the animal Spirits run into disorderly motions the Urine appears sometimes limpid and in great quantity the sick persons cast off all hope of recovery and portend the most dismal things to themselves Whatsoever part of the body the Disease doth affect and it affecteth many immediately the symptoms that are proper to that part appear in the Head the Apoplexy which ends in a Palsy of one half of the body comes presently after Child-bearing sometimes they are seized with Convulsions that very much resemble the Epilepsy and are commonly called the Suffocation of the womb in which the Belly and Entrails rise upwards towards the Throat At other times they are miserably tormented with the Hysterical Clavus in which there is a most vehement pain in the head which you may cover with your thumb the sick person in the mean time vomiting up green Matter like to that sort of Choler that has its name from Leeks The Paroxysm doth also counterfeit the Palpitation of the Heart the Cough the Colic and Iliac Passions the Stone and Suppression of Urine it is attended with prodigious vomitings and sometimes with a Diarrhaea outwardly in the musculous Flesh it causes sometimes Pains and sometimes swellings In the Legs it is like a Dropsie nor which is wonderful doth it leave the Teeth untouch'd The Back is often cruelly pain'd and almost always the external parts are so cold that a dead body is not more The sick persons break out ridiculously into excessive Laughter and Tears without any cause and are some times troubled with spitting to such a degree as were enough to make one believe that they had been anointed with Mercury Hysterical Pains whatsoever part they affect leave a Tenderness behind them that cannot endure to be touch'd as if the Flesh had been beaten Let Blood be taken away to the quantity of eight ounces Apply the Plaister of Galbanum to the Navel And next morning let the sick person begin to use the following Pills Take of the Pills call'd Cochiae the greateâ— two drams Castoreum powder'd two grains Balsam of Peru three drops Make twelve Pills of which take four every morning of every second day according to your strength about four or five of the clock sleeping after them Take Rue water four ounces compound Briony water two ounces Castoreum tyed in a knot and hung in the Glass half a dram Sugar-candy a sufficient quantity Of this take four or five spoonfuls in every Fit After the Pills take what follows Take Filings of Steel eight grains and with a sufficient quantity of Extract of Wormwood make three Pills which must be taken early in the morning and repeated at five in the afternoon for thirty days drinking after them a draught of Wormwood Wine If the form of a Bolus be more grateful Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and Conserve of the yellow part of Orenges of each one ounce preserv'd Angelica Nutmeg preserv'd Treacle of Andromochas of each half an ounce compound Powder of Aron three drams preserv'd Ginger two drams with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the juice of Citrons or in want of that Syrup of Orenges make an Electuary Take of this Electuary two drams Filings of Steel eight grains and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Orenges make a Bolus which is to be taken morning and evening drinking after it a draught of Wormwood Wine or six spoonfuls of the following Infusion Take Roots of Angelica Elicampane and Masterwort of each one ounce Leaves of common Wormwood lesser Centory white Horehound and Germainder of each one handful the Barks of two Orenges slic'd pour upon them so much Spanish Wine as will rise two inches above them and strain it at the time of using it Or To delicate persons the Steel may be given in the form of a Powder as follows Take Filings of Steel finely powder'd one ounce compound Powder of Aron six drams Coriander seed prepar'd seeds of Anise and sweet Fennel of each half an ounce the best Cinnamon red Coral prepar'd of each three drams Nutmeg two drams Beat them all into a very fine Powder to which add of the best white Sugar to the weight of all the rest Take half a dram of this Powder in a Spoon twice a day four days together and afterwards a whole dram twice every day for forty days drinking after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep or of Wormwood and Wine Take Milk water twelve ounces compound Gentian water four ounces Wormwood water of the greater composition two ounces White Sugar a sufficient quantity Make a Julep Or Take half a pint of Rhenish Wine prepar'd with Wormwood compound Gentian water two ounces Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers one ounce Make a Julep Take choice Myrrh Galbanum and Assa foetida of each one dram Castoreum half a dram with a sufficient quantity of the Balsam of Peru make them up into Pills twelve out of each dram of which take three every night drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of compound Bryony water during the whole process of the Cure If these Pils move the Belly use these that follow Take Castoreum one dram volatil salt of Amber half a dram with a sufficient quantity of extract of Rue make four and twenty Pills of which take three every night drinking after them three or four spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep Spirit of Harts-horn exhibited frequently to sixteen or eighteen drops is of excellent use But if the Disease doth not yield to these remedies then take the following Pills Take Troches of Myrrh powder'd one scruple Balsom of Sulphur terebinthinated four drops with a sufficient quantity of Gum Ammoniac disolv'd make four Pills which must be taken morning and evening drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep with twelve drops of Spirit of Harts-horn The Antiscorbutic Electuary with the Water there described is good also in this Disease and likewise the corroborating Electuary with the addition of Conserve of Garden Scurvy-Grass one ounce compound powder of Aron six drams drinking after it the forementioned Water But if all these Remedies prove ineffectual you must have recourse to the waters that partake of Iron and if these also do no good to those that are sulphureous such as are the Bath waters Concerning the use of the Mineral waters these things are to be observed If any bad symptom appear which may be ascribed to the drinking of the water in such a case you must abstain from them till the symptom disappear Continue the use of them for six weeks at least rather two months Eat now and then preserv'd Ginger or Caraway seeds confected to warm the stomach You may also take three of the Hysterical Pills the first ten nights drinking after them four or five spoonfuls of the Hysterical Julep As for the Bath waters you must dsink them two days and bath in them the third proceeding thus alternately six weeks or two months If the Steel heat the body too much
then during the use of it drink every fourth morning four pints of Mineral purging waters Which though they move the belly yet cause no agitation as the purging medicines of the shopâ— usually do Of the Depuratory or cleansing Fever of the Years 1661 62 63 64. If the sick person be young he must be leâ— blood in the arm and the same day some hours after or the next day two hours after a light dinner let him take a Vomit of the infusion oâ— Crocus Metallorum and after that has done working drink a Pacific Draught such as that which follows Take Black-Cherry water one ounce and half Plague water half an ounce liquid Laudanum sixteen drops Mix them for a Draught From this to the eleventh or twelfth day the following Clyster is to be injected every morning Take of the common Decoction for a Clysteâ— one pound or the like quantity of Cows milk Brown Sugar and Syrup of Violets of each two ounces Make a Clyster After that day suffer his Belly to be constipted that so the Febrile Matter may the soon be concocted to which purpose also moderaâ—â— Cordials exhibited during these last days are very useful as Take Powder of Crabs claws compound fourteen grains Electuary de Ovo half a scruple with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers make a Bolus which may be taken every eight hours drinking after it five or six spoonfuls of the following Julep Take Milk water Black-Cherry water of each three ounces Plague water and Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers of each one ounce mix them and make a Julep or such like If you diligently observe this method you will usually about the fifteenth day perceive both by the laudable breaking of the Urine and the manifest remission of all the Symptoms that it is time to exhibit the common purging Potion Of the Pestilential Fever of the Years 1665 66. After the sick person hath been let blood in his Bed let him be cover'd all over with Cloths and his Forehead bound about with a piece of Woollen Cloth and then if he doth not vomit let some Medicine to procure Sweat be exhibited to him as Take Treacle of Andromachus half a dram Electuary de Ovo one scruple Powder of Crabs-claws compound twelve grains Cochinel eight grains Saffron four grains with a sufficient quantity of the juice of Kermes make a Bolus which must be repeated every sixth hour drinking after it six spoonfuls of the following Julep Take Carduus Benedictus water and compound Scordium water of each four ounces dâ— still'd Treacle water two ounces Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers one ounce mix them for a Julep But if he be troubled with a vomiting the Sudorific ought not to be given till the weight of the Cloths alone make the Sweat begin to appear his Face being in the mean while cover'd with part of the Sheets The Sweat thus begun must be promoted with repeated draughts of Sage Posset or Beeâ— boil'd with a little Mace and continued in this manner the space of a natural day or 24 hours during which time he may be allow'd some dcomfortable Broths for his refreshment After the breaking forth of a Swelling 〈◊〉 durst not open a Vein Let the sick person keep his Bed four and twenty hours after the Sweating is over and diligently avoid all manner of Cold suffering his Shirt to dry of it self upon his body Let him drink nothing but what is hot and still persist in the use of Sage Posset Next morning let him take the common purging Potion The Years 1667 1668 produc'd the Small Pox and a Fever partaking of their nature In the Years 1669 70 71 72. A Dysenterical Fever reign'd And the Years 1673 74 75 were infeste with a Comaton or Sleepy Fever I do not insist upon the cure of these Fevers because I am of opinion that they might have been cur'd by the method describ'd in the account of the Fever of the Years 1685 c. Of Intermitting Fevers They begin with Cold and Shivering which is immediately followed with Heat and that with Sweating after which the Fever disappears though during the first days of the Disease especially in Autumn there sometimes happens a Remission rather than a proper Intermission of the Fever Both the cold and hot fit are for the most part attended with an inclination to vomit vehement sickness thirst and driness of the Tongue The swelling of the Abdomen in Children and of the Feet in Men signify the solution of the Fever The Pain in the Jaws Hoarseness Hollow Eyes and a ghastly Countenance portend Death Take of the Peruvian Bark finely powder'd one ounce and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers or of dry'd Roses make an Electuary to be divided into twelve Doses of which one is to be taken every four hours drinking after it a draught of any sort of Wine beginning immediately after the Fit But if these Bolus's move the Belly pour ten drops of liquid Laudanum into the draught of Wine after every second Dose as you see occasion To prevent Relapses especially of Quartans the foregoing process must be thrice repeated in the three following weeks If the form of Pills be more grateful Take the Peruvian Bark powder'd one ounce and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers make Pills of a moderate bigness of which take six every fourth hour Take of the Peruvian Bark powder'd two ounces Rhenish wine two pounds or a quart Let them stand together in a cold Infusion and strain them through a Woollen Cloath Dose three ounces every fourth hour Another method of curing Tertians Take Virginian Snakeweed finely powder'd fifteen grains White-wine three ounces Give it to the sick person two hours before the Fit and covering him with cloaths let him sweat three or four hours Repeat the same Doses the two following Fit-days in the same manner Of Intermitting Fevers in Children Take Black-Cherry water and Rhenish wine of each two ounces the Peruvian Bark in fine powder three drams Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers one ounce Mix them and make a Julep Dose a spoonful or two according to the Child Age every fourth hour till the Fits return no more pouring into every second Dose if there be a Diarrhaea one or two drops of liquid Laâ—danum Of the present Fever from the year 1685 to 90. The signs are Heat and Cold coming by turnâ— Pain in the Head and Limbs the Pulse in the mean time almost well sometimes a Cough a Pain about the Neck and Jaws the exacerbation of the Fever towards night unquietness thirst the Tongue either moist and cover'd all over with a white and rough film or dry and of a dark colour in the middle which is compast about with a whitish border They that constantly keep their Beds are thereby expos'd to Coma's and Phrensies and Spots Purple Specks Miliar Eruptions as they are call'd which are redder than Measles irregularity of the Pulse starting of the Tendons and at last Death are
scatter'd between the Pimples and little black Spots on the Tops of them subsiding in the middle pissing and spitting of Blood about the beginning of the Disease suppression of Urine The Separation and Febrile Ebullition are transacted in the first three or four days The Expulsion is perfected in the following days by means of little Abscesses arising in the skin Let a Vein be open'd in any of the three first days and nine or ten ounces of Blood taken away and afterwards exhibit a Vomit of an ounce or an ounce and a half of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum During the first days let the Blood be diluted by frequent draughts of Small Beer hopp'd Assoon as all the Pocks are come forth which is usually the sixth day of the Disease let an ounce of Syrup of Meconium be given at night which must afterwards be repeated every night to the tenth day after the invasion Let the Dose be augmented that night if the Pocks be of the running kind to an ounce and an half and one ounce in the morning and continued in like manner till the Patient be recovered from his Sickness If the Syrup of Meconium do not agree with him you may substitute Liquid Laudanum in its place viz. eighteen Drops for an ounce of the Syrup and five and twenty Drops for an ounce and an half In the mean while it is to be observed that if the Quieting Medicine given twice a day be not sufficient to allay the Commotion as it oftentimes happens about the end of the Disease when the Pocks run notably together in that case it ought to be repeated every eight hours or oftner if need require But when the Pocks are distinct it will suffice to exhibit a Composing Draught once every night after the full Eruption and also in a smaller Dose But of whatsoever kind the Pocks are and in whatsoever time of the Disease a Phrensy supervenes it is altogether necessary to curb the disorderly motion of the Spirits and therefore if the former Quieting Dose prove ineffectual it must be repeated again and again till the tumult be wholly asswag'd interposing always a convenient space between the Doses that we may be able to discern whether the last Dose hath already perform'd as much as we desire before we proceed to exhibit another If the Urine be totally supprest let the sick Person be taken out of his Bed and made to walk a little If the Spittle by reason of the Heat be so tough that it cannot be expectorated let a Gargarism be frequently injected into the Throat with a Syringe It may be made of Small Beer or Barley Water with Honey of Roses Or thus Take of the Bark of the Elm-tree six drams Liquorish Roots half an ounce twenty ston'd Raisins Red Roses two Pugils boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a Pint and an half in which being strained out dissolve Oxymel simple and Honey of Roses of each two ounces Mix them for a Gargarism If upon the eleventh or any other succeeding day the Secondary Fever with Unquietness Tossing of the Body and such like other Symptoms be so fierce and high that all the Pacific Medicines how often soever repeated are not able to put a stop to its Fury and Death seems to be at hand let a Vein be immediately open'd and Blood copiously extracted viz. to about twelve ounces and the same once or twice repeated in the following days if the consideration of the forementioned Symptoms require it but not otherwise And in this case after the Letting of Blood the Patient may be gently purg'd on the thirteenth or any other succeeding day and not before as for example let him take an ounce of the Lenitive Electuary dissolved in four ounces of Cichory or Milk Water But neither the Letting of Blood nor Purging doth forbid the use of Composing Medicines which these notwithstanding ought to be exhibited both largely and frequently if need be For after all we must constantly have recourse to them in this Disease When the Pocks are perfectly dried up let the Face be anointed with a Liniment made of equal parts of Oil of Sweet Almonds and Pomate two days and no longer On the twenty first day of the Disease let a Vein in the Arm be open'd and the day after let a Purging Medicine be exhibited and thrice repeated every second day As for the Government of the sick Person let him abstain from his Bed till the sixth day after the first Invasion of the Disease and afterwards keep his Bed till the seventeenth day being cover'd only as he was wont to be when in health Let him feed upon Oat-meal and Barley Broths boil'd Apples and Small Beer and after the eleventh day let him drink if he pleases foor or five spoonfuls of Spanish Wine twice every day If the Swelling in the Legs yield not to the Evacuations above prescrib'd it may be easily driven away with Fomentations of Mallows Base Mullein Elder and Laurel Leaves with Flowers of Chamomil and Melilote boiled in Milk If during the first days of the Disease the Patient spit or piss blood let the Powder and Tincture prescribed in the Chapter of Spitting Blood be carefully exhibited every sixth hour till these Symptoms entirely disappear In which case also large Doses of Composing Medicines must be given Of Saint Vitus's Dance 'T is a sort of Convulsion that infests Children from ten years old to the Age of Puberty It is known by their Limping or by the instability of one of their Legs which they draw after them after the manner of Fools If the Hand of the same side be laid upon the Breast or any other part of the Body they cannot keep it a moment in the same posture but it will be distorted by the Convulsion into another situation and place whatsoever efforts they make to the contrary Before one of these can put a Cup to his Mouth he useth a thousand ridiculous Gestures and Jugler-like Tricks For he doth not bring it to his mouth in a straight line but his Hand being strangely drawn aside by the Convulsion he tosses it a good while hither and thither till at last as it happens to come near to his Lips he suddenly throws the Liquor into his mouth and greedily swallows it down as if he intended to make Sport to the Spectators Let eight ounces of Blood be taken away more or less according to the Age of the Patient by opening a Vein in the Arm. The day following let him take one half of the Common Purging Potion or somewhat more with respect to his Age and at night the following draught Take Black Cherry water one ounce Langius his Epileptic water three drams Treacle of Andromachus one scruple liquid Laudanum eight drops for a draught Let the purging Potion with the pacific draught at night be thrice repeated every second day Afterwards let more Blood be taken away and the purging Potion repeated as before reiterating in this
wise the letting of Blood and Purgation to a third or fourth time and allowing always a convenient respite between the Evacuations that the Patient be not expos'd to any danger In the days that are free from Purgation prescribe as follows Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and of the yellow part of an Orenge of each one ounce Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an ounce old Treacle of Andromachus and preserv'd Nutmeg of each three drams preserv'd Ginger one dram with as much as sufficeth of syrup of the juice of Citron make an Electuary Dose as much as a Nutmeg in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon drinking after every Dose five spoonfuls of the following Wine Take of the Roots of Peony Elicampane Masterwort and Angelica of each one ounce Leafs of Rue Sage Betony Germainder white Horehound and the tops of lesser Centory of each a handful Juniper Berries six drams the Pills of two Orenges Let all be slic'd and infus'd cold in three quarts of Canary Wine When you use it strain out so much as you intend to drink Take of Rue water four ounces Laugius his Epileptic water and compound Bryony water of each one ounce Syrup of Peony six drams mix and make a Julep Dose four spoonfuls every night at the time of going to Bed with eight drops of the spirit of Hartshorn Let a Plaister of Caranna be apply'd to the soles of the Feet The next year about the same time of the year that the Disease first appear'd let a Vein be again open'd and a purging Medicine exhibited some days for prevention of a Relapse It seemeth probable to me that the Falling Sickness in adult persons might be cur'd by this method which nevertheless I have not yet experienc'd But since it is accommodated to the tender Ages of those that are wont to be infested by Saint Vitus his Dance if it be apply'd to the Cure of Epilepsies in persons grown up both the quantity of the Blood that is to be taken away and the Doses of the purging Medicines ought to be augmented Of the Apoplexy It consists in a most profound Sleep and total privation of Sense and Motion excepting only Respiration which is still perform'd but with difficulty and snoring Let a Vein be instantly opened in the Arm and twelve ounces of Blood taken away and afterwards eight ounces more out of the Jugulars Immediately after exhibit a Vomit or an ounce and an half or two ounces of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum Let a large and sharp blistering Plaster be applied to the hinder part of the Neck While these things are doing let the sick person sit upright in his Bed not oppressed with too great a burthen of Cloaths Let Spirit of Sal Armoniac excellently rectified be held to his Nose After the operation of the Vomit is finished let three or four spoonfuls of the following Julep be from time to time exhibited Take Rue water four ounces compound Bryony water and Langius his Anti-epileptic water of each one ounce Spirit of Hartshorn twenty drops Sugar-candy as much as sufficeth make a Julep Or a spoonful of compound Spirit of Lavender may be given twice or thrice by it self during the Fit interposing the space of an hour or half an hour betwixt the Doses Observe heedfully that Cordials ought not to be exhibited too frequently and such as are too hot not at all as it is the custom to do For after all whatever specific vertue they may seem to be endued withal they do more mischief than good by melting the humors and consequently augmenting the Disease which inconvenience also is no less occasion'd by too great a burthen of Cloaths After the Paroxysm is over to prevent a Relapse let these things be prescribed Take of the pill Cochiae the greater two scruples for a Dose to be repeated six times every third day at Four of the clock in the morning sleeping after them Take Conserve of Sage Flowers and of Rosemary Flowers of each one ounce Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge six drams pre served Nutmeg and preserved Ginger of each half an ounce old Treacle of Andromachus two drams the powders of the Electuaries Diambrae and Diamoschu Dulcis of each one dram with a sufficient quantity of the syrup of Citron pickle make an Electuary Dose as much as a Chesnut every morning and evening drinking after it two spoonfuls of Langius his Epileptic water Take of Ambergris half a dram the distill'd Oils of Anise-seed Cinnamon and Nutmeg of each two drops Oil of Cloves one drop Sugar dissolv'd in Orenge-flower water as much as sufficeth to make Tablets according to Art Let the Patient eat one at his pleasure Let him abstain from all manner of strong Drink and eat Broths made of Barley Oats or of Chickens and sometimes even the flesh of Chickens and Lambs and such like Meats of easie digestion especially while purging Medicines are exhibited Of the Inflamation of the Eyes It is manifest of it self Let ten ounces of Blood be taken out of a Vein in the Arm and the common purging Potion exhibited the next day and repeated two days after and once more reiterated after a like interval of time The same Nights let the Patient take a quieting draught of an ounce of the Syrup of Meconium Also let him drink four ounces of an emulsion of the greater cold Seeds and white poppy Seed three or four times every day that is free from purgation Take of Plantain water Red-Rose water and Frogs sperm water of each one ounce Powder of prepar'd Tutty one dram Make a mixture Pour a few drops of it into the Eye twice every day beginning after the first purgation If the Disease do not yield to these Remedies the Letting of Blood especially if it appear pleuritic and Purging must be repeated yet twice more Let the Patient abstain from the use of Wine and all sorts of strong Liquors from Meats also that are salt and hard of digestion and drink milk and water boil'd all the days that are free from purgation Note that it often happens that the setting of Blood and purging how often soever repeated are still found to be ineffectual In this case a composing draught of an ounce of Syrup of Meconium exhibited every night perfects the Cure without the help of any other Remedy Of the Falling down of the Womb. Take of the Bark of an Oak two ounces boil it in four quarts of Spring water till one half be consum'd adding towards the end the Rind of a Pomgranate beaten one ounce Red Roses and Pomgranate Flowers of each two handfuls then add half a pint of Red Wine Let the part affected be fomented with woollen Cloth dipt in the Liquor that is strain'd out two hours before the Patient rise every morning and at night when she is in her Bed till the Symptom disappear Of the Paroxysms of the Stone in the Kidneys The Signs are these A fix'd pain in the
into the Iliac Passion It is thus distinguished from the Stone in the Kidneys 1. The Pain of the Stone is fixed in one of the Reins and from thence is stretched out to the Testicle according to the length of the Ureter But the Pains of the Colic are more unconstant and moveable compassing about the middle of the Belly as with a Girdle 2. The Colical Pains are increased after eating but the Nephritical or Pains of the Stone are rather mitigated 3. In the Colic the voiding of Excrements gives greater ease than in the Stone 4. The Urine of those that are troubled with the Stone is at the beginning of the Paroxysm clear and thin afterwards there appears some Sediment and at last Sand or little Stones are voided whereas in the Colic the Urine is thick from the beginning Let a considerable quantity of Blood be taken out of one of the Arms and three or four hours after an Anodyne exhibited the next day give a lenitive Purge to be repeated every other day to two Doses more But if the Disease was occasioned by gourmandizing or by soon perishing Fruits then first of all the Stomach ought to be washed with great and frequent draughts of Posset and after that is done an Anodyne given the next day order a Vein to be opened and afterwards proceed in the method above prescribed When this Disease having been unskilfully handled hath continued very long and the sick persons have been reduced to extreme Feebleness by it the liberal drinking of either Plague Water Aqua Mirabilis or any other with which they were wont to be most delighted while they were in health hath helped them beyond all expectation Of the Disease called Cholera It contains it self within the Bounds of the Month of August and scarcely maketh any Excursions into the first Weeks of September There is a Disease like unto it occasioned by Surfeiting and Gluttony which tho it be cured after the same manner is yet of another Form The Signs are enormous Vomiting and the voiding of corrupt Humours by Stool with great Trouble and Difficulty Vehement Pain Swelling up and Distension of the Belly and Entrals Gnawing at the Heart or Stomach Thirst the Pulse quick frequent small and unequal Heat and Anxiety a most troublesom Nauseousness or Loathing Sweating Contractions of the Legs and Arms Swooning Coldness of the Extreme Parts and such like Symptoms which kill the sick person in the space of 24 hours Let a tender Chicken be boiled in about three Gallons of Spring Water that there be scarce any taste of Flesh perceivable in the Liquor and let the sick person swallow down several large Cups of this Decoction lukewarm or for want of it of Posset whilst in the mean time Clysters of the same Liquor are successively injected And an ounce of the Syrups of Lettuce Violets Purslain and Water-Lillies or any of them may be now and then mixed both with the Draughts and Clysters The Business of Washing being finished which requires the space of three or four hours a composing Medicine puts an end to the Cure When the Physitian is not called till after the Patient is utterly spent and enfeebled by the Evacuations and the extreme parts are already cold recourse must immediately be had to liquid Laudanum and that in a large Dose viz. 25 drops of it in an ounce of Cinnamon Water which even after the ceasing of the Symptoms ought still to be repeated but in a lesser Dose till the sick Person be restored to his former health There is a sort of Cholera that usually troubleth Children and is often fatal to them which is occasioned by their Breeding of Teeth or Surfeiting Their tender Age will not bear the washing of their Stomach with large Draughts of Liquors much less the raising of a greater tumult in the Humours by purging Medicines and therefore the whole Cure is to be committed to the use of Laudanum Let two three four or more drops of it according to the Age of the Child be exhibited in a Spoonful of Small Beer or some convenient Water and repeated as the occasion shall require Of the Disease call'd Colica Pictonum or the Colic of the People of Poictiers 'T is a kind of Colic that usually degenerates into a Palsy and a total loss of motion in the Hands and Feet which under this name is mentioned by Riverius in his Chapter of the Palsy and is very well known in the Carribee Islands where multitudes of People are infested by it This most cruel Pain is cured with Balsam of Peru exhibited frequently and in great Doses thus Pour 20 30 or 40 drops of it into a Spoonful of the finest white Sugar and give it twice or thrice in the day But the Palsy yields not to this Remedy Of the Iliac Passion The Peristaltic Motion of the Guts is inverted purging Medicines and Clysters do immediately become Vomits the Excrements of the Belly are voided by the Mouth Let nine or ten ounces of Blood be taken out of the right Arm. After some hours exhibit the following Powder Take of Rosin of Scammony or in default of that Rosin of Jalap twelve Grains Torquets Calomel one Scruple mix and make a Powder to be taken in a Spoonful of Cows Milk drinking after it one or two Spoonfuls of the same Milk or if the Form of Pills be more acceptable to the Patient Take of the Pills de duobus half a dram Calomel one scruple with a sufficient quantity of Balsam of Peru make four Pills to be taken in a Spoonful of Syrup of Violets After the Operation of the Purge is ended let the Patient take the following Draught Take of strong Cinnamon Water one ounce liquid Laudanum 25 drops mix them for a Draught which must afterwards be repeated twice thrice or oftner every day till the Vomiting and Pain be asswaged and even after they disappear for the Confirmation of the Cure let the Patient continue the use of the same Composing Draught for some time when he goes to Bed but in a lesser Dose Of the immoderate Flux of the Terms The Monthly Courses of a Woman flowing naturally may fill the Capacity of the Shell of a Goose-egg The immoderate Flux of them is known by the Patient 's ill-bearing or uneasiness under it by the failing of her Strength want of Appetite ill Habit of Body ghastly colour of Face like that of a dead Carkass and swelling of the Feet Let a Vein be opened in the patient's Arm and eight ounces of Blood taken away The next morning let her take the common purging Potion and repeat it every other day to two Doses more drinking at night after every Purgation a composing draught of Syrup of Meconium In the intermediate Days let her take that which follows Take of Conserve of dry Roses two ounces Troches of Lemnian Earth one dram and an half Rind of Pomgranates Red Coral prepared Bole Armenick of each two Scruples Blood-stone and Dragons Blood
of each one Scruple with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary of which let her take the quantity of a large Nutmeg in the morning and at five a clock in the afternoon drinking after it six Spoonfuls of the following Julep Take of the Water of Oak-buds and Plantane of each three ounces Barley Cinnamon Water and Syrup of dried Roses of each one ounce Spirit of Vitriol as much as sufficeth to give it a grateful sharpness Take of the Leafs of Plantane and Nettles of each a convenient quantity Beat them together and press out the Juice of which being clarified let her take four or five Spoonfuls now and then at her pleasure After the first Purgation let the following Plaister be apply'd to the Region of the Loins Take of Vermilion plaister and the plaister for a Rupture of each an equal quantity Spread them on a piece of Leather for a plaister to be applied to the Region of the Loins Of the Hysterical Colic It is a certain kind or rather a very notable and usual Symptom of the Hysterical Disease which is accompany'd with a most sharp pain about the pit of the Breast and vomiting of green Humours First that the glut of the corrupt Humours lodged in the Stomach may not obstruct the efficacy of the quieting Medicine let a large quantity of posset as for example a Gallon and an half be swallowed down and cast forth again by vomiting After which exhibit 25 drops of liquid Laudanum in an ounce of strong Cinnamon Water plague Water or any other convenient Vehicle Concerning the use of the composing Medicine it is to be observed that they ought to be constantly repeated till the Symptoms wholly disappear interposing a convenient space between the Doses that so we may be able to judge of the effect of one before another be exhibited If the patient be of a sanguine Constitution nor hath been formerly subject to this Symptom or weakned by it then let a Vein be first opened before the use of the prescribed Vomit The Disease called The Hysterical Clavus is also cured by the same method But if the Hysterical Colic continue a great while and come by Fits then let the following things be given in the Intervals between the paroxysms Take a Dram of Zedoary reduced to fine powder and make a Bolus with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron pickle to be taken every morning and evening for 30 days together drinking the following Infusion after it Take half an ounce of Zedoary cut into small pieces Infuse it cold in four ounces of Canary Wine and after it hath stood twelve hours strain it for your use Or take Balsam of Peru as it is prescribed in the Chapter of the Colic of the people of Poictiers What is here said of the Hysterical Colic ought to be applied to the Hypochondriacal Colick And this also is to be heedfully observed The nature of both these Distempers seems in a peculiar manner to require that we should essay several Medicines till that at last be found out to which the Disease naturally yields tho for the most part Steel is in this case most effectual This kind of Colic both in Hypochondriacal and Hysterical persons doth often degenerate into the Jaundice which by degrees vanisheth of it self But if it continue long let the following Apozem be exhibited Take of the Roots of Madder such as Dyers use Turmerick of each one ounce greater Celandine the whole plant Tops of lesser Centory of each one handful Boil them in equal parts of Rhenish Wine and Spring Water to a Quart In the strained Liquor dissolve two ounces of the Syrup of the five Roots Make an Apozeme Dose half a pint warm every morning and evening till the patient recover Of the Jaundice when it doth not come after the Colick It is known by the following Signs a yellow colour of the whole Body with which also all Objects appear ting'd to the sick persons and it is chiefly conspicuous in the White of the Eyes an Itching Laziness and Weariness Bitterness of the Tongue sometimes cholerick Vomitings Hiccoughs White Excrements the Urine is of a Saffron colour and dyeth Cloths that are dipt therein of the same colour Exhibit the common purging potion and then prescribe the things that are here subjoin'd during the use of which let the purging potion be repeated every fourth day Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood Conserve of the yellow part of an Orenge of each one ounce preserved Angelica preserved Nutmeg compound powder of Aron and Steel prepared with Vinegar of each half an ounce extract of lesser Centory extract of Gentian and Cream of Tartar of each two drams English Saffron powdered half a dram with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the five Roots make an Electuary of which let the patient take the bigness of a Nutmeg every morning and at five in the afternoon or instead of the Electuary you may give Chalybeat or Steel Pills drinking after the morning Dose four pints of mineral purging Waters and half a pint of the Apozeme prescribed in the Chapter of the Hysterical Colic after the Dose that is taken in the afternoon But if any Signs of a Dropsy appear let the patient use the Apozem both in the morning and evening But if the obstinacy of the Disease will not be overcome by the long continued use of these Remedies let the sick person have recourse to the Iron or Spaw Waters which ought to be drunk at the Fountain head Of the Preservation from Abortion Use the same things that are prescribed in the Chapter of the Immoderate Flux of the Courses omitting only Purgation and the Juices Of the immoderate Flux of the Loches or Child-bed Purgations There are three things required to constitute a natural flowing of the Loches First pure Blood flowing copiously for the first three days then watery Blood like Water wherein Flesh hath been washed continuing about four days after and last of all tough and clammy matter coming forth during the five or six days next following and so onward to the end of the month Now the immoderate Flux of the Loches is to be estimated from the decay of strength Swooning the coming forth of clotted Blood Loathing of Meat Pain in the Hypochondria or under the Ribs Distension of the Belly a weak and frequent Pulse Dimness of Sight Noise in the Ears and Convulsions Let a thickning Diet be prescribed and the following Potion added Take of Plantane Water and Red Wine of each one pint boil them together till a third part be consumed then sweeten the liquor with a convenient quantity of fine white Sugar and let the Patient drink half a pint of it cold twice or thrice a day In the mean time let some mild Hysterical Julep be now and then exhibited and the following Bag applied to her Nose Take of Galbanum and Asa Faetida of each two drams Castoreum a dram and an half Volatil Salt
of Amber half a dram mix them and tie them in a Bag. Or Take two drams of Spirit of Sal Armoniac and put it frequently to her Nose Of Suppression of the Loches The Signs are these A Swelling of the Belly a heavy Pain in the lower parts of the Belly the Loins and Groin redness of Face difficulty of breathing perturbation of the Eyes Shiverings acute Fevers Swoonings Cold Sweats a Sense of Beating and Burning heat in the Womb a Palsy of the lower parts and sometimes an Epilepsy Let her be instantly confin'd to her Bed and the Hysterical Plaister apply'd to her Navel then prescribe this Electuary Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood and of Rue of each one ounce Troches of Myrrh two drams Castoreum English Saffron Volatil Salt of Amber Sal Armoniac and Asa Foetida of each half a dram Syrup of the five Roots as much as sufficeth to make an Electuary of which let her take the quantity of a Nutmeg every four hours drinking four or five spoonfuls of the following Julep after it Take of Rue water four ounces compound Bryony water two ounces Sugar-candy as much as is convenient Make a Julep Or let her take a scruple of Troches of Myrrh every four hours If after the prescrib'd quantity of these Remedies is consumed the Loches continue still to be supprest exhibit only one dose of Laudanum namely 14 drops of Laudanum Liquidum in compound Bryony water or one grain and an half of solid Laudanum made up into two Pills with half a scruple of Asa foetida If these suffice not let a Clyster of Sugar'd Milk be only once injected Of the Dropsie This Disease is first known by the Pits or Impression remaining in the lower parts of the Legs after you have thrust your Finger upon them which appear conspicuously at night but vanish in the morning especially if this sign be accompanied with a difficulty of Breathing though women with Child and such as are troubled with a suppression of their Courses and Men that are suddenly freed from an inveterate Asthma are also not unfrequently molested with swellings of a like nature The Feet and Legs being extremely swoln the Waters rush into the Abdomen and by degrees filling up its capacity stretch it forth to the uttermost till at last falling upon some of the more noble Entrals the sick person is drowned As the bulk of the parts affected increaseth the rest do proportionably grow more and more slender In the mean time there is a difficulty of Breathing and little Urine is voided This Disease doth commonly assault Men when they grow old and Women when they leave off Child-bearing The principal Scopes of the Cure are first the evacuations of the Waters and then by the restauration and strengthning of the Blood to prevent the new increase of the Waters Take of White-wine four ounces Jalap in fine powder one dram powder of Ginger half a Scruple Syrup of Buckthorn one ounce mix them for a Potion to be taken early in the morning and repeated every day or every second day according to the strength of the Patient till the Swelling be abated Or Take of Tamarinds half an ounce Senna Leafs two drams Rheubarb a dram and an half Boil them in a convenient quantity of water to three ounces dissolve in the straining of Manna and loosning Syrup of Roses of each one ounce Syrup of Buckthorn half an ounce the Electuary of the juice of Roses three drams mix them for a Potion to be taken as above Or Take of the Pills ex duobus one Scruple Elaterium three grains Chymical Oil of Cloves two drops Make three Pills to be taken early in the morning and repeated as the occasion shall require Or Take of Gambugia fifteen grains White-wine and Cichory-water of each one ounce and an half Syrup of Buckthorn half an ounce mix them for a Potion to be taken as above Or Take three handfuls of the inward Bark of the Elder boil them in a quart of milk and water equally mixt to a pint Let the Patient take one half of the strain'd liquor in the morning and the other in the evening every day till he be restored to his health But this Remedy is of no efficacy but only in those Bodies that are very easily moved by purging Medicines Concerning the use of Purges in this Disease three things are to be observed In the first place consider whether the Body of your Patient is wont to yield easily or difficultly to purging Medicines For one ounce of Syrup of Buckthorn being exhibited by it self to such as are easily wrought upon will evacuate the Waters very copiously whereas in others the strongest Purges above prescribed will hardly produce the desired effect Secondly Such Purges as are of slow operation do more mischief than good and therefore such as work strongly and even too strongly are always to be preferred before these that are too weak Thirdly The Waters ought to be evacuated with as much haste as the strength of the Patient can possibly bear lest by interposing too long Intervals between the several purgations we give occasion to the Waters to gather again There are some Cases in which all purging Medicines of whatsoever kind they be may and ought to be wholly omitted For when the sick person is of a weak constitution or a Woman subject to Vapours the Evacuation of the Waters is to be attempted only by Diuretics or Medicines that provoke Urine among which the most efficacious are those that are composed of lixivious Salts For Example Take a pound of Brome-ashes infuse them cold in four pints of Rhenish Wine strain the liquor through a piece of brown paper of which let the Patient drink three ounces in the morning at five in the afternoon and at night till the Humours be wholly evacuated Which being performed let such Medicines as heat and strengthen be exhibited as for Example Take the Roots of Horse-Radish Leaf of Garden-Scurvy-grass common Wormwood and Sage the Tops of lesser Centory and Brome infuse them in strong Ale for ordinary Drink which alone doth sometimes cure a beginning Dropsie without the help of purginâ— Medicines Or prescribe that which follows Take of the Conserve of Garden-Scurvy-grass and of Roman Wormwood of each one ounce extract of Gentian of common Wormwood and of lesser Centory of each three drams with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Citron Pill make an Electuary Dose as much as a large Nutmeg in the morning at five a clock in the afternoon and at night drinking four ounces of the following Infusion after it Take of Gentian Roots one ounce Brome tops and tops of lesser Centory and common Wormwood of each one handful Seeds of Fennel and Parsley of each two drams Chop them small and pour upon them four pints of Rhenish Wine let them stand together in a cold Infusion and strain out the Liquor when you use it Note That during the use of these corroborating Medicines you
long and copious Flux of Blood foul colour of the Body tending to a Citron colour as in the Jaundice It brings an evil Habit of Body and afterwards the Dropsie The same things are profitable in this Case that are prescribed in the Chapter Of the immoderate Flux of the Courses omitting only Purgation Of the Epilepsy in Children Children are usually troubled with the Faling Sickness either during the first Month afâ—er a Loosness in which case Diacodium to â—he quantity of a Pepper Corn dissolved in Saxifrage Water or Mothers Milk and exhibited is a most excellent Remedy or about the time of their Breeding of Teeth from the seventh to the tenth Month it is accompany'd with a Cough or which is far worse with Vomiting and Loosness the Infant voiding green Excrements after the manner of Hysterical Women Sometimes the Fit cometh suddenly and unawares distorting the Mouth and Eyes overspreading the Face with Blackness and causing convulsive Motions in divers Limbs And otherwhile the coming of it is signify'd before-hand by the Contraction of the Fingers into the Fist and a setled and unusual unmoveableness of the Eyes The Fits are sometimes long and sometimes short sometimes they return at set-times and otherwhiles observe no certain period but when Death is at hand they come so thick that they seem to tread upon one anothers heels If at any time they grant a Truce the Child remains drowsie and prone to sleep till he be rous'd by a new Paroxysm Apply a Blistering Plaister as soon as may be to the hinder part of the Neck Take of Langius his Epileptic Water three drams Liquid Laudanum one two or more drops according to the Age of the Child Syrup of Peony one dram mix them for a Draught which must be instantly exhibited Take of Rue Water three ounces Langius his Epileptic Water and compound Bryony Water of each one ounce Syrup of Gilli-flowers half an ounce mix and make a Julep of which give a spoonful every hour if the Draught already prescribed hath not discust the Paroxysm Of the Rickets truly so called It is known by the Looseness Softness Feebleness Languishment Laziness Dulness and unequal nourishment of the parts viz. the Head is bigger than is meet the Face fuller and more florid the fleshy parts beneath the Head pine away the Joints are possest with Knotty Protuberances chiefly the Wrists but the Ankles not so much the Bones are bowed especially those of the Legs and next to them those of the Cubit between the Elbow and Wrist sometimes also the Shoulder and Thigh-bones the Teeth come forth slowly and with pain they are loose black and fall out the Breast is narrow toward the sides and high and sharp before Other signs are a stuffing of the Abdomen or Paunch distension of the Hypochondria or places under the short Ribs Coughing faultiness of the Lungs and an averseness from lying on one side which happens to be sometimes the Right side and otherwhiles the Left Take of the Leaves of common Wormwood lesser Centory White Hore-hound Germainder Scordium common Calamint Feverfew Meadow Saxifrage St. Johns wort Golden rod wild Time Mint Sage Rue Carduus Benedictus Penny-royal Southern-wood Camomil Tansy and Lilly of the Valley all freshly gather'd and chopt of each one handful Hogs Lard four pounds Sheeps Tallow two pounds Claret wine a quart Let them stand twelve hours soaking on hot ashes in an earthen Vessel then boil away the Moisture and afterwards strain them for a Liniment with which anoint the Belly and the parts under the short Ribs and also the Limbs every morning and evening for thirty or forty days or till the Child recover Take of each of the prescribed Ingredients two handfuls infuse them cold in four Gallons of Beer not hopp'd for ordinary drink When Tumors possess the Bellies of Children caused by excessive Evacuations Let the Blood and Bowels be strengthned with corroborating Herbs as in the Rickets properly so called Only let the Armpits be also anointed on both sides but not the Limbs Of Fevers proceeding from the Breeding of Teeth Let two three or four Drops of Spir it o Hartshorn according to the Age of the Child be exhibited every four hours in a spoonful or two of Black Cherry water or some other convenient Julep repeating it four or six times Of the Hectic Fever in Children They languish with a notable Heat and Dejection of Appetite the Trunk of the Body and the Limbs are extenuated Put two drams of Rheubarb sliced into a Glass Bottle capable of containing a Quart of Small Beer for ordinary Drink and after it is drunk up pour upon the same Rheubarb another Quart of Beer and so a third time But if the Drink be too strongly impregnated with a Purgative Vertue after one Pint is drunk up let another be immediately added to that which remains Of Bleeding at the Nose It is attended with Pain and Heat in the Forepart of the Head Let a Vein be frequently opened in the Arm and a cooling and thickening Diet injoined Prescribe also cooling and thickening Juleps and cooling Emulsions Let a cooling Clyster be injected every day and a composing Draught of Syrup of Meconium exhibited every night and prescribe the common purging Potion to be be taken once or twice Dip a piece of Linnen cloth four times doubled in cold water in which Sal Prunellae hath been dissolved and squeezing it a little apply it to the Neck behind and on both sides oftentimes in a day After the Evacuations apply the following Liquor Take of Hungarian Vitriol and Allum of each one ounce Flegm of Vitriol half a pound Boil them tâ—il the whole be dissolved then suffer the Liquor to grow cold and strain it through Brown Paper and separating it from the Crystals that now and then arise add to the remaining Liquor a twelfth part of Oil of Vitriol Or rather Take of Plantane Water four ounces Bole Armeniac in fine Powder half an ounce mix them thoroughly Dip a Tent made of the scrapings of Linnen in this Liquor and put it into the Nostril out of which the Blood flows where let it remain two days If these things do not prevail dissolve Roman Vitriol in common Water and dipping a Tent therein put it into the Nose Clouts dipt in this Liquor and apply'd do also stay Bleeding in any of the external Parts Of the Green-Sickness The Signs of this Disease are these Ill colour of Face and of the whole Body Swellings in the Face Eye-lids and Ankles Heaviness of the whole Body a stretching Weariness of the Legs and Feet difficult Breathing Feverish Pulse Sleepiness Pica or longing for things that ought not to be eaten and stoppage of the Courses Let the Patient take the Chalybeat Pills or Powder prescribed in the Chapter Of the Hysterical Passion more or less according to her Age drinking after them a Draught of any sort of Wine that pleaseth her or of the corroborating Infusion of the Roots