weak persons When meat is loathed and they are very weak some give nourishing Clysters Thus Take
Gentian Birth-wort and Asarum each one dram of Wormwood Horehound Vervain and Maiden-hair of Broom flowers carthamus Rosemary of carva seeds Endive Germander and columbine seeds each half a dram of shavings of Ivory and Harts horn each one dram of steel prepared with Vinegar one dram and an half of dried Earth-worms one dram of cinnamon Nutmeg Mace Spikenard each half a dram of Myrrh Mastich and Frankincense each one scruple of Saffron half a scruple make a Pouder give one dram or more with sugar or without with wine or other convenient Liquor This Pouder is bitter but excellent Take of Gentian Roots one dram of the Tops of the lesser centaury Orenge peels Ivory and Harts horn shavings of Cinnamon each half a dram make a pouder give one dram in wine or other Liquor These Troches are good in a jaundize that tends to a Dropsie Take of Rhubarb two scruples of Asarum roots Gum Lac each half a dram of cinnamon Spikenard schaenanth cassia lignea each one scruple make them in Troches with juyce of Wormwood or Agrimony or Triphera Saracenica give it in wine or water The usual Pouders to open Obstructions are of the troches of Rhubarb Agrimony Wormwood also Trionsantalon Diarrhodon Abbatis Diacarcuma Dialacca in which sometimes Rhubarb is doubled in quantity they are given alone or mixed with wine That Pouder which some commend so highly in the Jaundies which they divide into three parts and give at three Mornings together in the Decoction of Vetches is this Take of columbine seeds Harts horn and eastern Saffron each one dram make a fine pouder for three Doses There are Potions made of cray fish beaten with celandine and water and then strained five ounces of the urine of a Boy drunk often doth it by Experience with sugar or Honey to sweeten it Others boil Goose dung in water or wine and strain it and give it to be drunk Cummin seed eaten presently after bathing is approved And this the German Women use still and beleeve it to be of great force Dioscorides gives May-weed after barhing its yellow flowers I suppose The Leaves of Sage often drunk have cured some and the Leaves of wild Rocket often eaten Others beleeve that eleven Lice drunk down will cure the jaundies This Electuary is convenient Take of the conserve of the flowers or Roots of Succory of Maiden-hair each one ounce of the conserve of Smallage Roots Orris Orange peels each half an ounce of shavings of Ivory and Harts-horn each one dram and an haâ— of the usual Pouders one dram make them into an Electuary with some of the aforementioned syrups let him take a Bolus and drink the Phisical Wine or water after it It will be of more force if you add to this Electuary two drams of Bitter Almonds one dram of the great cold seeds of Rhubarb one dram of Steel prepared two drams of Pouder of Earth-worms half a dram of Saffron one scruple and an half Cinnamon and Nutmeg each half a dram and with Oxymel of Squills make an Electuary The Pills of simples which are hard to be taken by Reason of their evil sent and tast in pouders are made thus Take of Gentian roots Birthwort Madder and Rhubarb and Myrrh each half a dram of steel prepared one dram of Hogs dung dryed one scruple of Saffron half a scruple mix them with juyce or syrup of Wormwood or of Horehound and make pills The Dose is one dram And the usual Pouders may be so made into Pills Outwardly Medicines are applyed to the Liver if that cause the jaundies either by Obstruction or Hardness such as are mentioned in the Cachexy also Oyntments Emplasters and Fomentations which need not be repeated being there mentioned To other parts of the Body which are discoloured Remedies may be used as Baths for taking away Choler that remains over the Body after the cause is removed and will not breath it self forth as at other times And they must be dry when we intend to sweat with Flax aired with Elder and Junâ—per burnt also they must take an inward Sudorifick before bathing Moist Baths are made by boyling these following to cleanse and discuss as Pellitory of the Wall Beets Mallows Marsh-mallows Soapwort Centaury Wormwood Horehound Fumitory Chamomel Sorrel Elicampane Melilot Rosemary Organ Misleto of the Oak the greater Celandine golden Flowers which three last having yellow juyce are thought to be proper against Choller with Beans Lupines Bran and Barley Waters to wash with are used at the comming forth of the Bath made of cleansing Herbs For the face which is most visible to recover its colour it must be washed in the Bath and after with this Decoction or the like with Wine Vinegar Water of Roses Beans or Sorrel or with the Juyce of Pomegranates Lemmons Citrons or Syrup of Sorrel Vinegar dissolved in waters or Decoctions To take away the yellowness of the Eyes waters must be dropped into them with the Juyce of Pomegranates or wine and water or Juyce of Coriander You may put into the Nose things that by neesing disperse choller from the Face and Eyes anoynting the Nostrils within with Scammony which because it attracteth Choller is made choice of but we use it because by Experience we find that it provokes Neesing mixed with Honey but Elaterium mixed with Milk doth it more violently other Errhines do it more mildly as the Juyce of Horehound white Beets and Gith seeds and the Decoction thereof Also the Sent of Nigella or Gith when it is eaten and of Vinegar do the same Rubbings after bathing and otherwise are good to take away the Reliques of choller from the skin Applications made to the soles of the Feet have been cryed up by the vulgar as the greater Celandine and Misleto of the Oak whole or bruised with Horehound somtimes wine and Vinegar and salt and these applyed to the wrists work more speedily One told me for a certain truth that many have been cured of the jaundies by pissing upon new made Horse dung while it is hot Let the Diet be proper let the Drink be thin white wine mixed with the Decoction of Roots of Grass and Asparagus or other openers and let other things be answerable That Redness which comes from Blood The Cure of Redness which is chiefly in the Face if it be either from Bashfulness or Anger as it quickly comes so it goes away with the passion And that which continueth long which either comes from external Heat or a Disease hath no cure but by abating the Heat Paleness if it be from want of blood The Cure of Paleness by the loss of the flowrishing colour only and from cold it will continue only while the Body grows hot as that which comes by fainting returns afterwards and that which comes from a Disease will cease with the Disease and there is no peculiar Direction for it That Blackness which is Natural and comes from the seed if it be like a Blackmore
retained but carried to the Navel by the vessel that endeth there and gathered under the skin and to produce a tumor like a bladder of water and from thence to flow into the Belly and to break out of the Body so plentifully that the whol belly was emptied We saw one that had his Belly swollen before he died from the breaking of his Bladder and his urin dispersed into his belly in regard another had leaped upon his belly when he lay upon the ground drunk which brake his bladder being stretched out with Drink And it is probable that the same may happen from the breaking or otherwise opening of the Ureters when the water flows out and that a Dropsie may come from thence because they may live long after This I have observed in a Child which new born lying in his Cradle after a long suppression of Urine voided a little stone and much Urine therewith and growing older died miserably of a Dropsie with shortness of breathing having first had great pain in his right Groyne when his Urine was stopped for a time till his Ureters broke which caused the Dropsie If water fall into the cavity of the Cod it will either cause that Tumor which is in the Dropsie Ascites with Swelling of the Belly Water fallen into the Codds is the cause of Hydrocele or water Rupture or the Hydrocele which is without a Dropsie And this tumor being waterish comes from no other part then the belly in both cases into which it first fell and from thence fell into the Codds And that two waies the one by Aanastomosis or Diapedesis which is when the water goes under the skin from the belly into the Codds as in the Dropsie Ascites where it falls the same way into the Feet also The other way is by the Peritonaeum which brings the seminary Vessels to the Codds if it be so enlarged that the water gathered in the Belly may fall by it into the Codds for albeit the relaxation be not so large as that is by which the Guts fall into the codds yet if it be small the water may distil by drops And this relaxation may come from the water only which moistneth that part of the Belly where these passages are without other force but if such be there is a greater Dilatation and Rupture the way being enlarged and the Codds are sooner filled as we shewed in the Dropsie-rupture But if Moistness be the cause only it will come with much water as in the Dropsie but in the watery Rupture it will come slower because there is but little water and falls by degrees into the belly and so into the codds And we have shewed that not only solution of continuity in the Bowels and Vessels but also Anastomosis and Diapedesis of the Meseraick Veins may be the cause of gathering water into the belly in a Dropsie And this seems to proove that in a Hydrocele the water doth sweat through or drop from the Mouths of the Vessels because that in this case they have no other Disease but Swelling of the Codds and it is long a growing and the water is by Degrees carried through the Tunicles of the Veins or Mouths thereof And we have shewed that this may come from the same Causes from which the Dropsie sometimes proceeds but less and such as bring less Damage in regard the water Naturally sweating forth and bedewing the inward parts of the Belly although it abound not much yet may it without a preternatural Cause be gathered into the Codds the wayes being laid open by Moisture or the like causes and so the relaxation of the Passages may be the only cause of Hydrocele or Water-rupture When a serous Humor falls into the Groynes of women When the water gets into the Groins it causeth those watry Tumors in Women it makes a Tumor like the water Rupture And that by reason of the loosness of a Passage by which a certain Vessel comming from the womb is carried without the Peritonaeum into the Privities not unlike that of men which serve the seminary Vessels Which relaxation may come from the same causes with Hydrocele by reason of its moistning the parts and becauseit was first in the Belly Among which Causes strong throws in Child-beaing or Ruptures in this part may occasion the Dilatation and the Tumor following thereupon Somtimes in Dropsies the Humor which is gathered in the Belly In the Dropsie Ascites there is a Collection of water in the Cavity of the breast is carryed to the cavity of the Breast which is perceived after Death upon Dissection though before it appeared by no tumor except as we said in an Empyema or matter in the side there be so much of it gathered together that it cause a Swelling in the spaces between the Ribbs Besides we may gather from shortness and difficulty of breathing which then troubles Hydropical Persons more though they stand upon their Feet that there is water in the Breast because as when it is in the Belly by washing the Midriff below so when in the breast by oppressing it above it causeth weight and hindering its motion two waies causeth difficulty of breathing and the rather because it somwhat hinders the motion of the Lungs But how it is carried from the belly to the breast we cannot find another way then by the Midriff because that separates the parts and by which as by the Peritonaeum or inward Rimme and the Muscles thereto adhaering we have shewed that it may sweat into the Belly or be carried by the Mouths of the Vessels so also may it here pass through the Midriff except some corrosion as we shall shew may be by water long retained or other perforation do make it way For which Reason if water comming not from the belly in a Dropsie but another part into the breast as in other Discases passing through the Midriff fall into the lower belly it may cause a Tumor there or if it go farther a Tumor in the Feet And this we suppose to be the cause why short breathed or Asthmatical People are Hydropical except the Causes of both Diseases do meet and at length though not presently the Feet in the Diseases of the Breast will swell except the water find another way under the Skin from the Breast downwards Water getting into the hollow of the womb A Flux of water by the womb in the Dropsie Ascites and enlarging it causeth the belly to swell and this is called the Womb-Dropsie But we shewed in the Diseases of the womb that the capacity of it was not so large to hold so much water nor can it be so dilated except there be a Child growing therein yet it may happen that water gathered in the Belly may be voided externally by the womb either all or it in part which may cause the asswaging of the Tumor which caused men to think that was gathered in the womb But when this is so it is poured
safely be made in the Codd And this is the only way to cure any dropsie curable though it be neglected Also we may take water from under the skin by Scarification Which being make in the Feet doth not only evacuate that which is there abouts but because other water comes alwaies in the room of that which is let out it setcheth it so from the upper parts and hollow of the Belly that by long and plentiful Evacuation it takes it from the Belly also and it ceaseth to swell And this Scarification being usual is not refused by the sick although it may seem strange because the water flowing may cause an Inflammation and somtimes a Gangraen and this may be thought to be from the Scarification which may be a reproach to the Physitian That he may avoid this he must foretel that this may come from the malignity of the water when it begins to flow either by Incision or of it self Moreover the Scarification must be rightly made and good Government used And this is done by making it in the fleshy parts of the Feet about the Ancle or first trying in the Thigh only cutting the scarfe skin which will drop and then piercing the true skin gently making Wounds broad and at a distance with a large incision Knife and let the water that comes away be gently wiped off with a Linnen-cloath without rubbing and after let the Inflammation be taken away with white Oyntment and Juyces convenient as of Nightshade Plantane Henbane or with the Leaves laid on And let us chiefly take heed least the Roulers or Bolsters be alwaies wet by changing them continually or by anointing them with Goats suet or Dears suet to keep them from taking water Some commend the Scarification of the whol Belly to the Nervous parts of the Muscles which cover the straight Muscles to draw out water Also you may let out water by raising Blisters in the feet and breaking them and by keeping them open And these use to come by the force of the water within the skin-being sharp and burning Otherwise they are made by art by light burning of the skin by an actual Cautery By these means one in a Dropsie was cured with a warming that burnt his Feet being in the Bed at that time Or this may be done by Vesicatories foretelling alwaies the Danger of Inflammation and Gangraen and by using gentle things because if you apply very hot things to raise Blisters you will cause Inflammation sooner then by Scarification Moreover Water doth not onely flow by blistering the Feet out of the whol Belly but we sometimes find the Navel enlarged with a clear Bladder full of water by which being opened with no pain the water hath all come forth with great force And this way of Cure being so easie might be by often applying Cupping glasses to the Navel to raise it Water also may be let out by an Issue in the Feet which would quickly cause Inflammation if made with an actual Cautery Therefore it is better to use a Potential cautery which opens the skin by Mortification without pain in the Feet if nothing hinder with such Cautions as are before mentioned And this may be done without Danger in the Cod but not in the Belly because it is too thick Also if the Dropsie come from weakness of the Bowels and fullness of Humors from Obstructions or Hardness you may use altering Medicines such as are mentioned in a Cachexy And these are chief which are so compounded that they dry up water and provoke Urin as these following A Decoction Take of the five opening Roots Succory Flower-de luce each one ounce and an half of Dandelion five leaved Grass Dropwort Valcrian and Eryngus each one ounce of Asarum roots half an ounce of inner Bark of Tamarisk Ash Elder Câ—par roots each six drams of Endive Agrimony Horehound Germander Groundpine the Capilar Herbs Burnet Mouseare Wormwood and Carduus us each one handful of the Flowers of Elder Broom Tamarisk St. Johns-wort Bugloss Borage each one pugil of the four great cold Seeds half an ounce of the less cold Seeds three drams Pease one pugil of Smallage Fennel and Parsley seeds each two drams of Raisons stoned two ounces of Liquorish one ounce and an half make a Decoction in water and the fourth part wine with as much Sugar as is sufficient you may add the Juyce of Flower-de-luce and a little Cinnamon Schaenanth Spike or Cassia Lignea or Diarrhodon or Trionsantalon c. To these may be added the Roots of white Carduus Polypody Fern Docks the great Celandine Ash bark Misleto of the Oak Cleavers Plantane Devils bit Hops Mints Hysop Poly mountane Bettony Penny-royal Organ Rue Marjoram Another Decoction Take of the Roots of Fennel and Parsley each one ounce of Rhapontick two drams of Wormwood Ceterach Agrimony each two drams of the four great cold seeds each one dram of Schaenanth and Spike each one dram boil them in chicken broath or infuse them in Wine without the cold Seeds Rhasis hath a Potion much esteemed of Wormwood Dodder Winter-cherries Fumitory the four great cold Seeds Schaenanth and Spike in Whey Of simple Decoctions that of Lignum vitae is best to provoke Urine also a decoction of Garlick and Madder with Honey of the broad Plantane by it self or with Lentils as Dioscorides who approves the Decoction of Organ with Figs and of Pease with Rosemary and of sweet cane with Smallage seed A pound of Misleto of the Oak sliced in three pints of water boiled to half is good if morning and evening four ounces be given for a long time you may sweeten it with Sugar and a little Cinnamon A Decoction also of Earth-worms with things that provoke Urine as Smallage roots Orris or Asarum or the Bark of Elder roots of Danewort Ivy-berries Also Wormwood wine for weak stomaches made with Sack provokes Urine wonderfully Also wine of Horehound and Squils Compound wines are made of many of the aforesaid mixed together as Take Roots of Smallage Fennel and Flower-de-luce each one ounce and an half Valerian Acorus each one ounce of Master-wort and Gentian each half an ounce Asarum and Squils each two drams of the Bark of the Root of Elder or of Danwort and Sassaphras each one ounce of dried Wormwood Horehound Agrimony Maiden hair Germander Carduus each two drams the Tops of the lesser Centaury Broom and Tamarisk flowers each one dram of dryed Elder-berries two drams of Parsley and Fennel seeds each one dram and an half of Ameos and Dill seed each one dram of Cinnamon two drams of Spike half a dram bruise them for two or three quarts of â—ine A Lye made of Bean stalks or Juniper ashes dried in a Furnace often strained or long steeped in water drunk somtimes hath often done good And some have been recorered by drinking nothing else but it hath been smal Alâ—o that is good which is made of Broom ashes Also that of Ivy Bitter-sweet and of
Eyes Ears Yard Privities of Women Fundament the Pores and other open Parts of which we will treat in the bloody Excretion Chap. V. There is a preternatural Excretion of Matter by the Eyes Ears Nose Excretion of Matter Vrinary Passages Womb and other opening Parts these shall be handled in purulent Excretion or of Matter Chap. VI. There is a preternatural Excretion of Water in Tears dropping at the Nose snotty Nose Excretion of Water Whites over much Swcating or evil Sweat and by the Ears and other open Parts of which we shall speak in the watery Excretion Chap. VII There is a preternatural Excretion of Spittle and Humors mixed therewith in Ptyalismo Spitting or Venom Spittle and other Water or Blood Matter and Imposthumes these shall be described in Spittle Chap. VIII There is also a preternatural Excretion of Meat and Humors Vomiting and Excrements in divers Vomitings as of Flegm Choller to which the Disease of Choller is referred also of Blood of which we shall speak in Vomiting Chap. IX There is a preternatural Excretion of Urine Pissing and other Humors in unvoluntary Pissing or immoderate burning Urin mattery Milk like blood and when the Urin cannot be held and when it flows out at a Wound or is tinctur'd which shall be explained in Pissing Chap. X. The preternatural Excretion of the Excrements of the Belly Dejection or Stooling and the Dung is in the Flux Diarrhaea Lientery Disentery Needing Liver-flux of thick Blood Matter Slime Flegm Fat Vomiting of Dung Pissing it out or sending it out by the Womb or a Wound of which we shal speak in Dejection or going to stool Chap. XI There is a preternatural Excretion of divers Filths by the Ears Nose Eyes Womb Skin Excretion of Filth between the Toes Teeth which we shall describe in the Excretion of Filth Chap. XII The divers Bodies which are in the Body of Man which are wholly besides Nature and are preternaturally sent forth are either living or without Life The live Creatures that come out of the body either live and move Excretion of Living Creatures as Worms Fundament-worms Worms in the Nose Ears that come forth by coughing Pissing from Ulcers Wounds Worms in the Teeth Navel Lips in the Hands of all these we shall speak in the Excretion of Living Creatures Chap. XIII Other Living Creatures that come forth are alive but move not Excretion of living Creatures that move not nor are sensible as a Mole Grove-wormes the Gourd-worm which shall also be described in the Excretion of living things Chap. XIIII The Bodies without Life that are sent forth are earthy Excretion of Earths as Pissing of Sand and Stones or from the Eyes Nose Mouth Fundament from the Tongue Pores as Gravel from the Teeth and the like of which we shall treat in the Excretion of Earth Chap. XV. There are many things come forth of the Body which are not there bred The voiding or Excretion of things that get into the Body by the Eyes Ears Nose Mouth as by Spitting and vomiting by stool Urin by the Breasts Nipple and the Skin which shall be described in the Excretion got into the Body Chap. XVI CHAP. I. Of the Voiding or Excretion of Parts The Kinds THe Voiding or Excretion of the Parts of Mans Body by which they are taken from the Body is twofold first when the parts fashioning the Infant or the Infant it self is cast forth or when the Original parts that constitute the body fall off When the Infant is put forth of the womb A Natural Birth but not without Pain it is called Partus or bringing forth and this is either Natural as when the Child being ripe the time being expired of travel is brought forth And this being Natural is not reckoned among the Diseases that disturb Mankind But seeing this Action by reason of Sin is painful and must be looked after we shall here speak of it that we may know how it differs from that which is preternatural and how it ought to be ordered The Birth is preternatural when it is untimely Abortion or Miscarriage or before the time ordained which is commonly the tenth month although some hold the birth of the seventh month to the Legitimate Abortion is when the Child is not come to its full Ripeness and Growth is sent forth sooner then it ought to be either dead or in desperate condition somtimes it is so little in a Lump no bigger then a Grape that you cannot distinguish the Arms Legs or Head such we have seen often after some weeks conception sent forth and that we might perceive the Limbs we divided them with an Instrument and we perceived two black points like Eyes in the Head and a little Spot upon the right side shewing the Liver the body being all over white besides We have seen at other times a Child of a fingers length having all the Members plain to be seen for the distinction of sex also with Nails and we made a sceleton thereof by cutting an Anatomy as we did by others that were larger Also I knew a woman that after she had brought forth a Child naturally at the time within a few dayes after was delivered of another a span long I observed also that a famous Merchants Wife which was delivered with little pain of a Child a hand long after she had with hard Travail brought forth another dead Child in the eighth month and which is more wonderful in the year 1655. A Contrey-man came to me for Counsel concerning his wife lying of a lusty Child which she brought forth three weeks after she had miscarried of another that was dead If there be three or four at a Birth which is rare Supersaetation or too many at a time yet is it not preternatural when they are compleat either at one time or at divers some talk of an infinite Number which could not come to a just proportion and that may be counted Abortion Children so delivered although unripe and little yet are somtimes whol and of good Complexion otherwhiles lean and consumed if they have been long dead in the womb and they come out slowly and somtimes corrupted and sticking somtimes we perceive the signs of Diseases in them As we discovered a Child that was but half the time in the womb by the Swelling of the Legs bigness of the Belly and aboundance of water there and in the great Veins to have the Dropsie in the womb But if a compleat Child should die through the difficulty of bringing forth it must be referred to the defect of bringing forth also if it remain in the womb after it is so dead as we knew a woman that kept a Child that died so twenty weeks after the time of Delivery she died also and after we took it out rotten and stinking If a woman bring forth a monstrous or ill shapen Child except it be by Abortion or it be dead this is
Injection to heal Take Roots of Comfrey one ounce and an half Horstayl and Plantane each one handful Litharge six drams boyl them in Iron-water and in one pint thereof dissolve Honey of Roses or Sugar of Roses two ounces Turpentine one dram dissolve it in the Yolk of an Egg for an Injection Or thus Take the white Troches of Rhasis half a dram Lapis Calaminaris Tuity burnt Lead Bole each a dram dissolve them with convenient Liquor or Milk or Whey Another Take Ceruss half an ounce Lytharge two drams Tutty prepared three drams Starch one ounce make a Pouder and inject it with Water or drop it into the Nut or head of the Yard A good Water for an Injection Take Comfrey roots half a pound Roots of Snakeweed Tormentil each two ounces ten Heads of Daffodil roots Horstayl and Plantane each two handfuls Tops of St. Johns-wort with the Flowers two pugils Allum one ounce Honey of Roses as much as is sufficient twelve Eggs beaten if the Herbs be dry sprinkle them with Plantane-water and distil them all If you add to these Injections some Drops of Spirit of Vitriol or of Salt they will be stronger And if these spirits be used alone with Whey they will cleanse and heal The Balsom of Suphur invented by Roland doth cleanse and heal excellently These may be dropped into the Yard if the Ulcer be not too deep as also Juyces They put some Oyntments also as Pompholygos with a wax Candle which is better then other Instruments because it will bend better in the crooked Passage But you must remember that you tye it with a thread least it should get into the Bladder and the Oyntment go beyond the Ulcer The distilled Oyl of Henbane dropp'd into the Yard doth asswage pain You must anoint the seam or suture between the Stones and the Fundament and soment it when there is heat and it will be felt within and the Passages must be loosned with Oyntments mentioned in the Ulcer in the Neck of the Bladder to which add Opium if the pain be great Anoint also the part with Oyntments there mentioned to heal the Ulcer And let the Diet be as there menâ—ioned The Excretion of slimy Matter from the Yard without Urin The sure ofe Uâ—cer in the Neck of the Bladder the slimy Matter and in Women from the Urin-passage is cured as that of the Stone and Matter with Injections which cleanse the slimy Matter and if it stick in the Yard it must be drawn out Or if you put the Yard into a hollow Raddish the matter will be drawn forth The Matter which comes from the Womb The Cure of the ulcer in the womb the matter that slows from it as also from other parts of the Body is to be cured as the Ulcer of the womb When it flows by any other Orifices from any internal filthy Ulcers which lye deep in the Body and are made of Imposthumes that break or are opened you must cleanse and heal As we shewed in Ulcers Imposthumes and Wounds And we shewed in the Cure of Empyema how you should order the Matter that flows from the Breast after Incision CHAP. VII Of Excretion or Voiding of Water The Kinds VVE call that a watery Excretion when a moist Humor thicker or thinner made of the Excrements of Flegm or of that which is Natural and crude and of the Serum or Whey mixed together so that the one is more then the other floweth forth Which Excretion is preternatural chiefly when it is much and often and corrupted or comes not out at the proper place This comes from divers parts besides that of Spitting Vomiting Pissing and Purging Of which shall be spoken in their places Tears flow from the Eyes often which are like Whey Tears or Serum or Flegm mixed with water they break out in sound people especially in Children and doting old Men from a small Cause and in others from a great Passion of Mind And therefore are not counted preternatural But when they are troublesom and of long Continuance in some Diseases of the Head and Eyes they are Symptomes of the same Some Tears are hot and sharp others cold There is often water from the Nose which is natural The dropping at the Nose because it is by the right way but when it aboundeth it is preternatural And it is in some from whose Nose water flows like tears and a drop hangs at the end of it Or it is like slimy Flegm which being usual in children is counted less noisom then in Men. The same is in the Kind of Defluxion called Coryza Coriza or Pose there falls at the first a thin moist Humor constantly actually cold sometimes hot and sharp that makes the Nose smart and provokes Neesing and causeth Tears inflamming and corroding the Nostrils and Lips with great Spitting Hawking and Coughing somtimes And this Humor at the last is thick white or of another Colour The same happens in other Diseases of the Head and Defluxions As was shewed There comes a water out at the Ears thin or thick somtimes Water from the Ears but seldom And a certain Maid had divers measures of water that flowed from her Ear without any other hurt It is usual in Women to have the white Flux The Flux of the womb or the Whites And because it useth to come when women are past their Courses they are called the white Terms But these use to be out of order and with women that have their Courses and last more or less time And somtimes they trouble such as have their Courses stopped As those who are past them and are in old Women In Virgins it is but seldom and often in women with Child Somtimes this Flux is of water and very much and clear and milk somtimes sharp or salt yellow green or black somtimes mattery stinking Sometimes it is mixed with Flegm that is tough without scent cold and little or as much or more then the water If this Flux be immoderate there is no other accident and both Wives and Virgins have it many months and years without hurt But if it be immoderate there is an evil Habit of Body therewith Also Faintness and Weakness also Barrenness in some although it hinders not some If the matter befoul there is an Itching Pricking and Heat in the Privities And it is very noisom when it stinks and makes the Husband loath her Usually there sweats a whey or water out of the Pores of the skin Preternatural Sweat it is Natural and common to all Complexions but it is preternataral when it is too much or soul as it is in Diseases and somtimes without There is too much Sweat without a Disease when it is caused oftner then it should be or continued longer so that they faint and if it be often they grow faint The Sweat is evil when it stinketh This is somtimes al over the Body or in the parts as Feet as we shewed
with warm Water Oyl and Wine or Oyl of Chamomil Dill Rue c. Use the Oyntments mentioned for Ulcers in the disentery When there is great pain in Tenesmus anoint with Oyl of Roses Violets Water-lillies Mucilage of Fleabane yolks of Eggs or the like mentioned in the Haemorrhoids If you must heat use Oyl of Chamomil Dill Bayes Rue and the like You may make Cataplasms of the same Ingredients A warm Anodine bag is made of Milium Bran and Salt fryed with hot Herbs dryed In an Ulcer make it of astringents as Coriander seeds Myrtles Acorn cupps Galls and other Herbs mentioned in the Fomentations for a Dysentery And let him sit upon the bag boyled in red wine A Brick that is black with Smoak beaten and steeped in wine and put into a cloath is good to be applyed to the Perinaeum and Fundament when there is an Ulcer Let the Patient sit upon hot Mugwort Also warm Cloaths applyed to the Fundament and Perinaeum are good to abate pain If a Diarrhaea be a Flux of silthy Excrements and Humors The Cure of Diarrhaea by Medicine or Nature which takes away the plenty of them it must not be stopped neither in those that are sound because it preventeth Diseases nor in those that are sick from plenty of humors and evil Juyce nor in the beginning of acute Diseases for as Hippocrates shews if things which ought to be purged be purged and the Patient endures it wel it is good Nor in the declension or Crisis of a Disease which somtimes is cured thereby But it is to be stopped if it happen in sound and pure Bodies especially if there be an over purging And in sick when it is provoked or comes of it self when it will not cease and takes not away from the cause of the disease but weakneth As in internal Inflammations Pleurisie Peripneumony and in some acute and malignant pestilential Feavers and others that weakens as in Hecticks Consumptions Dropsies with which it is deadly In all which we must prevent it or stop it foretelling the danger Observing first if it be alone without other diseases with it or after it whether it came from an over purging Medicine or too much meat and drink that is crude or corrupt or from Choler or sharp humors or water Then we must evacuate the cause and abate the pricking Then we fortifie and bind the Stomach and Guts with hot temperate or cold things as the cause requires as followeth The Stomach and Guts are to be purged with gentle things least the Belly that is already moved should be too much troubled And if the tumor be water or flegm with pills for the Stomach As these of Mastick and Assaiereth and others in the Lientery Or give six drams of the Electuary of Hiera or two drams of the Pouder with one ounce of Syrup of Vinegar to take off the bitterness all dissolved in Wine and Water or Liquor convenient or sweet Wine But Pills of Hiera are better taken There are other purges to be taken in wine mentioned in Lientery and Weakness of the Stomach If the Humor be cholerick and sharp use Remedies for the Dysentery there mentioned As a Potion of Rhubarb parched or not or the Infusion thereof with Wormwood wine or Syrup or that of Mints Also you may make a Potion of the Infusion of half an ounce of yellow or chebs Myrobalans or of two drams of Myrobalans and one dram of Rhubarb Or give two scruples of the Pills of Rhubarb made with one scruple of Mastick and half a scruple of Spike with Juyce of Roses Or a bolus of the same with Conserve of Roses or Quinces or the Pouder of Rhubarb with Cinnamon and Sugar of Roses and Myrobalans if they make not the Medicine too large If you must purge in a Diarrhaea use the troches of Roses burnt Ivory Barberries the cold great Seeds with Diagredium The Tryphera Saracenica Nicolai is given in six drams when there is plenty of Humors or so much Catholicon in potions of Myrobalans and Rhubarb it is not safe to use stronger Remedies to purge in this Disease A Vomit somtimes is good to revel and take away the cause as in a Dysentery Also Sweating especially when it comes from much water And if strength will suffer use them often moderate fasting is also good to hinder the increase and to consume Humors but in people of sharp cholerick Constitutions it hurteth All Clysters are good that have astringent qualities though they be presently voided The fourth Clyster mentioned in a Dysentery is good here it is a strong astringent to the Decoction of which you may add also other astringents as Juyce of Plantane Bloodstone or drying Earths And if the humor be sharp and threaten Excoriation you may give the third Clyster there mentioned to astringe and heal But before use Cleansers if the Humor be sharp and cholerick and fret the Guts And you may mix other things if there be other Humors as Wormwood Centaury and in a phlegmatick Cause against pains and noise of wind things to expel wind as Fennel and Anise seeds Chamomil Melilot and Dill flowers or Oyls thereof If the Humors fret the Guts use Lenitives or when a violent purge hurts them they are mentioned in Dysentery As that which begins thus Take Marsh-mallow-roots one ounce Barley c. Medicines must be given in divers forms twice or thrice in a day especially that bind or that cleanse and lenisie least Nature being accustomed to one should be no way moved thereby Dioscorides commends divers Decoctions in wine and water as of Maiden-hair golden Locks Marsh-mallows Brambles Cinquefoyl or five leaved grass Piony Also wine of the Infusion of dryed Sloes and the like Moss of a tree Wormwood Snakeweed Citron peels and the like astringents Also Juyce of Plantane Solomons-seal Horstayl Gum Succory Quinces sour Pomegranates Also Syrup of Quinces Myrtles red Roses dried Barberries Currance with the waters following in Juleps Waters of Plantane Roses Sorrel Shepheards purse Services Sloes Oak leaves Or the Decoction mentioned in Dysentery One begins thus Take Tormentil roots one ounce Comfrey rorts c. Another thus Take Roots of five leaved Grass or Snakweed c. Of which you may make Syrups Or make a Syrup of the Juyces to be kept Take Juyce of Quinces three ounces of Bar-berries two ounces Juyce of Plantane or the like one ounce and an half red Wine and Rose-water each two ounces Sugar four ounces boyl them to a Syrup and add a little red Sanders it is better if two drams of Juyce of Sloes and in a cholerick Cause a little Rose-water be added to make it sharp The Syrup of Nicolas of the Decoction of Fruits and the like is good in all Fuxes of the Belly Also this distilled Water Take Yolks of Eggs boyled hard twenty Nutmeggs parched a little two ounces infuse them in red Wine Let them stand a while and then distil them according to art the dose
sleep with terrible dreams another Species of it is described the common people call them Exstatical as if they were taken with an Extasie Hither also may be refer'd the Daemoniacal sleep of Witches Diabolical sleep in which they think that they are carried through the Air feed deliciously dance and lie with the Devil and waking they continue in the same error I have seen another kind somwhat like to these in a certain Baron who for a long time astonisht and sleepy Sleep with Stupidity did nothing according to reason he would ask for no meat nor take it unless thrust in by force neither would he go to bed unless compel'd but all day long leaning with his Arm on the Table and with his eyes shut he sate as one asleep neither would he answer any thing unless asked and often admonisht and then that which was little to the purpose A Stupidity with a Languidness or Resolution of the body is called Obstupescentia Ecplexis or an Apoplexy and t is an affect in which they do not sleep Stupidity with a resolution is an Apoplexy but astonisht they lie stupid like stocks all the Sences alike and motion also being abolisht together which accidents are somtimes more mild at other times more grievous in which both the internal and external senses are taken away together whence they have understanding of nothing neither do they see though some of them do seem to look upon a man with fixt eyes neither do they hear a noise neither do they show any sign of sence though you prick them or burn them Also being deprived of all motion of the body in a moment they fall down and all their members being resolved do languish they neither speak nor swallow breathing only remaining and that very obscurely the blowing forth of which from the mouth or nostrils can somtimes hardly be discern'd by the motion of a piece of Cotton applied to them or the motion of the breast to detect that by the motion of a cup of water placed on the breast or the breath is drawn with a great deal of difficulty and noise as in dying people the pulse being in the interim full and strong in this difficulty of breathing but discovering it self to be very unequal and that so long till their Senses returning tthey come to themselves again which happens in a gentler species of it or if it be more grievous they continue resolved or if it be worst of all their breath being wholly taken away they are by and by choaked froth then flowing out of their mouth A Stupidity with a Convulsion or vehement agitation of body is called an Epilepsie and 't is an A Stupidity with Convulsion is an Epilepsie disease in which all the Senses are suddenly taken away and the whol body for a time is shaken and pulled with an inordniate motion assailing a man by turns or fits which because it doth suddenly apprehend one hath the name of Epilepsie because it puls him the name of Convulsion of which we meet with chiefly two different kinds in as much as one is of Continuance another Short The Diuturnall is that which lasts long and whether it happen before the age of youth and doth not leave them when that comes or whether it begins first after that age for the most part it assails the sick for the whole life time somtimes at certain times hours daies months years or changes of the Moon whence 't is also called the Lunatick Disease whose Functions because it doth not suddenly destroy them but only weakens them by degrees therefore it comes to pass that when they are free from the fit they can nevertheless go about their business and because they fall if they be taken with this evil whiles they are about their business hence also it is called the Falling sickness and whenas their sudden fall and horrid symptoms are wont to strike a great terror so that some from the apprehension of it only have presently fallen into the same affect and upon that account most men do fly the sight of them and if it happen in a Congregation of people as in our age in assembles the company is dissolved amongst the Ancients their meetings upon the same cause were dissolved whence called by them the Comitial Disease which name it retains which also by reason of its pertinacy was called the Great Sontick and Herculean Disease and 't is to this kind to which they have applied the name of Epilepsie rather than to the rest when notwithstanding it agrees with them all The Short and not so continued Cinvulsion is which either presently ceases or at leastwise is not protracted so long as the former which again as 't is either Gentler or Worse is divided into two Species The Gentler though it be not free from danger is accounted that whose cause is neither great not persevering as that which happens to Infants when their Teeth first break forth or Worms disturb them and by amd by ceaseth and that which befalls Virgins before their Courses flow but they coming it remits and that which betides great-bellied Women chiefly at the first month but at the middle time of their going or after the birth presently ends This that they might not bring fear by the dreadful name of the Falling-sickness because it often happens in Child-hood they call the Childrens Disease mitigating the cruelty of the Disease by the smoothness of the name The Worse and highly dangerous Species is which following grievous diseases as Wounds Fevers pains of the Collick and others at any age somtimes with one or two fits somtimes with more and that continual or somtimes with intermitting accessions doth perplex the Patient with a terrible aspect and for the most part kil him or if he be helped yet somtimes it leaves behind it the worst of symptoms as Contraction of the Limbs hurts the Voice and Senses or other discommodities which Species they call a Convulsion or Spasm only not an Epilepsie when notwithstanding those affected with this Species are no less suddenly taken in this case than the Epileptical and cal that general to difference it from a particular Convulsion or Spasm of which kind also there may be found in the Senses being unhurt only some parts are convelled we shall shew in the hurts of motion But this Species if it happen to Children as it is wont often to kill them both Infants and of riper years they call it also the Childrens Disease The accidents in all the Species of an Epilepsie both continued and short do almost concur the same and they may as well vary in all as well those which are observed in the hurts of the senses as of motion For all the Internal senses and by consequence the External too are abolisht in all the whol time they are possest with the fit they understanding judging or feeling nothing at all wherefore they refrain not from violent motions though thereby they hurt
themselves and after they come to themselves they remember none of those things they have sufferd neither do they know that they have sufferd this evil unless they be told of it or suspect it by taking some signal from the marke of some hurt left behind as a Wound or Contusion All Motion also both voluntary which wholly depends on our power and that which is performed by help of Nature as breathing and evacuating and that of the Pulses which Nature alone performs continuing in all these Species distinguisheth the Epileptical from the Apoplectick and Syncopal in whom these motions do fail the Pulse only remaining in the Apoplectick The which notwithstanding being deprived in the Convulsive doth cause that they fal and use inordinate motions But they fall not by reason of a privation of the senses but because their whol Body at once and of a suddain is convelled so that unless they be forewarned by a Vertigo which is wont somtimes to go before it or being taught by Custome of the fit at a day or hour if it be wont to come at set times they have a care of themselves being seazed with it whiles they are upright they presently fall down like to the Apoplectick and those that fall into Swonings and as t is commonly said are free neither from Water nor fire but are in the greatest jeopardy by danger of the fall and if upon this account t is less danger for those who lying in their Bed by reason of some sickness cannot fall when the Convulsions come upon them yet they are more hazarded by the cruelty of the Disease So that every Epilepsie is horrible and abominable which the ancients therefore called the sacred Disease as sent by the Gods by way of punishment and others have Superstitiously imposed the Names of the Gods on it They also so stir their Body with inordinate motions That oftentimes t is all of a fire and the pulse becomes more swift and somtimes sweats break forth Wreathing and distorting their Back Neck Head Arms Feet into divers Figures and with them beating and shaking every thing in the way as the Bed Walls Ground bruising and wounding their own Limbs gnashing with their Teeth set and bitterly biting their Tongues if they be out rowling their Eyes about which being opened and very much drawn asunder as also the bending of the Face towards the hinder parts do usually give the first sign of the fit assailing which at length in the end of the fit lying as men wearied and astonisht they keep fixt and sterne til they come to themselves again Their breathing also is very unequal whenas somtimes they hold it for a while so that from the stopping of their breath and vehement striving they somtimes cast forth their ordure and Urine and seed to especiif it abound But at other times they fetch their Breath with difficulty and noise both when an Epilepsie of the Womb hath the said strangulation its companion and cause and when Flegm falling upon the Jawes and Nostrils hinders it and they bring forth a froth at the Mouth and Nose arising from Flegm confused and stirred there with the Air which happens not to the Apolectick and Strangulated unless they die saith Hippocrates and oftentimes they make a noise with crying out But these accidents which we have related as they come on a suddain so the fit ceasing they presently remit Yet somtimes certain relicks of them do remaine and the senses being yet weakned they cannot rightly understand Reason or remember any thing or an alienation of Minde coming upon it they do all things amiss and blaspheme or they break forth into a great Laughter perhaps that which Cicero calls Sardonian and that till a new fit return which is wont to attend these foretelling signs but before and after these fits some particular convulsions somtimes either went before or remain as a distortion of the Mouth a difficulty of swallowing or a spasme of some other parts as shall be explained in its place or that Spasme which they call Flatulent which somtimes also threatens Convulsions if it be by reason of the Nerves as shall be said as also that convulsive Palpitation which also caused from an affect of the Nerves doth oftentimes along while forego an Epilepsie and remain still in the Members after it and exercise it self or other Symptomes of motions do somtimes trouble them as with Gesticulations somtimes Dancings or some other disturbance of the Limbs and tremblings of them A Stupidity with Rigidness of Body is a rare and wonderful affect A Stupidity with rigidness is a Catalepsis which is called a Catoche or Catalepsis that is a laying hold off which they cal also a Congelation whenas they are as stiff as if they were frozen in which all the internal senses and external are suddainly abolisht but only the motion of the Body is depraved whenas they keep that form which the Body had before it was seazed on with this evil whether Lying Sitting or Going and being taken like a statue they cannot change it neither of their own accord nor by compulsion and with their Eyes open whence they have called it the watchful Stupidity yet blâ—hd and altogether speechless breathing in the interim not taken away or very much hindred nor the Pulse But it happens also in some A Stupidity with hearing remaining that though they lie rigid like a stock without motion and speech yet nevertheless they perceive those things which the standers by do speak off and can afterwards relate them which they have called Ecstatick But others remaining in the same state like to dead Men although they heard nothing A Stupidity with motion remaining nor saw not now being prickt fet nothing yet if any thing were put into their Mourh they swallowed it and being lift up do stand being forced do walk and keep their Members fixt in that posture as they are bent for them In a certain Woman thus taken only the Belly and Breast were very much moved all the rest of the Body being stupid The Causes In all the foremention'd kinds of Sleep and Stupidity with Languishing Convulsion or Rigor it must needs be that the Brain is affected whenas all motion and sense proceed from that Neither here as they would have it are the Functions diversely weakend as the former middle or hinder Ventricles of the Brain are hurt nor as the Brain is affected before or behind whenas the substance of the Brain doth on every part perform its Functions but as it is more or less hurt it looseth more or fewer Functions For if the hurt be great so affecting the Brain that all the senses be abolisht then it must needs be that motion also doth cease other Functions in the interim remaining which the Brain is not the cause of as the Pulse which the Heart yeids and whenas the motion of breathing is partly Natural partly Voluntary and therefore doth proceed from the Or-Organs
things given and applied is a singular Remedy if the cause of the Epilepsie lie chiefly in the mesaraick Veins as was said the which also may be done by Leeches and other Remedies exprest in their place Amongst the other operations which are outwardly performed for Evacuation sake both in the Fit and out of it the application of Cupping-Glasses is numbred which somtimes are applied to the hinder part of the Head somtimes to the Shoulders somtimes to the Hypochondries somtimes to the Groyns for diversion as also frictions of the extream parts by all which revelling vapors and humors from the nerves we make the Fits both fewer and shorter and also Galen on his Epileptical Child hath committed to memory upon experience that a certain Air giving cause to an Epilepsie from some part which may be bound if ligature be made above the Rise of it it may be hindred that it shall not run forth to cause an Epileptical Fit as also some do testitifie that by Repellers outwardly applied to the Head the same success hath somtimes been Tht altering Remedies which are applied in the Cure of Convulsions are fetcht from things which do resist the malignity of their Cause by a certain Propriety and that rather by an occult then manifest Propriety viz. by which they are adverse to an Epilepsie in generall from what cause soever it is raised or they are alexiterial the which whether an Epilepsie or Catalepsis proceed from some venenate quality are contrary to such kind of Poysons or the which helping the Nervee do effect that it is not so readily afiected by the Cause and that because they render it firm by strengthing it or smooth it by lenifying or make it impatible by stupefying it or which altering the whol Body do change its Constitution which was pronâ— to an Epilepsie Use hath found out and approved of many Remedâ—â— that do drive away an Epilepsie by a certain Propriety as are Piony Misleto of the Oak the Skulls of a Man an Asse hoof a Swallow and many other such like helps explained in the Remedies which though they may be used in all Causes of it yet whenas besides this Vertue they are also either hot or cold or temperate although they use them confusedly without respect to these we think it more advised that they ought to be selected according to the Nature of the Constitution of the Patient or the Disease and this or that to be preferred before the rest what things do return the venenate quality inducing an Epilepsie or Catalepsis besides those which we have said already do by a propriety resist an Epilepsie and what Antidotes are privately adverse to this Poyson as in other Poysons there are found those things which do resist them hitherto no Experience hath found them out which can readily and quickly do it wherefore if the Epilepsie be from a poysonous Humor or Vapor those common Remedies Alexipharmacall which in generall are adverse to all poysons as Treacle and the like Compositions as they are used in all venenate and pestiferous Diseases so also in these cases being mixed with those things which by a propriety resist the Epilepsie they are given to destroy and correct the cause thereof and if Poyson from without by the blow of a Beast or the biting of a mad Dog entring into the Body hath caused an Epilepsie we cure the same with things alexiterial as the rest of the Symptoms arising thence Those things which add strength to the Nerves are apppropriate Remedies which being repared of capital and arthritical Simples Sage Rosemary Marjoram Bettony French Lavender Primrose and Ivy are good in the Palsie and other cold and moist Diseases of the Brain which soeng they furnish the Nerves as it were with new forces that it may the stronger resist those things which do molest it they are wont not unprofitably to be added to the rest of the Medicines which we use in an Epilepsie but not for that end or intention but because they beleeved that an Epilepsie was caused by Flegm obstructing the Brain they have applyed not only these hot things appropriate to the Nerves but those things which are moist hot that the thick Flegm might be cut and attenuated Castor Euphorbium Pellitory of Spain Squills and divers Spices for the most part Remedies in the Cure of an Epilepsie the which notwithstanding we if an Epilepsie be from an irritation of the Nerves because they do more inflame the Body as we do no wayes see it is cured by these things so we have known by Experience that they do irritate more promote and exasperate its fits and therefore whenas we have either found or received from apvroved Authors and worthy of Belief that they do more hurt by their heat then they can do good unless in a cold and moist Constitution of Body or when they are furnisht with another Propriety above by which they resist Poyson or this Disease we think them otherwise not rashly to be administred Of which sort for Examples sake we will describe the more choice Remedies from the Observations of the Ancients and modern and our own as well those endued with an occult contrariety as those appropriate to the Nerves or those compounded of them both together in their different formes in which are either given or proposed for smell or are otherwise applied to the Body Amongst those things which are taken many of those appropriated many be used amongst Nourishments as the brain of Swallows Kites Dawes Cuckows Chickens Hare eaten The rest which Nature abhors and which are not accustomary we omit as Blood drunken up hot from a man killed which the Common people so much approve of dry Figgs also are commended Plantane with Lentil the Topps of the black Vine as Dioscorides teacheth the which may be taken with Vinegar and Oyl as also Capers which Fontanous so much commends and if the Meats be sauced with Hysop Sage Marjoram and other simples appropriate to the Nerves Amongst things medicinal this Drink may be given Take of the Roots of Piony one ounce of Misletoe of the Oak half an ounce the Roots of Asarabacca Birthwort each two drams Piony seeds one dram Anise half a dram Chamels hey one scruple make a Decoction in Broth or Wine and Water or an appropriate Water dissolving Honey of Squills half an ounce make a Draught give it when the Fit is feared In plethorick Bodies this Decoction may be prepared Take of the shavings of Guaicum half a pound Misletoe of the Oak a quarter of a pound Piony root one ounce boyl them in twelve pound of Water to the consumption of a third part let him drink it instead of wine or allay wine with it They put into the Mouth in the fit the juyce of the greater Housleek or Rue presently prest forth sometimes adding a little Castor Or such like Medicines may be thus prepared that they may be alwaies ready for use Take of the juyces of Misletoe
apparitions do appear to them as wel in the light as darkness but it is better that they be kept in a place somwhat obscure Their meat ought to be cooling and moistning such as is convenient for the Feverish season'd with herbs and other cool things as Lettice Endive and the like also with the juyce of unripe Grapes and Vinegar and other cold juyces and seeing these Delirous know not what they do and oftentimes do not devour their meat only but also other abominable things we must not humor them but when the Diet ought to be Slender we must withdraw it and they must be fed with Barley Prunes and other lighter things Let their Drink whiles they rage be Water taken of it self or first prepared with boyling to which we may mix Syrups as was said before for preparation and alteration sake Those things which concern sleep motion and the affects of the mind shall be explained now in the Symptoms For the symptoms which happens besides Raving are others also supervenient to them both by reason of the disease of the head and of the Fever accompanying to which we ought to have respect Watchings by reason of the excessive heat of the brain are common and hurtful to them which in general are corrected with the same Remedies that resist the disease as hath been said seeing they cool and moisten especially the external ones to which upon that account are added things soporiferous and privately for their sake soporiferous medicines are given mix with Cordials as shal be said in its place Inordinate motions do so disturb them by reason of their depraved imagination that they endeavor by all force to rise out of the bed and to cloath themselves and if they be not restrained to make an escape whence oftentimes being void of reason they fall from a high place and kil themselves which unquietness is likewise amended by things given to cause sleep seeing the mind being at rest the body must needs rest also and that they may be restrained which is very hard seeing madness makes them strong they are oftentimes bound in bonds the which notwithstanding somtimes when they are angry upon that account and more fierce we ought to loose them and give them way a little yet using great caution that they hurt not themselves nor others A Suppression of the Urin is a Symptom peculiar to them whenas being so intent upon their imaginations they feel not the provocation of the Urin and therefore care not to make it by the retaining of which the Bladder being too much filled and distended afterwards voids the water with a great deal of difficulty the which we must cure by seasonably admonishing them and shewing the Chamber-pot and by applying external Remedies of which we wil treat of in the retention of Urine The driness blackness of the Tongue which denote the highest burning of a Feaver is corrected as shal be explained in its place Thirst doth very much torment them by reason of their heat it is corrected by altering things cold and moist especially given in their Drink as hath been already said and shall be said in thirst in general Their weakness and overthrow of strength known by the Pulse seeing their unquietness otherwise stirring them up doth seem to add strength to them as hath been said is repaired by a course of Diet and cordiall medicines used inwardly and outwardly as also with them already mentioned To undertake to Cure Folly bred in a man from his birth by an evil conformation The Cure of Folly from an evil conformation and distemper seeing it is impossible to fashion otherwise the parts once formed were to attempt to wash and make a Blackmore white as also it is impossible to change any thing if this happen from a perverse temperament the which notwithstanding is somtimes amended by the change of age by Gelding as hath been said in madness where also custom may do much by which it came to pass that Cimon for love of Iphigenia when he knew his foolish behaviour did displease her by little and little changing of them from a Fool became a wise man as this whether true or fabulous is agreeable to reason If madness be sprung from Putrefaction The Cure of madness from putifaction a speck Worms in the brain or a Speck or Worms as they would have it by reason of vapors sent from thence to the brain we can scarcely fit a Cure for these which are almost hid from us yet if that Cure which was described in madness arising from a melancholly humor be also applied here it wil be no fault but if the malady be grievous 't is incurable CHAP. IV. Of a Defatigation of the mind The Kinds VVE call that a Defatigation of the mind when the internal senses are exercised more or longer than 't is convenient or when they rest not at the time prescribed them by sleep which is the rest of the mind or not sufficiently as it comes to pass when they sleep not in too much Watchings or when they sleep but unquietly by reason of grievous dreams the which both in the sound and sick do somtimes cause weakness create trouble and increase diseases Too much and preternatural Watchings are Watchings when they sleep not at all for some daies months or not sufficiently fill up the term of seven or eight hours or more according to the custom of natures seeing Children sleep more than they wake These whether they be symptoms of Diseases or happen without them do at last bring hurt seeing they heat the spirits by their too much use and exagitation whence it happens that the humors also are set on fire especially the hot ones and the same are at length consumed And hence must needs follow at last a weakness of some functions of the body as the animal spirits being wasted there is some defect of the internal senses and by consequence of the external also chiefly of the sight seeing for the exercise of that there is need of so great a quantity of spirits and then by a certain consecution there being a dissipation made of the vital spirits also there follows a languishing of the whol body and the natural spirits being offended too the natural actions are hurt and chiefly concoction not because sleep as they think doth digest but because concoction that it may be rightly performed wanting more plentiful spirits and heat for want of them is for the most part offended sooner then the other actions And also immoderate watchings do bring troubles and pains to certain parts and that because not only â—he spirits are heated but the humors also by infection from them whence the spirits and blood by too much watching growing hot first of all in the Head a pain of the Head redness of the Eyes and hot tears flowing thither an itching doth befall the watchful that they are often forced to rub their Eyes and if they last long and the mass
of blood be inflamed diary Feavers are caused and if this Symptom urge in other Feavers the heat being increased the symptoms of the Feavers grow stronger Choler Also in the cholerick growing hot for this reason through too much watching and poured into the Stomach and boyling there breeds gnawings of the Stomach and other accidents of it and by consent with that pains of the Head and Megrims Preternatural Dreams are Dreams when in sleep the external senses only do seem to rest but the internal do not only lightly exercise themselves as is in natural Dreams but immoderatly and with vehemency and labor as if they were waking although exercise themselves depravedly and do also exagitate and diffipate the spirits that being rouzed up they seem to be rather wearied than refreshed Immoderate Dreams that make the body weary and weak are those which besides the custom do last longer almost all night but this happens to some naturally that Dreams do then begin first when the vapors which caused a sound sleep are now discust after the first sleep as they call it but on others as labouring men tired with labor and sleping presently after meat sleep so steals on them by reason of the plenty of vapors that they have no dreams at all or if they have some wandring they no waies remember them the which also though it be natural too yet that Country fellow not thinking it convenient that he could rehearse no Dreams to his Companions amidst their Cups for this reason takes counsel of the Physitian and receiving from him a strong purging medicine sleeping upon it dreamt that he shit a bed afterwards awaking he found in very deed that he had dreamed and that a true and fatal one Grievous dreams are which do not only lightly exercise the mind as natural ones which therefore seeing they are not very much imprinted on the Brain they do easily slip out of the memory either wholly or in part that being wakend they can recite little of them but do very much exagitate it and do no less affect the senses then if those things did truely fal out which appear to them in their sleep in so much that oftentimes being strucken with fear they suddainly start up or if nevertheless they continve in their sleep they are altogether unquiet and toss their Body variously in their sleep Sweat and somtimes Talk Prate much Cry Laugh call out Nay and sleeping still nevertheless rise out of their Bed and as Galen writes it hath befallen himself they walk and survey many places concerning which the common people perswade themselves many superstitious and old wives tales how they can climbe without danger if they be not hindred nor wakend being called by their own name those difficult places otherwise impossible for the wakening to do many grievous dreams of which nature t is well known to all are dayly objected both to the sick and otherwise sound But they are such if horrible things are presented to their minds whiles they are a sleep with which they are either vehemently frighted as when they dream that they are in danger by some violence offered a fal from on high of Fire Water or by reason of some great offence or for the loss of some grateful thing represented to them they are Angry Sad and Greive Also Portentous Prognosticating Dreams especially those that portend any evil do very much astonish and though they presage some good nevertheless they move a little the which so many sacred and prophane Histories do testefie are sent to men from a good and evil Spirit The Causes The Cause both of watchings and dreams one is supernatural depending on God or the Devil another natural from custome which is a second nature or it lies in the Head and it is a too great Commotion or Perturbation of the Animal Spirits or a hot distemper of the Brain The great and good God as he makes known his wil to us watching and puts it into our minds so also he will somtimes admonish us by Dreams of things to come or things present or past somtimes by sending of visions unknown by themselves The preternatural cause of Dreams Yet the interpretation of which he graunted to some as to Joseph Daniel but at other times he hath set before our Eyes as it were in Dreams the thing it self as it is as to Pharaoh the Dearness of provision to come to Daniel the Monarchies to come Julius Caesars present danger to his Wife the past Death of Ceyres the Husband to his Wife Alcyone And the Devil also by Gods permission as he doth often didude the sleeping with false Images and Apparitions of things so also he troubles men in their Dreams with true ones sometimes that signifies something certain if he can hurt them seeing otherwise he is a lyar Custome oftentimes makes men to be raised at a certain hour of the Night and to watch a long while Custome is the cause of watchings and Dreams as we have oftentimes already taught that Nature being accustomed doth observe her times in excretions also and others of her Natural Operations which is very familiar with old folks in watchings who though they be Prone to Sleep and presently betake themselves to Bed yet being roused either about midnight or sooner or later can Sleep no more And after this is wont to be accustomary to them care and thought in the interim joyning themselves by which whiles they search into and dispose of divers things they are awakend more Also some dreams come to a habit from a certain Custome that afterwards for a long time they dream dreams of the same kind and do not only conceive them in their minde but by words and deeds express them in their sleep The too much commotion or perturbation of the Animal Spirits A commotion of the Animal Spirits is the cause of watchings are the cause of preternatural watchings and dreams which come to pass the internal senses being too much affected for then the Spirits being stirred because they can not rest they can no waies sleep but watch or if they do sleep either they are vexed neverthelels with too much Dreams or those more grievous which impulsion of the internal senses either befals them by accident by reason of the external senses or by it self For the external senses being very much moved by their proper objects do move also the internal and suffer them not to be quiet or if they be quiet nevertheless they disturb and force them as the sight moved by too much light the hearing by a great noise turnes away sleep and makes the sleepers unquiet or rouzeth them up because silence and darkness are rather required to sleep the touch especially affected with pain and trouble doth cause watchings Upon which account in Diseases that torment with pain they are also troubled with watchings and in dreams they represent the pain to them asleep and those that are troubled with a pain at
fresh Butter the like quantity the whitest Sugar as much as is sufficient make a Hasty pudding which let him use The Fat of a Hen or Capon boyled a little that it may be the more grateful may perform the same Syrups of Violets Jujubes or others may be licked so or held in the Mouth Lotions for the Mouth may be made of the same things dissolved for this use Or after this manner Take of Syrup of Violets Jujubes of each one ounce and an half the Decoction of Barley clensed four ounces let him use it Or thus Take of the fresh Leaves of Purslane and Lettice of each one handful the flowers of Autumn Mallows Dogshhead Barley clensed of each one pugil the Roots of Liquorish one ounce the seeds of Fleawort two drams the seeds of Poppy one dram boyl them in Water and in one pound dissolve the white of one Egg beaten Honey of Roses clensed Syrup of Violets of each one ounce let him use it It is very convenient to wash the Mouth often with cold Milk especially with Butter-milk But if that Blackness Greenness The Cure of the want of Tasting from a driness of the Tongue with blackness joyned to it Yellowness joyned with the Driness doth signifie that the Tongue also is infected by Malignant vapors it is an ill sign and so much the worse if heat be added to it â— then those things being first administred which are due to a burning malignant or pestilent Feaver we must use things more cold and repressing malignity especially acid things adding alwaies some things Lenitive that they do not too much exasperate of which also we wil treat in the Inflammations of the Jaws to which also we add these following Let them keep in their mouth sharp Fruits and chew them as of Physick fruits Orenges Lemmons Citrons or Pomegranats or other Apples Prunes Cherries Currans and bunches of Barberries and of herbs Sorrel Lettice Purslane but first steeped in Vinegar or acid juyces or in Sallets as flowers of Succory Violets with Vinegar and the like Then let them wash their Mouth often with Rose-vinegar diluted with Water or with Sorrel-water Or with the Acid Broth of that seasoning of Coleworts and Rapes and use that Acid Liquor either crude or distilled first which is Chirurgeons most excellent Remedy for these things approved on by experience If a little Camphire be added to pure Water 't is also a fit Remedy Or let it be made after this manner Take of Rose-water three ounces Nightshade water two ounces the white of one Eg beaten Camphire dissolved in Vinegar half a scruple mix them Or such a Julep Take of simple Syrup of Vinegar two ounces of simple Oxymel one ounce the waters of Roses Violets Water-lillies of each three ounces mix them Some commend this very much Take of the Water of the greater Housleek to which add a little Salt Ammoniack Yet after the use use of these we must alwaies come to those things which Lenifie also the which have been already spoken of Amongst which this also is commended above the rest Take of the pulp of Gueard seeds choice Manna Sugar candy of each one dram with simple Oxymel make Forms which he may keep in his mouth The other Remedies especially if there be a great heat joyned and as it were an Inflammation are explained in the Inflammations of the Jawes If slime growing to the Tongue and Jaws do prejudice the Tast and do also bring trouble by its tenacity and stinking the cause must first be removed Which if it proceed only from the taking glutinous things 't is easily prevented by washing the mouth alwaies after meat taken The Cure of the want of Tasting from slime of the coat compassing the mouth till the reliques of these meats or thick juyce which do adhere be washt of The same must be done also in the morning alwaies after they are up if such filth be collected either by reason of this Cause or from Vapors raised from the Meats at night and the Teeth must be diligently clensed and rubbed as also shal be explained in their faults And that Fewer and less thick Vapors may arise we must take Care the Supper be sober And lest that these exhalations being retained in the mouth in progress of time may grow to the said parts they must accustome to sleep with the mouth a little open which when some are not used to do by interposing a cloath or holding a little cane in their mouth they ought to make a way for the vapor If flegm breed this Tenacity in the Spittle the afflux of that must be diverted and that must be forced and spit forth by hawking premising if it come hard the Lotions that shall presently be named to cut and clense it But if the Cause or a hot Disease an acute malignant Feaver by drying or sending up filthy vapors and so incrassating the Spittle do produce this thick filthy slime first having respect to the Disease and the Cause as hath already been said formerly Topick means as well in this as in another persevering cause must be apdlied to the part affected as followeth We take then out of the Mouth chiefly from the Tongue Teeth Gums and Jaws this slime if it abound very much with those things which have â—n absterfive power and if it be very tenacious incisive also with which are mixed things lenitive that they may not exasperate the Tongue especially if that be dry too applying also things that workâ—actually in the interim ever and anon washing it and if it yeild not easily seraping it The mouth is washt with things abstersive as with the Decoction of whol Barley Also with Whey with Milk and Sugar Or with this following Take of whol Barley Red Pease or Vetches of each one pugil roots of Liquorish one ounce Figs twenty flowers of Autumn Mallows one pugil make a Decoction and in one pound dissolve of Honey or Sugar two ounces After washing let him hold Sugar candy in his mouth or Lozenges of Sugar Roses or Manus Christi or let him lick a little Honey of Roses If there be need of a greater Abstersion and Cutting cerrain hotter things and acid things are added too if the flegm be very tenacious As Take of Barley Vetches of each one pugil Liquorish one ounce and an half Leaves of Sage Marjoram Hysop of each two drams Quince seed one dram make a Decoction in Water and white Wine add Honey of Roses two ounces Sugar Candy one ounce wine of Pomegranates or Vinegar a litttle mix them make a Lotion for the Mouth if you add as much Allum or a good quantity of it when it is very tough it is most powerfully abstersive Or Take of the waters of Roses Plantans Nightshade of each two ounces the waters of Sage Marjoram of eâ—ch one ounce simple Oxymel two ounces white Wine Vinegar a little Let him take often one spoonful of Oxysaccharum or Hydromel or of simple Oxymel
like vapors the spirits and brain grow hot then together with the Raving false Apparitions also are objected to the Eyes as hath been said in a bastard Phrensie and as if a certain Narcotick vertue be joyned with the heat as hath been shewed to be from the evaporation of Wine then together with the Drunkenness of the mind that there is also an error in the sight in which they think they see divers things which are not or those things which are they judg of falsly hath been declared in Drunkenness as the story of him who being drunk alwaies thought things to be double being decived by his Wife burned his hands gives credit to this business furthermore when other filthy and malignant vapors from the Region of the Hypochondries do assail the Brain disturb it and its spirits they do not only pervert the Mind but also sometimes propose the sight being caused by consent seeing they trouble the Mind too they belong to the Alienation of the mind where it hath been largely treated of them But also it oftentimes comes to pass that the seeing is hurt by the too much agitation of the spirits The too much agitation of the spirits of the Brain the cause of a Vertigo not by that which in the affects of the mind the spirits being not only agitated but rather confounded together with the humors conteined in the Head Heart and whol body doth only disturb the mind and scarce hurts the sight but by that in which the spirits in the Brain being moved either themselves or with the mixture of a vapor without any perturbation of the mind those called a Vertigo Imagination and Scotomie are wont to be raised For the spirit contained in the Brain and its Arteries and Ventricles being moved and stirred more vehemently even without the mixture of a vapor representing to the Imagination the like commotion in things without it breeds the said Vertigo of which commotion there may be divers causes for a vehement moving of the head after the same manner continued long doth cause that the spirits for the same reason being stirred and following the Head afterwards resting yet nevertheless they stil for a while run up and down after the same manner as the motion of the head was made till they rest again as it comes to pases if the Head together with the body be turned long Round for then a Vertigo follows so that if this be done longer a strong one comes that they cannot stand on their Feet but somtimes necessarily stagger and fall as it oft happens we see these things both in men and beasts so the head being bowed a long while downwards the spirits then tending from that upwards to the beginning of the Nerves when that it is erected again the same spirits with violence going back again to their proper seat from that motion somtimes a Vertigo is perceived But if it happens not from this motion of the body only but also from a persevering or vehement commotion of the mind the spirits being often and strongly exagitated in profound and dayly cogitations and other passions of the mind as also in Watchings that those thus accustomed moved from some light internal cause fall into a Vertigo as we do observe Vertigoes do somtimes trouble them that do very much labor at their Studies when they are fasting for the causes by and by to be mentioned But from the long beholding of a thing whirled round or otherwise moved swiftly whether this be so or seem to be so as the Earth seems to be moved and run to them that sail which happens to some from their Imagination when their Eyes are shut some are seazed with a Vertigo the spirits also by that agitation of the sight which follows at the sudden commotion of the object being stirred after the same manner and as it were following the swiftness of the sight which as it happens to those whose spirits are easily stirred so in those disposed to the Vertigo it gives occasion for the fit to seaze although the cause be but light Also looking downwards from a high steep and dangerous place breeds a Vertigo in those that are not used to it the spirits being too much diffused and drawn back again with fear and so moved unequally and therefore this no waies happens to those that are not afraid unless they be otherwise disposed or some other cause joyned as if from such a high place they behold things which are wheeled about or Whitle-pools of Waters But as this Vertigo doth happen from external causes by reason of the too great impulse of the spirits so also the spirits of themselves collected in the Arteries of the Brain especially being more hot and plentifull because they are unquiet do cause a Vertigo and are easily agitated of themselves or from a light occasion joyning the which doth long and much torment men from a light cause either alone or also with a pain accompanying it whose Arteries do beat vehemently in their Head and Ears with a tingling of them sometimes and often in the rest of the body and they are scarcely cured unless by opening of them as shall be said but this may come to pass by it self the blood being so heated and attenuated in the Arteries or by the mixture of a thin Vapor as shal be said by and by But we have found our another cause of a Vertigo proceeding from the spirits in the Arteries and Vessels of the Head by dissecting a certain Merchant our Country-man who many yeers being sick of a Vertigo was neither able to walk nor to rise out of the bed but he fel down to wit the veins of the Brain and all its Arteries from their rise and ingress within the Skul in their whol passage through the Brain grown together and hard and distinguisht with little Glandules in their whol progress from which obstruction of them the spirits being impeded and retained in the Brain being wheeled about by a light motion bred an incurable Vertigo But by reason of vapors mixt with the now declared spirits of the Brain there are wont to be produced not only a Vertigo but also the said Imagination and Scotomie either seazing at once or apart and they according to the diversity of the nature of the Vapors and place from which they arise and to which they are carried in the Brain for if they being plentifully confounded with the spirits of the brain in its Vessels filling up those places and seeking passage out together with them they be brought to the sides by offering to the sight such a sense and motion in things externall they breed a Vertigo as hath been said formerly lighter or more grievous according as their agitation is greater or less The which also doth affect a man alone if the Vapor be subtile and no otherwise polluted or if it be too hot there is joyned also a pain of the Head if it be turbid or some other way
tied in a rag three drams Bran one pugil make a Decoction dissolve of common Honey or Honey of Rosemary flowers one ounce Hiera of Logadius or Hermes half an ounce Oyl of Rue Lillies of each one ounce Niter a little make a Clyster The humor is prepared before Purging for some daies by a Julep or Decoction or Wine A Julep shal be made thus Take of Honey of Rosemary flowers instead of Honey of Roses or Oxymel which by reason of the Vinegar wil not be so profitable for the Nerves Syrup of French Lavender of Betony each one ounce and an half the waters of Eyebright Peony flowers Fennel Marjoram each three ounces mix them aromatize it with Nutmeg and Cinnamon Thus may be the Decoction for some Doses Take of the roots of Orrice Peony each one ounce the herbs Speedwel Eyebright Fennel Rosemary Mint each one handful flowers of Rosemary French Lavender Peony each one pugil seed of Fennel Anise each two drams Carawaies one dram Damask Prunes ten Raisons twenty boyl them and in one pound and an half infuse of the pouder of Galangal Ginger each one dram Cinnamon two drams afterwards strain them adding of the best Honey or Sugar as much as is sufficient or of the forementioned Syrups till it grow sweet Or make a Wine when bitter things are added as Centory which here is very profitable Take of the Leaves of Eyebright Speedwel Centory all dried Fennel seed each half an ounce Carawaies two drams Nutmeg one dram bruise them for one measure of white Wine for your use Afterwards Catharticks that purge flegm must be given but such as are appropriate to the sight as those which have in them Senna and Fumitory and of compounded ones those which admit the juyce of Fennel Such as are the greater and lesser Pilulae lucis so called beause they bring light to the Eyes and those also called Arabicae and sine quibus and of Electuaries the greater and lesser Indum we may use these that follow First of all Pils which he ought to take at midnight if he be not unfit for swallowing of them Take of pils sine quibus half a dram Lucis the greater the Arabick pils pouder of Hiera of Coloquintida each half a scruple with Water of Eyebright or juyce of Fennel make Pills Or let him take this Bole Take of Electuary Indum the Hiera of Hermes each two drams and an half with Sugar make a Bole. Or Decoction Take of Fumitory Eyebright each one handful Senna half an ounce make a Decoction in Water and Wine and Honey instead of Hydromel or Oxymel infuse Agarick Turbith each one dram Ginger one scruple Sal-Gem half a scruple strain it and dissolve Syrup of Fumitory compound one ounce make a Potion Or we may take one dose of the following compositions and give it instead of these for seeing in these diseases of long continuance we ought to use once in a month or week by course Phlegmagoges and in the interim Purgers appropriate to the sight sometimes the Preparatives being repeated again the following forms may be prepared for this use The Form of Pils is wont commonly to be more fit and usual than the rest by which they may more commodiously swallow things that are ingrateful which here are very necessary by making a mass for your use the quantity of whose dose shal be from two scruples to a dram Take of Aloes two drams Turbith Agarick Rhubarb Senna each one dram Myrrh Mastich each half a scruple Tartar Salt Gem each half a scruple Ginger one scruple seeds of Fennel Rue each one scruple Castor six grains with the juyce of Fennel and Rue make a mass and if you add Hiera of Coloquintida and a little Scammony they wil work more strongly Or make them thus of the usual ones Take of the Pills sine quibus Aureae each one dram Lucis the greater Arabicarum each half a dram Pouder of Hiera of Coloquintida one scruple Oyl of Fennel two drops juyce of Fennel as much as is sufficient make a mass If he had rather have an Electuary make such a one of which let him take from three drams to half an ounce at once by it self or dissolving it with Eyebright and Fennel water Take of Electuary Indum the greater Diaphoenicon each half an ounce Hiera of Hermes five drams Fennel seed one dram Cinnamon Cloves each half a dram with french Lavendar make an Electuary If he delight more in a Pouder let the third part of this following be given with a Julep made of Syrup of French Lavender and Eyebright water Take of Turbith two drams Senna half an ounce Tartar two drams Ginger half a dram Fennel seed one dram Scammony one scruple Sugar one ounce mix them make a Pouder A usual Syrup wil do it prepared after the following manner from which first of all a Decoction being made may be given for three daies together and afterwards out of all the same in double quantity a Syrup may be boyled to be kept for use Take of the roots of Fennel one ounce Orrice half an ounce Acorus Galangal Elecampane each two drams Liquorish six drams the herbs Fennel Vervain Eyebright Betony Fumitory each one handful Time Hysop each one handful and an half flowers of French Lavender Rosemary Borrage each one pugil seeds of Fennel two drams Carawaies Anise Hartwort Mountain Seseli of Marselles Rue each one dram Raisons twenty Senna two ounces Oak-fern wild Saffron each one ounce and an half Agarick trochiscate half an ounce Turbirth two drams for the rich you may add Rhubarb Ginger one dram Cinnamon two drams make a Decoction add Sugar two ounces for three doses or all things being doubled as hath been said let it be reduced into the form of a Syrup A purging Wine is more pleasing to some and more effectual seeing it is made only by maceration or with a light boyling and bitter things given after this manner are not so ungrateful which after the same manner as the Syrup may be drunk three daies together and afterwards the Pouder being divided into three parts and one alwaies being infused in the Wine for one dose may so be given by course without corruption Which Pouder for to steep may be made thus Take of Wormwood two drams Centory one dram Eybright Verveine Rue of each three drams Seeds of Fennel two drams of Rue one dram Senna one ounce Turbith two drams Agarick half an ounce Barke of black Hellebore two drams Tartar two drams Ginger one dram Make a Pouder for the Wine After the Body hath been purged we must derive it from the Brain by the Mouth and Nostrils as through a way destained for the purging forth of Flegm which purging is so much the more convenient because it presently purgeth from the very seat affected it self those Excrements of the Brain collected there to which seat this way leads strait and this is done by Head purgers or those called Apophlegmatismes used in the
thus applied because those things which are put into the Eye do by and by flow forth again with the Tears or do irritate the Eyes and create some trouble The Distilled water of Honey is very profitable and accustomary which is oftentimes dropt into the Eye Also that called the Water of Wine or Aqua vitae doth discuss Egregiously but it must be tempered with Water of Honey and Fennel added to it in equal portions A more effectual one will be made thus Take of a Boyes Urin four ounces white Wine one ounce Honey one ounce Gaul half an ounce Extract a Water Or yet a stronger Take of a Boyes Urin four ounces the juyces of Fennel Celandine of each two ounces white Wine one ounce the Gaul of Fishes as Salmon or Carpe or of Birds or of other creatures two drams Honey two ounces Turpentine half an ounce live Sulphur two drams Distill them if the Urin before it be added to this composition stand for some daies in a brass Vessel afterwards washing the Vessel soundly with it the preparation wil be yet more effectual which if it bite being temper'd and thicken'd with the white of an Egg anoint the Ey-lids with it Somtimes such a Pouder is blowed in but it ought to be very fine as an Alcohol that it do not exasperate the Eye Take of the Bone of the Fish Sepia of the Fungous matter of a Pummystone of each two drams white Pompholix which is the soot from Brass half a dram Sugar candy two drams Bean flower half a dram Make a Pouder The juyce sweating forth from Willows being dropt in the Eye is very much commended Of Acid juyces these are very convenient Take of the thick juyces of unripe Grapes also of the juyce of sour Pomgranates thicken'd receive them in the Mucilage of Fenugreek seed apply them to the Eylids Or thus one more disgesting Take of the juyces of the lesser centory Fennel Celandine of each two drams the Gaul of Fishes one dram Aloes Sarcocol Mirrh of each half a dram Sugar candy one dram Honey as much as is sufficient Make an Oyntment Or thus one Egregiously abstersive Take of Lizards dung one dram the bone of the Fish Sepia burnt Hart-horn Massacumia of each half a dram Honey as much as is sufficient Make an Oyntment Or without Pouders but very effectual Take of the juyces of Fennel Celandine soure Pomegranates of each half an ounce of Onions Radish of each two drams Gaul one dram and an half Lizards dunge half a dram Honey as much as is sussicient Mix them Or make such an Unctuous Oyntment Take of the fat of the Fish Thymallus two drams of Gaul one dram Lizards dung one scruple Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Aqua vitae one dram Sarcocol half a dram Make an Unction Acrid Liquors that work vehemently are made thus which if the Eye cannot endure they are temper'd with Milk or Waters til they can bear them or being mixed with the Mucilage of Fenugreek seed or the white of an Egg they are applied to the Eylids Take of Antimony one dram Marchasite half a dram Pouder and infuse them in Rose and Fennel Water of each four ounces often passing it through a Filter for your use Out of Urin thus Take a Boyes Urin let it stand in a Brass Vessel for some daies scraping or rubbing the Vessel often for your use Or a linnen cloath is set one fire in a dish or on a Tin or Iron plate and the juyce which sticks to the dish is taken for use this juyce will be more effectual or rather that Oyly substance sweating forth if the cloth be first wet with the spirit of Wine and be dried again but afterwards be lighted and burnt on a Plate of Steel Of those stronger yet t is made thus Take of white vitriol one dram rust of Brass six grains being pouder'd Mix them with the white of one Egg beat them well and pouring them upon a Paper the greenish water collected by inclination is taken for your use so far as it can be endured it is temper'd with Rose water or Milk A most effectual Oyntment is made thus Take of white Vitriol one scruple rust of Brass half a scruple Antimony half a dram Marchasite half a scruple Lizards dung half a scruple the Bone of the Fish Sepia half a dram Camphire two grains Fish Gauls half a dram Honey two drams Sugar one dram with the mucilage of Fenugreek seed Make an injection Somtimes a Fomentation of the Eye being made before the use of these it causeth that they work more rightly and doth the better dispose the Eye to receive them and it discusseth also by it self Which may simply be made thus Take of the seeds of Fenugreek one ounce of Fennel two drams Chamomel flowers Oate chaff of each one handful Marsh-mallow roots one ounce Boyl them in Water and Wine for a Fomentation A Suffumigation from this Decoction if it be received in the Eyes will be instead of a Fomentation To breath into the Eyes after the chawing of Fennel seed doth the same and in Infants if the Nurse do that it wipes away their Suffusions if they first chew Gum Ammoniack and the like Amongst Amulets the roots of Garlick and Snakeweed hung about the Neck is in high esteem with Chyrurgions By Manual operation or Chyrurgery in a Suffusion when it is grown to a Skin or Web as they call it to free and divide it from the compass of the apple to which it is grown by putting in a Needle through the horny Coate and by degrees forcing it to this part is the last remedy which if it succeed and the sight as yet be in the Eye as the Chyrurgeons speak that is if by reason of that long continued blindness which hath lasted so many years the Visory spirits as hath been said formerly being idle be not extinguisht or the Optick Nerves become sluggish then this way being open'd and its obstacle taken away the light again entring and Illuminating the Eye it causeth that in that very moment in which the Web is taken off they recover their sight again But before the operation be began these things must first be consider'd first of all that if both Eyes being cover'd with a Web they are render'd wholly blinde by so much the rather let it be attempted because worse cannot befal them although the operation do not succeed they then remaining blind as they were before but if that one Eye only be affected the other being sound because that is sufficient for seeing and no greater necessety urgeth the business is not to be attempted with such rashness Next of all that we do not attempt it before the Skin be wholly concrete and perfect and as they call it be ripe Which somtimes is scarce compleated in the space of three years somtimes five or more and it is known by the color of it which then is exactly white like to the thin Skin compassing the white
by reason of a blow from which commonly these proceed then presently at the beginning we must use bleeding and Repellers and things that allay pain and if that it being long retained do suppurate and whiles the matter is generated there arise pain the horny coat being affected and then also the adnate coat by consent the same must be done for fear of an Inflammation otherwise if there be no pain we must abstein from Repellers seeing they condense the blood more and by and by we ought to apply our care to digest and dissolve that blood which although it be converted into matter must be done nevertheless if part of it can be consumed seeing the greater part of the matter being resolved that which remains sinking downwards from the hole of the Apple can then no longer prejudice the sight and at length 't is wasted either of its own accord or by use of Medicines But 't is discust after this manner you must take the blood of Pidgeons Turtles or other Birds and that while it is yet hot must be cast into the Eye or if a young Pidgeon be at hand we must pul a feather out of his wing whose swelling root because it is newly grown is filled with blood which is contained there in its proper Vein as in an Intestine and the blood must be prest out of that and dropt into the Eye for how much power blood hath in discussing of Blood we have taught elsewhere in Haemorrhages that are to be stopt by blood of this nature Stronger discussives may be put into the Eye if it yeild not to these such as are explained in discussing a Sussusion made of Waters Juyces Gums Gauls To whice also we add these approved by their effects Take Aqua vitae which also doth wonderfully discuss Black and Blewness elswhere Rhadish water each half an ounce dissolve of Camphire which doth the same in discussing as Aqua vitae five grains drop it in Or thus Take of Radish water one ounce steep in it Saffron half a scruple til it looks yellow strain it and dissolve in it Frankincense one scruple Fish gaule half a dram use it by it self or apply it with a Mucilage Or a thicker to anoint the Eyelids may be made thus the which also may be put into the Eyes Take of the juyce of Radish two drams Fish gaule half a dram Myrrh Frankincense each one dram Saffron half a scruple mix them with a sufficient quantity of Honey Or thus chiefly in the declination Take of sour Grapes Lees of Oyl each two drams Myrrh half a dram Saffron half a scruple mix them with Honey Or wholly to discuss it the Compound waters explained in Suffusions are convenient by themselves or applied with a Mucilage Fomentations also shal be applied which do very much discuss such as we have prescribed in Suffufions Or this which is very powerful Take of Radish roots half an ounce Fenugreek seed one ounce Fennel Hartwort each two drams the herbs Fennel Celondine Eyebright each one handful Flowers of Chamomel Melilot Elder Lillies Oat chaff cut each one pugil make a Decoction in Wine and Water for a Fomentation Plasters laid upon the Eye to discuss are of force amongst which this is the best If the Lungs or Liver of a Pidgeon being yet bloody and warm be placed and bound on the Eye which if Pain and Inflammation also were present upon that account also they would do very much good as shal be said in an Opthalmy A Plaster also is made of a Rotten Apple profitable for discussion Or Compounded after this manner Take of Radish sliced one ounce the pulp of a rotten Apple half an ounce Pulp of Raisons one ounce Pidgeons Dung half a dram bruise them with the Mucilage of Fenugreek seed mix them with Milk and apply them A Suffumigation from the Decoction of the Fomentation prescribed wil also discuss very much Manual Operation also takes place here if the matter that is generated do not yeild to Discussives and there be great plenty of it which blots out the Apple which may be attempted by Puncture as hath been said in a Suffusion but with a greater Needle seeing otherwise nothing would flow forth and if it succeed not by thrusting in a bigger yet but in the same hole of the Puncture or by putting in a hollow pipe so sharp that it may enter the same hole and so by sucking out the matter so long til the Apple be in some sort freed from it for if we would draw forth all the matter 't is to be feared that the watry humor may follow For that sucking the Instrument or Pipe must consist of a large Belly that the matter suckt up may be carried into that and not into the mouth of him that sucks such as Chvmists are wont to use for the sucking of Waters or Oyls in seperating them one from another CHAP. VIII Of the hurts of Hearing The Kinds Deafness SOmtimes the Hearing is wholly abolisht so that either they hear not outward sound at all or if they receive any sound at their Ears yet they cannot discern the differences of it and therefore cannot judg what it signifies and this is called Deafness Cophosis and these are oftentimes Dumb if they be born Deaf and then it is an Original Deafness Yet of Deaf folks some of them can after a sort hear themselves speaking but others not all and there have been also found those who otherwise being Deaf pressing a Musical Instrument while it soundeth with their Teeth and biting some part of it or only some other part contiguous to it could apprehend that sound Which may happen not only to those that hold a Pipe in their Mouth and Piping but to those also who hold fast with their Teeth part of another Instrument which consists of strings whiles it is plaid upon And in like manner it happens also to those that are sound if stopping their Ears diligently that they can hear nothing that way they do the same thing as every one may make tryal of it But it is impaired only when they can hardly perceive or discern a sound Thick hearing Barycoia in thick hearing called Barycoia because they do not hear or understand a sound unless it be very high and lofty whence they that talke with them are forced to lift up their voice and somtimes call aloud but others cannot thus perceive their voice unless those that talke with them speak and cry aloud into their Eares A Depraved hearing or Obaudition Obaudition that is a sound in the Ears is when it perceives the external sound falsely and that by reason of an internal sound preternaturally raised in the Ears outnoising this external sound or mixing it self with it and confounding it and that either continually or only by fits besides which Impediment it breeds no smal trouble to a man and makes him unquiet But this sound raised in the hollow of the Ears varies very much and as
and the Nerves of the Tongue are mutually conjoyned with the Auditory Nerve in their branches as we shall explain hereafter for what reason the Deaf are also born Dum by which consent it comes to pass that because the sound through the Aire doth beat upon the Teeth by contract this continuation being made through the inner parts it is perceived by the Ears as also the Mouth being exactly shut and the Teeth set one against another or the Tongue forced to some part of the Mouth although the Eare hear not extrinsecally yet we perceive the sound through the inner parts and also by reason of that consent of the Teeth with the substance of the Organ of Hearing we see that by a harsh noise made by the rubbing together of rough things the Teeth are offended even without contact Hither perhaps it makes somwhat that as the strings of one Instrument being play'd upon we see the strings screwed up to the same tune in another Instrument are moved though it be far distant so that if any thing be laid upon them either it trembles or if it be light as Chaff it fals off so also the Drum being retcht to receive all impulses of sounds being struck by a continuation made through the intermediate teeth and Nerves doth represent the sound to the hearing of which many things might be disputed but to our business But though the Ear being wholly stopt the outward sound be no waies perceived yet some sound nevertheless is somtimes felt in the Ear which first of all is wont to happen by reason of the Air which hath remained in this Cavity of the Ear and doth more or less force and beat upon the Drum and it is by so much the greater by how much the Ear though it be stopt yet being less filled with strange matter doth contain in it self more plenty of Air whence is perceived a waving sound the air rouling it self and as it were fluctuating in the Ear hence we see that if that which is hollow be applied to the ear and therefore contains Air in it this sound in the ear is felt more vehement which we experience by applying the hollow part of the hand to the ear whence Children are wont to relate that pressing a Sea shel to their ears they hear in it the waves of the Sea the air then making a greater noise by reason of the winding in the Skul the which also happens the head being plunged in the water so that the ears be wholly stopt up by it the air then temaining which offers a sense of fluctuation and I have oftentimes observed when being a Boy I was delighted with swimming that if a noise were made under the water by moving of the Stones that that also was perceived like the tinkling of a Bel although the greatest sound made out of the water even from a Gun shot off could by no means be heard and also by reason of the Pulsation of the Arteries in the ears a beating sound is somwhat felt in them when the ear is stopt which is not taken notice of when the ear is open by reason of the outward sound seeing it is greater and doth obscure and drown this lesser the which also many relate that they hear in the night if they bind their ears too streight with a Cap and wrap them up in a pillow especially if their head being somwhat hot doth cause a vehement pulse and that in Diseases it doth preternaturally cause trouble we shal by and by explain But if the Cavity of the Ear be not wholly shut up Ill hearing from things fallen into the Ears by the forementioned external Canses so that the outward sound entring them nevertheless be heard and yet there is a hurt of the hearing not only because it is impaired but depraved seeing the Ear doth hear that sound made in the Ear keeping a Noise from every Inward Contact not only of the Drum but also of the rest of its Cavity which according as the Contact is becomes various for that which is the passage of the drum resembles a certain waving or Noise but if some Insect creeping in as a Flea or others be carried to the Drum and touch that whiles it moveth there is heard a sound in the Ear making a Noise like the flying of a Butterfly very troublesome also if one drop of Water or more flow so far 't is perceived as if the head were hollow and such a sound ariseth in it as also these or other sounds are perceived if a Worm with many legs or some other thing that doth not wholly stop up the Ear but nevertheless is troublesom to be contained in it If the Ear be filled up with internal humors the same comes to pass A Repletion of the outward Cavity of the Ear with internal humors is the cause of hurting the hearing that the Hearing is either taken away or impeded or depraved as if the Ear be obstructed with the cholerick filth of the Ears which they call Cerumen being long retained grown thick and hard especially if they be forced even to the Drum with an Ear-picker which somtimes happens by neglect whiles they endeavor to take them forth which afterwards sticking there seeing they do not afterwards easily give way they bring a great impediment to the Hearing the which also may happen from blood congealed after a hurt of the Ear and from matter after an Imposthumation being some time retained the which notwithstanding seeing they do not stick long but flow forth of their own accord they do not so much hurt the Hearing as they prejudice the Ears upon another account as we shal shew in pains of the Ears The Hearing may be hurt by a Preternatural Tumor obstructing the Ears rather than by a distemper hurting them A Tumor in the inner cavity of the Ear is the cause of the Hearing burt and that lastingly if a piece of Flesh or Callus be left after some exulceration of the Ear which is very rare A hurt of this outward passage unless it hurt the Drum as shal be said can scarce prejudice the hearing unless it leave an excrescency behind it as hath been said and Fernelius writes that somtimes a Pulse doth remain in the Ears from an Ulcer not wel consolidated the which because the Artery is no more well covered with the Skin but bare and for that reason doth more strongly beat upon the neighboring parts must needs happen in the cutaneous Artery of this outer chamber which is carried thither as shal be explained in the Ulcers of the Ears The inward Cavity of the Ear distinguisht from that called the Outward by intervention of the Drum A spirit vapor wind in the inner chamber of the Ear are the cause of the sounding in the Ears being ful of winding containing small Bones and a Nerve and Artery being affected by a spirit Vapor Wind or humor contained there or if that and its parts be ill
into the Ears that do wholly enter into the Cavity or if living creatures have crept in they do not so easily yeild therefore there is need of greater art to take them away either by washing them out or shaking them out or drawing them out or enticeing them out or killing them Somtimes they give way by washing if they stick not very fast Which is done by pouring in those things which make this way flippery and moisten and dilate it as the common Oyl of sweet Almonds Butter Milk or some relaxing and smoothing Decoction We shake them out by a certain violence causing Sneezing For so those parts being shaken with the impulse of Spirit that which is fallen in ofttimes leaps forth or at least is forced forward which will the sooner be done if the way be first dilated as hath been said by Dancing and beating the Foot of that side as the Eare affected is against the ground in the interim holding the Head with the Hands and bending it towards that part Things are also shaked out of the Ears which way Water and other Liquid things that are flown into the Ears are commodiously cast forth as Boyes are wont to shake it out after bathing in the River if any thing hath flowed into their Ears If these succeed not we draw it out with an Instrument fit for for this purpose Yet we must Studiously take Care that whiles we put it in that which sticks be not forced in farther whence afterwards it is taken forth with greater difficulty This is done with an Ear-picker with which the filth is wont to be taken out whose hollow part must be very thin that being there put behinde the things contained they may the more commodiously be drawn forth Or they must be laid hold on and puld out with a pair of Tongs fitted for that purpose sharp on both sides and rough or if this succed not neither laying hold of them with another Instrument if they be hard Bodies as a Kernel or Stone we break them and then as hath been said with liquor poured in we wash them forth Somtimes we Allure living Creatures with certain things which are pleasing to them that they may creep outward and so then they may be laid hold on as if we apply Milk with Sugar in a Spunge to the Eare or thrust it in gently or the inside of a Fig or a crust of Bread or an Apple or the like or Bacon Grease with which Worms are sooner enticed and that especially if whiles they hold these things in their Ears they turn them up to the Sun By pouring Blood into the Ears Leeches that are got in by chance are drawn forth We kill living Creatures if they stick in the Ears and give no way and then being dead they do no more outnoise the Hearing and they are the easier washt out or shaked out and that is done by choaking of them if Liquors be poured in so they are wont taking on their Finger spittle which is ready at hand in the night to drop it into the Ears if Fleas have crept into them which by its Tenaciousness doth presently stop up their Pores the same is done by pouring in their own water If those things poured in be bitter they sooner kill insects as the Juyce or the Decoction or the Wine of Centory Wormwood the juyce of Rue also killeth insects Also Gauls and Aloes Acrid things do the same Vinegar the juyce of an Apple and of Onions And the rest which shall be explained in the Woms of the Ears If the Ears be stopt by filth or choler clotted blood The Cure of the Hearing from a Repletion of the Eares Matter they must be extracted with an Ear-picker or by some other Art as hath been said And if they be so thick or Tenacious that they do not easily give way then they must be clensed dissolved and washt out by casting in liquors often and flowing forth again such as in clensing of matter shall be exprest in the Ulcers of the Ears And Honey and Water or Hydromel is chiefly good or if we must clense more powerfully that must be done with the Decoction or bitter juyce a fore mention'd of Wormwood Centaury Lupines adding Honey or Gall which above all other things as hath been often said doth make fluid those things which are viscous and hath great strength in dissolving Eare Wax into which it doth egregiously insinuate it self by reason of a similitude of Nature with it If a fleshy Tumor stop up the Ears it is scarce taken away seeing it cannot be cut and Causticks or Septicks are put in with danger to the Drum the Callus left is hardly mollefied Yet Emollient remedies may be tryed If a Pulsation be left in the Ears after an Ulcer Fernelius writes that it is perpetual which Impediment nevertheless is diminisht or ceaseth perhaps the Skin being drawn over the Wound and in space of time growing thicker If a sound be felt in the Ears by reason of the more vehement Pulsation of the Arteries in the Ears The Cure of a Pulsation in the Eares by reason of the Arteries that remitting as it is not wont to be of long continuance that sound also ceases if that come to pass from too exquisite a sence then it feels it either alwaies or from a light intension of the Pulse and in proceess of age the senses remitting it is mitigated or it is corrected by putting in Narcoticks if it be very troublesome as if the juyce of Henbane be dropt in with Oyl or Vinegar If the Hearing be hurt by a Humor The Cure of the hurt of Hearing from the repletion of the inner Cavity of hearing or Winde or also a Vapor contained in the Cavity of hearing then if the matter be very thin and Vaporous t is at length dissipated of its own accord Or if it be thicker and stick there it often produceth an evil of long continuance In the Cure of which whether Deafness or thick Hearing or mishearing be caused from thence Emptiers are chiefly used after the same manner as they are described in a Vertigo and weakness of the sight caused by watrish Serous and flegmatick Humor and the altering means which are described in the Oxydorcical or Eye-clearers are convenient for them also And Topick remedies must be applied too and into the Eares which may waste Dissipate and Discuss the matter contained there and which by a propriety do restore the Hearing all which shall be Methodically appointed in the following order The filth of the Guts must first of all be washt out by Suppositories or Grysters or giving a Minorative purge as hath been said in the places foremention'd and shall be said in the Excrementitious Diseases of the Brain Bleeding if there be a Plenitude or if Cholerick matter together with blood flowing to the Ears hath caused Deafness in the crifes of Diseases will be convenient as hath been said The Humors are prepared if
so drawn up that it would scarce admit the most liquid meats The Muscles or their Tendons being dryed An Exiccation of the Muscles on their Tendons is the cause of the Contraction of the Members and with them somtimes the Nerves inserted into them being so far wrinkled and bound up they are become as it were Hardned and Callus that they cannot be extended or bent then in what situation they remain firm in the same also they keep the Member which they are implanted fixt and immoveable and more or less Contracted as oftimes we see by reason of Old Age or of too much and long continued labour some parts to become Stiff and diversly crooked and those especially which have been much and long exercised with too much working and that they go with a Crooked Back and cannot raise themselves up streight who have a long while carried heavy Burdens and that they have Crooked Fingers and Hands who have too much used their Help or that Old Folks do labour of a Tetanus or other species of Contractions the which may come to pass not alwaies by reason of the Joynts as shal be said afterwards but also from the foresaid Exiccation of the Muscles their Humor being then Wasted by the forementioned causes so that being consumed by Leanness the which appears manifestly in the Muscles of their Limbs especially in the greater even outwardly their bodies and Tendons seem to consist rather of Fibres than Flesh and to represent dry Cords not soft Nerves which Driness is helpt by the defect of Fat which is wont first of all to be wasted by the said causes whenas it growing both Extrinsecally to their Membranes and being Intrinsecally inbred with the Fibres of certain greater Muscles especially anoynting them that they may the easier be extended and contracted in motion but if they be deprived of it rendring them unfit for motion also the Consumption of the Glue with which the Tendons upon the same account are wont to be smeared from the same causes for which the Humor and Fat do fail which Exiccation we have demonstrated doth depend on an Atrophy formerly in a pituitous humor possessing the Tendons of the Wrist the which also may happen from a vehement Heat from without through great Heats if either they persevere long or are so powerful that they burn almost the Tendons and Muscles rather the more membranous than fleshy being then bound up from thence But there can scarce be such an Exiccation of the Muscles from internal heat even in the most burning Feavers seeing in Hectick Feavers the body being otherwise almost reduced to a wasting the members do not appear contracted by reason of that unless by chance this happen in the Midriff and in the Tongue the which being dried as shal by and by be said its Function also is weakened as we shal speak of in the Breathing hurt for that the Convulsions also which follow these Feavers which we have said do very much differ from Contraction do not proceed from the Exiccation of the Nerves as they would have it but from their Irritation hath been explained in an Epilepsie The Muscles being very much Cooled by an external cause A cooling of the Muscles is the cause of Impotency of motion so that the native heat being laid asleep their Function is weakened then either they cannot rightly move the member or scarcely as it oftentimes happens in the Hands and Feet parts more exposed to injuries by reason of the Air Wind Water Cold that then they cannot rightly lay hold on things with their Fingers they being either numed together or affected with a great pain manifesting it self about the roots of the Nails as hath been said elsewhere but also they think that Spasm is caused by cold which is wont to betide those that swim in very cold Water by binding up the Muscles and Tendons the causes of which nevertheless we have expounded to be other the which notwithstanding this may help The Muscles or their Tendons being Cut The solution of Continuity in the Muscles or Tendons is the cause of a Palsie or only Wounded a little way transversly there follows a Languishing or Palsie of that Member which they ought to draw which as it happens in divers places of the body it doth breâ—d many sorts of Palsies so if it come to pass in the temporal Muscle the lower Jaw is Palsied Moreover the Tendons of a Muscle being too much Extended by a violent motion The too much lengthening of the Tendons is the cause of Impotency of Motion so that being as it were drawn asunder they become longer than is meet it comes to pass that afterwards they cannot sufficiently elevate the Member and because then they hardly recollect themselves again the Evil becomes lasting which somtimes happens in the Hands by lifting up heavy burdens in that strong streining as also I have seen it happen in the Joynt of the Knee being so forced by violence that the many Tendons which meet there being dissevered by that violent and sudden motion and become longer or freed from their connexion with their Ligaments they could no more afterwards rightly bend that part and the Patients have afterwards remained Limping And also an Attraction with violence oftentimes befals the Muscles and their Tendons Too great attraction of the Muscles and their Tendons is the cause of a Flatulent Spasm that they being too much bound up beyond their term or otherwise distorted or bowed or somwhat declining from their natural situation so that they cannot be relaxt again presently they draw the Member beyond a mean figure and that Spasm is caused which so often seazeth on men for a time when they extend their Members violently or with an inordinate motion as it more commonly happens in the Feet when they put on their Shoes with pain or Swimming in the Water they stir them after an unusual manner in which Spasm a Prominency of the Muscle appearing and vehement pain doth sufficiently shew that it is wound up by contraction and too much streightened in it self Wind then also breaking into that Space which it causeth by its elevation as hath been said formerly and helping its distension and that so long til the Muscle being relaxt again the Spasm doth cease again which is the sooner performed by the opposite Muscle drawing the part which the Muscle fastened to it doth follow the which nevertheless if the part be disposed as hath been said formerly in Wind and there is plenty of Wind it is wont sooner and the easier to return and somtimes to molest men not only in some one place but in many places which every one if he rightly consider the business may know to be the true cause of the Cramp that doth so violently and with pain extend the members seeing the true Spasm which is caused by reason of the Nerves sometimes in these or other parts cannot extend the members so violently or cause so
half Nutmegs one dram the rtots of Pellitory of Spain half a dram the leaves of Sage Marjoram of each one scruple Mix them It will do good if they drink but little and wholly abstain from the use of Wine or of clear Wine and instead of that drink Water and Honey which shall be prepared of ten parts of Water and one of Honey boyled to the Consumption of a third part and Aromatized in the end Or if he drink it more Compounded as shall be declared by and by Those things which are given to prepare the Humors are used before purging Medicines in the beginning of the Disease and are repeated when in the progress of the Disease the purging ought to be reiterated but also otherwise given they do help because they at once waste and alter the Humors as shall besaid This is done by Syrups after this manner Take of the Syrups of French Lavender Hyssop of each two ounces Honey of Rosemary flowers half an ounce the waters of Sage Ground-pine Hyssop of each one ounce and an half Make a Julep Aromatize it with the Pouder of Rosata Novella for four or five times Also Nicolaus his Syrups of Ground-pine are convenient of the Conserve of Acorus Honey of Squils although they approve of Oxymels we omit them the waters of Matjoram Betony Prim-rose Balm are allowed In place of these Water and Honey boyled with Acorus French Lavender Lavender flowers or with Sage is very convenient Also the following Decoction may be given to drink instead of these Take of the roots of the true Acorus Orrice of each six drams Cyperus Elecampane of each three drams the Herbs Sage Marjoram Ground-pine the tops of Time of each one handful Hyssop Betony Penny-royal Calamint ef each half a handful the flowers of Rose-mary French Lavender or Lavender Elder Prim-roses of each one pugil seeds of Annis Fennel of each two drams Rue one dram Liquorish root one ounce Raisons three ounces Make a Decoction adding Honey or Sugar as much as is sufficient Aromatize it with Cinnamon or with some Aromatical Pouder let her use it instead of a Julep The Remedies which are given to Drink to heat the sluggish and cold Nerves and also to waste the Humors ought to heat very much so that they may kindle a feaver because if that supervene the whol Body then grows hot and the moistures of it are Egregiously consumed with which also are mixed those things which are appropriate to the Neres and do resist Disease by a peculiar vertue But these are used presently after purging and in the whol progress of the Disease being given in the morning to them fasting or once or twice towards night in the form either of a Decoction Infusion Waters Pouders Electuaries Pills the choycest of all which we will propound Somtimes the more grateful Decoctions are given upon that account because they loath ingrateful things in that form of which sort Compound Hydromel or Mead is very effectual if it be drank somtimes before Meat or otherwise which is thus made Take of Water twenty pound Honey one pound and an half the roots of Acorus dried Sage of each one ounce the roots of Orrice half an ounce Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part Aromatize it in the end with Cinnamon Nut-meg of each two drams Pepper half a dram Make a Melicrate the which also may be done after the same manner with Sugar Other Medicinal Decoctions may be reduced into the form of a Svrup and used which may be boyled as hath been said there with the formentioned preparatives and purgers or taking away those things which purge and so be given Or of juyces after this manner Take of the juyces of Sage and Ground-pine of each one ounce and an half the juyce of Marjoram one ounce Lavender water two ounces the most generous Wine two ounces Sugar or Honey two ounces Boyl them to the consistence of a Syrup Aromatize it with Nut-meg and the roos of Galangal of each one dram Let him take often one spoonful Infusions especially those made in Wine do good for though Wine especially if it be stronge is no waies convenient yet acquiring the strength of other things to it self and being to them as it were a Vehicâ—e to the Nerves it becomes profitable being somtimes taken by way of Medicine but it is prepared of the simple Infusion of Sage or of some convenient Plant. Or a Compound one as followeth Take of the roots of Acorus two ounces the leaves of dried Sage one ounce and an half Ground-pine Cow-slips of each one ounce Wormwood half an ounce Nutmeg one ounce Zedoary half an ounce white Wine or new Wene or Wine a little boyled twenty pound If you add of the shavings of Guajcum one pound the wine will be more effectual Distilled waters or those made by infusion are highly magnified by some which are given by themselves in the morning or are mixt with others as the more simple ones of Rosemary Sage Marjoram Time Lavender especially if the Liquor be extracted out of them dry being first steeped in Wine Cinnamon water as it is grateful so also t is effectual the water of Ground-pine and Primroses are chiefly appropriate Many Compound ones are made for these uses such as we have described also in an Apoplexy this also will be rightly fitted for the work Take of the roots of the true Acorus Angelica or Masterwort Elecampane of each fix drams the leaves of Sage Marjoram Rose-mary Ground-pine Rue the flowers of Lavender Prim-roses of each half an ounce Galangal Nutmeg Zedoary Cinnamon Cloves of each there ounces Being thus pouderd steep them in strong-wine or in that first distilled till it be thick as Frumenty afterwards draw forth the Liquor give one spoonful often in the morning it will be more effectual if you infuse a little Castor in part of it and give it or if you fear the strong seml of that let a few grains of Musk be added Divers commodious pouders are prepared which are either drank by themselves from one dram to one dram and an half being dissolved in the waters of Sage Marjoram Lavender Cinnamon Groundpine and also with Honey and Rosemary flowers or Anacardine or of Squils or with other Syrups Or eight parts of Sugar being added to one of Pouder they are so taken Or the Sugar being first dissolved with the said Waters Lozenges are made and then they are given in greater quantity Or they are mixt with Conserves and Electuaries Of the usual ones the most excellent are the Pouder of Diamoschum Dulce and Amarum Diathamaron Pleres with Musk Rosata Novella and other Aromatical Pouders are convenient Instead of which these following also may be prepared that called A more simple one of Nutmeg after this manner Take of Nutmegs three drams root of Pellitory of Spain two drams make a Pouder of which if one dram be given for some mornings with Sage water and Honey of Rosemary flowers it
acid things are enemies to the Nerves the Salt ones Sea-water or Spring-water heated because they dry without doubt wil be profitable Artificial Baths wil do the same if you mix with the Waters Salt Alum Tartar of Wine to make them drying and often quench Iron or Steel in it such as Smiths-water is or adding the Ashes of pruning of Vines of Bones and Lime You may make like a Lie and that the Bath may be more appropriate and heating you may boyl the Plants by and by to be reckoned up in a dry Bath in some Water prepared of those things even now spoken of adding a Lye or Smiths water Or if you boyl the same Plants in the Decoction of a whol Fox But if particular parts palsied be plunged in these or be fomented or washed with them as the Hands or Feet they wil do good For which this is also convenient Take of Sage 〈◊〉 niper berries and Leaves the greater Spurge each as much 〈◊〉 â—fficient boyl them in a Lye with which foment 〈…〉 the part 〈…〉 Palsied parts as the Hands or others may be â—â—â—ged in the like Liquid Oyls or Liniments it wil be â—â—â—enient to foment them awhile with them for the â—â—â—formance of which seeing a good estate is required â—â—is ought rather to be done in rich folks By the encompassing Air the strength is not only preserved but also if it be pure the body is made less foul and as the cold Air is chiefly hurtful seeing the Members of the Paralytical are otherwise cold Cold â—an Enemy to the Nerves so that which is Hot and Dry doth very much good because it corrects the Distemper but such is either by reason of the Heavens and must be let in from thence whence it may be had or is made such by Art by Fires by Suffumigations and also if Pidgeons be converfant with the Patient in the same Air of the Chamber they say that it doth by a propriety resist the Palsie If also it be applied so Medicinal viz. made Hot Vaporous or Smoaking that it draw forth the Humors by insensible Transpiration or manifest Sweats the body being first fitly purged it is a Remedy which doth wast from the part affected but the conjunct and Antecedent cause and oftentimes is the prime Remedy in curing this long continued Disease But let the Air be thus heated in his Chamber shut up or under his bed and that either with Fire alone or also with the Vapor of some Decoction which exhales of its own accord whiles it is hot or if red hot flints or mettals be quencht in it it sends forth a Vapor and Smoak in which let the Patient fasting sit Naked and repeat it often according as he can wel endure But the Decoction for this Evaporation may be prepared of things following which do together powerfully heat and strengthen Take the root of Danewort three ounces of Acorus for the rich one ounce Hogs Fennel of Dioscorides two ounces the herb Sage Groundpine Primrose each two handfuls Organy Pennyioyal Wild Time Calamint Hyssop Marjoram Rosemary Time Bays flowers of Chamomel Elder Juniper berries of every one of them or some of them a greater or less handful according as they are taken boyl them in Water adding a Lye and Wine for a Stove or Dry Bath as they call it In a great and almost desperate Palsie or Rosolution of the Limbs much may be done if Sweat be provoked oftentimes with intermitting rest in a Chest made convenient to lie in being every where close shut the Patient being placed with Pillows under him with his Head out and the hold of the Chest about the neck of the Patient being very wel stop the Vapor entring the Chest through the beak of an Alembick ful of many holes by another hole in the bottom of the Chest in the bottom of which Alembick put under the following things have boyled by Balneum Mariae Take of the Alcohol of spirits of Wine four pound the Essences of Sage Rosemary Lavender Marjoram Time and Organy each two ounces let the Vapor be so long admitted into the Chest as the Patient can well endure it but when the Patient is now sufficiently moist and the heat being too much increased the beak of the Alembick is drawn forth let that which drops forth till the matter conteined in the bottom be cool be received in a Receiver large enough and well closed up that it may be kept for further use which shal be with the same Liquor or Spirit heated to moisten and rub the palsied Member and parts of the Patient after that being taken out of the Chest and the Sweat wiped off being placed in his bed he hath sweat again but first wiping off the Sweat If the Palsied Member be suffumingated before the fire with Frankincense Mastich and other sweet things it wil very much strengthen and stir up the heat in it We shal help by motions of the body by decent exercise which doth egregiously wast the humors and stirs up the parts laid asleep and recals the animal spirit into them heats the Cold and stregthens the Soft The which if they cannot eerform of their own accord that onght to be accomplisht in them by the help of Servants by raising and bearing them up that they may be able in some sort to walk and the Patient himself must endeavor to use his languid Members and being idle continuallystir and exercise them Friction is chiefly convenient being made both for Diversion sake in the sound parts and performeth the same benefit being applied to Sick seeing nothing doth more powerfully allure the spirits which is done only by the hands of the standers by or also by applying a rought hot Cloth or the Patient himself may do it by rubbing the sick parts with the sound All which wil be administred with better success in a fitting time the Patient being fasting and the body first purged By motions of the mind also we discuss the humors in Watchings longer than usual for a good while continued and we prevent that they be not heaped up by immoderate sleep They feel benefit by some Affections of the mind that inflame the body if so be that they do not too much weaken as by Anger seeing a Feaver also as hath been said doth not hurt Amongst manifest Openings only Bleeding takes place in the Plethorick seeing we know that the abundance of this Flegmatick humor is produced from the planty of crude blood or fomented by it but then also it must be done sparingly in the Arm of the sound part neither must we credit the Arabians who teach us to draw so great a quantity of blood seeing by that their languid heat is extinguisht Scarification also brings some help not by reason of the drawing forth of Blood but by reason of the Cupping-Glasses applied upon it the which yet are more profitably fastned to the sick parts but without Scarification that they may more strongly attract the spirit
together with the Member for so being bound up or out of the way they are Relaxt again with the Members and recover their natural Scituation and the Wind which did possess the spaces of them contracted when the Muscles return into their place is repeld from those places and forced to give way which in the Muscles that constitute the Calf and Feet and move the Toes being contracted we dayly find by experience is done by a contrary extension and the pain presently ceases From driness or Inanition The Cure of Contraction from driness as they would have it of the Muscles or their Tendons that draw the Member and somtimes of the Nerves or Ligaments that compass the joynts if there be a Contraction of that part to which these serve for Motion whether it happen in the Back or other places if their driness be great the evil is incurable as when this comes to pass by reason of Age and labor But also it is hardly cured if caused for other reasons it hath been of long continuance as we see for the most part those Contracted in the Hands Feet and laboring of a Tetanus do remain contracted in those places all their lise time or are only changed a little for the beter Yet nevertheless the Cure is ofttimes prositably applied at the beginning with success and by this Method by applying outwardly to the part affected Moistning and Laxating Medicines of which because some of them do cool the chief part of the Cure is performed by mixing hot things with them and those that strengthen the Nerves to wit if they be applied to the Muscle and its Tendon and to the Body which somtimes is neighboring to the Member that draws but at other times far distant and is extended to it by a long somtimes a very long Tendon also to the joynt if the Ligaments are bound up The Back therefore with the Bone is anointed in a Tetannus or the Members in other Species of contraction after this manner Take of Oyl of sweet Almonds fresh one ounce and an half of Violets Lillies Chamomel Flax made thy expression that is new Worms of each one ounce Oyl of St. Johns-wort the Mucilage of the seeds of Flea-wort Flax the fat of a Duck the Marrow of Calves legs of each half an ounce Turpentine two drams Sulphur two drams and an half pouder of Worms one dram flowers of St. Johns-wort of each half a dram Saffron one scruple Wax as much as is sufficient Make a Plaster They magnifie the fat of a man in this case as also of Eeles perhaps because that is counted appropriate and this more moist because it is taken from Fishes A Bath in a Tetanus or Irrigation in others or a Fomentation of the place affected may be made of these things applied Warm of sweet Water Milke fat broth of the Head and entrals of a Weather or Calfe Water and Oyl or Oyl alone especially of Violets Or of the following Decoction Take of the roots of Marsh-mallows Bryony Lillies of eech one pound fresh Orrice root half a pound the Herbs Mallows Violets Lettice Arach Cole-worts of each one handful Sage Gronnd-pine of each half a handful Flax seed clean Barley of each one pugil Boyl them in Water for a Bath to which also the other things may be mixt Sulphur Baths have a great vertue to Mollesie because nothing is fatter then Sulphur as hath been demonstrated eisewhere Palsters applied to the part because they remain there do highly profit as Melilot de Mucilaginibus Resumptiaum and the like prepared of the forementioned Unguents Or Cataplasms also are made of the foresaid Plants in the Bath which do help more then the rest being worn a long while and often renewed This also is most commendable Take of the fresh roots of Marsh-mallows Briony of each two ounces of Mandrake one ounce fresh leaves of Henbane which I have known by experience as also Mandrake do wonderfully Mollifie Mallows of each one handful Boyl them in Milk bruise them adding the floure of Flax seed two ounces Flea-wort Quinces of each half an ounce Hogs and Goose grease of each one ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds fresh Butter of each half an ounce Bay-berries two drams Saffron half a dram Make a Cataplasm The Caule Mesentery Kidneys with the fat being made watm are laid on the sick part Skins of themselves or first anoynted with Oyl being newly puld off especially Fox Skins do good and a Goose Skin with the Feathers We can scarce do any thing singular by things taken inwardly or injected here unless by accident in relation to that Disease but in a Convulsion or particular Spasm they help very much If the contracted Members can be separated by manual operation then though they be not made moveable again the which yet somtimes comes to pass nevertheless another form may be fitted for them which brings a less impediment in Motion as if the Fingers being extended be stopt then if they be contracted they are less prejudicial in laying hold of things if the Foot stick drawn upwards being drawn back to the ground although the joynt of the Knee remain fixt yet it restores the going which before was taken away But this we may somtimes do in some places with our Hands or application of Instruments forcing it somwhat down dayly not with a great force but by little and little in process of time more and more relaxing the bound up Tendons and Ligaments and that according to the Nature of the Member contracted divers waies as if by reason of the joynt of the Knee fixt as it often comes to pass the Foot be drawn upwards putting on the Shoe and tying it else where by continually drawing it down whiles they sit and do any thing or by hanging a weight to it ofttimes depressing it the which also is neatly performed if two oblong plates hollow in the middle fitted to the Leg and hinder part of the Hips and joyned about the joynt by interposition of an Engin and turning it as long as he is able to endure the Foot be forced by degrees from the upper parts downwards and also it is commodiously performed in other places after the same manner by an Engin having caannelling because if it be turened by degrees pressing those parts into which it is inserted it forceth the fixt Member and because the Engine so turn'd remaines immoveable the same doth substain and return the Member as far as it hath thrust it Which I have made tryal of in many with success the Instruments being Ingeniously made As also if a Finger remain extended a Ring being put upon it which must be Contiguous and fastend to another Ring applied on the next Finger whiles this Finger is moved the other which is fixt being continually forced is at length compeld somwhat to yeld and bow If the Member be stopt by a hard Tumor Callus The Cure of a Contraction or Spasm from a Tumor or Skar growing
yet if a trembling arise from thence we advise the same Remedies especially the Topical mentioned in a Palsie which help the Nerves rather by strengthening and somwhat binding as Rondoletius wil have it than by affecting them with an eminent heat And we wash the trembling parts with the Decoctions before quoted If the trembling arise from Narcoticks and their force causes it how it must be broken hath been said in a Numness but if the Trembling remain the same Topicks shal be tried which by strengthening do heat also not because the Nerves are cooled by Narcoticks as they think but because when they are stupid they are stirred up by heat But if Drunkeness with Wine hath caused a trembling either it ceaseth of its own accord if it be not accustomary but if Drunkenness hath been already a long while continued the Trembling arising thence is hardly any more taken away especially when Drunkards have contracted so perverse a habit that unless they fil themselves again with Wine and are heated by it as hath been said in the Causes they are troubled more with the Trembling yet in the interim they may mend this perverse kind by Temperance and Sobriety of life also the Remedies that strengthen the Nerve wil do good both given and applied In that called a Rigor if it be gentle The Cure of a Rigor from acrid Humors or only a Horror seeing it doth not much trouble or continue long we need not take pains to correct it and also if it be vehement seeing Nature by that in the beginning of Feavers doth endeavor to expel the hurtful matter neither is it then easily to be curbed or Natures Motion to be hindred as neither if it go before a Crisis seeing Hippocrates saith a Rigor coming upon a Burning Feaver it s dissolved But if it so trouble the body together with a troublesome sense of Cold that the sick suffers it with a great deal of trouble and are weakned by it then 't is rather to be mitigated then wholly to be hindered seeing this cannot be done without dammage and the Rigor being wholly taken away the course of the whol Feaver is stopt or is caused that it is not decently so that though those Remedies which suffer not the Rigor to break forth are beleeved to cure a Feaver yet by retarding it they do rather cause that afterwards it follows worse or is changed into more grievous accidents unless perhaps that unprofitable Rigor persist rather from custom than the Morbifick cause which is already taken away for then also it must be wholly prevented as these things have been largely explained in Feavers Also by what means the Fit of the whol Feaver may be hindred with the Rigor hath been likewise taught in Feavers but for Mitigation of it the things following wil suffice If the body be somwhat actually heated for whiles we provide against cold also the Rigor is appeased which is with less hurt done in the Feet heating them with Cloaths or other waies as with warm water in a Brass Vessel or with Stones or Tiles heated and wrapt in a cloth Diverting the matter by Frictions and Ligatures of the extream parts we amend the Rigor That is â—â—fly performed by anoynting the Back-bone with any heating Oyls and proper to the Nerves As Take of Oyl of Chamomel Dill St. Johns wort each half an ounce anoynt it first besprinkling the hands with Aqua vitae Or after this manner Take of the flowers of Chamomel St. Johns wort the Leaves of Southernwood dried poudered each two drams Pellitory of Spain one dram pour as much Oyl of Nuts as to cover them Aqua vitae two drams boyl them strain it and anoynt the Back-bone Or of Juyces and Oyls Take the juyce of Mugwort Southernwood each half an ounce Oyl of Dill Rue each one ounce Aqua vitae two drams Saffron half a scruple boyl them a little make an Oyntment Many mix Treacle with Aqua vitae and Oyls and anoynt the Back-bone others if the Cold be great mix Spices The Oyntment of Spiders explained in Feavers as also other things exprest there do the same also with which also the soals of the feet are rubbed There are some who approve of Baths if the Feaverish heat hinder not and the Rigor lie highly hurtful of the Decoction of Pennyroyal Calamint Rue Southernwood Mugwort and the flowers of Chamomel and Melilot In Reaching and Yawning The Cure of reaching yawning from halituous Vapors seeing these can bring no dammage but rather do good there wil be no need of any Cure there unless in as much as if these together with a Spontaneous weariness do as signs foretel Diseases they do admonish us to apply Remedies that we may prevent them If from Yawning the lower Jaw be easily luxated we advise that they do somwhat repress it and gape not with such a wide mouth as also in reaching because it is uncivil too much to extend the Members we teach them somwhat to restrain their limbs for Civilities sake rather than any benefit CHAP. IV. Of the Defect of Breathing The Kinds IT is called a Defect of Breathing when it is either abolisht or is done with difficulty which may happen both to natural Breathing and to voluntary or vocal breathing forth in utterring the Voice and Speech The Breathing which is continually performed by vertue of the Heart Breathing abolisht in a Syncope naturally by drawing in and sending out of the Breath can no waies perseveringly be wholly abolisht while the man lives but for a time it may altogether cease in a true Syncope and in that which accompanies that which we call strangling of the Womb in which cases as long as the mind faileth in them as they call it or the Life or rather the vital motion so long no breathat all is perceived in them or it is so obscure that we can observe no breathing forth of the Air even with a Feathers laid to the Nostrils or shaddow of motion in a Cup ful of Water laid on their Breast but they lie like dead folks without all motion and sense But Breathing oftentimes proceeds difficultly when they fetch it with great labour and impediment and if this be with high streining so that they are in the beginning of Suffocation it is called Suffocation and strangling the which also wil follow if it did not cease In which danger because they are more conversant when they lie down to turn that away they are forced to breath upright with their Breast raised up and their Neck straight and then they are called Orthopneumatical and because if they move their body they they are more grieved their Breathing being made swifter they are compeld to be quiet but otherwise they Breath with less anguish yet difficultly also and it is simply called a Dispnoea Somtimes labouring more do send forth the Breath somtimes to draw it in at other times both being hindred together But a Dyspnaea or Strangling
their weight do not suffer it to be moved freely or in those that lie down lying upon it they hinder it by pressing it as when the Liver Spleen being obstructed hardned and increased into a bulk in the Hydropical do cause that high difficulty of breathing which oftentimes doth discover a Dropsie a long time before a Tumor doth appear with which they are molested lying down and therefore are compelled to sit upright the swelling of the Belly also increasing it as hath already been said A Dyspnaea also may happen from the Stomach too much filled with meat which vexeth so long till the things taken are disgested or are returned by Vomit or are eased by belching The which when it succeeds not and the Repletion is great they may be Suffocated which as it may happen from the quantity of things heaped in so from the quality of certain meats as of Mushrums which are wont to Suffocate The Instruments by which breathing the Voice and Speech are performed or governed are the Cavities of the Mouth Nostrils and Jaws containing the Air for the performance of all three the parts placed in the Mouth for the uttering an Articulate Voice or Speech by their Motion are the Tongue or by tuning are the Palate and the Teeth the passage or pipe carried from the Jawes to the Lunges that makes the Voice and serves for breathing in drawing down the Air is the rough Artery or Wind-pipe the Bowels or Bellows receiving and sending forth the Air by a Natural Motion for breathing is the Lungs the Breast doing the same by a voluntary Motion with the Lungs to which it applies it self By reason of the Largness of the Mouth The stoppage of the Mouth and Nostrils the Cause of Suffocation Nostrils and Jawes these defects happen if the Mouth and Nostrils together be stopt up by external Bodies or by water or otherwise the Teeth being bound together that the Mouth cannot be opened the Nostrils in the interim being stopt up with Snivel upon which account somtimes the Apoplectical and Epileptical are in danger of Suffocation especially because otherwise breathing is made obscurely in them but if that the Nostrils only be stopt with Snivel or other things because they may draw breath with their open Mouth then breathing is only somwhat hindered when the Air cannot be sufficiently let in or rather because then t is fetcht quick it is depraved and an uncomely voice is utteied The hinder largeness of the Jaws being likewise stopt The narrowness of the jawes stopt is the Cause of Suffocation the same comes to pass especially about its narrowness in which even the least thing that sticks makes work and that especially if the passage into the Wind-pipe and Gullet being possest by a Tumor arising in the incompassing coat or in the Muscles of the Jaws and Larynx or in the Glandules or Palate or by the Palate fallen down be obstructed Or if the Vertebrae of the Neck being Luxated inwardly which is most commonly in the first Vertebrae which is loosly joynted with the Head and by reason of the weight of the Head sustains great Motions These passages be straitned especially if then the Nerves also and rough Artery be prest from which accidents they can neither sufficiently breath or utter a voice or speak or swallow Somtimes also a pain being joyned as we shall explain these things in a quinsie A Species of which also it is said to be if it be from a Vertebrae Luxated and in the other painful Diseases of the Jaws By occasion of the Tongue A driness of the Tongue is the cause of Stammering the Speech suffers a defect if that as it is a Musculous Instrument for of the other hurts of its Muscles we have already spoke it be too much dried and hardned from the causes explained in the hurt of Tasting For because then in the pronouncing of certain Letters it cannot be sufficiently rowled the which that they may be plainly exprest do require a more various doubling of it whiles they shape their words they stammer The Tongue too much increased is the Cause of hindering the Speech The which also happens from a Tumor arising under it or if it swel or be inflamed or otherwise if from the birth it have too great a bulk which oftentimes is so great that they cannot speak at all A familiar fault with some Fools who from their birth are born Fools and Dumb A little Tongue the cause of defect of Speech as hath been said in an Alienation of the Mind the which also happens if it be framed too smal The bond under the Tongue tied up the cause of the defect of Speech or if it be cut off or maimed by a punishment or some other chance and in Convulsions the Tongue being strongly laid hold on and bit of by the Teeth the same also comes to pass by reason of that bond by which it is knit if that be too strait bound up and not sufficiently loosed in Children new born so that it hinders the free Motion of the Tongue The Palate seeing it is the quil of the Voice if that be wanting or mained The want of the Palate is the Cause of the want of Speech it doth prejudice the voice as also when the former Teeth are wanting because they ought to resist the Motion of the Tongue in the pronuntiation of certain Letters and that in the want of them cannot be done they Stammer a little By reason of the Diseases of the rough Artery or Wezand The want of Teeth the cause of stammering which is the Pipe through which natural and vocal Respiration is uttered the breathing Voice The binding or stopping of the chink of the Larynx is the Cause of the defect of the Voice and Speech do fail for if the chink of the Head of it called the Larynx be too much bound which happens by occasion of the Membrane in which that is cut when it is dried and wrinkled more then is fit by the cold Air or cold Water or the use of astringent things then a smal or hoarse Voice is uttered Which impediment also of the Voice happens from a thick slime long sticking there for if it be wholly obstructed with that or some other Body slipt in or drawn in with the brearh and continuing there long the which yet seldom happens because it is forced to give place by the Cough which it suddainly moves unless by reason of its sharpness the thing sticking there be fastned into it it must needs be that the Patient be suffocated As Histories testifie that Pope Adrian died by a Fly flying into his Throat and we have observed a Child strangled by Swallowing a Gold Noble And what they suffer also in whom water by chance flowes down into this Wind-dore of the rough Artery and what straits it breeds and how with great violence a Cough doth cast it thence through the Mouth and
largenss of the Nostrils we often see in others and somtimes we try it in our selves But the chink of the Larynx scarce labors of any other Disease unless when by consent it is hindered or prest by the neighboring parts as from the Vertebrae of the Neck Luxated of which hath been spoken already For it can scarcely happen that it be relaxt more than is fit by a Humor seeing it is convenient for it alwaies to be moist that it should be torn seeing it is a thick Membrane is impossible as also it is very hard to be wounded The passage of the rough Artery or Wind-pipe The binding of the pipe of the rough Artery is the cause of Suffocation from the Head even to the Lungs if it be intercepted by outward force the Neck being bound up as shal be said in the Gullet it brings strangling and if it be prest by the first Vertebrae of the Neck luxated it causeth difficulty of breathing which Hippocrates called the sixth sort of Squinzy The rough Artery can scarce be filled otherwise with things that fall into it but as I said breathing may be stopped about the sides thereof And they that are drowned are not choaked so much by the Influx of Water as by the hinderance of the passage of the Air. And if any thing fal into the passage and hiâ—â—er breathing it is by its sticking fast and causing a continual Cough The connexion and Obstruction of the Lungs are the Diseases that cause a Dyspnaea The Cause of Dispnaea or difficulty of breathing is the connexion of the Lungs with the Breast The connexion of the Lungs with the Convex part of the breast being streighter than it should be suffers them not to move freely and makes them short-winded in motion This by Anatomies hath been found to have been natural to some and to others from a fall or Pleurisie The Obstruction of the Lungs causeth an Asthma When the Lungs are stopped inwardly in the branches of the rough Artery that are dispersed through them there is a difficulty of breathing because the Air cannot freely pass This comes often from a watry humor falling from the Head in time of sleep and lying down without sense by degrees through the rough Artery to the Lungs which staying in the narrow branches thereof and growing slimy and stopping the passage it causeth breathing with Snorting and noise and a Cough And if by reason of the toughness thereof it cannot be hawked forth it causeth a long Disease called Asthma which by a new defluxion at night time and in moist weather and after a Surfet is not violent And if the defluxion be great and suddenly fill the passages that were formerly stopped it causeth the Suffocating Catarrh The same may come from the Excrements of the Lungs there long detained and made thick For as the Brain by reason of the plenty of Blood which filleth the Cavity of the membranes being crude continually gathereth Excrements so the Lungs whose vessels are ful of blood if it be excrementitious or crude it causeth many excrements so that it is not necessary that all the flegm which is spet up must come from the Head to the Lungs Both these Causes are discovered by the flegmatick constitution of the body and the signs of abounding flegm and rattling and other hurts mentioned A white chalky matter and hard is made rather of the Lungs than of flegm which is slimy like Bird-lime but not crumbling This obstructing inwardly the branches causeth that long Asthma wherein there is no sign of flegm And the same may cause the Stone in the Lungs which is hard brittle smooth or rough according as the vessels are as we have seen Anatomies And such have been coughed out after a long and otherwise incurable Asthma which were the cause thereof The Compression of the Breast is the cause of difficult breathing The Diseases that hinder the Breathing besides the Muscles of the Breast mentioned in those which hinder the motion both of the Lungs and Breast both which are required to breathing This is when it is outwardly compressed or when astringent things are laid thereon as common Physitians suppose The hardness of the gristles of the breast is the cause of Dyspnoea If the Gristles of the Ribs which are about the Breast to cause the more easie motion be turned into a hard substance like the other Ribs which happens in some through age in some sooner especially in Women by reason of their Breasts held up thereby for then the breast cannot be sufficiently dilated And this makes them sigh when they have great breasts and lie upon their backs When a Rib or two are broken and thrust inward The Ribs thrust inward causeth difficult breath because they hinder the dilatation of the Lungs and the motion of the breast they hinder breathing And so do the Ribs dislocated and the Vertebrae or spondits of the back bent inwards These two hurts as they may come by an external force to the Ribs so Fernelius testifieth that a Rib hath been broken by great palpitation of the body which I rather beleeve might be displaced If the Cavity of the Breast be filled with matter in an Empyema and Corruption of the Lungs The Repletion of the Cavity of the Breast is the cause of Dyspnoea or Water in a Dropsie Or Blood from a Vein broken If these be in great quantity they cause a Dyspnoea by hindering motion of the Lungs Breast and Midriff Also Wind may cause the same if in the Breast as I gathered from one in a Dyspnaea who had a noise about his breast with no rattling The Cure If Breath be stopped from Fainting of the Heart The Cure of want of breath in Swooning when strength returneth they recover And what must be done in Swooning shal be shewed in the defect of strength If men in Apoplexies from a distemper of the Brain are in danger of Suffocation The Cure of Defect of breathing from an Apoplexy we shewed what must be done in the Consternation of mind Also when breath is stopped by Convulsions If there be Defect of Breath The Cure of want of Breathing Speech in a Palsie Cramp and other Diseases of the Nerves Voyce or Speech by reason of the Nerves in a particular Palsie or Convulsion it must be cured as a Palsie or Convulsion If it come from the Cramp you must give things to prevent a general Convulsion as was there shewed And if it come from Loosness of the Nerves you must proceed as in a Palsie by purging and altering When the Speech or Voyce is lost things applied to the Mouth and Throat are best because they draw forth flegm by the right way and being neer the part affected consume and alter the humor Masticatories and Gargarisms are most proper not such as draw flegm thither as in the Palsie of other parts but which dry and draw out the humor
Or you may first boyl the Cock and after the ingredients in his Broth. Another used long is an excellent Remedy Take a Cock and one ounce of Fox Lungs Raisons stoned and Figs two ounces Leeks two ounces Liquorish one ounce Elicampane two drams Hysop Savory Horehound Time Calamints dried Pennyroyal each one dram and an half Fennel and Anise seed each one dram Carthamus seeds and Polypody bruised each half an ounce white Tartar one dram two yolks of Eggs fresh Butter half an ounce Pouder and cut them and beat them into a past sow them into the Cock and boyl him til his flesh fall off in much Water in a great Vessel then strain it and to ten pints of the Broth add one pound of Honey that it may not quickly corrupt give a draught with Manna and Cassia each half an ounce in the morning for many daies And this wil work better if you give after it one dram of Turpentine with Penedies in the form of a Bolus Three drams of the Troches of Violets without Scammony are good for the Breast and purge flegm with a pectoral Decoction or Water Stronger are thus made when the slegm is much Take Violet flowers six drams Turbith four drams Agarick three drams juyce of Liquorish Manna each two drams Scammony one scruple with syrup of Violets make Trochisks give two drams This Potion is good Take Agarick one dram and an half Turbith one dram Ginger half a dram pouder them and Infuse them in Oxymel or Hydromel one ounce and as much of white Wine Hysop and Fennel water strain them dissolve Diaphenicon and Diacarthamum each one dram and an half Manna Syrup of Violets each one ounce Pils Take Pils of Agarick Cochiae each one scruple Troches of Alhandal six grains with Oxymel of Squils make Pils This Wine is good if there be Wind which straiteneth Take Senna two ounces Agarick half an ounce Turbith two drams Squils two drams Wormwood three drams Bayberries ten Anise seed one ounce Fennel Caraway each two drams Infuse them in Wine and Honey and let him drink thereof in the morning The pulp of Coloquintida infused in Wine is excellent An usual Electuary Take Manna Cassia each two ounces Diaphaenicon and Diacarthamum each one ounce Syrup of Violets and Oxymel of Squils each half an ounce make an Electuary give two drams and after more at a time A day after purging use Mithridate or proper Conserves to refresh Vomits are given out of the Fit least too much straining should bring fear of Suffocation Tobacco water distilled is most excellent The humors must be prepared before Purging with things to cut flegm and they must also be given afterwards Thus Take of Syrup of Liquorish and Hysop each one ounce and an half Oxymel of Squils one ounce Hysop Fennel and Colts-foot water each three ounces make a Julep for three daies to be continued mix Pouder Diaireos or give a Lozenge thereof after Or with this Apozeme Take Liquorish one ounce and an half Elicampane and Orrice each half an ounce Horehound Maidenhair Hysop Colts-foot each one handful Scabious and French Lavender flowers Violets Mallows each one pugil Anise and Fennel each two drams Raisons stoned Jujubes each one ounce and an half Dates three Figs ten boyl them adding to the strained Liquor Oxymel two ounces aromatize it with a little Cinnamon let it be taken like a Julep Observe the same diet as in the Night-mare thin of good juyce easie concoction not windy crude astringent Among others Dioscorides commends old Cock broth and Snails For Sauce mix Saffron for the Breast and Mustard with Honey doth expectorate wel Beans Barley Orobus Almonds Pine-nuts with Carua and Fennel to correct the wind and Figs Raisons Dates Take Leeks two ounces boyl them in Water or Cock broth til they be soft add the Yolk of an Egg and Butter two ounces Sugar one ounce boyl them again a little let him eat one half at Dinner and another at Supper Let him drink Mead or Hydromel with Hysop boyled therein Or this Ptisan Take Barley one pugil Liquorish two long sticks bruised Raisons stoned twenty Figs fifteen boyl them in eleven measures of Water to eight adding Jujubies twelve There are divers Medicines which clense lenifie and cut matter in the Lungs that it may be coughed up and are good in all causes This Decoction for morning and evening Take Liquorish one ounce Elicampane Orris each half an ounce Maidenhair Hysop each half a handful Raisons and Figs each one ounce Saffron one scruple boyl them and add Honey Or thus Take dried Horehound Germander Hysop each one handful Staechas flowers one pugil boyl them in Honey and Water Or thus Take Orris two drams Horehound Rue Calamints each one dram Nettle and Fenugreek seeds each two drams Raisons stoned one ounce boyl them add Honey or Oxymel of Squils Or this Take Liquorish two ounces Orris Elicampane each one ounce Horstail one ounce and an half Valerian Squils each two drams Maidenhair Coltsfoot Bettony Veronica Hysop Savory Horehound Calamints Time each one handful flowers of Staechas Rosemary Scabious each one pugil Anise and Fennel seed each half an ounce Nettle Rocket and Watercress seed each one dram Figs Raisons each four ounces Jujubes Sebestens each ten boyl them in Water and Honey add Peper and Spike each one scruple let him drink of it often or with more Honey or Sugar and Manna make a Syrup Another Syrup Take Radish roots four ounces Leeks three ounces Orris two ounces Elicampane Dragons Green each one ounce Squils half an ounce Liquorish one ounce and an half Savory Penny-royal Hysop Savin Horehound Germander of each one handful Coleworts and Coltsfoot of each two handfuls flowers of Staechas one pugil Faenugreek and Carthamus seeds of each six drams Bay-berries half an ounce Spike half a dram Saffron one scruple Make a Decoction and with Sugar and Honey and Syrup A Wine Take Liquorish one ounce and an half Orris one ounce Elicampane half an ounce Angelica Squils of each two drams Horehound Hysop of each three drams Annis and Fennel of each two drams Nettle and Watercreses seeds of each one dram Honey clarified six ounces white Wine one pottle Sows or Hoglice tied in a clout and steeped in Wine and strained is an excellent Medicine experienced by some Wine Vineger Honey and Oxymel of Squils given in the fit are excellent Also juyce of Scabious and Sowthistle alone or with Honey Or Take juyce of Elicampane Hysop Horehound of each one ounce water of Hysop Colts-foot of each three ounces Boyl them with Sugar give it often It is thought good that they drink their own Urine A Spoonful of this water often taken is excellent Take Squils prepared two drams Elicampane half an ounce Leeks one ounce Mustard and water Cress seeds of each one dram Cinnamon three drams beat them and with strong Wine draw a water add Honey of Rosemary or of Squils Also Oyl of sweet Almonds or
Inflammation of the stomach and Midriff Some Diseases cause Hickets and other Diseases that hurt them cause the Hickets And also great Diseases of the parts adjacent Preternatural Tumors and Ulcers in the Chaps cause hoarsness Diseases are the cause of Hoarsness as we observe in the Leprosie and French Pox. It is commonly from the Birth The Tongue disordered in the cause of stammering and Wharling that the Tongue is so disordered that it cannot pronounce R. but like a double R. the Tongue is bent or otherwise The cause of stammering is shewed in the Defect of Respiration The Cure Some kinds need no Cure others are mentioned in other places If it come from strong motion The cure of Short-breathing there must be rest or by a contrary motion as when it comes from ascending to descend If it come from passion when that is past the motion of the heart is past If from outward heat cooling abates it c. In Feavers If it come from disturbance of the mind and be often it ceaseth with it Sighing Sighs shew the greatness of the Disease in the Mind Head or Madness In other Diseases when the mind is not disturbed often sighing declares Pusilanimity or strength lost If it come not from weariness or want of sleep which is natural and be often Concerning Yawning it foretels a Feaver or Ague as we shewed in Pandiculation which accompanieth it It is caused by Imagination easier in lazy people than in Active If Hickets be in acute Feavers and continue it threateneth Convulsion The cure of Hickets because the Midrif is greatly affected and death If it come from the Stomach much offended with Hellebore Poyson or corroding things or a great Disease oâ— Inflammation it foretels the same from other causes it is easily cured In the cure first remove the cause as the Inflammation in a malignant or sharp Feaver if from the stomach being pricked lenifie it And in all causes stop the inordinate motion of the Midrife which comes by the Hicket They are done by these following as the cause is sharp hot cholerick biting malignant or cold and flegmatick If the cause be in the Stomach Vomiting is best for the Midriffe in the Hicket helpeth the stomach to expel together with the Muscles of the breast The Vomit must be such as cleanseth and allayeth sharpness and heat thus Take syrup of Vinegar and Oxymel simple each six drams Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces with Water of Nuts or Decoction of Raddishes give it It must be repeated if the Hicket cease not and stronger given such as are mentioned Also purge And if the Humor be tough prepare it with Cutters and Cleansers as Juleps Wormwood-wine which is good both in a cholerick and flegmatick Humor Stomach Purges are given for this as Hiera c. in the Diseases of the Stomach As in a hot Cause Take Wormwood one dram Senna three drams Rhubarb one dram Infuse them in Wine let them boyl and be strained In a cold Cause Take Agarick Turbith of each one dram Ginger half a dram Sal Gem six grains Hiera two drams Diagrydium one scruple with Oxymel make a Mass give one dram These may be repeated if the Disease return These following stop the Hickets cleanse the Humor and Lenifie the Stomach and after strengthen In a hot cause when the humor is sharp and burning or in a distemper or emptiness these following are good Broath in great quantity and often Ptisans cold or hot water in great quantity Oyl of sweet Almonds Or Take juyce of Pomegranats half an ounce Vineger two drams Mastick dried Mints of each half a dram Let him drink it Or other sharp Syrups In a cold Elegmatick Cause Take Galangal Ginger of each half a dram spanish Wine one ounce and an half Cinnamon water half an ounce Or thus Take Galangal three drams dried Wormwood and Mints of each two drams Spike Marjoram Dill and Carva seeds of each one dram Cinnamon Cloves of each half a dram Steep them in Wine Also Take Aqua vitae one ounce infuse Cinnamon and Galangal of each one dram shake it often Or this Electuary Take Acorus that is Calamus Aromaticus and Candied Ginger of each one ounce conserve of Marjoram half an ounce Pouder of Galangal one dram with syrup of Mints Or these Pills Take Castor half a dram Mumie one scruple Mastick half a scruple with Honey of squils make a Mass for two Doses We also allay the sense of the Stomach with Treacle Methridate pouder of Tormentil and if it come from Poyson they do good against the Hicket And other Antidotes You may give other Narcoticks if it hinder Sleep And Clysters to revel downwards and Suppositories that Nature may rather send downwards then upwards The smel of Dill boyled with Mastick staies the Hickets Neesing Cures Hickets because the matter offending is sent from the Stomach and Midrif by a greater force Wash the Mouth with cold Water and Gargle Apply things outwardly to the Stomach as this Fomentation Take roots of Elicampanc three drams Mints Wormwood Spike Dill Pennyroyal Calamints of each one handful Lavender Rosemary and Cammomel flowers each one pugil Cumin Carua Dill seeds of each one dram Bay and Juniper berries of each half an ounce Mastick two drams Boyl them in Wine to foment the Stomach before Also hot Ashes with Aqua vitae and Sack put in a bag or bladder and applied to the Stomach A Fomentation with Rose Vinegar and a Spunge is good in a hot cause Anoynt the Stomach before and behind with loosning Oyls and after with Astringents Or apply this Bag Take CArva seeds half an ounce Ammi and Dill seeds of each two drams Galangal Cloves of each one dram dried Mints two drams Mastick Frankincense of each one dram sprinkle them with Rose Vinegar Emplasters also in a hot cause the Cerot of Sanders Unguent of Roses of each one ounce Mastich half an ounce Citron peels and Quince of each one dram with juyce of Houseleek and Turpentine make two Emplaisters for the fore and hinder side of the Stomach It is good to wash or bath the Hands and Feet in hot water And to bind the outward parts Apply Cupping-glasses first to the Shoulders and Navel and then to the Stomach before and behind If you hold your breath it stops the motion of the Midrif and abates the Hicket Or Swallow down suddenly water or gulp divers times without it Or if you hollow and roar or runn it causeth more breathing and then the Muscles of the Breast with the Midrif help the Stomach to expel what is hurtful Also sudden passions of the mind by calling in the spirits take it away by frighting or noise or the like And chiefly by dashing the Face suddenly with Water Dioscorides Teacheth that Alysson held in the Hand stops it Neesing is somtimes a good sign and in sound people sends forth that which troubleth The cure of
half a dishful two whites of Eggs beaten Boyl them with Milk and add Sugar Also a roasted Onyon with Butter and Sugar or filled with Treacle and roasted and the juyce taken out and mixed with Sugar-candy to be licked Also Leek Portage are good And Radishes with much Oyl a little Vinegar and Honey Eggs also rear dressed with fresh better and but a little Salt for it provokes coughing Spinach and Rocket buttered A meat made of Egs boyled Wine and Butter or Egs Wine Sugar and Butter which the Dutch call Beanwarm that is Warm-bones Also warm Milk drunk with Penidies or Sugar-candy A Medicine wel of sented sharp Apples is excellent and for to restore the strength also in other Diseases Take sound Apples sliced round Lay them upon sticks in an earthen Vessel in a Wine-seller sprinkle Sugar-candy thereon Take of the juyce that you shall find in the Vessel which fel from the Apples two ounces Aqua vitae Rosewater of each one ounce Oyl of Cloves and Cinnamon of each two drops Mix them and give a spoonful or two often Another Lenifying Decoction Take Raysons Pease shels Liquorish of each two ounces Jujubies Sebestens of each ten pair Barley clensed one ounce Boyl them strain them and Clarifie them let him often drink a draught you may add Sugar and Honey Another to Expectorate Take Hysop Penyroyal Maidenhair Cole worts of each one handful Figs ten with Honey Boyl and scum and strain them drink it Or thus Take Line-seed Faenugreek bruised each two drams Anise and Nettle seed each one dram Basil seed half a dram Liquorish Marsh-mallows each half an ounce Pennyroyal Goldy-locks each one bandful and an half Mallows Violets each one pugil Figs ten Dates five boyl them and add Honey and Syrup of Liquorish This is good against a Catarrh Take Frankincense Mastich each one dram Liquorish one ounce Raisons stoned ten pair Figs five pair Jujubes Sebestens each six pair boyl them add to the straining Penidies for a Drink Wine with things infused or boyled especially that of Elicampane is good boyled thick Wine wherein Juniper berries are boyled is good for a Cough in Children and it is stronger with Hysop and Mother of Time Also the flowers of Gourd dried and boyled in Wine And of bitter things Take Elicampane half an ounce Orris Squils prepared each two drams Horehound Carduus Germander Sage Pennyroyal Pauls Bettony each one handful steep and boyl them in Wine Some drink pouder of Ginger in Wine at nights in Winter And if the Cough be of Cold it must do good And because it heats the mouth and the virrue is carried by consent to the Lungs it expectorateth And Dioscorides commends Pepper Brandewine is good with Sugar-candy also the same burnt while it wil flame and so brought to an Oyl Some commend the essential Oyl of Sugar thus made Put four ounces of Sugar often washed with Sack and dried into a Glass lute it wel set it in the Sun or Ashes over the fire and sublime the Sugar which wil make a noyse This take out and put it in the hard boyled whites of Eggs and place them in a Wine-celler til you have a cleer Oyl One spoonful of this swallowed by degrees is excellent The water of Pauls Betony or Pouder of it with Sugar is good Also new drawn Oyl of sweet Almonds That which stops the Catarrh expectorateth and taketh away the provoking to cough by stupefaction is excellent As Diacodium at bed-time or syrup of Poppies or Lohoch of Poppies Or thus Take Syrup of Poppies or Diacodium one ounce Syrup of Jujubes one ounce and an half Mucilage of Fleabane seeds half an ounce make a Lambitive or Linctus Or this Take Garden Poppy heads almost ripe three ounces Pease shels Liquorish each one ounce and an half boyl them add Penidies and Sugar-candy each four ounces boyl them to a Consistence let it be licked at night Or Take Lohoch of Poppies one ounce Lohoch of Fleabane half an ounce Pouder of Diatragacanth frigid one dram Henbane seed half a dram Bole one scruple Penidies half an ounce Some write for a secret that red Poppy water and Sugar-candy drunk at night is excellent Also Pils of Hounds-tongue or Storax are taken one or two of six grains in weight at bed-time If you wil use them often Take Storax Myrrh Frankincense Galbanum Spike each one scruple Saffron Opium each five grains mix them with Honey for Pils let him hold one of half a scruple in the mouth and if it doth not help take one scruple at bed-time Errhines are put into the Nose to bring the Catarrh into the Nose And clysters to draw it downwards of which see in Catarrhs Masticatories and Gargarisms which draw rheum to the Mouth cannot be good fumes to dry the Brain taken in at the Mouth and Nose do reach the Lungs and Brain and dry both Let him take into his mouth the hot vapor of this Decoction Take Mastich Frankincense each one dram and an half Salt two drams Sulphur one dram Calamus three drams Colts-foot Horehound each one handful boyl them in water and take up the vapor by a Funnel A Fume from things burnt is stronger if it be not in great quantity or sharp Take Colts-foot dried half an ounce Schaenanth Storax each two drams Mastich Frankincense Myrrh each one dram Henbane seeds half a dram with Turpentine or Infusion of Gum Traganth in Rose-water make Troches Some things are applied to dilate the breast and to allay its pain and to concoct the matter In a hot case this Oyntment Take Oyl of Violets one ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds sweet Butter washed in Violes water Hens grease Mucilage of Fleabane made with Coltsfoot water each half an ounce In a Cold this Oyl of Lillies wall-flower each half an ounce Mucilage of Time and Faenu-greek seed each half an ounce Orris half a dram Saffron one scruple with Wax make a Liniment see the rest in Asthma Also the Resumptive Oyntment An Emplaster of Lillies and Onions boyled and butterred And this Epithem warm Take Oyl of Cammomel Violets each one ounce and an half Milk or cream of Almonds made with Barley water wel boyled four ounces dip Clouts strain and apply them Keep the Breast warm Use spiced Caps or pouders to the Head wash the Thighs with warm water to divert Catarrhs in which Head herbs have been boyled And when the Cough is hot or sleep is wanting use cold herbs Apply Garlick and Bears grease to the feet it is accounted an Oyntment that cureth Ligatures also Cupping-Glasses Cauteries are good to revel as we shewed in a Catarrh Holding of the Breath staies Hickets and Neesing and also Coughing not because then a greater heat is raised in the breast but for the cause mentioned in Hickets Warm Air is best when the Cough is from Cold. A hot house is good because Sweating after purging is proper Let him take heed of a cold Air and the North-wind and
and hard as nuts-shels bones because they press the Membranous side of the Wind-pipe which is joyned to the gullet and so straiten it breathing and swallowing are also hindered even as both passages suffer the same when from external injuries tying or dislocation of a spondil The dryness of the Gullet is the cause of difficulty of Swallowing and are contracted when the Gullet is inwardly straitend by a Tumor of the Neck or Inflammation or Defluxion Obstruction of the Gullet is the cause of difficult swallowing the Patient swallows with difficulty Also when it is corroded or pricked it cannot suffer things to pass for pain with inflamation And this comes from sharp things or vapors or humors As a Boy that eat fish greedily and was choaked with a sharp bone that fixed in the Gullet after a great Tumor and Inflamation Of the causes mentioned some hinder Vomiting when it should be Obstruction of the Gullet is cause of Vomiting hindered The streightness of the Stomach causeth difficult Vomiting but not all because Vomiting being more forcible Natural and Voluntary motion will sooner make way then swallowing which is only from our will Besides these Diseases of the Gullet if it be in a streight place it cannot be dilated and so Vomiting is hindered Hence it is that they that have streight Breasts and short Necks are unfit to vomit Vomiting is difficult from the fault of the Stomach And the streightness of the Neck causeth the same If it be not too loose nor the right Orifice too large as it is naturally and therefore men that have good Stomacks concoct well yet being sick and stirred to Vomit by Medicines or Excrements yet they cannot vomit but with great pain And contrarily they who have too much dilated their Stomach by gluttony and drunkness vomit upon the least occasion When a sharp and hot humor boyles in the stomach A boyling humor in the Stomach is the cause of difficult belching as we shall shew in Cardialgia or hartburning it causeth a desire to belch from the breaking of those bubbles which it raiseth and which send forth a wind or burning vapor to the Mouth of the stomach but because the wind is dispersed before it come into the Gullet there is no belching And if a Humor stick fast in the Stomach A tough humor in the Stomach is the cause of difficult Vomiting and Solicite vomiting yet it wil not cause it because it cannot come forth but the things taken may be vomited up Though often the Humors are vomited and the meat retained though but lately eaten by natures choyce to cast out the worst as we shall shew in immoderate Vomiting The Cure That we may know what to do in difficulty of swallowing vomiting and belching we shall speak of each Particularly If difficulty of swallowing come from the Nerves affected and the Muscles of the Jaws loosned The Cure of the difficulty of swallowing which is a kind of Palsie in a general Palsie it is the worse because it signisies that not only the pairs of Nerves in the Back but also those of the sixth and seventh Conjugation are hurt Except it be a Particular Palsie as of the Tongue and parts adjacent which is also bad and threatneth a general The same Cure is to be used as in the Palsie in respect of the causes If it come from a Defluxion of water to the Nerves it must be purged revelled and consumed and the part confirmed Amongs which Mustard held in the Mouth is excellent as I shewed And Pellitory of Spain it draws water plentifully And Tablets of Nuâ—megs according to my uncles receit are excellent Also Gargarismes that reach the Muscles of the Jaws As this Take Calamus half an ounce Sage Rosemary each one handful Lavender flowers one pugil Cypress Nuts four Nutmegs two Cloves one dram boyl them in Water and the fourth part Wine and in one pint and an half dissolve Honey of Rosemary and Squils of each two ounces Vinegar of Squiis half an ounce Or thus Take â—â—amoron Oxymel of squils of each one ounce and an half Sage and Lavender water of each four ounces Make a Gargle There are many Oynâ—menrs for the Neck mentioned in the Palsies to which add these Take Oyl one ounce Oyl of Spike Masitch of each half an ounce Labdanum Frankincense Storax of each half a dram with a little Wax make a Liniment If it be a kind of Spasmus The Cure of difficulty of swallowing which is a kind of Convulsion it must be cured as that is And the Topicks applied as in the Palsie It is deadly from a wound as we shewed in Spasmus If it be from heat in Feavers see Feavers and cool with Epithems The Cure of difficult swallowing from the dryness of the Gullet to the Liver chiefly and Gargarisms and Linctus as in hoarsness that comes from roughness of the Chaps give moist meat Unctions Broths Barley Cream Emulsions c. If the body fallen in be thick The Cure of difficult swallowing from things fallen into the Wind-pipe or sticking or Membranous we must use divers arts upwards and downwards Oftentimes things are driven down by a great draught of water or washed off if they stick or with a piece of Bread or by neesing but chiefly by vomiting which is easier if they can first take a great deal of Water and Oyl and as Rhasis saith if we strike the Neck of the Patient If the thing may be seen and laid hold upon we have Instruments for to take it out as the forceps c. And other bending things that may fit themselves to the passage and so we thrust it down as a thick stick of a birchen broom or Beets or any thing they will bend and not break being green If it be dry soften it in hot Lead or anoynt it with Oyl Rhasis useth Lead But a Wax Candle dipp'd in Oyl is best They say that a peice of a Spunge tied to a string and swallowed down and after much water is drunk to swel it pulled up again will fetch any thing out of the Throat but this is best in thin and sharp things that trouble the Gullet for it can do nothing except the Spunge be swallowed This may be done by a great bead which will be swallowed more easily and may be done often We give Oyl or Butter to make the part slippery and anoynt the Throat to enlarge it If a Hors-leech creep into the mouth and stick to the Gullet Rhasis shews the cure But we advise it to be pul'd out with the Forceps if it may be laid hold upon or provoke it to ascend with drinking hot water and holding afterwards cold in the mouth or we drive it downwards as other Worms with things that displease them as by drinking Vinegar eating Salt things Onions Garlick Mustard and the like that are contrary to Worms as shal be shewed in their places When the Gullet is
a Pouder The fourth Take roots of Asarum and Valerian Spignel Calamus Aromaticus Fennel Smallage Pursley Carrot Seseli seeds of each one dram Savin Schaenanth Spicknard Cinnamon Pepper of each half a dram Saffron one scruple make a Pouder The fifth Pouder Take Amber Gum of Plums and Cherries of each one dram Turpentine boyled half a dram the Jews-stone Alkekengi Berries Parsley seeds Asarum roots of each half a dram with Cinnamon one scruple make a Pouder The sixth Take of Egg-shels that are hatched and the Skin taken out one dram or nine swims of Herrings give them in Pouder The seventh Take the Ashes of earth Worms or Cray-fish of each one dram of Hog-lice half a dram Spanish flies or Grass hoppers their thin wings taken out or Scorpions half a scruple Cinnamon one dram Cloves half a dram Sugar two drams The eight Ponder quickly made in time of necessity Take two Cantharides and one dram of Sugar-candy beat them well give it with Honey and Water or the Decoction of Linseed or with Milk These Decoctions following are good Take Radish roots two ounces Asparagus and Rest-harrow of each one ounce Asarum half an ounce Mallows Pellitory of each one handful Berries of winter Cherries two drams Water-cress seeds two drams Smallage seed half a dram boyl them in red Pease broath Or this Take one Onion and a head of Garlick boyl them in broath and drink it being strained A Diuretike Oxymel is given two ounces with covenient Water or Wine to provoke Urine Also Wormwood Wine or Malmsey fasting or white Wine in which white Flints have been quenched till they turne to Pouder Or this Composition Take roots of Parsley Fennel Rest-harrow of each one ounce Asarum Elicampane of each half an ounce Wormwood Rue Strawberry leaves Savin Hysop of each one handful Broom Elder and Chamomil flowers of each one pagil Smallage Parsley Lovage Rocket Nigella Water cress seeds of each one dram Juniper-berries half an ounce Infuse them in white Wine Also this Lixivium Take Juniper Bean stalks and shales dried burn them and mix the Ashes with white Wine and straining it often make a Lie or Lixivium Let him drink a Glass And with the ashes of Broom or Bitter-sweet it is better Other Potions Take Oyl of Sulphur two drops spirit of Vitriol one drop with Wine and Water Or Take Oyl of Scorpions half an ounce with Milk or Wine Or Take Oyl of sweet Almonds two ounces with much Milk Two or three drops of Oyl of Wax given in great Nettle water provoketh Urin violently The fresh juyce of Pomegranate doth the same Or thus Take Horse Radish roots green bruise them sprinkle them with Wine and take two ounces of the juyce Or thus Take juyce of Pellitory two or three ounces juyce of Water-cresses one ounce add Wine Sugar and Honey Waters pierce most as that of Pellitory Alkekengi or Winter-cherries Lemmons Nuts or of Broom flowers with Cinnamon water also of Horse-radish Water-cresses and Sea-fennel Another Water Take Horse-radish roots half a pound Rest-harrow Winter-cherries of each four ounces Cherries and Peach kernels of each two ounces Broom and Elder flowers of each one ounce Fennel seed two drams Turpentine half an ounce with spanish Wine a fingers breadth above them being bruised distil a Water give one or two ounces The water of Peach kernels drawn with Spanish Wine is also good The buds of Asparagus boyled or raw make the Urin stink and provoke it often Make a Sallat of Purslane Water-cresses Chervil and Parsley with young Onions and Horse-radish sliced and Cowcumbers if the season afford them with Vinegar and Oyl It will provoke Urin if it be eaten for a Supper Or this Bole. Take Turpentine two drams Winter-cherries one dram Amber half a dram with Sugar Make Pils of unpleasant things Take Galbanum Bdellium Myrrh each half a dram Oyl of Sulphur four drops with Turpentine make Pils give half a dram at a Dse Somtimes we mix Purgers with Diureticks because the Urin is easier rendered when the Excrements are voided and because they prick and stir up the expulsive faculty of the Guts and give the same force to the Bladder Or this Bole. Take Cassia new drawn half an ounce Benedicta Laxativa Agarick in Troches each half a dram Winter-cherries one scruple with Sugar Turpentine doth both Take two drams thereof dissolveit with Honey and the yolk of an Eg and drink it with Wine Or thus Take Electuary Indum the great two drams Catholicon half an ounce Winter-cherry water as much as wil make a Potion If it come from clotted blood you must give things at the mouth which dissolve such blood among which Amber is best in this case Clysters are good in this case and Topicks to the bladder As Take Mallows with the roots Pellitory each one handful Chamaemel flowers one pugil boyl them and dissolve Cassia Benedicta Laxativa each half an ounce Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an Egg and Honey half an ounce Oyl of Chamaemel and Scorpions each one ounce Salt two drams make a Clyster Another more compounded Take marsh-mallow roots and Radishes each two ounces Onions Garlick Leeks each one ounce Pellitory Water-cresses Parsley each one handful Chamaemel and Melilot flowers each one one pugil Smallage and Lovage seeds each two drams Juniper berries half an ounce boyl them in Wine and Water and dissolve the aforesaid things therein Or this of Juyces Take Juyce of Mallows Mercury Pellitory Rue each one ounce and an half of Water-cresses half an ounce white Wine two ounces Butter one ounce and an half Honey one ounce Salt one dram make a Clyster Divers things are applied outwardly to the Share neer the Bladder that dilate it and provoke Pissing A Fomentation and Bath of these Take Valerian roote two ounces Mallows Mugwort Parsley flowers of Chamaemel Melilot Dill each one pugil Linseed and Fenugreek each one dramâ— Smallage seeds two drams boyl them and add Wine These are good when the bladder is so ful they cannot piss Also you may add things that dissolve the clodded blood if there be any And Coolers if there be Inflammation Or this Emplaster Take roots of Marsh-mallows Radish and Pellitory boyl them stamp them and add a little Butter Or. Take Radish Water-cresses Garlick Juniper-berries stamp them and fry them with Wine adding Butter and Oyl of Scorpions Hot Cow-dung also with Cummin-seed and Oyl of Scorpions It is good in the Strangury to boyl Hempen thred newly spun in Water and Lie with Mugwort and Chamaemel and apply it You may use these Oyntments with the former or alone Take Oyl of Scorpions and Cunney grease each half an ounce Or Take Juyce of Water-cresses Parsley Onions each one ounce Sea-fennel Oyl of Scorpions each two ounces boyl them and add Oyl of Turpentine two drams and with Cunney grease make a Liniment Boyl Wine Vinegar and Honey thick with Linseed meal and apply them to the Pecten to provoke Urin.
Feet upon the ground And if the Secundine be retained or the Child come not let her stamp strongly that she may be delivered as Hippocrates shews of the Tire-woman Also pressing of the belly will help the throws with both Thumbs below the Navil and the Hands upon the sides by a strong woman And the same is good to bring forth the Secundine after delivery Also Neesing causeth strong though short straining by attracting of the Muscles of the Belly especially if the Mouth be a little stopped and the Nose Let the Midwise take half of the Child when it first begins to appear and draw it gently forth by degrees pressing the upper part of the Belly But if it lie deep and be turned let her put in her Fingers or Hand being anoynted and place it right with the Head downward and gather the Limbs together If these succeed not and the Midwise perceive the Child dead let a Chyrurgion enlarge the Orifice with a Speculum Matricis And if so it cannot be taken forth let him pul it out with Instruments or cut it out by pieces When all hope is gone some do so and keep the Mother alive The bladders that appear in the Belly as I shewed when a Child is rotten through which the Child may be seen of which I am an Eye witness gave occasion I suppose to this way which none attempt while the Child is alive except both be desperate It is more safe and honorable when the Mother is dead and the Child alive to cut it out by opening the Belly by which means many have been preserved and Caesar was so called because he was cut out of his Mothers Womb and thence this birth is called Caesarian Also we dilate the Privities to let out the Child with an Incision Knife But it is dangerous to open the Orifice of the Neck of the Womb by Incision And it may be unprofitable because it hath the same largness with the passage There are also things given to open and stir up the faculties which provoke Terms and expel the birth the weakest first after stronger and then strongest which may hurt the Child when dead or when the Secundine is retained The stilled water of Savin Mugwort Mullein Orris white Lillies and Chamomil And these boyled in Wine Pennyroyal Mugwort Savin Beans Wall-flowers Or this Decoction Take Dittany half an ounce Birthwort Madder Cassia barks of each two drams Mugwort Pennyroyal Savin of each one handful Lavender Chamomil Wall-flowers of each one pugil Cinnamon three drams Saffron one dram Boyl them in white Wine This is stronget Take Birthwort Sowbread of each one dram Savin Tamarisk of each two drams Boyl them in wine drink it at once or twice These juyces are good of which you may make this Electuary to be given in Travail Take roots of Elicampane Comfrey Marsh-mallows of each three ounces five leaved Grass Bittony Hysop of each one handful bruise them and clarifie the juyce with Sugar and with Cinnamon make an Electuary Let her take two spoonfuls thrice in a day in the morning before supper and at bed time Or give juyce of Savin Mugwort and Leeks and of Sowbread alone or with wine Let these Pouders be given with wine or waters mentioned or with Sugar made into Lozenges Take the bark of Cassia Fistula white Dittany roots of each one dram Cinnamon half a dram Saffron one scruple Or thus Take Lavender seeds half a dram Plantane and Endive seeds of each two scruples Cinnamon Pepper of each one scruple Saffron half a scruple The yellow tops of the Chives of white Lillies are good to be drunk the Italians steep them in Oyl in the Sun and drink that One dram of Amber is good when there is a Flux of blood from the retention of the Secundine to stop one and expel the other Or this Pouder Take Pouder of Date stones and Harts-horn Canes of Cassia of each one dram Peach kernels one ounce Cinnamon two drams Sugar one ounce Let her take two or three spoonfuls and drink convenient water afterwards This is stronger Take Borax one dram or four scruples Cinnamon Crocus of each one scruple Ginger half a scruple give it with Cinnamon water or Sack or with Confection Alkermes in a Bolus in the greatest weakness Another Take Borax Myrrh Birthwort of each half a dram Saffron Pepper of each one scruple Mak a Pouder These are good to expel a dead Child and the Secundine Chymical Oyl of Amber Camphur Savin anoynt the Navil with a little and give four drops in white wine Some commend a Medicine made of the wrappings of the Child Let the Midwife dry the Navil string and Vreter in a Oven and to two drams of the Pouder add Cinnamon and Pepper of each half a dram Saffron half a scruple and with juyce of Savin make Troches give two drams in Pouder alone or with other Pouders Rondeletius teacheth that the Secundine so burnt and given cureth the after pains Also one dram or one and an half of the Troches of Myrrh or Gallia Moschata are given with Sage Wine or made into Pills These Pills of bitter and stinking ingredients are very efficacious Take Galbanum and Mirrh of each one dram round Birthwort Dittany and Gentian of each half a dram Castor and Assa Faetida and Saffron of each one scruple with juyce of Savin make Pills give from half a dram to a dram Cassia and Tryphera loosen the Belly and cause easie deliverance thereby And purges that are sharp stirre up the expulsive faculty of the womb also therefore to avoid Abortion we give no strong purges There are divers Restauratives to preserve strength which are useful in the throws and to refresh them for Labor both for Diet and Medicine Confection Alkermes is Cordial and stirs up the faculty It is given with wine and Borax Or Take the Ponder of Diamargariton Calidum and Diamoschu of each half a dram give it with wine or water or make Lozenges thereof Fumigations and sents below peirce into the womb and are good if made of very stinking things let them be directed into the womb by a Funnel Of sweet scents Take Labdanum one dram Storax half a dram Musk and Amber grease of each half a scruple Sugar a dram Make a Pouder or Troches to be laid upon Embers Anoynt the Orifice of the Neck of the womb with Oyl of Spike or put it in with bread Also the fume of Amber or Horse or Asse hoofs is good Or Take the Pouder of an Asses hoofe and mix it with Horse grease and burn it Or Take Galbanum Myrrh Asphaltum of each half a dram Castor one scruple and with the Gall of an Oxâ— Make Troches burn them Dioscorides commends the fum of Brim-stone if the Child be dead The fume of the Decoction of Dittany and Mugwort doth the same Sweet scents are applied to the Nose to refresh nor may you fear the rising up of the Womb because it is otherwise as I
and active and they who have less are weak and sooner die And when that flourishing humor is consumed like Oyl by the heat of the spirit by degrees in age men grow more weak and dry Among internal and external causes Diseases that dissipate the influent and fixed spirits are the cause of weakness all great Diseases dissipate the vital spirits if they continue long and at length consume the innate spirits with the radical moisture wherewith it is joyned from whence the weakness is more or less Great and often Evacuations either by chance or willingly Evacuations that dissipate the natural fixed and also the influent heat cause weakness or in Diseases exhaust and dissipate the spirits and abate strength especially if good humors be voidded as Seed in the running of the Reins or by Venery Also great bleeding purging by reason the stirring of the spirits abate strength as in Diarrhaea's and great and often sweating and much pissing Also the sudden effusion of things besides nature as of Water in the Dropsie matter in an Empiema doth weaken These violent excretions being painful as in a Dysentery weaken more Great pain which violently stirreth the spirits Pain moving the spirits causeth weakness to bring them to the part afflicted with the blood for help causeth weakness and if it be very great fainting Especialy if the part suffering Pain of the Mouth of the Stomack cause of Cardiaca or fainting have great affinity with the Heart Hence it is that they who have the Cardialgia or Heart pain are very weak by reason of the consent of the Stomach with the Heart and do easily faint this fainting is called Cardiaca And so it is in other painful and long Diseases Great and sudden Passions of the Mind Trembling of the Spirit is the cause of weakness fainting because then the spirits are carried in and out with force cause debility and somtimes fainting and death Thus we have seen some swoon with joy that hath thrown the spirits outward and have read that others have died so In anger the spirits are so inraged that they look red in the Face And when the spirits presently return as the paleness following sheweth they are in little danger of life but they are weakned thereby as appears by their trembling and there remains a weariness though anger be over Nor is the cause of men not dying with anger as with joy because angry men are stronger as is supposed in regard old men and sick men that are peevish are easily moved to anger But it often hapens that by great fear the spirits being violently moved some die and many are weakned And shame and bashfulness may cause the same by which they say Homer died Also if the passions be of long continuance and strong as sadness and fear and the like they stir the spirits with continual Cogitation and at length consum them and as they say dry the bones and this is a Consumption of the Spirits A strong and constant heat doth not only dissipate the spirits but consumes them Heat dissipating the spirits and consuming their nourishment is the cause of weakness and their nourishment as when the body is weakned by heat fire labor there is fainting somtimes And in Feavers it is so especially in a Causon or burning Feaver And in a Hectick the accidental heat of the heart though not great yet continuing devours the radical moisture of the heart and solid parts and the spirits and causeth weakness and Consumption A cold distemper quencheth the native heat Cold restraining the native heat is the cause of weakness or makes it less so some have been frozen to death And others have been killed with staying long in cold water Also some parts are benumed and blasted with cold or so weakned that they come not again to themselves And this may come to the Stomach by drinking cold water And hither may be referred those that for want of excercise bring not the native heat into action and grow stupid Also the parrs grow weak by using things inwardly and outwardly that are Potentially cold a long time they grow weak but the native heat is not wholly extinct as by actual cold Although hitherto it hath been believed to come from Narcoticks that are very cold which as we shewed do not kil by cooling but by stupefying the brain Nor do we grant that the Pores being obstructed that the heat is Suffocated for want of fanning or Eventilation for as we shewed the Skin hath Pores not to let in Air but to let out other things A Maligne quality affecting the Heart or mixed with its spirits A Maligne quality in the Heart is the Cause of weakness causeth an extinction of native heat thereof and by consequence of all the Body or diminisheth it and begets a Syncope or weakness or Death according toits divers qualities So when the Air is infected men in the Plague suddenly faint are weak and die or in swouning Feavers which alwaies begin with fainting And when Poyson is taken or bred in the Body it gets to the Heart and endangers life and causeth weakness And this may happen to other parts when Poyson is more contrary to them then to the Heat If a Wound peirce the left Ventricle of the Heart A Wound in the Heart is the cause of weakness and Death the spirits suddenly vanish and there is sudden Death And if the right or it peirce the Superficies or cuts the Coronal Veins they die suddenly from great bleeding I suppose non can scape if the substance only be hurt and divided because a principal part cannot endure it Fernelius writes that he saw one that consumed before he died of an Ulcer in the Heart that came from an inward cause The like may be from a Tumor which is rare and not known but by dissection because the Heart feels not I faw in 1644. in a Woman that I opened of a Dropsie in the Breast such a swolen Heart loose and greater then it should be with the Vessels especially the Arteria Aorta three times bigger then usual and both the Ventricles especially the left and the Langs and Cavity of the breast silled with waterish blood Also a great corruption in other parts extinguisheth the native heat The Cure We shall shew how it is to be done in diverse weaknesses The Cure of weakness and swouning and chiefly in general Imbecility and great fainting which also may be for particular weakned parts although in their Symptoms we shall also speak thereof We must act and prognostick acctording to the diversity of the cause of weakness If it come from want of Air and breathing we shewed the Cure in the defect of Breathing If it be from the birth or old age we labor in Vain because natural causes cannot be changed nor radical moisture renewed If it be from Evacuation it is worst from Venery or bleeding which is in a Dropsie If
in the Palpitation thereof or Oyl of Jesemin or Oyntment of water Lillies or Citrine Oyntment Or Take Oyl of water Lillies two ounces juyce of Citrons and Vinegar of Roses of each half an ounce boyl them to a Consistence add of all the Saunders Roses and Sorrel seed of each one scruple Coral one dram Pearl half a dram Camphire half a scruple with Wax make an Oyntment Or apply this Emplaister Take Treacle one dram and an half the Cerot of Sanders half a dram the species of Diamoscbu and Diambra of each half a scruple A Cordial Bag. Take of all the Saunders each one dram dryed Citron peels the four cordial flowers of Scabious and Leaves of Balm each half a dram Ivory or the Bone of a Stags heart two scruples Species Diamoschum one dram make a little Bag sprinkle it with Wine and Rose-water or Fume it therewith apply it to the heart It is good to raise them to sprinkle Water and rose-Rose-water and Vinegar and Wine upon the Face Also to bind the Limbs and rub them very hard Also to stop the Nose and pul it and open the mouth and rub the Tongue They are soonest raised with great Noise and Neesing And to place them with the Head down and the body high Let them be quiet after the Fit for weak people faint upon the least motion CHAP. XI Of the Depravation of Vital Motion The Kinds IF the Vital Motion be Depraved which may be seen as I shewed in the Voluntary and Involuntary Functions of the parts Heart and Arteries we do not observe it as in the defect for none can live too much and the body and its parts cannot be too strong And if any parts that move voluntarily move too much or wrong that belongs to the depraved voluntary motion of which we have spoken We observe Depravation of Vital Motion in the pulse of the Heart and Arteries when it is oftener or more vehement than it ought to be by nature or proceeds otherwise disorderly Oftentimes the pulse of the Heart and Arteries is more frequent than is fit The quick beating of the Heart and Arteries whether great or smal both in sound and sick the breathing being also quick and if this pulse be great also it is with pain in the Breast Neck Head Ears It is to be felt in those parts and by Physitians at the Wrists Vehement and immoderate pulsation or beating of the Heart and Arteries Heart-beating is a symptom often by it self or in cathectick Maids before they have their Terms or such as have the Hypochondriack Melancholy This is called palpitation or trembling of the Heart because the motion is unequal And being alwaies strong it is perceived plainly in the left side of the Breast often in the Neck somtimes under the Ribs especially on the left side it is very troublesom and weakneth him much if it continue Sometimes it forceth the Ribs and as Fernelius saith puts them out of their place Aneurisma Sometimes it so dilateth the Artery and drives it out that it causeth the Tumor called Aneurisma which is great and beating This Symptom somtimes remitteth and comes again sooner or later and it continueth longer or shorter time as we said I observed a grievous and wonderful palpitation of the Heart in the yeer 1627. in a noble Virgin of Narbo in France who was alwaies held in her fit by two strong men that bare down the left side of her Breast with her hands til it ceased otherwise shee complained that her Breast and Ribs would break An Inordinate and uneven Pulse causeth trouble An uneven Pulse but that which beats low is considered not as a Symptom but only a sign shewing the Disease and the strength And therefore Physitians feel it The Causes It is most certain that the Heart and Arteries cause this depraved palpitation by their motion because no other parts do beat When these beat moderately sound people ought not to perceive it least the noise should be a hinderance as it is when they beat vehemently especially where the Arteries are great and many and free not sunk into the Muscles as in the left side not only by reason of the left Ventricle of the Heart and the Ear that moveth it self there but by the great Artery that comes from the left side of the Heart and descendeth by the left side of the Vertebrae Also in both fides of the Throat which the great Artery ascending goerh through being divided and there produceth the sleeping Arteries and those of the Arms Also under the Ribs especially or the left side because the great Artery descending thither lieth chiefly on the left side As also because it produceth great Arteries which accompany the branches of the Gate-vein on the right side especially those that go to the natural bowels and the Spleen For which causes when the Arteries beat much the putefaction is perceived on that side and is troublesome In other places where the Arteries are less or hidden though they beat stronger yet are they not perceived except it be by the pain of the part adjoyning which is troubled at the least touch of an Artery As in pains of the Head by reason of the great Ventricles of the brain beating and in Inslammations Or when a little Artery beating too violently in a strait place and hurts a Nerve as in the Ears wherein we may hear the pulsation But in naked parts without flesh you may touch a pulse and judg whether it be natural or depraved especially in the Wrist The truest causes of the great beating of the Heart and Arteries is the dissipation of vital spirits and the repletion and dilatation of the Arteries among which there are others less probable If the influent vital spirits be suddenly or too much dissipated so that the innate spirits cannot enjoy them sufficiently because it is necessary that new be alwaies sent from the Heart to the whole body which must be done by the pulsation of the Heart and Arteries It is therefore no wonder if their motion be enlarged and more quick and if the cause be great more vehement with great breathing which as is said brings matter to make vital spirits And this may come also from the spirits stirred with the blood the Heart and Arteries being inflamed When the spirits are suddenly tossed hither and thither The too great stirring of the spirits is the cause of quick great pulsation of the Arteries and dispersed and not equally communicated to the body the Heart and Arteries beat quick for new and the respiration is greater or otherwise strength would fail This comes from the motion of the body and mind as we shewed in quick respiration which comes from thence Hence is it that the pulsation increaseth by the passions of the mind as anger Joy Terror Fear Shame the spirits being moved which Erasistratus knew when from the sudden motion of the pulse from the beholding of the Nurse that
the least sweat It happeneth in many imperfected Crises of sharp Diseases The want of sweat which in time of sickness is necessary and in some lingring diseases that no sweat can be procured by Art or Nature which should expel the cause thereof and this is a defect of Sweat requisite in the time of Sickness The Causes As is the Serum or watry humor so is the Sweat and Urin The cause of want of Sweat is when the moisture decaieth or is turn'd another way for it causeth both and when there is little Urin there is little Sweat And when the Serum is not carried to the habit of the body but otherwaies as by much Urin Seege or the like then there is a defect of Sweat Wherefore in Diseases when Nature endeavors evacuation by sweat it is hindered by other passages Moreover it may happen by obstructions that the passage of the Serum may be so hindered that there may be great difficulty in Sweating and Pissing wherefore men in Dropsies piss little and sweat with difficulty though it be necessary for them Also the thickness and sliminess of the serum may hinder both Pissing and Swearing as in phlegmatick persons and in sharp Diseases there is no sweat til the humor is concocted and made thin therefore attenuating medicines do provoke Sweat as we shewed in the defect of Pissing The usual cause of want of Sweating is the not drawing of the Serum to the habit of the body The cause of want of Sweat is because the serum goes not to the habit of the body which is done by external heat which being abrent Nature cannot sweat without great Violence especially if the pores are astringed or stopt by cold external for only closing of the pores cannot hinder sweat except there be external cold The Cure If any want serum or natural moisture it is in vain to provoke them to sweat The Cure of want of Sweat also when it is plentiful and turned another way except it be against natures intention for if nature incline to sweat we must not use other evacuations but hinder them Also in Obstructions and crudities if we intend to evacuate by sweat they must first be opened and the matter prepared But if there be abundance of excrementitious moisture in the Veins and habit of the body we must use this evacuation for the preventing and curing of Diseases and it must be attenuated and concocted from its thickness and crudity and first we must remove external causes which may hinder sweat and then give Sudorificks or medicines to cause sweat such as follow Among Sudorisicks Sudorificks or medicines to cause Sweat some are such as cause sweat by a great quantity of Liquor taken in when there is external heat to further it hence it is that when we drink fasting and warm in bed in any quantity sweat wil follow And this is caused by cold drink as well as by hot for the entrals being suddenly cooled the heat external sooner draws the serum to it And this is soonest done by things that are piercing and sharp and these are called Sudorificks Among which distilled waters by reason of their thinness are the best as for example of hot herbs Cherfoyl and Carduus of cold plants Fumitory and Lemmons Many Decoctions are made for this purpose as of Guajacum Sarsaparilla China and other Woods Roots and Herbs boyld in much water Or Horstail or the lesser Polygonum or the like boyled in Wine This following is commended Take Millium or Pannicum hulled one pugil boyl it in Water to four ounces of the Water strained add two ounces of white Wine for one Draught this is called St. Ambrose his Syrup Or this Take Hysop and Marjoram boyl them in Chicken Broath and ad thereto two drams of the Emulsion of Hemp-seed This is excellent Take Nep and Citron seed each one dram and an half Water of Carduus and Sorrel each one ounce and an half or two ounces make an Emulsion add Syrup of Carduus or of Sorrel six drams of Roses two drams let it be given at bed-time some give the root of Asarabacca two darms in pouder in three ounces of Carduus water which is a good Sudorifick Treacle and other sleeping medicines are given dissolved to provoke Sweat for in a deep sleep Sweat doth easily come forth Also the juyce of Elder or Danewort given with distilled waters or in a Decoction doth the same Or Take Saffron one scruple Ginger half a dram give them in Pouder with Almond Milk Or Take one dram of Brimstone with the Yolk of an Egg. The Chymists give Salts Oyls and Spirits as Spirit of Vitriol with convenient Liquors Their Bezoardine Mineral Diaphoretick Sol and Luna Diaphoretick Antimony the Sulphur of Antimony Spirit of Tartar and the Treacle water of Crollius the secret of Carduus and the like All things that outwardly heat the body so that the blood may be carried thither and the serum with it and open the pores do cause Sweat And they may be greater or less as the humor aboundeth and the Constition requireth as follow As many Cloaths and Coverings Skins and Feathers Hot Air caused by the Sun or Fire which outwardly inflames the body Hot Water either natural or Artificial Oyntments for the Back and great Veins which gently heat with Oyl of Lillies Pellitory and the like Also Violent motion And the passions of the mind which inslame the spirits and humors as Anger Joy or such as shake the spirits produce Sweat as Terror Fear CHAP. XVI Of want of Milk The Kinds ALthough the natural excretion of Milk or giving Suck which ought to be from the Birth to the moderate growth of the Child is not so necessary that the defect thereof should prejudice the Woman for we see many Women which for preserving of their Breasts near give no suck and receive 〈◊〉 hurt thereby except it be through plethory or foulness or Inflammation of their Breasts for want of giving suck yet because it is an inconveniency to the Mother or Nurse and also to the Child which must be nourished with Milk it is called a Defect And it is divers Sucking hindred either when the sucking is hindred or cannot be or when there is want of Milk wholly Want of Milk or in part and this is called the want of Milk The Causes This Defect comes from want of Blood in the Veins of the Breasts Want of blood Foulness or thickness of blood is the cause of want of Milk which is the matter of which Milk is made And this comes from divers Causes as we shewed in the want of Courses chiefly in Women with Child who through squemishness eat little or that which is not nourishing from the Disease called Pica Or when they have too many of their courses after Child-bearing or when they flow in time of giving suck which they ought not to do especially violently and beyond their strength Or
blood which stretcheth the Member in men as we shewed in defect of Venery If Seed be plentiful it causeth Sanguin men Plenty of seed and heat is the cause of a Venereal Itch. by reason of fulness or heat of the Vessels which continually attract blood which desires expulsion where it aboundeth to be Lascivious Especially when the Seed is hotter then ordinary and sharper Sharpness of seed is the cause of Frensie of the Womb in Women so called this we have shewed may come of eating hot Spices or Medicines And of hot humors and sharp not in the Womb of salt Flegm and Choller as is usual but from the seed which is venemous and sharp from the heat of which comes the unsatiable Itch which is usual in unclean Women who infect men therewith Men when they are thus infected have a running of the Reins which sends it forth but women have it not so usually Some say that the cause why Lepers are not Lecherous is because they are separated from women and constrained to be abstinenr Seed raised from its Vessels Shaking of the Seed causeth a Venereal Itch. and desiring passage causeth Itch and is scarse hindered from flowing for this is the condition thereof while it is sound and in its own place except it abound that it doth not much prick But when it is removed it is very troublesome to get forth so it is for by imagination dreams and handling Seed may be spent by both Sexes When much Arterial blood sils the Yard and continueth The cause of Priapismus or Erection preternatural is the plenty of blood gathered in the Privities it causeth Priapismus or constant standing with a desire of which we now speak But it may hapen that there may be Erection before the blood come to prick the part and a desire afterwards from thence Also it may come from heat of the Reins and parts adjacent by blood caused from lying upon the back upon feather beds or boards which posture makes blood come sooner to the part and makes Erection and greater Appetite as experience sheweth And heat of the bed makes men rise at midnight as the Proverb is If it come from other causes as Pain Inflamation Wind or Water it belongs to another treatise The Cure If Men or Women are provoked to Venery to prevent unlawful acts The Cure of the Venereal Itch and Frensie and of Priapismus the heat is to be allay'd by hindering increase of Seed and heat thereof as also of blood and preventing the commotion of Seed Thus Purges are chiefly requisite when foul and sharp humors corrupt and sharpen the Seed and cause lust To cool lust we give things that quench or that dry though hot if they consume it by a propriety nor do we spend time to Cure and expel wind which is not the cause as we said we give them evening or morning often for the effect will not quickly be seen Sallats at supper of Lettice Purslane Mints with Vinegar are proper without Spices And this Electuary Take Conserve of Water-lillies and Mints of each an ounce Lettice and Coleworts candied six drams seeds of Agnus Castus so called from its vertue one dram and an half Rue half a dram Coral one dram Crystal half a dram Camphire a scruple with syrup of Purslane Make an Electuary A convenient Pouder Take Snakweed roots one dram Mints Rue Water-lillies dried of each half a dram the seeds of Vitex one dram and an half Hemp seeds Grapes Lettice of each one dram and an half Crystal one dram Camphire a scruple make a Pouder take a dram in broath or syrup of Purslane or with a little Sugar or made into Tablets with Rose and Lettice A convenient Syrup Take juyce of Lettice and Purslane of each two ounces juyce of Mints half an ounce Violet and rose-Rose-water of each an ounce Vineger of Roses half an ounce Sugar three ounces Boyl them to a Syrup give an ounce often The Decoction of Lettice Purslane Endive Mints is good in broath Cold water drunk in great quantity allaies lust Some affirme that they can take away all desire and use of Venery with Wine in which the Fish called Mullus is infused others give forty Pismires in drink Outwardly cool the Feet Privities Loynes so to wash the Yard in cold water makes it presently fall this remedy my Father told me a learned man used who the first year of his Mariage lost his Wife and Child at once in Child-bed that he night die a Widdower without desire of Women Things that Potentially cool mixed with driers and applied by Fomentation to the Privities extinguish lust as the Decoction of Lettice Plantane Purslane Willows Water-lillies and the like Especially if they be applied to the Feet with Vinegar The juyces of the same to foment the Stones adding a little Vinegar and Camphire is better and injected into the Womb doth the same for Women Vinegar of Roses doth the like It is good to anoynt the Reins with this Take Oyl of water Lillies two ounces juyce of Lettice one ounce and an half Vinegar half an ounce boyl them to the consuming of the juyces add seeds of Vitex one dram Camphire half a dram white Wax a little Make an Oyntment Unguentum Album with Camphire or that cooler of Galen for the Reins with Camphire doth the same And also Plates of Lead to the Reins Sugar and Crystal of Lead with Oyntments and Correcters given in a smal quantity are commended by the Chymists The smel of Camphire stupifieth lust therefore they teach that it is to be worn to preserve chastity which it doth by touching it or tying to the Arms And Vitex and Vervain they say doth the same Great fasting doth somewhat allay lust especially abstinence from hot Meats Spices and Wine which rule they ought to observe which pretend to chastity by abstaining from certain Meats as the Friers who pretend to mortifie by eating of Shel-fish and Botargo and the like in the holy time of Lent The sorrow of mind and grief take away lust And Diseases with pain whether hot or cold By letting blood something is abated but it cannot make the Body lean or weak without some other inconvenience It is reported that one cured his Wife of her unsatiable desire by opening all the usual Veins And Hippocrates teacheth by the example of the Scythians that the opening of the Veins behind the Eares maketh Sterility and Impotency Gelding is the extream remedy for extream Lechery and taking off the Yard is the surest way for which cause they say Origen Gelt himself And I know a Priest that having been often punished for sin in that kind did the same and Masters usually do so to their Servants to whom they commit their Wives but they deserve this punishment best that sin in Adultery and Fornication and therein persevere The surest remedy is Mariage which is granted by God to all that want the gift of Chastity CHAP. XIX Of
are called Solitary and Primary being accompanied with no other Disease or accidents and as the heat is more or less they are shorter as for a day except they turn into putride feavers or longer when the heat is more fixed which causeth the Hectick And this is not as some would have it that if the spirits are only inflamed the heat should depart in one day which causeth Ephemeral feavers And if the blood be enflamed the continuing longer causeth a Synochus if the heat be in the substance of the Heart a constant Hectick Because in all these kinds neither the Spirits nor the Blood can be enflamed by themselves being confusedly together in the Vessels and the substance of the Heart must be inflamed together with them And every Feaver and other Disease must have some solid part to subsist in as their subject and not the Spirits and Humors But this diversity of feavers comes from the Cause from whence they proceed and the Subject which is the body of man wherein they are In respect of the external cause as it worketh these in the body and continueth longer These Feavers differ in time and greatness and this external cause is either from things without or taken in or from excercise Of things without these by themselves inflame as hot Air or Water if long continuance be made therein by accident these vehement cold and sudden especially taken when the body is hot by outward Air or Water Because the heat being suddenly struck inward by the cold external inflames the Spirits Humors Bowels and the very Heart And this is more probable then to say as others that it comes from the stoppage of the Pores of the Skin by cold whereby the Air which should pass through to cool and Ventilate as they call it is hindered and so the blood is inflamed and putrified But we shewed formerly that the necessity of Respiration or Breathing was ordained not to cool the Heart which being in health it needeth not and the use of transpiration was not to cool the blood which being temperate it needeth not But for the Evacuation of Excrements as we shall shew in putrid Feavers which proceed from the want of that Things taken in which actually or potentially inflame especially if they peirce suddenly do the same as strong Wine and stronge Waters drunk in great quantity and the Anacardine Confection being very hot And we shall shew that neither crudities nor corruption of meats as some think can produce these pure Feavers but other Diseases or putrid Feavers Vehement motion especially running by heating may cause the same as we see in Horses after Races that we perceive to be feverish from their short breath extream heat and sweating And Women long lying in hard Travail by a continual motion and hard and often throws are in a feaver which is increased by pain Also immoderate motion of mind by watchings chiefly sudden motions by anger frights or joy if they do not only stir the spirits and blood but enflame the heart also cause feavers But we suppose that fear and sadness cannot cause these feavers except there be also putrifaction From the subject Body afflicted with these feavers they are also divers Any constitution is capable of them from an external cause by which heat being stirred up may differ in respect of the constitution as it is temperate hotter or impure If a temperate body be inflamed from without Inflamation of the Blood or Spirits from an external cause in the Vessels may cause an Ephemora in regard that heat cannot continue long but the body must return to its former temper there may be a short feaver called Ephemera And the heat being united there is no great change made and being not impure it begins not with shaking or Crisis and it goes away by degrees through sweat which is caused by a gentle breathing or exhalation from the same heat That is an over hot constitution which is more fit to receive heat and if it be enflamed from an external cause then from the double heat comes a Synochus simple Feaver which lasteth longer and is hotter This constitution is either Sanguin or Cholerick The Sanguiue constitution A sanguine Synoch is caused by blood and spirits inflamed in the Vessels from an external cause is sooner enflamed when there is more blood or heat then ordinary Therefore young persons and Plethorick or full bodies and hot and such as want their usual bleedings by Haemorrhoids Terms or at the Nose are sooner in these Feavers And these by reason of the efficient cause meeting with the adjuvant or assisting continue above one day to the third or fourth day and are called simple bloody Synocks These have a greater heat and other Symptoms from the causes mentioned but otherwise they begin and end as the Ephemerae A Chollerick constitution being hotter A cholerick Synoch is caused by Instamation of Blood and spirits in the Vessels from an external cause is easily enflamed from the same causes with a Feaver like a Synoch called a simple Cholerick Synoch And it keeps the same progress with a Sanguine except some accidents arise caused by choller by which it is turned putrid If a foul body take a feaver from an external cause A Synoch which degenerateth is caused by Inflamation of blood and spirits in the Vessels of an unclean body then if the blood be apt to putrifie the feaver is no longer simple and pure but an impure Synoch and of longer continuance But if the blood be somwhat impure and yet not apt to putrifie then the Synoch is pure but the accidents are more and greater then in the former There is also a Synoch called accompanied when nature driveth out of the Veins some of the impure blood If these Feavers come from a Disease and the blood being enflamed stay in the Vessels The cause of pure Symptomatical accompanied Feavers is a hot disease that enflames the blood and spirits then because they follow a Disease they are called Symptomatical simple Feavers These are like the Ephemeral or Synoch Feavers except they be turned into Putrid by the Disease that caused them or their Course or Symptoms altered thereby The Diseases that cause Symptomatical feavers are of some part and send forth such heat that first it inflames the blood in the part and then the whol Mass and the Heart and the blood in the part is commonly more then ordinary by reason of the Disease and pain which attracteth These hot Diseases which cause feavers from hot humors as Blood and Choler may produce them without corruption for Blood and Choller only of all the Humors can produce feavers without putrefaction When Blood gets out of the Veins A Disease of Blood is the cause of Ephemera or Synoch Or Symptomatical Feavers not from the Feaver aforegoing of which hereafter but from some other cause as heat or pain and fals into a part where it begets either a bare
each half an ounce make a potion In hot and cholerick persons Thus Take syrup of Roses solutive and Violets each one ounce Cassia new drawn one ounce give it These may be repeated if the Belly be bound at any time Or this which I use Take Syrup of Roses solutive and of Violets each three ounces give it in boyled water like a Julep for constant drink abstaine from it if by rumbling of the Belly or the like signs you fear a Flux If crude Humors are in the Stomack use the same gentle Medicines especially because then there is inclination to Vomit and if Choller great thirst and bitterness of tast and nature must be helped to cast out her enemy by tickling the Throat or with gentle Vomits which loosen and cleanse and cool As this Take a draught of warm Water and a little Vinegar Or Take warm Water or fat broath with syrup of Vinegar or Oxymel one ounce and an half common Oylom ounce Although bleeding takes away the filth which is the conjunct cause of a Feaver the best yet because that Evacuation may be made from the Veins thereby we may provoke stools Urin and sweat also We use purges to cleanse the Guts and Stomack and also the first Veins which causeth corruption in the other for nature by them provoked draws preternatural Excrements from the secretest places to the sink Therefore after Laxatives and the next after bleeding when the disease is urgent and the matter turgent and needs no more preparation we give purges Somtimes after the Feaver hath been some time after a preparative But we aovid strong purges that are hot or we qualifie them that they stir not the Body too violently nor enflame And though practitioners use not divers purging Medicines in intermitting and continual Feavers yet because in the well daies when the feaver is absent we may use stronger then in a continual Feaver And we must alter the purges according to the nature of the Feaver and moderate them in continual Feavers In a Causon called a burning Feaver they must not be hot but qualified As Take damask Prunes ten Raisons stoned one ounce Sebestens twelve Tamarinds one ounce Dates four Cordial flowers each a pugil the great Cold seeds each an ounce of the lesser Cold seeds each half a dram boyl them add if you please Endive and Lettice water to abate heat and dissolve Manna which they say being thus mixed turns not so soon into Choller Cassia each half an ounce this somewhat sharp like Tamarinds and therefore excellent syrup of Violets one ounce or of Roses and Violets each half an ounce make a Potion Or thus stronger Take Cassia newly drawn and Tamarinds pulped each half an ounce Electuary of juyce of Roses two drams make a Bolus or dissolve it in broath or Barley water Or Take Diaprunis and Electuary of the juyce of Roses each one dram and an half syrup of Violets one ounce with Barley or Endive make a Potion After these Scammoniate Medicines give an ounce and an half of syrup of Violets with Endive water to qualifie them or after the purging to hinder the increase of heat Some deny Rhubarb because of its binding but that is not to be feared if it be infused Take Syrup of Violets one ounce and an half of Roses solutive one ounce Rhubarb infused in Endive water and strained half a dram make a Potion Or thus Take Rhubarb four scruples Spicknard one scruple infuse them in Endive water and Whey dissolve therein Manna one ounce Cassia six drams syrup of Violets one ounce make a Potion In a putrid Synoch and a sanguine Constitution use the same Or this Take Rhubarb infused in Endive or Sorrel water four scruples Citrine Myrohalans infused in Whey three drams strain and add syrup of Roses Solutive two ounces for a draught In Tertians and Cholerick bodies take of hot and strong purges for fear of a Diarrhaea therefore beware of Scammonials and use the aforesaid mentioned in a Causon which provoke Choler As take the Decoction of loosning flowers and fruits as much as is fit thus made Take Prunes ten Tamarinds one ounce Sebestens and Jujubes each ten Raisons one ounce Dates five flowers of Violets Bugloss and Borage each one pugil Gourd seeds half an ounce infuse in this Decoction Rheubarb four scruples Citrin Myrobalans two drams Spike one scruple strain it and add Cassia half an ounce Manna six drams make a Potion Or thus Take syrup of Roses solutive with the infusion of Rheubarb one ounce and an half dissolve it with Bugloss or Endive water Or Take syrup Diasereos which hath many cooling and opening things one ounce and an half dissolve it as afore Or thus to provoke Urin also Take Succory Grass and Asparagus roots each two drams infuse them in sharp Wine Endive Burrage and Sorrel each one handful Tamarinds one ounce the three Cordial flowers each one pugil Senna three drams make a Decoction dissolve in the straining syrup of Violets and Roses solutive of each one ounce Or thus Take Diaprunis Lenitive and Cassia each half an ounce Electuaries of the juyce of Roses two drams with Sorrel Bugloss and Violet water make a Potion To Cure quotidians we give things that purge flegm but in regard these Feavers do weaken much you must purge warily with the things abovesaid rather then stronger Yet in flegmatick Constitutions Take Agarick one dram Carthamus seeds skin'd three drams steep them in Oxymel Endive Violet and Maidenhatre water add Catholicon one ounce make a Potion Or thus Take Aggregative Pills two scruples with Endive water make Pills In continual quartans add things against Melancholly As Take Rhubarb four seruples Indy Myrobalans two drams infuse them in Whey and dissolve that straining with a Decoction of Mercury one handful Epithymum two drams Senna three drams add syrup of sweet Apples one ounce Before the state of the disease or when after an imperfect crisis the Feaver is not gone you must again purge diligently observing first whether nature endeavor to evacuate by any other way as Bleeding Urin or Sweat if she doth not before the seventh day or shew some signs thereof purge again and open obstructions Thus Take Rhuharb four scruples Myrobalans chebs and Indies each one dram and an half infuse them in Endive Wormwood water and a little white Wine then strain and add syrup Bizantinus syrup of Roses solutive of each one ounce or with the infusion of Senna half an ounce make a Potion Or thus Take Diaprunis lenitive six drams Electuary of juyce of Roses two drams syrup of Roses solutive one ounce with the Waters abovesaid or the common Decoction Or thus in stronger persons Take Aggregative and Pills of Rhubarb each one scruple Pill Aureae half a scruple with Violet water make Pills In the Declination of the disease purge often with the same In the begnning of the Disease prepare the Humors after a Lenitive or in the progress if the Feaver
continue made with cold things to abate heat and thin to make humors thick and that resist putrefaction and that cleanse adding alwaies openers that the Humors may pass Urin Sweat or Stools And these are the better when they suppress heat and are prepared for the Heart and Liver which two parts are most hot These preparatives are given according to the cause and constitution of the sick In a burning Feaver called Causon which is an acute Disease and grants not long truce we purge and alter with the coldest things In Synochus which is usually in sanguin persons prepare the Humors thus Take syrup of Lemons or of the juyce of Citrons syrup of Vinegar and Violets each one ounce and an half water of Sorrel Endive Purslane Bugloss each two ounces mix them give it three daies together Or thus Take syrup of Pomegranats Lemons and Sorrel each an ounce of water Lillies half an ounce Violet water Lilly and Lettice water each two ounces Or thus Take syrup of juyces of Endive Plantane and Purslane each half an ounce Endive Plantane and Purslane water each two ounces syrup of Currans half an ounce In a Tertian and in Cholerick bodies the same things are good because they allay Choler Or thus Take syrup of Sorrel Vinegar and Violets each an ounce water of Sorrel Bugloss and Endive of each two ounces drink it two or three daies In Quotidians and Phlegmatick bodies and old folk Take Honey of Roses Oxymel syrup Bizantine each an ounce waters of Maidenhair Succory and Grass each two ounces In quartans and Melancholick bodies Take syrup of Violets Bugloss Borrage and Fumitory of each an ounce Purslane Fumitory Bugloss and Borrage water each an ounce and an half make a Julep for three draughts all these may be mixed with the Pouder of Sanders or you may give after every draught a Lozenge of Trionsantalon or Diarhodon Urin must be provoked and sweat for when the matter is concocted and prepared nature doth usually send it out those waies these are done by Aperitives which make thin but you must observe whether nature moveth by Urin or Sweat most if they piss more then they drink or the Urin be thick or if they Sweat you must provoke that way most to which nature inclines The Divreticks which open and attenuate must not be not but moderated howsoever with cooling things And somtimes purgers may be mixed therewith if the body be bound It is done by this Decoction Take roots of Succory and Grass each an ounce Liquorish Fennel and Parsley each half an ounce Maidenhair and Endive each an handful Polypody roots six drams Senna half an ounce Annis seeds a dram of the great and smal Cold seeds each half a dram Cordial flowers a pugil Parsley seeds half a dram boyl them dissolve in the Liquor the sryup of the opening Roots two ounces syrup of Roses one ounce make a Potion for twice Things that only provoke Urin may be given three or four times and then the purgers again If nature provoke Urin you may leave out the purgers least you hinder her intention The Decoction of Sparagus in broath provokes Urin and juyce of Pomegranats And this Julep Take syrup Bizantive of Endive each an ounce water of Endive Maidenhair Wormwood each an ounce If you will open more Take Honey of Roses Oxymel syrup of Maidenhair each seven drams Water or Decoction of Grass roots Sparagus Succory each an ounce Make an Emulsion to provoke Urin thus Take seeds of Gourds half an ounce Melon seeds two drams Cowcumber Pompion Endive and Purslane seeds each a dram beat them and with Endive water make an Emulsion with syrup of Sorrel one ounce and an half The simple Emulsion of the Cold seeds is also good to take away waterish Humors Pills for to provoke Urin are made thus Take the troches of Roses Eupatorium each half a dram of Cappars in Melancholick persons a scruple with Smalage water make Pills give them every other day drinking after a little Barley and Fennel water Fontanonus gives water of Maidenhair with Barley and Fennel water only If nature incline to sweat as she doth about the decliuing of the disease she must be helped by art The Diureticks aforesaid by opening and making thin do help and other Drinks and Juleps Stilled waters alone being very thin are usually given as we shewed in a simple Synoch to which the Chymists add spirits of Vitriol two or three drops or spirit of Niter or of Salt which strongly resist putrefation Anoynting of the Back and other parts causeth sweat Thus Take Oyl of Chamomil and Dill each half an ounce Oyl of Violets and sweet Almonds each an ounce wet your Hands first in Aqua vitae and then use it Friction is good also to draw the matter outward Altering Medicines are such as cool and moisten the heat of the fever and resist putrefaction These strike at the Cause and mend the symptoms that come from heat as Head-ach Watching Restlesness Therefore use Coolers and Moisteners in all Fevers especially Violent when the blood is burnt and putrid Sharp things are best for they cool and resist putrefaction also if you add things that open Obstructions But there you must not cool suddenly as in a simple Synoch but by degrees lest Concoction of humors be hindred which cannot be made with Coolers only for the corrupt part ought to be concocted This is done by the means following For ordinary drink water is desired and is good to cool moisten and allay thirst it is given Crude or Boyled or prepared It may be given Crude if the Stomach be not weak some wil not give it til the humors are prepared Sometimes there is much given at a Draught as in a Causon or Synoch or Tertian to quench the great heat and some by sweating thereupon have been presently cured And lest it be overcome by the heat of the stomach and turned into Choler as they say they give it often And Averroes saith that he saved many times by giving four pints before Concoction And if there be any hurt perceived by it Vomiting cureth it and laying hot cloths to the belly Boyled Water is better than crude in a weak Stomach because it is not so windy Somtimes it is compounded with things that nourish and resist putrefaction and make it pierce or otherwise correct it Barley is accounted the best of Nourishers and Coolers Therefore we give Barley-water which nourisheth very little in a good quantity Bread beaten in Water til it be white makes it nourishing Salt-peter beaten with the white of an Egg in a spring-Spring-water makes a cooling Drink that resists putrefaction And so doth a little Sugar used the same way Almonds made like Milke with Water in a Mortar is usual in Germany But it nourisheth too much and must not be given in great quantity because little nourishment is required and it is better for Food than a Julep to quench thirst with cold seeds it makes
good Emulsion Things that resist Putrefaction are usually sharp and sweet Sharp things also cool and are very delightful Galen puts a little Vinegar in Water and juyce of Pomegranates Wine of Pomegranates or the like is also commended Also sharp Syrups mixed with Waters as of Vinegar Sorrel Lemmons Citrons Currants sour Grapes Pomegranats Apples and four Plums and sharp Cherries are good Things very sharp may be given if there be a Flux as Syrup of Barberries The Waters to make the Juleps are of Endive Lettice Succory Sorrel and Roses if you will bind Some sweet things resist putrefaction and Sugar more than Honey which easily turns into Choler but because usually they hate sweet things therefore add Syrups that are sweet and sour Also the Decoction of Currans is usual and good Somtimes we add Correctors of Crudities when they are weak the heat of which is overcome by the plenty of the Water Cinnamon is most usual being sweet either boyled or infused or Coriander seed boyled or Galangal red Saunders is good to cozen the Patients when they expect Wine especially if there be a little Pomegranate Wine to give it a scent There are divers Potions and Juleps which alter and correct the distemper of the humor and whol body to be given all along mentioned among the Prepatatives And this Decoction Take roots of Succory Asparagus each an ounce Endive Lettice Purslane Liverwort Ducks-meat each one handful Bugloss and Burrage flowers each a pugil Barley a pugil Gourd seeds half an ounce Fleabane seeds which are very cold a dram boyl them add Sugar and Vinegar boyl them to a middle consistence between a Water and a Syrup give two or three ounees alone or with others Or thus Take Endive Succory Sorrel Liverwort each a handful Barley a pugil make a Decoction strain them add Vinegar for the Poor and Syrups for the Rich. Or thus Take syrup of Sorrel two ounces the Mucilage of Fleabane seeds half an ounce give three spoonfull often Sick People refuse solid things to be eaten and had rather have Drinks for their thirst but for variety they may take sometimes dried Confections as the Tablets of Trionsantalon or the three Sanders Or these Take pouder of the three Sanders one dram Diarrhodon one scruple the Troches of Camphire half a scruple red Coral half a dram Conserve of Roses Violets Bugloss each half a dram with Sugar dissolved in Rose or Endive water make Tablets give them morning and evening and Endive water after them Soft Electuaries made of Conserves are given the day after purging to strengthen and correct the heat caused by the medicine and in the whol course of the fever Thus made Take Conserve of Roses Bugloss Violets each half a dram with Sugar or Rob of Ribes make a Bolus This is pleasanter Take Conserve of Roses and Sorrel each an ounce of candied Citrons Lettice stalks and Gourds each half an ounce with Syrup of Ribes make an Electuary give it often and thereupon a little Endive Sorrel or Bugloss water Clysters when they are bound are good to loosen and to bring the humors into the Guts and for to alter but because they cannot be given cold they are not so good as other things to cool the Stomach and whol body and quench thirst they are better to loosen than cool They are mentioned among the Looseners This is best to cool Take Lettice Purslane Violets Mallows Housleek each an handful Barley a pugil and an half Cordial flowers a pugil Guoard seeds half an ounce boyl them add Oyl of Violets three ounces Honey of Violets two ounces Diaprunis or Cassia an ounce make a Clyster Things may be given in the meat to nourish and cool or for sawce but the Pacient must rather have them in drink though the Vulgar love to be cramming them Boyl Lettice Sorrel Purslane Burrage Endive in Broath and Spinach or Arrach or Laxative herbs if need require it is pleasant and good to take Savory broath made with Sorrel Spinach and Arrach and with an Egg and a little sharp Wine or Vinegar and Water beaten and boyled a little pour it upon Sippets of Bread Or boyl these forms in Broath Take Lettice and Sorrel seed each adram Melon seed two drams Trionsantalon half a dram Coral a dram Diamargariton frigidum a dram and a half make them as big as Fetches Make sawces of Orenges Lemmons Cherries Pomegranats Ribes unripe Grapes Barberries dried Prunes a little boyled or stoned sharp Apples and Lemmons with Sugar and Rose-water Also of the juyce of Sorrel Vinegar and Sugar and pickled Purslane with the juyce of Secalis in the Spring with crums of bread Vinegar Cinnamon and a little Ginger is good sawce Outward things are to be regarded as Air. That must be very cold by nature or Art for it is actually and potentially cooling for the Lungs which being neer the heart refresheth it much It is allowed for breathing but not to be naked in as the Patients desire in the extremity of heat lest the sweat be struk in Besides the body must not be inflamed with too many cloaths especially Feathers or Furs and therefore it is good to change the Sheets and Shirts and Bed and lay a Leather upon the Pillow And to keep away the Sun and company especially at noon to keep out the Air and not let it in but when cool To sprinkle the Chamber with Water and Vinegar Flowers and cool herbs Willow leaves Vine leaves and Water Lillies To the Heart Liver and Kidnies apply coolers and to the Brain in time of Head-ach and Doting by reason of heat and to those parts which consent with the Head as the Stones The Heart must be cooled at first in a burning Fever in others in the increase after the matter is evacuated because all the parts are inflamed from thence adding alwaies things that properly refresh this noble part and can carry the vertue to it These are to be applied to the Breast or Wrists in form of Epithems or Oyntments and to other parts where the Arteries beat They are thus made In a Causon apply an Epithem presently to the Heart As Take Rose water two ounces Violet Bugloss and Lettice water each an ounce Scabious water half an ounce Vinegar of Roses or Clove Gilliflowers half an ounce juyce of Lemmons or sour Apples two drams Diamargariton frigidum a dram mix them for an Epithem apply it with Scarlet if the heat be great cold or otherwise warm Another Take Rose water two ounces Sorrel Bugloss Violet and Water Lilly water each an ounce Water of Scabious Balm Vinegar White Wine each half an ouncr juyce of Lemmons or Orenges or Apples two drams Sanders one dram Ivory and Harts-horn each half a dram red Coral and precious Stones each two scruples Pearl half a seruple Crystal half a dram Saffron half a scruple make an Epithem for the Heart and Pulses Or bind this Bag to the Wrists and Feet Take Flowers of red Roses
Violets Bugloss each half a dram pouder of Cloves half a dram of Saunders and Wood Aloes each a scruple Saffron five grains Diamargariton frigidum half a dram bind them in two little bags sprinkle them with Wine Vinegar and Juyces and bind them to the Pulses An Oyntment for the Heart and Pulses Take Oyl of Violets and Roses each an ounce the Mucilage of Fleabane seeds half an ounce Gallia Moschata a dram Camphire six grains Saffron half a scruple juyce of Lemons two drams mix them Oyntments for the Liver and Epithems to cool it and strengthen and open it if stopped for the Liver is hot in Fevers and inflames other parts Thus Take Lettice Water-lilly and Nightshade Water each one ounce and an half Rose-water an ounce Endive and Succory water each two ounces Vinegar of Roses an ounce Camphire six grains make an Epithem Another better against obstructions Take Endive Liver-wort and Succory water each two ounces Rose water an ounce and an half Lettice and Housleek water each an ounce Wormwood water six drams pouder of the three Sanders Spike and red Rose leaves each half a dram Vinegar one ounce Troches of Camphire half a scruple If you add Salt-peter or Lapis Prunellae these Epithems will cool more and resist putrefation Also this Bag Take flowers of red Roses Violets and Succory each a pugil all the Sanders half a dram seeds of Sorrel Endive and Purslane each a dram Parsley seed half a dram Spikenard a scruple sow them in a red cloth being bruised steep it in Vinegar Rose and Endive water apply it warm to the Liver After anoynt with Oyntment of Sanders or with Oyl of Roses and Violets with Spike and Wax Because the heat of the Reins is great which inflameth other parts use Galens cool Oyntment Or thus Take of Galens cool Oyntment two ounces Oyl of Violets and Roses each an ounce Vinegar half an ounce Camphyre five grains Mix them and anoynt The Stones have a consent with the Reins and the whol Body by reason of many Vessels therefore to cool them abates Inflammation of the Body Thus Take water of Plantane and water Lillies each four ounces Vinegar of Roses an ounce red Wine an ounce and an half wet a clout therein and apply it cold Cold washings of the outward parts by reason of the consent and the Vessels under the Skin and the Nerves do the same and cause sleep Thus Take Lettice Violet Housleek Purslane Vine-leaves Willow each one handful Poppy heads twelve or the leaves if sleep be wanting one handful Vinegar an ounce white Wine half a pint water as much as is sufficient wash the Hands Arms Legs and Feet with the Decoction warm at night It is good to hold cold things as Stones and Apples in the Hand It is good in Feavers to keep up the strength if they are continual and acute which we must have an Eye at For when it fails the Physitians labors in Vain because it is natures work to conquour a Feaver and if she yeild to the disease there can be no perfect Crisis but it is either imperfect or the Patient dieth in the battel Strength is preserved by order in good Air meat and drink and the like and by Medicines Air doth much refresh if it be cool and pure for then it refresheth and altereth Food as it is necessary for sick sound to restore what is lost while they live so it is required here because the body is dissolved with heat but because it must be concocted by nature by which means she is hindered from concocting the matter of the Disease especially if any quantity be taken Therefore let so much serve as will just sustaine and not put nature to too much trouble to concoct it Let it be thin as Hippocrates shews in acute diseases and that little nourisheth and given at certain times Or extream thin or indifferent thin alwaies observing custome which is another nature Hippocrates saith that an extream thin Diet is to be used in the vigor of the disease this the Patient endures best at that time And it is the better extream to give too sparing a diet at that time then too much by which the common people think to strengthen nature to over come the disease This is the most sparing which is given but once a day or twice when of little nourishment As Barley broath twice a day in the state only of the Feaver Or a Ptisan which is stronger this is the cream or juyce of Barley hulled and cleansed And it is given thinner or thicker as you please as you desire it should nourish This allayes choler also And also the juyce of Wheat called Starch or Rice well boyled doth easier digest and less swel The Germans use Hen or Chicken broath with alterers And they are good Also cream of Almonds or Emulsions is given not as drink but meat That slender diet which is fuller a little then this which Hippocrates saith must be at the beginning and continue to the state must be also used But when the exacerbation or fit comes or a little before the Patient must not eat not only to prevent the hindering of natures motion but to keep the heat from increasing which it doth after meat as we shall shew in Hecticks The fuller but sparing Diet is that which is given oftâ—er as twice or thrice in a day and hath more nourishment As the beaten flesh of a Chicken well boyled first and washed with its broath or stronge broath of the same Eggs because in cholerick persons they quickly corrupt are not to be given rashly nor Milk for the same reason which Hippocrates proclaimes to be naught in Feavers To this Diet belong sops in broath Prunes Apples Peares not sharp but fresh or new gathered or throughly dryed for then their juyce is most excellent and therefore the Germans keep all sorts of fruits so preserved and dryed or boyl'd in their Liquor or syrup wherein they are kept The other are made of Plants and are given for alteration rather then nourishment as sower fruits Wine is beyond all for refreshing and is not allowed but in the declining of the Feaver by reason of its heat especially when they sweat and also because it causeth Head-ach which is usual in a Feaver But in the declining it may be given to provoke Urin and refresh and also a fuller diet often and of little nourishment Sleep refresheth yet of some it is denied all the time of the Feaver while the heat goes outward least by sleep it should come inward But it is in vain to fear it because heat by sleep goes outward rather then inward at which time we see men are more hot and sweat and also because it allayes thirst Moreover nature makes better concoction in time of sleep and is active at that time in overcoming the cause of the disease Nevertheless in the exacerbation or fit of the Feaver it is better to abstaine from sleep And at
each two drams Epithymum two drams Aniseeds two drams boyl and dissolve in them Diacatholicon and red Sugar each an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces Chamaemel one ounce with Salt make a Clyster In flegmatick persons when flegm is much in the Guts use this to clense more Take Liquorish two ounces Mallows and Beets with the roots Pellitory and Betony each a handful Barley and Bran each a pugil Agarick two drams Figs ten great cold seeds each two drams Fennel seed three drams after boyling ad Diaphenicon and Hiera Picra each two drams red Sugar and Honey of Roses each an ounce Oyl of Violets and Chamaemel each an ounce and an half with a little Salt make a Clyster Two or three Suppositories given in a day work somtimes better than Clysters If at the beginning the Stomach be disturbed with Crudities Flegm or Choler as we may perceive by the Heart-burning which usually accompanieth it Loathing and Vomiting before bleeding or when it is not required when we give a diminishing Medicine or a Vomit Diminishing Medicines clense the Guts and Stomach from Crudities and thick excrements by these as Hippocrates saith we make the body fluid These are given in the day of rest and are not to be choosen with that curiosity we use in continual fevers when the heat is constant These are of three sorrs as Clysters are In exquisite Tertians when the heat is great Take Cassia ten drams pouder of Aniseed or Liquorish a scruple with Sugar make a Bolus give it alone or with Endive or Succory water Or Take Cassia and pulp of Tamarinds each half an ounce Aniseed and Sugar as abovesaid Or Take Cassia half an ounce syrup of Roses solutive or juyce thereof and syrup of Violets each an ounce with Succory and Bugloss water make a Potion Or Take Damask Prunes ten Tamarinds twelve boyl them in Broath or Water strain and drink it This is stronger Take Rhubarb four scruples Spikenard one scruple infuse them in Endive water and dissolve Cassia half an ounce syrup of Roses solutive an ounce make a Potion In long melancholick quartans Take Cassia one ounce pouder of Epithymum one dram with Sugar make a Bolus or dissolve it with Bugloss water Or Take Epithymum two drams boyl it in Broath and add two ounces of Manna Or Take Prunes ten Dates two Epithymum two drams Cordial flowers a pugil dissolve in the strained Liquor boyled Catholicon six drams syrup of Peach flowers an ounce make a Potion This is stronger Take Confection Hameck one dram and an half Catholicon half an ounce dissolve it in Bugloss and Fumitory water In flegmatick persons give the same or stronger Take Catholicon half an ounce Diaphaenicon two drams with Sugar make a Bolus Or Take Dates five Prunes ten Raisons ten pair Figs four Liquorish half an ounce boyl them and dissolve Diaphaenicon and Diacarthamum each a dram If they wil rather have Pils Take Pils of Agarick Rhubarh or Mastich two scruples Or these stronger Take Aggregative Pils half a dram with syrup of Roses make Pils A Vomit often doth good and is to be reckoned among these for it takes away the crudity and flegm of the Stomach and Choller also if by the motion of the Feaver it get thither but if the Body be bound it must be first loosned as we shall shew when we declare that the cause may be taken away by the same Medicine where we shall mention Vomits we must begin with the weakest We must also purge to take away the putrid matter of the Feavers from the Meseraicks This doth it by degrees and cureh the Feaver but first we take away the thick Excrements and then prepar the Humors if it be at the beginning but afterwards if the matter be much it seeks away out of it self and needs no preparation And then natures motion must be helped but if the Feaver abate not we must come again to preparatives and purges three or four times in obstinate Agues At the first prepare and purge thus for preparation is necessary in intermitting and continual Feavers also because the matter lieth in the Meseraicks which is foul and needs more preparation and concoction and we must hinder putrefaction and open the passages that the matter may come from those Veins into the Guts by Medicines purging which that they may work better some anoynt the Hypochondria with Oyl of Chamomil and white Wine These are divers according to the Ague and the constitution In acute Tertians to allay heat expel putrefaction and quench Choler Take syrup of Sorrel and Vinegar each six drams syrup of Endive and Violets each half an ounce Endive and Sorrel water each three ounces make a Julep to take three daies Or thus Take syrup of Citrons or Lemmons an ounce syrup of Endive and Violets each half an ounce Endive and Lettice water each enough give it thrice For the Poor Take Sugar two ounces Wine-vinegar half an ounce Decoction of Barley and Endive a pint and an half juyce of Ribes or sharp Apples an ounce boyl them then give it three or four times Or this Take roots of Succory and Dandelion the whol each half a handful Endive Lettice Liverwort Sorrel each a handful flowers of Bugloss and Violets each a pugil of the great cold seed each a dram boyl them and in a pint and a half dissolve syrup of Sorrel and Vinegar each two ounces or Pomegranate Wine four ounces give it at four or five times In long Bastard Tertians with obstructions Take Oxymel simple an ounce syrups of Endive and Succory each half an ounce Water of Maidenhair Endive Succory each an ounce make a Syrup repeat it three or four times Or Take Oxymel and syrup of Succory compound each an ounce syrup of Maidenhair half an ounce Endive water and of Maidenhair each two ounces mix and repeat them as afore Or thus Take roots of Succory Grass Asparagus Plantane each an ounce Fennel and Parsley roots each half an ounce Endive Succory Dandelion Maidenhair and Liverwort each a handful Bettony half a handful the four cold seeds each two drams Endive and Purslane seeds each a dram Fennel Annise and Parsley seed each half a dram Barley a pugil Prunes six Cordial flowers each a pugil boyl them and dissolve Oxymel simple three ounces persume it with Sanders one dram make a Julep for three or four Doses For the Poor Take Honey Water and Vinegar to make it sharp In quartans prepare thus in the beginning while the heat is great for by continuance the heat abateth Take Oxymel simple syrup Byzantine each one ounce and an half syrup of Fumitory an ounce water of Bugloss Borrage and Hops each three ounces give it at thrice Or thus Take syrup of Sorrel Byzantine Bugloss each an ounce and an half Fumitory Bugloss Borrage and Endive water each three ounces Or this Decoction Take roots of Bugloss Brambles Sparagus Succory steept in Wine each an ounce Fennel and Parsley roots each half
an ounce Liquorish six drams Tamarisk bark half an ounce both Buglosses the Capillaries Germander Groundpine Bettony each a handful Cordial and Broom flowers each a pugil Raisons stoned two ounces Prunes ten great cold seeds each two drams Dodder Parsley and Endive seeds each a dram red Pease a pugil boyl them and add syrup Byzantine two ounces Oxymel simple three ounces with a dram of Cinnamon make an Apozem for three Doses Purge whether the humor be concocted or no if it be much and give an hour after a washing Medicine of Barley or other Broath with Sugar of Roses and the day after give a Strengthener In exquisite Tertians that are short and fiery and in double Fevers use mild things Take Rhubarb four scruples Spike six grains yellow Myrobalans rub'd with Oyl of bitter Almonds two drams Infuse them in Endive water but first sprinkle them with Wine after twelve hours strain them add syrup of Roses two ounces syrup of Violets an ounce Another Take Cassia half an ounce Electuary of the juyce of Roses two drams syrup of Roses and Peach flowers each an ounce with Endive and Violet water Make a Potion The third Take Barley a pugil Prunes six Jujubes and Sebestens each ten Tamarinds half an ounce Cordial flowers a pugil Senna two drams boyl them add Manna an ounce syrup of Diasereos or Roses with Rhubarb an ounce Make a Potion In bastard Quartans and Tertians that are of long continuance and in a flegmatick constitution Take roots of Succory half an ounce Liquorish an ounce Cordial flowers a pugil Prunes ten Polypody six drams Carthamus seeds half an ounce Annis seeds one dram Senna three drams add Rhubarb infused in white Wine and Endive water a dram syrup of Diasereos an ounce Another Take Rhubarb a dram Spikenard a scruple Agarick infused in white Wine and Endive water a dram with six grains of Ginger infused in Oxymel strain them and add Manna two ounces The third Take Catholicon half an ounce Diaphenicon and Electuary of the juyce of Roses of each two drams with Bettony and Endive water make a Potion Pills Take Pills Aggregative a dram made up with sweet Wine A Pouder Take Rhubarb a dram Cinnamon half a sâ—â—uple Turbith two scruples Ginger a scruple Senna a dram and an half give it with Pease broath In Quartans give not strong Medicines while the heat is great Take Rubarb a dram Indy Myrobalns prepared two drams Spike Cinnamon each six grains Epithymum two drams infuse them in Whey add syrup of Peach flowers an ounce or that of Apples made by Rondeletius which hath Hellebor an ounce Another Take stowers of Borage Bugloss and Violets each a pugil Ceterach a handful tops of Time and Epithymum each two drams Liquorish an ounce Raysons and Sebestens each ten Annis seeds two drams Dodder seeds a dram Polipody six drams Senna half an ounce Tamarinds half an ounce rindes of Indy Myrobalans three drams boyl them and add in four ounces syrup of Peach flowers or of Roses or Senna an ounce or of sweet Apples The third Take Catholicon half an ounce or six drams or Diasenna as much which is good in quartans Confectio hamech two drams and an half syrup of Bugloss and Fumitory each an ounce with Bugloss water make a Potion Vomits albeit they seem to take away only the matter from the Stomach yet by natures motion they take the conjunct cause from the Meseraicks and either abate or take away the Feaver and if the Feaver be of long continuance as quartans and will not be gone by purges we give three or four Vomits to Cure them And it is usual by Vomiting abundance of Choller which is not very safe for the Cholerick matter of the Feaver in the Meseraicks as it is taken from the Veins of the Guts by purges so it is taken from the Veins of the Stomach by many and great Vomits Therefore Vomits are approved in all kinds of intermitting Feavers especially if there be loathing custom or Heart-ach and when nothing forbids as binding of the belly for if that be not open except the Vomit by violence open it it will be worse some disallow them while there is crudity in the Belly as in quotidians and will not give them before seven or eight daies And say they are safer after signs of Concoction and when Oxymel of squils or the like are mixed therewith to cut the Flegm but that is little to the purpose for flegm is not the next cause of a Feaver We have known quartans more cured by Vomits then any other whence Avicen called Vomits the root of the Cure of Feavers The time of vomiting is somtimes the well day And if they Vomit easily it must be given upon an empty Stomach otherwise a ful And before vomiting give broath of Pease or Chickens or fat Bacon as in France Radishes Cole-worts Salt-fish to cleanse and sweet Wine and after the Vomit taken they provoke it Also a Vomit given at first or in time of the fit and repeated is good and makes the Feaver gentler and shorter especially if it be given a little a fore the fit for then the feverish matter being moved is easily expelled When the person is weak and the heat little it is provoked by gentle things but in long Agues with strong as quartans and flegmatick Stomachs which can indure strongest Medicines Thus If the Throat be tickled with the Finger or a Feather or the like it is better that will serve alone somtimes when they are accustomed to Vomit after a ful Stomach And if after the Vomit is taken it worketh not in a quarter of an hour give a little Chicken broath and tickle the Throat The gentle Vomits are these Take a large draught of Endive water and put your Finger in your Throat to provoke Vomiting Or Take Oxymel simple an ounce or an ounce and an half or two or three ounces and drink it with warm water Or Take Oxymel simple two ounces the Decoction of Honey and Radish seed in water six ounces Or Three ounces of the distilled water of green Nuts Or Take Chamomil flowers an ounce Rosemary and Dill flowers each half an ounce boyl them in Radish water Rondeletius saith this hath Cured many at the first Some approve of the stinking Dock called Lapathum Atriplex and Purslane so taken Or Take Atriplex seeds Dill and Radish seeds each an ounce boyl them in water and if the flegm be tough in the Stomach add Oxymel simple or of Squils These are stronger Take Rocket Leek and Radish seed each half an ounce Atriplex seed two drams Asarum roots a dram boyl them and dissolve two ounces of Oxymel simple therein Rondeletius highly commends the seeds of Asarum and the roots and Broom seeds with Cinnamon and Mace boyled in Wine according to Dioscorides Or Take roots of Palma christi one dram and an half give it with Sack in Poudar Take Asarum with the roots half an ounce boyl them to
an half strain and add syrup of Roses solutive an ounce and an half Catholican half an ounce Confectio hamech a dram make a Potion Or with these Pills Take Pills Aggregative of Myrobalans and Turbith in Pouder each a scruple make Pills with five grains of Ginger and white Wine To prepare and purge together make this Apozem Take Sparagus and grass roots each an ounce and an half Smallage and Parsley roots each an onnce Tamarisk and Elder of each an ounce steep all in Wine add Borage Bugloss Maidenhair Ceterach each an handful Germander Ground pine and Bettony each half an handful green Mercury a handful Cordial Rosemary and Broom flowers each a pugil Annis and Parsley seeds each two drams Dodder and Fennel seed each a dram four great Coole seeds each two drams Raysons two ounces Prunes ten boyl strain and infuse Carthamus seeds an ounce and an half roots of Polypody four ounces Senna two ounces Agarick three drams Myrobalans Indy and Citron each half an ounce Epithymum and tops of Time each three drams infuse them hot then boyl them a little add a quart of the juyce of sweet Apples with Sugar and Cianamon two drams make a syrup give an ounce or more alone or with Whey or Bugloss or Borrage water You may infuse the same in Wine allaying it a little with Water and adding Wormwood for bitter Wine is more pleasant than bitter Decoctions A gentler Infusion is made of dry things thus Take Grass Succory Parsley and Fennel roots each an ounce Wormwood Germander Groundpine and Bettony each a dram Fumitory and Hearts-tongue each two drams Cordial flowers a pugil Epithymum and tops of Thyme each two drams Anise and Fennel seed each half a dram dryed Polypody roots and Senna each two ounces Agarick three drams Ginger half a scruple infuse them in Wine and Water and boyl as formerly It needs no sweetning for the scent of the Wormwood must prevail An Electuary thus Take Catholicon an ounce Diasenna Confectio Hameck each half an ounce Carthamus seeds peel'd and bruised six drams Turbith two drams Ginger infused in Oxymel a scruple Senna two drams and an half Aniseed half a dram with syrup of Epythimum make an Electuary give six drams alone or in Whey Or these Pils Take Indy and Citrine Myrobolans rubbed with Oyl of sweet Almods each a dram Rhubarb two drams Turbith a dram and an half Thyme and Epithymum each a dram Senna a dram and an half Cream of Tartar a scruple Ginger and Spike each six grains with syrup of Epithymum make a Mass give two scruples or more as you see fit In quartans Pils of Agarick with Juyce of Eupatorium are good And after the use of them they must be purged again every third day Also Clysters may be given all along to draw from the Mesaraicks and to loosen for by long lying and heat and fasting the belly is often bound We shewed you Clysters of sharp and opening things In melancholick fevers use this often Take emollients each a handful Balm Fumitory both Buglosses each a handful and an half Chamaemel Melilot Broom and Elder flowers each a pugil Carua seeds a dram Faenugreek and Line seed each two ounces Bran a pugil and an half Senna an ounce boyl them and add Honey of Violets and Rosemary flowers each half an ounce Consectio Hamec and Benedicta Laxativa each two drams Oyl of Chamaemel and Violets each an ounce an half with a little Salt make a Clyster This Clyster is for Bastard fevers and flegmatick persons Take Lilly and Marshmallow roots each an ounce and an half emollient herbs Atriplex Mercury Baulm Bettony each a handful Figs six pair Dill and Fennel seeds each a dram Carthamus seeds bruised six drams Senna ten drams Chamaemel Elder and Rosemary flowers each a pugil boyl them and to a pint ad Catholicon and Diaphaenicon each two drams Hiera Galeni three drams Honey and red Sugar each an ounce Oyl of Violets Lillies and Chamaemel each an ounce with a little Salt make a Clyster Fasting belongs to Evacuations for by it the humor is kept from increasing and that which is in the Meseraicks is taken away by the Guts and Stomach and so the fever is cured Thessalus cured fevers with his three daies fast and Empericks in our time labour to do the same But in regard the Choler rageth by fasting constantly and hurts the parts that draw it to them especially when it fasteneth to them producing the Colick as I shewed and brings worse Diseases we wil not rashly presribe fasting against fevers by which means Sweat and Urin wil be hindered The thin humors pass away by sweat or insensible transpiration or Urin and cure the fever if the thick matter was first purged This Nature doth ordinarily of her self when shee is fit for it And therefore the Physitian being her servant ought to imitate her when signs of Concoction appear in the declining of the fever to take away the remainder with Purgers by Urin Sweat and insensible transpiration aforementioned We mix things to purge Urin with Preparatives with an Eye to the fever and somtime we use them after purging in the declining In short and sharp Tertians we use the gentlest that least inslame as Melon seeds and red Pease and Parsley roots in broath Or Decoction of yong Sparagus in Ale or an Emulsion of the cold seeds with Almond Milk Pomegranate Wine of the moderate tast provokes Urin. In Bastard tertians and long feveâ— use these and stronger as Chicken broath with Parsley Fennel roots Borage and Pease and the like mentioned in the Diet. Or thus Take red Pease a pugil Barley half a pugil Liquorish an ounce Raisons an ounce and an half Fennel and Parsley roots each two ounces Melon and Gourd seeds each two drams boyl them in lean Chickin broath drink it in the mornings Or thus Take Barley water a pint with Fennel roots boyled in it and add syrup of Maidenhair two ounces Make it stronger thus if the heat of the Fever be not great Take roots of Brambles Sparagus each an ounce Fennel Smallage and Parsley roots each half an ounce Asarum roots a dram Endive Liverwort and Maidenhair each half a handful Hysop a handful Fennel seed two drams the four cold great seeds each three drams Pease a pugil boyl and add Sugar or Honey and Vinegar for old Folk This Decoction is admired of some Take tops of Wormwood two drams red Pease six drams boyl and give four ounces after the back is anoynted as shal be shewed The Decoction of Dill with Rue Honey-wine or Hysop do the same Water of Gentian Centory Wormwood or of Grass Asparagus Smallage Parsley Lovage Valerian may be used instead of the others These Pils provoke Urin. Take troches of Wormwood Roses and Eupatory each a dram with Gentian water make Pills give a dram every day drinking after it the Decoction of red Pease Melon seeds and Parsley roots White thin Wine with
water is prescribed for some in the declining time Or this Infusion Take Fennel and Sparagus roots each an ounce Wormwood and Hysop each a dram and an half Chamaemel and Dill flowers each a dram Fennel seed a dram infuse them in Wine and Water boyled or otherwise In long Quartans you may give the former and stronger if the heat be decreased As Take Liquorish Raisons each an ounce Parsley roots an ounce and an half Asarum roots a dram Maidenhair Cetarach Hysop each half a handful Hops a pugil Sparagus seeds three drams Fennel seed a dram Melon seed two drams red Pease a pugil Chamaemel flowers a dram and an half boyl them in six pints of Water add Pomegranate Wine four ounces and drink it mornings with Sugar Wine and Water is good against quartans And this Infusion Take the three capillary herbs each a handful Hysop half a handful Chamaemel flowers half a pugil Fennel and Smallage roots each an ounce Asarum roots two drams Fennel seeds a dram Dodder seed a dram and an half infuse them in Wine give it as afore Some give this distilled water every morning two or three ounces for an excellent medicine Take strong Vinegar three pints hot crusts of new bread a pound Gunpowder two ounces distil them in Balneo Or. Take Balm water half a pint Aqua vitae a pint the pith of Dwarf-elder half a pound distil them and give two ounces every morning and evening Also these Pils Take Troches of Wormwood Eupatory Rhubarb each a dram with syrup Bizantine make Pils take them as formerly with Pease broath in which Roots are boyled Sweating is good if the critical Excretion tend that way for it helpeth Nature in the declining time to expel the residue It is done by these following and the gentlest if they cause not sweat cause transpiration Frictions are good before the Fit two hours and in the beginning of it when the heat begins to disperse the vapors and heat and if violent they cause heat If Sweat be wiped off often it causeth more sweat And boyled Water with Wine and alone in great quantity causeth Sweat Therefore they who deny Drink to fevers and almost Kil men with thirst do ill for it hinders Sweat and inflames the body causing a Hectick Bugloss water taken in great quantity causeth much sweat and is excellent in quartans And also Fumitory Scabious Carduus and Hearts-tongue Water This following Decoction provokes Sweat and Urine Take of Barley a pugil roots of Smallage Parsley Kneeholm Sparagus Nettles each an ounce Orris and Elicampane roots each half an ounce Bayberries twelve Chamaemel and Dil flowers each a pugil Pennyroyal Calamints each half a handful Cummin Anise Fennel and Citron seeds each a dram boyl them in much Water drink it often Treacle is given for the same and the like which we shal declare among things that hinder Fits Also anoynting the back with loosning Oyls doth the same and other things there to be mentioned A Bath is good in long fevers to provoke Sweat and refresh and moisten of sweet water in which Barley and moistning herbs are somtimes boyled This must be used on the wel day or five hours before the fit not too hot And after let the Patient take a dram of Mithridate or Diaboraginatum and sweat in his bed Thus many have been cured of quartanes Altering things resist the heat and driness of the Disease and are cold moist and must be mixed with Resisters of putrefaction things that open obstructions and strengthen because these differ not much we shal distinguish them by Forms and not by Kinds of Fevers The best way is to give them in drink for they are refreshed thereby and delight in it In the fit because they are then driest give crude or boyled water as we shewed or Barley water but in the fit Barley is too nourishing therefore give little that water is best in which Sorrel and Grass roots are boyled with steel prepared and Cinnamon nor must they be kept from drink after the shaking Fit for as Fernelius and Joubert us in his Paradoxes assirms that if the Patient be not relieved with Drink in his great heat and thirst there wil follow a melting of the solid parts and wil they not sweat In this also there is a moderation to be used lest sudden cooling hurts the bowels and cause a Dropsie as in quartans its usual this is to be regarded when the stomack is offended with cold drink for then we give not much but corrected and qualified water with an Eye to custom Out of the fit if the body be little cholerick and not very hot we give Wine with Water or Bugloss water in quartans and thin sharp Wine in Bastard Fevers which rather cools than inflames And it provokes Urin and strengthens Therefore some boyl Hysop and by Galens command Pepper or Cloves Others give Ale to provoke Urin. Out of the fit and in the fit we give these cool and moistening Drinks following Take Endive Sorrel and Bugloss water each four ounces Pomegranate Wine two ounces with Sugar make a Julep or sharp Syrup as of sour Apples Ribes Currans Sorrel or Vinegar Or Take one measure of boyled water syrup of Lemmons or Citrons two ounces syrup of Violets an ounce Or Take Sassaphras three drams red Sanders and Sortel roots each two drams Cinnamon a dram with Sugar two ounces if you wil have it sweet cut and bruise them tie them in a clout boyl them in water to be given at any time Or this syrup Take ten pints of Water Vinegar four ounces Sugar four ounces boyl and drink The Alexandrine Julep of Sugar and Rose-water and others metioned in Thirst the juyce of Purslane is commended by Dioscorides There are also divers Electuaries Give this the day after purging to strengthen Take Conserve of Roses and Violets each a dram Trionsantalon half a scruple with Sugar make a Bolus In bastard quartans Take Conserve of Borage flowers and Bugloss roots each a dram Citron peels candied half a dram Diamargariton frigidum half a scruple Or give a dram of Treacle with half a dram of Conserve of Bugloss In the Fit give we Electuaries to quench Thirst which must not be sweet These are to alter Take Conserve of Roses and Bugloss each an ounce of candied Citrons pulp and peel each two drams Rob of Ribes half an ounce species Diamargariton half a dram with Sugar of Roses make a Mixture Or this Take Conserve of Roses Rob of Ribes sharp Cherries and sharp Prunes preserved each an ounce Conserve of Bugloss half an ounce give it in time of Thirst To alter and strengthen all the time of the disease Take species of the three Sanders with a double quantity of Rhubarb a dram Diarrhodon Abatis a scruple ' Diamargariton frigidum half a scruple Conserve of Rose and Bugloss roots each a dram with Sugar dissolved in Rose and Endive water and a little Vinegar if the heat be great
and the whol feaver is taken away by giving that which prevents shaking But this cannot be done safely before the matter be prepar'd and purged for if the cause remain though the Feaver cease worse Symptoms may follow As Empericks find who ayming at nothing more but the Cure of the fit bring Cholicks Jaundies and Dropsies And somtimes we do willingly according to reason take away eth fit before the cause if it be so great that it destroythe strength or at least abate it with extraordinary Medicines yet so that we go on still Methodically to take away the cause And it somtimes hapens that after the cause is removed there are fits which come from custom or habit to prevent these at the first when they stretch and yawn we give things against shaking which we mentioned when we spake of depraved Motion Those things do it either by taking away the matter which getting by degrees into the body causeth the shaking or by stupifying the sences or by heating the body suddenly at first before the fit comes All these are to be done warily and not before preparation and purgation and then you may give either a specifical evacuation or stupefactive or an alterer or a Medicine made of all these together It comes to pass often that by large eating before the fit that nature removes from the cause of the disease to the Concoction of meat and hinders the fit Hence the German Proverb Sie haben das feber abgessen The same thing is done by evacuations when nature is busie to send Excrements upwards and downwards The fit is hindered by vomiting in the beginning of the fit because by it a revulsion is made of the matter from the Meseraicks to the stomach and the Feaver is quite taken away somtimes by throwing out the cause by the Stomach and Guts Gentle purges prevent the fit the same way but strong purges are dangerous to be given before it because they will work in the time of the fit and weaken as Agarick Senna with some alterers These are the best compositions that follow A Decoction Take Epithimum and Time Polypody and Senna each a dram Borage flowers a pugil boyl and strain and give a draught afore the fit with a little Wine This is best in a quartan Or a Pouder Take Senna three drams Turbith a dram Pepper a scruple Ginger half a scruple Cinnamon Myrrh each half a dram with Sugar as much as all make a Pouder for three Doses give one in white Wine afore the fit Helidaeus gives a dram of Agarick with juyce of Fumitory and Fennel Others mix a dram of Diagredium with three ounces of Syrup of Violets and give as much as a Chesnut an houre afore the fit Some give strong bodies the Pouder of Mercury with strong Vinegar Treacle and Sugar And the Chymists instead thereof give Mercurius dulcis or Mercurius vitae or Panchymagogum Rubrum Stupefiers are given afore the fit because they take away the sense of the parts and provoke sweat As Treacle a dram and an half or more or less in Wine is highly commended or in wormwood Wine Carduus Mints or Rose water some add Diatrionpiperion that of the three Peppers others Mirth as Dioscorides Also Panchrestum Nicolai with Wine or Methridate Dioscorides commends three or four leaves of Henbane with a dram of the seed thereof given in Sack at the beginning of the fit If you repeat it twice or thrice it is a sure remedy Also syrup of Poppies given afore the fit prevents it Also divers alterers do the same inwardly and outwardly and motion of the Body Inwardly we give both hot and cold Medicines Hot because they presently inflame the body and drive away shaking and then the heat which useth to follow the motion of the cold fit either goes away or is abated And hot things do it by dispersing the matter especially when it is thin And they cause sweat But vehement hot Medicines are not to be given before a Concoction of the matter least the thin be consumed and the thick remain and of a simple Feaver there prove a double or treble Ague or a continual Feaver This must be observed in giving of Treacle and other hot things and Stupefiers above mentioned Of hot things these by experience are found best Take Ginger half an ounce Pepper a dram Nut shels two drams boyl them in two pints of astringent Wine and to five ounces strained add an ounce of syrup of Violets give it two or three hours afore the fit and cover him to sweat Or Take Gentian roots an ounce Centaury tops and Serpyllum of each three drams boyl them in Wine and give a draught as abovesaid Or thus Take juyce of Calamints three drams or an ounce and an half of the syrup give it with Wine and Borage water Or this Take Gentian Centaury and Plantane water each an ounce and an half drink it with a drop of Oyl of Vitrial or some drops of spirit of Salt or Niter Or Take Plantane a handful Sorrel half a handful Vinegar and Treacle each four ounces Distil them give three ounces of the water half an hour afore the fit Or give three ounces of the juyce Plantane with an ounce of the juyce of Purslane half an hour afore the fit Or this Pouder commended in all Feavers though Pestilential Take Sugar candy three drams Ginger two drams Camphire a dram make a Pouder give a dram in hot water This Crato commends Another Take the Pouder of Cray-fish Mans skul and Ivory each a scruple Cinnamon half a dram Saffron a scruple give a dram in Wine A third Take Myrrh a scruple Pepper six grains Ginger half a scruple Sugar three drams give a dram or make Pills with juyce of Gentian An Electuary Take the Troches Rubiae of Nicolas a dram give it with white Wine or the Electuary of Asa in Mesue Trionphyllon Nicolai Electuary of Peter Arnold of Villanova Or Take Cinnamon two drams Pepper a dram Saffron half a dram Myrrh Storax Serapine each half a dram Benzoin three drams Gentian roots two drams with Honey make an Electuary give half a dram or two scruples two hours afore the fit Coolers do it somtimes and stop the fit but they are better external because they must be very cool which will suddenly hurt the Heart given inwardly Cold water drunk largely in the fit cures many Hence the Proverb Das feber abtrincken Two ounces of Pomegranate wine given in the fit removes it if you anoynt the Pulses with the Oyntments following A famous Physitian gives the Crystal mineral in a great quantity in Spring Plantane or Sorrel water in the fit Somtimes External things do it as excercise Applications Injections Amulets and Superstitious things Excercise doth it by heating the body and provoking sweat before the fit As Running Riding c. Instead of excercise in weak bodies you may rub them and cover them warm with cloths or use Oyntments before the cold fit Also
concourse of people in publique meetings Bathes and Dancing-meetings And because infection may be conveighed by dead and living creatures it is good to go quickly far off and return at leasure We amend the pestilent cause to keep it from infection or to remove it by Ayring and washing of coaths infected some wil wash their money at such a time before they receive it Others that think the infection of the Air is the cause of the Plague amend that which we approve though we say the seeds of the Plague are in the bodies and not in the Air for some things that purifie the Air purifie the Body and the Air is often the conveigher of the Plague from one body to another This is done diversly first we remove all putrid and corrupt things that may infect the Air. Some perswade themselves that the scent of and old Goat evening and morning prevents the Plague And therefore they bring up Goats in the stable among Horses who use to have a kind of Plague and the stink of the Goats frights away Mice also from those places It is good to let in pure Air that is dry and keep out ill They say Sparrows and other Birds kept in a Chamber purge the Air and that Birds will not stay about infected places Also good fire purges the Air by which Hippocrates stopt it Also Fumes of any scents correct the Air as Juniper Savine that beareth berries or Bayes Rosemary or Agnus Castus Or make fires of Oak Vine Osiers with Rue and Juniper Some burn Juniper berries upon Coals Mastich Frankincense Amber Cloves Or these troches Take Benzoin and Storax each half an ounce Juniper or Berry-bearing Savin a dram Angelica roots a scruple with Gum-traganth infused in Rose-water and a little Musk make Troches for a fume Or these Candles which smaok Take Myrrh and Frankincense each two drams Benzoin Storax each three drams Labdanum a dram and an half Amber half a dram Juniper berries two drams dried Pomegranate peels a dram Citron peels and Sanders each half a dram Juniper a dram Wood Aloes and Cloves each a scruple Char-coals made of Willow or Tile tree as much again as all the rest with Infusion of Gum traganth and six grains of Musk make black Candles Perfumes not burnt are thus made Smel to Rue Citrons Lemons Orenges or a spunge or rag dipt in Vinegar and Rose or Rue water Or thus Take bruised Rue a pugil and with Vinegar take out the juyce add Angelica roots half a dram Camphire and Saffron each half a scruple with a Spunge as before Or this Balsom to anoynt the Nostrils or Lip made of Oyl of the seeds or roots of Angelica drawn with with Wax It is good to carry sweet Apples or Balls in the hand Take roots of Angelica and Myrrhis each two drams Zedoary half a dram red Roses a dram Lavender half a dram Angelica Nigella and Coriander seeds each a scruple seeds of Basil half a scruple dried Citron peels two scruples Nutmeg and Cloves each half a dram Cinnamon Wood Aloes Juniper and Storax each half an ounce Benzoin two drams Myrrh a dram Camphire six grains with the Infusion of Gum traganth made in Rose or Angelica water make a Ball and add a little Oyl of Cloves or of Angelica seed and roul it over with a little muskefied piece of Silk or Cotton It is good to wash the Face Hands Armholes Privities with Vinegar of Roses or Rose-angelica or Lavender water with a little Camphire or the water of Citrangle flowers called Aqua Naffe Droetus drops perfumed distilled waters into the Ears And perfumes the Garments and adviseth perfumed Gloves or Bags in the bosome of Ciprus and Violets in Pouder Or thus Take roots of Angelica half an ounce Orris roots two drams Coriander seeds Juniper each a dram Benzoin and Storax each two drams with Musk or Amber if you please make a Pouder We preserve the body by keeping the humors from violent motion and inflammation and by avoiding repletion and impurity with Antidotes Let men take heed of inflammations at the time of the Plague which wil soon receive a Fever or malignity Let them take heed of too hot Air as Baths by which many have been infected And of violent motion by Running Leaping or Dauncing and of violent passions as Anger Joy c. And of hot meats and Wines immoderately taken but let them be corrected with cold sharp things It is naught to stir the humors for then they are sooner infected by external causes And Fear causeth the Infection to seize upon men sooner than when the mind is quiet Also Venery is denied by reason of the imagination Also much unseasonable bleeding All Repletion is forbidden for though every body is capable of the Plague yet plethorick and cacochymical are soonest infected Therefore keep the body clean and clense it if it be foul Thus Blood-letting is good in men if the body be plethorick though it must not be done rashly in young men who are subject to the Plague most lest the humors be disturbed If ill humors abound give a Clyster every other day In Cacochymicks purge but trouble not the humors too much but use gentle things accustomed in Spring and Fall after preparation of the humors abounding adding things that resist the Plague and putresaction Pils are best that have Aloes called pestilential Pils of Ruffus the Author of them They are thus made right Take Aloes Ammoniacum Myrrh equal parts with sweet Wine make Pills Since they make them thus Take Aloes a dram Myrrh and Saffron each half a dram with Wine or for hot natures with syrup of Lemmons make Pills to which you may add divers Antidotes As these that are good to open obstructions in the Meseraicks Take Extract of Gentian a dram the lesser Centory and Carduus each half a dram Rue Wormwood each a scruple Pouder of lesser Centaury four scruples Troches of Myrrh a dram and an half Troches of Eupatory and Capars each a dram Troches of Wormwood half a dram with Elixir of propriety make a Mass give a dram twice in a week These Purge more Take Aloes two drams Rhubarb Myrrh each a dram Zedoary Saffron each a scruple with juyce of Citrons or Limons make a Mass for Pills Or Take Aloes three drams Rhubarb in pouder and sprinkled with Cinnamon water one dram and an half Agarick in Troches a dram of the best Myrrh and Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar each two drams Saffron half a dram Camphire a scruple Oyl of the roots of Masterwort two drops with Vinegar make Pills These may be used twice or thrice in a Week half a dram or a scruple made into two Pills the one at night and the other in the morning they may be given to Children if they can swallow them These are stronger that follow to be given in foul bodies and seldomer Take the former mass with Agarick or Rhubarb add Aggregative pills a dram Diagridium a scruple with
milk half a pinte Capons broath two ounces two yolks of Egg give it often and let it be kept long Take heed of things that weaken as fasting which they cannot endure And of strong motions of the Body Mind And of watching for sleep is good And all Evacuations especiall Venery are hurtful The chief accident is a loosness of the Belly and it hastneth death if it continue we look to that with anoynting the Belly and the like Somtimes constant binding in the Belly is troubsom to them which we prevent by a gentle moistning Clyster Thus Take Chicken or Tripe broath boyl therein Lettice and Mallows add Cassia or Tamarinds an ounce Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of each two ounces Honey an ounce give it Or this gentle Potion Manna with Chicken broath or Cassia or syrup of Roses solutive or of Violets We call them Compound Feavers The Cure of double or treble putrid fevers when divers Feavers are at once In these the Cure chiefly altereth For if two putrid Feavers or three or two continual Feavers or double intermitting or triple Fevers meet being all of a kind and differing only in respect of the cause in this that it is putrified in divers places but in the same Vessels and the fits come not the same daies These are rather divers then Compounded Fevers and the Cure must be as if there were but one as in putrid intermitting and continual Fevers was said But if the Fevers be compounded of divers which may be two waies as when a putrid continual is joyned with a putrid intermitting or a putrid continual or intermiting with a Hectick when the causes are divers and meet together Then the Cure must be directed to both and it differs from the Cure of simple Fevers If a continual putrid be joyned to an intermitting in a Semi-tertian The Cure of a Semi-tertian of what kind soever it be because the cause is double and the filth is in the hollow Vein and the Meseraicks also and doth not only constantly perplex the Patient but brings fits every other or third day increasing the heat and Symptoms we say it is very dangerous Especially if there be swounding when the Fevers meet Therefore a Semi-tertian useth to turne into a Hectick or leave a Dropsie behind it The Cure of a Semi-tertian is as in other Fevers first taking away the Excrements and Bleeding and Concoction of both matters by purging and provoking sweat and Urin often with things proper for the Humor whether Choller Flegm or Melancholly which breed the Fever All Physitians first give remedies against the swounding and Cordials which resist Poyson and Pestilence And we apply them inwardly and outward first of all And for the Fever we direct evacuations preparing and altering Medicines agreeable to the constitution and the humor predominating as the firs rise or abate as we shewed in continual and intermitting severs And if other accidents besides swounding do happen we correct them as was there declared If a Hectick be joyned with the Fever that produced it The Cure of a Hectick joyned with a putrid Fever it wil not be a pure Synoch for that continueth but three or four daies but a putrid continual which we know by the consumption of the body or an intermitting long Tertian or Quartan and then we perceive the Hectick not only by leanness but by a feverish Pulse after the fit This makes us regard both Thus When we concoct the matter and open obstructions we added somthings that resist the Hectick As Take syrup of Endive and Violets of each an ounce Endive and Purslane water of each two ounces with a little Diamargaritum frigid mix them Purge gently Thus Take Rhubarb a dram infuse it in Endive and Purslane water strain it add syrup of Roses solutive and Manna each an ounce These praeperatives and purges if the Fever require and the Hectick be not hurt thereby are to be repeated The altering means must moisten soundly by reason of the great distemper in the Heart therefore we let them drink freely We grant to milk by reason of the putrid Feaver and Head-ach as Hippocrates teacheth except out of the fit we allow a little for custom sake In Juleps and Conserves and the like we put moistners mentioned in the Hectick to open obstructions and resist corruption in the Fever that is joyned therewith At first before the Hectick comes when we fear it we apply in the Feaver more moistning and cooling Epithems to the Heart and Pulses then ordinarily And we begin to use Baths sooner especially in Quartans Allo accompanied Fevers with other Diseases joyned whether they go before the Disease or are Sympand follow after have a different Cure As they are joyned with Erysipelas or Botches or other hot Diseases or Meazels or smal Pox or Phthysick or Cachecy or evil habit or other accidents And we shall in order set down the cure of the six sorts of accompanied Fevers If a putrid Synoch or Ephemera be with an Erysipelas or Botch The preventing and curing of Synochs Ephemeal Fevers that produce Botches and Erysipelas it ends in respect of the Fever as a single Fever doth nor is it more dangerous than that but in respect of the humor But it is most troublesome when it comes once a yeer with the Gout as in old men which are most subject to it For whose cause in regard worse accidents are feared as internal Inflammations Pleurisies and Imposthumes in the Lungs we shal shew how to prevent â—nd eure if it be come We prevent this Synoch if the blood abound by hindering its increase if it be hot by tempering it if thin by thickning it if impure by purging and clensing it In full bodies we let blood spring and fall and at other times to prevent And use scarification every month and after cupping in the shoulders And we purge before and after Winter and oftner if there be a foul body but I have observed that violent purges have brought and not hinderd this Fever by moving of the matter Tops of Hops Fumitory Elder buds Senna Epithymum and Polypody boyl'd in Whey is good to be drunk all the month of May in yong and strong people Or with this Apozem Take Polipody three ounces Senna an ounce and an half Carthamus seeds an ounce Thyme Epithymum each half an ounce Tamarinds two ounces Dock roots an ounce Liquorish an ounce and an half Succory roots two ounces Violet Endive Lettice and Bugloss each a handful Prunes and Sebestens each twenty pair Raisons ten pair Anise half an ounce Cordial flowers a pugil cold Seeds half an ounce boyl them in a pint of the strained liquor dissolve juyce of Roses and Bugloss each an ounce juyce of Apples three ounces with Sugar and a little Cinnamon make a Syrup give an ounce by it self or in Whey or other Liquor Sharp waters drunk often for some weeks hath preserved many Instead of Spaw waters you may make
a Drink to cool a hot Liver and the blood and spirits It is good to sweat often in due season for thereby the blood is purged from excrements especially such as are thin This must be done by Exercise Stuphes or Fomentations and by things taken into the Stomach Let the Diet be moderate in quantity And beware of all things which easily inflame the Blood and Spirits The Cure is directed partly to the Fever partly to the Disease that accompanieth it As for the Fever because Nature from the beginning doth of her own accord send forth the Vapors which rise from the Inflammation of the blood by transpiration or sweat we must do the same in helping her that so some part of the cause being taken away little or none may be carried to the emunctuaries or pores or other places internal which are worst Wherefore since Nature in this Fever goeth about first to expel by sweat which she doth later in a Synoch let us at the first give things that cause sweat but not very strong least the body hot before be worse inflamed thereby or that help and make them sweat more freely Let the Patient be quiet and covered and not exposed to the cold Air which hath been so dangerous to some that many fear to apply a cold wet cloth outwardly or to an Erysipelas Some advise plenty of Barley water to be drunk and to boyl Lentiles therein to send forth the matter and to sweat as in the small Pox. And if Nape and Citron seed be added the Decoction wil cause more sweat Also the Decoction of Sorrel roots with burnt Harts-horn and Lentiles husked and Nape seed with a little Cinnamon provokes sweat And divers distilled waters but here we make choyce of the most temperate in regard of the Fever as that of the three colored Violet highly comended also of Fumitory Carduus Marygolds Chervil and such as are usually given in other Fevers which begin in the same manner To these Waters we add Rob or syrup of Elder or of Danewort or syrup of Ambrosia or Treacle Also we refresh in the sweat or after it especially with a little Bread tosted and dipt in Water and white Wine with a little Cinnamon and Sugar and if you do so at first they wil sweat the better Blood-letting is not so requisite here as in solitary Fevers except there be fear of greater internal inflammation and a Plethory for the sending of blood into the Emunctuaries and the extremities is not so much to be feared that it should be stopt by letting blood The Belly must be loosned if bound as in a solitary Synoch and purged a little if there be ill humors with Cassia or Manna And the Alterers must be given in and applied outwardly if the heat be great as in a solitary And the Accidents corrected as there said As for the Botches or Buboes they somtimes vanish of themselves without any application except in the Neck where they are kept from the Air with a cloth or a Fur. When they are ill ordered they burn to an Imposthume as we shewed As for Erysipel as that departs presently after the Fever but if it be hot and painful asswage it as shal be shewed When it is ill cured it turns to an Ulcer and somtimes into a Gangrene And therefore commonly they say that if any Ulcer or Tumor or scurf come after it was caused from the evil curing or wetting of the Erysipelas If a Synoch be joyned to a hot Disease or Inflammation The Cure of Fevers coming from external Inflammations and their Accidents and there is an outward Inflammation with a tumor Contusion Wound or Gun-shot that causeth a Fever if it be small little is given but such as may be mixed with the medicines against the Tumors as bleeding which is good for Revulsion And loosning of the Belly and other altering Medicines used in other Feavers When there is internal Inflammations of the Lungs The Cure of Feavers that produce internal Inflamations or in a Pleurisie or Peripneumony or in the Liver Spleen or other parts we direct our Medicines to the Inflamation rather then to the Fever which requires no such hast as the Inflamation and goes away with the Disease except as I shewed in the causes it springs again Yet we so order the Inflamation that we increase not the Feaver And the Medicines are best which are contrary to both Blood-letting is excellent in both for it is the chief remedy in a Synoch and it hinders Inflamation by drawing the blood from the Noble part Therefore it must not be neglected but let out freely and somtimes repeated It is good also against both Fever and Inflammation to keep the Belly open with gentle Laxatives or Clysters Strong Purges are Enemies to both because they take away more of the cause but inflame the body and stir up the blood to flow to the Inflammations and abate the strength which is here precious And they are to be feared least they bring a Diarrhaea which is here dangerous and deadly Therefore imitate not the Empericks in giving them Things that are given cold though they are contrary both to the Fever and the Inflammation yet they must be given warily with regard to the part where the Inflammation is lest they hurt one when they profit the other Although much cold water is good against a Synoch yet it would hurt internal inflammations by a sudden repercussion Therefore we give it prepared for that part and in Diseases of the Breast we give Pectorals and in Diseases of the Liver openers of Obstructions mixed therewith And therefore sharp waters though they may do good in Fevers and many internal inflammations yet we give them not in diseases of the breast especially if they bind and are very sour This rule is to be observed not only in ordinary Drink but in Juleps Syrups and Conserves Remedies applied outwardly must be profitable for both they must not increase Inflammation as Epithems though they are in all Fevers profitably applied to the Heart yet in Inflammations of the Lungs they wil do hurt The Diet which is thin for a Fever is good in an Inflammation also while the matter slows that while the hungry parts catch away blood for nourishment it may less come to the part affected But we have shewed at large in our Practice how to order internal Inflammations with a Fever whether it went afore or followed them Fevers with Meazles or Small Pox which are Synochs or putrid The Cure of Synochs putrid malignant or pestilential which produce Meazles or small Pox. malignant or pestilenlial are judged and cured according to their divers causes and the age of the Patient These are less dangerous when they come not from a malignant cause and then they keep the same course with Synochs Solitary Putrid or not Putrid But if there be a malignant cause not pestilential these Fevers alone hil not Infants because Nature sends
out the putrid malignant cause in the blood by many pustles outwardly but if not they are dangerous especially if pustles be in the Jaws Lungs or Eyes But in people of age whether the Fever send forth Pustles or Spots because the cause is alwaies malignant and hath long lurked in the blood never purged out or not having the small Pox in their Infancy it is dangerons and it observe the course of malignant Fevers which are popular or epidemical though this is seldom We Prognosticate by the Pustles for if they come forth when signs of Concoction appear in the Urin and the pulse is better and the accidents of the Fever abated it is a good sign if otherwise it is ill If a pestilent Fever brings forth the Pustles rather than others which is seldom seen it is deadly And we have shewed that many thousands of Infants have been so taken away The Cure is when the Fever is come and we suspect the pustles wil come forth because it is ordinary in that place or because they appear we must help Natures motion to expel them and the rather when the cause is malignant with the expulsive medicines mentioned and order the Fever with Evacuations and Alterations look to the strength and correct the accidents Thus. We give the expulsive medicines mentioned to expel from the Center to the circumference at the first with respect to the cause whether putrid malignant or pestilential to yong weaker old stronger beginning with the weakest means thus Take Figs dried twelve Barley and Lentiles each a pugil boyl and drink them Or Take Lentiles and Barley each a pugil dried Figs twelve Jujubes fifteen Dates four Raisons twenty pair Liquorish half an ounce boyl them you may add Sugar and a little Saffron Or add to the same Fennel seed two drams Quince seeds Gum traganth and Gum lac each a dram Saffron half a dram boyl them The Arabians make it thus Take dried Figgs seven drams Lentiles and Gum lac each three drams Gum traganth and Fennel seeds each two drams boyl them to the third part If there be Obstructious and a foul body Thus Take Grass and Asparagus and Fennel roots each an ounce Liquorish an ounce and an half Sorrel and Maidenhair each an handful Cordial flowers a pugil Figs twenty Raysons stoned twelve pair Fennel seeds a dram boyl them dissolve in a draught of it syrup of Citrons or Limons half an ounce Mithridate a scruple with waters of Sorrel and Marygold Also Take Carduus seeds a dram Nape seeds a scruple Citron seeds half a scruple Sorrel seeds half a dram bruise them and add Carduus Sorrel and water of Pauls-Bettony each an ounce and an half make an Emulsion add syrup of Limons or Citrons an ounce Harts horn burnt a scruple Pearl half a scruple Bole half a dram Diamargariton frigid half a scruple make a Potion Or Take Barley and Lentil water and a dram of Sorrel seed Grains of Paradice a scruple Citron seeds half a dram boyl them add sealed Earth a scruple give it Or give our Antidote in Pouder if the heat be not great mentioned in the Cure of the Plague Or thus Take roots of Mock chervil which is never omitted if it be to be had two ounces roots of Tormentil white Dittany each two drams Cordial flowers a pugil Sorrel a handful Lentils half a handful Earth of Lemnos a dram boyl them in two pints of water sweeten it with Sanders and five ounces of Sugar drink often Or this which makes the Pustles come forth speedily Take Monckes Rhubarb Tormentil white Dittany and Grass roots each an ounce steep them in spring water boyl them to the consuming of the third part add Sugar four ounces Vinegar an ounce or juyce of Citrons an ounce or an ounce and an half of the syrup thereof drink it two or three daies If the Feaver be great This Take syrup of Citron Vinegar or Limons with hoyled water or Sorrel water and Bole and Bezoar stone drink it Anoynt the Back to fetch out the Pustles as some do the whol Body Thus Take Oyl of sweet Almonds an ounce and an half Oyl of Chamomil half an ounce the resumptive Oyntment an ounce Or use this Fomentation Take Chamomil and Melilot flowers of each a pugil Mallows a handful boyl them Let the Patient be in bed and keep from the Air. Also Scarifications with Cupping-glasses upon the Shoulders fetch out the Pustles and Spots when they appear And rubbing with a red cloath The vulgar think the beholding red things makes the Pustles red and therefore cover them with scarlet If the Fever be a Synoch it is good to bleed at the first to take out some of the inflamed putrid or malignant Blood and abate the Cause in Men and big Children not in Infants The Spanish Physitians taught by the Jews did formerly and now also with the French Physitians open Veins in Children in this Disease but not when the Spots or Pustles do appear least natures motion be hindered If the Fever be very malignant which bringeth forth these Pustles or the Patient in years give the following Loosen the Belly at first before Blood-letting if it must be least the Excrements increase the heat with a Clyster or Laxative Or give this Potion to Men and Children in a less quantity Take Violets a pugil Sebestens and Jujubes of each ten Tamarinds three drams boyl them and add Manna an ounce Cassia ten drams Some men must have stronger purges but take heed of a Fluz or Dysentery and add alwaies somthing to resist Malignity As thus Take Rhubarb four scruples Spike half a scruple Scordium half a dram yellow Myrobalans a dram and an half infuse them in Sorrel and Carduus water strain and dissolve syrup of Peach flowers and Roses with Senna each an ounce Or Take Tryphera persica six drams Manna an ounce and an half syrup of Limons an ounce of Violets and Roses each an ounce with Sorrel Scabious and Carduus water make a Potion Or these Pills Take Aloes two scruples Rheubarb a scruple Myrobalans half a scruple Agarick a scruple with syrup of Sorrel make Pills Or this Clyster Take Mallows Beets Mercury Sorrel Bugloss Borage each a handful Balm half a handful Cordial flowers Bran and Barley each a pugil boyl and strain them add Tryphera persica an ounce Cassia six drams Honey an ounce Oyl of Violets three ounces with a little Salt make a Clyster Use alterers to cool and resist corruption as in a continual putrid Fever and Malignant It is not good to use cold things outwardly for fear of Repercussion or striking in the matter Restore strength as there with Lentils and Barley and give no Wine till the declination We have shewed else where how to order the Pustles If there be a Diarrhea or Flux in the begining for in the end it often cureth by the venemous Humors in the Guts you must mix the Troches of Spodium or burnt Ivory with expulsives
The Cholick is abated with Clysters or Oyl of sweet Almonds Vomiting is stopt with a crust of bread dipt in Vinegar given and applied For the Syncope or Swouning Take Pearl half a dram Bole a dram filings of Gold and Unicorns horne each a scruple Citron feeds half a dram fragments of precious Stones each a scruple with Sugar dissolved in Rose water make Lozenges If the sleep be great and cause astonishment expel it with Rubbbing Ligatures or Binding and Cupping With other Pustles The Cure of pure Synochs and of putrid Malignant fevers which produce the Botch or Carbuncle as a Carbuncle not Pestilential if there be a Synoch pure or a putrid or malignant but not the Plague we shal proceed in respect of the Fever as formerly Using things to expel the cause laying upon the Carbuncle things that draw out venom and then we open a Vein loosen the Belly and strengthen the Heart inwardly and outwardly with coolers and resisters of venom hold up the strength and correct accidents and Cure the Carbuncle as was shewed A lingring Symptomatical fever turned into a Hectick The Cure of lingring or Hectick Fevers which are joyned with Phthisick and Cathexy as in the Phthysick is usual must be as a solitary Hectick But if it be fixed and the Disease not gone that caused it it is incurable But if before it is a Hectick it hath little heat and smal accidents and is little alone regarded but the whol cure is directed to the disease accompanying it whose Symptoms are more urgent as shall be shewed having an Eye to the Fever in other prescriptions for the Disease And we must take away no more not less blood because there is a Fever But we purge in Cachecticks for the Fever with gentle things that inflame not If the altering Medicines must be hotter for the Disease we must cool them for the Fevers sake And in a Consumption before the Hectick is confirmed we may use things that moisten rather then violently cool If there be a Fever from retention of the After birth The Cure of lingring Fevers rising from a dead Child After-birth or congealed Blood a dead Child or congealed Blood it is gentle and Symptomatical and to be cured as the other except there be an Inflammation and then it is to be cured as a Fever with Inflammation above mentioned CHAP. III. Of Head-Ach The Kinds THe internal pains of the Head which reach not so outward as to be increased by the touch as the internal are either unusual or accustoined or solitary or accompanied Hence arise all the Kinds of them We call them unusual which are new from lome fresh Cause Cephalalgia or the Head-ach called Soda by the Arabians and which the patient never had before This is call'd Cephalalgia or Soda by the Arabians In this the Head either is pained in some distinct place or here and there The last pain is called an indistinct or wandering pain over all the Head one while stretching it as if it would tear it which some think to abate by binding or pressing another while it beats only in the Temples Heaviness of the Head is a kind of Cephalalgia somtimes it pricks only in the Ears somtimes it is a heavy pain like a weight this is call'd heaviness of the Head Somtimes the pain is distinctly in the fore part of the Head and Temples or the right or left side or both or in the Fore-head or roots of the Eyes as if they would fall out the Eyes are red and the Temples beat with pricking somtimes in the Ears which are oftner in Cephalalgia somtimes it is behind like a weight but oftner in Women then Men Somtimes in the Crown They are usual pains which are old or return upon smal occasions they are on both sides or in one side only When pain is on both sides of the Head or the greatest part Cephalaea it is called Cephalaea In this the pain is continual which ceaseth not but is somtimes gentler and stronger othertimes or intermitting or comming by fits these are ordinate at certain daies or weeks morning or evening or inordinate returning from any light Cause If the pain be in one side of the Head as if it were cleaved it is called Hemicrania Hemicrania This begins from the beating of the Temples and goes to the Sagital or arrow like suture dividing the Head long waies and comes every third or fourth day There is another sort which at a set hour every day for divers weeks torments the Patient with a pricking pain in some part of the Skul with this I was vexed some weeks about my right Eye-brow They are solitary Head-aches that come alone no disease going afore as that of wine and drunkness which begins after sottishness and amazment therefrom is past Those are called accompanied which are joyned with other diseases which they follow for the most part and are Symptoms as when the chief Symptom in a Fever is the Head-ach and those Head-aches that accompany Melancholly and Falling-sickness Or those which come from a Catarrh before or behind with heaviness Or that come in the Diseases of natural parts accompanied with divers other accidents as Cachexy and suppression of Terms Or when in the French Pox there is a Cephalaea that molesteth at night most both inwardly and outwardly The Causes Head-ach must needs be The part affected within the Skul or in the meninges or filmes or in the brain it self It may be in the meninges because they are sensible And they being two the one thick the other thin and close joyned together and to the Vessels can carry the pain from what side soever it begins So that it is hard to distinguish which of them is most affected but by conjecture as when the disease is in the outward thick Membrane the pain must be outward by reason of the Pericranium joyned unto it But if the inward thin filme be afflicted the pain is deeper and in the Brain as it were In both the pain may come to the roots of the Eyes because the Balls of the Eyes have tunicles from the Membranes of the Brain But in regard both the Tunicles are distinct with the Brain long waies in the middle of the Skul it comes to pass that if the discase be only on one side only half the Head is pained but if on both sides the pain is on both sides now in one then in the other as the cause is more or less Many assirm that there can be no pain in the substance of the Brain because the substance of the brain is insensible But we affirme that those parts of the brain to which the tender film or Meninx grows which produceth the sensitive Nerves cannot be without sense and that they may give occasion of pain with the meninges by consent and yet without hurt to the mind this pain is stupefying rather then sensible And in heaviness of
extremities revel more powerfully than frictions or rubbing Also washing of the body with a hot Decoction of Herbs good for the Head draws humors and Vapors from the Head And asswageth pain as we shal shew Glysters are good and usually afore bleeding because they supple the belly and take away excrements and after also to draw down blood spirits and vapors if they be sharp and well applied And in constant heat they must be given often the belly being bound for the Disease comes or is increased by excrements retained which send up vapors In a hot cause especially Fevers use this Take Mallows Violets Marsh-mallows Beets Mercury red Coleworts which besides their pricking resist Vapors and Drunkenness each a bandful Bettony proper for the Liver half a handful Violets a pugil Chamaemel flowers half a pugil Barley Bran each a pugil cold seeds half an ounce Fennel seed a dram boyl and add Honey of Violets and red Sugar each an ounce Juyce of Beets or Mercury an ounce and an half Cassia an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces Butter an ounce with Salt make a Clyster In other Causes especially old pains Take Lilly roots two ounces the Emollients Beets or Mercury red Coltworts Pellitory of the Wall Bettony Sage Hysop each a handful flowers of Chamomil Lavender or Staechas Rosemary and Bran each a pugil Figs ten Annis and Fennel seeds each a dram boyl them and add Hiera prica and Diaphaenicon each two drams red Sugar and Honey of Rosemary each an ounce and an half juyce of Mercury or Beets an ounce Oyl of Chamomil and Lillies of each an ounce and an half with a little Salt make a Clyster If the pain come from Humors or Vapors from them or evil quality in them or if the uncleaness of the Body increase or nourish it we give divers purges such as are for other Diseases of the Head coming from the same cause differing in respect of the cause and constitution when the cause or nature is hot we use gentle and moderate but in others stronger and hotter respecting the Head in all giving before them Clysters or letting blood preparing the Humor first if need be And we purge often if the cause require as in the Head-ach from the French Pox. Thus In Cholerick Body we prepare before purging Thus Take Syrup of Endive two ounces syrup of Violets and Sorrel each an ounce Succory and Bugloss water each four ounces Vervaine water which is proper for the Head two ounces and Bettony water an ounce give it at thrice and a Tablet of Diarrhodon after every draught In Melancholly thus Take syrup of both Bugloses each an ounce and an half syrup of Harts-tongue and Epithymum of each an ounce Bugloss Vervain Balm and Bettony water each two ounces take it as the other In flegmatick and old pains where the heat is not great Take Honey of Roses Oxymel simple and syrup of Maiden hair each an ounce and an half syrup of Hysop and Staechas each an ounce Marjoram Bettony Vervain Balme Hysop and Sage water each as much as is fit give it as the other with a Tablet of Diamoschum after every draught Or this Decoction Take Fennel roots two ounces the true Acorus or Calamus an ounce Liquorish an ounce and an half Bettony Marjoram Sage Vervain each an handful Lavender Staechas and Rosemary flowers each a pugil Annis and Fennel seeds each a dram Raysons stoned two ounces boyl them and add Honey then clense it and add Nut-meg and Sugar give it three or four mornings As for purges if the pain come from a hot humor blood or choller they are as we shewed in Fevers and other hot diseases that cause Head-ach Or thus Take Cassia Tamarinds Prunes of each half an ounce take it with Sugar or Whey Or thus Take Cassia six drams Electuary of juyce of Roses two drams Diaprunis a dram syrup of Roses an ounce and an half with Bugloss and Rose water make a Potion Or give this Decoction Take Beet roots green an ounce Dock roots half an ounce Violets two drams Bugloss flowers a dram if fresh two drams Cold seeds of each two drams Annis seeds a dram Prunes and Tamarinds each six pair Polypody six drams Senna half an ounce boyl them and to one Dose add syrup of Roses an ounce or six drams of the infusion of Rhubarb this may be repeated often Or this infusion Take Rhubarb four scruples yellow Myrobalans two drams Spike half a scruple bruise them and sprinckle them with a little Wormwood Wine till they are soft then infuse them in Whey or Endive and Vervain water strain them and add Diaprunis two drams syrup of Violets an ounce give it We use this Apozem often in Cholerick persons which tempereth the Humor Take roots of Succory Bugloss Beets each an ounce Endive Succory Borage each a handful Mercury half a handful Cordial flowers each a pugil four great cold seeds each two drams Purslane Lettice and Annis seeds each a dram red Pease a pugil Raysons stoned and Tamarinds of each an ounce and an half Prunes twelve Sebestens ten pair Polypody two ounces Senna an ounce and an half Carthamus seeds an ounce boyl them and add juyce of Roses two ounces Manna an ounce with Sugar and Cinnamon make an Apozem for three mornings If he had rather have Pills use those of Assajereth which are good for Head-ach coming from the Stomach or Aggregative or sine Quibus a dram of either In Melancholick persons when the cause is not so hot purge as in other Diseases of the Head caused by Melancholly Or thus Take Catholicon half an ounce Diaphaenicon two drams Hamech a dram take it with Sugar or an ounce of syrup Fumitory or with Whey or Cock broath Or use this Decoction Take Bugloss roots an ounce bark of Tamarisk half an ounce Bugloss and Scabious flowers each a pugil Staechas french Lavender half a pugil Melon seeds a dram and an half Raysons stoned an ounce Prunes ten Dates five Polypody six drams Senna half an ounce tops of Time two drams boyl and infuse them Indian and chebs Myrobalans each a dram strain them and add syrup of Roses and Peach flowers each half an ounce with Sugar and Nutmeg make a Potion repeat it if need be Mesues syrup of Apples made with black Hellebore or that with white Hellebore corrected by Rondeletius is good an ounce and an half given alone or with convenient Liquor Or this Take the opening roots steep'd in white Wine Vinegar barks of Capars and Tamarisk each six drams Liquorish an ounce Bugloss with the roots Fumitory tops of Hops Eupatorium by Mesues called Ageratum Maiden-hair Cetrach Germander Ground-pine each a handful Balm and Elder each half a handful Cordial flowers and Tamarisk each a pugil Staechas and Chamomil flowers each half a handful Fennel and Annis seeds each two drams Parsley and Dodder seed each a dram Raysons stoned an ounce and an half Figs and Prunes each ten pair Dates
Willows each half an ounce Oyl of Poppy seeds two drams anoynt the Forehead and Temples Another Take Oyl of Apple-bearing Nightshade an ounce mucilage of Fleabaneseed cream of Milk half an ounce mix them Of Opium these Take Aqua vitae an ounce Opium a scruple Saffron half a scruple make a Liniment for the Temples by gentle boyling Or thus Take cream of Milk an ounce Opium half a dram Saffron six grains burnt Ivory and Starch each a dram mix them and anoynt or add Oyl of Violets or Water-lillies The leaves of Henbane Mandrakes and Poppies applied to the Head take away pain by stupefaction especially if first bruised Some roast Henbane in the Embers in a Clout and apply it But Rondoletius saith it will cause Madness If we wil discuss and add Coolers and Anodynes use these Take Marshmallow roots an ounce of Willow Plantane Bettony each a handful flowers of Chamaemel Elder and Dill each half a pugil Senna three drams Dill seed two drams boyl them in Wine and Water Or this Plaster that discusseth a little Take Violets and Water-lillies each half a pugil white Poppy and Lettice seed a dram pouder them and add Barley meal an ounce with Vinegar make a Plaster Some make Frontals of the Conserves of Violets and Water-lillies with other things Or thus Take Roses Violets Dill Chamomel flowers each a pugil Juniper berries half a pugil boyl them in Milk beat them add Bean flour an ounce flour of white Poppy seed two drams Lettice seed a dram Oyl of Roses and Chamomel each an ounce and an half make a Fronral Dill any waies applied to the Head discusseth takes away pain and causeth sleep This discusseth more Take Oyl of Dill an ounce Oyl of Lillies and Wall-flowers each half an ounce juyce of Vervain an ounce the infusion of Marygold flowers in Aqua vitae half an ounce boyl away the Juyces add Capons grease an ounce and with a little Wax make a Liniment Chiefly the Oyntment of Alablaster discusseth and is good in all Head-aches without a Fever whether they be of themselves or from some other part by consent Thus made Take juyce of sweet Chamomil four ounces juyce of Roses and Marshmallow roots each two ounces juyce of Rue and Bettony each an ounce and an half Sallet Oyl a pint and an half the sinest sifted Alablaster three ounces steep and then boyl them and with Wax make an Oyntment to which some add Bramble berries whites of Egs and Rue and the juyce of Vervain The Oyntment of Dialthaea is also good And the Plaster of Frogs or of Vigo applied to the shaved head is good if continued This Pouder for a Cap doth asswage pain and discuss Take Coriander seed prepared three drams Dill seed two drams Lettice seed Couchineel red Roses and Dill each a dram all the Sanders half a dram Nutmeg two scruples make a Pouder Another that discusseth and strengtheneth Take Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce Dill seed a dram and an half Chamomel Melilot Dill Lavendar flowers each a dram Marjoram Balm Rosemary flowers each half a dram yellow Sanders a dram Cloves half a dram These Amulets to hang about the body are thought proper as a wreath or Garland of Vervain Or Ivy upon a Drunkards head or a Snakes Skin or the stone Ophites Some things are snuffed into the Nose to alter as Sweets not too strong as Camphire dissolved in Vinegar and Rose water and smel too Or thus Take Camphire half a dram Oyl of Storax a dram and an half which Dioscorides commends mix them with a little Labdanum make a Ball to smell too Or thus Take red Roses and Violets each a dram Dill and Chamomel flowers each half a dram Coriander seeds prepared a dram Lettice seed half a dram all the Sanders a scruple with Camphire half a scruple make a Pouder tie it in a Clout and dip it in Rose water and Vinegar to smel to Or take the Fume of this Decoction hot Take Willows Nightshade Lettice each a handful flowers of Roses Violets Dill Water-lillies Melilot each a pugil Lettice seed two drams Poppy seed a dram Basil seed half a dram boyl them and add Vinegar and Water of Roses Or snuff up Vinegar and Rose water Or stupefie with this Oyntment Take Oyl of Water Lillies an ounce Opium and Camphire each six grains This is good to be dropt into the Ears also and the other cooling Anodine and hot Oyntments mentioned when you wil discuss And you may mix a little Oyl of Safiron and Oyl of Dill and drop it into the Ears Washing and stroaking downward divert from the Head cause sleep and abate pain and if the Head-ach be hot do cool it It is made with leaves of Willows ' Lettice Violets Briony water Lillies with Mallows and Chamomel flowers with Head herbs as Bettony Calaminth Southernwood and somtimes Narcoticks as the heads of Poppies boyled in Water with a little Wine or Capital Lee. Also it is good to wash the Face with Rose water and Vinegar Head-ach coming from the ill shape of the Head The cure of a pain coming from the ill fashion of the Head as absence of a suture as the Arrow-suture or rocky constitution of the Skull about that suture or seam called Sagital is incurarable and if you will attempt by reason of the great pain use the Trepan to take out a piece of the Skul there CHAP. IV. Of Pain in the Eyes The Kinds WE comprehend under the name of Pain in the Eyes all Diseases in the balls and corners of the Eyes and in the inside of the Eyelids and we leave other pains outwardly in the Eybrows to another place When pain is in the said parts it either hath no other accident or is with other accidents as chiefly Redness Tumor or Inflammation in the Eye or great corner or there is a bladder in the Eye or unevenness in the Eye-lids or a corroding or excoriation or ulcer or wound in the Eye or Eyelids These kinds of pain are according to their accidents Itching in sound people coming from Wind or Watching Itching Pricking or contraction of the Eye alone without other sign wil cause redness if it be rubbed Also Prickings are in the Eye alone without any other hurt or with a Head-ach called Cephalalgia where the pain comes to the roots of the Eyes Also some have a twitching pain in their Eyes after sleep before their Eyes are well opened which hinders the motion of the Eyes When the pain is with Redness and without Tumor or Inflammation A false Ophthalmy or pain in the Eye it is called a false Ophthalmy and it is red all over or in part or in the inside only of the Eylids Blood-shot but the veins are not so swelled as in a true Ophthalmy nor is there so great burning but a cutting pain or itching in the corners or the edges of the Eybrows and it called Xenophthalmia Xenophthalmy is a kind of false
which makes the Eyes red and weeping In other cases when Tears are without Heat or from Ulcers things to chew called Masticatories or Gargle called Gargarisms draw Humors to the Mouth by the Nose from the Eyes And so the Head is purged and the Flux stopped after other Purgings These may be done by Errhines or things to snuff but that by Sneesing they disturb the Eyes for tears flow Naturally and preternaturally from the Eyes through the Nose and it is good to help it Sore Eyes are not to be clensed by Vomir for by straining the Blood flows to the Eyes and Tears are produced and the Cause is increased or renewed and the Pain also Sweating is not good in hot Diseases of the Eyes because the Eyes would be inflamed more by it But if there be Ulcers without heat and tears then Sweating is good to dry the body and consume Excrements and it may be often with sparing Diet. In the declining of an Ophthalmy Baths are good to consume the reliques and wine though both are nought at first while the Eyes are hot It is good to provoke Urin to take away the cause and waterish humors Therefore in Fistulaes of the Eyes we give drinks that dry and provoke Urin. Thus Tansey red Coleworts Agrimony male Fearn Dropwort burnet Ceterach each a handful of Myrrh half a handful roots of Lquorish an ounce red Pease two pugils boyl them take it for five draughts sweeten it with Sugar give it for the weeping Fistula of the Eye We use things to consume the humors in the Head in an Epiphera and Ulcer in the Eye These dry and strengthen the Head inwardly and outwardly such as we prescribed in diseases of the Head Some are good to be lookt upon and to be carried about as in an Ophthalmy it is good to look upon an Agate and to carey a Dock root dig'd up in the Moon increasing and to put the stone found in the Gall of an Ox into the Nose as some think We stop the humor flowing to the Eyes whether it be blood or water by the passages and by coolers to strike them away in an Ophthalmy or beginning of an Aegilops and in an Epiphora and in other causes when a Flux is feared They are applied near to or upon the Eye being first closed To the parts near which humors flow we apply these on that side the pain is over all from one Ear to another if both Eyes suffer Somtimes down upon the Cheeks They are good in an Ophthalmy to asswage the force of the blood appli'd upon the jugulars And they are such as astring and dry and cool and they are safer near then upon the Eye Epithems made of a cloth strained from convenient Liquor or a Spunge spueezed that more get into the Eye are good in a true Ophthalmy or in great heat They repercuss more when they are actually cold but very cold as Snow must not be used for it may hurt and as I knew make blind They are mentioned in hot diseases of the Head Only leave out Oyls and Vinegar which hurt the Eyes These may be applied to the Forehead or jugilares and mixed with very cold things An Epithem of juyce of Plantane with the white of an Egg is good Emplasters because they stick long and fal not into the Eye may be applied to the said places And renued every third day if need be As in other Defluxions Or thus Take Mastick Frankincense Varnish each two drams Starch or finer Flour a dram with the white of an Egg and infusion of Gum Traganth make a Plaister Another Take Pitch and Oyl of Myrtles Varnish Frankincense make a Plaster this is good to the nape also Or this Astringent Take Bole half an ounce Dragons blood conserve of Sloes each two drams Pomegranate peels and Galls each a dram make a Pouder and with the white of an Egg and red Vinegar make Emplasters for the Forehead and Temples A better Take Bole burnt Chalk Blood-stone each two drams Vitriol half a dram Asphaltum Frankincense Mastick Varnish each a dram and an half Dragons blood Conserve of Sloes Acacia Pitch each a dram flowers and peels of Pomegranats Galls Cypres nuts each half a dram Pouder them and add Starch half an ounce with infusion of Gum Traganth the yolk of an Egg and Vinegar and Oyl of Roses make a mixture Or a Plaister of Mastick or that for the Rupture Some stop Fluxes with a scruple of Opium in one Plaster and if there be Head-ach we allow it to help and for Poppy seed instead of white Poppy seeds we mix syrup of Poppies The ordinary defensative is of Bole Vinegar and whites of Eggs this applied behind the Eares is good also in an Ophthalmy Of these with Oyls you may make Oyntments to anoynt about the Eye especially if it swel they must be thick that they may stick and not fal into the Eye and used at nights when the Eyes are shut Such may be made of juyces without Pouders least when the Oyntments are dry they fal into the Eyes Take juyce of Plantane two ounces red Vinegar an ounce white Vitriol a scruple Dragons blood Acacia Hypocistis or conserve of Sloes Labdanum each half a dram dissolve them and add white of an Egg and Oyl of Roses and a little Turpentine Somtimes they are applied upon the closed Eye and Lids for these are too strong to be put into the Eyes and Astringents which would make Eyes rough which ought to be smooth Or thus Take fat Bole three drams Barley flowers an ounce and an half infusion of Gum Traganth in Myrtle or Rose water an ounce Camphire half a dram with Cream and juyce of Plantane to keep it moist make an Emplaster apply it to the closed Eye Coolers do the same as we shall shew for stopping of blood at the first and after in stopping of Tears Topicks or Medicines applied to the Eye Or put in to it Topicks in all kind of sore Eyes are either Simple waters or mixed with others called Collyria are in form of Troches to be at hand for use and they may be dropt in injected or put into the great corner of the Eye or upon the Ey-lids Some have a Silver and Bone Pen which they rowle in wet Pouders and put into the Eye then they close the Ey-lids and draw it through leaving the Pouder behind Somtimes we blow very fine Pouders into the Eye ground upon a smooth stone or a little Plaster upon the great corner and the Nose And others by way of Fomentation these are divers in respect of the Cause and distemper if from heat cold drouth or in respect of the Flux of blood in an Ophthalmy or Aegilops or of water as in an Epiphora or in respect of wounds as in a Phlyctaena Excoriation Ulcer Fistula A simply hot distemper without Flux that causeth only itching The Cure of itching or pricking in the Eye is cured by preventing a
Opium and will make the water yellowish Tutty is proper for the eye and makes a good water it is burnt and washt for that purpose or thus wash it in cold water Pouder it and steep it in juyce of Quinces or in a Quince and in a clout bake the Quince and then infuse it in white Wine Vinegar then dry and Pouder it and put it into Rose water After Water Make it to fine Pouder for your use It is thus used Take Tutty prepared half a dram Rose water an ounce whites of Eggs beaten half an ounce With Camphire thus Take Tutty prepared a dram Camphire four grains Plantane Rose and Fennel water each an ounce mix them a scruple of Sumach will make it stronger half a dram of Sugar candy is good in the height of the Disease Galen makes a white eye-water with Ceruss thus Take Tutty washed four drams Ceruss a dram and an half Starch and Gum Traganth each a dram with rain-Rain-water make an eye-Eye-water add a dram of Opium in pains Or thus Take Tutty prepared a dram and an half Ceruss water a dram Starch half a dram mucilage of Faenugreek seeds half an ounce Fennel water an ounce Rose water two ounces with half a scruple of Camphire In great pain a yellow Eye-water is thus made Take Tutty burnt and washt in womans milk half an ounce Ceruss wa sht an ounce Gum Traganth a dram Saffron two drams Opium half a dram with Rain-water mix them use it with the white of an Egg. The Oyntment of Tutty or Nihili are good for the Eyes also Or thus Take Butter or Hogs grease or Oyl of Roses well washt or new with white Wax or Oyntment of Roses or of Alablaster an ounce Tutty prepared a dram and an half Pompholyx half a dram mix them Camphire a scruple Antimony half a scruple When we wil digest as in the beginning of the declination use these The yellow pouder of Sarcocol of Rhasis Take Sarcocol five drams Aloes washt in Rose water a dram Tragacanth half a dram Opium half a scruple and Saffron six grains Rose water or Milk or both having Frankincense quenched in them is good for the same Or this Eye-water Take Frankincense half a dram Sarcocol a dram and an half Aloes half a dram Saffron half a scruple Mucilage of Faenugreek seeds half an ounce Eyebright and Rose water each an ounce and an half with Fennel water in the declining of the Disease The Eye-water of Rhasis digests also and ripens Take Frankincense five drams Sarcocol and Ammoniacum each two drams and an half Saffron a dram with juyce of Fennel apply it When we wil dry more if there be pain use this of Galen Take Frankincense and Tutty each five drams Ceruss ten drams Gum Traganth and Opium each a dram and an half make it with Rain-water somtimes he ads Pompholyx To dry and digest Take Sarcocol a dram and an half Tutty prepared a dram Aloes a scruple Myrrh a scruple Mucilage of Foenugreek seed half an ounce Vervain water two ounces Fennnel water an ounce If heat remain Take Sarcocol four drams Tutty prepared two drams Aloes a dram Sugar candy a dram and an half Camphire four grains Saffron thrree grains Rose water four ounces mix them and shake often In red Itching Eyes Take Tutty prepared half a scruple Aloes and Sugar each five drams Camphire two grains white Wine and Fennel water each two ounces mix them To discuss the remainder in the declination use This Fomentation Take Eyebright and Pennyroyal each a handful Chamomel Melilot flowers and red Roses and Oat chaff each a pugil Foenugreek seed two drams Fennel seed a dram boyl them add a little Wine dip Clouts and apply to the Eyes The Fume of the Decoction is also good Or this Cataplasin Take Southernwood a handful Chamomel flowers a pugil Foenugreek seeds an ounce mucilage of Foenugreek seeds an ounce Fennel seeds a dram Cummin seeds half a dram boyl and bruise them add Bean flower an ounce mucilage of Foenugreek and Line seeds each half a dram Saffron a scruple with Milk make a Cataplasm To strengthen the Eye use astringent Wine and Fennel water last of all A roasted Egg or Apple laid hot to the Eyes takes out the remaining redness If the Inflammation Imposthumeth it must be ripened with a Plaster upon the Eye thus Take Marsh-mallows a handful Chamomel flowers a pugil boyl them in Milk beat and add Barley meal and Foenugreek seeds each an ounce with Oyl of Chamomel make a Cataplasm The eye-Eye-water of Rhasis and Oyntment of Tutty doth the seme When the Imposthume is broken cure the Wound as followeth If an Aegilops come from cholerick blood in the great corner of the Eye The Cure of an Aegilops you must apply things used in the Ophthalmy if there be an Inflammation that repel and take away pain and then discuss the Tumor with eye-waters there mentioned which dry and digest before it come to suppuration which is sooner when there is little or no inflammation and the Tumor came by degrees A Discusser Take Plantane Mallows Chamomel with the flowers bruise them and with kernels of old Walnuts make a Cataplasm for the corner of the eye if you add a little Salt and Hen-dung it wil be better The herb Aegilops bruised is good also according to Dioscorides Others use Emplaster Diapalma Divinum and Ceroniacum If the Tumor imposthumate it must be presently opened lest the matter retained corrode and cause a hollow Ulcer Then Cure the Ulcer as we shal shew in Ulcers If there be an Epiphora from a waterish humor falling upon the eye-lids chiefly The Cure of Epiphora with redness Heat and Itching and pain we must at the first stop the flux and abate pain and itching with medicines mentioned in Ophthalmy and with those we must mix afterwards things that dry up moisture which is plentiful in this case and use eye-waters of Ceruss and Tutty there mentioned When Epiphora lasteth long and there is a weeping itching and redness without burning we must use stronger Dryers As against Itching Take Antâ—â—ony prepared half a dram Rose and Fennel water each two ounces use it strained A Pouder Take Lapis Calaminaris a scruple Tutty prepared a dram Coral and rinds of Myrobalans torrefied or parched each a scruple make a Pouder for the Eye Or this Take Antimony prepared half a dram Tutty prepared a dram Coral three drams Pearl two scruples the crystal humor of the Eyes of boyled fishes half a scruple make a fine Pouder An eye-water of Blood-stone Take Blood-stones Antimony washed each a dram Tutty prepared two drams Lapis Calaminaris a scruple Aloes a dram Camphire a scruple burnt Stones of Myrobalans half a dram Pomegranate-wine two ounces Rose water four ounces To digest also Take Antimony washt Tutty prepared each a dram Myrrh Aloes each a scruple Saffron half a scruple dissolve them in Fennel and Eyebright water with a little Wine Use Fumes also of such
Orris roots a dram Honey three ounces mix them Or use the Eclegma of Scribonius Largus A white Dogs-turd called Album Grecum finely poudered and blown into the Mouth or mixt with these Eclegma's is excellent or with syrups A Goose-turd dried doth the same Also the pouder of salted and dried Swallows a dram with convenient Water is good according to Dioscorides Or a dram of the pouder of a Boars tusk with Linseed Oyl Or the Smoak of Amber taken in with a Funnel Or these Lenitives and Dilators when there is pain and straitness As a Gargle of hot Milk Goats is best Another Take Milk half a pint the white of an Egg wel beat the mucilage of Fleabane Quince or Line seed each an ounce Penidies half an ounce Bran or Bread boyled in Water and strained or Almond milk doth the same The common white Troches are good also to be held under the Tongue Or Take species of Diapapaver or Diatragacanth frigid each a scruple with pulp of Tamarinds make Troches Or hold troches of Diapapaver or Diatragacanth frigid in the mouth Or this Eclegma Take species of Diatragacanth and Diapapaver each a dram with syrup of Violets and Jujubes make a Loboch Lenitives that clense the slime are thus made Take Liquorish two ounces pulp of Raisons two drams juyce of Liquorish half a dram with Gum traganth infused in Poppy water make a Loboch Another in the progress of the Disease Take species Diapenid and Diaireos each a dram with syrup of Hysop make a Lohoch Apply outwardly to the Neck or under the Chin or where a tumor appears at the first not things that repel but that draw forth as these relaxing As temperate Oyls of Olives sweet Almonds Violets or moderate warm as Oyl of Chamaemel Lillies Orris Wall-slower and the like anoynt the parts and dip Wool therein and lay thereupon Dioscorides commends Oyl of Frogs or of Wood-lice or Sows Also Oyntment of Marshmallows and that which restoreth called Resumptivum with those Oyls and a little Saffron Menstrual Blood with Vinegar is good against all Inflammations of the Jaws and parts adjacent Also the leaves of Hors-radish Use Fomentations first before you anoynt made of flowers of Chamaemel Lillies Melilot Linseed and Faenugreek But when you desire not only to draw out the humors but also to dry Consume and Digest use the following Make a Pultis of a Swallows Nest clensed and poudered and boyled in Wine and Water and strain or mix the pouder with the Oyls and Oyntments mentioned if you wil Digest apply it with Honey Swallows dung in Pouder or the Ashes of it burnt mixed with the rest or applied with Honey or a dried Dogs-turd or Birds dung chiefly of Hens and Pigeons For it is neither necessary nor decent to apply Mans dung when other wil serve Also use Sows or Wood-lice dried and poudered with Honey Other Digesters Take Aloes two drams Ox Gall a dram Pepper half a dram Allum a dram with Honey make a Liniment Another Take juyce of Danewort and wild Cowcumber two ounces Ox Gall half an ounce with Honey make an Oyntment Rhasis useth Honey Anacardine Another Take juyce of Danewort two ounces juyce of Ouyons an ounce juyce of wild Cowcumbers as much if it may be had Oyl of Flower-de-luce and Lillies each an ounce and an half boyl them add Swallows nest prepared half an ounce Litharge a dram and an half with Wax make a Liniment or with Wax and Pitch make a Plaster Or this Cataplasm Take Lillies and Onyons of each three roast them ad half as much of a rotten Apple and a handful of Wormwood boyl them in Wine and Water beat them and with Bean flower two ounces Oyl of Chamaemel and Wall-flower each an ounce and an half Hens or Pigeous dung two ounces make a Cataplasm If an Imposthume come in a Quinsie The Cure of an Imposthume in the Quinsie as we may know by the pain and other accidents increased and the humor cannor be Digested or Resolved by the Remedies internal or external mentioned use Maturatives or Ripeners inwardly and outwardly Inwardly we ripen with this Gargle Take Lillies Onyons or Leeks each two ounces Liquorish an ounce Hysop Scabious each a handful Figs six Raisons stoned an ounce Faenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce Mallow and Colewort seed and Swallows nest each two drams boyl them in Water and with Honey make a Gargle Outwardly ripen with these Apply a Pultis of Line-seed meal with Goats Milk Or thus Take meal of Faenugreek and Line-seed each two ounces crums of Bread four ounces with Hogs grease and Oyl of sweet Almonds make a Pultis Or this Cataplasm Take Marshmallow Mallows roots and all Henbit and Pillitory of the Wall each a handful green roots of Lillies two ounces green Orris and Briony roots an ounce Chamomel flowers and Violets each a pugil Figs twelve Dates five boyl and stamp them add meal of Line-seed Foenugreek and Barley each two ounces with Butter and Hens grease Oyl of sweet Almonds and Chamomel mix them If the Imposthume in a Quinsie break hot you must endeavor to open it before it be perfectly ripe With this Gargle hot used Take juyce of Onyons or Leeks and Lemons equal parts with Goats milk Or Take of the Gargle mentioned a pint add and boyl therein Pellitory roots and Mustard seed each two drams Myrrhe half a dram Saffron a scruple Oxymel simple an ounce This is stronger Take of that Junket that is made of Mustard and Honey dissolve it in Honey and Water and with a little Vinegar make a Gargle Or Take Mustard seed two drams poudered Oxymel an ounce Vinegar of Squils and Wine each half an ounce make a Gargle Vociferation or Roaring may do somthing to break it but swallowing may do more if it be with great force and of somthing that is hard as a crust of Bread Or Take a Spunge or a piece of salt Pork and tied to a thred fast let it be swallowed down and drawn forth again We open the Imposthume if it can be seen and reached with an Instrument or with the Finger or Nayl or a wax Candle or other wooden or Iron Instrument that wil cut In the Inflammation of the tonsills and Uvnla Remedies for the Tonsils or Palate inflamed or for the Antiades or Uvula we first use inward medicines as in the Quinzy which are astringent after resolvers and at lasT things only to be swallowed alwayes mixing things that clense by reason of the slime that sticketh there and that mitigate pain if it be great so that many medicines mentioned in the Quinzie are here good and such as are mentioned in the Inflamations of the parts of the Mouth or these An astringent and cooling Gargle Take Rose and Honey-suckle water Privet and Plantane water each two ounces Juice of Barberyes or Pomegranates or sower Cherries three ounces juice of Quinces Roses or Sorrel each an ounce syrup of Mulberies
sooner open it It may be broken by violent Motion of the breast as Roaring Neesing Vomiting but not so safely If in a watery or windy pleurisie there be a stretching in the Membranes The cure of a false pleurisie of wind and water from a Humor or Water gotten thither which causeth pricking you must use things that stop the Humor and turn it from the breast if it still flow or if it be wind give things that hinder the breeding of it and keep it from the part And in both cases apply to the part things that discuss and digest and consume Wind and Water Diversions are made by cupping Friction and washing and other things that stop Defluxions and carry wind other wayes but you must not open a Vein but when by reason of great pain you fear Inflammation and only in plethorick bodies Sharp Clysters revel also with things to expel Wind in which Hiera dissolved is highly commended And purges with preparatives first not only gentle to revell but strong to draw down and send forth wind and humors that produce it these are better here than in a pleurisie from Inflammation which some do use in the pleurisie called Flegmatick which they dream comes from an Inflammation Therefore we rather use Rhubarb Agarick or Scammony or Coloquintida or Hellebore as the Ancients especially Hiera of Coloquintida commended so by Galen against a pleurisie here then in an Inflammation in which we can give no strong Purges profitable but with great hurt These Purges are mentioned in Diseases from Defluxions here and there and in palpitation from wind and in Rheums falling upon the breast And there you may find Altering Remedies also It is in vain here to give expectorating medicines as in a true pleurisie except a Defluxion fall upon the Lungs But some things there mentioned which work by a hidden quality or by drying or digesting may be given here As the Carduus waters which some think cures pricking pains because of the prickles as that of the Blessed Thistle called religiously the Carduus of Mary or their seeds or an Emulsion made of them and of Hemp-seed The Vulgar Women keep a water for this made of Ice gathered in March There are also other Remedies that cure a pleurisie without causing Coughing as that of a Bores tusk and the like which are good here and many better for a false than a true pleurisie for divers of them are hot and dry which cannot be good in Inflammations but by a hidden quality and those may work in this Disease by a manifest as wel as a secret vertue Especially those there mentioned of Dioscorides for pleuresies in general Also Oyl of sweet Almonds and Line seed given to dilate the breast are good here taken in good quantities And Wine if nothing else forbid it and other Meats and Drinks mentioned in Defluxion and Diseases of wind Apply outwardly things to dissolve and discuss wind and humors and to take away pain As a great Cupping-glass to the part with fire which will draw out the Humor and Wind by an attractive Vertue not by Heat as some think for Heat is not used to warm the breast but to make the Glass stick Also actual Heat doth the same if it be gentle it qualifyeth the pain if strong it discusseth and consumes thin Humors and Wind as the Heat of the Sun doth the Clouds This may be done by any warm Cloths or with warm Water in a bladder or brass vessels to keep the heat longer made on purpose Olive Oyl in a bladder hot take away pain But in a true Pleurisie it must be but luke-warm Also Fomentations of things actually and potentially hot with a Spunge felt or Wool squees'd a little that it may not wet too much or in a bladder rather then in brass that the vertue may pierce sooner and changed when cold They are made of Decoctions mentioned in Inflamation of the Membrane Or thus Take Marsh-mallow roots an ounce Orris Galangal each half an ounce Calamints Wormwood Organ Thyme each a handful Chamomil Melilot Rosemary and Stoechas flowers each a pugil Caraway Cummin and Fennel-seed each half an ounce Foenngreek and Linseed an ounce Bay-berries an ounce and half bruise and boyl them in Wine and Water This is an excellent Experiment in all side-pains Take Spirits of Wine six ounces Camphire a dram boyl them till the Camphire is dissolved add where it is hot Pouders of sweet Sanders a dram and half wet Clouts therein and apply them hot Also dry baggs hot As Take Bran and the whole Seeds of Milium or Grumwel or seeds of Panicum and Oats each two pugils Salt an ounce fry them and make baggs to be shifted as in Fomentations They are better if you sprinkle a little Wine or Aqua vitae or white Wine-vinegar to pierce This is stronger Take Bay-berries a pugil Juniper-berries half a pugil Caraway and Cummin each an ounce Fennel-seed a dram dryed Hysop Savory Thyme Organ Marjoram each a dram Rosemary and Chamomil-flowers each a dram and an half Orris roots a dram Salt half an ounce make a Pouder for a bag as before The residents of the Decoction mentioned squeezed between two trenchers is also good Or Cataplasms made of them as we shewed in the Inflammation of the Membrane with Pouder of Caraway and Cummin-seed each six drams Oyl of Rue and Orris each an ounce Pigeon or Goats dung half an ounce with two Yolks of Eggs. Also Oyls or Oyntments there mentioned sprinkle the part after with pouder of Cummin-seed which is excellent in all Pleurisies to consume Humors and Wind. Or this Cerot Take Thyme a dram and half Spike Cloves Sanders each half a dram Storax a dram red wax an ounce and half with Hogs grease make a round Cerot and a dram of Orris pouder Also the Emplaster of Bay-berries malaxed with Oyl of Lillies or mixed with the Cerot Or this Take Opopanax Galbanum Serapinum or Sagapenum each two drams dissolve them in equal patts of Aqua vitae and white Wine-vinegar add pouder of Cummin-seed half an ounce Caraway Seseli Lovage-seed each a dram dryed Rue half a dram Brimstone a dram with Oyl of Rue or Penny-royal and a little Turpentine make a Plaster Another Plaister of Honey and Oyl of Wormwood boyled is good also And many outward Remedies mentioned in outward pains from Humors or Wind. CHAP. XI Of Pain of the Heart The Kinds THe pain of the Stomach is commonly called the Pain of the Heart The pain of the Heart is the pain of the Stomach this is in the fore part of the Breast in a soft and naked place where the Ribs are parted which is called the Hearts lodge and reacheth to the left side as far as the Back In this place above the rest there are usual pains and molestations they differ in that they are either usual or not The most usual are such as come new from a new Cause or a Disease of which
and Conserve of quinces Citrons Gourds Lettice Colewort Also juyce of sharp fruits without sugar as the ancients did or with Vinegar usually they are without sugar as of Currans Berberries unripe Grapes or these Make Electuaries of these mixed as that called Diacydonites of Quinces without the Spices which is made of the Pulp of Quinces boyled with Honey and Pouder of Diacydonites Or thus Take Conserve of Roses and Sorrel and Citron-peels each half an ounce Conserve of Currance an ounce of Myrobalans candied one the pouder of our Diacydonites or Trionsantalon or Diarrhodon a dram with syrup of Sorrel or unripe Grapes make an Electuary And this Take Citron-peels candied Quinces and conserve of Quinces each two dramss juyce of Currance without Sugar all well dryed half an ounce the Pouder of our Diacydonites which I shall after shew Cinnamon each a dram with Rose-water and boyled Sugar make Lozenges Or give Crumbs of Bread steept in Juyce of Pomegranates Lemmons or the like with Vinegar and Rose-water to make it pleasant Or Barley-meal with Capon-broath and Juyce of Pomegranates which is Hippocrates his remedy against the heat and reaching of the stomach Or Pine-nuts eaten and Juyce of Purslane drunk after are good against burning of the stomach The usual Pouders for Choler in the Stomach are Diatrionsantalon which hath no other spice but cold seeds Roses Gums Starch Juyce of Liquorish burnt Ivory and Camphyre and Rhubarb Also Diarrhodon Abbatis which hath all the former Ingredients and other cold and Mastich and some spices of hot Seeds and Cordials The Pouder of Diacydonites without the hot Spices is added to this Electuary when we will only cool and is used after Meat and Trionsantalon Barbary and Sorrel-seeds Roses and burnt Ivory Instead of which Take dryed Quinces half an ounce all the Sanders each a dram red Roses two drams Sorrel and Barberry-seeds each a dram the Antispodium of Dioscorides made of Quinces half a dram make a Pouder mix them with Pouders after Meat or Electuaries Also the Pouders of the Troches of burnt Ivory Camphyre Bar-berries allay the heat of Choler they all have burnt Ivory and Antispodium of Quinces also Instead of all these Pouders for hot Stomaches use this Take dryed Quinces half an ounce Citron-peels a dram red Sanders two drams white Sanders a dram Liquorish two drams red Roses two drams and half cordial-flowers a dram great cold Seeds two drams small cold Seeds half a dram Sorrel Purslane Barbery Coriander-seeds each a dram white Poppy-seeds Gum Traganth and Arabick each half a dram Coral a dram Antispodium made of Ivory or Harts-horn half a dram and to please the Stomach Cinnamon and Aniseseed each a dram sweet Sanders half a dram with Mastick make a Pouder Give it with Sugar of Roses or in Lozenges made with Sugar and the Waters mentioned and a little juyce of a Lemmon or Vinegar A bitter Pouder easie to be made against Choler in the Stomach Take Wormwood a dram tops of Centaury and Masterwort-roots each half a dram give a spoonful with Wine A Pouder against Burning of the Stomach Take white Chalk half an ounce Nutmeg a dram Sugar an ounce Give a spoonful Or this Take Crabs-eyes two drams Bole half a dram red Roses a dram Sugar of Roses half an ounce Use it as the other In great Pains give things to abate Sense as Antidotes to be mentioned in Imbecillity which are good here if new made though they have many hot things and opiate Electuaries as Philonium Romanum two scruples in Pills or Electuaries of Juyce of Roses to purge Choler or requires Nicolai half a dram with Wine Or this Drink Take Syrup of Poppies six drams Syrup of Roses and Wormwood each an ounce give it with convenient Water or Wine If you leave out the Syrup of Poppies and boyl in the other a grain of Opium gently and give it with Chicken-broath it is excellent In time of danger give Narcoticks and that often I have often with good success given my Nepenthe in a cholerick Vomiting from anger when there hath been great pain and heat of the Body Outwardly of what cause soever in heat or corruption we use Astringents and Coolers as to keep the flux of Choler from the Liver adding alwayes some hot things proper for the Stomach because outwardly they cannot do hurt but strengthen and cause piercing they must all be used warm The usually cold Oyls of Roses and Omphacine that is of unripe Olives Quinces Myrtles Mastich with hot as of Mints and Spike are used with Vinegar to make them pierce or Wine to strengthen boyled in them till they be consumed A cooling strengthning Oyntment Take Oyl of Roses and Quinces each an ounce Oyl of Myrtles or Mastick Wormwood or Mints each half an ounce Vinegar of Roses six drams boyl them till the Vinegar be consumed add when they cool Pouder of Citron-peels Coriander-seeds red Roses Wormwood each half a dram Coral a dram Sanders red and white each half a dram Spike two scruples Camphyre a scruple to pierce rather then cool with Wax make a Liniment or with Labdanum two drams Aloes a dram and Turpentine make a Plaister Galens cold Oyntment of Roses and the Cerot of Sanders are good in Burning of the Stomach and of other Bowels In a great Heat when you will cool more Take Oyl of Roses omphacine two ounces juyce of Sowthistle Solomons-seal Vinegar each half an ounce Pouder of Alabaster half an ounce with Turpentiine wash'd make an Oyntment Or use the Oyntment in the Inflammation of the Stomach mentioned Or a Cataplasm of Purslane Nightshade Solomons-seal Vine Sowthistle Harts-tongue Venus-navel Water-lillies wild Vine Roses with Wormwood and Mints or Chamomil-slowers in pain boyled in water or rose-Rose-water or horstongue-Horstongue-water well beaten to a Pultis with the Oyls aforesaid two ounces Mastick half an ounce Alabaster three drams Horstongue poudered two drams Sanders and Cloves each a dram make a Pultis If the pain be great use an anodyne Cataplasm mentioned in the Inflammation of the Stomach Or this Take Toasts of Bread dipt in Vinegar of Roses half a pint Pulp of Quinces so steeped also three ounces add a little red Wine and juyce of Quinces and pouder of Mastick half an ounce dryed Wormwood two drams Chamomil-flowers and Mace each a dram Oyl of Roses and Chamomil each an ounce mix and apply them Or the Fomentation mentioned in Inflammation or of the Herbs mentioned or of the Oyls with Vinegar and Juyces of Herbs If there be pain Take Roses wild Vine Chamomil Melilot or Dill each a pugil Wormwood or Mints each half a handful Marsh-mallow roots six drams Coriander-seeds and Myrtles each half an ounce Mastick two ounces Cloves Sanders each a dram with Water and red Wine make a Fomentation Or use an Epithem of Rose-water and Vinegar with a Linnen-clout or a toast of Bread Or Take Rose-water two ounces Harts-tongue and Wormwood-water each an ounce all Sanders or Diatrionsantalon two drams
When those Bowels that lye upon the Diaphragma are inflamed for then Breath is hindered and there is a Cough and the stomach disturbed And when the Liver is inflamed Choler is vomited or there is a looseness or Jaundies and the Reins inflamed make the Urin sharp And if an Ulcer follow an Inflammation in these parts as appears by pissing of matter from the Kidneys and we see in Anatomies in the Liver and Spleen or if there be a hardness left from the Inflammation not well discussed there will be accidents that will follow accordingly A stroak or contusion or the like made outwardly upon the parts may be the cause of the Imflammation as also very hot things taken in may inflame the Liver and Spleen as well as the stomach which lyeth near them The chief Cause of Inflammation of the Liver is drinking much cold water in a great heat which makes a sudden repercussion And the Cause of the Inflammation of the Kidneys is the stone which seeks a passage forth and gets into the Vreters and causeth great pain and flux of blood This stone increaseth the Disease by being together with the Inflammation All these Causes of Inflammation kindle a symptomatical Feaver But when blood is hot in a Synoch Feaver without these Causes as we shewed in Feavers and sent upon any of the Bowels aforesaid it may cause these Inflammations which follow a Feaver as their cause And it may be also from plenty of blood when a Feaver goes not afore but follows after which blood breaks out of the Vessels and causeth an Inflammation If this Blood if it be in the Liver impure and not well purged from Choler causeth an erysipelated Phlegmon and the great Heat that comes from thence by which the Bowels seem to burn whence comes the burning Feaver called Typhodes And the same things happen if there be a true Erysipelas from pure Choler spread through the substance of the Liver from the Gall. And this may come also from the Causes mentioned that produce other Inflammations If the Liver or Spleen be obstructed by a Humor The obstruction of the Liver Spleen or Kidneys causeth a blunt and heavy pain in the Hypochondria so that they are more heavy there is a weight in the sides This is seldom from a Humor in the Kidneys but from a Stone or Gravel This heaviness increaseth as if a weight lay thereon if there be a hard Tumor Scirrhus or Oedema in the Liver or Spleen This may be in the Kidneys from the same tumors with great pain and heaviness The Causes of all these shall be mentioned in other great accidents We shall not speak of Wind which some will have to be a cause of pain in the Liver or Spleen because it cannot be in such quantity there as to cause it by stretching neither is the inside of those parts sensible neither do we see how it can be in the Kidneys From a Stone bred in the Liver or the Gall or from sand or gravel A stone and sand in the Liver or Gall is the cause of heavy and dull pain in the Hypochondria gathered and returned there is felt a Heaviness as from a Tumor This may be as I have seen in Anatomies and it hath been observed that much red Gravel like Blood hath been voided in a Disease of the Liver and by finding stones in the Livers of Beasts We may collect that the same may be in a man These hapning cause this pain and other Symptoms such as come from a stopped Liver as we shall shew we cannot affirm that Stones may breed in the Spleen but from that general rule that they may breed in any part of the Body because we never saw nor heard of any Stones of divers sorts The stone or sand in the kidneys is the cause of heaviness in the Hypochondria and gravel in the Kidneys and Vreters cause the Nephritick pain which is either a Heaviness only in the Reins gentle and dull when the Gravel lyeth still or the Stones sticks to the kidney but the pain is greater when much Gravel is gathered there or the Stones be great or many with pricking and cutting and numness in the Leg on that side from compression of the Nerves in the Loins or pissing of Blood from great motion which maketh the stone beat upon the substance of the Kidneys and somtimes of matter and some part of the stone These accidents are greater and longer when the stone is long detained and grows up in one place and especially when it grows so that it fills the Reins and swells them as we have seen great branched stones in Anatomies Or when the substance of the Kidneys is worn away and the stone is wrapt in the Membrane only as in a purse where the Kidney was Hence must needs be great pain and I opened a Woman that in her life time complained for many years of such a pain and often miscarried and found it so Also I opened a woman that after a mischance pined away and died in whom besides other accidents I found both Kidneys eaten away and full of matter and two great square stones in the right Kidney and two in the left one like a cross another like an almond with many other little ones This is usual for others have told me as much I saw also a stone in the outward Fat of the Kidney that grew to the tunicle which was great but caused no pain because it was hollow and light If the Stone get from the Kidneys into the Vreters A Stone and Gravel in the Vreters is the cause of Nephritis the pain is greater and hath the aforesaid Symptoms first Vomiting from the consent of the stomach and because flegm is vomited they suppose that the pain come from that but that came from the stomach because it could not so suddenly come from the Kidneys The Urin is then waterish and crude because the Choler is carried another way by vomiting and pain That pain which is from the Stone getting into the entrance of the Vreters when it returns to the Kidneys again ceaseth or is less but it increaseth when it descendeth through the narrow passages of the Vreters by stretching them and so it lasteth till it gets into the Bladder and then it ceaseth suddenly And this pain may come from Gravel that passeth slowly through the Vreters especially in the strait passages which have been so enlarged in some that I have opened that they have pissed Stones and Gravel without pain The Cause that breeds Gravel and Stones is Flegm according to the vulgar opinion which is so dry by the heat of the Kidneys that first it is Earth then a Stone But in regard Mudd or Slime is rather bred of dryed Flegm and it cannot be further hardned by any Art or Nature nor that that chalky matter which is found in the Joynts comes from Flegm as we shall shew in the Diseases of the Joynts or
ounce Cinnamon a dram Schaenanth half a dram for three or four Draughts Or this Infusion Take Rhubarb four scruples Cinnamon Spike Schaenanth each a scruple sprinkle them with white Wine and steep them in Endive and Maiden-hairwater add syrup of Roses with Senna an ounce make a Potion If the Disease be in the Reins because they have nothing to do with the Meseraicks these are not proper except some other reason require it for then it is better to provoke Urin or when it is in the convex part of the Liver which hath branches of the hollow Vein then it is good in the declining to take away the remainder In the beginning of Inflammations of Liver Spleen or Kidneys we give gentle Astringers and Coolers and which strengthen them especially the liver and spleen Then we leave out the Astringents and mix Cleansers with Coolers and then Openers which take away the remainder by Urin or Stool Such as were prescribed for the Inflammation of the stomach Or these following at first to repel Take syrup of dryed Roses or Myrtles each an ounce syrup of Currance or Bar-berries or of Succory or of Plantane for the Kidneys each half an ounce Endive Rose and Plantane-water each an ounce and half red Sanders half a dram Drink itin the morning and make it again for the evening A cooling cleansing and opening Julep in the progress Take syrup of Violets and Endive or Sorrel or Bizantine each an ounce syrup of Purslane and Water-lillies in the Inflammation of the Reins chiefly half an ounce Straw-berry Liverwort and lettice-Lettice-water each an ounce and half Or this Decoction Take Succory roots an ounce Endive Succory Lettice Strawberry-leaves each a handful Violets Comfrey Succory-flowers each a pugil Barley a pugil the four great cold Seeds each a dram sharp Prunes six boyl them strain and add Sugar We cool also with ordinary Drink made of Water and Barley and Violets and other four things and with Conserves and Candyes mentioned in Feavers and Inflammation of the Stomach In the Declination when we will cleanse and open and purge by Urin We take syrup of Maiden-hair of Bizant each an ounce syrup of Endive and of the two Roots each half an ounce Water of Maidenhair Agrimony Fumitory each an ounce Spike and Schaenanth each a scruple Or this Decoction Take Roots of Asparagus Fennel Parsley Liquorish each an ounce barke of Tamarinds for the Spleen half an ounce Maidenhair for both Liver and Spleen Agrimony Ceterach each a handful Cordial and Broom flowers each a pugil Chamomil-flowers half a pugil red Pease a pugil the four great cold Seeds half an ounce Anise-seed two drams Parsley-seed and Agnus Castus cach a dram Raisons an ounce boyl them and in the straining dissolve syrup of the five or of the two Roots an ounce and half with Cinnamon make it for three or four draughts Pills to discuss the reliques of the Inflamation Take Turpentine two drams Gum Ammoniack dissolved in Vinegar a dram Myrrh Storax each a scruple Schaenanth Spike Asarum each half a scruple with Sugar make Pills take two scruples or a dram with Barley Pease or Parsley-water Outward Coolers must be applied at the first which astringe and repel then mix Dissolvers therewith and in the Declination use Discussers alone to dissolve the remainder or to ring it to Suppuration if it will not be discussed To all these you must add Strengthners when the principal parts are inflamed And these must all be applied not actually cold but temperate at the first and warm afterwards A repelling Epithem to be used at the first Take Rose-water four ounces Plantane-water two ounces Vinegar of Roses an ounce Sanders a dram Camphire a scruple you may ad Juyce of Plantane or Violet-leaves or of Pears or Quinces Oyl of Roses half an ounce or Rose-vinegar Then use this Take of Nightshade-water Water of Lettice Violets and Water-lillies each an ounce Endive or Succory-water for the Liver two ounces juyce of Nightshade or Purslane or of red Roses an ounce Vinegar half an ounce Sanders a dram with Oyl of Violets make an Epithem Or dip Clouts in Juyce only of Nightshade or of Endive for the Liver and apply with a little Vinegar and Oyl of Violets Roses or Water-lillies An Oyntment for the beginning of the Inflammation Take Oyl of Roses Quinces or Myâ—ties each two ounces juyce of Plantane and Vinegar each an ounce or juyce of Endive or Succory for the Liver or Spleen an ounce boyl them till the Juyces are consumed add Sanders red Roses each a dram with Wax make an Oyntment At the first use the Cerot of Sanders for the Liver or Spleen and the cooling Oyntment of Galen for the Reins And Oyntment of Roses for all Parts Or this Cataplasm when the noble Bowels are affected Take Quinces four ounces Plantane and Horstongue each an handful red Roses a pugil Pomegranate-flowers half an ounce boyl and stamp them ad Barley-meal three ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces red Sanders two drams make a Cataplasm In the progress to dissolve the Inflammation of Liver or Spleen Take Oyl of Roses two ounces Oyl of Wormwood or Spikenard an ounce Oyl of Chamomil or Melilot half an ounce Sanders a dram Spike half a dram with Wax make a Liniment An old Oyntment for Inflammation of the Liver made of Poppy tops Rue Linseed and Schaenanth is good at that time Or the Cataplasm of Galen made of Quinces and Dates Or this Cataplasm Take Figgs Dates Raisons not stoned each three ounces Wormwood Harts-tongue each a handful red Roses a pugil boyl them in Wine and Water stamp and add Barley and Foenugreek-meal or Lineseed each two ounces Pouder of Orris a dram Oyl of Chamomil and Lillies each an ounce and half Saffron a scruple Spike and Schaenanth each half a dram In the Declination the Emplaster of Melilot Marsh-mallows or Dyachylum with Orris do the same and also maturate In the Inflammation of the Kidneys use relaxing and resolving Ovls as that of Oyl of sweet Almonds or in which Marsh-mallow-roots are boyled Oyl of Chamomile Lillies or the like and Grease or Fat 's Or Oyntments of the same as that called Resumptive Also a Bath of Marsh-mallows and Mallows Lillies Chamomile Faenugreek and Lineseed and the like or a Fomentation for the Reins A Pain in the Reins from Stone or Gravel The preventing and curing of Gravel in the Kidneys is not only to be cured when it comes but to be prevented by hindring the breeding of Stones when we fear it by reason our Parents had it or are otherwise disposed to it Especially in those who pisse Sand we must take heed least it cleave to the Kidneys and breed a Stone And if we suspect that there is a Stone from former pains and present Heaviness in the part we must prevent pain hinder its growth and labour to expell it This is by taking them of from things that breed the Stone and heat and dry the Kidneys
and by giving cleansers to keep the Stones from growing to the Kidneys and to break them and bring them down But in curing of the pain of the Stone which sticketh in the Passages we must relax the passages break the Stone and labour to get it forth all which shall be now related as also the Diet and Exercise and Purgers and Clysters and alterers and outward remedies There must be moderation and choise in meats and Drink which must be of good juice because the stone taketh its Original from them Meat must be Temperate and very little salted very salt and dry things must be forborne for from these comes the cheif earthly Matter Also very sharp and hot things that dry and heat the Kidneys as Sawsages and Spices rather then crude glutiners and things they thought breed Flegme for these cause a thick juice which maketh Obstructions but not the earthly Matter except there be some other cause for that is layd aside in the serum in which they are washed as we shewed in the Causes Therefore Cheese which they forbid so earnestly as the great Cause of the Stone cannot do it but by its saltness and sharpness but fresh Cheese Milk and milkie meats and other fresh meats though they be glutinous cannot breed the Stone Modetate Exercise before meat is good to remove the Stone which fixeth by Idleness Therefore they void Stones more after exercise then after Sleep and the Urine made at that time is best to judg by Therefore when the Stone is little and sticks in the Kidneys Moderate Exercise is good but when great it causeth pain by moving it and in an old disease strong and violent motion of the Loyns tears the flesh from the Stone and causeth pissing of Blood and an Ulcer Neither do some allow exercise presently after meat least it be distributed before concoction and carried to the Kidneys to breed matter for the Stone but this Crudity will rather breed Obstructions and other Diseases then the Stone as we shewed Immoderate Venery dries and weakens the Reins and disposeth them for the stone and if there be a stone it stirreth it and causeth pain Therefore they who have lived long without the use of Women when they marry are subject to the Stone which they never formerly perceived being old men as we have observed often Also loosness of Body in orderly going to stool hinders the increase of Excrements And not holding of the Urin when it urgeth prevents the fixing of the Gravel If the Body be foul purge Spring and Fall and oftner to prevent not only Flegm which some think is the cause of the stone but all humors And to take away the cause of the stone use gentle things that carry the salt and wheyish Matter from the Reins and cleanse the Blood as they say such as shall be mentioned for the Cure For when the fit of the stone is we use Laxatives or Clysters to take away Excrements and Wind then Purges but not violent that they may not meddle with the cause which is rather to be looked at in the time of prevention then of cure But such as may gently move the stone drawn mixed with things that break it as we shall shew Cassia is excellent to prevent and in the fit also an ounce or more with syrup of Violets or Sugar candy or with the Decoction of Liquorish or Sebestens or convenient Waters or seeds of Winter-cherries or Gromwel or a dram of Pouder of Turpentine with Oyl of sweet Almonds to abate pain Also Turpentine two drams with the yolk of an Eg convenient Liquor Sugar or Honey or with Cassia Or with Benedicta laxativa or two drams of the pouder thereof with Sugar A loosning and cleansing Decoction Take Liquorish an ounce and half Raisons stoned an ounce Sebestens ten pair Prunes five pair Pease a pugil the four great cold seeds half an ounce Anise-seeds three drams Senna and Polypody each an ounce Violets a pugil boyl them and add Sugar syrup of Violets or Roses for two draughts It is better to add Fennel and Parsley-roots each an ounce Saxifrage and Marsh-mallow roots each half an ounce Mallows Maidenhair each an handful Dill-flowers a pugil Alkekengi-berries two drams and make the quantity of Senna an ounce and half and to add Rbubarb and Agarick A purging Wine Take Senna an ounce Carthamus-seeds a dram Agarick or Rhubarb two drams Liquorish an ounce opening Roots half an ounce Violets and Mallows each two drams Berries of Alkekengi Anise and Lovage-seed each a dram Currance four ounces add Wine three pints drink this to prevent the stone and when it begins to purge A preventing Electuary and to be taken in the fit Take Cassia two ounces and half Prunes and Sebestens each an ounce juyce of Liquorish two drams with syrup of Violets make an Electuary give an ounce with things against the stone and some scammoniate Electuary as that of Juyce of Roses Diaphaenicon Elescoph and Benedicta laxativa a dram and half Or give the gentle Electuaries with Rhubarb and Senna as Catholicon and Lenitive and the like alone or with the Decoction mentioned Or gentle Pills with things that break the stone Or these Take species Hiera and Benedicta laxativa half a dram with Turpentine make Pills Or a dram of Benedicta Or this Pouder Take Senna an ounce and half Rhubarb two drams Turbith three drams Ginger a dram Cinnamon two drams Polypody three drams Gromwel and Burdock-seeds each a dram Broom-seeds half a dram Orris a dram the four great cold seeds each a scruple make a pouder give two drams Clysters suddenly take away pain by taking out the Excrements and Wind which would increase it by pressing upon the Ureters and Reins And also by coming to the part being anodyne and if they be narcotick especially and which break the stone Then do they help in a threefold respect As this against the Stone Take the emollient herbs roots and all Pellitory Bettony Groundsel Beets or Mercury each a handful Chamomil Melilot and Dill-flowers each a pugil Liquorish two ounces red Pease Bran each a pugil Figs ten Bay-berries three drams Alkekengi-berries two drams Gourd Foenugreek and Linseed each half an ounce Fennel and Caraway seeds each a dram and half boyl them in Water and Wine or Broath strain and add Honey or sugar an ounce and half Cassia an ounce Benedicta or Hiera two drams Oyl of sweet Almonds Nuts Olives or Butter each an ounce Turpentine two drams with Salt make a Clyster If the Pain be great add two drams of Philonium Romanum Or you may use the anodyne Clysters for the Colick adding things proper for the stone Or thus Take Oyl of Chamomil Dill Lillies sweet Almonds each an ounce and half Oyl of scorpions Goose grease and sweet Butter each two ounces Turpentine dissolved with the Yolk of an Egg an ounce and half Saffron a dram with Milk make a Clyster add Opium half a scruple if there be
those Hog-lice or sows called Onisci which Hartman so commends in his Practise of Chymistry Or the fine pouder of Lapis Judaicus or half a dram of Lapis prunellae with the thin water of Vitriol given twice a week in the morning This is a great secret among some Besides these there are many Pouders and Electuaries and Pills made of Roots of white Saxifrage Burnet Saxifrage Dropwort Restharrow Valerian Horse-raddish Madder Nettles Lovage Fennel Parsley Grass Kneeholm Sparagus Bramble Asarabacca sea-onyons Orris Elicampane Birthwort Piony Dancasonium Horse-dock Acorn-shells middle Rinds of Hazel the saxifrage of Dioscorides called Serpillum by Dodon the Capillars Celticknard Bay and Colewort-leaves Feaverfew Ground-Ivy Penny-royal Organ Polymontain Calamints Hysop Southernwood Germander Bettony Pauls-bettony Groundpine Leaves of Oak and Willow Scordium and Empetrum the Flowers of Royal Comphrey Chamomil seeds of Fennel Anise Caraway Cummin Smallage Dill Carrot Sesely Parsley Lovage siler-mountain Amcos Parsley-pert Coriander Asparagus Kneeholm Basil Raddish St. Johs-wort white Thorn Nettle Ash-keyes Gith Water-cresses Burnet Saxifrage Lupins Vetches Bay and Juniper-berries Medlar-stones Peach and Cherry-kernels sweet Almonds red Pease the spunge in the sweet Bryar Cherry-tree and Plum-tree Gum Gum of the Walnut-tree Vine Gum Arabick Traganth Elemi Olibanum Bdellium and Amber Also the ashes an an Hedghog Swallow Asses-liver Doves-feathers and pouders of a Hares-kidneys Mans-skull Horse-hoof Astragalus or Hare Ivory Picks or pickerel Jaws of Crayfish and Snails shells or of Eg shells hatched or of stones in Cray-fish Crabs spunges or of stones taken from men commended by Paracelsus and Oyl of them taught by Hartman Also pouder of Mouse dung And of Lynx stone Ocher the third Alcyon of Dioscorides and ashes of Glass To which we add things to enlarge the passages as Liquorish Marsh-mallows Venus-navel Violets seeds of Mallows Cotton Marsh-mallows Foenugreek Linseed the four great cold Seeds sweet Almonds Pistakes ashes of Nuts and Gourds And things that help concoction and expel wind and obstructions and spices that expel the stone and make the Medicines pleasant as Ginger Galangal Calamus cypress cinnamon Wood-cassia Wood-aloes red Sanders Nutmeg Mace cloves Pepper carpobalsom cubebs spike schaenanth saffron Give of these mixed a dram or two with Wine Water Lye Decoctions or Infusions or with sugar make gross Pouders or Lozenges with Gum Traganth or with Honey or Syrup make Electuaries with other conserves or candyes given from two to three drams Or if they be unpleasant make Pills with Turpentine and give a dram and after them give a convenient Draught of proper Liquor to help their working Examples of Pouders Pills and Electuaries are these The first pouder Take dryed Coleworts a dram Oak-leaves dryed and Acorn peels each half a dram Pepper and Ginger each a scruple make a pouder give a dram or a dram and half A second Take Peach kernels parched half an ounce Melon seeds two drams Fennel seed a dram Give it with Parsley-broath A third Take Gromwel seed and Winter-cherries each a dram Parsley seed half a dram Give it in five ounces of Lemmon-water A fourth Take Broom seeds half a dram Amber two scruples Sugar candy a dram Give it with Wine A fifth pouder Take stones of Medlars a dram Pickrel-jaws half a dram Lovage seed a scruple Give it as the other The sixth Take Crabs-eyes and Astragalus each half a dram Broom and Basil seed each a scruple Give it at once A seventh Take of the stones that have been voided by the same Patient or others and Lapis judaicus equal parts make a fine pouder Give it with Hydromel or Water of Sea-fennel The eighth Take the ashes of a Wag-taile or Hare a dram Eg-shels hatched two scruples with Sugar and Cinnamon make a Pouder The ninth Take boyled Turpentine half a dram Pouder of Earth worms a scruple burnt Harts horn two scruples Lapis Iudaicus a scruple Gum Traganth half a scruple The tenth Take Goats blood prepared a dram Jews stone half a dram Ashes of Earth worms a scruple give it as the other The eleventh Take Goats blood prepared or ashes of a Hare two drams or of each a dram the Spunge stone and Jews stone each a dram and an half Fennel Parsley Annis seeds Gromwel seeds Medlar stones each a dram watercress seeds half a dram Mellon seeds a dram Liquorish half an ounce Roots of Burnet Saxifrage half a dram Cinnamon a scruple sugar two ounces make a pouder give a spoonful or two drink after it some convenient Liquor The twelfth Take Liquorish three drams Rest-harrow Dittany Bays Hors-radish Burnet Saxifrage and white Saxifrage of each two drams Asarum Orris roots each a dram Dodons Saxifrage called Serpillum Maiden-hair Bupleurus Rupturewort Pennyroyal each a dram and an half Fennel Seseli Parsly Lovege seed Sea fennel Radish Basil seed of each two drams Watercress and Gith seed each a dram Medlarstones a dram and an half Peach kernels two drams Plum tree Gum two drams Crabs Eyes Pickrel jaws Egg-shels Wolves Liver prepared each a dram Jews stone and Spunge stone each a dram and an half Oker and burnt Glass of each half a dram give it as the former A thirteenth excellent Pouder Take Mouse dung five or seven Olibanum a scruple Fennel seed half a dram Cinnamon a scruple A fourteenth stronger Take one Grass hopper of half a scruple Crabs eyes two scruple Cinnamon a scruple give it with the Decoction of Juniper berries The fifteenth yet stronger Take dryed Spanish flies four Spung stone two scruples Melon seeds a dram and an half Sugar candy a dram give it with the Decoction of Lineseed or Whey The great Electuaries of Nicolas Lithontribon Ducis or Justinus are made of these and that of Arnoldus de Villa Nova and that called Nephrocathartike and Philanthropos and the Diuretick of Baptista and Montagnaria There is also an Electuary called the Queens Electuary which hath Senna and Turbith in it And a red Pouder make thus Take red Sanders and Cinnamon each an ounce Annis Fennel Parsley Gronwel Creta of the Sea Winter-cherries Melon seeds of each two drams Spunge and Jews stone and Lynx stone each a dram blood of a Goate prepared half a dram The Electuary of Ashes by Avicen is prepared for the stone Thus Ashes of Glass Spunge and Jews stone Scorpions Hare Egg-shels Pouder of Goats blood Ashes of Coleworts Calamus Penny-royal Parsley seed Carrot Marsh-mallow seeds Pepper Wallnut tree Gum and Gum Arabick made into Pouder and with Honey into an Electuary This hath been often used by me with good success Take Liquorish Bay roots of each two drams Rest harrow roots a dram Winter-cherries Paliurus seeds Gromwell of each two drams Smallage Parsley and Fennel seed each a dram Water-cresses half a dram Gum of Cherry or Plum tree and Amber each a dram make a Pouder with Cinnamon and a little Sanders and to mitigate pain Henbane seeds a dram and an half give a dram with sugar or make Lozenges or an Electuary or
Pills with syrup that is proper with Peach kernels and juyce of Liquorish instead of Liquorish With Conserves you may mix them thus Take Conserve of smallage roots or Orris an ounce Conserve of Broom flowers and Maidenbair each half an ounce The tenth twelfth or thirteenth Pouder Or the Electuary Ducis Justinus or Lithantribon a dram and an half Or if you will have it stronger the fourteenth Pouder and juyce of Liquorish each a dram with syrups aforesaid make an Electuary Agarick is somtimes added Take Agarick a dram Pellitory of Spain two drams roots of Dropwort a dram Gromwel seeds half a dram Madder half an ounce conserve of Maiden hair half an ounce with Honey of Violets make an Electuary Convenient Pills Take seeds of Paliurus Gromwell Winter Cherries each a dram Saxifrage seed and Sea fennel each half a dram Mallow seeds two scruples juyce of Liquorish a scruple Gum of Cherry and Plum tree each half a dram Bdellium a scruple Goats blood prepared a dram ashes of Scorpions or Mouse heads Earthworms Hog lice or Sows each half a dram with Turpentine make Pills give a dram Fâ—â— pain give Anodynes with the former An Emulsion Take Peach kernels four ounces Melon or Gourd seeds half an ounce white Poppy seeds two drams beat them and with half a pint of Pellitory or Mallow water make an Emulsion with Sugar or Honey give four ounces A pouder again pain Take white Poppy tops two drams Henbane seeds a dram and an half the four great cold seeds and Mallow seeds each a dram Gromwel seeds and Winter Cherries and Broom seeds each half a dram Liquorish two drams Restharrow roots a dram sugar two ounces It is good in pains to add white poppy seeds or Henbane seeds as I shewed in my pouder Or to give Opiats as Asyncriton Philonium Romanum with pouders against the stone or others mentioned in the Colick And Narcoticks may be given with purgers As Take Asyncriton or Philonium Romanum two scruples or a dram Diaphaenicon a dram and a half or species Benedicta a dram and an half or six grains of Diagredium with sugar make a Bolus Or thus Take senna half an ounce Carthamus seeds two drams Liquorish parsley roots each half an ounce white poppy seeds two drams Mallows and Lineseed each a dram boyl them and dissolve Asyncriton or philonium a dram Mithridate two drams or half an ounce of syrup of poppies Or these pills Take species Laxativum two scruples Opium prepared and dissolved in sack two grains Storax saffron Castor each three grains Oyl of sweet fennel seeds a drop with Turpentine make pills We give Anodynes in Clysters also as in the Colick And outward things to remove the stone by dilating the passages Sitting in a moist and hot Bath takes away pain if up to the Armeholes in a Vessel made on purpose called Lumbrorium In time of necessity hot water alone will do well and better then potential heat to take away pain though things potentially hot may be added to help the Decoction and which loosen expel wind open and move the stone such as Clysters were made of Or these a Decoction of Mallows and parsley and Chamomil flowers in a straight Vessel the less will serve Or adding Lilly roots pellitory and Violets Or a Decoction of Coleworts Spinage Arrage or Turneps or Parsneps or Scirroots and Horse-radish which is best Or of Marsh-mallowroots opening Roots and all three pugils Foenugreek and Linseed a pugil Smallage Parsley and Caraway seed an ounce We add to the former some stronger things to expel the stone which are mentioned in Remedies taken inward and may be used outwardly to remove it as some think Chiefly Madder roots and sea-fennel or Sisymbrium Columbines Dropwort Dovefoot Bupleur southernwood Mugwort Broom flowers and of Verbascum Gromwel seeds and Winter-cherries and the like For rich people we add Milk Oyl Butter to loosen more and Wine to make it penetrate We make Fomentations when baths cannot be used of the Decoctions aforesaid with a spunge stuphes or bags with Wine and Oyls Some use Embrochations or Infusions upon the pecten if the stone lodge there to remove it they are made of the aforesaid Decoctions Also to bath in and to drink of sharp Waters is good against the stone as those of Sulphur After Bathing or Fomentation anoint the Reins Privities and Perinaeum to take away pain and open the passages warm stroaking the Hand downward If there be heat of the Kidneys this Oyntment will open and cool Take Oyl of Violets and Water-lillies boyl Marsh-mallows therem fresh Butter or Cream and Goose grease each half an ounce with white wax make a Liniment A stronger Anodyne Take Oyl of sweet Almonds an ounce and half Oyl of Chamomil or Melilot Dill and wall-flowers each half an ounce Conies grease six drams Mucilage of Linseed or Fleabane an ounce Saffron a scruple with wax make a Liniment Or anoint with the Oyntment of Marsh-mallows or that called Resumptive When we will drive along the stone Take Oyl of bitter Almonds an ounce Oyl of Peach kernels half an ounce Oyl of Scorpions and Goose grease each half an ounce Turpentine a dram with wax make a Liniment With Juyces thus Take juyce of Pellitory and Marsh-mallows each an ounce and half wine an ounce white wine-vinegar half an ounce Oyl of wall-flowers and Earth-worms each an ounce Oyl of Scorpions half an ounce boyl them to the consumption of the Juyces ad Goats grease six drams and with wax make an Oyntment or with Turpentine Another stronger Take Oyl of Lillies and bitter Almonds each an ounce and half juyce of sea-fennel Horse-raddish and white wine each an ounce boyl them and ad Grass-hoppers or quick wood-lice spanish-flies scorpions dryed twelve or more Or thus Take Oyl of bitter Almonds of Peach or Cherry-kernels two ounces Oyl of scorpions or burnt Grass-hoppers half an ounce with wax make an Oyntment A more compound Oyntment Take Oyl of Chamomil Dill Lillies each an ounce Oyl of bitter Almonds an ounce and half of scorpions an ounce Goat and Badgers-grease each half an ounce Mucilage of Foenugreeck seed an ounce Madder and Asarum roots each a dram water-cresses Raddish and Lovage seeds each half a dram Myrrh a dram ashes of Grass-hoppers or Beetles two scruples ashes of Beech mast a dram saffron half a scruple Oyl of Amber half a scruple with wax make an Oyntment Trallianus commends the blood of a Goat newly killed to anoint This Cataplasm is good to the pained part Take roasted Lilly roots half a pound of Pellitory of the wall heated upon the Tiles and bruised two handfuls and of Groundpine so prepared three drams Marsh-mallow roots bruised two ounces Chamomil flowers and Dill tops each a pugil Flower of Foenugreek and Linseed each an ounce boyl them in milk add fresh Butter two ounces Oyl of Lillies and scorpions each an ounce saffron a scruple make a Pultis Also the actual Heat of Bags made
thereof And then because it hindereth pissing we shall speak thereof in the Chapter of painfull pissing If the Bladder be inflamed in the substance of it The Inflammation of the Bladder is the cause of the burning pain thereof it causeth a pain in the Privities with redness and tumor also when the Bladder is wrapped in the Caule and the tumor is greater when the Excrements and Urin want passage This Inflammation somtimes turns to an Imposthume and then for the time the pain is yet greater and when that is broken there is an Ulcer and painful pissing of matter Also this Inflammation may leave a Scirrhus such a one as I saw gtowing very large in the Bladder of a Cow that was broken by accident and cured again Also this Inflammation if it be not well cured turns to a Gangraene And I once saw a Bladder black within when I opened a dead Fryar Some external accident may cause this Inflammation of the Bladder or pain from the stone or an Ulcer to which Diseases an Inflammation is somtimes joyned of the Bladder and Kidneys also when the body is Plethorick and fit to receive it Because the Womb is in the same lower part of the Belly The cause of pain in the Womb and the Vessels thereof and lyeth under the Bladder and the bottome thereof especially being stretched reacheth into the Belly the pains are alike in both And because the Ligaments of the Womb by which it hangeth reach to the Hips and Loyns they are pained also and of them we shall here speak but we have treated of the pains of the Neck of the Womb in its place But all the pains of the Womb in the bottom or Body or Ligaments thereof some whereof reach to the Neck as in the Bladder come from stretching or from Inflammation The stretching pain in the bottom of the womb The stretching of the bottom of the womb causeth the pain after Child-bearing comes chiefly from outward Cold taken in after Child-bearing while the inward Orifice of the womb is large and open for want of keeping warm by which means the Air gets in and fills and stretcheth and weakneth it and by cooling causeth pain This is called the pain after Child-bearing At another time this pain cannot come from taking in of Air because before Conception the womb is smal and thick and the cavity which is to be filled with Seed in time of Conception is very straight and after conception also when it grows bigger with the Child the inward Orifice is close shut and the womb full Nor from wind bred in the Body because if it get into the straight cavity of the womb or breed there it cannot so stretch the womb to cause pain because it is very thick Neither can water cause pain for the same reasons Though some suppose that the womb may be like a bladder inlarged and have an Inflammation from wind and water as they call it For though the womb be larger in some women by Nature or by much moisture which loosneth it yet it cannot be so filled and stretched that pain may follow And if the repletion be great there will be rather a weight and heaviness then a pain as it is when the Child is great but the weight of the Child by stretching the Ligaments may cause a kind of pain but it is in the Groins and not in the Loins as we shewed So then there is no other stretching pain of the womb but what is after Child-bearing The stretching of the vessels is the usual cause of pain in the womb caused either from the substance of it or from the Membranes and Vessels by which it hangeth but from Humors retained and then it may reach to the sides as we shewed in Hypochondriack pains as when the courses are stopped or disordered or foul This foulness comes from foul blood and humors in women of evil habit that want their Courses which do so fill stretch or provoke the part they that cause pain especially when they are hot and send up Vapors and produce other Accidents especially the suffocation of the womb as we there shewed The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb and neck also The Inflammation of the bottom of the womb causeth the burning pain thereof causeth pain with divers accidents as we shewed This as that of the Bladder may leave an Imposthume Ulcer Scirrhus or Gangraen And the cause external may be a Stroak or Bruise or internal abundance of blood about the womb upon stoppage of the Terms when they flow not into the neck but into the substance of the womb and cause Inflammation according to the diversity of the blood The Cancer of the womb And if the quality thereof be malignant it may cause a Cancer which shall be mentioned in Diseases of the Neck of the Womb because it is commonly in that part The womb is chiefly inflamed from difficulty of Deliverance The Inflammation of the womb after Child-bearing causeth the second sort of pain after child-bearing great pain and straining either while the child or after birth remain or after they are gone which causeth a Feaver And this Inflammation is rather the cause of many womens death then the retention of the after-burden and the pain they have comes from the Inflammation as well as from the Air that gets into it and is then greater and more dangerous The Cure The Cure is different according to the part affected and the variety of Causes as the Bowels are stretched cooled or inflamed by Blood or Choler And is to be applied to the stretching or Inflammation of the bladder or womb The stretching of the Bowels from what cause soever The cure of the Colick pain of the womb Convolvulus from stretching or cold if it cause the Coeliack and Iliack pain must be cured the same way as also when it comes of Cold. And if it come from the abundance of excrements and wind with pain and rumbling if they come forth as they use to do by Fasting Belching or a Flux you must take the same course as in Diarrhaea If these Excrements cause a stoppage in the thick Guts and so by stretching the Colick it is easier cured then in the small Guts especially when they are evil and increase continually for then Iliack passion which is so deadly and hard to be cured will return and cause Convulsions and Palsies and the like which though the pain cease destroy the Patient And if the stoppage be so hard that it cannot be opened but the thin Guts are so full of Excrements that they are sent back into the Duodenum then follows the deadly convolvulus or Spewing up of Excrements or Iliack or knots or tanglings of the Guts In all which cases except when the Guts are knotted or an Iliack pain from a Rupture for then you must rather look to the putting up the Gut then to the Iliack Passion the cure is
after she had whelped and she presently had pains Pills Take Opopanax Sagapenum each a dram Castor Gentian each half a dram Spike a scruple Saffron half a scruple with syrup of Mugwort make Pills Give half a dram or a dram In great Pains give Opiats as in the Colick especially Triphera magna proper for the Womb a dram and half with Wine or mugwort-Mugwort-water with Mace a scruple and Saffron half a scruple in pouder Or give Treacle and a little Castor therewith Foment make Baths for the Feet proper for the Womb with Decoctions of Herbs Seeds and Spices as chiefly for the Womb Mugwort Motherwort Bayes Balm Nip Costmary Grapes Savin great Celandine Swallow-wort roots Wall-flowers Misleto of the Oak Carot seed and the like Or bags mentioned in Pain of the Guts Anoynt also with Oyls as that of Bayes Wall flowers Orris Lillies Water-lillies Nard Elder Or use Oyntments with Oyls and Juyces of Herbs and Gums or Plaisters as that of Bay-berries Or Cataplasms of the Plants mentioned and Lillies and Onyons boyled mixing Oyls or that of Cow dung and Cummin seed with Honey and Wine or with Henbane if the pain be great Use also Injections made of Decoctions and Juyces of Plants but they reach but to the neck of the womb and therefore cannot take away pain nor Pessaries except it be by provoking the Terms But Fumes or Smoaks go into the Womb therefore they are better then Injections if they be taken into the Body from a Decoction Also sweet things of Musk and Ambergrease put into the womb refresh it And rubbing of the Feet from the Thighs downwards Cupping-glasses applied to the Hips cause diversion The Inflammations of the Womb and Bladder The cure of the inflammation of the bladder and womb if they cause pains in the lower part of the Belly by reason of the joyning together of these parts are cured alike as we shall here shew Inflammations are very dangerous in parts so exquisitely sensible especially in the womb when it is inflamed from hard travail which causeth many Women to die in Child-bearing Also if an Inflammation be in the Bladder from an Ulcer or Stone it endangers the Patient In both if there be an Ulcer or Scirrhus caused by it the case is difficult and if a Gangraene follow death is at the door The cure of both Inflammations is as of others by revelling or drawing by the matter when it first floweth to the part by repelling or driving back and by abating the Heat and presently after the Flux is ceased by consuming and discussing it And if these Inflammations produce other Diseases as is usual in the Neck of the Bladder and Womb they shall be spoken of in their places But you must do as followeth against the Inflammations First open a Vein in the Arm to revel and then in the Foot to derive in both cases except there be any hinderance as a Flux in Women in Travail in or after a mischance Use Scarification and Cupping to the Thighs and Buttocks But in the Inflammation of the Womb if the Terms flow too much scarifie and cup the parts above Give Clysters to open the Belly cool and abate pain and they are good at the first For being given in at the straight Gut they communicate their vertue to to the womb and bladder to which they are closely seated They must be such Clysters as are mentioned for the Inflammation of the Kidneys and Guts And such as abate pain being made of Milk to which when we wil cool to some purpose we add Juyce of Nightshade Violets Mallows and the like Apply outwardly Remedies before and behind first Coolers and Repellers but not strong Astringents as in other Inflammations least Hardness follow Afterwards in the increase we add Dissolvers which we use at the conclusion alone And if it tend to Suppuration we use Ripeners A cooling and somwhat repelling Cataplasm Take Roots of Marsh-mallows two ounces Plantane Shepheards-purse Teazel Vine leaves and Violet leaves two handfuls boyl and stamp them add Meal of Barley and Lentils three ounces Fleabane seed half an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces make a Cataplasm Or eight ounces of the Decoction distilled Water or Juyce of the said Plants with an ounce and half of Vinegar is a good Epithem for the same And it will be stronger with half an ounce of Bole or Sanguis Draconis An Oyntment Take Oyl of Violets an ounce and half Oyl of Roses or Myrtles each an ounce add two ounces of juyce of Nightshade or of the Plants mentioned and an ounce of Vinegar and boyl them in the Oyls or make them up with Turpentine You may add Bole also to make it more astringent A Cataplasm to be used in the increase of the disease Take Marsh-mallow roots three ounces Lilly roots an ounce Housleek Plantane Nightshade and Endive two handfuls Chamomil Melilot flowers each a pugil Figs and Dates each six pair boyl and stamp them add Bean flower and of Paenugreek and Linseed each two ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Oyl of Lillies an ounce Saffron a dram The Cerot of Galen made of Housleek is good Or this Oyntment in the progress of the Disease Take Oyl of Chamomil an ounce and half Oyl of Lillies and Rosemary and Linseed each half an ounce juyce of Housleek and Sowthistle each an ounce Mucilage of Foenugreek an ounce and half Conies grease an ounce Saffron half a dram with Wax make an Oyntment You may use Fomentations also when there is pain with the Decoction of Henbane and other Herbs mentioned An anodyne Cataplasm Take Crumbs of Bread half a pound boyl them in Milk add two or three Eggs beaten Mucilage of Linseed and Fleabane each an ounce Butter or Oyl of sweet Almonds three ounces Saffron half a dram In the declination of the Disease use digesting Plaisters as of Melilot Marsh-mallows Diachylon with Orris and the like Or this Take Bdellium Galbanum Opopanax each half an ounce Storax two drams dissolve them in juyce of Motherwort and Chamomil with a little Aqua vitae and make a Cataplasm A Bath in the Declination to take away the residue is made of Mallows Marsh-mallows Lillies Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Elder Rosemary Seeds of Line and Foenugreek And if the Womb be troubled of Marjoram Motherwort Mugwort Penny-royal Wall-flowers Agnus castus Spike or Schaenanth If it will not be digested bring it to maturation with this cataplasm Take Wheat flower four ounce Meal of Barley and Linseed each two ounces Figgs six pair boyl them in Milk and bruise them add three Yolks of Eggs and Hens grease two ounces Or use Ripeners mentioned against other Diseases Injections because they come not easily to the bladder in men and cannot be without pain to both Sexes in the use of the catheter cannot be in the time of Inflammation but when the Urin is stopped to open the passages of which we spake And because the body of the womb by reason of the
blood And Galen saith that he prevented the Gout by purging and bleeding and temperate Diet. Open the Arm-vein for general Evacuation or that in the Foot for particular which is good in Women when the Terms are stopt And it is acknowledged a singular Remedy to prevent the Podagra to let blood twice a year in the Foot And it deriveth and preventeth if it be done in the sound Foot And some open the Vein in the Loyns by the Buttocks to prevent the Sciatica For Cure of Defluxions and Gouts from Blood it is good to bleed at first for Revulsion in the part distant as in the arm or hand to draw from the feet or to derive by the part near where it is found In the Sciatica from blood open a vein in the arm to revel Hippocrates openeth them behind the Ears and the Arabians opened the Veins by the little Finger This done open the Vein in the Ham or Ankle within to derive or without if it appear most which is called the Sciatica-vein for its great benefit This alone cures somtimes This is done on the same side the Sciatica is although we have known by experience that bleeding on the sound side hath cured This bleeding in the Foot is good when the pain is not from blood but then bleed not in the arm before Otherwise you must not bleed rashly in particular Gouts from water least you move the humors except from the great pain you fear a new Flux of blood and then you may do it for Revulsion We use also Cupping and Scarification to prevent of what cause soever it come in the inside of the Leggs or Ankles It is good in Podagra and Sciatica It is chiefly good every new Moon to scarifie in the sole of the foot under the great Toe to prevent a Podagra And in the beginning of Defluxions and Joynt-pains it is good for turning the Matter another way in the opposite sound part as in the Sciatica in the Buttocks and Leggs and in the Shoulder-pain in the Scapulae And to bleed by Leeches in the Haemorrhoids especially where there hath been a custom Some teach that they can stop the Flux to the part by opening and tying the Vein And some have drawn yellow Water from the Hands and Feet by cutting which Hippocrates alloweth But when no certain Matter appears the way is doubtful and dangerous And a light Incision is good when the Nodes or Knots strive to get out and the skin is there Also the Flux of Humors is diverted by burning and blistering this is the best to prevent and to cure by drawing forth the matter and is to be used chiefly when the matter lyeth deep and will not be discussed by Medicines as in the Sciatica and Shoulder-gout or other kind or defluxion upon the Members when the Cause of the Disease sticks stoutly This is the last Remedy to take it out The gentlest way is to apply things that make the skin red only in the Hip Shoulder and other fleshy parts upon the pain As Sinapisms made of Mustard seed and Vinegar one part and Figgs or Leaven two or three parts with Pigeons dung Stronger things blister and burn called Vesicatories and Cauteries these are applied behind the Neck to prevent or to the arms to cure to stop the Flux a little above the part or when it is flown below it as in the Joynt-pains below in the Joynt in the Sciatica in the Instep or to the Buttocks in the Gonagra to the Ham or upon the part These Vesicatories are Flamula Crowfoot Spargrass Daphnoides Capsicum Dragons bruised or Nettles or Milk of Figgs with Bran and Vinegar Or apply a potential Cautery of Spanish Flies and Leaven and things that take away pain mentioned in opening Imposthumes This is done sooner and better with a hot Iron and they will not feel so much pain if you clap first a Plate of cold Iron upon the part to be burnt which hath a hole in it through which the Cautery Iron may pass for by the Coldness of it and pressing and stupefying of the skin the pain is not felt We give to prevent the Gout that returns so often The preventing and the Cure of the Gout and Defluxion by things taken in when it comes of blood things to cool and thicken it Such as we shewed in Synochs with Erysipelas as sharp Waters and Spaws by use whereof many have been kept free from the Gout I knew a man that was troubled with the Gout and lived many years after by the use of a Drink made of Bar-berries Prunes Plumbs Apples and four Pears with a few Juniper-berries and some have been cured by drinking of ashes Milk others with Vinegar for divers dayes Dioscorides commends Vinegar and Honey others Vinegar of Squills If the pain come from a watery Defluxion then give things to consume it and to strengthen the brain and Nerves by which the Gout is prevented if constantly used And the Podagra from blood is so prevented by temperate things that consume the Serum and make the blood purer and thicker These are mentioned in a Palsie from Flegm and Weakness of Stomach and other Diseases from Defluxions Among which the Water of Groundpine or Iva arthritica is best or the Decoction thereof in Hydromel Oinomel or Honey and Wine Water or Vinegar called Oxymel if often drunk or a syrup of the juyce of it or a Conserve or a Pouder of the same or of Primrose or Cowslips Also Bettony Sage and Stoechas These following taken many weeks together dry up Defluxions and are excellent As Decoction of Althaea roots Grass roots Asparagus five leaved Grass white Thorn Echium Corn-poppey and Aethiop leaves are approved of Dioscorides against the Sciatica in wine or wine and water with Honey and Sugar An Electuary Take Conserve of Groundpine two ounces of Primrose Lilly of the Valleys Broom and Bettony flowers each an ounce and half Conserve of Roses an ounce Cinnamon a dram Cloves Galangal Nutmeg each half a dram Ginger a scruple Spike half a scruple Coral a dram Harts horn and Ivory each half a dram with Syrup of Bettony or Groundpine make an Electuary Give as much as a Nutmeg and drink Bettony water upon it Another Take Seeds of St. Johns-wort Leaves of Germander each two ounces Groundpine an ounce and an half Bettony half an ounce round Birthwort roots an ounce and half Sarsa an ounce Angelica six drams Sassaphras half an ounce Asphodel roots if they can be had two drams Ivory Harts horn Amber each a dram red Coral a dram and half Cinnamon two drams Cloves a dram Saffron half a dram add to them poudered being an ounce two ounces of Honey give four scruples or a dram If you would have Pills mix the Pouders with Turpentine and some proper syrup and give half a dram Another to be used daily Take Sarsa four ounces St. Johns-wort seeds Leaves of Groundpine and Germander each eight ounces round Birthwort roots
him into the paste following Take Goose grease that is the dripping of a Goose which fell when it is roasted into a Dripping-pan half ful of Wine and Vinegar four ounces or six Pitch Turpentine two ounces Badgers grease Dears sueâ— each two ounces Virgins wax four ounces Oyntment of Agrippa an ounce Frankincense and Mastick each half an ounce make a Paste stuff the Cat therewith and roast it keep the dripping for an Oyntment It is good to strengthen weak Hands and Feet to put them into the Wine-press where there are black Grapes They say Sextus Pompeius was cured with Sweating in a Heap of warm Wheat Also Baths of Sulphur Salt or Niter both sweat and strengthen And bucketing of the Head therewith as the Custom is cureth the Disease at the Fountain And the Mud or bottom of such Waters applied to the parts strengthneth Or artificial Baths of strengthening Herbs mentioned and the skin of a Dog are proper In the time of using all these least the humors be stirr'd up by heat and moisture and sent to the part which is weak and apt to receive them use the defensive Plaisters mentioned For Cure at the first grudging apply outwardly things to stay the Flux In the Arthritis especially apply them to the Joynt within and bind them if you can and rowle them Make them of Bole the white of an Eg and Vinegar and apply it with Cotton or Linnen Or Take Bole two ounces Dragons blood half an ounce Snakeweed roots Acorn cupps each a dram and an half pouder them and with Vinegar and whites of Eggs apply them you may add Pomegranate flowers Spunge Roses Grapeseeds and the like Or make it of Litharge Bole Vinegar whites of Eggs and Mucilage of Fleabane seed Add a little Oyl to keep it from drying too soon Or Take Pulp of green Pears Quinces Services Cornil-berries Medlars Dates Olives boyl them in red Vinegar with Crumbs of Bread and make a Cataplasm Or use the Plaisters against Rhewms in the Eyes mentioned in Ophthalmy Bind the part affected very hard and the Thighs that the Humor fall not down Upon the part also lay according to the time of the Disease as it is in the beginning or progress or as the Flux is flowing or flowed to the part Repellers or Anodynes or Narcoticks or Dissolvers At the first while the Cause floweth use astringents and repellers that bind and are cold when it comes from blood and there is Heat in the part But in the Sciatica and other fleshy parts where the humor lyeth deep they profit little These we use with anodynes somtimes and gentle dissolvers Thus Hippocrates bids us use cold Water to repel and cool or Snow or cold Vinegar applied with a Clout often Or three parts Water and one Vinegar or red Wine two parts with Bran and Lineseed boyled therein or Lupins when the disease is in the increase Or boyl Vinegar and Water in the same proportion with Wheat or Barley-meal and Lineseed to a Cataplasm Or use Plantane Lysimachia Housleek Violets Purslane Endive Solomons-seal Fleabane Nightshade Pellitory and Poplar leaves of Gourds Water-lillies Lens palustris or wild Lentils with Oyl of Grease first incorporated with Meals and Vinegar Or Coleworts with Fleabane seed or Foenugreek and Vinegar or roasted Quinces and Barley meal Or Plantane leaves bruised with Barley meal and Crumbs of bread and Oyl of Roses Or boyl Bran and Barley meal in steeled Water with Roses add Oyl of Roses and at first Vinegar and in the increase Flowers or Oyl of Chamomil Or mix the Juvces of the Herbs with barley flower Oyl of Roses or Violets with the Yolk of an Eg and Turpentine and Vinegar Or thus Take Oyl of Roses four ounces Juyce of Lettice or the like two ounces Vinegar an ounce with two Yolks of Eggs and Barley-meal make a Paste Or Take Oyl of Roses and Vinegar each two ounces Bole two drams red Sanders a dram Or a little Ceruss with Waters or Juyces and Vinegar or Oyl of Roses or Violets with distilled Waters Or the Decoction of the Herbs mentioned with Vinegar for an Epithem Or use Galens cool Oyntment the Countesses or Oyntment of Poplar These are also good when there is a hot Defluxion upon the Loyns Or a great pain use Anodynes such as by gentle heat do rarifie and cherish mixt with Repellers in the beginning while the Humor flows and after when the Matter is flowed or fallen things that dissolve more Thus Pour warm Milk thereon or apply it with a Clout And at first quench Steel in it and to allay pain boyl in it Foenugreek or Lineseed Hermodacts or the like Or add an ounce of Sulphur or Litharge to a pint of Milk it will discuss what is gathered to the part Or Take an Eg and beat it with Oyl of Roses or Chamomil and Crumbs of Bread and apply it with a little Saffron Or hard Eggs beaten with the fourth part of Myrrh and Chamomil flowers and Saffron Or foment with Oyl of Roses and Wool or of Violets in which Earth-worms are boyled and after in the progress with Oyl of Chamomil and Foxes Oyl of Eggs allayes pain Or Take Lineseed oyl Oyl of Earth-worms and Elder each half an ounce Saffron three grains Camphire two grains anoint the part and roule it up with a Rouler dipt in Boys urin Or make a Pultis of sweet Apples boyled and Oyl of Roses or Froggs or Chamomil Or apply Cassia with Barley-meal and Fleabane seed with Oyls of Roses or Chamomil Rose Nightshade or Plantane-water Or steep or boyl brown Bread Crumbs in Milk and add to a pint three Yolks of Eggs and six ounces of Oyl of Roses or Chamomil When you will cool and repel leave out the Oyls and add Juyce of Nightshade Plantane four ounces Vinegar two ounces or boyl the Herbs first in Milk Or use Fleabane and Lineseed bruised and boyled in Water to a Slime with Water of Roses Nightshade and Housleek and an Egg while it is hot add Mucilage of Lineseed Wax Oyl of Roses or Chamomil and Vinegar Or apply Foenugreek bruised and boyled in Oxymel or Vinegar and Honey or with Juyce of Coleworts and the fourth parts Vinegar or boyled in Wine with the Pouder of Chamomil and Melilot flowers and Hermodacts adding Turpentine Oyls and Mucilages Or add to the aforesaid Bean Lentils or Barley flower Oyl of Roses and Juyces of Herbs mentioned Or thus Take Bean and Faenugreek-meal each an ounce Barley and Lineseed each an ounce Marsh-mallow roots Chamomil and Melilot flowers each half an ounce Cummin-seed three drams boyl them in Wine Vinegar and Honey equal parts add Hens grease two ounces Oyl of Dill an ounce make a Cataplasm Or Take Althaea roots two ounces Turnips four ounces Mallows Coleworts Henbane each a handful Pompion two ounces Flowers of Violets Chamomil Melilot and Moulin each a pugil boyl them in Water and Wine add Fleabane Foenugreek and Lineseed four ounces Yolks of Eggs four
with pain and knawing or ulceration of the flesh Scabies or Scabrities is so called because it makes the skin rough and with a crust and is moist or dry The common moist itch and scab The moist is with Pustles that have sanies and Pus one is called vulgar in which many Pustles called Ephelides do arise from which broken sanies or thin matter cometh if they be a little inflamed and red they impostume and are covered with a dry crust made of the dryed matter which is blew or black or otherwise Colored The itch goeth before this scab which causeth pustles by scratching which break when the skin is broak there is after a cutting pain and if the pustles be inflamed there is burning pain This scab or itch is so frequent that scarse one is freed but in his life time hath it There is Another moist scab less usual then the former The Cruel scab called Agria or Fera in Dutch Herbrolen but worse with little pustles out of which cometh a rough humor like Honey alwaies moist and covering the parts with a thick white green or black scab Some call this Fera or Agria The Germans call it den Herbroten or Harbroten when the part affected is like a toast covered with hairs This is often in Infants heads seldom in aged somtimes it is in the Eye-brows Cheeks and Face very noysome and in other parts There is another kind of scab peculiar in the Head Running Vlcers of the Head called Tinea Achores or scald which with many sinal holes peircing to the Skul out of which come glutinous matter that being dried causeth a crust or scab therefore they are called sordid running Ulcers by the Greeks Achores and because the skin looks like Moath-eaten cloth it is called Tinea a Moth. And the English call it the running scab of the Head and the scald And if the holes be large and the matter like Honey Favus it is called Favus from the likeness it hath to a Honey comb This is perverse and usual in children spoyling the roots of the hairs which are white and thick when the hair is pulled off and after it is cured it leaves many bear places in the Head which is ill favoured to be seen There are other pustles which may be referred to the moist scab which have a dryness at the top and sweat and moisture Some whereof are with greater Imflammation and Ulceration as those called Terminthi because they are as big as Lupines or Pease Terminthus The Germans call them Huntsblatern they are black round and red and inflamed about very burning and quickly dry and when the scurfe is taken off or lifted up matters comes forth They are most usually in the feet and many together Galen desicribes them to be most common in Women and some say they are a kind of Phyma Epinychtis is not unlike this it is as big as a Terminthus Epinychtis blew and very red round about and burns very much at night and turns to an Ulcer and sends forth sâ—ymy matter Also there are waterish pustles called Phlyctaenae that being broken have a scurse and are painful Phlyctaenae they are smal as bubles or greater like bladders which broaken send forth clear water with pain and a crust they may be in any part There is another kind that hath yellow transparent bladders Herpes Phlyctanodes which being whol itch and burne and being open yellow water comes forth with great burning and Inflammation and a running Ulcer it is called Herpes Phlyctanodes The dry scab or Scabrities is so called in distinction from the moist The dry scab which hath dry pustles without matter and makes the skin rough and itcheth much It is of two sorts one is in the extremity of the skin with little pustles dry red and corroding more or less sweating moisture forth with intolerable itch called Prurigo or in Greek Cnismos of some Impetigo and Psora or Scab And Rubrica it is about the Emunctuaries in the Groyns and Arm-pits Prurigo or Cnismos and bending of the Knees and Arms and most usual in the Neek The other kind of dry scab is worse The foul scab called foul and in high Dutch Mager because it makes the body lean and dry by degrees it comes of it self or from a Herpes not cured And is at first greater then Prurigo making the skin rough and dry the Greeks call it Lichen it is chiefly in the Legs and Arms somtimes if the scabs creep and make the skin more rough hard and swollen with chous and being rub'd bran fals off and then the Greeks call it Psora It is not only in the Feet and Arms but in other parts especially the Neck and Face and Head in the Hair like a scurfe of Clay or Chalk from which a dry scale falls and it is horrible to behold If it last long it corrods and makes clefts in the skin and there fals thick scales yellow or blew this is the Greek Leprosy not the Elephantiasis of the Arabians Greek Leprosy though they are taken one for the other but this is more incurable and returns again and is as horrible as Elephantiasis especially if it eat off the Nose We call this the worst Scab Papula or Herpes comes forth with little Pustles Papula or Herpes of the Greeks first with itching and then burning but with Inflammation or Feaver and though the Pustles dry new come about them as if they were begotten of the former Some are like Millium seed called Herpes miliaris which creeps but sooner stayes Herpes miliaris Others are dry little Pustles and are deeper in the skin and break into Ulcers with one Matter and when cured returns with new dry Ulcers broad and high This is called Estheomenus or in high Dutch Den worm from its creeping and corroding if it last long it turns to Impetigo and then into a Psora and after into the Greek Leprosie but not into Elephantiasis When it ulcerates it is like Erysipelas ulcerated and call'd the holy fire or wild fire but Erysipelas comes suddenly with Inflamation Redness Holy or wild Fire Feaver and being ulcerated hath greater Pustles or Bladders and after them a moist Ulcer which is not so in Herpes but dry and without matter The Carbuncle or Anthrax in Greek hath many Pustles Carbuncle Anthrax in Greek or Persian Fire smal like burnings very hot called thence Persian Fire with a black Crust like a Cole and thence called Carbo or live Cole because of the redness round about under which after suppuration there is no matter but a blak Lump of Flesh fastned to the Roots with a Feaver and great weakness Like this is the Anthrax of the back between the shoulders with many Pustles together red which broken there comes matter forth as from a spunge which turns to a hollow Ulcer over all the upper part of the Back with lumps This
foul may be painful Of which as the shape is divers we shall speak in Deformity The Causes The Causes of all pains in the superficies of the Body as tickling itching pains of cold or heat compressions roughness contusion all without an appearent Character also of redness or Erysipelum Tumors Inflammations Impostumes Cancers Pustles Scabs Clefts Corrosions Wounds and Ulcers in which there are signs which are the disease it self are cold or hot or dry distemper of blood or other Humor gathered in those parts or Solution of continuity When the parts are not used to be touched as the soals of the Feet sides Want of usual touching causeth tickling Arm-holes and Privities they are subject to ticklishness or when any thing toucheth the Face gently or creepeth there is tickling or titillation A cold distemper Cold causeth pain causeth the cold pain in the superficies of the Body from Air Wind or Water or Snow or Ice and not solution of continuity by freesing that presseth forth the thin moisture This pain is greater when the part is Nervous or not used to cold or Air. Therefore the Face because it is not covered though it be very sensible yet it is not so sensible of cold as other parts that are usualy covered Also cold is very grievous to Ulcers or wounds that have the skin off And this pain is greatest when there is a sudden change from very hot to very cold If this happen to the Hands as it is usual there is that great pain in the the Fingers ends called in high Dutch Kuneglen A hot distemper causeth a hot pain from the Air Heat causeth pain made hot by the Sun or otherwise or from water or the like when there is burning in the body and not Inflammation Also this hot pain may come from too many cloths which disturb and cause sweat Also the body is inflamed with excercise And there may be preternatural heat in the Hands and Feet from internal causes which some attribute to the heat of the Liver Also in hot diseases especially Feavers there is a perplexing heat internal and external Dryness of the skin causeth that roughness which offendeth the touch Dryness is the cause of pain from touching of rough things in tender people especially This roughness may also come from external Air that is dry or from the touching of dry and astringent things When the skin is made hard by labor it rather diminisheth the sense of touching Dryness is the cause of clefts then depraveth it Somtimes the skin is extraordinarily cleft as in the Hands Feet Lips Fundament c. This dryness may come from the causes mentioned or from cold or heat as in Feavers we find the skin cleft and the Lips from the heat of breath And there may be clefts in the Hands and Feet from cold Air and water And in extraordinary cold that is long when it beats upon a part where the skin is thick there may be great clefts which turn to Ulcers they are called Perniones As in the soals of the Feet and Palms of the Hands and in the Ears and Nostrils because they want flesh to defend them This the cold doth by astringing drying and wrinkling the Skin And if it extinguish the heat it is most dangerous Blood flowing to any superficial parts as to the Skin Flesh and Glandules causeth divers diseases When it doth not only moisten the parts which is natural for nourishment but fil and inflame them And if blood flow to the skin except the scarf skin which admits no blood it causeth Erysipelas in which there is redness from the blood shining through the scarse skiâ— Blood flowing to the skin is the cause of Erysipelas and its kinds and before it is sixed or swollen the part being pressed the redness flies away and returnes again as we see in other parts it comes to pass from the blood coming and going in the Cheeks But if the blood be hot the burning is the worst pain and it is as the blood is For if it be thin and hot there is a simple Erysipelas which comes and goes sooner If it be thick there is a great Erysipelas Phlegmon if waterish there is Erysipelas oedematous this is gentler but longer If the blood be Cholerick the Erysipelas turns yellow and burns more and eats off the scarf skin If the choller be green or black it is seen by the color and ends in perverse Ulcers or malignant if it be infectious If the blood be gathered in the flesh and skin Flux of blood to the skin and flesh causeth Tnmors and Inflammations it causeth swelling and Inflammation with redness and pain from distention and heat and when the blood is discussed the Tumor is gone If it suppurate or grow ripe Suppuration causeth Impostumes it is an Impostume which breaking makes an Ulcer and the matter is more when the blood is much and the substance of the part corrupted And if the Inflammation increase and the humor be perverse and corruption follow especially a wound in the Nerves Slidwasser from a corrupt wound Corruption of the part causeth Gangren Natural heat extinct causeth a Sphacel that pernicious Ulcer called in high Dutch Slidwasser which gleets with Water is begotten and the Nerves being corrupted there is less of motion But if the Inflammation increase and there comes no suppuration but corruption of the natural heat be extinct a Sphatel If blood flow upon the flesh rather then the skin as upon the Muscles outward in the belly breast neck or back there are Inflammations but not red or manifestly swollen as in other as in the Pleurisie and Quinsies If the blood flow to divers places there will be pustles as I shewed And if it be in the pores there will be many little scabs These Inflammations are divers in respect of the blood if it be pure the Inflammation is simple If thin and not only gathered but dispersed partly upon the skin it causeth a Phlegmon with Erysipelas if thick the Inflammation will be blewer called a Scirrhus which rather follows then accompanyeth an Inflammation If the blood be waterish the Phlegmon wil be Aedematous in which the Serum sent further into the skin makes an Aedematous tumor about as we see blood doth when sprinkled upon linnen If other humors as choller yellow green or black or sharp and malignant be in the blood the Inflammation is worse and the heat of the blood when the Inflammation lyeth deep will make the rotten flesh part from the sound in a Coate which will be in the tumor when opened as in furunculus If Blood flow upon other parts distinct from the flesh and skin Flux of blood upon the glandules causeth the Bubo Parotis Phygthlon Phyma and gathereth together it causeth a hot tumor and inflammation as when it fals upon the kernels or glandules in the Emunctuaries This is usual because nature sooner dischargeth her self in ignoble parts
especially being spungy and placed by the divisions of the great veins Hence comes the pain and hot tumor in Bubo and Parotis behind the Ear and Inflammation and suppuration in Phygethlon or Panus as we shewed These differ as the blood is pure or impure thin or thick crude simple or mixed with other crude humor or waterish from whence come Phyma or with pernitious and infectious humors from whence comes the Pestilent and Pocky Bubo If Blood flow into other parts Flux of blood into other parts causeth Tumor and inflammaoions in them as into the breasts or stones into which it easily floweth by reason of the plenty of Veins or into the spungy parts as the Privities Fundament and Mouth or into parts that have gristles as the Nose and Ears or into the joynts it causeth hot tumors and Inflammations in them which differ as the blood is pure or impure and as the parts are more tender nervous and sensible The efficient cause of blood thus flowing into the superficial parts is the expulsive faculty when it is troubled with it either offending in quantity or quality The helping cause is the disposition of the blood being apt to flow and the readiness of the parts to receive it These causes whether one or more come from these following As Plethory or abundance of blood which is burthensome to nature and therefore sent by her both to inward and to outward parts Sometimes it flows of it self and somtimes from some light cause Therefore young people that grow have swollen or waxing kernels from abundance of blood and by handling they break into Buboes Or when the blood is too hot or thin it is apt to flow and being much it stirs up the expulsive faculty to send it forth and then it causeth Erysipelas or divers Inflammations according to its nature So in a Synoch Fevers Erysipelas as comes from hot blood sent from the Veins into the skin Also another humor or quality offensive to nature may provoke her to send out blood while she expels the humor and thence tumors may be So when the cause of the disease is sent from the Veins with the blood in the Crisis of a Fever there is a tumor in the declination of the disease And when the Pestilent quality is sent to the Emunctuaries with the blood in a Pestilent Fever there is a Bubo Pestilent and when the poyson of the Pox is sent to the Groyn there is a Venereal Bubo as we shewed Pain causeth Tumors and Inflammation not by attraction Pain is the cause of divers Tumors and Inflammations as it is usually thought but by stirring up nature to expel the cause by which means the blood floweth this is in the outward parts when they are pressed strook or bâ—uised by which is pain Or if pain come from any disease and if the Inflammation be increased a new by the pain if there be Impostume Pustle Wound burn Ulcer or Inflammation therewith or with any other disease causing this pain Also Pustles inflamed from scratching come from pain which follows though at the first it seems pleasant Also it often comes to pass that not only the part pained swelleth but the adjacent parts if they be apt to receive Defluxions as the Kernels in the Groins Arm-pits and behind the Ears when there is any pain from the Causes or Diseases montioned And a troublesom Scab in these parts hath commonly a Bubo accompanying it And the pestilential Bubo comes as I shewed not so much from the Plague as from the burning and pain of the Carbuncle near it Also these Pains are longer and worse when the blood easily and constantly flows thither and the part is continually pained As when there are swell'd Leggs in a Dropsie if the skin be open there is a constant Flux of water which by its corruption through long abiding in the Body is pernicious and corroding And also of blood being thin which causeth the perverse and ulcerated Erysipelas which so easily gangraenes When outward heat doth long or much afflict the skin External Heat causeth Erysipelas or Phlegmon and their kinds it doth not only make it thin but inflames it and the blood near to it and makes it flow causing Erysipelas or Inflammations especially in tender and sanguine Constitutions and such as are subject thereto As when they sit too long by the sire and burn their Shins or inflame themselves by long suning As I did by riding in a hot day when I was young my Boots were so hot that they made my Leggs burn and look red two dayes after This I have had often and it came at first with red Spots which turned first blew after yellow and then vanished They may also come from hot water and after bathing as the pustles called in high Dutch Eyssen when in the time of the Bodies being hot they use cold water which causeth a sudden repercussion so that the Blood flies back suddenly and returns with pain Also other moderate heat may cause Itch and that scratching and so pustles Also Inflammation of particular parts may cause them as of the Roots of the Nails Then they are called Paronychiae as when Maids by washing their Hands in foul hot water often do cause their Nails to be crooked and the Roots inflamed Also other excrementitious and preternatural Humors thrown to the skin Flux of Humors causeth pustles and there fixed cause pustles as blood dispersed into divers parts and these may grow greater and turn into Ulcers small or great or corroding or venemous as the quality is Humors that have an occult quality that is malignant produce a little swelling or pustle according to their Venom A venemous Humor so infecteth the parts A pernicious and venemous quality causeth the Cancer that somtimes at first there is a little Tumor which only causeth a little pricking but is most dangerous in that it will not away because while it is nourished with the other parts of the Body it makes the Nourishment like unto it self and converts it into Venom and so increaseth by degrees and grows broader and deeper and at length becomes a Cancer consisting of a fleshy substance full of Veins with no Inflammation or Tumor but Blood in the Veins which itcheth and pricketh which shews its malignity by its constant increase till there is an Ulcer and then it goes no further but with its Claws that come from the Body it creeps on we know the whole to be malignant because if it be not taken out by the Root it cannot be cured and the least portion remaining will grow again It is a hard thing to know whence this Matter and Poyson first comes or to describe the Nature of it but by the effect But that it came by Touch and Infection because the Elephantiasis whose Cause is the same with that of the Cancer and therefore is called the general Cancer comes from Contagion but the Cancer is worst because the Humors are
all in one place And as there are few that have Cancers so are there sew Lepers for the Venom lyeth lurking in the Veins and comes to the part infected with the Blood and when the Cancer increaseth it weakneth the Body by degrees And this may be an argument that there is a Contagion in the breeding of a Cancer because I knew two Women that attended upon two other that had Cancers a long time in their Breasts that consumed them which were themselves infected with Cancers and perished therby after long torment the one being near of kin to her Mistriss But we cannot yeeld that it comes from Melancholy for these reasons For if it comes from Natural Melancholy which they say is the Dreggs of the Blood there would some signs thereof appear and such blood would be there gathered out of the Vessels if there should be a Tumor or Inflammation which are not And if it come from preternatural Melancholy there would be at the first coming a burning corroding and blackness as in the Carbuncle which is not so but a Cancer is like Flesh and not very painful A pestilent Pustle comes from poyson of another Nature A pestilent Poyson causeth Carbuncle and pestilent Bubo which we call a Carbuncle with venemous force and with little burning but with itching and pricking only as I said of a Cancer somtimes with Inflammation round about and a Bubo hard by which corrupteth the part and mollifieth till it falls out back from the sound This poyson comes from that pestilent Poyson that got into the Body and caused a pestilent Feaver by its destructive quality and heat as I shewed when it gets outward And we shewed in pestilential Feavers that I and others have been infected with pestilent Pustles taken outwardly Some Humors cause Scabs Itch and Carbuncles Cholerick salt and sharp Humors cause the Scab and creeping Itch Carbuncles and Phlyctenae by a manifest quality that corrodes and burns and Pustles with Ulcers these are either preternatural yellow and green and black Choler or salt sharp or malignant and go the Superficies of the Body with the blood and serum and cause pustles and inflammations if they come with blood or pain or they come without this Flux from the Veins by sweat according to the diversity of these Humors are different Scabs Itch and Carbuncles as we shall shew If in the common moist Scab there be Itch and corroding without great burning the Humor is not so hot but salt and gentle Choler or tempered with water is fallen from the Veins upon the skin when there is no redness or Inflammation But if there be they shew it come with blood moved by scratching or pain as also may appear by the suppuration that follows When those things are as in the worst Scab with yellow or green Matter it comes from thicker and worse Choler as the colour shews as in Terminthis and Epinyctis the pustles are very burning with Inflammation and Suppuration following Especially in a Carbuncle are the pustles very burning which shews that they come from very hot Choler and the Feaver shews they come from Blood and their sudden appearing shews that they come from Defluxion And we cannot gather that black Choler was the Cause by their blackness because others are black when they are dry But from the great Heat that burns and corrupts the skin and makes it black and will not let them suppurate we may conclude that either black Choler or green was the cause This â—â—ews that the pustles in Herpes come not from a Flux of Humors but from a Collection made there because they come by degrees without Inflamation And if the Herpes be called Miliaris there is great Heat and Pustles dry and therefore the Choler was yellow milder and thinner and went to the Superficies of the skin If it be Herpes Esihiomenus the Choler is worse and green and it is deeper in the Flesh The malignity appears by its corroding and creeping on and when it creepethno farther it causeth Impetigo In that kind of dry Scab which is called the Itch because no moisture appears we conclude that the Choler is pure but thinner then in Herpes miliaris Or that the Humor is salt and dryed the skin shews which grows red by scratching And the like Humor is in Impetigo deeper and broader This by continuance turns worse and causeth Psora which cometh from salt water that is infectious and corroding as appears by the constant sweat which vaporing away wet not but rather dry the skin This Venom may come from a long continuing Scab which infecteth the skin when it turneth the Nourishment into corrupt Humors this is the worse sort of Scab called the Greek Leprosie or Arabian Leprosie which cannot be cured by reason of the fault in assimulation or nourishment As for Phlyctaenae it is plain that they come from water carried under the scarse skin which divides it from the true skin and maketh Blysters because water comes forth when they break If this water be pure there is no pain while they are whole but when they break and the true skin is hurt But if the water be salt as appears by itching or mixed with Choler as appears by the yellowness when they open the heat is greater and if this Humor sweat forth long they creep and then it is called Herpes phlyctaenodes These salt sharp cholerick Humors which cause the Herpes and Carbuncles come from Diet when it is apt to breed such or turn into Choler as we shewed in Feavers For if in the first or second Concoction they are not separated from the Blood but lye long in the Meseraicks they grow worse and either get into the hollow Vein with the Blood and Serum and â—o to the Superficies of the Body or there they are heaped up Therefore intemperate Livers and such as use bad Diet and are Chacochymical are subject to these Also the same Excrements may be gathered from Distemper of the Bowels or be derived from the Parents And some think they come from the menstrual blood And they go to the skin by Natures benefit which expels them when they are bound and by other Causes as heat and motion As we shewed speaking of Tumors from Blood Solution of Continuity causeth divers kinds of pains in the Superficies of the Body with Ulcers as Excoriations and Wounds and Clefts or without Ulcers as the cause was internal or external The external Causes of Solution of Continuity Compression Distention and Coniusion cause pain are Compression Distension or Contusion with outward hurt but inward separation of the smal Veins which causeth pain which we call Distention or stretching as from a stroak or weight or pulling the Hair Hence comes the Rhagades or Clefts in the Fundament from hard Excrements When the skin is scratched off there is Intertrigo or Rawness Friction is the cause of Scabs this comes after riding as galling or long Diseases and lying and
Saffron a scruple and a little Opium Or this Epithem Take Milk three ounces Oyl of Roses an ounce and an half white of an Egg or Mucilage of Fleabane seed an ounce Vinegar half an ounce Opium half a dram Saffron a scruple In the progress when the heat abates to dissolve when the part looks not so red and is yellowish or at first if the heat be little Use Coleworts Pellitory of the wall Mallows white Lillies Mulleine also leaves of Ricinus Stratiotes Acinos Fetherfew or Parthenium roots of Alkanet and Lychopsis and of Clowns-Allheal with the square stalk which is so highly commended bruise and apply them Or dip clouts in Oyl of Roses and Wine and squeeze and apply them to ease pain and discuss Or boyl Oyl and red wine thus Take of them equal parts cover them in a close Vessel boyl them gently till they make no noise It is good to discuss to anoynt with hot blood especially menstrual as saith Dioscorides Or with Urin to stop itching and to dry Dioscorides useth the Sediments or fetling thereof adding Vinegar and Eggs. Dioscorides also commends Goats or Sheeps dung boyled in Wine or Vinegar Others commend Inke but it is too sharp without cold waters or juyces And I knew an Impostor that concealed a Gangreen thereby Dioscorides useth rust of Iron and burnt Vitriol or Chalcitis or Salt and Vinegar These strong Medioines are best in ignoble parts not in the Face and Nerves when there is need of great drying Dissolve the residents with Fomentations and Oyntments and strengthen the part as we shewed in Arthâ—itis as with Lyes of divers sorts and Spaw waters to pâ—event Wash the Feet with water wherein Vitriol or Oak or Ivy leaves or red Roses or Sloes or Grapes are steeped Or put them into the Wine press or into Grapes stampt with Iron water and Vinegar If there be Erysipelas in the Face wash it often with red Wine Rose Plantane and Nightshade water and Vinegar If the Legs have an Oedema after the Erysipelas use things as in Oedema if it ulcerate or grangreen See them Phlegmon or Inflammation is of divers kinds The Cure of divers sorâ—s of Inflammation but we shall speak only of them which differ not much Such as are in the skin as Phlegmon with Erysipelas or Oedema Or with little Tumors or Pustles that ulcerate and turn to scabs Also of Inflammations in spungy parts as Privities Paps Fundament Mouth and in the Gristles of the Nose and Ears And of those in the joynts and ends of the Fingers called Paronychia prescribing to all their particular remedies Of the Tumors and Inflammations of the Glandules we shall speak hereafter and of the Impostume that comes from all Tumors Of these phlegmons the greatest and fullest of pain are the worst and they which are in noble parts or near to them as in the Face Organs of sense or in very sensible parts as in the Fundament Yard or Womb or in the joynts or Fingers Many of these Impestumate and then ulcerate and hurt the noble part other gangreen and cause loss of parts or deaths Others turn into a Scirrhus which hinders the bending of the joynts Blood-letting is the chief remedy against all if there be plethory both to prevent and cure Also it revels and derives from the part and helps the Feaver if it be there Also we revel and derive with Scarifications Cupping Ligatures and Friction And it is good in plethory when the Terms or Haemmorrhoids bleed and to divert If the body be foul loosen the Belly and purge to prevent especially when people are subject to Inflammation And the Cure will be the easier when the body is clean Also some Laxatives do revel the blood slowing to the part they must not be strong to stir or inflame the Body Also use alterers against the phlegmon and Feaver in meats and Medicines that cool the blood Topicks are to be used in all first they must repel the blood flowing to the part and abate heat and pain and then dissolve the matter and if it tend to suppuration they must Cure the Impostume and Ulcer And they must be chosen according to the Inflammation as it is great or little and according to the part We repel the humor flowing with astringents and coolers choosing the strongest when the heat is great especially in Furunculus And if the Flux be great and the Inflammation also and in the Face or Joynts and noble parts In the other we use more gentle repellers Especially if the Inflammation be about the Jaws or Breast least it cause a Quinsie or pleurisie To these repellers when the Defluxion abateth we add gentle resolvers and anodynes if there be pain Thus Actual coolers are vulgarly used if we sear Inflammation from a stroak or bruise to prevent swelling as a cold Stone Iron Lead or Ice Or cold water This must not be done but at the first least the blood congeal and will not after be discussed Some commend the putting the Finger presently in cold water in Paronychia or Fellon or in hot Vinegar but boyling water is best Make repellers of green Herbs that are both potentially and actually cold as of Plantane Nightshade Housleek knot Grass With Vinegar Oyl of Roses Myrtles Quinces and Barley meal Apply Acrons bruised and Sloes Or Bran fryed in Vinegar or Rice and Water often Or red Rose Cakes with red Wine and Vinegar or Roses Or Take the Juyces of the Herbes mentioned six ounces Rose vinegar and red Wine three ounces Oyl of Roses Myrtles or Privet an ounce and an half with pouder of Bistort roots and Pomegranate peels each a dram Mrytle or Barberry seeds Bole three drams after you have stir'd them in a Leaden Morter make an Oyntment or with Vinegar and whites of Egs and Barley meal a Pultis The usual defensative against Inflammations is of Bole Vinegar and whites of Egs and Oyl of Roses You may add Sanguis Draconis Blood-stone and rust of Iron and sealed Earth Coral and Camphire When there is pain repel thus add the fourth part of red Wine Vinegar to Milk Bole and the white of an Eg. Or wash with Vinegar and Water Three or four pound of Quick-silver allayeth heat and pain being in a Bladder and applied So doth Juyce Decoction and distilled water of Herbs with pouders aforesaid Or foment with Oyl of Roses or Violets and rowl the part In Paronychia or Fellon make a Bath for the Finger of five leaved Grass Wormwood Agrimony Straw-berry leaves Myrtle-berries with Wine A repelling Oyntment Take juyce of Plantane Housleek two ounces Vinegar an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces and an half Vinegar an ounce Bole half an ounce with the white of an Egg and a little Turpentine afterwards to digest add Ceruss Cadmia and Litharge Or Take juyce of sower Pomegranateâ— two ounces of Nightshade and Rose water each an ounce and an half Camphire a dram anoynt add Barley flower to make it stick
and Neck Take Galls and Pomegranate peels each an ounce Gypsum burnt two ounces Bole an ounce Litharge and Cademia each half an ounce round Birthwort three drams burnt Lead two drams pouder of Crab shells a dram make a sine pouder or a plaister of them with Honey and Turpentine We use Sal Gem or Allum to take away corrupt Flesh with an equal part of pouder of Earth worms Or mix therewith Juyce of Briony or Dragons Or Aegyptiacum to resist putrefaction These are stronger Orpiment and Tartar equal parts steep them in Vinegar and make a pouder Or Take Crystal Arsnick two drams Cookowpint roots an ounce make a pouder Or Take Orpiment a dram Verdigreese two drams white Wine a pint infuse them pour of the clear and boyl it till the third part remain use it with a little Rose-water Or Take Sublimate a dram Rose Plantane and Nightshade water four ounces boyl it a little The last Remedy is cutting it forth by the roots if strength will permit It is in vain to try when it is deep and grows to the Flesh Membranes and Veins for if a portion remain it will grow again And if it be great and near great Veins there is danger of great bleeding which is dangerous if it be not presently stopt But somtimes it may be wholly cut out with a part of the sound flesh As when it is in the Thigh or Arm. And if you cut a great space above the Cancer and take it away it will grow again as I observed in a Maid who had a cancer cut from her Knee The Cancer in the Breast is taken away with cutting the breast clean off But if any Root remain in the Ribs it will return Give me leave to relate the Cure of a Cancer which was told me by a Friend Take white Arsnick â—inely poudered one part Roots of Cookowpints poudered four parts Chimney soot as much as will make it grey or ash coloured keep this pouder for your use the older the better it will last five years Sprinkle this pouder as thick as the back of a knife upon an ulcerated Cancer taking heed that it touch not the sound flesh lay it thickest in the middle because the middle Root of the Cancer is commonly biggest then lay thereon a pledget wet with spittle that it may stick with the pouder otherwise it will not work The Patient must be dressed thus after meat and touch not the the cancer but with wooden Instruments There are some cautions to be used in the application of this pouder by reason of its divers operations for in some it causeth pain in other not it pierceth to the Veins or Roots of the cancer and there it sticks fast so that it cannot be taken away without breaking of them It must therefore be used but once because its force remains till it takes all away with it And no other medicines must be applied but round about in the circumâ—erance as broad as two â—ingers you must lay Deâ—ensives or Repellers to hinder Inflammation As Take Bole Arsnick Oyl of Roses and Vinegar Also there is a great flux of blood sometimes from the piercing force of the medicine which breaks the Veins with yellow and sharp matter apply then nothing but dry double clouts as often as they are wet for it will be but a day or two and will take away all pain This done expect the Cancer to fall from the sound flesh of its own accord within eighteen or twenty dayes for if the least Root be broken by force before that time the cure is dangerous to be begun again The separation being made of the cancer from sound flesh use this pouder to the Ulcer Take fine Olibanum Mummy Mastick Myrrh Aloes Sarcocol each a dram Opopanax half a dram wash them in Plantane and Rose-water and make a fine pouder you may increase the quantity of Mastick Olibanum Myrrh and Sarcocol to make it sharper After you have laid this pouder thick upon the Ulcer use this Oyntment upon a pledget Take Litharge of Gold two ounces Mummy an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce and half with a little Rose-vinegar stir them in a leaden mortar and make it a soft Oyntment with Oyl of Roses It is sufficient to cure the Ulcer if you apply these two once a day at first there will come forth a slimy white thick matter which must be dayly wipt away till the Cure is by Gods assistance compleat A Carbuncle or Anthrax if it be not pestilent The Cure of a simple Anthrax or Carbuncle pestilent weakneth and is difficult and dangerous when it is near the Heart when it is dry or sends out venom and not matter with great Inflammation A pestilent Carbuncle destroys by the pestilent Feaver which goes with it and hurts the Joynts and destroys if it be in the noble Parts For cure of both cleanse the whole Body and use alterers when it is pestilent look to the Feaver rather then the Carbuncle and let blood according to the part it is in As we shewed in pestilent Feavers In other Carbuncles bleed and purge in respect of the Plethory and Cacochymy and Inflammation to revel and derive Use coolers agreeable to the Feaver and Cordials inwardly and outwardly and a refreshing Diet and cause sleep if it be wanting though in a carbuncle it is forbidden least thereby venom should be drawn to the Heart but by heat external and sweat in time of sleep we see the contrary that the heat goes outward Therefore keep them not from sleep as is usual When a Carbuncle is not pestilent we use Topicks to repress the Inflammation when it is we attract the Venom we open and ripen it in both cases and then cure it as an Ulcer In an Anthrax not pestilent we only lay Repellers round about where the Inflammation is and that at first such as are in Phlegmon mentioned as the Defensive of Bole and that of Juyces or the Oyntments as that of Ceruss Or we use the Emplaster of Arnogloss to cool and concoct at first or all a long the Cure it is made of Plantane Meal of Lentils or brown Bread adding Galls at fiâ—st to repel more and to concoct more Meal of Orobus and Beans and Honey In a pestilent Carbuncle at first we attract poyson as in a Bubo pestilent as we there shewed with a Cock cut in two or a Pigeon or Frog or Toad or with the Rump of a Cock or Pigeon after the part is scarified or with Cupping-glasses or Horsleeches or with the mouth of a desperate Fellow to suck it or with the Instrument by which Womens breasts are drawn We open both sorts of Carbuncles to let out the venom or humor at first by scarifying and in the progress especially when it waxeth black with deep cuts least they gangraene which will cause death and wash them with salt Water We also use Causticks to attract the venom in both And when it begins to corrupt we use
Or thus Take Letharge two drams Sulphur two drams Niter or sal Gem a dram Verdigreese half a dram with Honey make an oyntment Or make an oyntment of Allum and Wine Lees. Or use Ink to dry because of the Allum Vitriol and Galls Or Pompholygos white oyntment of Rhasis with dryers as Allum Niter Or wild Goats dung as Dioscorides prescribes or Cow dung with Wine and Vinegar Or pouder of the heads of salt-fish as Herrings or wooll and Leather and pine tree bark burnt to a pouder dry well when they are sprinkled upon a Herpes or Teter or mixed with oyl Or Take two drams of those burnt pouders roots of round Birthwort Pomegranate flowers Myrrh each a dram Olibanum a dram and an half sprinckle it upon the Teter first rubbing it and anoynting with Oyl of Ash tree Dioscorides commends the pouder of Snayl shells A good somentation for both sorts of Herpes or Teter is a distil'd water of Dock roots sliced and steep'd in Vinegar a day or two or of Citron peels with Allum Or thus Take of plants mentioned three handfuls with myrtle leaves or Olive Dock roots or Birthwort each an ounce Pomegranate peels and Galls each six drams Lupine seeds an ounce myrtle seeds half an ounce Acacia Hypocistis each six drams boyl them in Forge water with a little sharp wine to wash the Herpes Esthiomenus add Frankincense and myrrh to cleanse more half an ounce Or wash with Lye and old Wine wherein the things mentioned have been boyled Or with Vitriol dissolved in Vinegar and Water Or Take Sublimate a dram and an half Lytharge two drams Borax half a dram Camphire a scruple boyl them in two ounces of proper water and wash the Teter or we stop the eating thereof with things that shall be mentioned in corroding Ulcers Or Take Dock roots three drams great Celandine a handful Allum Sulphur each an ounce Salt a pugil with Wine and Vinegar boyl them and let the vapor be received so that it touch the Tetter Or apply plates of Lead after the Tetter is anoynted and steep them first in Vinegar Salt or Allum water In the Tetter called Esthiomenus it is good to rub it til it bleed And then the clensers appled will work the better Or burn of the corrupt flesh with an actual or potential Cautery as in Carbuncles The Scab is of many sorts as the moist Scab The Cure of the common Scab Itch Scald Terminthus Epinyctis Impetigo Prurigo Psora and Greek Leprosie which is either ordinary or feirce spreading as Tinea or Scald Terminthus Epinyctis or the dry Scab as the Itch called Prurigo Impetigo or Psora or Greek Leprosie we shall speak of the Cure of all together in the Cure of the Itch. The Phlyctaenae are blisters when the scarf Skin is seperated from the true and are cured as the corrosions of the Skin Of moist Scabs the vulgar is most gentle and easie to be cured but when it often returns it is stubborn and if not cured will turn to a worse sort The next called Fera is worse but curable and if neglected it turns to a worse sort That which is worst is called Manans or spreading it is difficult to be cured and is insectious in Children and deformeth the Hair by eating it off The Terminthus and Epinytis are easily cured Among the dry Itches Prurigo is easiest to be cured and Impetigo more hard and Psora is most difficult and they are turned from one into another if neglected and easily return in Spring and Fall And at length they turn to the Greek Leprosie which is incurable though it cease it will return with an ugly crust consuming the patient and itching And it is taken for the Elephantiasis by them that cannot distinguish Also those may be cured alike as for general helps Evacuations and Alterers because they come from Cholerick salt sharp and malignant humors as in the Causes they must be purged and let blood and the alterers must be greater or less according to the disease with respect to the constitution and the Excrements abounding as followeth In the moist Itch you must let blood if Age or other things forbid not because the Anticedent cause is salt serum which is cholerick and sharp in the blood and this will partly come forth by bleeding Which must be rather done when there is Plethory or fulness which causeth pustles The Vein opened must be for general or particular Evacuation of that Member which is most infected In the dry Itch though there be not such moist pustles yet because the blood is very unclean you must bleed also especially if the skin be red as in Prurigo which shews heat This must be done before purging often and every month you must Cup and Scarifie or apply Horsleeches And the Terms and Haemorrhoids must be provoked in them that are used to them as we shewed in the want of them In all kinds of moist or dry Itches you must purge often when the body is foul and in Psora which is worst if every day or every other day for a long time especially Spring and Fall And this must be by fit Medicines that purge cholerick salt and sharp humors from the Guts and Meseraicks and so from the Mass of blood adding alwaies things that resist sharpness of humors And choosing such as inflame not the body too much These purges are to be found in other diseases of choller and melancholly stronger or weaker Especially in intermitting feavers and continual putrid As well such as are prescribed before bleeding to cleanse the Excrements in the belly as strong purges and the preparatives to be taken before them As that Apozem mentioned in a Synoch with Erysipelas and the purges prescribed against Melancholly or these Let them drink whey morning and evening especially of Goats Milk so much as may purge this is pleasant for Children Or dissolve some pleasant things therein as Manna or syrup of Roses or Violets or of Peach flowers with a little Diagredium if need be Or give some other purging syrup therein that may be taken Or give of Roses Fumitory Hops and of Bugloss Docks and Apples Or make a little at a time because it will soon decay as of whey or old Cock broath two pints with Mercury Beets Fumitory Hops Elder flowers or Danewort buds Senna Polypody Epithymum Damask Roses with a little Sugar or Honey Or give usual syrups to purge unclean blood as the gentle syrup of Roses Violets Peach flowers made of their infusions or juyces with Sugar or Honey Juyce of Fumitory or Hops or Mercury or Rhamnus solutive or the juyce of its berries Thus Take the grains or seeds of the drying thorn called Merla through ripe bruise them and keep them in an Earthen vessel eight daies warm take a pint of the juyce and as much fine Sugar mak a syrup with Cinnamon and Ginger of each six drams Cloves two drams This syrup is not good only for Scabby people but
Gouty and such as have flegmatick and serous humors Or give syrup of Roses with Rhubarb of Eupatorium with Rhubarb of Apples by King Sabor of the juyce and Senna or that of Fumitory Epithymum Polypody Myrobalans Tamarinds Cassia of Epithymum compound or that of Fumitory Myrobalans Tamorinds and Agarick of Succory with Rhubarb of Diasereos and the like Or that of Apples and Hellebore Thus made Take Bugloss and Borage roots and all each two handfuls Fumitory Eupatory Chamaepytis or Groundpine Germander Madenhair each a handful Bugloss Borage and Staechus flowers each apugil Raysons stoned an ounce tops of Time and Epithymum each half an ounce Senna an ounce and an half Polypody two ounces black Hellebore steept in white wine three drams Schaenanth two drams boyl them and add to the straining Juyce of sweet Apples twelve ounces Sugar two pounds make a syrup Another by Montanus made of Senna Rhubarb Myrobalans Epithymum Polypody bark of black Hellebore six drams with an ounce of Cloves and four ounces of Liquorish boyled to five pints Or this purging Decoction for five or six doses Take Dock roots three ounces Grass Asparagus Kneeholm Elicampane Liquorish each an ounce and half Fumitory and Mercury two ounces Polypody four ounces Succory Dandelion Sowthistle Bugloss roots and all Scabious Fumitory Hops Mercury Maidenhair Eupatorium Endive Liverwort Sorrel Violets Lettice Balm five or six handfuls Cordial flowwers Water-lillies Moulin flowers four pugils Budds of Hops tops of Thyme and Epithymum each a pugil Aniseseed two drams Seeds of Dodder Melons and Sorrel each a dram Carthamus bruised three ounces Raisons stoned two ounces Prunes six pair Sebestens or Jujubes eight pair Tamarinds an ounce and half infuse the Seeds and Roots in a pint of white Wine then add as much Water with a little of the Decoction of Lignum vitae or Wormwood-water boyl and strain ad sugar and Cinnamon give it often as Ishewed If you will have it work more infuse three ounces of Senna or four or make it into a syrup with half a pound of Sugar give it as you find it works or mix it with Water of Bugloss Fumitory Maidenhair or the like or with Pulp of Cassia or Tamarinds make an Electuary you may add also Diagredium to make it stronger You may also boyl Soldanella with the Decoction of Senna or for the stronger people three or four drams of black Hellebore and add an ounce of Myrobalans at the conclusion rub'd with Oyl of Rhubarb or Agarick or Mechoacan with their Correctors and after straining add Sugar to make an Apozem or Syrup and it will be better Or add to the Decoction Syrup of Fumitory Docks Hops Apples Bugloss Roses or take a good quantity of the Juyces of them and infuse therein Senna Rhubarb Agarick or make a Syrup Or Take Juyce of sweet Apples four ounces Juyce of Roses three ounces Juyce of Fumitory and Plopps each two ounces Juyce of Dock roots and Beets each an ounce and an half Juyce of Mercury Borage Bugloss Sorrel each an ounce boyl them with as much Sugar and with Cinnamon make a syrup You may if you please add Senna and Rhubarb A purging Wine for five doses Take Dock roots or Monks-Rhubarb two ounces bark of the Roots of Tamarisk or Ash and Danewort each an ounce Fumitory budds of Hops Mercury Agrimony Maidenhair Wormwood each two drams Peach and Cordial flowers each a dram Anise-seeds two drams Senna two ounces Thyme and Epithymum an ounce Mechoacan or Briony roots half an ounce Ginger a dram bruise them for five or six pints of Wine and steep them therein you may ad Sodanella and a little black Hellebore which is safest in Wine Or Take eight measures of new Wine add twelve ounces of Senna Mechoacan Sarsa Sassaphras each three ounces Wormwood two handfuls Another Decoction for other Diseases and the Scab to be taken thirty dayes it prevents and cures Take Guaicum an ounce Sarsa six drams Roots of Succory and Liquorish each half an ounce boyl and strain them and for one dose infuse Senna half an ounce Mechoacan a dram Ginger half a dram strain and add Syrup or Juyce of Roses half an ounce Balm water an ounce Give it at once An Infusion or Decoction of Hellebore is good as in other stubborn Diseases made of the small Roots of Hellebore that which is called black Astrintia or that with a green or purple Flower which are greater then the white Hellebore though this may be used in strong Bodies take off the Bark and cast away the Pith which may be softned in Wine if it will not come off Take a dram or four scruples of this bark two drams of Senna infuse them in wine or Oxymel if it be white Hellebore or Aniseseed water add Cloves Cinnamon Ginger boyl gently and strain them add the Decoction or Raisons and Prunes or Syrup of Polypody or of Roses Or you may make an Extract of black Hellebore by often Infusion and give a little thereof A certain Emperick cured all Scabs and other stubborn Diseases with the Decoction of Stibium calcined and Sarsaparilla You may also use Potions and Electuaries as of Tamarinds Cassia Manna Lenitive Diacassia Diaprunis Diacatholicon or stronger with Scammony as Diaprunis solutive Diasebesten of Juyce of Roses Diaphaenicon Troches of Violets or Electuary of Lapis Lazuli Confectio Hamech Diasenna Pills of Fumitory Agrimony Rhubarb and Pills of Lapis Lazuli or of the five Myrobalans After Purging sweat to send out the sharp Humors in both moist and dry Itch for though it dries the Body more yet it takes away the cause For Nature in Impetigo and Psora tends that way as we may observe Therefore use not only hot Houses often but when the Itch is stubborn and returns continue them a month with Decoctions of Guaicum and Sarsa as in the Pox but not with such slender Diet least by drying the Body within you sharpen the Humors alwayes Purging every third day by which we have often cured them Use Alterers to amend the Constitution and a sparing Diet but not so as to exasperate the Humors Let the Diet be of good Nourishment temperate and moist rather then dry and cold rather then hot Take heed of salt sharp and spiced Meats and Wine that inflames the Body too much Let the Air be good the sleep temperate and let them exercise often to breath out the Excrements by insensible Transpiration Medicines must be given to alter the sharpness of the humors that are cold and moist to correct the Distemper of the Liver and open Obstructions As Conserves Candyes Syrups Waters of Bugloss Violets Roses Succory Water-lillies Maidenhair Citrons Pouder of Trionsantalon and Diarrhodon And others mentioned in hot and melancholy Diseases Also give sharp Spaw-water for many dayes or Troches of Vipers with Conserves in Psora and Elephantiasis and a dram of Gum Lac with three ounces of the Decoction of Myrtles is good to preserve against Impetigo Many in Psora and
Maidenhair Savin Bramble leaves Pease Vetches Beans Lentiles Lupines Faenugreek Juniper and Ivy berries Mustard seeds Cypress Nuts and both Hellebors adding Vinegar In a stubborn scab and Impetigo Take Litharge of Gold half a pound Allum an ounce juyce of Plantane Docks and Limons of each an ounce Vinegar a pint and an half boyl and filter it off it is stronger with three drams of Quick-silver or half an ounce of Chalcitis Or boyl Litharge sublimate Ceruss Vitriol equal parts in Plantane Dock or spring water Or dissolve sublimate in Aqua fortis and mix a spoonful thereof with Rose or plantane water try the strength first upon some part and then use it Or use the distil'd water of Docks mentioned in the Tetter Or Take juyce of Docks four ounces of Plantane two ounces of Limons an ounce Rose water an ounce and an half pouder of Sulphur and Salt each an ounce Litharge half an ounce Ceruss two drams Sublimate a dram Or Take Dock roots three ounces Bryonie Elicampane Gentian roott each an ounce Sulphur an ounce and an half Quick-silver half an ounce Vinegar eight ounces distil a water A Lixivium cures the scab if it be used in time of bathing with soap this is best in the scald to get the scabs from the Hair and other filth It is best made of vine and colewort ashes and of Bean stalk juniper ash with unsleaked Lime adding Forge water Urin vinegar or pickle salt Allum sulphur Calcanthum Or wash with stale Urin that hath stood long in a brass pot or that which is red and is made by a cholerick person Some commend that Water found in the cavities of Oaks Or use Medicines mentioned in the Elephantiasis Or use a Dropax that is a plaster of pitch laid on and forceably drawn off to pluck out the Hair by the roots which hinder the cure of a scald Head this is the last Remedy make it of Pitch Rosin and oyl dissolved one Plaster over the whol Head is better than many Excoriation Clefts Wounds and Ulcers are cured alike The Cure of Ulcers in general when the skin flesh and other parts divided grow again together this is Natures only work and the Physitian doth only remove the impediments by actual or potential means and because Driers are chiefly used they say all Ulcers are cured thereby but they vary according to the sorts of Ulcers as we shal shew first we shall speak of the cure of superficial abrasions and Fissures or Clefts then of Burnings then of deeper Wounds and Ulcers Abrasions called Intertrigines or Galls by Riding The cure of Abrasions of the Skin Chaps or Gall cal'd Intertrigo and of Fissures or Clefts or Perniones Kibes or Chiblanes long lying Pissing in Infants and Pose or Coryza in the Nose or from Phlyctenae or Bladders broken also Fissures or Clefts or Chinks or chaps called Rhagades in the Hands Feet Lips Fundament Paps Privities Prepuce of Men Eye-brows Nostrils Ears come from Heat or Cold or Driness or salt and sharp Humors as Perniones or Kibs and Chilblanes use to be in the Heels in time of great Cold. they are cured alike and when Kibes turn to Ulcers they are cured as Ulcers First take away that which caused them or hinders the Cure of them as by removing outward Causes and clensing inward as salt and sharp Humors and preventing their Increase as we shewed in the Scab if the cause cannot be wel taken away let it be abated if it come by riding mend the Saddle if by long lying lay soft things under and if Children be gall'd by Urine defend the part As for the rest of the Cure although Nature by Nourishment wil make new skin and glew up Clefts or Chaps yet because the torn skin grows rough round about where it presently drieth especially where it is thicker then ordinary and moysture falls thereon which hinders action you must apply Topicks to mollify the hard and dry Circumference and things that dry gently without biting and moisten and so dry as it is rough or wet more or lesse Thus. All Suets lenifie and heat the chief are Dears Kids and Goats You must anoynt a Clout and apply it Candle droppings are good against galling by riding and they are better when they are dropt into Water or white Wine this oyntment is called Candle-droppatum it is easie to be had for Travellers When you wil Lenifie more use Goose Duck Hens Grease or Oesypus which is Grease of Wool or use Bears Grease against Kibes or Chilblanes Or oyl of Roses Myrtles Quinces bitter Almonds or yolks of Eggs for chapt Lips or Nipples or oyl of a burnt Nutshel or of Wheat the oyl of a roasted Turnep cures the Chilblanes Or the oyl of Sowbread or Daffadil roots made hollow and then roasted or oyl of Nettle seeds or of Nettles boyled in oyl with Salt Or Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth in Rose-water or of Quince seeds or the white of an Egge Glew or Size made of Leather shreds boyled cures the Chaps of the Nipples and the Grease thereof also The Valesians use the Gum that comes from the Bark of the Larch tree called Drambech in Dutch or Turpentine Pomatum made of Kids Suet is Good for all Chaps and it is sweet for the Lipps and Nipples You may of those sewets and oyls and white Wax make an oyntment with Mucilage and a little Turpentine Or make oyntment of hard yolks of Eggs with Goats sewet oyl of Roses and Grease that is sweet Or for the Chaps of the Lips use Honey or Syrup of Roses or Sugar pellets or Sugar of Roses or Diatragacanth frigid made into a Liniment To dry more use juyce of Plantane and Turpentine with the oyls mentioned wel mixed together Or with Starch and Infusion of Gum Tragacanth with other driers or juice of sweet Pomegranates with Starch and Butter when there are Chaps in the nostrils from Coryza or Pose or Use the Emulsion of the four great cold seeds Or Use the iuices of Comfrey Cotyledon Elder Rue made as the rest into an oynument or juyce of Goose-Grass against the Chaps of the Nipples or Acacia against Kibes or Chilblanes Or Juyce of Briony with Salt is good against Clefts Or leaves of Beech or Briony applyed to chapt Lips cures them Or a roasted Leek or Onion with honey and oyl or a Squil or Sea onyon with oyl or Rosin against Chilblanes Or add Starch to the Mucilages or to oyntments of Sewet or of Yolks of Eggs. Or Pouder of Galls or Turpentine and Honey In Chaps and Kibes add Ashes of Bran Squils Figgs Asses Hoof Horse-tayl Cray fish to Honey of Roses suets or oyls Or burnt Shoe soals or Paper with suet or Tallow is good or to be added to Candle droppatum for Galls by Riding being at hand Mastich Frankincense or Pitch poudered and mixed with oyl of Roses or Grease and Wax make a good oyntment Or thus Take Sorrel Sarcocol Mastich each a dram Gum parched half
an ounce pouder them and with Oyntment of yolks of Eggs mentioned two ounces or with that of Mucilages for chapt Lips make an Oyntment Sulphur and oyl mixed cure the Chaps of the Hands or if you tie Sulphur in a Clout or the flour of it and boyl it in common oyl or oyl of St. Johns wort or Moulin Or Litharge with the white of an Egg or Mucilage or oyl or Grease stirred long in a Leaden Mortar cures the Excoriations by Piss and other chaps Or mixed with the oyntments made of Juyce of Plantane also Ceruss Tutty Starch and oyl of Yolks of Eggs. Or thus Take Litharge Myrrh Frankincense each â— dram Galls or round Birthwort half a dram Camphire a scruple Oyntment of Suet two ounces Or use the usual oyntment of Litharge Ceruss Pompholyx with Allum or Unguentum Citrinum When the chaps are stubborn use stronger Driers Take Litharge Ceruss each a dram Allum red Lead each half a dram Sublimate four grains with white of an Egg make a Liniment A Water for the same Take Tartar three drams Allum half a dram Sublimate four grains â—eruss Litharge each a dram Frankincense Mastich each half a dram Pomegranate flowers two scruples boyl them mix them in twelve ounces of Rose Plantane Limon or Mouse-ear water till a third part be consumed wash therewith Or wash before anoynting with Decoction of Lillies Mallows Henbane Poppy Violets Purslane Groundsil Housleek Chamaemel Melilot flowers meal of Foenugreek and Line seed with Sheeps suet let it be of Milk or Water It is good to wash chapt hands in their own Urin. For Kibes and Chilblains foment with a Decoction in Wine and Water of sharp Herbs as Dragons Sowbread Crowfoot or Clensers as Turneps Beets Orrobus seed or Astringents as Myrtle Verbascum the less Arction and Pomegranate peels Also Allum water is good against Kibes and Chilblains Or Take Melilot a handful red Roses a pugil pulp of Quinces two ounces boyl and stamp them add meal of Lentils an ounce Pomegranates peels half an ounce with Oyl of Roses Frankincense and Ashes make a Cataplasm I have seen the thick lips in a kib'd Heel stitched togeher that it may heal the better You may cure chaps in the Hands and Feet with ordinary Glew spread upon a Clout You may use against Burning things against Blisters and Excoriations from them being broken Burning whether it be from any thing red hot or from flame or from Gun-powder for a Bullet cannot so quickly grow hot as to burn as some suppose or from scalding water and the like or from potential Causticks or Nettles the narrower and shallower it is the sooner and easier it is cured if otherwise it is difficult and leaves an ugly scar and I have seen Gun-powder stick in the skin after the Cure That Burning that is in or about noble parts or the Face or which is very large from falling into the Fire is dangerous and often deadly If the skin be burnt by a Cautery we labor to keep it open by cutting the Blyster and taking off the Eschar and use nothing but things mentioned in Flegmon against pain and Inflammation and they may be used against other Burnings with Blood letting As for the place burned that is hurt and pained first we take out the Fire which is thought to be done by hot things and therefore the Vulgar hold the part to the Fire but they are most agreeable which have moderate heat and are therefore called Anodynes and dry without Biting and digest without great heat and which hinder the Blisters from breaking this done at the first we must use stronger Driers and such as heal Excoriation and Ulceration such as are against the skin flead off and mentioned in the Itch. But if it turn to a deep Ulcer by suppuration it must be cured as an Ulcer and if the Weapon or Instrument made a Wound also you must first use things against Burning and then cure the Ulcer against Burning use these Plants bruised or boyled in Water Wine-vinegar or Oyl or Hogs Grease are good as Leeks Onions Daffadil Hemerocallis Lillies Danewort roots Hemp Alkanet Thorn roots or leaves of St. Johns wort Androsaemus Pellitory Althaea Mallows Ivy wild Verbascum Mulberry Myrtles Poppies Hounds-tongue wild Rue Sesamus flowers of Spear-grass Ivy Cistus Typha or apply Beets roots and all Or anoynt with the Juyces especially of leaves and Berries of Ivy Onyons Turneps Nightshade wild Lettice which hath a milky juyce according to Dioscorides with Allum or yolks of Eggs Mucilage or Gum Traganth or Cream Or Take the juyces mentioned three ounces Oyl of Roses fresh Butter Hogs grease each an ounce slaked Lime half an ounce mucilage of Quinces an ounce with Turpentine make an Oyntment or boyl away the Juyces and put Wax to it The Vulgar apply Elder leaves but the middle rind is better Or Take the middle rind of Elder an ounce and an half the juyce of Elder buds an ounce Lineseed Oyl two ounces Oyl of Roses and Hogs grease each an ounce Wax an ounce and an half Frankincense an ounce boyl them in Water a little and when it is cold take of the Oyl at the top Mathiolus useth liquid Varnish but we Line seed Oyl Or apply the root of Fennel stampt with Cream but first take off the black skin or coat Or the middle bark of the Tile tree which in Rose water makes a Mucilage which is excellent in Burnings Or use Oyls by Infusion of the fruits of Momordica or Nightshade Apples or of red Poppy leaves or by Decoction the Oyl in the hollow roots of Daffodil or Ivy boyled in Oyl and Wine til the Wine be consumed also Oyl of Elder Quinces or by expression as Oyl of Gourd seeds of Nuts or yolks of Egs. Or Oyl of Whelps and Worms which is approved against Gun-shot fire Or Hogs Grease wel clensed and dropt into Water with the application of a hot Iron others stick Straws into Bacon and set them on fire to make it drop but it is better to wrap them in a double paper that is larger and set on fire and so let it drop into water thus they season roast meat instead of Larding it Bacon alone so prepared cureth Burnings and easeth pain with Cream or Yolks of Eggs. Against Gun-powder fire use Butter or Hogs Grease dropt into Frog-spawn water or of Cray-fish or Earth-worms boyled When there is an Ulcer use pouders or otherwise anointing first the part that they may stick with Oyl Mucilage or Milk as Ashes of Gourds Coleworts Barley Shoe soals shels of Frogs or as Dioscorides pouder of Cinabar and Cimolian Earth The Vulgar wet the part and apply meal to take out the fire To abate pain use whites of Eggs and Oyl of Roses with Lint or with white Wax make an Oyntment adding mucilage of Quinces and Hogs Grease or Barley meal and in an Ulcer Bole and Frankincense Or Take Leeks or Onions roasted stamp them with yolks of Eggs or Elder Deers or
the pain be great pour in hot sallet Oyl or of Chamaemel Dil Rue Or drop or lay on with a pledget Oyl of St. Jhons wort Turpentine Worms Mastich or Savin or if the pain be great Oyl of yolks of Eggs or the fruit of Momordica Or Oyl of Lovage with Grease of a Lyon and Wax makes a rare Oyntment Or Oyl with Turpentine Rosin Opopanax Sagapenum Euphorbium or Sulphur vivum dissolved in it Or other Balsoms mentioned in Wounds Or apply Turpentine with the yolk of an Egg and Saffron Or Leaves of Groundsil with Frankincense according to Dioscorides and leaves of the lesser Dracunculus with Coutchineel When the puncture is by a Thorn or Needle make a Pultis of Hemp leaves with the white of an Egg and Vinegar To draw things fastned in a puncture use the Plaster of Garlick by Aetius made of Garlick Niter Pitch marrow of a Deer Wax and Oyl Or Leaven and Propolis with Honey and wax Or Snails taken out of their shels and Earth-worms bruised or boyled in wine and mixed with meal Ordinary Flies bruised and applied draw out splinters When a Thorn is drawn out wash with the Decoction of red Pease or with old white Wine when the vein is pricked Or apply pouder of Crabs Eyes Harts-horn and Earth-worms with Honey and Turpentine Or give the Wound-drink mentioned for they work so strongly that they wil not only expel from inward but outward parts If a puncture suppurate cure it as an Ulcer If there be Inflammation cure it as a wound with Inflammation If a Convulsion or Palsie or Contraction follow cure it as is shewed in them Wounds or Punctures poysoned from a Sword weapon Dart The Cure of venemous and poisoned wounds Strokes and Bites or Bullet poysoned with evil juices or otherwise or from biting of Serpents weasels mad Dogs of which in Hydrophobia or fear of water or from Scorpions Spiders are according to the Venome better or worse As when it is from a Scorpion it is most dangerous or when the wound is great which cause great Accidents and leave stubborn Ulcers some have only Heat and a little Pain and are not so bad except that cause inflammation and so a stubborn Ulcer such come from our Snakes and Spiders which are not so dangerous as these from Vipers and Phalangies And the stinging of Bees is such in all which though the Hurt be small the pain is great If the Venome be great you must labour to draw it out and then cure the wound Thus. Give Antidotes suddainly to resist poyson and proper as Treacle Mithridate Antidote of Esdras Also that of Skinkey Bloods Earth of Lemnos mentioned by Galen The Electuary of Asa by Mesue and others mentioned by Dioscorides and Nicander Or that of Mathiolus and that so much comended made of Laurel called the Saxon Antidote and others mentioned in the Plague and in Madness And in a poisoned wound if you use Bole earth of Lemnos and Mummy they both resist Poyson and heal Or this Decoction that heals and tesists poyson made of Roots of swallow wort Valerian Tormentil wild Angelica steept in Vinegar and Leavs of Scabious Nettles small Valerian Flowers of Conval Lillies and Perwincle boyled in wine Or Juice of Dittany Scorzonera and Gentian Some say that Cocks or Hens dung boyled expels poyson That rare Oyl of Scorpions of Mathiolus to anoynt the pulses and Arteries resists all poysons as he saith Divers things are applied outward to draw forth poyson as we shewed in pestilent Carbuncles and when we spake of the biting of mad Dogs and against stinging of Scorpions and Spiders Burning Cutting and Cupping are good And things applied that resist Venom As this plaster Take Pigeon or Hens dung an ounce pouder of Dittany two drams Niter a dram with Hares grease Oyl of bitter Almonds and VVax make a Plaster Or this Take juyce of Scaboius Rue Onyons roasted each two ounces juyce of Anagallis with the purple Flower Sowbread each two drams great Spurge seeds a dram Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar six drams Oyl of Amber Sulphur each half an ounce Oyl of Saffron a scruple with Treacle Mithridate and Turpentine make a Plaster Galen mentions divers plasters for venemous wounds and punctures called Icosij their Ingredients are to cure wounds But this plaster called Diadictamnum is more proper to draw out splints and poyson and so is Vnguentum Macedonium You may find in Dioscorides and Nicander specifical medicines against particular Venoms as a bruised Scorpion or the Oyl thereof against the sting of a Scorpion of biting of mad Dogs we have spoken In other Bites or stingings which cause burning rather than Venom with tumor and dolour you must use things accordingly for stinging of Bees use Potters Earth and herbs that abate tumor mentioned in phlegmon and things mentioned in Burnings are good against stinging For Biting of Fleas and Gnats they cause but a little itching and a spot and small tumor therefore we shall omit them In wounds with Saws or rugged weapons the torn flesh must be cut away presently or taken away with an actuall or potential Cautery The Cure of wounds unequally divided and the wounds made even and cured as others If an Ulcer come frm a wound or an Imposthume which we call sordid The Cure of plain hollow filthy lousie eating spreading and malignant Vlcers whether it be plain hollow or sinewous and not covered over or putrid lousie or that sweats out water or follows a paronychia or Felon or comes of foul Juyce and nourished therewith which is eating or spreading or malignant as in the French pox and Elephantiasis they must be cured alike because in many things they agree afterward we shal shew the cure of Ulcers that have a Callus or covering or flesh or preternatural tumor We shewed the cure of Ulcers with Cancer Carbuncle Ring-worm and Scabs in the Cure of Tumors and pustles Those Ulcers which come from wounds or Imposthumes the less hollow they are the sooner they are cured Foul lousie Ulcers are hardest especially in Nervous parts that gleet water because they make the joynts unmovable or Gangraeene or the Fellon-ulcer that eats off the Joynts of the Fingers when they are nourished with evil Jnyce they are worst as Eating corroding or spreading Ulcers these last long and are somtimes incurable especially if they be in a part depending as in the Foot so that the humor descends continually to them and when they are nourished with a vein adjoyning they either must not be cured lest the humor being stopt cause worse accidents or cannot And such as take off the skin as rotten bark of a tree are dangerous by reason of the Bones or Gristles which they foul as in the Nose and Ears which destroy the parts Also malignant Ulcers in Womens privities or Mens yards are long a curing and somtimes consume the part They which from the French pox are not cured til the Pox is cured Ulcers in
aforesaid Simples for the same use To preserve the Hair from falling when you are afraid thereof use this Take of Oyl of Myrtles or of Mastich two ounces of Labdanum and Hypocizstis or Acacia dissolved in sharp Wine or Vinegar two drams of Allum or Salt two drams of Wax as much as will serve to make an Oyntments or Take of Oyl of Roses and Quinces each one ounce of Labdanum dissolved in Verjuyce two ounces of Mastich one dram and an half of the pouder of Galls Cyprus Nuts and Myrobalans each one dram mix them for an Unguent to these you may add the ashes of Filbirds Nuts and Bees and other dryers above mentioned If you desire hair to grow again or to come forth we may use Fomentations with Liniments before and after or alone and they are made of the Decoction of Southernwood Maiden-hair Goldilocks Horehound Vervain Myrtle leaves sour Docks Rosemary flowers-Chamaepyts or Groundpine Rosemary topps and Sage if the Head be to be washed Take the Roots of Reeds or bark of an Elme the herb Ferula if you can get it Linseed torrefied and Spikenard according to Dioscorides And if the Hair sall by reason of bad Humors we must add those things which clense them away as Senna Guiacum roots of Briony Wildgourd Snakeweed Spinage Lupins Beans Bran boyling them to a Lixivium or make a Lixivium or Lye of the ashes of Juniper Southerwood Horehound Nuts Almonds Snails sometimes adding other ashes as before and boyling other things aforementioned in the same sometimes Fomentations are made of stilled Waters as of Southernwood maiden-hair Goldenlocks with distilled Honey which you may use with ashes of Labdanum Also a Water of Lard and Honey with other proper Plants is good There is another of boys urine Wine and Milk distilled in equall parts to which add Southernwood and other proper herbs and sometimes Mustard seed to make it stronger The ashes of Tobacco boyled first in Boys urine do cause hair to grow and kill Lice wonderfully The urine of a Cow or Mare in which Faenugreek seed hath been boyled is also used To prevent the Falling of hair make more astringent Decoctions in sharp Wine or Lye or ironed Water leaves of Myrtles and berries of the same Elme barks red Roses Galls Cypress Nuts with other things The Falling of hair from the French Pox is cured by a Fomentation of Milk as we shewed adding Butter the Oyl of sweet Almonds and the like Lenients to attemper the acrimony of the Humor besides these externall Medicines That soote which comes from Pine-tree burnt or Frankincense or other Gums especially Storax which sends a sweet sent doth cause the growing of hair in the Eye-brows often and hard rubbing of the part while it grows red with the Figg leaves or rough cloaths helpeth to cause hair by drawing forth the moisture or rubbing with sharpe Juyces as of Raddishes Onions Garlick Squills and the like If the down be first shaved off or the thin hairs very often it helps much to make them thicker and longer This will cause the nourishing moisture to come to the part and the hairs come forth better this is the best way to produce a Beard and when hair falls it will grow stronger the smoothness of the Eye-brows is amended if with blacking or Soote with Oyl of Nuts and vernish you make a paint When the Body or parts thereof grow too big The Cure of the over largeness of the body of magnitude of parts increased of over-large Orifices or the Orifices too large if they be originall from the Birth they cannot be cured nor can we cut off any thing from a part too large or sew up large Orifices or conglutinate them for then they would loose their use which is of more concernment then Deformity Yet for to astring some Orifices if they be not too wide by Nature but caused by Force without Rupture Women have some Medicines for the externall Orifice of the womb The Cure of the mouth of the Womb being too large to make them conceive the better and to conceal the loss of Virginity by often applying astringents which make the parts straighter A Fomentation or Incession is used for this purpose made of the Decoction of Galls and Pomegranate peels in Rain or Smiths Water with red Wine Vinegar and Allum sometimes they add Comfrey roots leaves of Sumach Plantane Oak Cypress Nuts Pine barks and other astringents and sweet sented as Cypress writing Inke applyed with clouts doth strongly astring or this following Take of Pomegranate flowers half an ounce Mastich or Frankincense and Dragons blood each two drams of Asphaltum or Mummy Arabick in red Wine and Juyce of unripe Pears or Sloes make a past and apply it or sprinkle on the pouder of Bole Galls and Mastich to which add Antimony and Scales of Iron To strengthen the Privities and help Conception this water is most proper Take of the great Comfroy roots Galbanum Roman Vitrioll Pine-gum Ammoniacum sweet Almonds Cypress Nists grains of Sumach Terra sigillata each equall parts pouder them and mix them with sloe-Sloe-water boyl them a little and with water being warm foment the Privities with a linnen cloath This following is of the same if not greater Vertue Take of the leaves of Myrtles Swine-cresses each four handfulls of green Medlars Sloes and Pears each two pugils and an half of Hens Gizards thirty distill them in Balneo mariae and let the Water be put into the Privities with a lock of Wool often If the Nayls grow continually thick it cannot be cured The Cure of Nayls that are too thick or too long for if you shave some from them the next wil be as thick But when the Nails are too long although it be Naturall in regard they bring Deformity and hinder they must be cut to the quick so that they be even with the flesh for to cure long hair This is done by trimming according to the custome of the Country but when they grow too long in a place they should not as in the Forehead The Cure of hair growing too long or in the upper Lip of a Woman which is usuall or upon her Chin which is monstrous or when they are too many in the Privities then they must be taken and prevented from returning which is most difficult but it is to be done by outward applications a preparative going before either by pulling forth or cutting them off or burning the skin when there is a Plethory you must prepare by letting blood if you intend to burn them off to prevent Inflamation and pain you must also purge Some use sweating before either in a dry Bath or with hot Water that the Pores being opened the Medicines applyed may have the better Operation But this is not so necessary because it will be done without but they do well after to clense the skin from the Liniments and filth especially when they stick fast in the Privities Topiks are divers to make
the skin clean from hair called Psilothra this they do by a caustick Power by burning and if they burn strong as we said of hot water the Roots will be taken off and a Scar will be in the Skin so that they never will grow again This is to be done warily and if the place be burnt cured as a burn Some Medicines work otherwise then by caustick or burning by a secret propriety which are mixed with causticks to keep hairs from returning besides these there are some which have an astringent Faculty by which they hinder hair which do drive back the Nourishment And cheifly to keep hair from growing again they use Narcoticks or Stupefactives supposing that they repel them by their great coldness but they being not cold must do it by another way of Digestion which we have shewed to be their property or they are used to take away the pain by Causticks so they were used mixed with other things at first and after they were supposed to be applied for the hindering of that groweth of hair These Medicines which take of Hair or hinder it from growing either by way of Oyntment or Pouder are made of the Simples following First from Plants as the Roots of Osmund-royall of Cypress take off hair according to Dioscorides the Meal of Lupins with Oyl and Vinegar the red Berries of Briony take away hair hence the Plant is called a Psilothron to which you must add Vinegar when they are bruised least they cause Ulceration The juyce of Spurge doth it excellently but it inflameth easily therefore it must be mixed with the white of an Egg or Oyl the Juyce of the wild Cowcumber doth the like other Juyces keep them from growing as of Fumitory Coleworts especially Narcoticks as of Henbane Hemlock and Poppies The distilled Water of the same doth the like as also the Water of Stonecrop and Housleek the water that drops from a Vine that is burnt is good also also Gum of Ivy dissolved in any proper Water is much commended From living Creatures these are good the sea Hare and the Urtica beaten and laid on saith Dioscorides Also Ants beaten together with their Eggs are commended if applied Also Ants Eggs with the Milk of a Bitch or meal of Lupins with strong Vinegar Moles green Froggs and Horsleeches poudered or burned and applied with Oyl or Grease are also good also Salamanders and Glow-worms mixed and beat together with Ants Eggs are of much force also Swallows Dung and Vinegar also Batts blood Ftogs blood Snails with Vinegar Moles with Vitrioll Bitchs Milk Ox Gall black Chickens and Dogs piss The Decoction of a Mole with salt Water till the water be almost gone takes away hair but brings white in their stead Dioscorides commends the Oyl wherein a Salamander of the Sea hath been boiled They say Salt often thrown upon the Head takes away hair and the crocus of Iron with Oyl Of Compounds this following is the best Take of quick Lime one ounce of Orpment one dram or one dram and an half add a little of the white of an Egg and Barbers Sudds anoint the place with your Finger and a quarter of an hour after wash it with the Sudds if they go not off increase the quantity of Orpment and so continue till you have done it some mix these with French Soape The Turks have a thing called Rusma it comes out of the Earth and is like skales of Iron but lighter black and as it were burnt which is best of all and the Women use it much as Belloniuc saith because it makes the parts smooth without burning leaving no sign of hair they take the half of this Pouder half of the Pouder of quick Lime and steep them in Water and wash therewith and afterwards in the Bath they wipe the part and the Hairs comes off This Rusma is a kind of Shoemakers black or vitrioll called Sory or Melanteria it is like it by Description other things to take off hair are made thus Take of unsleked Lime one ounce of Orpiment half a dram pouder them and boyl them in water or Lie then use it others use the ashes of Harts-horn with as much Orpimens boyled in Rain-water the Pouder of Orpiment mined with juyce of Henbane takes off hair and they will not grow again and the Juyce is to prevent pain Another Take of Orpiment one dram of Gum of Ivy five drams of Ants Eggs bruised one spoonefull and mix them with Vinegar you may add the blood of a Bat or of Froggs or Juyce of Henbane least they should grow again some use the Decoction of Spurge in Vinegar with Quick-lime and least they should excorias they boyl Mallows therewith or add Milk This water takes off Hair and keeps it from growing again Take of salt Peeter eight ounces of Allnm six ounces beat them together and distill a water with which wash the part and when it is dry wash it again A Lye in which Nettle roots have been boyled and a rusty Horse-shoe steeped doth the same if after the part be shaved you wash the place there with thrice every day To hinder their growing again this is the chief Medicine Take of the Juyce of the Narcotick herb afore mentioned two ounces of the blood of a Bat half an ounce and add thereto Gum of Ivy or half an ounce of the Mucilage of Fleabane or of pouder of Ceruse and burnt Lead each one dram or Take of Opium half an ounce of Sanguis Draconis one ounce and an half boyl them in Vinegar adding the Juyce of Henbane a distilled Water of Henbane Poppy Hemlock Housleek and Stonecrop with the bloods afore mentioned and Allum and Vinegar is approved Hair cannot be pulled off otherwise many together would cause pain and one by one require much time therefore a very sticking Plaister laid some time upon the part and drawn off will do it for this purpose Take of the Rosin of the Fir-tree or of the Larix-tree four spoonefulls of Mastich poudered as much as a small Nut dissolve and boyl them a little alwaies stirring them and then powr them into cold water and make a Plaister It is otherwise made with Colophony and a little Gum Ammoniack or Galbanum for so the Skin being mollified and enlarged the hairs come forth more easily If you add something which will pull hairs forth it will work both actually and potentially as Gum of Ivy or thus Take of Pitch half an ounce of Mastich or Gum of Ivy three drams of Orpiment one dram and an half with Rosin make a Plaister You may take hairs off with Scissors but better with a Raysor first washing with warm Sudds but then the Roots will appear and arise suddenly again and the oftner you shave the thicker they will grow therefore shaving will but palliate and not take away this Deformity The skin must be a little seared not to take away the hairs because they may better be cut away but to hinder
their growth for so the Roots will be consumed and the Pores stopped which as we may do it with Medicines so may we with an actuall Cautery and this is done with a Plate of Gold burning hot suddenly clapt on for so though there be a burn yet after the healing thereof no Scar will remain It is better to prevent then take away grosness of Body which is burdensome The Cure of the carnosity and fatness of the Body and parts thereof because a Body that hath been great when made less will be wrinkled uneven and deformed as the Breasts when fallen are lank and flaggy so the Cheeks Calfes of the Leggs and Belly if formerly distended will wrinkle when they are fallen But to prevert this burdensome flesh or to stop it that it proceed no further we must hinder the increase of that fat which is Naturall in the Blood first by a more spare Diet or such as nourish little But if a more sparing Diet only be used then formerly and it be of good Juyce there will be rather an increase of better Blood then a less quantity which will little avail for abating of flesh And though a sparing Diet doth abate in regard men will not long endure it we shall do little by that means But if we prescribe a Diet of little Nourishment of Herbs rather then flesh and water instead of Wine or very thin Wine or other Drink they shall so grow lean and this is the best way great and constant Labour taketh down the flesh and Fat of the Body in time especially if the Diet afore mentioned be used but ordnary Exercise makes a better Concoction and rather increaseth then diminisheth the Flesh Great and often Evacuations by which the Blood and nourishing Juyce is taken away from the parts and their increase or groweth hindered as great Sweats by strong Exercise or Baths or the like are very proper as Blood-letting and Cupping which Scarification and often Purging which as they are prescribed with good advise so by chance when there is a Flux of blood or of Seed by much Venery or of the Belly or an acute Disease corpulency is taken away and the Body made lean And this will be so also by old Age. It may also be done by altering Medicines which keep the Body hot and dry constantly this way will prevent and diminish Corpulency and the constitution may be thus altered by Diet as well as Medicines Decoctions are chiefly commended for abating corpulency as of the Huskes of Filberds boyled in Wine Roots of Polypody Avens wild Chervill Rosemary with a little Ginger Or the distilled Water of these often drunk Also Vinegar often drunk doth the same thing Pouders made of these things following and taken in Wine are said to do the same as the seeds of Ash Hil-wort or Pol-montane Parsley Also Tartar or Wine-leaves often taken or Gum Sandarath half a dram with Oxymel also the Salt of Vipers It is said that Pepper often used will cause Leanness Pills of bitter things taken every morning half a scruple are good as of Birthwort Roots Gentian each one dram of Madder roots and tops of the lesser Centaury each half a dram of Allum one scruple with Juyce of Polypody or Avens make a mass Women which desire to be handsom labour much to hinder their Breasts from being over large The Cure of too great Breasts they affect to have them little for Ornament and fear they will be unhandsome when they are big This is done not only by using such means as extenuate the whol Body which we have declared but by outward Applications which by repelling cooling and binding or consuming the Nourishment by a digesting and drying Quality keep the breasts comely The same Medicines which we spake of in the Chapter of Milk over flowing which hinder the coming of it to the brests or dissolve that which is there being applied to the breasts will also make them less A Fomentation often repeated with a Sponge or Linnen clout and left at the Breasts till dry will do it This is made of red Wine Vinegar Ladies mantle Horstail Myrtles Plantane Roses Balm Mints Galls and other astringents Or make it of Sal ammoniack and Allum boyled in Wine Stilled Water from the foresaid may be also used with Allum also a Water distilled of green Pine-nuts also that which is made by Distillation of Eggs Allum and Pouder of Chalk Quinces Apples green Pears Medlars Service-berries Sloes beaten together with Vinegar or boyled in it do the same or boyled with Oyl of green Olives and Galls Hemlock fresh gathered beaten by it self or with Vinegar Henbane leaves Mints and Balm do the same This Plaister following is also good Take of Mastick and Frankincense each half an ounce of Galls and Cypress nuts each two drams of Bole or Fullers Earth or red Okar three drams pouder them and mix them with the white of an Egg and Vinegar or Honey and so apply them or Take of Pomegranate peels three drams of Acacia hypocistis or Conserve of Sloes half an ounce mix them with Vinegar and the Mucilage of Fleabane seed Or this Oyntment Take of Ceruss three drams of Alabaster or white Wax two drams of Camphir one dram of Borax half a dram of the Infusion of Gum dragant half an ounce of Oyl of Mrytles as much as will make an Oyntment They commend the Pouder of two Whetstones rubbed together mixed with Vinegar Dioscorides saith that the Cypruss Whetstone called Naxia keeps Breasts from growing a Squate or skale Fish laid to the breasts doth the same by astriction When the Body or any part is too small by Nature it cannot be cured nor a Member restored by an artificiall Instrument or by making the like this is a Disease in number deficient but that which is deficient in magnitude may be supplyed in some When any part of a Member is lost The Cure of a smal Body or smal Limbs and of such parts are lame instead thereof new flesh may be added which may be fashioned like unto the former which divers ingenious Chirurgions say they can do when part of the Nose is taken off first they take away the skin in the extream part of the Nose then they make a wound in the musculous part of the Arm of the Patient into which they place the remaining part of his Nose having the skin cut off as aforesaid first putting a Tent in each Nostril then they bind his Head to his Arm and so let it remain till the flesh groweth to the Nose this done they cut off as much of the Arm as is fit to make a Nose and fashion it like the former and then take the Tents out of the Nostril and after heal it up If this may be done by a Nose why not by other Members and though this new flesh should serve for no use yet it would take away Deformity To make new Breasts and Papps so that the Child may
but before you must cure the Cachexy thus If there be aboundance of Excrements you must purge Choller especially with Rhubarb and things that inflame not the Liver choosing those things which are mentioned in the first causes of a Cachexy For Alteration they boyl in Broath Endive Divels bit Succory Lettice sow thistle or let them be eaten boiled in salets let them eat sharp Fruits boiled or season them in Meate with the Juyce as Juyce of Pomegranates which after working is called Pomegranate wine or the Juyce of currance Barberries Grapes Lemmons Citrons c. Let the ordinary Drink be thin white Wine dashed with boiled water or if there be great thirst let them drink water in which Vinegar or sharpe Juyce is mixed The Decoction of Succory roots is used instead of Drink either alone or mixed with wine as also the Decoction of the Roots of sorrel Fern and Grass by themselves or with wine which if they are made sharpe with a little spirit of Vitriol or salt will be more pleasant and effectual This Julep is to be taken sometimes Take of sharpe Juyces one or more one quarter of a pint Juyce of Endive two ounces Vinegar one ounce Rose-water two ounces sugar as much as is sufficient boil it into the form of a Julep some add a little Camphire which doth good rather by penetration then refrigeration A Physical Decoction is thus made Take of Endive one handful of sorrel Lettice Maiden-hair each half an handful Tamarinds one ounce of sharp Prunes twelve of the seeds of Purslan Endive and Dodder each one dram of the four great cold seeds two drams of Barbery seeds one dram and an half of Roses and Violets each one pugil boil them in water adding two ounces of Rose Vinegar and when it is strained put to it some syrup of the aforesaid Herbs and as much sugar as is sufficient and when you will make the Body loose put Manna or Rhubarb thereunto The usual syrups are of Endive and succory simple and compound and sharpe syrups of Vinegar which were prescribed in the Cure of the former cachexy to which for cooling you may add the syrup of the Juyce of Citrons of Lemmons Pomegranates and the like as the Violets Purslain Water-lillies and other of the Juyce of Currance Barberries and other sharp Juyces Waters must be mixed with the syrups as of Endive succory Liver-wort Dodder with which to strengthen the bowels we mix water of Agrimony and Wormwood Pouders of species which are given by themselves or in Troches Lozenges Electuaries Pills may be used as followeth of which this is excellent to open Obstructions Take of red and white sanders each one dram of yellow sanders half a dram of red Rose leaves two drams of Violets half a dram of the four great cold seeds one dram and an half of Purslain and Endive seed each half a dram of Antispodium of Ivoryshavings two drams make a pouder and with Gum Traganth dissolved in Rose-water or Juyce of Barberries make Troches If you add Rhubarb and Camphire it will be like Diatriansantalon Nicolai which hath besides the things herein Juyce of Liquorish Gum Arabich and starch and somtimes the Rhubarb is double in quantity and this usual composition may be used for the former There is another Composition of more Vertue called Diarhodon Abbatis Nicolai used against Obstructions which is less hot it hath in it sanders Roses Violets the four great and little cold seeds burnt Ivory Gum arabick and Traganth Juyce of Liquorish Rhubarb and Camphire as Diatriansantalon and besides Asarum Bar-berries Anise seeds Fennel Basil seeds Poppy-seeds Mastich Saffron Spike Cardamoms Lignum Aloes Cloves Cinnamon Musk Pearl the Bone in in the Heart of a Hart or stag The Troches of Diarhodon Nicolai of Roses sanders burnt Ivory saffron and Camphire are not so large as the former And the Troches of the sanders which are more binding they have sanders Roses the great cold seeds Purslain seeds Bar-berries burnt Ivory Camphire and Bole Armenick Or other astringents as the Troches of Bar-berries instead of which we may use these less binding Take of the three sanders add Roses each one dram of Rhubarb one dram and an half of spodium of Ivory one dram of Endive Purslain and sorrel each half a dram of Melon seeds one dram and an half Camphire one scruple Sugar and Manna two drams Make a Pouder with the infusion of Gum Traganth in Endive waters Make Troches The Pouder of the leaves of Endive and Succory taken often in Wine with the feed of Hatch-vetch and a little Cinnamon to make it pleasant is approved Also Lozenges made of these ordinary pouders Diatrionsantalon and Diarhodon and of other things with the conserve of Succory flowers We make of the Juyce of Bar-berries pleasant Lozenges which allay the Heat as Take of the Juyce of ripe Bar-berries three ounces of Sugar one pound as much water of Endive or Roses as will boil them into a consistence for Lozenges Thus are made the Lozenges of the Juyce of currance Pomegranates Lemmons citrons and they are as good as the former Of these conserves and Pouders may divers Electuaries be made as Take of the Conserve of Succory flowers and the candied roots of Succory each one ounce and an half of Conserve of Violets Maiden-hair and Bugloss each half an ounce of Melon seeds one dram and an half of Trionsantalon one dram with syrup of Sorrel make a moist Electuary or make it thicker with sugar of Roses Some give Opiats to cool the Liver but to no purpose being hot things are therein as Philonium Vitriol waters drunk for some weeks as we shewed in the cure of the former cachexy besides other benefits there mentioned do cool the Liver if they be taken in time before the Dropsie be great and while the water is only in the Belly and Feet but when it gets out of the Veins it wil increase it especially as is usually if they make little Urine and Drink much therefore it is better for those Drinkers who by their continual thirst shew the heat of their Liver before the cachexy grow great to mix their wine with water The heat of the Bowels and especially of the Liver and the dryness also is cured by outward things that cool and moisten adding alwaies those things that are astringent as these following A cooling and moistning Oyntment Take Oyl of Violets Lillies Guords or of Osiers washed in Vinegar or Juyce of Endive two ounces Oyl of Quinces Roses Myrtles or Mastich each one ounce of the lesser cold seeds and of Sorrel and Rose leaves each half a dram of al the sanders one dram of spike one scruple camphire half a scruple Wax as much as will make an Unguent These are more proper for the Liver Take of Oyl of Roses and Violets each one ounce and an half of Oyls of Water-lillies and Wormwood each one ounce of the juyce of Endive one ounce and an half of the Juyce of
Agrimony one ounce of Vinegar of Roses six drams boil them till the Juyces be consumed and add red and white sanders each one dram of Endive Purslaine each half a dram of spike one scruple of Wax as much as wil make an oyntment to these add camphire or Troches of camphire The Oyntment of sanders is usual against the Distemper of the Liver which is made of the three sanders Roses spodium Bole Armenick camphire Oyl of Roses and Wax Also Oyl of Roses made of Roses and their Juyce and Oyl of sweet Almonds to which some add Opium which because as we often shewed that it doth not cool will do no good in that respect but if there be hardness it wil mollifie as we have shewed stupefactive things do You may also use Refrigerans Galeni with spike you may also apply an Epitheme to the Liver made thus Take of Endive fuccory and Liver wort water each three ounces of Violet-water or Lettice or Nightshade and Roses each two ounces of Wormwood water one ounce of Rose Vinegar of sour Wine one ounce and an half of all the sanders each half a dram of spike one scruple of camphire half a scruple mix them Juyces of Endive and succory may be added also Waters of sorrel smallage and Dodder pouder of Purslain seed Endive Smallage and red Roses seeds burnt Ivory and Mastich of because the stomachs being so near to the Liver A Fomentation may be made with the Decoction of ordinary or stilled proper Water and Rose Vinegar or wine with Endive Succory Wormwood the four great and small cold seeds with Cypress Spike and Schaenanth and other Pouders mentioned Or these mentioned boiled in a bag and strained and applyed Also these Pouders of cold seeds Violets Roses Water-lillies Spodium and Spâ—ke tyed in a clout and sprinkled with proper waters and Vinegar Purslain new gathered and beaten with Rose-water and Vinegar with Camphire is fitly applied Or a Cataplasm of Barley meal or of Lentils made thick with Juyce of Endive or Purslain and Oyl of Roses In their Diet let them take heed of strong wine sharpe Meat spiced or salt let them eat moistning Broaths rather and flesh such as were prescribed in the Treatise of Hectick Feavers to correct the dryness of the Liver which is difficult when fixed That Jaundies which comes from Choller The Cure of the Jaundies in which the whole Body is dyed if it come from much Choler without any other Infirmity joyned in regard Nature doth disburden her self by an inconvenient way you must bring the Choller back into the Guts and this must be done when there is a Feaver also adjoyned But if it follow a Feaver and cureth the Feaver by sweating you must help this Motion of Nature rather than hinder it In other Diseases joyned with the Jaundies you must consider these Diseases chiefly alwaies purging the Choller forth by proper waies and drawing it back by stool and Urine but if the separation be hindered by reason of the Obstructions of the Liver Hardness Scirrhus Rottennss from whence cometh a Dropsie or if there be Inflammation you must cure it with consideration of these if the Excretion or voiding of Excrements be by reason of the Obstruction of the Porus Cholidochus we apply the same things which we use in the Obstruction of the Liver and if there be Inflammation the same If the Jaundies proceed from Poyson taken this must presently be voided by Vomit Glisters if from a stroak or bite of a Beast you must use things that draw the venom out as Cupping-glasses and the like and give things that resist venom Antidotes and the like of Harts-horn and Ivory which also cure the Jaundies and if the Colour which is but a symptom remain after the cause is removed we take it away with Topick Medicines Blood-letting is good if there be much Choller in the branches of the Vena cava and nothing else hinder because it takes away part of it which when the blood is cold will be seen by its yellow water Some to little purpose open the Veins of the Fore-head and under the Tongue to take yellowness from the Eyes and Face Otherwise when there is not much Choller in the veins Blood-letting is of little profit in the Jaundies except there be some other Disease that requires it for when the Vena cava is emptied the meseraik Veins send blood and Choller the easier up into it And this is to be understood in the provoking of Terms for these come from the Vena cava and if they be stopped in the jaundies as in a Cachexy they will not be provoked by Blood-letting except the jaundies be first cured because the stoppage of them comes from the jaundies not the jaundies from them as we shewed The Haemorrhoids because they purge both Choller and Melancholy from the Meseraiks if they bleed of themselves or by constraint are profitable Glysters are excellent when the Choller cometh not to the Guts to provoke stools nor discoloureth the Excrements for by forcing they do not onely fetch out the Excrements but by stirring up Nature and opening they fetch Choller from the Meseraiks and the Porus Cholidochus Therefore first give emollient Glysters then sharpe and such as purge Choller mentioned in the Colick and in Feavers adding things that open as Roots and opening Herbs after use the strongest if the other prevail not vomiting is good sometimes especially if it come from Poyson General Purges for carrying Choler out of the Meseraik Veins where it is first gathered together and sent to the other Veins from thence are good these may be only such as purge Choller if choller alone can be purged by them but in regard things that purge Flegm do the same as Experience teacheth we must not stand much upon that so long as Obstructions are opened which are the cause many such Purges are prescribed in the Cachexy that comes from the Liver and may here be used and to which these may be added Very bitter things are used to cure the Jaundies which come from Obstructions because they do not only open obstructions but also they open the Mouths of the meseraik Veins that the choller which cannot go to the Guts by its usual passages may go that way back again and so may not be brought too much into the hollow Vein therefore they give Aloes both in form of Pills as Pills of Hiera with the same quantity of Rhubarb and Agarick that they may purge the better or mix stronger with them as Pills of Rhubarb and Aggregative Or give these like then approved by Galen Take of Aloes half a dram of Epithymum or Senna or Polypody one scruple of Euphorbium and Brimstone each half a scruple with wine or water make Pills Hiera picra is given for the same end in a Potion and it is best in the Jaundies and to kill Worms which somtimes by reason of the want of choller in the Excrements being they
are then less bitter grow there Take of Hiera picra simple in which is Saffron which is thought to be proper against the jaundies one dram and an half of Rhubarb and Senna each one dram of Mechoacan half a dram of shavings of Ivory and of Harts-horn each one scruple make a pouder give one dram with Whey or Wine and if you add one scruple of Diagridium it will work the better Hiera Coloquintidos given instead of the other by reason of the double Bitterness of Aloes and Coloquintida will open the passages more violently and stir up Nature and therefore they give Wine infused in the Apple of coloquintida made hollow or the like The Extract of Aloes Rosate with Rhubarb is chiefly given in a jaundze as a purge the preparation whereof we shewed in the pain of the Heart from weakness of the Stomach or this Take of the essence of Aloes prescribed in the Chapter mentioned three ounces of the pouder of Rhubâ—rb sprinkled with Cinnamon water one ounce of the Extract of the same six drams and with Syrup of Wormwood make a Mass for Pills Potions are made of catholicon Diaphaenicon of the Electuary of the juyce of Roses Diaprunis Diapsyllium dissolved in Wormwood water or the like adding proper Syrups The Electuary of Sowbread purgeth and sweateth Potions are made of the infusion of Rhubarb with spike and cinnamon in wine or water of Troches of Agarick in Honey with water Syrups and Electuaries aforementioned with purge Or of a preparing Apozeme with Polypody carthamus and Senna in the Decoction and then with Rhubarb Myrobalans and Agarick infused make a purging Apozeme for some daies Or the Aggregative pills or pil aureâ—e alone or mixed with Pills of Rhubarb Sweating doth send the choler with the Serum or Water from the branches of the gate Vein and also takes away that which was in the skin by the Pores which maybe good after that Choler which was in the Meseraiks Veins and caused the Jaundies first is purged away least it be by sweating carried into the Veins and it is done by Baths and other things mentioned It is good also to provoke Urine to bring Choler out that way which otherwise used to colour the Urin and is often plentifully so voided which is done by things that open obstructions and better if Diureticks are added thereunto Thus Take of red Vetches one pugil of Melon seeds one ounce and an half of Fennel seed two drams of Dodder seed one dram of red Sanders one dram and an half of Spike and Asarum roots each one dram boil them in convenient stilled water till there remain one pint and an half Take of the strained liquor aromatize it with cinnamon and yellow Sanders and sweeten it with Sugar for some Doses You may use things that alter before and purging to prepare and open Obstructions and to dissolve Tumors if such be in the Jaundies many of them are described in the Cachexy and they that are good for the Liver in the like case may be here used in the jaundies the causes being observed choosing such things as heat not over much and breed choller besides which these following are proper for the jaundies Decoctions made in Water or water and wine and Vinegar are made divers waies to be drunk three or more Mornings together as thus of many things which may be also made of few Take of the five opening Roots of Dock-roots each half an ounce of Orris roots and round Birth-wort and Asarum each two drams of Tamarisk barks an ounce of Succory five leaved Grass Dropwort with the Roots Groundpine Germander and the Capillary Herbs of Endive Liver-wort Agrimony and Dodder each one handful of the Topps of Wormwood Rosemary Horebound and the greater Celandine each half an handful of Elder flowers and Broom flowers each one pugil of red or black Vetches one pugil of the four great cold seeds each one dram Anise seeds half an ounce of Caraway seeds three drams of Parsley and Turnep seed each one dram of Prunes and Figs each five pair boyl them in water and wine in the Liquor strained being one pint and an half dissolve Sugar as much as fit and aromatize it with Cinnamon cassia lignea Spike or Sanders for an Apozeme for four or five Doses Besides these the Decoction of wild Flax St. Johns wort Samphire Penny-royal Organ Polymountane wild Mints wild Marjoram Ground Ivy Chamomil Fleabane and its flowers and the Roots of Alkanet Hog Fennel and Perewinkle or Swallow-wort Eringus Carduus and Ash barks Also the Decoction of Celandine Roots with Elicampane Oak Moss and Saffron If these simples be steeped in Wine and then the Wine given at several times it will work more strongly Or make this wine of Succory Fennel and Asparagus Roots each six drams of Asarum Roots three drams of Horehound Wormwood and the lesser Centaury dryed each two drams of the Tops of Rosemary one pugil of Lavender flowers half a pugil of Indian and Celick Spikenard and Schaenanth each half a dram slice them and put thereto three pints of white Wine add two drams of Rhubarb to make it purge and if you add two drams of steel it will be admirable A simple Wine in which half an ounce of Asarum roots or steel hath been infused is good Dioscorides commends Squill wine some steep the fore Teeth of a Beaver in wine and drink it Another is made thus Take of Sarsa two ounces of Fennel Parsley Burnet Orris and Rhapontick roots each half an ounce of Elicampane two drams of Gemian and Asarum roots and Pellitory of Spain each one dram of Agrimony Wormwood Dodder Horehound Germander Groundpine each half an handful of Tops of the lesser Centaury one pugil of Arise Fennel and Smalage Senna each one dram of Cinnamon and Galangal each one dram and an half infuse them in eight pints of white wine if you add Turbith two drams Rhubarb and Agarick each three drams of Ginger half a dram it will also purge These also may be boiled in water and wine with or without the purges and so taken some commend a distilled water of the same taken two ounces and an half at a time The juyces alone drunk from one ounce and an half to two ounces with sugar and wine is good especially the juyces of five leaved Grass Dock-roots dead Nettle Horehound Lemmons Sowbread Succory with the Roots or you may make them of such Plants as are good by Decoction Mathiolus gives the juyce of Cowcumbers Raddish water is highly commended in the Jaundies Other Potions are made of divers things as of pouders with wine and water syrups and Decoctions the more simple are the pouder of Orange peels Ivory shavings steel Earth-worms the stones in the Gall of an Ox and Brimstone which Dioscorides gives in the Yolk of an Egg. A Pouder may be made of many things thus Take of the Roots of the greater Celandine and Swallow-wort and Madder each two drams Roots of
Blackness to go about to cure it is to make a black More white according to the Proverb Blackmores which is impossible There is another vulgar Swarthyness Ordinary Swarthiness the Cure of it when the skin is darkish and dusty Naturally is nothing set by of them who think true Beauty doth not consist in whiteness and therefore they think a Man is not discoulored thereby and will not require cure But such as love to be neat and think themselves less fair and acceptable to others thereby desire to mend it if they cannot cure it When the skin is black by wrinkles that shadow it and make it dark when the wrinkles are not confirmed as when they come from an external cause or Disease that hath made the skin loose when the causes are removed they will cease and the skin will be stretched and its wrinkles and return to its former Complexion but if the skin be dryed and straightned especially by Age as in old people though they seem impossible to be taken away and the Physitian that permiseth to do it seems to be mad as the Poet saith He 's worthy of a filthy aged Quean That wrinkles from her body taketh clean Yet for the taking away if not diminishing of the same there are Remedies which old Men desiring to seem yong do much affect These are done by a two sold Art Medicines by the beautifying Art by one called comptorian Art which is for Neatness making an artificial white but instable and fading over the black which is Natural so deceiving the Spectators Fucus and this is called a Fucus the other is called the cosmetick art and doth not add another colour nor deceives Medicines made by the Cosmetick Art but only amends this dull colour of the skin making it more neat bright and constant in colour taking away or mending the wrinkles and correcting the dark complexion Afterwards that there may be more Beauty with red colour applyed to certain parts called then Fuci by the comptorian Art they make the Body of better colour We shall shew how this is done by Remedies that whiten clense take away wrinkles and make red The white Medicines called Fucuses with which women that affect to be beautiful and which would be unseemly in Men do paint their Face Hands and other places that are naked and seen are made of white stuff and that is chosen for the most part which is cleansing and digesting or such things are mixed therewith for so they make fair not only by whiting which is but of smal continuance and little Ornament but maketh a new colour in the skin by sucking continually forth that Moisture which makes it black and it attenuateth the skin by clensing and so makes it more clear and neat And therefore when the skin is thicker and harder then usual sosteners are mixed not only to procure a decent colour but to mollifie the Hands and Face which is commendable for which cause that the Face may alwaies shine which is accounted comely they add some fat things These paints being thus made in form of a Liquor white as Milk or of an Unguent must be applyed and suffered to dry on And if they be discoloured by their thickness which women of the honest sort do fear exceedingly before they go forth do usually wash with some comely decoction which is no paint as shall be declared so gently that some of the white still remain with and that when the paint seems to be quite gone will restore it and it will continue long and therefore they wash often after it before they go forth into view The matter of these is taken from divers white things as follow of Ceruss which being very white and sticks well by reason of its fineness and Fatness is proper if first it be poudered and seifted washed often and dryed or boiled in water till it may be made into Troches one whereof being taken in the palm of the Hand with a little convenient Liquor will serve to paint the Face Of the white Dragon Roots there are made Troches as the former like Ceruss and white Starch called Gersa which besides the whiteness it makes doth cleanse very much and it is made of the Juyce of Dragon Roots dryed gently by the fire or Sun and so brought into Balls or Troches Or take the Roots aforesaid and after they are cleansed beat them and then with warm water or other convenient Liquor dissolve it and strain it and so let it stand till there be a white cream at the bottom from which pour of the water at the top and pour on fresh which after a little time you must also pour off from the residence at the bottom as before and this being three or four times done let that which remains be dryed and made up for your use into smal Troches The common way of preparing this Gersa is of the dryed Roots of Dragons which being first peeled from their external black coat must be beaten into pouder and then dissolved in water and gently dryed again and then again poudered and washed after this manner three or four times and made into Balls or Troches and kept for use The same way may be made as well of the great Aron or Cookow pintle Roots in defect of the other as white and as forcible or of both together Of the white Brittle root of the wild Cowcumber you may also make the same You may make other forms of Dragon Roots and Ceruss thus Take of Dragon Gersa prepared as before one ounce of Ceruss prepared of Borax two drams and if you please of Camphire half a dram with the Infusion of Gum Traganth made in Rose water make Troches for your use you may mix some things that are in Unguantum Citrinum therewith Sometimes you may mix prepared Ceruss and Dragons with Oyl of sweet Almonds or de Been and a little white if you please to make it into an Oyntment Of sublimate Mercury there are excellent washes made which cleanse and make white which are divers waies prepared least they should exulcerate mixing things which work the same effect more gently and least any part of it should touch the Teeth and make them black as is usual she must keep water in her Mouth while she useth it A water like Milk is made thereof which is more plain and profitable thus Take of finely poudered Sublimate half an ounce two or three whites of Eggs well beaten of the Emulsion of white Poppy seeds made of one pound of the seed and ten pints of water stir them very well in a stone Mortar first putting in the whites of an Egg by degrees then the Emulsion as is sufficient which is known by a Pin or put therein for when it is not discoloured after some continuance there it is right but if it be then pour on more Emulsion To this we add two ounces of Borax or of Sugar Candy Another white wash is thus
Juyce of crude Citrons strained each as much as is sufficient still them with a gentle fire in Balneo Mariae keep the water for your Vse The water also of Snails distilled with Goats Milk and Hops or Goats Grease and a little Camphire There is also an excellent Water made of Urine mixed with Salt especially Salt Gem. with Cloves Cinnamon and Rose-water to take away the Sent thereof Also a Water distilled of white Tartar dissolved in Wine with Bean flowers and Rosemary Or Take of Tartar one ounce Allum half an ounce Borax two drams Camphire one dram of Water that is proper two pints distil them Or Take of Tartar calcined one pound of Mastich one ounce with whites of Eggs make a Past out of which draw a Water You may make a water of Sublimate not to whiten but to cleanse either by dissolving it being steeped or boiled in the waters above mentioned Simple or Compound especially in that of Bread with the Juyce of Lemmons you must take no less then three pints of water to one dram of Sublimate and you must try by Coppar put into it if there be enough to which you may add Ceruss and Camphire and mix it with Goats Milk whites of Eggs or Mucilages least it should hurt Of more or fewer of those things may a water be distilled as Take of Lilly and Orris Roots green each four ounces of Dragon Roots or Cowkow pintles and Solomons Seal each two ounces of Bean flower four ounces of Rice flower two ounces of the four great cold Seeds one ounce of bitter Almonds five ounces of Quince seeds half an ounce beat them all and add one pint of Goats Milk of Calfes Feet and Snail broath three quarters of a pint of Bean flower Water and Rose-water each one quarter of a pint the white of twelve Eggs beaten Turpentine dissolved in the Yolks of Eggs half an ounce of Honey ooe ounce of common Sugar or Sugar Candy two ounces of wine and Vinegar each one ounce of poudered Mastich half an ounce of Allum and Borax each two drams of Camphire one dram mix and distil them To these may be added Briony wild Cowcumber Sowbread Guaicum Lemmons Oranges Melons Muskmelons Guords or their Juyces Also Primrose flowers Bean flowers Lillies Elder flowers Pease Lupins Starch Pine-nuts Fleabane seeds and the Gums of Traganth or the Infusion thereof Frankincense Myrrh Cinnamon Cloves Musk Boys urine Ox gall Litharge Tartar Ceruss Soap Goats Suet or fresh Butter to which you may add shells and earths from which little comes by distilling as Coral and Shel-fish and sometimes a little Chalk To take away the Spots of the Face and whiten it this is an excellent Water Take of Bean flowers Turpentine washed in Goats milk each one pound whites of Eggs seven in number mix them and put them in Balneâ— Mariae keep the distilled water for your Use then Take a white Capon pluckt and washt and cut in pieces and put that also in Balneo and mix the water that is distilled from it with the former adding two drams of Borax half a dram of Camphire put them all in a long necked Glass and set it by Night in the Moon-shine and by Day in the shaddow wash the Face with this water warm This water following which was used by Mary of Medices the Queen-mother is of most Vertue above all others she used it to make her Face fair it is made thus Take three white Capons presently after they are killed and mince them small taking out their Grease two new green Cheeses made of Goats Milk the pulp of six Lemmons the peels taken off the whites of eight Eggs with the shells of Borax and Pouder of Brimstone each half an ounce of Camphire one pound of Bean flower and Water-lilly-water each one pint put them in Balneo Mariae and some Grains of Musk in the Neck of the Still keep the water that comes forth for your Use wash the Face therewith every Night This water is good with Sublimate Take of Dragon or Cuckow pintles Roots Sowbread and Solomons Seal each one pound of Crumbs of Bread half a pound of fresh Lard one ounce and an half of Juyce of Lemmons two ounces in which Sea Snails have been dissolved of Allum two ounces Sublimate half an ounce or less distil a Water A Decoction is used to wash the Face to make it clear and to wash off what hath been formerly laid on especially of Beans Pears Rice and Lupines and the like abstergents or cleansers In a ful fat Face the Decoction of Guaicum is approved Some Liquors are used as of Melons thus made let a Melon sliced be put in a Pipkin and at the top of it unripe Grapes Mallow-flowers and some Eggs shells let these be kept well stopt in an Oven so long as the Bread is baking this done strain forth the Liquor for your Use Some use Snail water made of Snails and Salt so baked in an Oven as the former Some mix Snails and Melons together Maids being fasting use to spit into their Hands and rub the Hair of their Fore-head backwards and make it shine which wil whiten more if they chew bitter Almonds before Moreover the Face is anointed with fat Liniments which bring Splendor and it is to be done carefully least the Paint appear Pomatums do this And chiefly the Marrow of a sheeps bone which is taken from them being well cleansed broken and boiled swimming at the top Oyl of Talcum to whiten and make clear the Face and Hands is of most use among great ones and is of great price because it makes them also soft Of Mucilages the Infusion of Gum Traganth as also the white of an Egg is best to make the Face shine Some things may be used to the Hands to cleanse them and make them white and soft Remedies that make the face hands soft and white which are not so proper for the Face For this there is a paste with which they rub their Hands as with Soap made divers waies The most plain paste is made of Crumbs of Bread boyled Bran or Barley flower Rice Pease Lupines which we use alone or with water or with soft Soap or hard a little dissolved and Honey we make a paste Of Nuts there is another Paste as of bitter or sweet Almonds of Peach Kernels of Hazel and of Pine-nuts Beans bruised or first steeps in Milk or mixed with Soap or Honey Also it is made of other seeds especially of Guords and white Poppies The Compound Paste is thus made Take of the aforesaid Simples one especially that of Almonds or of two or three the quantity of one pound adding pouder of Mustard seed two ounces or more of Orris Roots half an ounce this will sweeten it and of Honey as much as will make a paste to this add sometimes the pulp of Figgs and Rocket seed instead of Mustard seed some add the Gall of an Ox but this leaveth such a
bitterness that it is not commendable we may also make it sweet sented with Sanders Wood Aloes Angelica Root Lavender flowers Rose-water or Musk c. Others may be added as this for the Hands Take of Ceruss half an ounce of Starch three drams of Borax and Camphire each two drams of Egg shells calcined half a dram to them being poudered add of Lilly and Water lilly and Rose-water six pints of Lilly Roots two ounces of Bread Crumbs half a pound boyl them well then add twelve Yolkes of Eggs beaten strain them and keep them for your use Or make an Infusion of Gum Traganth in Milk and juyce of Lemmons adding Ceruss Starch and the like and so anoint the Hands Also there is a paste of the Roots Daffodils boyled and beaten adding Tartar and beaten Eggs. Where you will more mollifie when the Hands are very hard anoint with the Oyl of Guord seeds or of sweet or bitter Almouds dissolved with white Wax also you may add the pulp of white Lillies and Oyl of Tartar to cleanse The pulp of Melons rubbed doth make the Hands soft and clean To diminish or take away wrinkles if possible Remedies against wrinkles in the Face especially and sometimes in the hands that the skin may seem less cloudy and folded and uneven there have been proper Remedies declared albeit there are some cleansing Paints as aforesaid proper for the same these that follow are proper and such as by a cleansing Quality or by mollifying do enlarge the skin that was bound The seeds of wild Caraway bruised applyed with a Cerot are commended by Dioscorides Also Briony Roots with Orobus Faenugreek and Chalk or Earth of Chios Others approve the Water of Pine-apples that are green the Flowers of Mullein also the Roots of Asaron and Solomons Seal The Water of the Flowers and Roots of Lillies with May dew is admirable The Juyce of Lemmons Primrose Cuckow-pintle Roots and of stinking Gladon do lift up the skin and make it break and a new one come under it The Decoction Jesamine seeds also of Figgs with Briony Roots Oyl of Myrrh Jesamins Acorns Tartar bitter Almonds Pine-nuts and Ivy-berryes An Emplaster Take of pure Wax one ounce dissolve it with Asses Milk stir them and when they are cold take them off and add an ounce of Oyl of sweet Almonds Allum and Sperma Caeti each half an ounce dissolve and spread them and apply it to a wrinkled Fore-head or the like Let the Meal of Lupines be rubbed on with Goats Gall. Or Take of Hens Grease two ounces of white Wax one dram of rose-Rose-water one ounce dissolve them add of Ceruss two drams of white Coral one dram of Camphire half a dram make an Oyntment Pomatum is in great Use The Fume of Myrrh cast upon coals and received on the Face is said to be good They also study to take away Wrinkles from other parts of the Body as those which are left after Child-bearing upon the Belly This is done with this Oyntment made of the Suet of a Kid or Ram in Rose-water or Pomatum with a little Butter and the white of an Egg with the the pouder of Mastich and Frankincense Or Take of Mastich and Frankineense each half an ounce of Myrrh two drams of burnt Harts-horn one dram of Amiantum two drams of Salt Ammoniack one dram of Barley Meal two drams of Nigella one dram of rosted Squills half a dram with Honey make an Oyntment Medicines that make red are used by Women that study Ornament Medicines that make the Lipps and Cheeks red to their Cheeks and Lips and so they take away the Paleness and ill Colour by painting with these that follow The Roots of great Madder rub'd upon the Cheeks makes them red and also if these be mixed with Oyl anointed The Pouder of Briony Roots mixed with Water or Honey if the Cheeks be washed with the infusion or anointed therewith it will make them red They write that the Sea Onion and Dill seed anointed with Honey and Wine will do the like That Red which Painters make of Sanders and shavings of Brasil steept or boyled in Water Wine or Vinegar with Allum will paint the Cheeks and Lips red The Spanish Women do colour the inside of their dishes with Cuchynelle and call it Vermillion of Spain and so keep it and when they will use it they spit upon it and paint their Cheeks The cheeks being rubbed with Scarlet or Silk dyed with Cuchineile or Crimson dipt in a little Aqua vitae turn red Some Women rub their cheeks with red Leather to make them red I have observed that if one rub her cheek with ripe Mulberries and then after with a green and wash with Water thereupon there will remain a flourishing colour long after That Cure which belongs to particular Discolorations is either for Commaculations or Spots The Cure of commaculations is according to the cause which is external either Air Filth or other things that discolour the Skin They who by Labour and Travail are Sun-burnt The Cure of Sun-burning think it no dishonor but a commendation and therefore care not for the cure because in the Winter it usually decreaseth But if this Blackness displease we must prevent it and destroy it Thus we prevent Sun-burning A broad brim Hat or the like or Gloves for the Hands prevent sun-burning Or defend them with anointing with whites of Eggs or the Mucilage of Fleabane or of Quinces Extracted with Rose-water or with the Infusion of Gum Traganth made therein To these are added Butter or Suet or Pomatum or Oyl of sweet Almonds or Cream of Milk in a small Quantity least the Face being anointed with those fat things or without those by the use of dryers should appear extended The pulp of the Juyce of Melons doth the same and of Guords adding some of the unctious things mentioned Or anoint with this before you go into the Sun Take of Pomatum two ounces of Ceruss dissolved in Rose-water one dram of Frankincense and Mastick each half a dram of Mucilage of Quinces one ounce make a Liniment This blackness by Sun-burning is sometimes cured by Nature which supplyeth continually the Burning which is new and little with a fresh skin if they keep out of the Sun except it pierce to the true skin and then it will scarce go away of its own accord And then it must be cured by paints and cosmetick Remedies as the Natural blackness which have been already described and therefore shall not be repeated Moreover we cure this by taking away the burnt skin from the Face and Hands except the Impression be too deep as we have said This is done by lifting and raising the scarfe skin to make it fall off by this following Remedy Take of the Roots of white Lillies one quarter of a pound reast them in the Embers then beat them with one ounce of sugar candy lay it upon the Face and repeat it often alwaies anointing with Honey when
which if the Blood flow there is hope of Recovery Also it is good to shave them often The Cure of spots that come from a Disease was explained in the Cure of those Diseases whence they arise The Cure of the spots in Feavers Erysipelas smal Pox Meazles the like malignant spots or of the Pox or Leprosie or Scurvy as of an Erisipelas in Feavers synochus also we have declared the cure of the Pustles in the French Pox Leprosie Scurvy which do indeed constitute the Diseases it self as it is in the skin and produceth them in the Treatise of those Diseases others require no other cure but of the Disease as those in Feavers which vanish with the Feaver the chief cure is to keep them from external cold least they be thereby stricken in Also there are other red violet colour'd and black spots in malignant Feavers and when the Feavers cease they vanish or they end alwaies with Death which they presage But those spots which turn to Pustles which are called Ecthymata or Variolae Of Pustles in the small Pox. although they often require no other cure but that of the Disease in which we rather provoke there comming forth then hinder them and take no more thought of them because they commonly vanish of themselves or dry up or turn to little Ulcers and so are cured of themselves yet if these come on slowly some things may be given which may make them sooner dry and come to maturity To dry them they must be wet with this Decoction with a quill or feather or a clout Take of Lentils half an ounce of the inner bark of a Tamarisk three drams of Myrtle-berries one dram of Broom flowers half a dram boil them in water adding at the Conclusion a little Rose-water For private Use you may put into the Decoction two drams of red Sanders or half a dram of saffron and they will discolour it It will dry better if you season it with Salt and Allum The Juyce of Pomegranates that is between sharpe and sweet will soonest dry them and others of that Kind That they may be sooner ripe anoint them with Hogs grease or rub them with the insides of Figgs or with the Yolk of an Egg or the like When they are ripe they open of themselves usually And if not or if it be long a doing in regard then the flesh will be eaten with the Matter contained there will be a hollow Utcer and there will be left a Scar with a pit Therefore to avoid this great Deformity of the Face they must soon be opened with a Needle or sharpe Instrument which if made of Gold is supposed to leave the less scar It often happens that when they are ripe the Matter endeavouring to get forth causeth itching which causeth scratching which leaves them open And this women are very sollicitous to keep their Children from supposing that it causeth the pitting but falsly for it comes from their want of opening and the long continuing of the Matter After they are open because they are covered with a scab which is made of the dry matter because it will fall of it self you need not use any means But if any remain long rub them with a fat piece of skin that is salted or other Emollient and they will quickly fall off And in regard they are small Ulcers if you cleanse them often from filth they will heal of their own accord with Application of any thing but if there remain any Scars in the face they must be cured as is said concerning Ulcers If the Pox do not only annoy the skin but the Nostrils within and there turn Ulcers we shewed the Cure of them in the Ulcers of the Nostrils as also in the Treatise of the Lungs and Jawes if they be there Among other things sharpe Vinegar smelt unto often keeps the Pox from entring into the Nostrils The Cure of the discolouring of the Eyes which comes from Diseases The Cure of stroaks and white spots of the Eyes and of the Pox or Meazles therein was explained in the Diseases of the same as Redness in the Inflammation of the Eyes true or false or in the Treatise of Rheums The red or blew spots are declared in the stroaks and the white spots in the spots suffusions and scars of the Eyes But if the Pox or Meazles get into the Eyes you must labour to prevent them Therefore anoint the Eyes being shut with these following if any of it shall get into the eyes by chance it wil rather do good then hurt As Rose Plantane Myrtle and Coriander Waters The common Water is that of Roses wel coloured with Saffron Or the Decoction or the Infusion of Sumach leaves in the said water Or drop in the Juyce of the Flowers and Fruit of sweet Pomegranates mixed with the Juyce of Henbane Or the pouder of Henbane flowers with sharpe'wine is to anoint the Eye-lidds A good eye-Eye-water Take of the pouder of Sumach flowers one dram of Coriander seed or Myrtles prepared half a dram of Saffron one scruple of Camphire half a scruple of the waters aforesaid eight ounces mix them well It wil be stronger if you ad a little Juyce of Pomegranates Some think that if you compass the Eyes about with saphyrs of Gold they will keep out the Pox. When they are in the outside of the Eye-brows you may also use the aforementioned water dropping it also into the Eyes adding of Tutty prepared or the white Troches of Rhasis half a dram And if they turn to an Ulcer by suppuration there is Danger of loosing the sight and then they must be cured as the Ulcers of the Eyes mentioned and be sprinkled with the fine pouder of Beans and Sugar candy and other things mentioned in scars to prevent and take away the scar Some use this Art to make grey Eyes black Things that make black Eyes which they take to be the most beautiful they put into the Eye the fine pouder of Nuts with water We have seen grey Eyes turn black of their own accord in time and I saw a Man some few years since in the House of my Father now deceased that had one grey Eye and another black which was ridiculous And when he put his hand between his Eyes he seemed still another Man When the Teeth are discoloured and by reason of filth and scales black or yellow The Cure of the discolouring of the teeth they are divers waies whitened as was shewed The discolouring of the Nails require not a peculiar Cure The Cure of Nails discoloured unlese there be other faults as clefts corrosions c. of which we spake in Deformities For if they begin to wax black by reason of Paleness of Body or to have black spots underneath by reason of some stroak or bruise in regard the Colour is not in the Nayles but in the Flesh underneath and is seen through them being transparent they must be cured no
Vines and Oat chaff with ashes of Ivy wood of Cabbage and Bean flowers and pouder of Herbs all these are laid upon Oat or Barley straw and the water is strained through them for to make a Lye A Decoction to wash hair also is made of water and common Lye of Vine ashes or the like in which you boyl things that have yellow Juyce as shavings of Box Barbery bark Orange or Citron bark the middle bark of Elder Roots of Celandine Liquorish Turmerick the yellow flowers of French Lavender of Mullin Broom Dyers flower sometimes with Rhubarb and Saffron and other Plants which do the same as Nettle Roots Agrimony the Capilar Herbs Barley and Oat chaff Lupines Cummin Foenugreek also Ivory shavings adding somtimes Myrrh and Tartar or Salt or Niter Anoint with Oyl in which shavings of Box Celandine-roots Saffron and the like have been boyled or Myrrh An Oyntment Take of Myrrh two drams of Tartar one dram and an half of Salt one dram of Saffron half a dram with Oyl in which some of the aforesaid have been boiled make a Liniment some add burnt Bees To make Hair red Medicines to to make red Hairs which is thought most beautiful in some Countryes you must wash them with the Decoction of Madder roots Radish Lote-tree rasped Lupines and Wormwood made in Water or Lye also the Juyce of Raddish Bucks-Thorn or Raddish water or the Oyl of wild Cowcumbers with calcined Tartar Alcanna or Hanna in Barbery some sticks whereof are brought from the Barbery Coasts saith Lobel being yellow within which Dodonaeus takes to be the Cypress of Dioscorides different from privet which they took for it is the best to make hair yellow and usual to my Knowledg among the Turks which admire red hair in Women and Children and it is so strong that it dyeth the Nails also and other parts when they please The Leaves thereof bruised are rubbed on either by themselves or moistned first in the Juyce of the Root as Dioscorides In defect whereof I beleeve if we boil those sticks which are brought over they will do the same or Oyl of Cypress which is made thereof and is counted excellent for the same To make the Head and Beard sweet Things that make Hair sweet you must mix sweet Herbs as sweet Marjoram Lavender flowers Cloves Nutmegs Musk Ambergreece and the like in Decoctions and Liniments And there is a sweet Soap which is made divers waies for that purpose CHAP. III. Of Extuberances or Swellings The Kinds of Swellings WE call it an Extuberancy when the Body is not over great in General but swelleth in some part when it hath not a part too many but a Swelling or Excrescence in some cettain place growing in it or upon it Which when it is without the Superficies of the Body and is without pain in its self or if it have pain or bring trouble to the part affected yet the Swelling is most regarded is that we here speak of As for internal Swellings that lie hid in the Body we spake of them in the hinderance of Functions But these external Extuberances when they are of divers Kinds we bring them chiefly to these two some are General some particular General Extuberances are the Swellings spoken of which possess a large part of the Body when either the whole body or half or the Belly only swelleth as shall be shewed in particulars The whole Body swells especially the Face The white Dropsie Hands and Feet and other parts in the Disease called Leucophegmatia from the white Colour and Moistness thereof which causeth it Anasarca or Hyposarca and they call it Anafarca or Hyposarca which is a kind of Dropsie because the water is gathered under the skin and flesh This Disease commonly follows a Cachexy or evil Habit which declared it self before by Paleness and it is by degrees made of that into a soft Condition and in both the Urin continueth pale There is Faintness of the whole Body and there is somtimes withal a lingering Feaver and other diseases and there is Symptoms as we said of Cachexy There is another Kind of white Dropsie which they call waterish from the cause Serosa Leucophlegmatia or white water Dropsie in which the Swelling is more loose and soft then the former especially in the Feet and not much differing from that of the Ascites because they will easily pit with the impression of the Finger and it will remain long yet this is distinguished from the Dropsie Ascites in regard it is general and the belly is not larger then other parts and there other signs in Ascites There is also a third kind of Leucophlegmacy in which the Body riseth into a fuller and softer Tumor and is like both in tumor and splendour in the Feet and Legs to the Ascites and they swell most and this kind sometimes comes upon a Man by degrees and sometimes suddenly I lately had a Virgin marrigeable my Patient which had a Feaver with an Erysipelas and exposing her self to the cold with washing Linnen fell into a difficulty of breathing suddenly with a watery Tumor over the whole Body beginning first at the Feet which water fell in her Thigh and broke notwithstanding the Tumor of the whole body remained and increased dayly she lay a few months and then died Besides these we have observed another Swelling of the Body Face and Joynts that riseth suddenly somtimes not so soft but stretched out and yet will not pit as if the skin were blown up and this we call the Inflation of the Body In the Dropsie Ascites the body swells from the top of the belly to the feet The blowing up the whole Body or Swelling thereof and it is so called because the belly resembleth a Bottle of water In this the Tumor begins at the Feet and the lowest part of them and then it riseth to the ankles and so by degrees to the knees and to the lower part of the Thighs and grows dayly higher as the Patient sits or walks more or less it decreaseth somthing at Night when he lieth down and pits keeping the print of the singer some time and when it is stretched out it seems shining and transparent The belly begins to swell with the Feet and at length it is stretcht from the fides to the Privities and the ends of the Ribs are thrust outward being moved it makes a noise and if the Patient turn upon his side it falls forcibly down In the skin also under the Navel and in the black swollen if you press it with your finger there wil remain a pit as in the Feet The Cods are swollen as the belly and are transparent as in the Hydrocele or water Rupture but greater somtimes as big as the Head The Yard swelling is four times as big and transparent and is crooked like a great Pudding So also the lower parts grows greater and the upper parts consume The Patient in this Dropsie is very short
winded especially when he goes up hill or lieth down and it is the chief Symptom he complains of which also foretelleth a Dropsie before a tumor appear and when it comes it increaseth and from the beginning about Midnight after Concoction there is a pressing pain at the Heart and then short breathing and they are in Danger of choaking by which they are constrained to sit up like men in an orthopnaea Breathing with their Neck stretched out And when they lie on the one side either right or left they cannot lie long for shortness of wind on either side but are forced to lie upon their Backs At last the Disease increasing they cannot lie down at all because they are straight tormented thereby and they continue Day and and Night strait up and their Head bowed to their Breast for better breathing sitting long they spend the remnant of their daies miserably There strength decaies for want of lying down there Appetite is lost there is constant Thirst little Urin made the Urine is somtimes high red or Gold coloured and thick somtimes crude and watery somtimes not changed There is another kind of Dropsie Ascites A Tympany joyned with an Ascites in which the belly is far more extended and soundeth like a Drum being beaten in which you may hear a Noise upon motion with other accidents like the former onely the Feet swell not alwaies as in other kinds and this is a Tympany with an Ascites In the Dropsie Tympanites only the belly swells A Tympany alone and is stretched like a Drum from whence it is so called In which the stretching is so great that being strook it sounds like a Drum and being compressed it presently riseth nor will it keep an impression long as an Ascites doth These breath freer then they in the Ascites nor do they find any difficulty of breathing by lying down neither do their Legs or other parts swell besides there are Noises heard in the Belly and they have pain sometimes and are weak There is another Kind of Tympany in which with the aforesaid accidents The Tympany of the Guts there is a stoppage Pain and Vomiting with the Symptoms of the Disease of the Ilion Gut and Colon. The Belly also grows great Naturally as after Conception and somtimes besides Nature in a false Conception when there is a Mole with Conception or without so that a Woman seems great with Child thereby of which three kinds of tumors of the Belly we shall treat here shewing what they are and by what signs they are known That growing of the Belly which is in Women great with Child The growing of the Belly in a Woman with Child albeit being Natural it concerneth not us here yet that we may distinguish it from unnatural and shew that it comes not from any Disease which women do pretend which have been irregular and would conceale their bleeding and that we may pronounce some certainety or probability of Conception and that we may not mistake in this prediction which is easie in regard the women that have conceived are at the beginning especially very doubtful and do exceedingly desire to know and therefore do ask Physitians advise and send their waters we shall shew by signs accidents and Experiments how you may know that a woman hath conceived The Constitution of a woman fit to conceive doth with other signs make somwhat for the Knowledg of Conception This as they write is when besides the soundness of Body and Temperature which is thought to be best when contrary to the Mans she hath broad Loyness a large belly not too fat especially about the Privities But since we see those that are not such do conceive of what temper soever fleshy or lean nay the very least like Pigmyes we can gather great Matter from thence We hold her sit for Conception who is between fourteen and forty five and hath Parents that are fruitful Also if she have formerly conceived there is a stronge presumption if there be a doubt that she hath conceived It is necessary that before Conception she have Knowledg of a Man to enquire this of married people is in vain in others Necessary which when they will not confess it must be discovered by divers Arts among which this is one when there is great Suspicion if the Physitian by the water shall affirm that she is defiled because the vulgar people think a Physitian can tell any thing by the water or else the Parents and Magistrates shall force confession by threats Also if a woman shall perceive after the Use of a Man that she kept the Seed and that it went not out again although through Modesty she will not declare it it is a great sign of Conception especially if at that time she perceived any contraction of the Womb or sucking with great pleasure and that her Seed met with the Man 's at that time If the Terms stop which kept formerly their course it is a great and chief sign of Conception by which women presently judg themselves with Child and casting their account from the first Moneth after Copulation they collect the time of their lying in And if they doubt their Conception they will freely tell a Physitian when they stopped both they which are honest and others also though they which pretend other causes of their stopping And although in women with Child there is somtimes some evacuation of Blood from the Womb at some times yet is it be small and keep no order as the terms did it is not a sign of not conceiving and if the woman at the time she conceived gave suck and wanted her terms as it is usual and afterward though not presently the terms wholly stop it is probable she hath conceived and for this cause when Mothers perceive it they wean their Children If the belly grow bigger by degrees no accidents of a Disease being present it is a main sign of Conception especially if the tumor be most under the Navel and if it be hard and gathered together not pitting after impression as in the Ascites and not stretched out as in a Tympany and keeps the same Magnitude only except its gradual increase and grows not bigger when the Body is upright as in the Ascites and less when she lies down nor hath a tumor as in the Ascites suddenly fallen down when she turns upon one side when it is thus if it be not a false Conception or other Tumor joyned with a true as we have feen for then the belly swelling violently the Women are in Danger of Suffocation through shortness of Breath by which somtimes they die except by Abortion or by lying if they can attain to it they are freed pouring forth much water together with the Child The growing of the Breasts if other things be alike is a sign of Conception because in Diseases they rather decrease if they have Milk it is not to be doubted which we conjecture is made before it
was grown very big We also saw a woman loose a great deal of Blood with great Pulsation from the opening of a Vein which could scarce be stopped although many Remedies were applyed having a beating Tumor after the wound was healed which declared it to be an Aneurism And this came either because the Artery was cut by chance in the fleshless bending of the Arm where the Tumor was by reason of the blood ebbing and flowing under the skin after the wound was healed in the skin and not in the Artery Or because the Mouth of the Artery was fresh dilated before the incision was made and that caused that when the skin was cut there was a Flux which caused a Tumor after the cut was healed Neither can an Aneurism not be from the Arterial blood when it is under the skin and corrupted although this may be when blood is sent from the Veins into the empty spaces yet when Blood leaping from the Artery thus opened returns again and the skin is instead of an Artery it may be without concretion as when it is in the Artery And because this cannot be in the Veins an Aneurism cannot be from venal Blood A watery serous Humor produceth in divers places both general and particular Tumors because it is contained in divers parts of the body as in the veins which are dispersed all over and Bowels into which they are sent or in other Vessels being separated from the blood from which places somtimes simple Water otherwhiles mixed with other Humors comming forth produceth divers kinds of Tumors differing exceedingly as they are in the cavity of the Abdomen or Belly Codds Groyns or in the superficies of the Body either in the inferior parts only or al over as shall be shewed in particulars A serous Humor like Water getting into the Cavity of the Belly Water sent into the Cavity of the Abdomen is the cause of the dropsie Ascites or Abdomen causeth the Dropsie Ascites and then the belly swells more or less according to the quantity of the Water and is somtimes so full that it grows very large in which by tapping we have seen taken from the Living and found somtimes in the Dead threescore pound weight and above of water when much had formerly run out at the Feet which water doth not only burden with its weight but by pressing lying and hindering the free Motion of the Diaphragma or Midriff causeth difficulty of breathing of which they so complain and especially when the water goes more to the Midriff and oppresseth it hence it is that they breath better when they are standing for then the water goes downwards And if the same water weaken the Bowels Liver Spleen Veins Stomach and Guts by making them too moist or by its saltness or sharpness from mixture with other Humors or by its Corruption through long continuance till it stink make them too dry the Mesentery Cawle and Reins will be dryed and drawn up and the Fat clodded as we have seen Or if this water corrode the exulcerate in any part or putrifie the same we have seen the Cawle yellow and stinking in many as well as contracted and the Midriff hath been found the same in and opening of Hydropical People if this happen or if any other Bowels be hurt by this Water it will produce worse Symptoms in the hurt Functions of natural parts as want of Appetite Thirst Cachexy Atrophy and Diarrhaea and the like as by Corruption and Gangren of the Stomach by the water long contained therein a Vomiting with Heat and vehement Inflammation of the Oesophagus or Wezand which I saw in an Hydropical Woman which a liltle before her Death vomited often abundance of black stinking Water with great Inflammation of the Throat The cause of this water in the capacity of the Belly is from the parts of the lower belly which contains the Water or from the Bowels that are ordained for Sanguification as the Liver Spleen Reins or from the Veins which go through those parts and the rest or from the Bladder that holds the water from which if they be divided or the continuity dissolved by Diapedesis by which it is strained or Anastomasis by which the Mouths are open this water falls as shall be shewed in particulars Fernelius witnesseth that there is no Dropsie but it is caused by the solution of the continuity or Division of the Parenchyma or substance of the Liver And this by Anatomy we have often known And that chiefly when the substance of the Liver is cleft and gapeth from whence the water passing by it from the Vessels of the hollow and gate Vein and sweating under the Coats being there constrained fills them with water and makes them like bladders by separating the Tunicles from the parts under them which being broken the water runs into the Belly we have often seen these Bladders very large and clear growing to the Liver and Spleen in Men dead of the Dropsies and in an Ape and Butchers find the same in Cattel And when these coats are corroded the water falls directly into the belly The great Dryness of the substance of the Liver which makes it grow less is the cause of these clifts in the Liver And this came rather by a hot then cold Distemper as appears by the great Thirst of Hydropical People and the high Colour of their Urin and other signs of heat rather then cold and in regard they have it that time most deliciously with spiced meats and drink the strongest wine and so continue being young or aged at which time they fall into a Dropsie by reason of the Dryness of their bowels and they jestingly complain that they are troubled with water though they never drank it in their lives And this we have observed to have been the chief cause of dropsies in our Country and we perceive that a perpetual thirst in Drunkards which they long have had from the hot Distemper of their bowels which makes them ever drinking is a most sure fore-runner of a Dropsie if another Disease doth not prevent it by Death This also may come by heating of the Bowels immoderately with hot Medicines with which Women labour to warm the Stomach and Womb or when they have other cold Diseases These bowels may also be dryed and cleft by hot sharpe and constant Diseases as Feavers and Jaundies and therefore the Dropsie which sheweth rather the signs of heat then cold followeth these Diseases From a hard Tumor of these Bowels either all over them or in any part in the concave or convex part of the Liver or in the Spleen may these Clefts come from a Scirrhus of the Liver or Spleen or any other Tumor which will turn to an Imposthume Or there may be such openings by which the water may fall into the Abdomen because from this Hardness the Tunicle quickly cleaveth and if it imposthume and ulcerate then there is way made for the water as shall be said in
Ulcers Which is the cause why that Hardness or Scirrhus or hard Tumor that turns to an Imposthume in the Liver or Spleen bringeth a Dropsie because if there be Hardness without fissures or clifts that would rather cause the Jaundies Cachexy or Atrophy by stoppage then a Dropsie which follows the hurting or clefts of the Bowels which comes from those stoppages and hence it is that other obstructions of the bowels when they do not divide the substance of them externally are not alone the cause of the Dropsie Ascites as they are of the Diseases mentioned and somtimes of the Anasarca Dropsie as we said The cause of this Hardness or Scirrhus is the Dryness of the bowels which cleaveth them if it be so active that it dry them hard and this dependes upon hot meats drinks Medicines and Diseases Or that which is the cause of these Tumors as of a Scirrhus or that hard tumor which imposthumateth outwardly in the fleshy parts of the body may also be the causes of these in the Bowels As the too thick juyce with which the bowels are nourished which comes from the Chylus and Blood from whence it is made or from the mixture of some other juyce which belongs to another part and that which turns into an Imposthume hath Diversity of matter in it as hath been often found Nor can the substance of the Bowels but the Vessels onely be so hardned from choller and flegm as we shewed in Obstructions But an Inflammation of these parts if it cause a Scirrhus doth harden them rather by thickning the Juyce that nourisheth them then any other wayes as we shewed in an external Scirrhus When the substance of these bowels is hurt about the superficies the water may be sent into the belly as in an Hydropick Maid we saw the Liver on the one side with a sungous Tumor growing thereunto in which there was somewhat congealed from which a serous Humor might distil Especially if the Liver and Spleen be ulcerated so that the Ulcer pierce to the Superficies the water which sweateth out as in other Ulcers which are alwaies moist may cause a Dropsie Which Ulcers coming after Inflammations suppurated or Tumors aforesaid ending in Imposthumes and sending forth Matter do cause a Dropsie at length Other Hurts do follow such as come from external Injuries by contusion And we knew two men thrown from a Horse upon their right side having first some Symptomes of a hurt Liver who died of Dropsies The same may be come by an external Wound reaching to the bowels except Death prevent it by leaving an Ulcer Also corruption of the bowels totally or in part as we have often seen is the cause of a Dropsie which follows Tumors or corrosions or ulcerations or other hurts of the bowels from the causes aforesaid Also if the Tunicle of these bowels be corroded by water putrifying in the belly or the substance of them hurt there will be an increase of water in the belly from the Serum or Whey which comes from thence We have also observed that when the Tumcles of the Liver and Spleen and the Peritonaeum or filme of the belly where they lye have been corroded by this water they have so grown together that we could neither separate Liver nor Spleen from the Diaphragma to which they grew with tearing of the Tunicles from whence the Serum or water might flow into the cavity In the Body of the Reins which consists of a bloody substance like the rest if continuity be dissolved as is said the same may be and the Dropsie Ascites may come from thence and we affirme this by Reason and Experience For seeing Whey or Serum is carried to them continually not only with the Blood by the emulgent Vessels but is also continually by them there laid up if the substanee of the Reins be open or divided the water which drayneth from them as from other parts and making Bladders or presently piercing may sooner flow and in more plenty from thence then from other Bowels into the belly and may make a Dropsie Ascites which may last long because the hurt of the Kidneys especially if but of one doth not presently kill a man but cause a long Disease and when one is gone as we said the other may serve a long time In which case besides other Accidents which come from the collection of water in the Belly we find somtimes some matter if there be an Ulcer and they piss less especially if both Kidneys be hurt because much of the Urine is carried continually into the belly and comes not to the bladder as it ought The Causes of these hurts in the Kidneys may be the same with those of the other Bowels as over Dryness of the same as may be which also may cause the stone as we shewed and this may be not only by age hot Diseases but by hot Urins through the use of hot Meates and especially Wines Moreover Ulcers in the Reins internal and external being more or fewer may cause the Dropsie which springs from the defect in the Reins as also the corruption of the Kidneys when they are so consumed that they hang as we have seen like a Purse Also other hurts internally and externally caused as contusions and wounds Moreover we are more bold to affirme this not onely from what hath been said but because we have often seen it for when a certain Noble Man that had the Dropsie ascites seven moneths was opened after Death and we had searched all the Bowels of the lower belly very deligently and had found no other fault but that the water long contained in the Belly had by stinking brought to the Peritonaeum Midriff and Cawle we found that both Kidneys were deeply fistulated with many Ulcers so large that we could turn a finger therein with Bladders full of water upon them which fell down when they brake and the external coat of the Kidneys was eaten every where through We gathered that this came from great drinking because from his Youth he used it and was very stout at it and seldom made water To which did much conduce his use of spiced and hot Meates continually which do dry and burn the Kidneys as other Bowels especially since they were corroded by Retention of Urine From the branches of the Veins of the inferior Belly especially from the Vena Porta which come from the Guts and the Stomach by the Membranes of the Mesentery and Cawle and gathered into two stocks and fastned by the right to the Liver and the left to the Spleen by a Diapedesis when the Coats are made thin or by Anastomasis when the Mouths are open especially of the Veins which are dispersed from the great stocks into the Omentum or Mesentery and there ending being laid open if water flow plentifully and more then serves from the Natural moistning of the parts least they wither and be gathered in the belly The Dropsie Ascites may also be produced And that
this may be and that the water may flow from the Veins mentioned by the blind Pores and Mouths without solution of continuity and that without mixture of Blood or Tincture thereof appear thus because as into other parts it breaks forth suddenly and in great plenty both internally by divers Defluctions as also externally by Sweats Tears Snot and by the Womb fluxes so also in the Meseraiks there may not only be some Natural breathing of Moisture into the Belly as we may perceive a constant Moisture but it may preternaturally fill the Belly and the easier because in those Veins the Whey which is made of Meat and drink and continually brought with the Chylus doth more abound then in other parts And as in ordinary Fluxes called Diaerrhaea or in such as are caused by purging This water or whey returns back without Blood by the Mouths of those Veins by which it entered even so by the internal Mouths by which the branches are closed about the ends being laid open it may flow into the Belly without any Tincture of Blood By the same reason doth the Serum or Whey seperated by the Kidneys from the Blood flow into the Bladder from all which we gather that the Dropsie Ascites may come though others think it impossible Also in opening of men that died of Dropsies when we have seen no manifest solution of Continuity but abundance of water in the belly and Veins conjecturing that it came that way into the Belly we were bolder to affirme it because in a Hydrocelae or watery Rupture the water may from the same Cause flow into the belly and thence into the Cod as we shewed The Cause of this Anastomosis and Diapedesis or opening of the Vessels in the Meseraick Veins is too much Serum or Whey therein which opens them by stretching or tenuity or thin waterishness which easily pierceth For then it being in the Meseraick Vessels except it go back by the same waies by which it entred into the Guts and so be purged forth by stool it breakes through these Vessels and falls into the Abdomen or Belly This abundance of water is the cause when its passage from the Meseraicks by the Liver into the hollow Vein is hindered This happens especially when the attractive Faculty of the Liver is weakned so that it cannot attract the Serum and send it to the hollow Vein which is mixed with the Chylus and is also a Portion of the blood and somtimes separated from it for Reasons mentioned in the Cachexy which comes from the weaknes of the Liver They have also conceived that the passage may also be hindered by the Obstruction of the Liver with a Humor or Hardness or Scirrhus which if so great as that it stop the Serum from coming to it the blood shall be hindered also and then there would be an Atrophy sooner then a Dropfie but without that the same may happen if the Serum which is in the hollow Vein and cannot get its Natural Passage by Urine is so much in quantity that it being not able to subsist there it is sent by Nature by its branches into the Liver and the branches of the Gate-vein Or flie otherwise back and so be gathered together The cause of this may be the weakness of the attractive Faculty of the Kidneys Or an Obstruction so great especially in both Ureters that the Serum cannot get into the Bladder The cause of which we have declared in other Symptomes of Pissing It hath been thought that the same may come from stoppage of wonted Sweat but this cannot alone be the cause or without another because at that time the serum may be evacuated by Urine Also the superfluous Generation of Serum the cause whereof we shall shew in the Causes of Leucophlegmacy if it be joyned with the rest will sooner produce a Dropsie and being then a greater quantity of water it will sooner pass the waies shewed into the Abdomen And as this comes from Moisture taken in so the Dropsie Ascites comes by continual Drinking not onely through the hurt of the Bowels caused by much Drink but because there is plenty of water thereby in those usually who piss not according to the proportion of the Drink received but the Serum abounds in the Veins by which they are heavy and they complain of Heavyness and Extension of the belly before they have a Dropsie It may be declared by probable Arguments and certain Demonstrations that the water falling into the Belly may Cause a Dropsie by the dividing of the Meseraick Veins which contain the Omentum and Mesentery For somtimes by an external chance when any Vein is by violence broken many have had a Dropsie For first Blood and Water have flowed from thence into the Belly and when the Wound hath been turned into an Ulcer or to corruption of the Bowels which have been found after Death a Dropsie hath followed by the continual Distillation of water from thence and commonly bloody stools and vomits have gone before afterwards mattery and filthy Which Ulceration or Corruption by which the Serum falls down may come by a Corrosion in the Omentum or Mesentery where the Veins are when sharpe and malignant Humors retained in these Veins which use to be full of Excrements eates them through and so may cause a Dropsie As also if this corruption in the Membranes and Vessels come from the long retension of stinking water as we shewed we perceive in all Dissections of Dropsies that the Omentum and Mesentery are by this means infected which being so though it be not the chief cause of the gathering of the water seeing it came from other parts yet because it then distilleth from thence it causeth the water to increase and the more when other Bowels are so infected with this water that they are also broken It is credible that water may fall into the Belly and cause a Dropsie from other veins that press inward as the Vena cava or hollow Vein and its branches dispersed to the Reins the Womb and other parts as Muscles and Membranes by Anastomosis or Diapedesis which are when they are opened and especially in a Cachexy or the like wherein there is much water and more especially in women who used to have Evacuation of this water by their courses or after them by the whites which being stopped causeth the water to find out another way out of the veins In these Veins it cannot so easily come by solution of continuity because if it be in the greater Veins there will be a bloody Flux which will prevent a Dropsie by Death and the lesser veins lying deep are not so subject to Jnjuries as those called Meseraicks which are in the Omentum We have found in the Anatomy of Hydropical Persons much water in the Navel-vein where it is joyned to the liver and Peritonaeum being dilated which in People of age resembles rather a Ligament then an hollow Vessel Somtimes we have found it not only there
forth by the Veins which are in the Neck of the womb which sendeth forth the Menstrual Blood or Whites by an Anastomosis when Nature labours to disburden her self by this way which is ordained for the same so that there is no need to determine that the water was in the bottom of the Womb which caused the Belly to swell It may also somtimes happen that before the Belly is full of water it may find out a Passage by the Veins of the Neck of the womb in a Cachexy or evil Habit or the Leucophlegmacy and so prevent a Dropsie as long since I observed in a Woman of an evil Habit of Body which is yet alive which often hath her Terms abundantly and when they cease she avoideth abundance of water by the Neck of the womb When water is carried downwards in the Dropsie Ascites it causeth a tumor in the Feet with that of the Belly because the humor being thin still goes downwards and when it is fixed in the lowest parts it causeth first an appearance and when the Flux continueth and filleth the Feet it tendeth upwards by the Legs and Thighs to the Loins and Belly and there it being under the skin is more manifest in which places it doth not onely list up but softens the skin so that if you press with your Finger it will pit and continue so somtime And when this watery Humor gathered under the skin moveth it happens that if the Legs are downwards as commonly they grow bigger by water comming thither and the Belly somwhat less and if by lying down or other waies they are lifted up the water comming back swells the Belly and the Legs are less This watery Humor in the Dropsie Ascites sweating into the Feet Leggs Belly and Loins from the branches of the hollow Vein or flowing by Anastomosis is referred to that kind of Dropsie which comes from plenty of water in the Veins because the water doth not only flow from the branches of the hollow vein into the belly but also outwardly as in a Leucophlegmacy and we shall shew that the Leggs swell by that way In all other Causes of the Dropsie Ascites which depend upon the Diseases of things contained in the Guts and of the Meseraick Veins it seems to be evident that the water is carried to the outward parts and so to the Feet from the cavity of the belly into which it first came not only in regard that when the water falls downward into the Legs the tumor of the belly abateth but because the breathing is freer and when the water comes back these return And this certainly confirmes it because when the scarse skin either breaks or is opened in the Legs that are swollen the Tumor of the belly is abated by the water that drops out by degrees or if it flow violently or long it quite goes away and many measures of water flow this way forth which could not be contained any where but in the belly because the Feet while they do swel and when they are abated send forth much water which could not come but from the belly And it is to be prooved in that when water gets into the belly from the hurt of the Bowels which we said was the usual Cause of a Dropsie and when there is no Fountain of water but from thence the Feet will swell before you shall perceive a Tumor in the belly this shews that it came from the belly because it was no where else But as these are plain so how this serous Matter can fall without the cavity of the Peritonoeum in regard there is no apparent Passage through the Membrane it is not manifest Wherefore we gather that this is done by a Diapedesis and that the Serum or Whey doth sweat through the Membrane under the skin which is distended by Swelling and moistned with Humors and falls by degrees between it and the parts beneath unto which it is joyned downwards as in other Defluxions And we conceive that it may return the same way upward because in other parts it doth so that is pierced through the Membranes and pass through the Veins Or that it comes by an Anastomosis in the mouths of the Veins dispersed into the skin from the Peritonaeum when the Whey gets in and flows that way into the parts beneath and returns again by the same Or because some part of the Peritonaeum is so corroded by a sharp and stinking water that water may pass through it under the skin As by Anatomies we have seen that the Membrane hath not been eaten through in one but divers places and somtimes in that place where it encompasseth the Midriff upon which the Liver and Spleen do lie And if the Tunicles of those vessels be also eatenthrough the parts touching will grow together as we have shewed formerly But in the case of him that had a Dropsie with a Rupture whose Guts with water had filled the Codds and were grown to the Peritonaeum as we shewed this growing together came from the corroding of the water by which the Tunicle of the Gut and its Membrane were eaten through And this as other Glutinations proveth that parts cannot grow together except their Tunicles or Skins be taken off as we see in Fistulaes Moreover since we have observed in men alive that this water in the Navel which came from the cavity of the belly not by the Navel-vein which is rooted in the Liver and if opened would send water from the Liver and not from the belly and in less quantity but by the Peritonaeum to the Superficies of the skin which it raised into a bladder being gathered under the scarfe skin which being cut all the matter in the whol belly flowed forcibly forth Hence we conjecture that nature can find out divers Passages for the water to pass under the skin through the Peritonaeum Perhaps by Bladders inwardly growing as outwardly or by solution of continuity some other way and if after Death there were more Anatomies made of such as dyed of Dropsies there would be many such things discovered which are yet unknown When a watery Humor gets into the Habit of the whole body When water gets into the whol body it is the cause of Leucophlegmacy it causeth that General Swelling which is in Leucophlegmacy which comes not only from crude Nourishment as we shewed but of a serous Humor less or equal or more in quantity in which not only the substance of the parts is too much increased but being watered with the Serum it is made softer takes Impression sooner and longer retains it And these appear most in the Feet because water being thin alwaies goes downward and they are very like then to the Legs of Hydropical Persons And this may be called the water between the skin or Aqua intercutis Now this serous Humor comes not in this mentioned Leucophlegmacy from the capacity of the Belly but from the Veins distributed into the Habit of the
body by which it passeth with crude blood to the nourishing of the Parts and as the blood nourisheth them with crude Juyce so this watereth them And the Cause of the mixture of this serous Humor with the crude is the abundance of it in the Veins When there are Causes which produce these serous Humors joyned with the weakness of the Bowels that do sanguifie or make blood so that they cannot sufficiently compleat it as we shewed in the Leucophlegmacy Among which this was chief the immoderate increase thereof which most say is in the Liver and is Naturally produced at the second Concoction so that if the Liver be weakned or cooled because it cannot make the Chylus into Blood they say it turns it into Whey But these Arguments may proove that Whey and Serum is not made in the Liver but in the first Concoction and it takes its form presently from thence because being partly made in the Stomach with the Chyle of the best Juyce some part thereof is thinner as Whey in Milk and is of the same use with the Chylus of which it is a part and comming partly from the Humors abounding through eating and drinking and made thinner it hath the form of Whey and being sent into the Guts with other Excrements it is carried from the Mescraick Veins into the hollow Vein with the Chylus and without it as we see some who piss out Drink too much taken presently being suddenly snatcht to the Liver Hence it is that we must attribute the abundance of Serum to too much drinking and use of moist things which administer matter unto it rather then to the fault of the Liver except we will as some do call that crude Juyce which is made by defect in the Liver a serous Humor or because the separation of the Whey imperfect at the makeing of the Blood cannot be handsom but there is more Whey in the Blood then is needful and is not separated as in other places makes it more watery for this cause we may pronounce that the Serum or Whey is not only made by the Liver but also gathered into the Veins more plentifully And so to determine the Leucophlegmacy comes from the weakness of the Liver And this is chiefly when there is not a sufficient Evacuation by Urin the attractive Faculty of the Kidneys being weakned or when usual sweating is stopped which may be the only Cause without the Distemper of the Liver of water in the Veins And this is sooner when the Diet is such as breeds water These causes meeting make a Leucophlegmacy in which the whey or water called Serum is more then the crude Juyce or such as comes from only Serum when the Imbecillity of the Liver is absent As we have seen some who have swollen only by drinking a great Draught without fetching breath when they were very hot by reason of the Heat which carried the Humor suddenly into the Veins and thence into the Habit of the Body and the same hath been when a body hot and sweating was exposed to the Air through the strikeing in of the water And it sometimes happens that the water being carried from the Meseraick Veins into the Belly from the Causes aforesaid and so into the Habit of the Body that the Dropsie Ascites is produced with that called Anasarca and so they both are united Water falling into some parts and there gathered Water in the Feet may cause a swelling without a Dropsie causeth Swellings as when it is in the Feet of which we spake without the Dropsie Ascites it causeth a Tumor like that of a Dropsie being soft such as we described formerly And this is when together with the crude Nourishment which causeth Oaedematous Tumors it falls from the inferior parts into the Feet Or when in Diseases of the Feet as the Erysipelas Oedematous or the like these Excrements are carried with other Humors into the Feet and cause these Diseases and when the other are discussed the Tumor remaineth Or when by a Defluxion into the Eyes there is an Epiphora or Moistness and weeping which makes the Eye-lidds swel which was spoken of in the Eyes Or when in the Declination of other acute Diseases Nature disburdning the remainder of the Excrements with the water into the lower parts the Feet do swell and the sooner because having long kept the bed and their Feet up when they begin to walk the Humors flow downward This tumor of the Feet in men that are in Health is counted a good sign because the reliques are so carried away And because such thin Humors are quickly discussed it continueth not long unless it be such as shewed it self at first in the Feet which a Dropsie followed this deceiveth many and it may be discovered by other accidents which accompany a Dropsie We have formerly shewed that there hath been a Tumor in the skin Water in the Leggs the cause of particular tumors there upon the Longitude thereof only from a serous humor and because it came suddenly it was a sign that it t would go suddenly away though it pitted with strong Impression And this was sent by Nature by reason of the plenty of it as appeared by the Parties continual Sweating and by reason of the thinness and sharpness which caused Itching And there was also a Loosness of the Feet and a contraction If water be sent under the skin into any outward part Water gathered under the skin of the Head the cause of Hydrocele if it separate the skin from the part and fill the space between it causeth a Tumor as under thick skins of the Head in the Tumor called Hydrocelephale comming from plenty of water there breeding and gathered together And when water is under the skin of the Navel Water in the Navel is the cause of Hydronphalon the Tumor called Hydromphalon is raised being carried thither by the Navel-vein enlarged or by reason of the plenty thereof or from other causes while the Passage is not dryed as we shewed in a Dropsie may be When water is in the Eye-brows there is a swelling Water in the Eye-brows Cause of their Swelling and the sooner with tears and rubbing because they will often Itch. Somtimes there is a sudden Defluxion of Blood into the Eye with water with Swelling and Redness as if there had been a stroak comming and going about the ball of the Eye These have I seen in two Children of evil Habit of Body having pain in the Limbs and the running Gout Also when water is under the scarfe Skin Water under the skin of the Eye the Cause of Phlyctana if it be separated from the parts beneath and the Mouths of the Veins that end there and stop them causeth the Bladder called Phlyctaena And this will be so in other parts The cause is the abundance of whey brought thither and hindered from passing through the Pores by Sweat and therefore it getteth under the skin and lifteth it
up And if this be salt or sharpe provoking Nature and in divers parts It causeth those watery Pustles in the Itch called Hydroae Also another external force may cause the same when the scarfe skin is raised as also by rubbing or burning as we shewed Wind begets some of the Tumors aforesaid differing according to their parts as in the Belly Codds Stomack and Guts or the like Wind gathered and kept in the cavity of the Belly Wind comming from other parts into the hollow of the Belly or bred there is the cause of the simple Tympany or if with water of the Ascites is the chief Cause of the Dropsie called Tympany and it is seldom without water And it must be in the cavity of the belly and stretch it forth very large and we may know there is wind by the sound thereof when it is beaten And somtimes there is a pricking pain by reason of the Distension of the Membranes These winds getting into the belly because no parts beneath in which it may be retained so plentifully must needs come from the Stomach and the Guts But the doubt is which way for it seems impossible that they should come through the blind Passages of the Stomach and Guts ' because they are easily held in with the smallest Membrane and a thin Humor will with more ease sweat out then wind break forth And it is plain that they come not from solution of Continuity in the bowels because then the Chyle of other Excrements would also come forth Therefore it is probable that if wind be carried from the Stomach and Guts into the Belly it first gets into the little mouths of the Meseraick Veins and from them as we shewed the water doth into the cavity of the Belly And this appears in that the water may come the same way which is commonly mixed with the wind except as some say the wind passing by the inward Tunicle of the Guts into the outward and piercing through the mesentery where it is joyned unto them get in and being contained between two Tunicles at length gets through them into the Belly and whether it come this way or that it is rare as also the Tympany and not but from abundance of wind by which the Guts are so distended that they are so thin that wind may pass through And this cannot be except it be so inclosed in the Guts that it can find no other way upward or downward This abundance of wind is continually made in the Guts and Stomach from great weakness therein turning that by its weak Heat into wind which should have been concocted from whence also may come the Dropsie called the Tympany from wind and water if the Liver be weakned also and water be mixed Now the great Obstruction and gathering together of the Guts causeth that it cannot go forth downwards by its Natural Passage and therefore the pain of the Colick comes first with the binding of the Belly as we shewed in those Diseases and from what Causes they came And if they continue and the wind be carried into the Belly as we said the Belly will begin to swell and the pain of the Cholick remains as at fiâ—st with the binding or costiveness of the Body till by continual dilatation or Enlargement a way is made that the wind which was in the Guts may have a free Passage and cause no more pain and if this wind break away yet that which is without the Guts doth not but the belly is swollen and the pain of the Cholick is turned to a Tympany If dropsie Bodies were often anatomized it would be found out that wind in a Tympany doth sometimes get into the space or vacuity of the Belly by reason of some manifest Solution of continuity in the Stomach or Guts which were before stretched exceedingly thereby or by some other waies and this may hence be collected because it is the worst of all Dropsies therefore the hurt ought to be great and if it were so in an Ascites it would be incurable And if the Solution of continuity be so great that the Chyle and the Excrements also get into the belly it will sooner kill but if only water and wind without thick Matter as it may be the life will be prolonged Besides this Cause of the Tympany which comes from the wind of the Guts getting into the belly there is another which comes from wind bred in the cavity of the belly And this is when the watery Humor with which the belly is alwaies moistned sweateth too plentifully from the Meseraick Veins or comes too fast from the Mouths of them and turns into wind which retained for want of passage causeth a Tympany And if the whol Humor turn into wind which is seldom it will be a simple Tympany but if mixed with water a Compound which is most usual In which kinds if water abound not over much and falls not into the Feet or other parts from the cavity of the Belly nor causeth Swelling any where else neither can it be discovered in the belly But if there be so much by the continual Increase thereof that the Tumor of the Belly not only extends it but causeth a Noise of Water falling into one side when the Patient turns and the water falls into the Feet there is an Ascites with the Tympany Now the Cause of this wind turning into water in regard we have shewed in Ascites the cause that brings it into the belly may be the Heat of the inward Bowels which maketh the water turn into a Vapor or thick Wind as it may do in in any part of the body where there is space and Humidity As we have shewed that in the Ascites when water is carried from the cavity of the belly into the Codds it makes the Tumor called Hydrocele or Water-rupture so when wind comes from the same part into the Codd and puffeth it up it causeth the Pneumatocele or windy Rupture Which we never saw in a Tympany and it is seldom alone and when it is there is commoly water with it But by wind brought thither that Swelling in the Codds which comes with the pains of the Cholick and vanisheth presently may be produced Nevertheless the cause of both is the dilating of the Passages of the Peritonaeum and it is less when wind only with a little Moisture gets by degrees into the Codds This Dilatation or stretching in Pâ—eumatocele or Wind-rupture may come from divers Causes mentioned in Hernia especially in young tender Bodies which are subject to these as well as other ruptures by crying and the easier if there be wind in the belly as it useth to be without a Dropsie in those that are sound otherwise being made of water turned into wind as in all vacuities of the body it may be and we shewed a Tympany cometh the same way and though the wind be not much and disperseth it self yet if there be a Passage to the Scrotum open it will get
Body except the Head in sand or ashesas in Ascites it is here better Foment the parts with Lye as there entioned rowl the parts about somtimes with Rowlers dipped in Lye Cataplasmes of Dungs as there mentioned also baggs applyed to the parts with hot Discutients As for Diet let the Air be convenient then temperate not moist hot rather dry Let the Meat be of good Juyce and Concoction seasoned with hot Dryers good for the Stomach They say that the flesh of a Hedg-hog is good against Leucophlegmacy Watchings are thought to do good by drying but they hurt by weakning The Tumors called Oedemata which are especially about the Knees and Shoulders The Cure of Oedema and also about the Feet and other parts being broad comming from crude Juyce are difficulty cured because they are the substance of the flesh increased therefore they carry them to the Grave often The Cure of them is the general Medicines to the whol Body and particular to the parts The general must be according to the cause to hinder crudity and if it come from the want of concoction in the Stomach Liver Spleen then because there is a Cachexy which begets particular Tumors that must be first cured by good Diet fit Evacuations by stool and sweat and you must strengthen the Bowels and oppose other Diseases before you meddle with the particular Tumors But if crude juyce cause an Oedema from the evil Habit of the part then with respect to the Constitution to get good Blood and cleanse the body for the better proceeding the general Cure must pacceed the particular The particular Cure of Oedema is in the beginning and in the increase done by things which astringe and repels by pressing the Juyce which makes the part bigger and when it is at the height you must use things that dry and digest it mixed with strengtheners or drawing Medicines or if it imposthumate as seldom such as ripen and open and at length heat the Ulcer as follow Fomentations and Baths are used if if be large And at the beginning foment with a Spunge to repel a new spunge is best because its thought more binding with Vinegar and Wine or with strong Vinegar and ironed water or the like After foment with Vinegar and Lye or salt-water Afterwards when the Tumor is big use salt-water alone or Nitrous Baths Or make them of Lye strained from common Ashes Vine branches or Oak Beech Willow Fig-tree or burnt Bones It is stronger with Allum Salt and Vinegar And if you add the Plants they will digest and strengthen as Dane-wort roots Acorus Docks Sage Rosemary Marjoram Bettony Bayes Calaminth Organ Juniper topps Rue Savine Mug-wort Lavender Chamomil Lupines Beanes Jupiner-berries or the like hot things that are good for the Joynts Anoint after Fomentation in the beginning with this repeller Take of Bole half an ounce Aloes three drams Acacia Sanguis Draconis each two drams of Cypress roots one dram of Saffron half a dram Vinegar one ounce and an half Oyl of Roses three ounces Turpentine as much as will make an Oyntment or Wax for a Cerote Another in the increase of a Tumor Take of Quick-brimstone three drams of Sal Gem. two drams of Ashes common or of Plants one dram Bean flower two ounces strong Vinegar one ounce Oyl of Nutmegs and Turpentine as much as will make an Unguent you may add also the Juyce of Coleworts An Emplaster for the whol tumor Take of Labdamum one ounce and an half of Frankincense one ounce of Storax half an ounce of Quick-brimstone six drams of Allum and Sal Niter each two drams of Oak moss poudered Wood common woad Ashes each one dram of Acorus roots and Lavender each half a dram of Saffron one scruple of Cow Dung dryed two drams mix them poudered with Vinegar and when they are dryed again add Turpentine the Dreggs of the Oyl of Rue or of Lillies and make a Plaster The usual Plasters for this are Diachylon Ireatum Ceroneum Diachalcitcos A digesting Cataplasm Take of Lilly or Marsh mallow roots and Briony roots each three ounces the Roots of wild Cowcumber two ounces Dwarfe-elder and Dock roots each one ounce of Sage Rue Tamarisk or Savine each one handful boil them in equal parts of Rain-water and wine adding in the Conclusion Vinegar three ounces beat them and ad Bean or Orobus meale two ounces Lupine meale one ounce the Ashes mentioned for a Lixivium half an ounce of dryed Cows dung six drams Salt half an ounce Leaven one ounce and an half Hogs grease four ounces Oyl of Chamomil and Wall flowers each three ounces make a Cataplasm You may add to them Snails and the Juyces of Dwarfe-elder and Docks instead of the Plants or Fennel Clay made with Bone ashes especially Mans bones with bole and Saffron Plantane and Nightshade water like a Cataplasm hot applied is of great force Also baggs filled with discussing Pouders or Pouders sprinkled upon dry Spunges or wet and so bound to the Tumor They are made of Sage Rosâ—mary Bettony Caraway Carrot and Fennel seeds c. with Maiden hair to hinder the breeding of the Oedema If it tend to an Imposthume you must use such things to bring it to Maturation as are mentioned in curing Imposthumes To roule an Oedema well down with Bolsters is good to hinder its groweth Also rubbing doth discuss and the more if it be done with Vinegar and Roses and Salt To scarifie or burn with an Iron t is good to abate an Oedema if it be done in many parts of it or to applie a Vesicatory of Caâ—â—arides When the Eye-brows are swollen with a Tumor The Cure of the Oedema of the Eye-brows it is cured as the rest by general Medicines if the Body be very moist and by Topick to the place so ordered that they hurt not the Eye wherefore we use thick Oyntments least they should run into the Eye or sticking Plasters which first repel and then digest or if we will use a Fomentation we must leave out all sharp sour and salt things and use that which is prescribed in the Weakness of the sight or anoint the Eye-brows with the Oyntment there To which this following may be annexed Take of galls or Cypress-nuts two drams Cummin seed one dram Aloes Myrrh each two drams Saffron one scruple of Honey as much as will make an Oyntment or Emplaster to be laid upon the Eye-brows the Eye being shut Also Feaverfew and Chickweed beaten with Barley meale and applied The Cure of Tumors that come from a watery Humor shall be set down first that which is general as the dropsie ascites then of the particular Tumor of the Feet and in the Groine which falls into the Codd called Hydrocele then of the Belly as that of Women like Hydrocele of water and that against the Navel called Hydromphalon and in the Head called Hydrocephalon and the Swelling of the Eye brows Last of all we shall treat of the small Pustles in the
seeds wood Aloes Lack burnt Brass and Juyce of Fennel Clysters do also purge water by the Meseraicks is brought again into the Belly which they do by cleansing and stirring up Nature and by opening the Mouths of the Veins thus made and they also take down the Belly by expelling wind A gentle Clyster is thus made Take of Beets Mercury Pellitory Cranes bill or Dove foot and Rue each three or four handfuls Flowers of Elder Broom St. Johns-wort Chamomil Dill white Lillies each three pugils or four Caraway seeds half an ounce Smallage seed or the great or less hot seeds half an ounce Senna one ounce and an half of Carthamus seeds one ounce boil them in Water and dissolve Hiera benedicta or Leaven half an ounce Honey one ounce Oyl of Bayse one ounce and an half with a little salt make a Clyster It will be stronger with more Purgers as Agarick or Turbith half an ounce Asarum three drams or with only a dram of Coloquintida leaving out the purging Electuaries It will purge water strongly by adding a handful of Soldanella or spurge to the Decoction or one ounce and an half of the Roots of wild Cowcumbers and as much of Sowbread and Smallage roots Another Take the Vrine of a sound cholerick Man or Lixivium which is not too strong and dissolve in it one ounce of stale Leaven and one ounce and an half of Oyl of Rue and it will be stronger if you add half an ounce of the Juyce of Flower-de-luce root which may be added also to the former For other Evacuations especially Sweats which bring the Water into the Feet and other parts they are good but not to be forced too much for so they are hurtful because the sick being in Bed and taking hot things is inward and outward in danger of Suffocation for want of Breath therfore except they come freely and in the declining of the Disease for taking Swelling from the Feet you must not sweat But if the Party by inclined thereto and can sweat standing use such as we shewed in Leucophlegmacy which if they move not Sweat yet will purge by Urin. Evacuation by Vomit because it shakes the Belly too much and increaseth the shortness of breathing it is hurtfull to some yet in some if there be a Revulsion made by Vomits from the Meseraick Veins to the Stomach and Guts or to take away something that causeth the water if they be easie to vomit it may do well as also if then thirsty they drink much water to vomit it up again Rhasis adviseth to provoke Sneezing to send the water to the Kidneys We can do little good by Blood-letting in a Dropsie because except there be another Disease joyned as an Inflammation it cannot help the Bowels and it brings none of the water from the Belly or Habit of the Body nor out of the Meseraicks nor much of that which is in the branches of the hollow Vein for we find that in Dropsies they bleed clear thick and black Blood by Experience Yet if the Haemorrhoid Veins use to bleed or do open themselves the water in the Meseraicks may be sent forth in great quantity thereby Water is often taken from the belly by cutting burning or pricking it as also from the Codds and Feet And that which is done by tapping or pricking of the belly called Paracentesis is the best for by it all the water may be taken out of the belly sooner then by any other way Therefore it is most usual and ought to be betimes before the water by long continuance defile the bowels and the strength decrease because this wound being made only slightly through the Skin Muscles and Peritonaeum brings no danger as the People suppose nor can the Guts be thereby so made any wayes hurt because the Superficies of the Belly being stretched with water is at such a distance from them and they lie as is proved by discection far separated from the parts divided Besides it is impossible that the Patient should escape in regard the water can get out no other way by stool or urine it is therefore better in a desperate Condition to try this Remedy as the last then to leave the Patient because except the Greatness of the Cause do hinder they may thus sometimes be cured or if they die in regard they could not otherwise be cured the Physitian by foretelling this may keep his credit and his Conscience clear And the Patient shall get this benefit at least that when the water is let forth he shal be freed from his great shortness of Breathing and other internal Griefs and so die in a more easie posture But for the doing this handsomly you must choose a place three fingers below the Navel on the side and there where the Muscles of the lower Belly are oblique and transverse and lie upon the flesh because you may better make a wound there then in the middle under the Navel where the nervous parts are of the Muscles which make the white line which is Nervous Therefore with an Incision knife or some other fit Instrument make a wound through the Skin Muscles and Peritonaeum gently least you hurt the Guts and receive the water in a Bason which usually gusheth forth violently And you must presently shut the Orifice again least it flow all forth at a time and so take away the strength so that the water may be taken out by Degrees dayly twice or thrice a little at a time by closing the Orifice without loss of strength which must in the same time be restored with proper Remedies In which we must have a special Care that we commit not an Error and that we may stop the water when we please which is done by putting in a hollow top which may shut the Orifice so that we may open it and shut it as we please or if before we make the Orifice we draw down the skin and cut it transverse as far as the Muscles and after cut within with an Incision knife For then the lower Orifice of the wound made first in the skin rising when the skin is loose the inward Orifice will be hid and stopped and when the skin is drawn down again it will be opened and so we may keep and let out the water as we please and prevent its flowing out at other times Moreover we must consider when the water flow's forth whether it be clear and without evil Sent for then it is a good sign because we suppose from thence that the bowels are not yet putrified but if it stink or be bloody it is to be supposed evil A Puncture made in the Codd as we shall shew in Hydrocele doth not onely give vent and let out the water there but if it be long kept open it will take it from the Belly by degrees and by the same way that it first sell into the Cod for which Cause if the Puncture be not made in the belly it may
Hedg Hysop and if wine be used instead of water or mixed therewith it wil pierce the more Or if you bind the Ashes aforesaid in a knot of Linnen and steep it in wine it will cure especially if the Ashes are made of Plants not throughly burnt but dried to ashes in an oven I did much for one in a Dropsie with this Lye when his Codds and Yard were swollen Take of the Ashes of Vine and Bean stalks and of Bitter-sweet and Holly bark and Juniper all burnt in an Oven without flame each one handful pour a pottle of water thereon and let it run through till it grow a Lye and then boil it with Sugar and skum it and when it is cold give it a relish with one ounce of Cinnamon water let him drink thereof in the morning and one hour before or after Supper three or four ounces The Chymists like the Salts made from thence better as of Wormwood Juniper Hedg Hysop and Dwarse-elder If one drink their own Urin or that of a young Boy it will provoke urine Dioscorides commends the urine of a Goat drunk every day with Spikenard distilled waters penetrat much if drunk often four ounces with wine Simple waters are of Elder or Dwarse-elder roots and Flowers or Berries of Orris roots and flowers and of great Celandine also of white Lillies of Raddish French beans and Dodder and of other opening and diuretick Herbs and Roots among which the water of Sea Fennel is best some commend a water distilled of Mans dung and Tobacco water The Compound waters are made of the aforesaid with Juyce of Flower-de luce some add Cantharides cinnamon Spike and Schaenanth The Chymist make some stronger waters which they give by spoonfulls adding to the aforesaid as celandine Elder c. Tartar and Vitriol calcined and a little Spirit of wine or of Tartar and Vitriol alone with Flints burnt and poudered they make a water which they after distil and account a secret Dioscorides gives the Juyce of Lazerpitium or Benjamin with Figs the Juyce of Brooklime with wine some commend the Juyce of Tobacco some the Extract of Juniper The Oyl of bastard Saffron and the Oyls of the Salts aforesaid are mixed with the former by the Chymists Those Compositions mentioned in a cachexy from weakness of Bowels Obstructions and Hardness are good because they provoke Urine Also Juleps and the milky Potion made of Turpentine Also Electuaries especially that we mentioned in a cachexy when a Dropsie is feared as that made of the Juyce of Elder and Dwarse-elder and Dialacca and Diacurcuma Of the Compounds we may give the two last best and of Simples the Pouder of the Tops of the lesser centaury and of Sea wormwood Also Pouder of Dill with Wormwood or Horehoundwine Also the Pouder of a Wolfes Liver or Guts or the Pouder or Ashes of Hens Guts the Liver of a Cuckow and Spleen of an Ass or of a Colt when the Spleen is affected the Flesh of an Hedghog the Body of a Bat with the Head taken off Earth-worms all dried and poudered or burnt to ashes given alone or with other Pouders in wine syrup or water convenient are thought proper for these Bowels distempered Spanish Flies also or Grass-hoppers or Crickets baked to a Pouder and one scruple given with water or convenient Syrup or Milk provoketh Urine powerfully also you may add cherry-tree or Plum-tree Gum to hinder their ulcerating Some commend burnt Brass and Pouder of Load-stone Also the Pills mentioned in a cachexy are good against the Dropsie that comes from thence And these following are most powerful to provoke Urine Take of Cantharides without the thin wings half a scruple Mastick six grains Rhubarb half a dram pouder them finely and make them up with Turpentine or Fir-tree Rosin two drams adding the Infusion of Gum Traganth made in Violet water and fresh Butter each half a dram make them up with Sugar candy into Pills give one dram at the first to try the strength of them Also we endeavor to consume water in the Belly and the parts below with outward Applications such as draw it forth and digest or dry it into a Vapor You may make Fomentations and Baths for the belly and swollen Legs and Codds of Sea-water or salted water or Suphur nitrous or bituminous Waters Artificiall or Natural Or of a strong Lye especially for the Feet by straining water or wine through the ashes of Vines Oak Beech Beans Cole-worts Bones or the like with Allum and Salt if you will have it stronger with which you may wet clout and lay them upon the Legs Or you may make Fomentations and Baths of a Decoction of Wine Bean water or the like chiefly of the roots and Leaves of Dwarse-elder also of Orris Nettle Celandine Sowbread the Bark of the Root of an Elm and Fern Centaury Mezereon or Mountain-peper Rue Calaminth Organ red Coleworts chamomil flowers Elder and the other Dryers with Brimstone Salt or Allum sometimes Scales of Iron and three drams of the Pouder of Grass-Hoppers or cantharides to provoke Urin also Or make this Fomentation Take of common Lye ten pints Vinegar one pint Salt or Allum three ounces boil them with drying Plants and foment the parts with a Spunge A Stove or dry Bath doth more dry and draw out the humors by sweat from the inferior parts and the more violently if you quench Flints in the bath to raise the fume some have with good success used Laurel boiled therein Also a Fume raised by Iron Flints or Marchasits quenched in Vinegar or by Vinegar powered upon them or upon a Mil-stone is good and the rather if Dwarse-elder be boiled first in the Vinegar Or jet quenched in Vinegar Cover the lower parts of the body with hot Sand the Sea-sand is best by reason of the salt which is drying therefore Dioscorides bid it be done at the Sea shore other sand will do the same with salt and ashes This may be done also with ashes alone which are best when made of drying Herbs and Woods The same may be done in a heap of Corn Malt Bran or trodden Grapes being hot Fill baggs with warm Sand ashes and parched Salt and apply them to the Belly and Feet to which you may add drying Herbs and the great or less hot Seeds In the Dropsie Ascites sweat provoked with Dane-wort as followeth takes down the Tumor Take a good quantity of Dane-wort fried without Water and not burnt lay it upon a Quilt or Blanket upon which let the Patient lie and sweat while he is able refreshing himself with Cordials that he may continue the longer in it There are also divers Plasters Cataplasms and Oyntments for swollen Bellies and Feet and Codds when full with water to consume it with things proper for the bowels thus Of Simples Raddish roots or Acorus Pepper-wort bruised raw or boiled in strong Vinegar which with Water-cresses and Mustard seed they are stronger Also Onions beaten with Honey and Pepper and applied
or castorium and Juyce of Flower-de-luce adding if they inflame butter and oyl cataplasmes will do the same such as are used to the belly the vertue of which wil come from the Podex to the belly They report that the stone in a water-snakes belly which she vomiteth into the water when she is tyed by a string to her Tail is of such force to consume water that it presently consumes the water into which it falls and if it be laid to the belly consumes the water there also You must have regard to the Liver and Spleen if distempered with such Remedies as are prescribed in these Diseases especially in a cachexy and Obstructions The Air must be dry which is better then moist Exercise if they can beare it doth discuss Frictions or Rubbings do it more especially if the Hands be anointed with Salt and Oyl or Oyl and Water and then if you rub till the skin be red Also Mustard seed and Urine rub'd upon the belly to make it red and discuss Cupping-glasses applied to the whol belly are good to discuss Watchings although they dry more then sleep doth yet because they weaken and are troublesom to difficult breathers you must not allow them much The Diet must be moderate of good Juyce and easie concoction abstaining from moist things and roast is better then boil'd they must abstain from salt spiced and hot things which provoke Thirst they may use Diureticks or such as provoke Urine as Parsley Fennel Rocket and Cole-worts Livers of Wolves Foxes Hens and Larks are counted proper They must not forget Sallads which provoke urine and loosen the belly made of yong Elder budds and of Dwarfe-elder first boiled a little with much Oyl and a little Vinegar and Sugar if they please Let them drink little for it is hard wholly to forbear yet when some have done it many daies they have been cured being their bowels were not hurt Water drinking especially much is hurtful with a little Vinegar it will quench the Thirst better thin sharp wine is good to provoke Urine Vinegar is good sauce not only for the Spleen but Liver and to quench Thirst The spreading Tumor of the Feet differs from Oedema The Cure of swollen Feet it is softer and comes of crude and serous Juyce and somtimes it is in one Foot somtimes in an other very large somtimes in a certain place below or about the Ankles or as we have observed upon the skin which if it come after this or that manner without another Disease continueth long and if it cease it returns at certain times it is harder to be cured in some that are accustomed to it and it is hard to prevent from returning except the body be very well purged from those Excrements and Humidities which Nature constantly sendeth to these inferior parts and the return of them prevented And this is done by a moderate and sparing Diet and often purging by sweating somtimes for a week or two together or for a moneth continually or by Urine with other particular Evacuations and altering Medicines that consume these Humors and such as strengthen the bowels the weakness of which was the cause of them These kinds of Medicines have been declared in Defluxions and in the Joynt-gout which come from such watery Humors and the like and may be applied to this Disease As for outwards Medicines you must at first repel those Humors which make the Feet swell applying such things as we said would strike back Oedematous Tumors spread abroad then they are to be dried up and consumed with such things as were propounded in the same case in the Dropsie Ascites with Fomentations Oyntments and Plaisters Roulers do excellently in this to keep the Humors from returning if daily with a long Rouler a Hands breadth beginning at the soal of the Foot you roul to the Knee in the morning before the Feet begin to swell as they do in the day and so let them be till they go to bed or keep them so night and day which may be done with a soft Boot or laced Stockin or other Arts. Other Tumors that fall into the Feet after sickness by excrementitious Moisture that falls down are taken for a good sign The Cure of swollen feet after sickness and therefore neglected For they either go away of their own accord or after a little purging or sweating But if these come from any hurt in the Bowels left by a Disease then because it is the beginning of a dropsie you must proceed as we have taught therein If Hydrocele be joyned with Ascites and the Codds are filled with water as the belly they are both dangerous The Cure of a Hydrocele or Water-rupture for the cure it must be as the Ascites which must chiefly be regarded for if the belly fall the Codds will also cease swelling And if not then apply the outward Medicines mentioned in Ascites as Fomentations Fumes Plaisters c To the codds as we shewed let out the water by a Prick and that which is in the belly will follow But if Hydrocele come of it self without any other Disease and the codds alone be swollen because it brings no great hinderance it is usually neglected at the first but it must be cured by those Remedies mentioned in Ascites to let out the water Among which the cataplasmes made of Goat and Cow dung and the flesh of Snails onely are the best leaving out the things which are prescribed for the bowels Or make this Pultis Take Goat or Cow dung one pound of Snails boiled in Lye and cut small twelve mix them with the dung then boil them all with the remainder of the Lye then add Bean flowers three ounces Cummin seed half an ounce Mustard seed one dram Brimstone one ounce the Ashes of Snail shells and Cabbage roots and stalks burnt half an ounce mix them In the mean while soment the part with Lye to which there is added Salt and Brimstone Besides these you may use by turns things that consume water and astringe and shut up the Passage by which water falls into the Codd and also dry up the water Such as this is made of the dung aforesaid with the third part of Bole and Vinegar or Oxymel Or this Take Bran one pound Bean flower four ounces Cummin seeds two drams Galls six drams Hypocistis or Conserve of Sloes half an ounce Allum two drams boil them in Oxymel to a Pultis If the Tumor yet abate not you must prick it which is easily done without great pain in the lowest part of the cod with an incision Knife thrust into the skin which is stretched out and so let out the water and press it forth till all be out and then keep the wound some time open with a Tent or with a seton or skein of Silk drawn through by another Orifice Besides this if the Party be so subject to this Tumor that it returns again you must thus prevent it by hindering the
and Pilewort roots which Mathiolus teacheth to be made thus Take the Roots gathered in Autumne washed and bruised with fresh Butter and put them in a moist place fifteen daies in a pot well covered then melt it gently and strain it You may steep or boyl the same Roots with Mice in oyl for the same These are made of Gum Take of Gum Ammoniack Bdellium or Galbanum each two ounces Opopanax one ounce and an half dissolve them in ordinary Wine Vinegar or that of Squills or Aqua vitae or both with two or three ounces of the Oyls aforesaid make a Liniment or with Wax and Oyntment Or Take the aforesaid Gums dissolved and mix them with the Fat 's and Greases aforesaid To these Gums add Serapinum Elemi or Labdanum or Storax Aloes Frankincense and Mastick poudered half an ounce and so make an Oyntment or Cerot or with wax and Rosin and Pitch make a Plaister A Plaister of WAx Rosin and Pitch with some proper Grease is good also Divers Applications are made of Plants as this of roots Take Roots of black and white Briony four ounces if green bruise them if otherwise boyl them in Wine and Vinegar or both or with Lye and pickle or brine or Aqua vitae make a Cataplasm or with Honey or Oyl or Grease You may thus prepare Orris and Raddish roots with Briony for the same Use Or to make them stronger do thus Take Briony roots four ounces Orris two ounces Dragons Sowbread each one ounce and an half mix them as formerly and with Roots of wild Cowcumbers it will be stronger or Roots of stinking Gladon or of rest Harrow or of Cane one ounce There is a good Application made of round headed Roots as of Onions Garlick Lillies Daffodills roasted under the Embers or boiled and bruised and mixed as the former and Squills boiled or roasted are stronger You mix this and the former Cataplasmes together Also of dryed Figs and Raisons bruised or a little boiled and mixed with the round headed Cataplasm or with that of other Roots are excellent Also Applications by Dioscorides by Pileworts Clowns al heal Maiden-hair the lesser Housleek Capar roots of five leaved Grass and Docks beaten or boiled with the former and Roots of Marsh-mallows The Herb Mustard and Leaves of Agnus castus Savine Pine Cypress Misleto Pitch or Reeds with Arsemart Spurge c. are also commended The Misleto of an Oak or Pear-tree beaten into an Oyntment with Oyl of turpentine doth soften and cure all hard Imposthumes and Scrophulas Also Dungs of Beasts as Ox Ass Boar Goat Pigeons dung and of a wild Goat Weezle with Vinegar or Oxymel or Grease and Oyls Or with other Applications of Gums and Plants or of Onions Figs and Dung make a Cataplasm The blood of Weezles is commended by Dioscorides The Gall also of a Turtle alone or mixed with other things There are divers Pouders used in Cataplasmes Oyntments Plaisters or with the former The first is made of Seeds as Take Line-seed Foenugreek Beans Lupines Orobus with Honey and Vinegar or with Oxymel simple or of Squills Or Take one ounce and an half of the Pouder and mix it with the fat Oyntment or that of Gums or with the Cataplasm of Roots or Brounbread and Figs. Another more discussing is this Take of the Meals aforesaid three ounces Mustard seed or of Water-cresses two drams Cummin and Nettle seed each one dram mix them Another Pouder is made of Plants more proper Take of Cypress nuts half an ounce of Birthwort stinking Gladon each two drams Agnus Castus leaves and Wormwood each one dram with a Snakes skin mix them as the other or with the Oyntments or Cataplasmes aforesaid Another of Roots Take Orris and Briony each half an ounce Roots of Sowbread or wild Cowcumber three drams Dragons two drams Birthwort one dram mix them as the former or with Oyls and Grease or with Wax Pitch and Rosin make a Plaister Another strong Pouder Take Brimstone half an ounce Sal Gem. or Niter or the Froath of the Sea or Pumex stone each two drams Mustard seed two drams Nettle seed one dram Markasites or Litharge one dram Another is of the ashes of Juniper Fig-tree Cabbage stalks Wormwood Agnus Castus Cray fiish Snails Spunge Ass Hoofes and burnt Weezles mix these with Oxymel or Vinegar or with the former Pouders and Applications Another Pouder is of the burnt Clay of an Oven with Vinegar mixed with the other Unslaked Lime with Honey and Grease or other Compositions is good Also Rust of Brass or burnt Vitriol mixed with the rest Dung dryed also to pouder may be mixed as the rest The Emplaster of Diachylon with Orris is the best composition and it will be stronger with the Pouders aforesaid and proper Oyls Galen hath a Plaister to take away Scrophulas of Bdellium Ammoniacum Mustard and Nettle seed Birthwort Sea Foam Brimstone Oyl and Wax Oribasius hath another prescribed by Mesue The burning Oyl is excellent to take away Scrophulas without pain and Fistulaes and other Excrescenses thus made Take Oyl of Bricks Mastick Gum Arabick Turpentine each three drams pouder them and with a Glass still draw an Oyl mix it with Ashes of Ivy and by a retort in Ashes or Sand draw an Oyl Stupefactives or Narcoticks do dissolve as we shewed used externally and are good here as Mandraks Henbane Poppy bruised or boiled or with Meals with other Pouders and Liquors make a Cataplasm The Juyce of them alone is good Also the distilled Water thereof as Take Henbane Hemlock Celandine Savine each two handfuls Spurge half a handful Raddish roots three ounces Dragons one ounce Onions and Garlick each two ounces Mustard seed half an ounce Salt one ounce draw a Water This Emplaster of Opium is of great force Take of Opium one dram Scammony two drams Myrrh one dram Saffron one scruple mix them with Honey Or this Oyntment Take of Gum Ammoniack or Galbanum one ounce dissolve them in Aqua vitae which is also narcotick with Opium one dram Henbane seeds two drams Hens or Pigeons dung dryed half an ounce Grease or Oyl as much as will make an Oyntment or with Wax make a Cerot The Oyl of wild Cowcumber stufft into the Nose is held good Roots also of Plantane and Sorrel hang'd about the Neck Also Fomentations with Spunges prepare well for other Applications They are made of the Plants aforesaid of which Cataplasmes are made in Wine Vinegar and Honey Urin Lye Brine or Smiths Forge water Or with other Herbs aforesaid make this Take the two Roots of the first Cataplasm mentioned or more of the second add of the round Roots three or four Figs twelve of the Herbs mentioned three or four handfuls Mustard seed two drams Brimstone half an ounce Salt two drams boyl them as aforesaid for a Fomentation if you rub the tumor till it be red it helpes to discuss if done before other Applications Somtimes we cut away those that cannot otherwaies be cured
incurable Ulcers which do so corrupt these Nervous Parts that the motion of the Joynt is either hindered or utterly lost thereby But by manual Operation somthing may be done as I shall shew The Applications external must be the same that were prescribed in Scrophula which mollifie and digest adding things proper for the Nerves and increasing the quantity thereof to make them prevalent It may be done by Fomentations or Baths thus made Take Lilly roots and Marsh-mallow Briony and Orris roots each two ounces Mallows and Coleworts each two handfuls Henbane one handful Groundpine or Sage and Wormwood each half a handful Chamomil Melilot Wall flowers or Elder-flowers each one pugil Line seed and Foenugreek each one ounce Bay-berries half an ounce boyl them in Water and Wine or Lye for a Fomentation or in greater quantity for a Bath To these may be added stronger as Roots of wild Cowcumber Dragons Sowbread Or the Fomentations mentioned in Scrophula with these mentioned here Also a Decoction of Frogs and Earth-worms or if that will not do of strong Vinegar alone or in which Mil-stone or Fire-stone hath been quenched Or a Lye made of Ashes especially of Fig-tree or Urin or the like mentioned in Scrophula with the things here mentioned Also Oyl of Earth-worms and of Frogs or of Savine A Plaister of Galbanum in which a little Opium is dissolved with some drops of the distilled Oyl of Savine is good to soften and discuss a Ganglion If they sit long in hot Brimstone Baths using them for a month this Tumor will be discussed and the Limb relaxed For which Cause let them be sent to the Bath betimes and use it as a remedy The Oyntments Cataplasmes and Plaisters mentioned in Scrophula are good here also because proper for the Nerves as those fat and gummy things and slimy or of Plants Dungs Pouders with Oyl of Earth-worms Foxes Frogs for the Nerves The Grease of a Man Bear Badger or Fox Also this Plaister Take Pitch two ounces dissolved in Oyl of Earth-worms and Orris one ounce and an half with Labdanum Mastick each two drams Storax one dram ashes of Earth worms half a dram Also this Cataplasm Take the Kernels of old Wall-nuts three ounces Meal of Lupines or Orobus one ounce and an half Raddish and Flower-de-luce roots each one ounce Honey as much as is sufficient with Salt mix them A Fume also of Vinegar in which Fire Stones have been quenched Or this Take Benjamin Storax each two drams Myrrh and Bdellium each one dram Orris roots half a dram Marcasites two drams with Turpentine make Troches for a fume You must beware of Incision because it can scarce be made without danger to the Tendons Ligaments and Nerves We may use other manual Operations by which though a Ganglion cannot be taken away yet the Limb may be rectified It is dangerous to open a Ganglion as I shewed It was declared in the Treatise of contracted Members how when it comes from a tumor they may be reduced by Art and Instruments Knots or Nodes in fleshless parts are of three sorts either in the Joynts as the Gout in the bare Bone as in the Pox and Head-ach or from some violent Cause called callous Nodes we shall speak of them severally The Gout Nodes in the Joynts of the Hands or Feet and elsewhere The Cure of Knots or Nodes in the Gout are hardly discussed and when they are opened they produce some humor or sandy stone or they grow hard and fixed in the joynts so that the Fingers or Toes are either straight out or crooked as I shewed in the Gout But to hinder their growth or to discuss or ripen them you must first use the Cure for the Gout which is the cause by Evacuations and things mentioned against the Gout which are so strong that if the quantity of a small Nut be taken for a month or a year it would dissolve the Nodes of the Gout which they say this following will also do Take St. Johns-wort Germander Groundpine each six drams Tops of lesser Centaury half an ounce Roots of round Birthwort Valerian Spiknel Hermodactyls Agarick each three drams Roots of Gentian and Parsley each two drams Spikenard one dram pouder them well and with Honey make an Electuary Also apply things to mollifie and discuss or ripen as to other tumors but the strongest are these A Cataplasm Take Roots of Marsh-mallows two ounces Flower-de-luce one ounce Line seed half an ounce boyl them in Wine and Honey with a little Turpentine apply them These are most proper the Roots of wild Hemp Teasles Stone Crop Groundsel Hemlock and Henbane green and beaten or boiled first in Wine or Vinegar with Honey or Oxymel and somtimes Grease Or Take Rue Shepheards purse and Raisons beat them together The Heads of Onions and Garlick roasted and boiled with Grease of a Hen Badger or Mountain-mouse Rotten Apples applied are good Ammoniacum Sagapenum Galbanum dissolved in strong Vinegar or Oxymel with Bran Oyl of Turpentine Or Take Galbanum melted in strong Vinegar one ounce and an half Birdlime or Glew moistened with Vinegar Turpentine and Wax each half an ounce mix them Dogs or Goats dung with Wine and Vinegar and Barley meal is also good Also old strong Cheese of Sheeps Milk beaten and applied The Roots and Seeds of Gith pouder of Orris with wax laid constantly thereon Also the Pouder of Oak-moss or Hazel-moss with French Soap and Niter The Ashes of Willow Bark with strong Vinegar Or this Take of Oker two drams the Ashes of Willow-Barks Nigella seeds each one dram dryed Dogs dung one dram and an half make a pouder and mix it with old Cheese adding if you please Gum and Vinegar Also the Juyce of Capars and Oyl of Indian Nuts You may apply Fomentations to the Nodes and they work best first wash with warm water or an emollient Decoction Fomentations are most used to consume hard gravel Tumors and strengthen the part made with red Wine Marsh-mallows Mallows Docks c. Or thus Take Sea or salt Water ten potles boyl therein one pound of Guaicum of Guaicum bark four ounces Wormwood Groundpine Bettony French Lavender red Roses each six handfuls Orris roots one ounce and an half boyl them to six pottles then add twelve pottles of red Wine and boyl them till the the fourth part be consumed strain them and use it for Fomentations for twenty dayes If you fume the part with the same Decoction through a Pipe it will discuss the Hardness and strengthen the Part as hath been experienced Also it is good to put the part into a Wine-press first of moist then of dry Grapes You may also open Nodes by cutting and letting out the Matter and they will either fall or the Medicines applied will have better Operation The Nodes in the French Pox in the Fore-head The Cure of Nodes or Knots in the French Pox and Head-ach Shinns and Backs of the Hands because they
dram Orris roots two drams Sal Ammoniack one dram burnt Harts horn half a dram mix them with the Infusion of Gum Traganth for Troches to be dissolved in Milk Oyntments of Fish gall and Oyl Honey and Sugar doth discuss Pimples If these in the Head are mattery you must add Lytharge with Vinegar and Verdegreese and other Dryers mentioned in the Scab The last Remedy for hard Pimples are the corroding and caustick Medicines mentioned in Spots Hordeolum is a hard tumor like a Barley corn upon the Eye-brows The Cure of the Tumor in the Eyes called Hordeolum grando beneath and Grando like Hail is the same above in the upper Eye-brow and they are cured as warts by applying things which consume them but so that they may touch only them and not get into the Eye and hurt it especially when they are strong These following are good in these tumors Gum Ammoniack or Serapinum spread upon Leather Also Flies their wings taken off and Ants mixed with Rosin and Wax Wine Lyes Vitriol Honey and Wax Lime with the third part of Vitriol and Turpentine If nothing will prevail we may burn them off defending the Eye carefully as in warts whether we do it by actual or potential Cautery VVe may also scarifie them but it is not safe to out them off or forcebly to pull them out VVe may if it be convenient tye them with silk like warts but gently least it through pain should cause Inflammation The Cure of the Swelling of the Breasts from Milk The Cure of the Tumor of the Breasts with Milk because it goes of it self is seldom undertaken But if it be such as it causeth fear of Inflammation then we must have a care to hinder the comming of Milk into the Breasts and to consume that which is there or draw it forth But if it be curdled and the tumor hard we must discuss it if it tend to an Imposthume we must ripen open it and cure it as an Ulcer And if Inflammation follow it must be cured as a Phlegmon of which we spake in the treatise of Pain VVe hinder the increase of Milk with a slender Diet Evacuations by bleeding and purging and giving things that consume both it and the Seed as Agnus castus and Rue seeds we keep it from the Breasts by revelling and deriving the Blood another way as by opening a Vein in the Arm or Foot especially if they were not well cleansed after Child-bearing and with other things that provoke the Courses Scarification Cupping on the Shoulder and above the Knee by Frictions and the like Also by binding the Breasts and using Emollients you may hinder the farther increase and consume the Milk in the Breasts The English and French Women which use not to nurse their own Children apply bags of Lin-seeds to their Breasts and bind them down for the same end VVe repel the blood by outward Applications which we place upon the visible veins that come from the Arm-pits to the Breasts not upon the Breasts but about and without them because if Milk be curdled in them it cannot be repelled There are also repelling Emplasters called defensatives made of Bole mentioned in Phlegmon and in the Pains of the Eyes from Defluxion used to the Fore-head and Temples and the like elsewhere mentioned which must be laid about not upon the breasts but towards the Arm-pits Especially those we mentioned for hindring the growth of Breasts may also be good to hinder Milk Also an Epithem of Vinegar Rose-water and Allum with a little Camphire to penetrate rather then cool VVe dissolve Milk in the Breasts with Dryers and Digesters laid all over upon the breasts and if there be a tumor you must lay thereon things that consume Milk and bring it to matter Mints is chiefly good for this and next Calamints Smallage Coriander Agnus castus also Wormwood Horehound Ladies-glove Palma Christi Epimedium Rue Rocket Celandine Cole-wort white Beets Briony Leaves and water Lilly roots beaten green or boiled first in Wine and Vinegar equal parts and the third part Honey to a Cataplasm Or that which is made of Wheat-bread or Bran Bean Barley Lentils Orobus and Foenugreek meal boyled as before somtimes with Herbs and Oyls of Dill Chamomil and Lillies As for Example Take Marsh-mallow and Lilly roots each two ounces Mints two handfuls Wormwood and Celandine each one handful Chamomil flowers one pugil boyl them in Wine Vinegar and Honey as before beat them up with Bean and Barley meal or the like four ounces Oyl of Dill Ducks grease each two ounces make a Cataplasm Or thus Take Bean and Lentil meal each four ounces boyl them in Vinegar and the third part of Honey with dry Mints half an ounce dry Wormwood two drams Cummin seed half an ounce Agnus Castus seeds and Chamomil flowers each two drams and an half Liquid Storax half an ounce Saffron one scruple Oyl of Dill two ounces and an half make a cataplasm to this add of the Runnet of a Kid six drams to dissolve Milk if it be curdled Another mix Bread with Purslain and sage-Sage-water and Honey for a Cataplasm Some only steep Bread long in Mint Sage or purslain-Purslain-water and apply it The Root of the greater celandine beaten and laid upon the Nipple is said to dissolve curdled Milk Dioscorides teacheth that Hemlock doth destroy Milk and hinder the growth of Breasts and other Stupefactives also not by cooling but by discussing as we have shewed their Nature to be Oyntments made of the Juyces of the Herbs mentioned with Oyls as of Mints and the like do consume Milk and dissolve it when curdled as this Take the Juyce of Smallage and Mints each two ounces Vinegar one ounce and an half Honey two ounces boyl them a little and wash therewith Dioscorides commends wine Lyes with Vinegar Also a Fomentation of the Herbs aforesaid with a spunge or Linnen-cloath is good especially a Decoction of cummin and coriander Or with strong Vinegar Sack boiled with a little Saffron VVe take away abundance of Milk by the way ordained by the Infants sucking and if it will not move Children must suck or let a woman draw them with her mouth or with an Instrument for the purpose If this cannot be done for want of Nipples you must do what is taught in the Loss of Nipples and want of Milk The Cure of Tumors comming from Blood is first of the Veins as of Varix or swollen Veins Cirsocele or Cod-rupture and secondly of the Arteries as an Aneurism As to the other Tumors of the belly The Cure of a swollen Belly in women with Conception comming from the Terms stopped as if they were with Child without Conception because it ends with a large Flux of Blood at the womb we shall speak of it in things cast off when we mention bleeding at the Womb. If Women with Child have great Stretcht The Cure of Varix or a swollen and crooked Vein and crooked Veins
in their Legs after they are delivered they commonly vanish And if either Man or Woman have them continually they regard them not till they trouble them But if they itch or pain them or turn to an Ulcer they must be cured because while they continue the Ulcer cannot be cured as we shewed in the Kind of Ulcer For the Cure first consider the Plethory and evil Habit or Juyce in the blood and this must first be cured by letting blood and purging as we shewed Then we must apply things that may repress and consume the filthy blood that stretcheth the Veins And that with Lotions or Fomentations with a Decoction made in forge-Forge-water or Lye or Urin of Fennel roots Bugloss the great Agrimony Laurel Cole worts of Rosemary Elder and Lavender flowers Cypress nuts Sloes Lupine seeds Cole-wort seed with Salt and Allum and if you will astringe more with Vitriol Or with this Fomentation or Epithem Take burnt Chalk three ounces Bole or fat Earth one ounce and an half Acacia or dryed Sloes one ounce Sanguis Draconis six drams Myrrh half an ounce strong Vinegar one pint and an half Lye three pounds with a little Salt and Vitriol we stop the flux by Ligatures or Roulers about the part beginning from below upwards as we shewed in Oedema alone or with a Fomentation afore or we wet the Rouler in the Fomentation and strain which will be stronger thereby especially if it be made of Sloes Somtimes we cut off the great Vein which nourisheth the Ulcer when it hinders the Cure of the Ulcer if there were no Ulcer we would not do it because dangerous if but opened It is better therefore to bleed in the other Leg for Revulsion But when we will cut a Vein out that nourisheth the Ulcer first you must mark its Passage above with a Pen as it comes from the Ulcer and then open the skin by longitude and lay the Vein bare then rub the Blood down and tye the Vein above and cut it beneath in length to let out the blood then bind it next to the Ulcer and cut it that part of the Vein which is between the two Ligatures and so the way will be stopped by which the Ulcer was fed The small crooked Veins in the Codds Privities of women and Eye-brows or in other parts of the skin because they hinder not are not regarded but if you will do any thing you must revel the blood from the part and repel and discuss it as in Inflammations only your astringents must not here be so cold least the Blood congeal Cirsocele is when the spermatick vessels are swollen The Cure of the Stone vessel rupture and if it hinder not the Seed it is not regarded because it is hard to be taken without Gelding and except it grow great like a flesh Rupture it is not attempted but you must use Fomentations and the like before it comes to that Aneurisma that is a Tumor from the opening of the artery The Cure of Aneurisma when the blood thereof gets under the skin when it is old is not curable because the blood cannot be repelled by astringents or the mouth of the Artery lying deep be shut Nor may we open it because the Patient would certainly die of a Flux of Blood which cannot be stopped Therefore if at the first Repellers and Closers of the Artery mentioned in Haemorragy or Bleeding do nothing we must leave it except we will use a Ligature or Plate of Lead to keep it down As for an internal Aneurism because it hath no external Tumor of which we spake but produceth the Heart beating we have shewed how it must be ordered when we treated of Palpitation of Heart and Cachexy Tumors comming from Seed as that which is Natural of the Belly in Women with Child require nothing but good Government to prevent Abortion or Miscarriage as shall be shewed in the Treatise of unseasonable Births The tumors of a Womans Belly from a Mole The Cure of the Belly swollen with a Mole is to be mentioned in things cast off because the cause is not to be certainly known till the Mole is brought forth The Cure of particular Tumors is not here to be repeated The Cure of tumors that are from the Birth if they come from the Seed at the Birth as Sarcomata Kernels Struma's and the like because they are to be cured as those CHAP. IV. Of Defoedation or Defilement The Kinds UNder the Name of Defoedation we understand those Infections which defile the Body with many Diseases so that they are that infected with them must leave the society of sound Men. Of this there are two Kinds principally The one is old called Lues Elephantica or Leprosie the other new called the Lues Venerea or French Pox. The body is many waies defiled by them with such as are common to both as tumors pustles ulcers and falling of the Hair and others that are proper to them in particular Pains and Hindrance of Functions There are also other Infections that have been first known our age that defile the Body and are proper to some Countreys among which the Scurvey is most known usual in the North of which we shall speak here leaving other Infections to them that know them It is called Elephantiasis The Leprosie called Elephantiasis from the Likeness of the Patient to an Elephant his Ears growing thin and broad like wings they are called Lepers from the Roughness of their skin and from their Lyon like looks it is called Leontiasis and because they are Lecherous Satyriasis In this there are divers accidents which are to be searched and described because they shew how it came and they who have it are to be examined by the command of the Magistrate and separated from the sound that we may judg rightly and not mistake as usually and offend either sick or sound In regard I have been thirty years appointed and have examined above six hundered suspected of the same I will faithfully declare first the Diseases they have and then the Actions hurt and examine the things cast off that we may know how to judg of the same The outward Infirmities are chiefly in the Heads and Joynts and the Searchers do scarce examine any other part and yet give sure Judgment In the Joynts they examine the Hands and Feet Fingers and Toes and Nails and above the Knees to the Thighs above the Elbow to the Shoulder and in the Head they search the Mouth Eyes Nose inside and outside Face Ears and Hair Eye-brows and Beard and the tumors and ulcers there to judg by them alone or together There are oftentimes little tumors in the Leprous upon the Face and Joynts in the Face upon the Fore-head and Cheeks and making them look wildly which first discover the Disease and are in the Arms Backs of the Hands and in the Feet and Thighs These are moveable and without pain and are blewish red especially in the
Mother Although God sometimes inflicts this as a Punishment with that means It is a received Opinion that one Body will infect another and therefore they are separated one from the other and it appears to be so because the Infection being in the external parts and skin only nay by touching or lying together especially in Mariage may easily be conveighed to the skin of another or by the use of the same Cups or Spoons or taking in of meat which the infected have chewed it may get first into the Mouth and then into other parts As we shewed the venom of the Pox and of beasts could infect by spettle And they are soonest infected that are of a like temper as those of a Kindred as we have upon search found two or three Brethren infected in the same Family Or they have some capacity to receive it which we can scarce declare but it is such because when many have been together in the same danger onely one or two have been infected Also they say that other Creatures infected therewith may infect Man-kind for although Beasts have somwhat like the Leprosie as tumors in the Jawes in Hogs yet because it is not every way the same neither have they other signs of it as men have it is either not the Leprosie or another kind and will infect only beasts of their own kind and not men Also we daily find by Experience that poor people eat daily meazled Hogs and yet have no signs of Leprosie I have observed that a Woman with Child that longed for meazled Pork and eat much of it brought forth a Son who had meazly Pustles all along his Back-bone very like those of Swine spread abroad continuing a while and then vanishing without any other inconvenience We shall affirm little but leave it to every Mans Experience whether from the biting or stinging of venemous beasts or touching only of Venom or drinking or smelling as they say of basil this Leprosie can come or not although the people have divers Opinions thereof It appears this Infection may come from Humors very often because many Leprous Persons have not taken it by Insection and we see often them that have conversed long with Lepers and been married to them to have remained sound Therefore because we cannot perceive any other Cause from whence it should arise we conclude that it comes from within Moreover we cannot say that these Humors from whence the venemous Quality comes into the parts arise from Distemper or Corruption as is generally beleeved because they produce no other Diseases or accidents or signs of the same which use to arise from the change of Humors in that manner but that a certain venemous Quality produceth a Disease like it self And this may be bred in the Blood and with that property by which it can onely hurt some places according to the Nature of poyson it hurts only the skin and Tunicles only and no other part For the doing of which and that its force may come to the Supersicies of the Body it is not needful that all the blood be corrupted for then it would kill the Party but some part thereof Or if this poyson being against Nature be driven to the exteriour parts by it the Cause with its Effect produced will stick there only where the Infection brake forth and no longer be in the Blood although it came originally from thence and so corrupt the substance of the parts and that will corrupt the nourishing Juyce as I shewed and so cause and nourish and Elephantiasis These venemous Seeds in the Blood except the Blood be first insected and then the parts of the Body from it may come from some Corruption in the same or Putrefaction in which the blood may be turned into Venom as in other poysons whereof we have spoken in other Diseases among which as some are said to come from the Terms which are accounted venemous so they say the Elephantiasis comes also not only in a Woman when her Courses are stopped but in a Man by Infection when he hath had to do with a menstrous Woman or in a Child conceived at that time All which come not from the menstrual Blood because it is not of its own Nature in sound women filthy as we shewed except that it or other blood for other Causes contract such evil as may produce the venemous Seeds of an Elephantiasis And it is hard to judg by bleeding whether it comes from meat or a Disease afore going or what kind of Venom it is but by the effect In the Cause of the Elephantiasis begin other Humors as Melancholy as some think it is or any other and if it proceed not from its certain quality though hurtful or if it be Naturally in Humors preternatural or become such from Corruption because other Diseases come from thence which are not found in an Elephantiasis but then also it wil come from the corruption of them from whence these Humors receive a venemous and malignant Quality fit to produce an Elephantiasis they will produce it that as we shewed of Blood by driving it the outward parts of the body and by infecting them It is thought that this Leprosie is contracted by extream Cold external of the Body when men have been long in Water Air or Snow or after vehement Heat as bathing they endure a great cold or when they cool a hot Tumor as Erysipelas too suddenly But because other accidents come from thence as when there is extream cooling the extinguishing of Natural Heat and Mortification of the part we cannot make this a cause of the divers accidents in this Leprosie Nor can we affirm that other Tumors and Ulcers in these outward parts can be turned into this Disease although many think it to be possible in an Erysipelas and Herpes because when they are changed into a malignant Scab which the Greeks call a Leprosie they take it for a kind of Elephantiasis from which it differs as I shewed And if any external Diseases should turn into this the Humors that caused them must first of Necessity turn into a venemous Quality by Corruption In the French Pox that Venom which produceth it The part affected in the French Pox. is chiefly in the Membranes which causeth Diseases there and Pain as we shewed As pains about the Periostium or Skin or Bone where there is no flesh in the Head Shins Breast and Nodes in some places But the Elephantiasis chiefly in the skin the mouth Jawes Nostrils causeth the Hair to fall Spots Ulcers c. The Disease of the French Pox is a Distemper of these parts An evil quality is the cause of the French Pox. and such a venemous quality as is fit not only to produce such accidents as are in the Elephantiasis but more and great pains as appears by what is said in Elephantiasis and in the second Book of the Pox. Where we have at large declared where and how this Venom comming of
a venemous Cause can by contagion by the Copulation of Male and Foemale or other touching or by Spettle or by a Vapor or Humor be carried into the Membranes and infect them and bring forth the accidents mentioned so that we shall not need to repeat it here Also in the Scurvey a certain secret poyson which produceth a venemous Quality breeds the like Disease A malignant quality is the cause of the Scurvey as appears by the Diversity and the Malignity of the accidents thereof which are also in the skin as Spots in the Legs Pustles and Ulcers Swelling of the Gums and other inconveniencies And we rather determine this to be the cause then a melancholick Humor to which it is attributed by some that they may not flie to an occult Cause as in other Diseases whose Malignity shews them to come from Venom And I had rather leave it to the Inhabitants of those parts where the Scurvey is most to judge whence this Venom arose and got into the Body and whether it came by Sea into the North as the French Pox then search into the Causes of Venom which are hard to find out and not to be known but by their Effect The Cure Elephantiasis The Cure of Elephantiasis although it be onely in some parts of the skin yet is it hardly prevented at first and cured when old especially when hereditary Nor have we found them that cure it though they brag when they cured only an Itch as if they had cured a Leprosie Yet it is not to be neglected but at first opposed by all means that if it be not cured it may be allayed And we must remove the accidents as they come forth because without them the Patient may live long And because they cause great Deformity that they may be less suspected when they keep men company there may be a palliative Cure which great Men do intreat from Physitians with great promises The Cure is two wayes first generally of the whole Disease the second particularly of the accidents The general Cure is to labor as much as may be to take away the poyson which is the cause with Evacuations and to correct the venemous Quality But because as yet the Medicines are not found not which do it by a peculiar vertu as in the French Pox and we cannot proceed that way the best way is to take away the accidents And therefore it must be done as the venemous Itch and the evil Spots Pustles and malignant Ulcers are cured by the means following You must purge as you find the Body abound in Excrements and because you cannot purge Venom yet purge Melancholy and use things to abate it such as allay the sharpness with Moistness and Cold. Those which are good against al salt cholerick humors as the Scab and Pox are here also good with which you may purge twice or thrice every Spring and fall to prevent evil and other times if the Body be foul First use gentle things for the common Excrements as a sharp Clyster mentioned in divers places in the Cure of Melancholy Or give Cassia Catholicon Tryphera persica or Saracenica or Diasena with convenient Waters or Decoction of Pease or Goats Whey Or Take Rhubarb infused in Endive water or Whey one dram or four scruples Syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and an half Cassia Catholicon or Tryphera persica half an ounce with Bugloss and Fumitory water make a Potion And that the Excrements may abate give a Vomit instead of that Potion if it hath been used weaker or stronger of Hellebore Prepare afore purging with Syrups of Violets Fumitory Bugloss Endive the compound Svrup of Fumitory of water-lillies Gourds dissolved with Fumitory Hops Bugloss Endive Succory and sorrel-Sorrel-water c. and a little Trionsantalon Or with this Decoction Take both Buglosses with the Roots two handfuls Grass roots Sparagus Liquorish each two ounces Capar barks and Tamarisk each one ounce of Endive Succory Lettice Maiden-hair each one handful Cordial flowers red Pease each one pugil the four great cold Seeds six drams Anise-seed two drams Raisons two ounces make a Decoction and in two pints and an half of it dissolve of the Syrup aforesaid as much as is sufficient or Sugar with Trionsantalon for five or six doses Or this Julep mentioned in the preparing of Melancholy which begins thus Take Syrup of Violets Borage c. Or thus Take Juyce of Bugloss and sweet sented Apples or the Decoction that begins thus Take of both Bugloss-roots c. We purge with this after Preparation Take Rhubarb infused in Endive water one dram Agarick infused in syrup of Roses solutive two scruples Confectio Hamech or Diasenna three drams Syrup of Violets one ounce and an half dissolve it with Fumitory or Hop-water Or give this Bole. Take Catholicon half an ounce Confectio Hamech two drams de Succo Rosarum one dram with Sugar make a Bolus Or this Potion Take the Herbs and Roots of both Buglosses or Succory or Endive Fumitory Hops each half an handful Endive Purslain Melon and Citron seeds each half a dram Anise seeds one dram Cordial flowers one pugil Raisons one ounce Prunes five pares pulp of Tamarinds half an ounce Liquorish and Polypody each one ounce Senna six drams Epithymum two drams with some convenient Liquor and Sugar make a Potion you may add Myrobalans Rhubarb dissolve Electuaryes therein Instead of these you may give the purges mentioned in Melancholy as that which begins thus Take Chatholicon one ounce c. Or thus Take Senna Polypody c. or the Pills there mentioned We prepare and purge with this Apozeme Take Grass roots Asparagus Butchers-broom barks of Capar roots Ash and Tamarisk each two ounces mix them with sharp Wine or adding a little Vinegar take the Roots of Liquorish three ounces of Elicampane one ounce the Herbs and Roots of both Buglosses Succory Sorrel Docks each one handful Fumitory Hops Mercury Scabious the Capillars each two handfuls Endive Lyons-tooth Lettice Liverwort Ducks meat each one handful Bettony Thyme Tops of Rosemary Groundpine Germander each half a handful Cordial flowers Broom Tamarisk and Water-lillies each one pugil the four lesser cold Seeds half an ounce Sorrel seed two drams Anise seed three drams Fennel seed two drams red Pease one pugil Jujubs and Sebestens each five pairs Tamarinds one ounce Polypody of the Oak four ounces Senna three ounces Carthamus seeds bruised one ounce and an half Epithymum six drams boyl them all in Water with the Roots and their Infusion as was said adding as much Sugar as is sufficient with a little Sanders cinnamon ' or Pouder of the three Sanders or Diamargariton frigidum For five or six doses Let purges be given by turnes some daies together or once or twice in three or four daies as the Body aboundeth with Excrements Syrups for this purpose will keep longer made of the Apozeme before mentioned that purgeth and prepareth of Roots Herbs Flowers Fruits and Seeds adding two
skin and the faults thereof because these Serpents cast their skins every year therefore they suppose they may cause man to do the same This Vipers flesh is given divers waies prepared sometimes boiled in Broath with Salt and Eels their skin stript off or peeled off by boyling their Heads and Tayls cut off and Guts taken out and so if you perswade them to eat Eels they will less disdain the Food you may also boyl them and mince them otherwaies that they may not be known some report that by the use of these the skin of the Leper hath peel'd off in divers polluted places The Broath sometimes is sufficient in which these have boiled or they eat it with the flesh in which you may boil Salt Anise seed and Dill others add Mints and Leeks A Syrup made of this Viper Broath with Sugar and cinnamon will last longer Some say that if you fat Hens with Vipers flesh till their feathers fall off and then boyl them and eat them they will do the same Some give Wine in which Vipers have died Also the flesh of Vipers is dried and made into Troches to be kept when Vipers cannot be had They take the flesh only without the skin Head Tayl and Guts and boil it with Dill and Salt then beat it and with the Broath make it into a paste with Wheat-bread the fourth part and so make it into Balls and dry them These are called the Troches of Vipers These troches are seldom used by themselves but with Conserves such as are mentioned in the Electuary above and if you add one dram of the troches to that Electuary or more it will be better These troches are in treacle to to resist Venom and therefore it is good against the Leprosie As the Vipers cast their skins so the Cray-fish cast their shells every year and therefore are thought of as much vertue as vipers they have a refreshing and restorative vertue Dioscorides gives the flesh of Hedghogs dryed and roasted and Salamanders with other Medicines and if they can do any thing it is by a propriety Some Histories if not Fables say that mans blood taken when he is newly slain and drunk is good and also a water distilled thereof some say Harts horn and Ivory is good against Leprosies as well as other poysons and great Men have Vnicornes horn at a dear rate for that purpose Some magnifie the Pouder of an Emrald The Chymists promise the perfect Cure of the Leprosie by the use of Aurum potabile of high tincture of Antimony the true tincture of Coral with proper Purgers among which they extol the secret of Coral Mercurius dulcis Antimonial Pills that purge onely by stool The famous Dr. Hartman in chymical Practise commends the use of the sweet Essence of Sulphur Vitriol for the Cure of the Leprosie The outward means used in a general Leprosie are baths to take away the Venom in the skin by often use of them to prevent and cure the Leprosie or at least to take away the Deformity of the Ulcers Nodes and Roughness of the skin These are Natural or Artificial The Natural Baths are of sweet Waters warmed used at certain times the Body being well purged before and after Spring and Fall before and after Dinner sitting in them using them till the skin flourish and grow sound and these take away the malignant cause that lyes in the skin Hot Natural Baths are stronger especially of Brimstone such as are in Helvetia Argovia Valesia and Bath in Summerset-shire which as they cure all sorts of Scabs so the Leprosie or take away its Malignity and at least abate all accidents if not take them away if they be long used And therefore they go to the Baths to conceale the Leprosie and we send them thither after Examination when we doubt to see what change will follow Most artificial Baths are to be used long and they must sit in them they are of Water and things that cleanse and make thin the skin and so consume the evil Juyce as roots and Leaves of Marsh-mallows Docks Dwarfe-elder Elicampane Roots of Dragons wild Cowcumbers Briony Sowbread Orris Raddish Bath Hellebore Lillies also Leaves and Roots of Mallows Bugloss Succory Endive Sowthistle Beets Also Wormwood Senna Fumitory Hops Scabious Sopewort Pellitory Violets Liverwort Duck-meat Groundsel Sorrel Agrimony Mugwort Plantane Golden-locks both Ivyes both Celandines Water-lillies Tamarisk Flowers of Chamomil Melilot Elder also Beans and other Pulse Bran Line-seed Foenugreek and all Guords They add to these Salt Brimstone and Allum when the Decoction is not strong Others are added for the Joynts Primrose Groundpine also Calaminth Rosemary Lavender and the five opening Roots These moist Baths which were mentioned for the malignant Scab or Itch are not unlike these and that is best which hath Chalk or Lime in them And the Decoctions to take away spots may be good here for a Bath Some Histories say that a bath of Mans blood hath been used to sit in with success Dry Baths in hot Houses because they too much inflame the Body and violently draw the Humors to the superficies of the body are not so commended but we may prepare the body for the moist Bath by the steam thereof There are Washes for the parts affected with Pustles Ulcers and Roughness of the skin to take away if possible the Malignity They are made of Cleansers and Dryers and such as have a propriety as Serpents and Vipers The Grease of Vipers they say will take off the skin and its faults as well as the flesh eaten also the Oyl wherein their flesh was boiled or a quick Viper drowned some mix the flesh boiled with Oyntments Make this Oyntment of the aforesaid Take the Roots of Dragons and Cookow-pintles Daffodil or Lillies Elcampane Beets Saffron each one pound beat them with Oyl of Roses Omphacine add half a pound of Vuguentum Citrinum Vipers Grease three ounces Turpentine half an ounce Oyl of Wheat or Yolks of Eggs one ounce and an half Oyl of Tartar two ounces Sulphur vivum Niter each three drams Lytharge or Ceruss half an ounce burnt Borax six drams Tutty prepared Sarcocol Frankincense each two drams the Mucilage of Line-seed two ounces Juyce of Docks Fumitory Lemmons each three ounces make them into an Oyntment for rough ulcerated and pustuled Or thus Take Juyce of Lemmons or Oranges or Citrons of Docks Fumitory Scabious Elicampane one pint Vinegar two ounces Aqua vitae one ounce Oyl of Roses Omphacine Myrtles or Mastick each four ounces and an half boyl them till the Juyces be consumed adding Oyl of Yolks of Eggs two ounces of Tartar one ounce and an half French Soape two ounces Vipers Grease four ounces Pomatum two ounces the Gall of a Bull or Goat half an ounce the Mucilage of Fleabane or Line-seed two drams Honey one ounce and an half Roots of Dragons wild Cowcumbers Sowbread Orris each three drams both Helebors two drams Staphisagre Raddish seed each one dram and Borax
that the total and perfect Cure of the Scurvey is by Evacuation and things that alter by manifest or secret Vertue contrary thereunto by which also the cause is taken away and the Distemper amended We must evacuate those Humors which we perceive chiefly to abound and because that Melancholy is thought the chief which is in the Meseraick Veins about the spleen or in the same they study to evacuate that onely by bleeding purging and sweating They bleed if the Body be full before purging in the Arm and Hand on the left side sometimes in the Foot especially in Women when the courses stop Also the opening of the Haemorroids is very profitable After a Clyster or the cleansing of the Guts from Excrements and Blood-letting if need be we prepare the superfluous Humors and evacuate them And because they are Melancholy you must prepare and purge with the same things that we used for the pox as therein at large is mentioned But you must not continue so long purging as in the pox but only at first somtimes repeating them To which Remedies you must add things that open Obstructions especially in the Bowels and Spleen which are the occasion of Melancholy therefore you may use the remedies prescribed to prepare and purge Melancholy and to open Obstructions mentioned in other Diseases of Melancholy and they will be more fit here if you mix those things that alter and are properly enemies to this Disease Sweating is good in the Scurvey as well as in the pox but it must not be of so long continuance but after purging now and then in a morning in the Bed or in a hot House if strength will permit Therefore the Decoction of Guaicum Sarsa and Sassaphras and the rest mentioned in the pox are good Or we may give treacle or mithridate or which is better the thick Juyce of Dwarse-elder Elder or Juniper adding to three ounces of these one ounce and two drams of Syrup of Poppies or give the stilled Waters mentioned in the altering Medicines We use things that alter the maglignant Distemper of the Scurvey which are by a secret propriety contrary thereunto Some Plants which are sharp which Experience teacheth have a propriety against the Scurvey among the which Scurvey grass is the chief a sharp Herb like Water-cresses this all men conclude to be the Antidote against it Whether it be eaten in Sallads or made into a conserve with sugar and eaten often or the Juyce be boiled to a Syrup and so taken or it be boiled in Milk or Wine or Ale and drunk constantly or the distilled Water thereof Water-cresses are judged to be of the same Vertue taken as Scurvey-grass or with it Brook-lime also is good though it be not so sharp Wild Purslain also or great Stone-crop which is a little biting may be added to these Also the Herb and especially the seed of Mustard which candied with Honey like sweet-meats is excellent not only for the Cure but the prevention of the Scurvey There are divers other things that correct the Distemper at the first in the Liver and Spleen by opening Obstructions which are mentioned in the like Diseases of Melancholy in the form of Decoctions Syrups Infusions in Wine distilled Waters Conserves Electuaries Pouders and Tablets and Pills made thereof Which are made of these following which are openers of Obstructions and good against the spleen the five opening Roots Avens Restharrow Elicampane Rhubarb and Monkes Rhubarb the Leaves of Fumitory Thyme Epithymum Polypody Bugloss Germander Agrimony Tamarisk Celandine Burnet and bitter things as Gentian Squills Hedg-hysop Wormwood four things Sorrel Wood sorrel and of the hotter Medicines for cold people as Bettony Mints Sage Rosemary Staechas Organ Hysop Mugwort Rue Bay-berries also of Spices as Nutmeg Mace of Minerals as Vitriol Steel Iron Bezoar-stone and the like Cordials As for the Symptoms of the Scurvey the Tumors and Ulcers of the Gums you must use such Remedies as in the Diseases of the Gums drying Waters with such things as are properly against the Scurvey as Decoctions of Scurvey-grass Brook-lime Water-cresses or the Waters or Juyces thereof Also the Juyce of Oranges crude and boiled especially in the filth of the Gums to wash and to drink inwardly Also Lapis prunellae or Salt-peeter prepared mixed with the things mentioned or with Sage Self-heal Privet-water or the like is an excellent Remedy for the Ulceration of the Mouth and Gums approved by Experience If there be Ulcers in other parts the like Medicines are to be applyed The spots in the Leggs and elsewhere because they vanish when the Disease is cured require not a peculiar cure and if any remain after use the Remedies against spots in Discoloration 〈◊〉 after accidents be as Contraction or Resolution of Members or Leucophlegmacy or a Dropsie you must direct your Cure at that and proceed as we shewed in the like cases in Motion Hurt and Tumors CHAP. V. Of Consumption of the Body The Kinds VVE call that a Consumption when the Body or any part thereof is consumed or decayed for if they grow leaner we spake of that in Deformity when Magnitude is diminished also when the internal parts are consumed as the Bowels Liver Spleen Kidneys without Corruption as hath appeared by Anatomies as also it may be found in the Lungs Heart and Brain we have spoken thereof in the Hurt of the great Functions But of outward Consumption whereof we here speak There are two sorts one when the whol Body another when any parts thereof is wasted or consumed Somtimes the whole Body consumed in thickness Leanness or Slenderness and not in length which seems to be increased in some there is a falling away or Leanness and if it come from want of Nourishment it is Airophia as shall be declared in the Causes but if the whole Body or the greatest part consume it is called Tabes and then the Temples of the Face fall in and the Eyes and the Nose grows sharp such a Face is called Hippocrates Face because he so described it also the Cheek bones stick out the Mouth keeps open except the Beards of Men keep them from being perceived In the Breast all the Ribbs are visible and the Grisâ—le like a sword between them is bent the shoulder blades are like wings and the Channel bone like a bow under which there is a deep pit and they stick out the Back bone is plainly seen but the Belly is fallen down and seems empty except a Dropsie follow the Neck is slender long and unequal and the external Larynx or Bone called Adams apple is visible the Buttocks are lank the Hipps fleshless the Coccyx or three lower bones is like a Tayl the Legs Arms Hands and Feet are lean and withered and they seem swollen about the Joynts because the adjacent flesh is lost the Nails grow longer and at length crooked sometimes the Roots are so consumed that when they grow again the hinder part grows lower and there is
the womb being continually moist and therefore too loose that the womb being compelled by other Causes may easier slip down and the neck may yeeld more easily and be inverted Some teach that besides this Falling down that the womb while in the Belly may be moved on one side and get also up to the Stomach But being it grows to the neck and is compessed every where with the guts abiding commonly in the middle it will not easily get into other parts and will rather go downwards then upwards Except perhaps it grow so that it take up more room then formerly as we see in Women with Child and then also it rather goes downwards by its weight and the Belly is more swollen and harder beneath For which reasons and the other accidents in the Mother-fits we declared in the Cure of them that they come rather from Vapors that arise from the womb then from the ascending of the womb it self The Falling out of the Fundament is from the Inversion or straight Gut The cause of the falling out of the Fundament is straining for then it swells as when going to stool the Fundament sticks out with straining to let out the Excrements till it be drawn in again so that if by great force and straining with hard Excrements it be so brought down that it brings a part of the straight Gut with it it is the cause of its staying out The same may be from other causes that bear down as in Child-birth when the Delivery is hard the Fundament also falls out also from forcing about the Fundament as in the Tenesmus or needing or in the Flux called Dysentery And we have seen in an Incision made in the Rimme or Peritonaeum near the Fundament for taking a stone out of the Bladder that through pain the Fundament hath been by straining thrust out and the Yard also though in an Infant and little hath been swollen and stood And I have observed in some Children troubled with the Stone that they had not only this coming forth of the Fundament alwayes when they strained to make water but an Extension of the Yard especially in the Head and Fore-skin from their often handling of it through pain which were the undoubted signs of the Stone in the Kidneys And if the Fundament be so thrust out by straining that the straight Gut be drawn from the Mesentery or middle Membrane by which the Guts are held then they cannot be put up or kept in although the Muscles be right against the Fundament to draw it in again gently yet if it be far forth and tied with no Ligaments the Muscles alone cannot do it because if the Fundament be far out they will fall out also It may come from the weakness of the Muscles which draw in the Fundament after stool The Loosness of the Muscles of the fundament is the cause why it cannot be drawn in and constrain it up that the Fundament may be so far forth that it cannot be drawn in by which means the Fundament may be said to be forth but not to fall out except Force or Straining perceeded because it is not so retained by these smal Muscles that when they cease to act it should presently fall out of the Body in which it was included without any Force These weakness which makes the Muscles unable to draw back the Fundament that falls out by stool bofals them which have often had the Falling of it out or it comes from too much cold of the part which is very sensible by sitting upon a cold stone or the like or by staying in the cold Air or Water which touch the Fundament Many suppose that Falling of the Fundament The Loosness of the muscles is the cause why the fundament cannot be drawn back and that which is called the Palsey of the Fundament comes from Loosness of the Muscles through a Defluxion upon the Nerves But it is improbable that a particular Palsie of this part should be alone without any other part affected from the Defluxion Nor is it probable that a Defluxion which must needs fall in abundance to cause a Palsey should fall only into the lowest part of the os sacrum where these slender Nerves are accompanied with these Muscles and not rather sill the whol Cavity of the os sacrum by which means the Nerves might be dissolved Therefore if there be a Palsie in the Muscles of the Fundament it would be in the whol Body or in the inserior parts as well as there And though there be a great Resolution of parts in an Apoplexy we find none there nor doth the Fundament fall forth nor in any other Palsie when all the lower parts are resolved yet the Patient can go to stool and draw in the Fundament and though it be weaker for the Disease yet it falls out For which cause if difficulty of drawing back of the Fundament be from the Nerves which comes soldom it comes from a Palsie caused by a Defluxion and we suppose that it comes from compression of the Nerves or contusion by Fall or Stroak about the Crupper or from some great Coldness of the part which is not only upon the Muscles but Nerves When the Connexion of the Eye with its hollow roundness is loosned The Connexlon or Fasting of the Eye being loosned by a Contusion is the cause of its coming forth it falleth out and this comes by fome violent Cause because it is so fixed to the place that when it is brought to the Table boyled it can scarce be got out Yet the Eyes fall out by a great Contusion of the head by a Fall or Stroak And scarce by another means except they start out a little by straining as in Child-birth crying or roaring and so seem bigger yet they fall not out by that means but only stick out of which we spake in Deformity because by straining they cannot be much dissended but a little forced by the Muscles Some think that the Eye may fall out by the stretching of the Globe with Wind and Moisture gathered before it but since we find no Cavity in the Eye but it is full every where and there is no way for these to get in or can they be bred in the Eye or come from other parts we cannot yeeld to them As we shewed in the Causes of pains of the Eyes from Wind and Filmes which they suppose to come from Defluxion of Water The Falling out of the Tongue may be from the loosning of its Connexion The loosning of the Connexion of the tongue from a contusion is the cause of its coming forth it is so strong bound by Muscles a Coate and Ligaments that it must be done by great Force But it happens from a Contusion of the Neck or Breast as when theeves are racked their Tongue sticks out and it may also come by other means I saw one whose Stones hung out by a wound which was given upon his Codd
The cutting of the Cod causeth the falling out of the stones And I observed the same in one which was shot with a Bullet and lost half his Codd that his right Stone with the Seed-vessels hung forth bare The Cure The Falling down of the Guts and Cawle which comes from the breaking or stretching of the Rimme of the Belly The Cure of the Falling out of the Guts Cawle in Ruptures causeth the Tumor called Cele if it be in the Groine and be but little causing no great pain it is neglected or it is easily cured if taken in time as also the Omphalocele or Navel-rupture which some have all their lives which will fall in when it is pressed or the like but some Navel-rupture vanisheth of it self as I shewed But if the Tumor descend to the Codd in the Gut-rupture it is harder to cure or dangerous for if it will not return by any means but cause Pain and Costiveness of Body it is deadly and the Excrements are spewed up which declare it Also the Navel-rupture or the like if it cannot be put in and produce the same accidents is deadly And we shewed that the Cawle-rupture killed one when the Tumor in the Cod grew hard In other kinds of Ruptures in the Belly or Codds if the Tumor will yeeld although it be of short continuance yet to take it quite away that it return not and to make a perfect Cure it is difficult especially because the Patient must continue them for their Operation and Rest and be bound which he wil unwillingly undergo But if it be old it is impossible except by manual Operation and that is painful and dangerous of death if by Incision as is usual and the Stone on that side must be left if it be made in the Groine And if the Patient will not adventure that you must labour to hinder those Tumors from increasing which you cannot take away All which shall be declared and the manner how by Medicines both inward and outward first how Medicines may be applied to the cause that is the part fallen then how to the Disease which is the Solution of Continuity in a Rupture or of Contiguity in the relaxing of the Rimm of the Belly We use things to put up the part fallen and to keep it in and hinder it from falling out again if it be Gut or Cawle fallen out of the cavity of the Rimme either causing a Tumor in the Groine or Codd We put up the Tumor in the Groine and Codd with the Hands by degrees or in the Belly by pressing and moving it to the hole whence it fell which we find out with the finger And this is done when the Patient lyeth upon his Back so placed that if it be below that his Feet may be higher then the rest of the Body by which somtimes the Gut goes in of it self so I saved the life of a Countrey-man twice that was broken on both sides when he vomited his Excrements and was in great pain and a while since I cured a Virgin that was bursten which vomited her Excrements by putting up the Gut with my Hand And if this Operation do it not as when the Gut is out it comes to pass often through Distention by the wound and Wrinkling and Hardness that the Gut is so swelled it cannot be reduced by the Passage and then you must have a care least the Passage of the Excrements being hindered they should flie up or an Inflammation should kill the Patient Also you must apply the Anodynes or takers away of pain when there is Pain Heat and Fear of Inflammation mentioned in the Tumor Phlegmon And chiefly this Pultis which openeth the wayes and mollifieth the hard Excrements and expells Wind. Take Marsh-mallow roots two ounces Lilly roots one ounce Mallows Violets Brank-ursine Pellitory each one handful Roses Violets Chamomil and Melilot and Dill flowers Bran each one scruple boyl them in Milk and Water if there be great pain beat and seirse them adding Barley flower and Bean meal each three ounces the Flower of Line-seed and Foenugreek each one ounce and an half Fleabane seeds one ounce Pouder of Earth-worms one dram Oyl of Roses three ounces Ducks or Hens Grease one ounce make a Cataplasm When the Heat is not and we will use Softners and Expellers of Wind add to it Orris roots Briony or wild Cowcumber roots each one ounce Wormwood Calamints or Organ each one handful Elder Rose and Centaury flowers each one pugil Cummin and Caraway seeds each two drams Agnus Castus seeds one dram and without Milk we add Wine and with the Meals or Brans aforesaid or of Orobus and Lupines each one ounce Bay-berries half an ounce with Oyl of Orris and Rue make a Pultis Or when there is much Wind. Take Caraway seeds one ounce Cummin seed half an ounce Oyl of Rue one ounce with Oxymel make a Cataplasm Rue fryed with Oyl and applied is good Fomentations are made of the Decoctions of the which the Cataplasm was made of the first if there be Heat of the last if you must discuss more adding the Oyls there mentioned Also anoint with Oyl of Roses Dill Lillies Chamomil Melilot Orris Elder Rue You may discuss with Baggs of dry Plants and Milium seeds and the other great Seeds and Salt Besides you must use against Wind inwardly and outwardly things to dissipate or discuss and prevent it also As we shewed in the Wind of the Stomach and of the colick You have need of no external Applications when the Cawle comes forth being commonly in the Groine and will go back only with lying down or with the Hand except it be in the Codd as we shewed and then you must foment and plaister the Tumor with Loosners not regarding wind except it be gotten in the same way If the Guts cannot be put up we are constrained to cut that the skin being open and the Guts bare and the hole by which they sell open they may better be put up which is dangerous to do in the Groine if the Guts are gone from thence into the Codds because the Guts sticking to the skin may easily be cut also as we have seen Moreover if the Incision be made with such care the Guts are not hurt yet in regard the naked Entrals are worse to be meddled with for the Cure of the pain of the wound then when they were covered with skin by this Operation in the Groine we either do no good or we give occasion to have cutting to be thought the Cause of his Death which would otherwise have followed while the Guts were forth But we have observed good success by cutting in other parts of the Belly when the Guts get through the Rimme of the Belly being burst and can by no Art be put up again because the Tumor is seldom so great in those parts and the hole of the Rimme may better be found and the Guts better put up without danger being taken
concerning the Stink of the Feet Also that which is cold and clammy not hot moist and like water is preternatural As also that which staineth the shirt with any Colour or like Saffron That Sweat is also counted unseemly when the Hands and Soles of the Feet are constantly or for no or little Cause wet as is usual with some In Diseases if Sweat be not convenient or at an unseasonable time as in Feavers or too great as in the English Sweats it is preternatural because the Patient is not refreshed thereby but is worse and weaker Also it is evil when the Sweat is not over all the Body but only in some certain places And if it be cold and tough but when it stinks if it be beneficial it is not evil as we shewed in Feavers and other Diseases In the Dropsie Ascites when the Belly is opened there is great store of Water The Voiding of Water at other Parts opened and if the Thighs be opened it drops and continueth long Also in the Water-rupture it flows freely from the Codd being opened and out of the Bladder Pustles and watery Tumors Also there flowes a watery Humor from Ulcers as we shewed in Ulcers The Causes This watery Humor which flows at the Eyes Ears Nose Womb Pores and other openings comes from the Brain or from other parts of the Body It is plain that Tears come from a Defluxion of Water from the Brain A watery humor from the brain is the Cause of tears because they are somtimes without sharpness and heat like water but somwhat clammy As Flegm somtimes thin and clear as whey somtimes sharp salt cholerick and hot And that these Humors flow from the Brain is plain because Tears break forth so speedily and in such plenty For though that Moisture with which the Eyes are moistned for their better Motion come from the Serum which sweats through the Veins of the Eyes yet those little Veins cannot contain so much as will make Tears to flow This Defluxion of water into the Eyes to make tears is more easie because there is an usual Passage to the Nose by which it is evacuated Naturally by a private Hole at the Roots of the Eyes and another in the inward Corner of the Eye By which means upon the least Motion the Eye is filled with tears Also an Excrement of Flegm and Water gathered in the brain as we shewed may flow forth divers wayes and so it may descend into the Nose and Eyes We cannot grant that the tears should flow by an internal or external Veins as some have supposed because the Veins carry Blood and not Flegm and the water cannot be quickly separated from the blood but we say it comes from the Brain by Passages ordained therefore And if by Chance such excrementitious humors should flow to the Eyes from without the Skull we suppose it would rather lye under the skin and Eye-lidds swell them then make many tears And the reason why this Flegm and whey is carried into the Eyes and causeth tears which in sound people are flegmatick in sick more watery which are of long Continuance is the abundance of those excrementitious humors in the Head by which means they flow into the Nose and also into the Eyes keeping them alwayes wet and full and the rather when the Eye is made fit to receive it by being often watered or is weak and loose from some Disease And these Kinds of Tears do not wayes inconvenience but by their Moisture especially when they come from a flegmatick Humor But if they come from abundance of water being salt sharp or hot with Itching or redness of the Eye-brows mentioned in Epiphora they are troublesom Also from an Ulcer of the inward Corner or the Eye when the little flesh that grows there is consumed and the Hole enlarged by which the Moisture of the Eye falls upon the Nose or from a Fistula there when it falls into the Nose and fills the Eyes and causeth a continual weeping As we shewed in Epiphora or Rhewm of the Eyes and fistula lacrymalis The expulsive Faculty being stirr'd up by the provoking of the Eye or the parts adjacent driving the Humors suddenly into the Eyes causeth tears though not of long Continuance As the Sun-shine Smoak any sharp Fume as of Onions or Mustard and the like or things fallen into to the Eyes cause Tears Also the pain of any part near as the Tooth-ach Tears usually break forth from a violent motion of the Humors by straining or from a disturbance of the mind in which by reason of that wonderful Convulsion of the Muscles Cheeks Lips and Eyes which we observe to go before tears in crying these watery Humors near the eyes being moved insinuate themselves into the Eyes and cause tears As we may observe tears to fall from violent laughtre when the Mouth is strained with too much Joy Also we may observe that tears will fall in other strainings or forcings as at stool or in Child-birth with Coughing or Sneesing VVhen a moist Humor falls from the Brain into the Nostrils that are ordained for the discharge thereof A moist Humor comming to the Nose from the brain is the cause of dropping and Coryza or Pose it causeth the dropping of the Nose In which the Flux is greater by how much it aboundeth in the Brain And there fals a thin Humor like water if it comes directly from the Brain because it is generally that of the Brain and if it be kept long in the Cavities it quickly grows thick and clammy Also there is a serous Humor in the Brain which is an Excrement as we shewed in other Defluxions mixed with Flegm and flows to the Nose and either causeth or increaseth this Flux and then it is thinner sharper and hotter and causeth Itching and Sneesing and that which is called Coriza or Pose The Collection of Humors in the Brain causeth this Defluxion And these things that stir up the expulsive Faculty do increase it As we shewed in other Diseases from Defluxions especially in the Cough That water which flows out at the Ears comes from other parts besides the Brain A watery humor comming from the Veins is the cause of the moist Flux of the Ears for it cannot come to the place of hearing any way but by the hole in the hearing Nerve and if it should enter by that it can only come into the internal seat of hearing and cannot pass to the external except it pierce through the Tympane which it cannot do without hurting of it and loss of hearing But when this Flux is without the loss of hearing and comes externally it is plain that the water was carryed to the outward Passage of the Ear into which the serous Matter sweating through doth moisten and when it is too much it comes from the Veins there about and causeth this Flux this is seldom because there are better Passages for it and but somtimes especially when the
for the Whites alone you must use things to evacuate and to alter as follow There are divers Evacuations to purge these Excrements from the whol Body as Blood-letting Purging Vomiting and Sweating Blood-letting is good in full bodies because some of the Excrements are taken away thereby either at a Vein or with Scarification As also by provoking the terms is stopped because thereby the Excrements that cause the Whites are totally taken away or in part First we must purge and the more by how much the greater the Flux is and we must regard the Constitutions and purge with things proper for the humor abounding alwaies using those Purgers which have an astringent quality as in other Fluxes In moist bodies in whom this Flux is most ordinary we prepare before purging first we give a Clyster or a Laxative then we give these following three four or sive daies As this Julep Take Honey of Roses Syrup of Hysop each two ounces Syrup of Staechas Mugwort each one ounce Water of Balm Bettony Nep Penny-royal Sage twice as much as the Syrups mix them with a little Cinnamon or Diamoschum or Diambra Or this Decoction Take Orris roots one ounce and an half Madder or Valerian one ounce Cypress roots Elicampane each half an ounce Bettony Nep Balm Mugwort or the like three or four handfuls Rosemary tops Lavender Walflower red Roses each one pugil the great hot Seeds two drams the lesser hot Seeds one dram Pease one pugil boyl them in Waters and with Sugar and Honey and Cinnamon mix them for four or five doses Purge afterwards thus Take of the Decoction mentioned as much as will serve for once add Carthamus seeds and Senna each half an ounce boyl them and infuse two drams of Agarick well mixed with Honey of Roses make a Potion Or give Diaphaenicon Diacarthamum de Citro solutivo alone or dissolved with the Decoction or preparing Waters or Pills of Agarick Cochy Foetidae You must purge often gently as with Pills of Hiera Mastick Assaiereth Alephangine or with the stronger mentioned among which the preparative Decoction increasing the quantity thrice and adding Agarick five drams Turbith three drams Ginger half a dram may be given ordinarily Or you may infuse them all in Wine with a little Wormwood Things good to prepare and purge Flegm as in Defluxions are good also here When the body is corrupted and the humor malignant and evil coloured Prepare thus A Julep Take Honey of Roses two ounces Syrup of Bettony Endive Fumitory or Hops each one ounce Wormwood Maiden-hair Bugloss and fennel-Fennel-water twice or thrice as much as the Syrups take it often Or with this Decoction Take Liquorish one ounce and an half Succory Fennel Dandelion Elder and Danwort barks each an ounce Endive Succory Bugloss Fumitory Hops Bettony each one handful Cordial Flowers and Broom-flowers each one pugil the four great cold Seeds half an ounce Fennel and Anise-seed each two drams Dodder seed one dram make a Decoction strain it and sweeten it with sugar Cinnamon and Diarrhodon Purge thus Take of the preparing Decoction as much as will serve add Senna half an ounce yellow Myrobalans one dram and an half boyl them infuse Rhubarb one dram Syrup of Roses one ounce and an half or Juyce of Roses one ounce make a Potion Or with the Potions mentioned in the Flux of the terms beginning thus Take Tamarinds Prunes c. Or Take yellow Myrobalans c. Or give the Electuary of the Juyce of Roses Diasenna Confection Hamech dissolve it with the aforesaid Decoction or Waters or Goats whey or give aggregative Pills When we will purge often we give gentle medicines Catholicon Diasebesten Tryphera Persica or Syrup of Roses or the Infusion of Senna Rhubarb Agarick or of Fumitory or Epithymum or stronger mentioned Or this Apozem Take the Decoction mentioned to prepare add Raisons ten pair Prunes six Tamarinds one ounce Polypody two ounces Senna three ounces Epithymum two drams Myrobalans yellow Chebs and Indian each two drams boyl them in water and infuse the straining Rhubarb three drams Spike one scruple strain them add Sugar to sweeten it You may use many Preparatives and Purges mentioned in Cachochymy and the like Diseases as Cachexy and Dropsie when the Body is inclined thereunto A Vomit makes a great and sudden Evacuation and is good here When the body can endure it afore meat or after meat when they are weak And this draws the humors upwards Diaphoreticks are either insensible by transpiration or sensible by Sweat and they are good in flegmatick bodies when the Diseases are old Also Exercise to provoke Sweat is good And to lay on Cloaths to provoke Sweat But a hot House is best because it is stronger especially if it be heated with the Decoction of things that provoke Sweat As Chamomil flowers Melilot and other sweet Herbs of which we shall shew how to make moist Baths in which they may sit And which also do provoke Sweat Fumigations also for the whol Body and Oyntments for the Back-bone these do not only sweat but dry the body and consume the humidity Among which is that of Cinnabar for the Pox. But here we use but a little with other things least the Jawes should be infected and it is good when the Disease is desperate Also you may give things to drink that provoke Sweat And continue them for some weaks when the Disease is old with a spare Diet. And this is to be done by the decoction of Guaicum and Sarsa as in the French Pox. You may give Alteratives to dry and consume the Humidity if it be very watery with Astringents if it be immoderate such as are mentioned in the Cure of the overflowing of the Terms which stop them and may also these But because the filth is purged by these and not profitable blood as in the Courses and the body is not so much or so soon weakned by these they are not so suddenly to be stopped therefore let the medicines be rather drying then binding and warm to comfort the womb They are thus made Pouders are best alone with red wine or steeled wine or the like or with Sugar in tablets The first Pouder Take burnt Harts horn two drams Ivory one dram red Coral burnt one dram and an half make a Pouder Another Take Amber two drams Frankincense or Mastick one dram Gum Arabick or Traganth half a dram make a Pouder A third Pouder Take Date-stones burnt two drams sour Pomegranate kernels or Rose-seeds one dram the inward down of Chesnuts or Hazel-nuts half a dram The fourth Pouder Take burnt Cork two drams Grains of Sumach one dram Acacia or Hypocistis half a dram The fifth Take dryed Berbery seeds of the two low Bramble-berries Ras-berries or Mulberries Myrtles each one dram Agnus Castus seeds half a dram make a Pouder The sixth Take Comfrey leaves two drams Ladies-mantle or Yarrow one dram Mints half a dram make a Pouder To any of these you may add half a
dram of the following Pouder which is pleasant Take Cypress roots and Galangal each one dram and an half dryed Citron peels Cinnamon each one dram Anise-seeds which Dioscorids commends one dram and an half Coriander seed parched one dram Spike one scruple Or Take as much Aromaticum Rosatum Diagalanga or other Dryers Of these you may compound others Others are of the Roots of Avens Fullers thistle Mead sweet Oak leaves Brambles Sumach wild Tansey â—ungwort Adders-tongue Moonwort Rosemary Flower gentle Millium Roses Piony seeds also Ashes of Cray-fish Shell-fish Spunge If you must bind more you may add some of this Pouder following to the former Take Galls or Pomegranate-peels one dram Pomegranate flowers half a dram Bole or the like one dram Bloodstone half a dram Acacia or Dragons blood half a scruple Or use the Astringents mentioned in other Fluxes You may make Decoctions of the same Plants or you may make Wine in the Infusion of them dry You may also use the Juyces of the same alone or with other Drinks You may make Syrups of the same or give some astringent usual Syrups mentioned in the Terms as of Mugwort Stoechas c Drink Waters of Plantane Oak budds wild Tansey Yarrow Ladies-mantle Roses Water-lillies Mints Service-berries Conserve of old Roses Pomegranate flowers Acorus Rosemary flowers Stoechas candied Citrons You may make Electuaries of the same with Pouders and Conserves and give Waters to drink after them Pills of Bdellium are good here as in other Fluxes Cymbalaria or that wall herb which is like Ivy is good in Sallets and Bee-nettle The Chymicks cry up the Vitriol of Iron for a great secret and give every night one grain thereof at bed-time for a month in Plantane-water or red Wine and make Pills of Magistery of Coral and the same Many things are applied outward which dry up the humors and being astringent do six the Vessels about which conveigh the humor and strengthen the womb The use of Natural Baths for many daies or weeks after purging often and good Diet with drying and sweating is good therefore women that have the Whites and are barren do much use them All Dryers are good as in Sterility or Barrenness Allum Niter Salt actually hot by Nature or Art Also the Sulphur Baths by use whereof women as I shewed had the Whites and were cured by the same Artificial Baths to sit in do the same used long or often as we shewed in Barrenness Of Salt Allum Sulphur boyled in Rain-water till the water tast of them adding Vitriol to bind or Rust of Iron Or you may use Iron-waters with burnt Plaister of Paris to make it dry more Baths of Plants decocted in the Waters mentioned or with Iron-water or Bean-water or Lye or red Wine with Snakeweed roots Docks Madder Valerian Cypress Perwincle Mugwort Bettony Tamarisk Savine Ivy. If you will bind more use Galls Acorn-cupps Pomegranate peels Cork Sumach Roses Pomegranate flowers Oak moss Myrtle-berries and the like In cold women add the hot sweet Plants as Penny-royal Organ Calamints Mints Balm Sage Nep Marjoram Rosemary the great and less hot Seeds Rue and Agnus Castus To which Decoction add Earths that are dry and salt or Bole or Blood-stone and then they will astringe more You may use Fomentations instead of baths or bags to be sitten upon hot full of the said Herbs wild Rocket boyled in wine is the best It is good to put in some sweet plants to take away the stink of the excrements chiefly Bay leaves and Myrtles Angelica roots Coriander-seeds Cloves and the like Vinegar of Roses Elder flowers or the like Oyntments and Plaisters applied to the Privities Reins and Loyns stop this Flux as well as that of the terms and the Oyls there mentioned especially of Henbane To which you may add hot things because the humor is watery and some of the pouder for a Pessary Gallia Moschata Musk Ambergreece yet the scent wil be lost with other things Many things are put into the neck of the womb to dry and astringe the loose Orifices and stay the Flux and strengthen the Part. Some Herbs are put in stamped Perwincle Yarrow Tamarisk and the like also Asarum roots which cleanseth and takes away the stink A drying Pessary is thus made Take Galls or Acorn-cupps three drams Cypress-nuts two drams Pomegranate flowers one dram Frankincense one dram and an half Ashes of Tawarisk one dram Savine or Mugwort half a dram Goats dung or Ashes dryed one dram with Juyce of Shepheards-purse and the White of an Egg and fill a bag for a Pessary To take away the evil Scent Take Cypress roots two drams Marjoram Mints Penny-royal in Pouder each one dram Schaenanth Spike each half a dram Cloves one dram make a Pouder to be used alone or with the aforesaid you may add Sanders and wood Aloes Gallia Moschata Musk and Ambergreece will make a better Scent You may use cleansing Injections such as are mentioned in the Ulcer of the Womb and these following You must make drying and astringent Injections of the Decoction that dryes and heal the Ulcer of the womb or of the Baths and Fomentations which we use outwardly And if there be a stink let them be qualified as afore Fumes pierce best into the womb they dry bind and strengthen and refresh the womb by their Scent These are made of the Decoction of Plants mentioned for a Bath hot and taken in with a Funnel or under the Cloaths Or you may cast Pouders or the Troches mentioned in Barrenness upon Coales Or thus Take Mastick two drams Frankincense Labdanum each one dram Amber Hypocistis Storax Benzoin each half a dram with Bdelium make a Pouder Keep a good Diet. Let the Air be dry and avoid cold and moisture Eat little and that which is of a good Juyce and breeds little superfluous Moisture Let the Dâ—ink be little rather wine then water Avoid idleness and too long sleep Evil Sweats that stinke are clammy The Cure of preternatural Sweat or stain Linnen because they purge Excrements from sound and sick must not be stopped but rather furthered And you must cure it by taking away the Cause of the abundance of Excrements and prevent those Diseases which sweating forerunneth And if this Sweating be in a Disease and the Disease not cured thereby you must use all diligence to take away the remainder of the Cause of the Disease There is nothing peculiar for cold Sweats for in Diseases they are deadly If they come from fainting they cease when the Patient comes to himself If Heat causeth sweating with faintness that must be allayed If the abundance of Moisture that must be diminished If Sweats in Diseases be superfluous and unprofitable and cannot be well stopped without weakness though Nature endeavors to discharge her self thereby yet being so great that the Patient may sooner die then the Disease be discharged they must be stopped We open a Vein when there is fulness and the Body sweats too much
the Tongue in Discourse may cause the same Also medicines may cause the same but because it is then profitable it is not preternatural Also the phansying or remembring of sharp bitter four or things pleasant to the Tongue and Palate may cause the Mouth to water but it is preternatural The great Spitting in the Diseases called Ptyalismus comes from a water without tast or salt Flegm from the brain is the cause of Spetting or four falling from the Head into the Mouth and mixing it self with the spettle And if this Humor falls as low as the Lungs it causeth the Spetting with a Cough which is mentioned In which at first the humor is thin and then thicker by continuance and at length being baked with heat and white it resembleth Matter As we shewed in the Causes of Spetting of Matter Flegm made of the Excrements in the Lungs Flegm sent from the Lungs to the jawes is another Cause either like Snot or Matter if it be coughed into the Mouth causeth the like spetting And this is usual in sound and old men And in the Disease of the Cough and somtimes in the Asthma in which it is not spet forth and being clammy causeth no Cough As we shewed Moisture carried up from the Stomach and mingled with the Spittle in the mouth Moistness of the stomach is another Cause of Spetting is the Cause of Ptyalismus or Spitting as it is from the Head In which Nature by often spetting labours to disburden her self in the morning fasting when the Stomach hath nothing in it but that water The Cause of which Moisture of the Stomach we shewed in the Weakness of the Stomach from that Distemper Spetting of Blood comes from Blood brought to the Mouth from a Vein or Artery opened in the Nose Mouth Jawes or Lungs or Breast We shewed in Haemorrhagy how blood might flow from the Nose to the Mouth The blood from the Nose is the Cause of Spetting it from the Mouth but the plenty thereof or when the lower Veins are opened or when the Nose is stopped and the Patient lyes upon his Back to stanch it is the Cause of the Falling of it into the Mouth Blood easily gets into the Mouth from the Gums easily when they are swollen The Swelling sucking or hurt of the Gums is the cause of spitting Blood because they are soft and so loose flesh Or when they are sucked as in the tooth-ach or otherwise hurt as by picking the Teeth or eating hard things But especially when a tooth is pulled out and torn from the Gums and Membranes I once saw so great a Flux of Blood from an Artery opened by the drawing of a tooth that it could not be stopped and the Patient died thereby Without great violence blood will not flow from other parts of the mouth A Wound in the inward part of the mouth is the Cause of Spetting of Blood as from the tongue cut or bitten as it is usual in Convulsions or from the skin of the Mouth wounded Also Blood flows plentifully from the Veins under the tongue when they are opened called the Ranunculi or Frog-veins And I knew a widdower that caused both those Veins to be opened who spit blood till he died Blood from the Lungs is often spet at the Mouth The opening of the Veins of the Lungs by corrosion is the Cause of Spetting blood and it comes from the inward Vessels of the Lungs which sill them with blood being opened or broken it is carried into the branches of the rough Artery and thence into the wind-pipe and so by coughing into the mouth and then spet forth Somtimes the Veins are opened by Anastomosis and there is a Disease called Haemoptoica Passio or spetting of blood As when there is a plenty of blood in the lungs which stretcheth the Vessels and opens the Mouths thereof till it sweat through or flow forth more or less And this is often without other hurt if the Mouths do shut themselves again as we have seen in men of full bodies and women that wanted their Terms through Conception or the like But it is dangerous and deadly often when the Mouths of the Veins are so enlarged or continually moved that they cannot be shut Or when any part of the blood gets into the substance of the Lungs which putrifieth them As we shewed in the Phthysick From the same Blood of the Lungs that gets out by Anastomosis and doth not go directly into the branches of the rough Artery but first into the substance of the Lungs causing Inflammation and thence into the branches of the rough Artery There is a Spetting of Blood and Matter in the Pleurisie and the Imposthume of the Lungs or Peripneumony As we shewed When the great or small Veins of the Lungs are broken there is a Flux accordingly with a Cough and that is called Haemoptoica Passio which being hard to be cured ends in an Ulcer of the Lungs with the Phthysick And this breaking of the Veins may be from violent Dilatation or Contraction as great blowing or whooping or trumpeting somtimes from a Cough or Sneesing but seldom somtimes from violent holding of the breath in straining and Child-birth or in carrying of burdens Hence I have known divers Stone-cutters which removing of great Stones spet blood and became Phthysical or Consumptive which the Vulgar supposeth to come from the Saw-dust which they breath in but falsly for if the dust should get into the rough Artery it would presently be coughed out by its roughness rather then sharpness which it hath not and therefore cannot hurt the Lungs The same may come from other violent labour or from a bruise of the Breast by a fall or stroak or the like that breaks the veins When the Vessels of the Lungs are corroded and the substance of the Lungs also it is by degrees and causeth a silthy Ulcer there is the Phthysick rather then the Haemoptoick Passion or Blood-spetting Yet blood is from the Ulcer spet up As we shewed in the Phthysick When Veins are opened in other parts of the Breast besides the Lungs and they sweat through or pour sorth blood to the Lungs there may be Spetting of Blood as in the Inflammation of the Membrane in the Pleurisie or breaking of any Veins in the hollow Breast But when the blood flows into the Cavity of the breast and not into the Lungs and stayes and corrupteth causing a Phthysick or Empyema we shewed in the Causes of a Pleurisie we cannot make this the Cause of spetting of blood Except from a wound in the Breast and Lungs when the blood flows not only into the inward parts of the breast but into the Vessels and so to the Mouth And the rough Artery be wounded the blood flows into the Lungs and it is coughed up Matter is spet from an Ulcer in some parts as the mouth and nose Ulcers in the Mouth Nose Jawes Lungs Breast Causes of spitting of
one ounce Conserve of Sorrel half an ounce Rose Sorrel and Coriander seeds each half a dram red Coral one dram with Trionsantulon or Diamargariton frigidum If they swound Narcoticks Antidotes mentioned there also by taking away sense from the Stomach stay Vomiting by themselves or with other things You must apply strengtheners to the Stomach before and behind temperate or somwhat cool but actually hot because the Stomach is quickly offended with Cold therefore we mix cold things with hot These are alwayes good in Fluxes especially when there is a loathing of meat being of sweet scent Oyls relaxe actually therefore are not to be used alone but with cold Astringents adding some that are hot as in Heart-pain Vinegar as there said is good but in a greater quantity or with other four Juyces and astringent Pouders that are sweet Or this which is more binding Take Mastick two drams Frankincense Cypress roots Pomegranate flowers each one dram dryed Wormwood and Spike each half a dram make a Pouder The cooling strengthning Oyntment mentioned in Heart-pain also or this which is more binding Take Oyl of Mastick Quinces Roses Omphacine each one ounce Oyl of Myrtles six drams Oyl of Wormwood half an ounce Vinegar of Roses old white Wine each one ounce and an half Juyce of Quinces or Pears or of Citrons and Lemmons one ounce boyl them to the consuming of Juyces then add Pouder of Mastick Olibanum each one dram Bole one dram and an half Acacia or Hypocistis or Juyce of Sloes each one dram Galls Pomegranate flowers red Roses each half a dram with Wax make an Oyntment Or an Emplaster adding to the aforesaid doubled in weight Dragons blood two drams Acorn-cupps Cypress-nuts Citron peels Bramble leaves Myrtles Wormwood Mints Myrtle seeds Coriander each one dram Antispodium one dram and an half Spikenard Nutmeg each half a dram red Sanders one dram Gallia Moschara two scruples with Pitch Rosin and Oyls aforesaid make a Plaister Pouder of Mastick with the White of an Eg and some of the Oyls aforesaid is good if it be applied as a plaister Rose-cakes sprinkled with Rose-water and Vinegar of Roses with red Wine is excellent A Crust of Bread toasted and steeped in Vinegar of Roses and then dryed and tyed with a fine linnen-clout that it may stick to the stomach is a good and easie remedyon which you may sprinkle Mastick Cloves and the like Or you may wet the Tost in Juyce of Quinces or of four Grapes or the like astringents or red Wine or apply the Juyces with Bran or Barley-meal These will be stronger with the Pouder of Mastick Wormwood Mints Roses or boyl the Plants in red wine and beat them with Bread and other Astringents mentioned in the Emplasters The Compound Plaister of the Crust of Bread with Oyls is made of the Crust of Bread toasted and steeped in Vinegar with Barley-meal each two ounces Oyl of Quinces and Mastick each one ounce Mastick Antispodium Coral red Sanders Mints each one dram To which you may ad Wormwood and other Astringents The Emplaster made of Dates by Alexander with Bread Quinces Vinegar Oyl and many Astringents is also good to stay vomiting Or that made of Pulps thus Take Quinces or Pears or sour Apples that smell sweet or the like bake them if they be green if they be old boyl them in red Wine with Vinegar beat them and apply them Add Oyl of Mints and Wormwood which are good by themselves and keep the other from drying and from being too tough An Epithem of Rose-water four ounces Vinegar of Roses two ounces applied hot with a red Cloath with two drams of Mastick one dram of red Sanders red Roses and Cloves each half a dram and some grains of Camphire Also a Clout dipp'd in Juyce of Quinces Pears or sharp Apples with Juyce of Citrons Lemmons Pomegranates and applied hot with the Pouders mentioned An astringent Fomentation is made of the Decoction of Wood and Leaves of Pears Quinces Oak Services Barberries Privet Olive Medlars Sumach Myrtles Brambles Roses wild Vine Pomegranate flowers and peels and Galls with Wormwood and Mints Coriander seeds and Myrtles and Sanders with Spices in red wine alone or with water or in iron-Iron-water Cupping-glasses fixed to the Stomach or at the bottom thereof stoppeth vomiting And if done while the Patient is eating he will not vomit it up But if Choler be carried from the Meseraicks to the Stomach you must apply the Cupping-glass to the Liver or Spleen where the great veins are or a Dropax or sticking Plaister of Pitch dissolved in Oyl laid to the Stomach and violently drawn off doth stop vomiting Ligatures also and Frictions of the extream parts and sprinkling of the Face with cold water Let him smell and eat things pleasant to the Stomach as Apples Pears Quinces and other things mentioned for the keeping down of a Potion or put his Hands in cold water A broad Plate of Ivory laid to the Stomach is reported to stop vomiting Also a Jasper-stone hung about the Neck to touch the Stomach As for Diet. Let his meat be little and often of good Juyce pleasant not loathsom rather thick then thin with Sauces aforesaid Bread of Wheat or Barley with Juyce of Pomegranates or with Rose-water Rose-vinegar and Sugar is proper And Gelly of Capon-juyce boyled between two dishes with Juyce of Citrons and other Cordials when swounding seared Let the Drink be actually cold rather then hot Let the wine be sharp or if they love not wine let them drink water boyled with Coriander seed or water with sharp Syrups with a regard of Nature and custom Cold water drunk after meal doth the same They commend the drinking of Spaw-waters for them that are subject to vomiting not only for to stay it but to cure the Cachexy from thence Also sharp Drinks Let them rest and speak little and not move the mouth with chewing Sleep is profitable because it stoppeth Fluxes and to provoke it you must give Dormitives We cure the accidents of Choler as we cure choler as the Flux of the Belly with outward things that stop vomiting Also Thirst with sharp Drinks The Feaver with things that void Choler The Convulsion which is present or at hand with Oyntments to the Back and the like mentioned in the Cure of Convulsion Faintness or Swounding we cure with cordials and good victuals Or if there be heat of urin or the like let medicines be sought for in their proper places If Blood be vomited The Cure of Vomiting of Blood and sticks clottered in the mouth then you must provoke vomiting rather then stop it least other Symptoms be produced If blood come from the Meseraicks it shews the danger and greatness of the Disease and then the Disease must be chiefly looked at If it come from the hurt of the Stomach or any part adjacent it is very dangerous and the remedies must be applied to the wound or contusion In every cause when blood is vomited in
We freely grant that pissing may be hastned from a hot distemper of the Reins if there be much water As we shewed it might be in the hot Constitution of the Reins but we deny that this confused and unusual pissing can come from heat thereof But scalding Urin comes from the heat of the Reins or is increased thereby A hot Distemper in the Kidneys is the Cause of scalding Urin. As we shewed in the Inflammation of the Reins in which the Urin is made hot And this may come from a simple distemper without Instammation but the Urin is sharp and hot first from other Causes and thenis farther inflamed by the Reins From the pricking of the Reins and bladder Pricking in the Reins and Bladder is the cause of preternatural Pissing there are divers kinds of preternatural Pissing And it is caused by Urin by Matter by Seed or by a Stone There is a large Pissing from too much Urin that pricketh the bladder Much Vrine is the cause of large Pissing And that is from the use of watery things and drinking much From great Drinking Too much drink is the Cause of immoderate Pissing it happens that the Drink is little changed but passeth through the veins to the Reins and so to the Bladder When the Drink taken is so much that it cannot stay to be changed and mixed with Humors but passeth through unconcocted An immoderate Pissing may be when a great quantity of water Plenty of Water is the Cause of immoderate Pissing and Diabetes which lay in the veins is suddenly sent this way As in many superfluities of the Body and in some Diseases as in Cachexy or Dropsie and the like especially in continual Feavers in which the cause of the disease is expelled by urin in a Crisis Or when an intermitting Feaver declineth There is also a large pissing after a long suppression of urine by a Stone or slimy Matter in the Vreters As I observed two years since in a Preacher who made no urin in eleven dayes by reason of the Stone and slime in the Ureters and was in a miserable condition But in one night on a sudden the Vreters opened and he voided eight measures of water con-containing every one three pints with great refreshment to his whole Body But if this Evacuation be too much and nature sending forth the Cause of the Disease be so profuse that all the moisture begins to be voided there will follow a Diabetes Thence comes the heat of the whol Body and thirst especially if there be a Feaver and Leanness especially if the Feaver be consumptive And because in Feavers this pissing is seldom seen only in a Crisis when the Feaver is cured thereby Diabetes is a rare Disease which weakneth exceedingly Nor is it a wonder when the urin passeth through so quick that it is crude and not coloured And this is the cause of a Diabetes and not the hot distemper of the Kidneys from which alone it cannot proceed And though the practical Physitians did not plainly mention a Feaver in the Cause of a Diabetes yet in their Prognosticks if it be joyned with a Feaver they pronounce it deadly and prescribe cool Remedies We suppose that a true Diabetes in which there is sudden melting of the Body with heat and thirst is an accident of a burning Feaver and gives some occasion also of the melting and therefore it is a Symptom joyned therewith as the Feaver is also except there be a Diabetes without a Feaver by reason of abundance of drink long kept in the Meseraicks for it cannot stay so long in the Stomach and Guts and after thrust by Nature to the Reins rather then attracted Hence the drink is as it was drunk and not altered in the first Concoction which it escapeth And if there be then heat of the Body or thirst these come from great emptyness and not from the hâ—â—t of the Kidneys which cannot do these things or so weaken the body as I shewed But in regard drink is seldom so contained in the veins This Diabetes is very seldom seen There is a scalding Pissing with a Strangury from the quality of the Urin Sharpness of urin the Cause of scalding Piss provoking and pricking the Bladder to render it And if it be sharper then it is by Nature by which it naturally provokes the bladder to let it out presently after it comes to the bladder though in little quantity it provokes it to get out especially when the bladder is very sensible hence it falls often by drops and being in a narrow passage that is very sensible it pricks and causeth this heat and pain in Pissing This is especially in the top of the Yard because when sharp Urin comes into the neck of the bladder which is narrow and into the Yard it causeth pain there by scalding And this is felt chiefly in the Head or Glands which is most sensible And because through great pain the Yard hangs down and grows loose for want of blood and Spirits It turns cold and pale And this pricking is when the urin is too hot and inflamed or when it is corroding or too salt or too four by which means it doth not only prick but bind the passage From this provoking or pricking of urin Sharpness of urin is the cause of pissing there is a bloody pissing also when it is corroding to the bladder The Urin takes these qualities by which it causeth scalding and bloody pissing from things taken into the Body somtimes mixed with Humors and Excrements As from Diet as too much Wine and Spices and hot Oyls of Water-cresses Onions and Mustard It receives saltness from salt Meats fourness from four things especially four wine as hath been experienced and a cleansing quality from the things mentioned and other abstersives Among which is beer which makes the urin sharp in them that are not used to it The same may be from Medicines and from hot Purges as Spurge and Coloquintida which provoketh urin as stools by their sharpness Also Cantharids inflames the urin and such things cause pissing of blood and ulcers in the Yard And it appears that Spanish-flies do it by heat because outwardly they raise Blisters The Urin may take the same qualities from the mixture of Humors as of Choler it may take heat sharpness and cleansing when it is preternatural and burning for Natural Choler in the Gall mixed with water cannot make the urin so sharp as it is in the Jaundies though the water be dyed with Choler yet the urin is not scalding There are divers Causes of this choler both in Diseases and without of which heat of urin is a symptom The cause of this Choler mixing with the Serum and so with the Urin is mentioned in other Diseases And if the Serum be salt and four from other humors the urin will be such Pricking comming from other matter mixed with the urin may be the cause of Scalding or
through the Vessels into the Bladder and causeth blood with urin more mixed then when it is carried to the bladder alone The next Cause of pissing blood is the weakness and loosness of the Reins Loosness of the Vessels is the cause of pissing blood and then there is often pissing also There is also involuntary pissing from a Disease by consent as when the bladder is hurt and the Muscles suffer also The Sphincter Muscle suffer from the want of Animal Spirits Want of animal or vital Spirits is the Cause of involuntary pissing for then being relaxed they cannot contain the Urin. This want of Spirit is from a distemper of that Nerve which moveth the Sphincter Muscle either alone or with all the rest in a Palsie Therefore some men in Palsies and Apoplexies piss involuntarily In a Swounding when there is a total privation of vital spirits so that all the Functions rest the sphincter muscle being idle the Urin flows forth The same is in the Convulsion of the Muscles of the Belly A Convulsion of the Muscles of the belly is the cause of involuntary pissing when the Urin is driven out of the Bladder by constriction or straitness of the Muscles and pressing of the belly and if the sphincter be also strained it cannot stop the veins Preternatural pissing comes also from other parts An Impostum in the bowels is the cause of pissing of matter as from an Imposthum of the Liver turn'd to an Ulcer the matter being mixed with the Serum and there with the Urin. As also from the Lungs and Breast in a Pleurisie Peripneumony and Empyema And if it may come from thence to the Ureters then it may come from other parts internal being ulcerated the matter may go back into the Vessels and so be carried with the Serum into the Reins and mixed with the Urin. From Diseases in the Stomach The diseases of the internal bowels may cause a tincture in the urin and a mixture Liver Spleen and other parts especially in Feavers and from their distemper and humors the urin may be discoloured or mixed with other matter and cause preternatural Pissing As we shewed in those Diseases The Cure There are divers sorts of Cures for divers Pissings as involuntary immoderate often or hot pissing thick and bloody Or when it passeth a wrong way If involuntary pissing comes from a Palsie or want of strength or the like The Cure of involuntary pissing from want of animal or vital Spirits you must cure it as the Apoplexy Palsie or Swounding Apply medicines to the Back and Loins and to the Fundament where the neck of the bladder is such as were mentioned in the Palsie If involuntary Pissing come after a wound in the Muscle of the bladder or when it is torn for the taking out of the Stone it is incurable ordinarily But you must use such things for the allaying of the urin and binding the passages as are mentioned in immoderate pissing That involuntary pissing in the sleep when young Children The Cure of pissing a bed and others piss their beds must be cured by preventing an evil custom by pissing before they sleep and by being raised at midnight to piss till Nature is brought to another custom And this is the best Cure especially if you take away the Causes which provoke urin as large drinking especially at bed-time But if it come from weakness or too much sense in the bladder then you may use things to abate the sharpness and make it thick and bind and a little stupesie As shall be shewed in immoderate Pissing These following are good by propriety boyled or roasted as a Hedg-hog Mice Lungs of a Kid the Brain and Stones of Hare or Fox the brain of a Vultur or Eagle and Fat of a Partridg Also the Pouders of these following or the Ashes as the pouder or ashes of an Hedg-hog a Hares head with the skin burnt the Bladders of an Ox Hog Goat Sheep and Swimms of Fishes the inward skins of Hens Gizards Cocks necks Geese tongues It is good against Pissing of bed to put the Yard into a dryed Bladder or the like others use a Spunge but the bed will be wet notwithstanding that Immoderate Pissing when it is too much or too often The Cure of involuntary Pissing from the distemper of the Reins immoderate pissing if it come from an evil custom of pissing often let them not piss at every motion And that will bring Nature into order When it is from the exquisite sense of the bladder then keep the urin from being too sharp and if it continue abate the sense with remedies mentioned in hot Pissing yet not so strong because this is not so considerable If too much Urin be made by reason of a hot Constitution because it doth little hurt let them only take heed of hot meats and drinks and use temperate things that cool That often pissing which comes from weakness or want of Natural heat or loosness of vessels or enlarging or making the bladder thin if it come from the Birth is hard to be cured but if from much drinking and long holding of the water then take away the Causes as also when it is from too much Venery which weakneth the Reins But if being old it will not so be cured in regard there are worse accidents begin first with them If often pissing come from a cold distemper of the reins and bladder chiefly from the cold of the Feet it is but of short continuance and not regarded But if the cold distemper remain in the parts these hot remedies mentioned in the Palsie of the Bladder are to be used as also when there is weakness from that Cold. If much pissing be from much wine because it is good The â—ure of much pissing after much Wine there is no other course to be taken to prevent rising â—rom the table or pissing Breeches or Bed but to avoid drunkenness and use the remedies against pissing a bed When much pissing comes from abundance of Serum or Whey in the veins The Cure of much pissing from abundance of serum it is necessary and good in sound men to prevent and in Dropsies and achexies to cure the Diseases except it be immoderate But if from the sudden Evacuation the strength is abated it may be hurtful as in the tapping for a Dropsie if much water be taken out at once so here though the way be Natural yet the Flux being great and sudden may be dangerous This immoderate pissing in Feavers when Nature expel the cause in a Crisis of a continual Feaver and in the declination of an intermitting is good to cure the Feaver But if be too much and too long and the matter not concocted without a Crisis because then the Cause of a Disease is not abated nor the Patient refreshed thereby but weaker thirst increased and the body withered there follows the deadly Diabetes But when the cause
the cause correcting the heat and sharpness of the urin And by deffending the bladder and passage from the sense of the pain These are done by internal and external remedies that cleanse and alter If the Belly be bound it must be loosned because straining at stool causeth a pressing of the passage of the urin and pain Then we purge Choler or sharp Humors with gentle means Cassia is the best which is also Anodine and Diacassia Diaprunis Diabesten This common Electuary doth loosen and lenisie Take Cassia newly drawn two ounces Manna one ounce and an half Pulp of Sebestens Tamarinds or sweet Prunes each one ounce Mucilage of Fleabane six drams the four great cold Seeds half an ounce Juyce of Liquorish one dram with Syrup of Roses solutive make an Electuary give one ounce at a time We chiefly respect Choler in purging and therefore ad Rhubarb Myrobalans Syrup of Roses laxative Violets Catholicon and the lenitive Electuaries mentioned with Senna if you will have it stronger or Diaprunis A Potion is thus made Take Polypody two ounces Senna one ounce Liquorish one ounce and an half Raisons one ounce Prunes ten Jujubies Sebestens each ten pair Barley one pugil Anise seeds one dram make a Decoction add Syrup of Roses solutive two ounces Syrup of Violets one ounce you may infuse Rhubarb Also use Clysters of Mallows Marsh-mallows Violets Prunes the four cold Seeds with Cassia Honey of Violets Oyl of Violets red Sugar c. Vomiting because it draweth Choler from the Meseraicks which keeps the urin from sharpness is good They also use Frictions and Sweating to revel or draw back the Choler If you fear an Inflammation in the lower parts by reason of pain let blood in the vein under the Knee And open the Haemorrhoids when they are usual to take away Choler Give Alteratives which cool the urin and reins and lenisie the passages and stupesie and take away pain of which there are divers forms Any Milk drunk doth lenisie and heal Excoriations of urin An Emulsion is excellent of cold Seeds the greatest being bruised and mixed with Barley-water and strained or of Almonds pine-nuts or altogether with white poppy seeds which take away pain and heat Make a Mucilage of Quince seeds Lime seeds Mallows Marsh-mallows steeped in proper water or boyled in the former Decoctions give one ounce and an half with Broath or Milk the Mucilage of Fleabane is excellent and the Infusion of Gum Traganth The White of an Eg well beaten and the froath cast off taken often alone or with Sugar of Roses or Oyl of sweet Almonds Also a Decoction of Marsh-mallow roots Mallows Sebestens the great cold Seeds white Poppy seeds Fleabane or Quinces in Water or Broath with Sugar To this we add to provoke urin red pease Liquorish Winter-cherries and in cholerick Natures these Coolers Endive Lettice Violets Bugloss c. The Julep and Syrup of Violets purslane and Jujubes and other Coolers is also good The Waters also of Mallows and Marsh-mallows A Pouder to abate heat in the urin Take the Seeds of Guords or Pompions husked and other new cold Seeds one ounce white Poppy seeds three drams white Henbane seeds one dram Sugar pellets or Sugar of Roses one ounce make a pouder give one dram with Milk or Broath or Julep or convenient Water Or Take of the great cold Seeds one ounce white Poppy-seeds fresh three drams Line-seed or Quince seed one dram and an half Mallow seeds and white Henbane seeds each one dram Purslane seeds and Winter-cherries each half a dram or Smallage seed to provoke urin Starch one dram Almonds Nuts Pine-nuts or Pistachaes three drams Gum Traganth Arabick each half a dram or Gum of Peaches or Almonds make a sine pouder use it as the other You may add pouder of Liquorish or the Juyce thereof Somtimes we add Opium when the pain is great to two ounces of the Pouder half a dram mixing it well and giving one dram at first to try the Operation When necessity urgeth we give stronger Narcoticks as Syrup of Poppies and the like mentioned in the Colick Injections are used to lenisie the passage and the bladder and to take away pain which the urin causeth Of Womens Milk or other Milk or of the Emulsion of the cold Seeds or of white poppy seeds The White of an Eg the Mucilage of Quince seeds Line-seeds well dissolved with water of Violets Mallows Nightshade Guords or with Milk or the mucilage of Mallow seeds with Henbane and poppy seeds is also good A Decoction Take Marsh-mallow-roots one ounce mallows one handful Barley one pugil the great and less cold seeds and white Poppy seeds each two drams boyl them in Milk It will more asswage pain if you boyl therewith half an ounce of the Barke of the Roots of Mandraks or some Heads of Poppies or two drams of Henbane-seed Also the Oyl of sweet Almonds and Violets mixed with the Injections Or to take away sense of pain the Oyl of Mandraks or that of Poppy seeds or Henbane-seeds These Oyls are to be put into the Yard with a tent You may mix Opium with these Injections or with Milk one dram to twelve ounces Somtimes you may add Camphire also with Opium and Saffron to the tents A Bath to sit in is good of Mallows Violets Chamomil and Melilot flowers and the like Or you may foment the Pecten and Perinaeum therewith Also bath the Yard therein or in warm Milk and Oyl Or soment it with the same warm with hot Clouts and also the Fundament and this will do well because while the pain remains the Glans is cold and when it is gone it is warm It is good also to heat the Feet because Cold doth them hurt To piss in running water till it make a noise we have found profitable Also to piss often in a Sheep-fold where the Dung is hot or in Horse dung is good against heat of Urn or Strangury Epithems to the Liver and Reins and Oyntments are good when the urin is cholerick especially when they are hot They are mentioned in the hot Distemper of the Liver and Reins The like are to be given at the mouth A certain Soldier affirmed that he was cured of the strangury by only looking upon the Flower of the milkie Mary-thistle Let the Air be temperate and cool beware of too much heat and things that cause Choler from great motion of the Body or passion of the Mind from hot salt and sharp Meats and Sauces from Wine except with much water and a little Let him drink Barley-water or Syrups with Water or Whey Let his Meat be such as allays sharpness and gleweth the passages as Neats feet c. Also Pap of Milk and Meal or Starch Also Barley-cream of Almonds Pine-nuts Pistachaes small Nuts and rear Eggs. Also prunes Apples Jujubes Sebestens with Lettice Spinage Orach purslane Bugloss boyled in Milk also Oyl and Butter Copulation is hurtful because as I shewed the Seed is
of Roses in the morning as it stops the running of the reins so doth it the burning of troubled urin from the reins and bladder ulcerated To these Pouders you may add Opium as in the Troches of Winter-cherries Or other Narcoticks as in scalding urin which I have observed a hundred times and more being taken every night in this and other painful Diseases hath allayed the pain and refreshed the Patient that he hath lived though without it he could not for pain Healing and narcotick Pills Take Frankincense and Mastick each one dram Myrrh Storax and Gum Traganth each half a dram the Barks of Mandraks one dram Henbane seed half a dram Opium and Juyce of Liquorish dissolved in Wine each one dram with Syrup of Poppies make Pills give one or more as you shall think fit Injections are not for the Kidneys but for Ulcers of the Bladder to which they scarce reach in men by reason of the bending and length of the Yard but return again though not in women and if the Instrument be thrust to the neck of the bladder it will hurt the ulcer yet they are to be used for necessity For making whereof take Cleansers and that also dry which is hard by reason of the constant moisture and things that abate heat of urin as those Anodine Injections there mentioned They are made of Milk which asswageth pain cleanseth and healeth Womens and Cows Milk asswage pain best or Goats with Sugar or Honey Water and Whey when you will heal use Sheeps milk or other boyled and mixed with Sugar or Honey Also the Decoction of Barley with Bean shales Sugar and Honey Wine is good to cleanse if white and thin with some drops of Spirit of Vitriol Also Whey and some drops of Spirit of Vitriol injected with a Syringe doth cleanse A Decoction for an Injection to cure ulcers Take the Roots of Comfrey one ounce and an half the dryed barkes or skins of Pompions one ounce Horstayl Plantane Nightshade each one handful Rosemary and St. Johns wort flowers each one pugil the four great cold Seeds six drams boyl them in Barley-water in a pint where of dissolve four ounces of Sugar or Honey If you must dry more add Mousear Solomons-seal Shepheards-purse Ceterach Bettony Herb Robert Dassodil roots which glew well also plantane and purslaneseeds Adding also the Juyce of Plantane Horstayl Shepheards rod also Starch Also the Waters of those Plants are good especially plantane or Myrtles Brambles or Olive tops Roses Centaury of St. Johns-wort Also steeled Water or wherein Iron is quenched or melted Lead hath been often infused There are glewing mixtures for Injections As Take Sarcocol steeped in Milk one dram the Infusion of Gum Arabick or Traganth half a dram made in an ounce and an half of Plantane-water Ceruss half a dram Dragons blood one scruple dissolve them in Milk or a Decoction or stilled Waters This oyly Injection heals ulcers Take Hens dung fry it in a pan with Butter or Oyl omphacine then put them in cold Water preserve the Oyl that swims at the top Mix with these somtimes things that asswage pain as the Decoction of white poppy seeds Rinds of Mandraks or Mucilages the white of an Eg and Opium in case of great pain In obstinate Ulcers the Decoction of Litharge is good two ounces in plantane or Rose-water four ounces Or mix with the Injections mentioned Bole Cadmia or Brass ore called Lapis Calaminaris Tutty Ceruss Lead burnt and washed Antimony and the Juyce from the grinding of a Bloodstone And in filthy ulcers a little Myrrh The troches of Alkekengi and Gordonius are good to be taken at the mouth and those of Amber sealed Earth Spodium dissolved in the Liquors aforesaid Some drying Collyriums for the Eyes are good here as that white one and the yellow one and that of Frankincense of Rhasis also of Tutty and the like of Ceruss Sarcocol Frankincense Gum Traganth Arabick Starch which asswage pain with Opium A little Aegyptiacum is good when ulcers are very foul The Chymists commend the spirit of Mercurius dulcis with plantane or Horstayl-water injected to cure ulcers in the Yard and Bladder cool Oyntments for the reins are good to cool the urin As we shewed in burning urin You must anoint the privities and perinaeum or seam with Oyl of Roses or Violets with Oyl of Myrtles Quinces and a little Vinegar if the pain threaten Inflammation To these Unguents are added Ceruss Litharge Juyce of plantano and Horstayl to dry the ulcer yet they do little outward and because by astringing outwardly they will stop the passage of urin it is better to use relaxing Oyntments to open as Oyl of sweet Almonds Chamomil which also stay pain You may make Fomentations of the same for the pecten or perinaeum as of Mallows Chamomil Melilot with Coolers if there be heat as Water-lilly roots and flowers Violets c. The Diet must be as in the Cure of scalding Urin without an ulcer and glutinous Meats that cover the ulcer to keep it from sharpness Fat things soul ulcers and are not here good Other thick pissings as of matter The Cure of turbulent pissing from the Reins or of milkie white from the Reins not yet ulcerated come from a filth that is bred there and mixed with the urin because they cause heat in pissing and by continuance also excoriation of the bladder that causeth an ulcer must be cured This is done by purging the Body from foul excrements and humors which cause the filth to grow to the reins and is turned into matter then by cleansing the reins with things mentioned in the Cure of the Ulcer of the Kidneys Among which Turpentine is excellent and Milk and the like with Lenitives which take away heat mentioned in Heat of Urin which allay the acrimony of urin and of this matter also As for the Pissing of Matter which comes from Imposthumes in the Liver or other parts The Cure of pissing of matter from the Liver and other parts besides the Reins and Bladder or from an Empyema a Pleurisie or Peripnumony In these you must help Nature in her motion and not stop with things that cleanse the filth of the blood by urin mentioned in Feavers and for the rest go to the Disease rather then the Symptom If Pissing of Blood come from a stone which grateth upon the Loins The Cure of pissing blood from the stone through motion because there is then but little blood mixed with urin and it continueth not but when motion ceaseth the urin comes to its colour again it requires no other Cure but that of the Stone which is the cause thereof As we shewed in the Cure of the Stone But if Pissing of Blood come from the Kidneys The Cure of pissing of blood from Anastomosis or hurt of the Reins being too full of blood which Nature sends forth with the urin being impure or too thin it must be cured if it contiune And
is weak and evil coloured Dysentery is a voiding of blood either alone Dysentery or with other things it is so called because the guts are affected It is mamy times popular or Epidemical most in young men somtimes in old men and men of such and such a constitution In this there is an urging molestation to void somtimes more somtimes less with often needing and gripings with noise and rumbling and blood is mixed with the excrements and besides that a slime like flegm or like that fibrous substance which is in blood that falls into water when a vein is opened this is falsly called flegm and is voided somtimes in great abundance The Germans call it the white Dysentery This slime is thought to be fat by some because the guts being turned by the Butchers are fat they suppose that they are inwardly also fat which is not so some say it is the shavings of guts which if they come forth as seldom they do are membranons Also Choler yellow green or black is mixed therewith and also Flegm as in all Dejections or Stools There is commonly a thirst in this Disease and signs of heat the urin is dyed and cholerick and there is a Feaver called Synochus usually as we shewed in the Disease Choler Somtimes a Dysentery follows a Feaver either putrid continual or intermitting or which is more usual malignant and pestilential which is contagious and epidemical I have often observed a Hiccup to contiune till death in a Dysentery and other great Symptomes Bloody Stools that come from an Inflammation with gripings and symptoms of a Dysentery not from an Ulcer mixed with excrements are taken for a Disentery Somtimes slimy matter mixed with a little blood is voided Tenesmus and it is called Tenesmus or Needing from the great straining without intermission without other pains if this continue at length there is nothing voided but abundance of matter without any ulcer appearing in the Fundament Somtimes waterish blood is voided like that water wherein bloody flesh hath been washed The Liver-flux and it is called the Hepatick Flux because it comes from the Liver This Flux is great and without pain most in the night and continueth long It weakens the strength and the natural Functions and comes with thirst and other accidents The bloody thin Flux in a Dysentery is like to this Somtimes congealed blood or parched black like Pitch Voiding of clotted blood by stool is voided with the excrements more or less joyned with vomiting of the same As we shewed in Vomiting with great weakness and other accidents Sound people have often a Flux of pure Blood from the Haemorrhoids which is not mixed with the excrements and shall be mentioned in other Excretions of Blood The voiding of Matter in the Dysentery and Tenesmus Matter voided by stool is little and without pain and somtimes when the Dysentery is gone it continueth and weakneth the Patient Somtimes matter is sent forth in abundance without pain for a long time and the Patient is evil coloured and consumeth with other Diseases in the Natural parts There is somtimes a slimy and flegmatick Dejection in a Diarrhaea Slime and Flegm voided by stool and it is often mixed with blood in a Dysentery and Tenesmus and towards the end in a Tenesmus it comes forth pure matter And Fernelius observes that more white Flegm may be voided without pain after long Diseases and great riding Somtimes Stools are unctious and fat like Oyl or Butter or other Grease Voiding of Fat by stool And we have seen them like tallow candles ends with other excrements for a long time and many I have seen the same like suet not melted often as big as Hazel-nuts in an old Diarrhaea This is a kind of Lientery if they come from things eaten and often or of a Diarrhaea if they be voided with other things and come from any thing but meat And this they call the melting of the Guts from a mistake of the cause When excrements or dung come another way then the ordinary it it preternatural as when they come from these places following Dung or Excrements are vomited somtimes which stink and are thin The voiding of Excrements by vomit like Chyle with great pain and wonder to the Spectators In the Disease called Convolvulus in Hernia or Rupture as we shewed We have seen the Faeces or Excrements of the belly voided by urin The voiding of Excrements by urin with bones of birds with pissing of matter heat of urin and great pain And I have seen the kernels of Apples voided the same by stool We have also seen the Excrements of the belly voided by the womb The voiding of excrements by the womb with matter and other accidents Somtimes the Chyle as also the Excrements will come forth at a wound of the belly The voiding of excrements at wounds not in such only as die presently but in them that live long after from a Fistula that hath remained The Causes The Cause of all these preternatural Dejections being more or oftner then is fit or strange and unusual is in the Stomach and Guts And the chief is the irritation or provoking of the bowels that are so sensible which so stirs up the expulsive Faculty that it strives to expel what is therein especially if the parts adjacent be also stirred up by consent so that they endeavor also to expel what is in them this causeth divers kinds of Dejections with griping and pain The irritation of the stomach is the cause of preternatural Dejections by stool For if the Stomach be stirred up it sends things to the Guts rather then to the mouth except it be so disturbed that it must presently discharge as I shewed in Vomiting Therefore the stomach avoids great evils and is more seldom ulcerated then the Guts When there is an irritation in the long passage of the guts The irritation of the guts is the cause of Dirrhaea Dysentery and bloody Flux it causeth Dejections more or less By this the expulsive Faculty of the guts is stirred up and sends downwards what is in them and by straining causeth a Diarrhaea with griping Or if it be greater and knaws or corrodes the substance of the guts there is a Dysentery and if the Colon be affected the pain is about it especially on the lest side And because the Colon passeth under the Navel there is pain also And if the thin guts are affected the pain will be there And the blood which is voided with the excrements is more or less mixed by how much the farther it flows from the thin guts and the nearer from the strait gut And the greater the hurt the more the blood and the less when the ulcer begins to â—â—ink for then there is matter also And this blood is thinner or thicker purer or more impure as it is in the Meseraicks And from the pain there is a Feaver especially if it
Choler brought thither by it This Choler may come from the same causes with that of the Disease Choler and is chiesty in young people that eat much green Fruit which corrupt and turn into holer and therefore they have the Dysentery chiefly in Autumne when the Fruite is plentiful and the rather when the Fruit is not kindly but worm-eaten or as Rondoletius saith when they eat astringent Fruit which stops the passage of the former This Dysentery is popular or epidemical when many have it A Diarrhaea may also come from other sharp Humors that gripe like yellow or black Choler Other sharp Humors are the causes of Dysentery Dyarrhaea and Tenesmus or are corrupt and malignant when they are qualified with flegm Or a Dysentery or Tenesmus may come from the same being more sharp and not qualified And if these Dysenteryes have a malignant cause they are epidemical And these humors come from evil diet or humors in the stomach and guts or meseraicks As it is often in malignant and pestilential Feavers that the putrid humors or venom in the plague which is very hot being sent by the force of Nature to the guts as the common shore and there retained doth provoke and prick them and somtimes ulcerate As I have often observed in the small Pox that the guts have been ulcerated by the humors which hath caused a deadly or long lasting Dysentery These are either joyned with the feavers or follow them Also in other venemous Diseases as in the French Pox when the malignant humor is carried by Nature or medicines into the guts as by Quick-silver it will cause a Diarrhaea or Dysentery as well as a flux or ulcer in the mouth Somtimes Flegm mixed with dung or humors or water Flegm is the cause of Diarrhaea enesmus and Flux of the Brain causeth Diarrhaea's and is somtimes most pervalent especially at the conclusion when all other excrements are purged away And this Flegm is bred in the stomach and guts being somtimes waterish slimy or glassie from the causes thereof somtimes it is sent thin like water by the meseraicks with other humors from divers parts of the body And this may come from the brain to the stomach and guts being froathy and cause the flux of the brain according to Hippocrates Aphorism which teacheth that they who have froathy excrements have a flux of Rhewm from the brain The cause of which defluxion of flegm from the brain was mentioned in Defluxes Also it is affirmed that salt flegm gathered about the Fundament may cause a Tenesmus And if it be not very sharp there well be no ulcer but only a straining This pricking in this kind of Tenesmus comes not from the sharpness or saltness of the slime but from its sticking by which it cleaves to the gut being very sensible and continually provoketh a needing and straining to discharge it The Serum or Whey mixeth it self with the Blood and other other Humors and Excrements And the greater quantity there is of it the more thin are the stools Especially in a Diarrhaea where the stools are like water because the serum mixeth with and moderateth the sharp and cholerick humors and this serum is made in the first concoction for moist meat and drink or it is sent to the guts by the meseraicks and carrieth divers humors with it either by nature or medicine in time of repletion and causeth a Diarrhaea thus mixed And it appears that this could not come from the serum that sweats through the meseraicks because the quantity is great and the flux is constant and so much cannot be retained in the stomach and guts nor can the moisture taken in at the mouth cause it being somtimes very little Neither is that an objection that being mixed with blood it receives no colour from it when the sweat from the whole body and the water that comes from wounds and to the reins by the emulgents is not bloody And after a vein is opened when the blood is settled the water or serum is separated from it It cometh to pass but seldom Bloody Serum or Whey is the cause of a Liver-flux that Serum is voided in a Liver-flux in great quantity like water wherein flesh was washed tinctured with blood which it receives from the blood in the meseraicks And yet in other fluxes of water are not discolour'd or red The question is how this should be Some say the weakness of the liver is the cause and want of sangnification And although this may be the cause of abundance of serum and crude blood which causeth a Diarrhaea yet because the tincture is seldom there must be another cause not ordinary in the liver and meseraicks As the thinness of the meseraick blood or the dilatation or opening of the mouths of the vessels And the cause hereof is rather the heat then coldness of the liver as appears by the heat thirst and burning about the Hypochondria with a Feaver somtimes and somtimes after as also in regard it is cured by cold things rather then hot From this heat of the Liver and Constitution of blood with the Anastomosis or opening of the Veins caused by this heat it comes to pass that the Serum returns the same way tinctured with a little blood and falls into the Guts causing this bloody tincture in the flux of serum as in a Dysentery from an ulcer that opens the mouths of the veins That Slime which besmeareth the stomach and guts Slime in the stomach and guts is the cause of slimy Dejections and blood slime is the cause of a Dysentery cannot alone cause a preternatural Dejection because it comes seldom forth alone but when it is mixed with other excrements being much in quantity The cause of the abounding of this is clammy meat which breeds excrements But that slime which is in a Dysentery if it be voided more then other excrements causeth the white Dysentery and the same causeth a Tenesmus This slime from the ulcerated substance of the guts which being membranous causeth such matter as we see in the ulcer of the bladder which at first hath some signs of blood and is after white matter And because it is gathered into the strait gut about the Fundament it being thick comes forth alone in this Disease Therefore we count this Slime Matter rather then flegm which some account salt flegm that hath only a force of pricking when it is not so And the needing in a Tenesmus comes rather from the hurt of the gut which is very sensible then from this flegm though sharp As for the Slime which Fernelius saith is voided without pain which some think to be Matter it is he saith the dreggs of blood from the veins of the Fundament in long melancholick Diseases as the Whites in women We shewed formerly how Matter like Slime comes from a Dysentery and Tenesmus and also from a Colick Besides these Matter in a Dysentery from an Ulcer is
Pouder with Wine Dioscorides commends Beans boyled in Vinegar and water others commend Lentils Also Eggs poached in Vinegar or fryed till hard with one dram of new wax to which may be added pouder of Sumach Plantane seeds or Hemp. The Blood of a Goat or Dear fryed is commended by Dioscorides And chiefly that of an Hare with Barley-meal also a roasted Turtle stuffed with Myrtle-berries and new Wax each two drams or two drams of Frankincense and one dram of dryed Pigeons blood and other Astringents as Plantane seed Roses Sumach and Cinnamon Among Fruits Quinces Pears and Apples that are sharp roasted or boyled are the best Also sweet Meats made thereof Or roast a Pear or Quince with Wax and let him eat it Also Medlars Services Cornil-berries Cherries and sharp Plums before they are ripe are astringent Also Goos-berries are astringent and Bramble-berries And Mulberries but they cause pain and therefore are to be used warily Dioscorides commends the Berries of the Lote-tree and Bar-berries and the Huskes of Beans Also roasted Chesnuts and Acorns with Almonds not roasted but these will clog a weak Stomach Purslane is the best pot-herb for a Dysentery it takes away the sharpness There are divers Pouders which dry and bind or have a secret quality given alone or mixed from one dram to one dram and an half commonly with sharp red Wine or with steeled Water Broath or Milk Plantane water or the like with Sugar Honey or proper Syrups The Pouder of the Roots of Tormentil Snakeweed are not ill-tasted Water-lilly roots do wonders in Dysenteries Also Comfrey roots wild Sage and Avens roots Dioscorides commends the Pouder of Yarrow Fleabane Scordium and the tops of Tragus also Mousear Cudwort Sun-flower with the Roots the middle of the root of Mullein Horstayl Balsamine or the like mentioned for Decoctions Flowers of Ivy Cistus Palma Christi Flower gentle and Pomegranate flowers Also red Rose cakes Also the Fruit of the Rose with its down and seeds and Bar-berries Roast a Pomegranate and give it in Pouder Also Seeds of red Roses Pomegranates Raisons Grapes Seeds of Water-cresses alone or with others is counted an excellent Remedy against a Dysentery and because they are sharp and burning they are first parched Also Tamarisk seed The Seeds also of Docks and Bloodwort or Sorrel The Pouder of roasted Acorns doth wonders Also of Chesnuts or of Beech mast The Down of Chesnuts within the shell as also of Acorns and Hazel-nuts is good in pouder Frankincense Mastick Myrrh Traganth swallowed or drunk in pouder The pizle of a Dear also poudered and drunk in wine Also burnt Harts horn or unburnt and the pouder of Ox shanks The Runnet also of a Hare or Kid or Mare is commended by Dioscorides He also prescribeth Goats suet with Barley-flower and Roses Also Hares Dogs or Swins dung is given with Milk that hath had Steel quenched therein Also Bole or other fat Earth as that of Lemnos red Coral Crystal Pearl Sapphyres Smarag'ds The Chymists commend the tincture of Smaragds as specifical in a Dysentery It is thus made Let the sparkes or pieces of Smaragds be ground finely upon a Marble with the Urin of a Boy or distilled Vinegar or Juyce of Lemmons and the tincture drawn out at the fire And then let it be evaporated till it be a grey pouder then draw out the green tincture with spirit of wine and then evaporate the spirit of wine and let it be brought to an Essence at the bottom two or five tops of this they say taken with plantane-Plantane-water cureth Dysenteries miraculously Some give Allum with an Eg. And Dioscorides gives Salt with red Rose seeds for sauce with Meat There are divers Pouders compound of these to be given in the like quantity or with Sugar in a greater quantity with a Sop in Wine The first is Take Roots of Tormentil two drams Snakeweed one dram Seeds of Docks and Sorrel each one dram and an half red Coral half a dram Another Take half of this Pouder that is three drams Seeds of red Roses and Myrtles each one dram Pomegranate flowers burnt Harts horn or Ivory each half a dram Pearl half a scruple The third Pouder more astringent Take with the former Galls one dram Sanguis Draconis or Acacia half a dram Bole or Terra Lemnia one dram and half a dram of Bloodstone which is stronger A Pouder of Acorns which bindeth and healeth wonderfully Take roasted Acorn kernels one ounce Coriander seed prepared one dram and an half Purslane and Fleabane-seed each half a dram you may add roasted Chesnuts If you will heal more mix Starch one dram and half Gum Traganth a little parched one dram And if you will dry and astringe more mix it with a dram or two of the former Pouders Ashes also are highly commended as of a quick Hare burnt in an earthen pot well stopped Land-turtles or Snails also burnt with their shells Also Pouder of Mans bones or ashes in red wine or steeled wine These may be mixed with other Pouders as Bole Dragons blood and Mummy with pouder of Turtles or pouder of Galls with ashes of a Turtle and a little white Pepper Also these Ashes following Dip a hempen Cloath in two parts of Plantane-water and one of Rose-vinegar in which a little Allum and Bole are dissolved then dry it and burn it to ashes Also the Troches of Amber burnt Ivory or sealed Earth with Sorrel seeds Ramich half a dram taken every day Give in pouder with red Wine or other proper Liquor Sugar of Roses or convenient Syrups or with old Conserve of Roses or Syrup of Myrtles make Pills or a Bolus These Electuaries following are made of Conserves and Candyes Take old Conserve of Roses and Marmulate of Quinces each one ounce Conserve of Comfrey roots half an ounce Coral two drams Troches of sealed Earth or the like simple or compound one dram parched Nutmeg and Cinnamon each half a dram Sugar of Roses as much as will make a Mixture Or Take the Conserves and Candyes mentioned with those of Services Cornils Roses Medlars and other Astringents Pouder of Rhubarb parched one dram mix them with syrup of Quinces or Juyces or Syrups mentioned Micleta Nicolai of Myrobalans Mastick Gum Arabick Sumach Pomegranate flowers burnt Ivory Water-cress-seeds and others that expel wind is good in Dysenteries and other Fluxes Two drams of Watercreess-seeds parched and poudered boyled in Syrup of Quinces till they be thick and three spoonfuls given at once is excellent Another that lenifieth and healeth Take Mucilage of Quince seeds Comfrey roots Infusion of Gum Traganth all made with Rose-water one ounce Starch one dram red Coral two drams Bole one dram Pomegranate flowers half a dram Juyce of Services Cornil-berries or Marmalade of Quinces two ounces Sugar of Roses one ounce make an Electuarie give two drams Narcoticks as we said in Clysters asswage pain and stop Fluxes and they do better taken at the Mouth causing rest and sleep which the Dysentery hindereth
an Electuary Or add to this pouder Pomegranat seeds and Sorrel seeds one dram Dock seeds Raysons stones each half a dram and other stomachical astringents as Acacia Box-thorne and torrefied Myrobalanes Other strengtheners and astringents for a loose moist cold stomack are of Candies as of Acorus Citron peels Quinces Nutmegs Cloves Electuaries are Diacydonites with the species of wild Acorus with the species Or our Composition which consists of Marmalad of Quinces one ounce and an half candied Citron peelsone ounce c. and the two mixtures there mentioned Conserve of Rosemary flowers hath been often given with good success with some drops of spirit of Vitriol After flegm is purged apply outwardly to strengthen and bind the stomach things mentioned in the weakness thereof especially astringents which are good both to the stomach and belly And some things mentioned in Diarrhaea if the loosness be very great Oyles mentioned in weakness of the stomach strengthen and bind And the two Oyntments there mentioned which begin thus Take Oyl of Mastick and Spike each one ounce c. Thus Take Oyl of Myrtles c. Also Galens Cerot for the stomach or that which begins thus Take roots of Birthwort Galangal each half an ounce c. Or thus Take Mastick one ounce and an half Frankincense c. Also Emplaisters as that of Mastick which begins thus Take Mastick two ounces Frankincense one ounce Storax c. Or that Diaphoenicon of Mesue or of Montagnanus made of a crust of bread all there mentioned Also the Cataplasm there of Juyces which begins thus Take Mastick half an ounce Frankincense Labdanum c. with the Pulp of Quinces apply it Or this Take Pulpe of Quinces or Pears as in the cataplasm for the dysentery three ounces Rie-bread Crumbs eight ounces boyl them in strong Wine and towards the conclusion add Pouder of Citron peels two ounces Pomegranate peels one ounce Nutmeg half an ounce Roots of Galangal or Cypress two drams Cloves one dram Spike half a dram Wormwood dryed Mints each two drams Labdanum three drams Mastick half an ounce beat them well together and with Oyl of Myrtles Roses omphacine each one ounce and an half Oyl of Spike one ounce make a Cataplasm Also Fomentations as that for a weak stomach which begin thus Take Galangal Masterwort roots c. Or that for a flagging loose stomach which begins thus Take Citron peels half an ounce Pomegranate peels two drams c. Also that astringent bag which begins thus Take Mastick half an ounce Frankincense two drams c. Cupping-glasses to the stomach as we shewed in Vomiting keep the meat longer in the stomach Some use a Dropax or stinking Plaister and Sinapisms or those of mustard If a Lientery come from other causes as from choler The Cure of a Lientery from a sharp Humor or Choler or meat eaten or a sharp Humor which forceth the stomach to send out the Nourishment then the first care must be to evacuate that and allay its sharpness and to stop the Flux and Vomiting as in a Dysentery and the Disease of Choler If a Lientery come from meats eaten let those be afterwards forborn and a good diet be kept as in the weakness of the stomach Let not the Food be moist but thick and clammy that will stay and also will easily concoct as lean and moist flesh green Cheese Rice Papps not made of milk Applying the mean while outward astringents and a Cupping-glass If a Lientery proceed from an Ulcer of the Stomach The Cure of a Lientery from an ulcer or scar that must first be regarded as we shewed in the Pain of the Heart from the Ulcer of the Stomach and the Flux as in a Diarrhaea If it come from a scar it is scarce curable because it cannot be taken away except it depart of it self A Liver-flux if it follow a Dysentery and the strength be spent The Cure of the Liver-flux and the Liver naught is deadly There is another which weakneth by reason of the great Evacuation of water as we shewed in Diabetes and dropsie And the Liver hath then a preternatural Heat and is weak For the Cure of which the temper must be altered and the Liver strengthned and the Flux stopped as in a Dysentery Therefore it is good to take heed of too great openers that are hot and of opening the Veins except with temperate things that carry the whey to the Ureters Thus Opening of a Vein is not needful for the bleeding is so little in this Disease that it requires not so large an Evacuation which will weaken Rhubarb is called the Soul of the Liver and is good here as in a Dysentery where there is any thing to be purged The pouder is given to two drams with half a scruple of Spike or half a dram of Cinnamon with Myrobalans or others mentioned in a Dysentery Or make pills of Rhubarb and Mastick as in the Diarrhaea Take heed here of Aloes for it opens the mouths of the Veins Clysters are not good but of milk if there be pain or other accident use a cleanser or a healer or an astringent Clyster as in a Dysentery Or use these Potions to stop the Flux and to correct the distemper of the Liver Take Syrup of Quinces and of dryed Roses of Myrtles each one ounce of Succory alone or with Rhubarb and of Endive each half an ounce mix them Or make a Julep thereof with water of plantane of Oak leaves Endive Liverwort Also Syrup of Liverwort boyled with Sugar is good A proper Decoction Take Asparagus roots Sorrel Plantane Fennel each one ounce Liverwort one handful Endive Agrimony each one handful and an half Raisons with the Stones three ounces boyl them in Broath or Water It is better with half a dram of the Pouder of a Wolfes Liver given at every draught We allow Milk somtimes because it stops the mouths of the Vessels especially to them that have used it and love it It must have Steel quenched therein and Sheeps milk is best if the Whey be taken out by the quenching Also Almond milk and Rice milk and Barley cream are good Raisons and Currance are good for the Liver especially if unstoned or bruised You may make a thick Juyce of Raisons by boyling them in red wine and straining them and then boyling them again to a Rob or Quiddeny This may be given alone or with pouders Pouders are given alone with Wine Broath Milk or with Rob of Raisons Quinces or with Syrups like Electuaries or with Sugar of Roses or Conserves as of Succory c. The first pouder Take Coriander and Dock seeds each one dram Endive Purslane seeds each half a dram of red Roses one scruple Sanders half a dram red Coral two scruples The second Take Sorrel seeds one dram Seeds of Hatchet Herb or Dodder or Water-cresses each half a dram burnt Ivory two scruples the inward Skins of Hens Gizards one scruple You may add to these one
shewed the force in Elephantiasis And for Figgs they thought from the likeness of the seeds to Lice that they bred them but were deceived VVashing often with Lye rubbing and combing the Head is good to take away Grease and Dandrough and in other parts of the Body VVe use strong Dryers and Cleansers to the Disease it self to kill the Lice and take away filth that breeds them which are bitter or sharper They cannot do it by being taken inwards But some eat Garlick or drink it with the Decoction of Organ to kill Lice and Worms And some Countrey-fellows eat Garlick to keep off the flies Outward things are best to kill them and take away Itching as Lotions for the Head and other parts As this Take Birthwort one ounce and an half Hellebore roots half an ounce Beets Arsmart Wormwood Horehound Tamarisk Tops of the lesser Centaury each one handful Staphisager Lupins each half an ounce Berries of the Spindle-tree and Agarick two drams boyl them in Lye And wash the part affected It is stronger with Salt Allum or Niter or Vinegar especially of Squills When we wash the Head we use things proper for it as Bettony Sage French Lavender For Lice in the Eye-brows wash with Vinegar and Aloes and Salts A Pouder to drive Lice from the Hair Take Staphisager two drams Salt three drams Aloes one dram Cinnabar two drams The Oyntment also of Quick-silver mentioned is best here for it kills infaillibly all sorts of Lice and Itch. It may be thus made Take Quick-silver one dram Turpentine two drams Hoggs grease Butter or Oyl six drams make an Oyntment Or instead of Quick-silver use two drams of Cinnabar which is made of Quick silver and Brimstone Or for the Lice in the Hands use one dram of Sublimate instead of Quick-silver There are other Oyntments of Staphisager and Grease Thus Take Staphisager half an ounce white Hellebore one dram and an half Pepper Niter each one dram Grease Butter or Oyl with a little Wax make a Liniment To these add some of that with Quick-silver or one dram of Sandarck The usual Oyntment in shops is this Take Staphisager white Hellebore Salt Quick-silver Hoggs grease Oyl of Bayes Soap and Vinegar Another Oyntment of bitter things Take Aloes two drams Myrrh Gum of Ivy each one dram Hogs gall or of an Ox one dram and an half Quick-brimstone Allum each one dram Oyl of Wormwood or bitter Almonds as much as will make a Liniment A Paste made of Ox gall or other Gall and Meal of Lupins and held in the Hands long kills the worms there The linnen Clouts that Gold-smiths use when they guild Silver with Gold and Quick-silver applied to the part kill Lice insaillibly The Fume of Henbane seed taken into the Palm of the Hands kills the worms there But we suppose it rather allayes the Itch as anointing with the Oyl of Henbane seed or Poppies or Syrup of Poppies or a little Opium dissolved in Aqua vitae Smoak your Cap with Tobacco and the Lice will be killed Also Tobacco ashes and Piss cureth Crab-lice The worms in the Hands are picked out with a needle not thrust in deep to wet the part and hinder the sight of them And then wash the Hands with Wine or Vinegar Salt Allum or Niter often A very fine Comb will take them out of the Head Or a rubbing Brush which is invented for that purpose with which Women daily cleanse their Childrens Heads CHAP. XIV Of the Voiding of living Creatures or Animata The Kinds THose Bodies are called Animate which live are nourished and grow like Plants and yet have no sense or motion They are preternatural and so is the Voiding of them These are chiefly from the Womb and the Fundament There is an insensible and unmoving Body called a Mole sent forth from the womb A Mole without shape being soft flesh without bones full of veins covered with a skin Somtimes it is more membranous and still without shape such as I saw voided by a woman through the use of a Pessary after eigteen years barrenness Somtimes it is like a Sea-star as I have seen and cast into the water to the great amazement of the Beholders and somtimes it is of other forms This casting forth of a Mole is like a mischance or abortion before or after the time with such striving and voiding of blood And the accidents before are like those of Women with Child We spake of the Tumor of the Mole and its accidents and causes in the Tumors of the Belly The like but seldom come from the Fundament The long Membrane from the guts called Fascia The broad worm or fillet of the Guts called Taenia of divers kinds One is like a long Ribband like the smal Guts as long as they but not hollow a fingers breadth this they cal a flat worm but it is a Taenia or Fillet of the guts nothing like a worm nor is it alive or moveth coming forth so long that the Patient is frighted least his Guts should come forth In which there are black stroaks a fingers space distant all a long like the Vertebrae or Spondils This Taenia The Gourd-worm though very long is of many little parts which may be divided and they are like the Seeds of Gourds and are so called from thence This is seldom whole but in pieces every one of which is called a Gourd-worm but they are only pieces of the long Fillet or Fascia There is another kind of Taenia as long as the rest The Ligula or round point from the Guts but not so broad round like a worm and even called Ligula or a point it moveth not seldom seen from men but usually from doggs whol or broken not coming forth till it be drawn out There are no accidents of this Disease but the sudden fright and the Patient is well Except there be a greediness before and a heaviness in the Belly And if any part remain and stink the Symptoms are worse then if worms died in the Belly The Causes The Cause of these Bodies breeding is either Seed or Chyle VVe shewed in the Swelling of the Belly Conceiving of imperfect Seed is the cause of a Mole that imperfect Seed caused a Mole And the cause of voiding it is that of Abortion the expulsive faculty of Nature burdned with the preternatural weight which divideth the Vessels by which it grows to the womb and sends it forth the proper way And the sooner when there is external help Of which we spake in Abortion As we shewed long worms bred of Chyle that is too thick or fat The Chyle is the cause of the Taenia and Gourd-worm so if it be so much that it be in the thin Guts from the Stomach to the Colon growing thereto that Membrane called a Taenia is caused This Chyle is not in the whole compass of the Guts but in some part as broad as it comes forth only there where the
This is approved in Inflammation of the Nose As in Etysipelas so here you may use Oyntments of Roses Poplar and Ceruss and plates of Lead also In great Inflammations and when they are parts exquisitely sensible use chiefly things to asswage pain As Anodynes that cherish with their temperate heat Or Narcoticks that dull the sense These are not to be used alone when we sear suppuration but in case of necessity because they digest but at the first add repellers and in the progress resolvers But when you desire to digest you may use Narcoticks alone safely The same Narcoticks and Anodynes may be used as in Erysipelas and these following As Snayles not beaten with the shells least they be too rough but taken out may be applied And leaves of Henbane and Mandrakes baked in the Embers with Hogs grease and a little Saffron Or use this Cataplasm Take white Bread or Flower a pound boyl it in springe Water and Proper stilled Water and Milk with Mucilage of Fleabane two ounces three Egs Oyl of Rose three ounces Hogs grease an ounce Saffron a dram This is proper against a Paronychia or Fellon boyl crums of Bread in Milk with the white of an Egg and a little Turpentine and to ease pain add Mucilage of Fleabane seed with Barley meal Opium and Camphire and after to heal add Pouder of Galls Or this Cataplasm against any Phlegmon Take the Emollient herbs two handfuls Althaea two ounces flowers of Chammomil Melilote Roses Bran each a pugil boyl and bruise them add Oyl Butter Grease and Saffron Or bruise Fleabane or its seed with Oyl of Roses and a little Vinegar and apply it or boyl it with Milk and Althaea roots and add fats Or use the Mucilage of Fleabane with the white of an Egg Juyces and sats The Plaster of Diachylon the less by Mesue made of Mucilages of Fleabane and Henbane easeth pain and digesteth Oyl of the Apples of Strychnodendron and of the fruite of the Balsamine tree called Momordica is an approved remedy and so is Oyl of Henbane seed The Chirurgions ease pain with an Egg raw beaten with Oyl of Roses and Bole to repel And to digest also they use Oyl of Roses yolks of Egs and Ceruss There is an Oyntment called Anodynum made of Oyl of Lillies Dill Chamomil Ducks and Hens grease to take away pain Or this Take Juyce of Henbane Tobacco Hemlock or Poppies Mallows or Marsh-mallows each two ounces Oyl of sweet Almonds and Roses each two ounces boyl them add Mucilage of Althaea or the like two ounces or of Mucilage of Henbane seed which is best Butter an ounce make an Oyntment The Water of Frog spawn is highly commended and Juyce of Hemlock applied with a Clout also raw Cray-sish Also we must dissolve or discuss the Humor which is flown to the part least by continuance it turn to Matter and stink which though Nature doth of her self if it be thin yet if she be slow in her work she must be helped with dissolvers which in the beginning of the increase of the disease mixed with Repellers does it rather by dryness then heat and after they must be used alone and the rather if the Phlggmon be oâ—dematous especially towards the Declination when the heat ceaseth adding Emollients to gentle Healers that may discuss the Reliques and prevent a Scirrhus This is done by Herbs mentioned against Erysipelas as Pellitory Mallows Marsh-mallows Orage Coleworts Henbit Coltsfoot Vervain Moulin Scarlea Bindweed Elder Dan-wort Penny-royal Feaversew Achillea Wormwood Sesamum Nettles Lilly roots Orris Briony wild Cowcumber Asphodel Lyris Docks Rhapontick wild Hemp Chamomil Melilot Dill Elder flowers and Water-lillies Foenugreek Lineseed Barley Wheat Lupins Orobus and Flower of Millium Panicum You may apply one or more of them bruised or boyled as Pellitory and Scabious or lay the whole Leaves thereon without the Stalks Or make an Anodyne Oyntment of Dwarf-elder to anoint the part inflamed Thus Take Dwarfe-elder cut small put it in a Glass phial roule it in Dough and bake it then take out the glass and you shall ffnd a thick redish Oyl anoint therewith The Herb called Paronychia is good against a Felon from whence it had its Name the Felon is an Inflammation at the Root of the Nails as also five leaved Grass or the skin of an Eg shell or Dandelion milkie Stalks roule about the Finger Phlegmons may be wash'd with Juyces Decoctions or still'd Waters of Herbs as that of Moulin which is best with Rose-water Aqua vitae doth so dissolve that it takes away Tumor and Inflammation presently allaies pain when Labourers hurt themselves they use it Dioscorides commends the Lyes of Wine in all Inflammations it is good to dissolve and to asswage pain Also use Oyl of Chamomil Lillies Orris sweet Almonds or Roses or Fat 's as Oesipus of Wool or Propolis Or bruise or boyl the Plants mentioned with Vinegar at first then Wine Honey Oyl Fat 's Turpentine and Brans or Meales Or apply Raisons as in Furunculus with Salt c. Or chew Wheat or its Flower with Water and Honey or with Leaven Or Rose cakes boyled in Lye to dissolve adding Oyl of Chamomil or Dill. Or Smallage and Henbit beaten with Tartar and Oyl of Chamomil Or this Cataplasm Take Roots of Althaea Docks four ounces Lillies two ounces Pellitory Vervain Coltsfoot each an handful Feaversew Wormwood half an handful Chamomil flowers and Roses each a pugil Barley meal and Foenugreek four ounces Figgs five pair boyl them in Water bruise and add Oyl of Roses Chamomil each two ounces Hens grease an ounce and half Or make it of Bran or Wheat flower a pound Pease or Lupine flower two ounces boyl them in Water and Honey ad pouder of Orris red Roses each two drams Myrtle seeds a dram Saffron half a dram Oyl of Roses and Chamomil each an ounce and half A Cataplasm to digest more and to be used in the Declination Take Lilly roots three ounces Orris and Briony roots two ounces Mallows Moulin Bindweed Dane-wort each a handful Chamomil Melilot Elder and Rosemary flowers each half a handful Meal of Lupins or Orobus and Foenugreek each two ounces Dates six boyl them in Honey and Water add Oyl of Lillies and Orris each an ounce and an half of Roses an ounce Hogs grease an ounce and half Oesipus an ounce with Saffron half a dram make a Cataplasm Or this of Juyces Take Juyce of Pellitory Coltsfoot Plantane each two ounces Mucilage of Mallows Foenugreek or of whites of Eggs three ounces Honey an ounce Oyl of Roses two ounces anoint and add Brans Litharge Ceruss Saffron or apply the Ashes of Box tree with Honey Or Take Cow dung half a pound Juyce of Housleek or Nightshade two ounces Oyl of Chamomil and Roses each an ounce Bole half an ounce anoint or apply it with Meals or Bran. Or apply Olibanum with Foenugreek Meal Rosin and Honey In Furunculus especially anoint with Scammony Honey and Oyl or
unnaturall shape from some other transmutation and commixion of Seed as by the commixion of two seeds conceived and their mutuall concretion in certain places except they be separated it may chance that two Children may be brought forth of divers figures which permutation and commixion of seed as it may come from divers causes so from some impression which the Mother conceives either in time of conception or when she was great with child from fear or other affection or from strong meditation or imagination As she which being great with child and longeth for some kind of meat which is not fit produceth a Child which deformity either in number magnitude or figure By which means sometimes it hath as it were new parts resembling others or something resembling the thing described adhering to the body from the birth And among others we have seen a child have hairs like those of a Mouse upon the Thighs because the mother being great strook upon that part with her hand when she drove away a mouse Many monstrous births have been by these means which happened from imagination divers wayes so that Children are many times unlike their Parents because in the time of conception and when the Woman is great they have thought upon other people This diffimilitude or unlikeness is more incident to be from mankind then any other creature because it is subject to more intent and strong meditation and phansie other creatures only exercise their senses or things before their Eyes in the time of copulation and so cause a resemblance in shape and colour as we shall shew in the Chapter of discoloration Some originall Deformities may arise from the Mothers blood because the child is there with nourished while it is in the womb The Mothers Blood is the cause of some Diseases naturall in magnitude increased or diminished or indecem Figure not such as are in number of parts increased or diminished because every part proceeds from the seed but such as are in magnitude exceeding or defective or in uncomely figure or shape These Deformities come from the Mothers blood either being too much or too little or from the change or commixion of the same as we shall declare when we speak of internall causes Divers kinds of deformities come from externall causes as when any hurt or wound divideth the continuity of parts and so spoils the shape if it be in a sensible part and causeth pain we have spoken to them in the discourse of pains Also an unseemly figure may come from an outward force which dislocateth the parts or breaketh them in regard that there is then a loss of motion in the part we have spoken thereof in the Chapter of immobility where we spake of Luxations and Fractures Other deformities of this kind which are in number magnitude and figure come from divers causes either internall or externall The distempers and faults of the parts which produce deformity from externall causes come after divers manners A wound or an Ulcer is cause of the lameness or taking off of a part or separation or division as when by a wound they are cut off or lamed either by chance or by chyrurgery through necessity for preserving life as when the parts are consumed by an Ulcer by exulceration or often rubbing or when the dead part is cut off in a Gangren or when in a Rupture the Stones are cut off as sometimes they are or when the continuity is dissolved by wound and the wound healed there remains a separation of the parts or when by externall force the Teeth either through pain Force externall causeth falling out of Teeth or looseness or treating of them the fall of hair and gogle Eyes or other affliction are pulled out The hair falls either by accident externall or by industry or by Disease called Tinea The Eyes by violent passion sometimes thrust forth themselves Or when by mastichation and biting of hard things especially if of long continuance the Jaws are separated from the Teeth by which the Roots of the teeth being made bare they are less firm then before and sometimes fall forth especially the Foreteeth having but one Root when others will scarce fall out except there be an attenuation of the Roots as we see in dead mens Skulls the Teeth firm and unmoveable when all the flesh is gone The teeth also are broken by strong biting of Bones cracking of Nuts c. It often falls out that they which pick their Teeth with a Kinves point from a foolish custome very often do not only take away their smoothness and make them rough but wear away their substance by continuall scraping As the other cause was violent An outward vehement heat is the cause of loose Teeth or falling off them out or breaking of them so may often use of very hot Meats so burn the teeth that they may be dryed up at the Roots and be no longer firm but very loose in their places and then they offend in scituation or in number if they fall out from that cause Or if by the same Heat of meats the hard substance of the teeth be over dryed and at length burnt they fall out or some part crumbles of and the rest remains broken and weak or they become hollow And this is the usuall cause that young people have so many hollow and unsound teeth especially when they eat very hot meats and broaths which least they should burn their mouths they commonly blow upon first This is the chief cause why our Germans which love hot broaths so much have sooner bad Teeth then other people which is imputed through ignorance to defluxions of Rheum when as we shewed in the pain of the teeth defluxions cannot fall upon the substance of the teeth The swallowing of hot meats and presently drinking cold Drink thereupon while the teeth are hot which many have used from their Infancy causeth teeth to rot and fall out before they are old or at least by the sudden change of heat into cold to turn back From the like Heat the Roots of Hair being dryed and extenuated Great heat the cause of falling of Hair the hair can no longer stay in its Pores but fall out by the least combing this is caused by hot water or fire coming to near therefore when they have killed a Swine they use hot Water to take off the hair and to take off the Feathers from Poultery by which means the Roots of the Quills are so dryed that the Feathers fall off and some loose their Hair after the same manner provided that there be not such a heat as to stop the Pores and astring the Skin so that they must come both off together as it often befalls them that dress Hogs with too hot water this mistake is called in dutch Berbruen these are the causes neither can hair fall by moistning the Skin and opening the Pores only except the water be very hot though it be long used
with a moderate heat it will not do the like and after the other way the teeth will also come forth Also Nayles and beasts Hooses with greater heat will come off The tender parts may be consumed by knawing and rotting Medicines as the Jaws and flesh in the Eyes c. Corroding and putrefying Medicines are the cause of consuming of the parts and fal of Hair and there are things called Psilothra or Depilatoryes which take away hair by Art these do it rather by consuming the Roots of the hairs then by opening the Pores Some of the Deformities mentioned come from internal causes namely from divers Humors and Diseases or by one part forcing another as I have shewed as by Blood since the parts are not only nourished and augmented by it so long as a Man groweth but after whatsoever is consumed is restored by the same And this consuming of parts comes from the Blood divers waies either in respect of its Quantity and the Fatness of the parts if the Blood abound in quantity it makes the parts too fleshy by too much Nourishment and this is not only when Bodies are growing but afterwards Plenty of Blood is the cause of much Flesh and then they grow exceeding fleshy and if this come not hereditary from the seed and blood of the Parents it must needs come from Blood Hence it is that plethorick Bodies are so carnous or fleshy of which Plethory or Fulness as there are divers causes so often and plentifull feeding is not the least This Appetite is stirred up by exercise of body because by that Meat is quickly distributed therefore Men that exercise moderately grow fleshy and gross as it was with the wrestlers in old time Rest also which is the contrary may cause the same for they which are idle and sedentary and given to much eating seeing they spend little of the substance of their Bodies and still are devouring grow very big and gross This grossness may also come from the suppression of Naturall Evacuation of blood Hence Women at that time when their courses leave them although formerly when they had them constantly and nourished their Children they were lean and slender grow very corpulent and gross From these causes you may gather that as from the aboundance of Blood flesh is produced so by the want hereof there is Leanness and Slenderness The want of blood cause of leanness But as the blood causeth flesh to be more or less so it maketh some parts to be greater or lesser as when the Juyce made thereof is more proper or less agreeable to such a part This is so in that time wherein people grow as then both soft and hard parts as bones increase but after only those parts increase which are decreased by externall injuries The aboundance or want of nourishment is the cause why some parts are bigger then others as Nayles Hair which grow thick and long or fall as in the teeth Nayles and Hair but after a divers manner for in the Teeth if one be not worn away by another which is opposite in chawing then the nourishing juyce abounding makes the tooth that hath no opposite to grow longer then the rest but in the Nayles and Hair if they have too much Nourishment they grow not only soon longer but thicker The cause of Nayles growing so is strong motion about the Roots thereof when the Hands are often violently exercised and there is an extraordinary attraction of Juyce hence is it that labouring Men have thickest Nayles This also may come by often paring especially if before they be bathed in warm water for then the juyce attracted makes them by degrees more thick The same is in hair which when it first comes forth like down upon the Chin if it be often shaved growes apparently thicker and longer It may also happen that from the defect of that juyce which nourisheth Nayles and Hair that that which growes after cutting is thinner then the former But it is more usuall that they should fall from the dryness of the Roots for want of Nourishment especially hair wherefore when Medicines are made for growing of hair they attract juyce by their heat as we shall shew in the Treatise thereof by which the Root is mantained for the want of juyce is the cause of baldness for though hair grows upon the Skin of the head and continue some time there yet after some long before aged some at the aproach of old Age grow bald because the Head grows less fleshy and is made up of bones skin and membranes therefore that part is soonest dry and so becometh bald This may come also from externall injuries which dry the body as from internall Cares from which Histories mention that Men have not only become gray suddenly by drying the hair but also bald by drying up the Moisture In other parts of the Body as the Nayles if from the same juyce which nourisheth other extuberances arise in regard they are tumors we shall speak of them in their order There is also another Fault in the figure of parts from the aboundance of Nourishment The nourishing juyce sweating forth is the cause of uniting the parts for by the nourishing juyce some parts that ought to be disjoyned are united for if the Skin be taken off and parts by Nature separated be laid together the juyce which cometh forth from both will unite them for this like Glue conjoyneth wounds and bones If the Blood be fat the body is sat Fatness in blood is the cause of fatness in body and the contrary if lean it is lean for seeing all blood consists of a fat matter as Milk of a buttery matter and that by sweating from the Veins in the membranous parts and not by congealing through cold as it was supposed in regard the Body is alwaies actually hot inwardly but of its own Nature grows together being separated from the Blood and so joyns to the Members as Glue increasing the substance of the Body as there is more or less of it in the Blood so there is more or less of it gathered together for the increase of the Body from which cause rather than from Flesh are bodies greater or less but this happens not to the whol Body but to those places in which Naturally fat is used to be more then in others as in the Belly and breasts of Women c. The reason why there is more or less fat in Blood is from the quantity of blood for in much blood there must be much Fat and hence Bodies grow more fat and fleshy or more lean and thin But if Blood not only in regard of its aboundance hath much Fat in it but also of its own Nature though it abound naturally in quantity be over fat which appears by that which swims at the top after it is taken out which the vulgar Chyrurgions call Flegm then those Bodies are more fat than fleshy which Fatness comes not only