Scurvigrass-water two ounces Cinamon-water Syrup of Worm-wood of each one ounce and half Oil of Juniper one drachm mix them together for a Julep of which you may also give two or three spoonfulls every fourth hour I prescribe no Purgers in this Distemper because I am taught by large Experience that the sour Humours in the Body may be stirr'd up indeed but not purg'd unless with very great gripes which will doe more hurt â—â—an good The encreâ—â—e of the acid Juice may be prâ—â—â—nted by abstaining from the use of acâ—â—â— Let the Patient's diet be moist and fatty as fat Broths Jellies aromatiz'd c. When the Head-ach proceedeth from a hot cause if the Patient be costive first give this Clyster Take of Mercury Violets Lettice Mallows Dandelion of each one handfull Damask Clyster Prunes twenty let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two pints of Fountain-water till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Electuary lenitive one ounce and half Oil of Lillies two ounces mix them for a Clyster After its operation you may open a Vein and draw eight or nine ounces of bloud Some Authours will not consent to Phlebotomy in any Head-ach except the Pain be intollerable but I have had sufficient Experience that it may be done safely in any Pain of the Head Elixir proprietatis taken in Wormwood-wine to the quantity of half a drachm at a time a little before meat doth wonderfully conduce to amend the vitious quality of Choler Choler may be evacuated by vomit most commodiously by Antimonial preparations Take of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum one ounce Oximel of Squills half an ounce Give it in the morning Vomit But if the Patient be averse to vomiting the Choler may be evacuated by stool by this or the like Cathartick Take of baum-Baum-water one ounce cinamon-Cinamon-water two drachms Syrup of Roses solutive Purging Potion the best Manna of each half an ounce Powder of Cream of Tartar twenty grains Diagredium ten grains mix it for a Potion which may be given in the morning fasting Also these most gratefull Tablets of Scammony may be prepared and kept for use Take Cristals of Tartar two ounces Scammony one ounce white Sugar four Troches ounces with Gum Dragon dissolv'd in Rose-water as much as is sufficient let it be made into Troches according to Art Half a drachm of these Troches may be given to a Child with carefull governing a Man or Woman may take two drachms of them They who are fearfull of Scammoniats though safe and potent let them take the following infusion Take of choice Rhubarb two drachms Cream of Tartar one drachm infuse them Purging Infusion in four ounces of Endive-water for a night then strain it and add Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of Cicory with Rhubarb of each half an ounce Cinamon-water two drachms give it in the morning fasting This Electuary is also an excellent Cholagogue Take the Pulp of Damask-prunes ten ounces Powder of Scammony Cream of Tartar Electuary of each two ounces Rhubarb ten drachms Cinamon half an ounce yellow Sanders two drachms the best Manna Syrup of Cicory with Rhubarb of each eight ounces mix all together into an Electuary according to Art The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce taken either in a Bolus or dissolved in a sufficient quantity of endive-Endive-water or any other convenient vehicle These excellent Medicines do not onely purge Choler abounding but purify the Bloud and other Humours and here we may note that if a purging Medicine do not operate according to Expectation it may safely Observation be repeated the same day without any danger If the Head-ach be accompanied with a great Fever and Thirst be augmented the following Medicines will much conduce to asswage it Take of Barley-water two pints cinamon-Cinamon-water two ounces Syrup of Violets four Iulep ounces salt Prunella half an ounce mix it and give the sick three or four spoonfulls of it often This Tincture is also very effectual Take of Barley-water two pints Red-rose-buds Tincture one ounce spirit of Vitriol twenty drops or as much as is sufficient to make it of a good Tincture let it infuse all Night then strain it and add Syrup of Jujubes four ounces mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every three hours If an Emulsion may please better take this following form Take of sweet Almonds one ounce the Emulsion four greater Cold-seeds of each half an ounce white Poppy-seeds two ounces let the Almonds be blanched and all well beaten in a stone Mortar then with four pints of Barley-water make an Emulsion strain it and add Syrup of the Juice of Limmons Diacodium of each three ounces Cinamon-water two ounces of which let the sick drink often four spoonfulls at a time You may also have a little fine Sugar and salt Prunella equally mixt which may be kept in the Mouth to deceive the Thirst. But where rest is hindred by the Choler abounding and cannot be obtain'd by the Emulsion which gently procureth sleep you may dissolve two grains of Laudanum opiat in two or three spoonfulls of it and give it at night or you may order this or the like Julep Take the Waters of Lettice Water-lillies of each two ounces Syrup of red Poppies Iulep one ounce cinamon-Cinamon-water half an ounce Laudanum opiatum four grains Oil of Vitriol six drops mix it and give four spoonfulls of it to cause sleep This Epitheme may be applied to the Temples and Fore-head with Linnen-rags Take the Oils of Violets and Water-lillies of each half an ounce the waters of red Roses Epitheme Lettice and Houseleek of each two ounces Vineger of Roses half an ounce mix it You may also anoint the Temples and Fore-head with this Ointment Take the Ointment of Alabaster Populion Ointment Oil of Mandrakes of each half an ounce mix it Let the Patient's diet be Mutton or Veal-broth without salt When a salt Catarrh or the like spittle is the cause of Thirst augmented you may administer a Pill of Styrax or Cynoglosson which will temperate the saltness of the humours and if salt serous matter abound in the Bloud you may purge it by Stool and Urine for which there are variety of Medicines prescrib'd in the Chapter of Catarrhs CHAP. II. Of the Palsie and Apoplexy THE Palsie is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. a solvendo eo quod nervorum genus resolutum facultate animi Paralysis defluere prohibita sensu motuque destituatur It may be also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. dimidia Apoplexia In Latin it is called nervorum resolutio vel relaxatio It is a Privation of sense and motion of one side of the Body or of some particular part The Apoplexy is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoplexia ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 percutior attonitum reddo In Latin 't
medicines to cure them for if the matter be thick and viscous it must be attenuated and cut with Aromaticks and afterward evacuated with Phlegmagogues So likewise serous and salt Catarrhs are to be temper'd with Oily things and Opiats and the plenty of humours to be diminisht with Hydragogues by which means the cure will be the sooner performed For viscous Catarrhs accompanied with a Cough I commend these following medicines Take the Waters of Hyssop Mint of each Iulep three ounces Cinamon-water Syrups of Fennel and red Poppies of each one ounce and half Laudanum opiatum six grains Spirit of Salt Armoniack twenty drops mix it of which you may give three or four spoonfulls every three hours By the frequent use of this Aromatick Julep the viscous Phlegm will not onely be attenuated but the over sharp Vapours will be discust and the other humours temper'd After the Phlegmatick humours c. are thus prepared it will be convenient to evacuate them downwards by gentle purgation with powerfull and effectual Phlegmagogues and such are all mercurials Colocynthis Hermodactils c. to be taken chiefly in the form of Pills Take Extract Rudii pil ex duobus of each one drachm Mercury dulcis half a drachm Purging Pills Oil of Cloves four drops mix them for three Doses If the sick be averse to Pills give this Potion Take of Rhubarb Agarick Hermodactils Polypodium of each two drachms Cinamon Purging Potion Cloves of each one drachm Sage Rosemary of each one handfull sweet Fennel-seed Juniper-berries of each three drachms bruise them and insuse them in hyssop-Hyssop-water very hot for the space of a Night then strain it and dissolve in it Syrup of Roses solutive Electuary Diaphaenicon of each one ounce mix it for a Potion Every night give the Patient a Pill of Styrax or Hounds-tongue to stay the Rheum and to give ease and rest If the Catarrh be serous and hot accompanied with a Fever and the sick have a costive Body this Clyster will be effectual Take the common decoction for Clysters Clyster twelve ounces Diacatholicon Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each six drachms Oil of Chamomel two ounces common Salt one drachm mix it for a Clyster After the operation of it you may open a Vein in either Arm and take away eight or nine ounces of Bloud Then give this purging decoction Take Borage Lettice Purslain Endive Purging Decoction Violets of each one handfull the four greater coldeeds of each one drachm Damask-prunes ten Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed of each two drachms let them be bruised and boiled in eight ounces of the pectoral decoction till half be consum'd then strain it and dissolve in it Syrup of Roses solutive Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each half an ounce Spirit of Niter six drops mix it for a Potion You may give this Potion twice in a week which will both temper and gently evacuate the serous and acid humours and flatuous Vapours will also thereby be discust and gently educ'd To cause rest and thicken the Rheum let one of these Pills be given every Night to bed-ward Take of Laudanum three grains Powder Pills opiat of Olibanum Extract of Saffron of each four grains with a little pectoral Syrup make it into four Pills Or you may give a Pill of Styrax every Night going to bed When the Rheum flows down from the Head into the Trachoea arteria it stirs up a Coughing more or less according to the Tussis sharpness and plenty of the humours which are many ways vitiated wherefore a Cough may be diversly cur'd according to the diversity of its cause If the humours be over sour they may be corrected with Pearl Coral Crabs-eyes c. If the Rheum be too serous and salt the aforesaid pil Estyrace Cynaglos c. is excellent to temper it Becchical Troches both white and black are not onely effectual but gratefull to the sick in this coughing distemper If the humours be thick and viscous they require sourish sweet things and Aromaticks to attenuate and cut them The fore-mention'd Julep may be prescrib'd in this Case When the salt sharp and serous humours abounding are corrected and temper'd they may be diminisht by Hydragogues The Hydragogue Electuary prescrib'd in page 18 is an effectual and gratefull medicine which may be often us'd to the profit of the sick Children may take from one drachm to two and Adults to half an ounce of this excellent medicine once or twice a week As in other distempers always so let me here admonish you in general to be very diligent to attend to the medicines that most conduce to every particular Body whereby they may be prefer'd before the rest and as long as they profit continue in the use thereof that so the health of the sick may be every way promoted When much bloud is voided by coughing Sputum Sanguinis there is great danger wherefore we must hasten the more to its cure left the opportunity here if any where urgent be lost by delay for the singular substance of the Lungs is easily infected and corrupted but difficultly restor'd and repair'd wherefore bloud carried down from the Head into the Lungs and raising a Cough is to be stopt in its efflux To this end let a Vein be opened especially if a Plethora concur or there be a notable heat of Bloud or a suppression of its wonted emptying After bleeding let the over great heat be allay'd with sour and tart medicines for example take the following Decoction Take of Plantane Housleek Wood-sorrel of each two handfulls boil them in Barley-water Decoction one quart till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of Jujubes three ounces Salt prunella one drachm Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls every three hours The flux of bloud may be stopt by conglutinating medicines which have power to close the Vessels either broken by violent coughing or corroded by the sharpness of the descending Rheum Take the Waters of Comfry Plantane of each two ounces Cinamon-water distil'd Astringent Julep Vinegar of each one ounce Syrup of Mirtles Comfry of each six drachms Powder of Dragons-bloud red Coral prepar'd of each one drachm Laudanum opiat six grains Oil of Sulphur per Campanam twenty drops mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every two hours This choice medicine often taken will cure the most ruptions of vessels and will soon stop the flux of bloud beyond expectation but I advise that a sparing use of it should be continued for some time after the disease is cur'd to sense whereby the affected parts may be strengthned against the access of a new evil The bloud distilling into the sharp Artery of the Lungs will soon corrupt and turn into purulent matter if not prevented by convenient medicines which hath power to dissolve the coagulated bloud that it may be the easier expectorated The following form may be
juice of the Pancreas too acid as experience teacheth in outward things for if you pour Spirit of Vitriol to oil of Turpentine it will presently raise an effervescency join'd with a notable heat and burning This burning pain is chiefly felt in the region of the Loins because there is the conflux of Choler and the juice of the Pancreas and from thence ariseth vitious sharp vapours which produce griping pains of the Stomach and pricking pains in the Guts as also other wandring pains therein If the pain be chill and cold it is caus'd from the juice of the Pancreas very acid and sharp which raiseth a vitious effervescency with Choler not oily and phlegm together as we may observe if we mix Spirit of Vitriol with any volatile Salt not oily how it will raise an effervescency coupled with a notable Chilness and Coldness onely sensible hence we may conclude that the operation of the acid Spirit in producing cold is much promoted by phlegm The cause of the Colick is over viscous Cause of the Colick phlegm mixed with Choler peccant both in its Saltish acrimony and volatile oiliness by which the viscous phlegm is rarifi'd into Wind and if the excrements are contain'd beyond their course they harden and adhere to the Gut whereby the natural ferment is vitiated and the windy blasts are more and more rarifi'd and being shut up and remaining in the Cavity of the Gut Colon it causeth a violent distension and contraction of it But if the aforesaid humours be mixt with the juice of the Pancreas over sharp acid and harsh then there is a wonderfull sense of contortion in the part affected urging and writhing from place to place according to the winding or rolling of the Gut If this wind pierceth through the Guts Observation into the Cavity of the Belly it expandeth the Peritonoeum and so inflateth the whole Abdomen and causeth a Tympany Tympany These Distempers are all dangerous and Progn sometimes mortal especially if a violent Fever be complicated with them We must vary the cure according to the diversity of the causes Cure A burning corroding pain may be cur'd by tempering too fat Choler with Acids as Spirit of Niter c. being mixt with Opiates For example Take the Waters of Fennel Fumitory Iulep Sorrel Succory of each three ounces Cinamon-water distill'd Vinegar Syrups of Violets and white Poppies of each two ounces Laudanum opiatum ten grains Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it Let the sick often take a Spoonfull of this Julep till the heat and pain be diminished and sleep be procured The following Emulsion is also profitable and therefore may sometimes be given for a change Take the four greater cold Seeds white Emulsion Poppy-seeds of each one ounce French Barley boiled four ounces with two quarts of Barley water let it be made an Emulsion and add to it Syrups of Violets and white Poppies of each two ounces Salt prunella half an ounce Spirit of Niter thirty drops mix it and give four Spoonfulls every two or three hours If Choler be two plentifull let it be educ'd with this or the like mild Cholagogue Take Damask-rose water two ounces Purging Potion Manna Diaphaenicon Electuary of the juice of Roses of each two drachms Tartar Vitriolated ten grains mix it and take it in the morning The Cholagogue Electuary of Sylvius is also excellent of which you shall have the receipt at the latter end of the Book Chilness and cold pains may be cur'd by tempering the over sharp acidity of the juice of the Pancreas Lixivial Salts both fixt and volatile are excellent in this Case as also any Aromatick Spirit of wine Treacle water c. with which may be mix'd Coral Pearl Crabs-eyes Antimon Diaphoret c. and let the body be compos'd to sweat The following forms may serve for example Take the waters of Treacle Fennel Syrup Cordial Diaphoretick of the juice of Carduus of each half an ounce powder of Crabs-eyes Antimony Diaphoretick Salt of Wormwood of each ten grains mix it and give it the sick to cause sweat You may also give some of this Cordial Julep to uphold the Spirits when they sweat Take of Tincture of Cinamon the Carminative Cordial Iulep Spirit of Sylvius of each half an ounce the waters of Mint Baum of each two ounces Syrups of the juice of Oranges Clove-gilliflowers of each one ounce Laudanum opiat four grains Oil of Cloves six drops mix it and give two or three spoonfulls of it often Let Sylvius's Carminative Plaster be spread on Leather and applied to the region of the Stomach and Navel As for the cure of the Cholick let an Emollient Cure of the Cholick Clyster which discusseth wind be given often at least twice in a day Take the roots of Marsh-mallows one Clyster ounce Pellitory of the Wall Mallows Marsh-mallows the Flowers of Melilot Chamomel of each two handfulls the Seeds of Anise sweet Fennel Dill the Berries of Bays and Juniper of each one ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of Whey till half of it be consumed then strain it and add Electuary Diaprunum Cariocostinum Benedicta laxativa of each half an ounce Oils of Dill Chamomel Roses of each six drachms Oil of Harts-horn ten drops mix it for two Clysters The smoak of Tobacco may be blown into the Clyster-bladder and given with it with good success Besides a Clyster may be made of Canary wine or warm Cows Milk and a little Honey or Malossus and given sometimes to soften the hard excrements and to dissolve those that are too viscous whereby they may be the easier evacuated and also Wind invited to an easie outlet To drink the Decoction before prescrib'd will much conduce to ease the sick also of the same ingredients you may make fomentations and Cataplasms But if the Patient do not care for the trouble of such medicines you may anoint the Belly with this ointment Take Ointments of Marsh-mallows Martiatum Ointment Oils of Capers white Lillies of each one ounce Oil of Bricks half an ounce mix it After which apply a large Plaster of Sylvius's Empl. Carminative Empl. to the Belly The following Julep taken often by spoonfulls will much conduce to ease the pain and discuss the wind Take the Waters of Mint Scurvigrass Fennel Carminative Iulep Lovage Penny-royal of each one ounce the carminative Spirit of Sylvius Tinctures of Cinamon and Castor of each half an ounce Syrups of Mint Fennel and Mirtles of each six drachms Oil of Mace distill'd ten drops Spirits of Harts-horn and Niter of each twenty drops Laudanum opiatum ten grains mix it for a Julep The Oil of Harts-horn is a very Potent though ungratefull remedy in this disease Also the Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Anise-seed Amber or Juniper is excellent in vanquishing this rebellious distemper After the violence of pain is abated you may purge the Body
Cause of all continual Fevers not putrid If the Stomach by Dietetick Errors as in Eating or Drinking too much sour Fruit or Juices be over-charg'd with Acids it may prove hostile injurious and a morbisick Cause of that which we call the Heart-burning c. with sour Belchings and sometimes a Nauseousness even to Vomiting In this Case after the Operation of a gentle Emetick you may administer half a Dram of the Pouder of Pearl Crabs-Eyes or any of the Testaceous Pouders twice or thrice in a Day to absorb the peccant Acidity Chalybeates may be also safely administred Likewise in all Chronical Diseases caused by the over-sourness of the Juice of the Pancreas c. as aforesaid after general Evacuations the finest Filings of Iron turn'd to Rust may be given to half a Dram at a time in a stued Prune or any other Vehicle twice in a Day because the Stomach by its incisive Acidity together with other accidental or concomitant Acids doth penetrate the Particles of the Iron and rarifie its Vitriolick Salt which will not only help Digestion but kill Worms and circulates with the Blood and Lympha and will in time purifie the whole Mass of it But if Choler be peccant as aforesaid causing Fevers and other Acute Diseases then after Evacuation by Vomiting or Purging I commend acid Liquors and Juices as Lemons c. Also purified Niter may be given in all Fevers But here we may note That it is the Nature of all Acids to coagulate and thicken the Blood and its Serum wherefore we must be cautious that we do not let Blood nor give too many Acids in the Small-Pox and malignant Fevers because in these Distempers the Blood is preternaturally viscid and therefore it abounds with too much Acidity of which you may read more at large in the ensuing Treatise I come now to mention some choice Specificks for the Cure of Diseases for the Sake and Benefit of the Poor who have not Money to pay a Doctor for his long Receipts nor the Apothecary for Medicines SAlt Niter purified is an efficacious Medicine in the Cure of most Diseases it may be poudred with an equal Quantity of white Sugar and given to half a Dram at a time every six Hours in all Fevers the whole time of Sickness and also before and after because it is an acid Salt and contains in it a volatile incorruptible Sulphur and by reason of its Acidity it refrigerates the inflamed Blood and powerfully checks the preternatural Fermentation of it and preserves its natural Consistency For by the subtilty of its Spirit it insinuates it self into the whole Mass of Bloud and penetrates into all Parts and so strengthens and recreates the Heart as to make it resist and overcome all Putrefaction and therefore it is a great Antidote against the Plague and all contagious Fevers If it be dissolved in any liquid Vehicle and drank a little often it will dilute the Lixivial Salt of Choler and being mixed with proper Catharticks and Balsamick Medicines it will conduce much to the Cure of most Chronical Distempers also for it discusseth Wind opens all Obstructions and causes the vitious Humours to precipitate and to be evacuated both by Urine and Stool Quicksilver boil'd in Water with a few Raisons of the Sun to sweeteen it and the Liquor drank freely killeth Worms The Quicksilver may be boiled a thousand times and always have the same weight so that the Water partakes of Mercurial Irradiation by which it becomes destructive to Worms A strong Decoction of Ground-Ivy or Alehoof sweetned with Sugar-Candy and a quarter of a Pint of it taken twice or thrice in a Day helps Distempers of the Breast and Lungs and a strong Infusion of it in Aqua Vitae or Brandy cureth the Colick The Decoction of Herb Robert and Patronichia or Whitlow-Grass with Leaves like Rue given inwardly every Day 'till the Mass of Blood and Juices of the Body be impregnated with the Vertues of the Herbs cureth the King's-Evil The Juice of Penny-royal clarified and a little sweetned with Sugar-Candy and given the quantity of a Spoonful three or Four times in a Day cureth all sorts of Coughs Cows and Goats-milk boiled in an equal quantity of Water wherein unslak'd Lime hath been quenched and a little Cinamon and the young Bark of the Oak bruised and boiled in it 'till a third part be consumed cureth all kinds of Fluxes Glauber's Sal Mirabile is an excellent Lenitive Cathartick It may be safely given to Men Women or Children in all Diseases where purging is necessary The Dose is from half a Dram to an Ounce dissolved in warm Whey or Milk and Water A few Drops of rectified Oyl of Vitriol mixed with a quarter of a Pint of fair Water to a light Acidity a little sweetned with white Sugar and drank every Day for some time killeth Worms and quencheth Thirst in Fevers If you mix an Ounce of rectified Oyl of Vitriol with two Ounces of Oyl of Ben or pure Oyl of Olives stirring it 'till it be well incorporated you have a good Balsam to ease Pain and cure an Inflammation in any part by anointing once in a Day or two you may apply a Colwort-leaf or a Plaister of Diachilon or a Poultis of White-Bread and Milk with a little Butter in it to the grieved part after anointing but you must have a care that it does not touch your Linnen A strong Tincture of Catechu or Japonian Earth with half its weight of Jesuits Bark both in fine Pouder in small cinamon-Cinamon-Water cureth Catarrhs and all sorts of Fluxes Take a quarter of a Spoonful thrice a Day in any Vehicle Sweating is good in most Diseases if Strength permits Virginia Snake-Root and the Root of Contra Yerva bruised and boiled in fair Water and sweetned with a little Sugar and given a quarter of a Pint every four Hours to any that are bitten with an enraged Viper soon cureth the Patient especially if you bathe the part bitten with the same Decoction without Sugar so hot as can be endured Gambogia finely poudred and mixed with an equal quantity of pure Niter and given to half a Dram at a time twice or thrice in a Week soon cureth the Yellow-Jaundice and Dropsies The best Gum Arabick given at least a Dram twice or thrice in a Day either in Pouder or dissolved in small Ale or any other convenient Vehicle doth wonderfully mitigate the Sharpness of Urine A strong Decoction of woody Nightshade a little sweetned with Sugar and given to a quarter of a Pint every Morning will purge gently and open all Obstructions and cure the Yellow-Jaundice Dropsies c. The Decoction of Hearts-Ease sweetned with Sugar-Candy cureth the Pleurisie and other Inflammations It is an excellent Antivenerian c. and therefore it may be a chief Ingredient in Decoctions to cure the French-Pox A Decoction of Groundsel is an universal Medicine for all Diseases coming of Heat It purgeth gently and if the Stomach be
or three Days then press it out very hard and add the same quantity of Sarsaparilla as before do this for eight or ten times the ostner the better add to the Spirit of the best Gum of Guiacum in fine Pouder half a Pound the Balsam of Peru and Tolu of each two Cunces mix them all together in a Glass Resort lute a Receiver to it and digest it for ten days then draw off all the Spirit with a gentle heat in Balneo Mariae when it is cold break the Retort and take out the Pouder and keep it for use It is an efficacious Medicine against the Rheumatism Gout Venereal Pox and all Chronical Diseases The Dose is half a Dram in a Spoonful of Whey or Milk or any other Vehicle every Morning fasting or mix it with an equal quantity of factitious Cinnaber in fine Pouder and give it every Morning and Evening for some time Electuarium Antiscorbuticum nostrum Our Electuary against the Scurvy c. Take of the Berries of Bays Ivy and Juniper of each four Ounces the Seeds of Dwarf-Elder Burdock Ash Broom Peony Gromwel the Bark of Elder of each two Ounces Let them be all bruised and boiled in the Juices of Elder-Berries and wild Cucumbers of each one Pound the Juice of Buckthorn-Berries four Pound 'till half of it be boiled away then press it out very hard and boil it to the Consistence of a Pulp to every Pound of it add an equal quantity of white Sugar and boil it again 'till it be almost as thick as an Electuary then dissolve in it whilst it is very hot the same weight of pure Nitre as there is of Sugar To every Pound of the Electuary add four Ounces of Balm of Gilead two Ounces of our Balsamick Pouder before mention'd one Ounce of factitious Cinnaber in fine Pouder and two Drams of Oyl of Juniper mix all together according to Art It is an excellent Cathartick in all Diseases which requires Purging for it potently evacuates all vitious Humours promiscuously out of the Body it cureth the King's-Evil Rheumatism Gout Dropsie Scurvy dry Belly-ach and all curable Diseases The Dose is from two Drams to an Ounce It may be given in the form of a Bolus or dissolved in Ale Whey or any other liquid Vehicle and taken in the Morning fasting Sal Chalybis noster Our Salt of Steel or Iron Take the finest Filings of Iron or Steel rectified Oyl of Vitriol of each one Pound mix them together in a large Earthen-Pan well glazed let it stand for two or three Hours then pour into it two or three Quarts of fair Water and it will presently effervesce and the Salt will stick about the Pan take it out and keep it for use Tinctura Chalybis The Tincture of Iron or Steel Take the finest Filings of Iron or Steel four Ounces rectified Spirit of Nitre half a Pound mix them together in an Earthen-Pan well glazed when the Effervescency is over let it cool and add to it Spirit of Wine rectified five Pound mix it well together then filter it through brown Paper and keep it for use Both of these Medicines are great Aperitives opens all Obstructions cures the Rickets Green-sickness Stoppage of the Terms Yellow-Jaundice c. they strengthen the Stomach kills Worms and purifies the whole Mass of Blood You may give from half a Scruple to half a Dram of the Salt in any Vehicle every Morning The Tincture may be taken from ten to forty Drops at a time in Beer Ale or Wine Aqua Styptica nostra Our Stiptick Water Take of pure white Vitriol Roch-Alum of each four Ounces let them be poudred and calcined in a Crucible 'till it be red-hot then quench it with Wine-Vinegar and calcine it again Take it out of the Crucible and dissolve it in a Gallon of spring-Spring-water add to it two Ounces of Saccharum Saturni then strain it and keep it for use It cures the Itch and all other Eruptions the grieved Parts being wash'd with it three or four times in a day It likewise cureth hollow Ulcers and Fistula's the Gonorrhaea in Men and the Whites in Women You may inject it with a Syringe warm twice in a day AN INDEX OF THE CHAPTERS Comprehending all the Diseases of this BOOK The Contents of the First Book Chap. Page I. OF the Head-ach 1 II. Of the Palsie and Apoplexy 13 III. Of Convulsions and the Epilepsie 22 IV. Of the Night-mare and Vertigo 35 V. Of the Lethargy Coma Carus and Catalepsie or Catochus 38 VI. Of the Phrensie and Madness 44 VII Of Catarrhs 55 The Contents of the Second Book Chap. Page I. OF Shortness of Breathing 69 II. Of the Pleurisie and other Instammations 72 III. Of the Consumption or Phtisick and Hectick-Fever 83 IV. Of the Palpitation of the Heart 92 V. Of an universal Languishing as also of Swouning and Syncope 96 VI. Of Fevers in General 103 VII Of Intermitting Fevers 116 VIII Of Malignant Fevers and the Calenture 124 IX Of the Plague or Pestilence 129 X. Of the Small-pox and Measles 136 The Contents of the Third Book Chap. Page I. OF the thirsty Disease 141 II. Of Hunger vitiated or of a depraved Appetite 144 III. Of want of Appetite or loathing of Victuals 148 IV. Of the Hiccet or Hiccough 152 V. Of Belching 156 VI. Of Vomiting and of the Cholerick and Iliack Passion 158 VII Of Pain in the Stomach and of various Pains of the Guts as Colick c. 168 VIII Of Worms 179 IX Of Loosenesses or Fluxes of the Belly 185 X. Of the dry Belly-ach 196 XI Of the Yellow-Iaundice 202 XII Of a Cachexy or ill Habit of Body 207 XIII Of Dropsies 211 XIV Of the Scurvy and Hypochondriack Suffocation commonly called Fits of the Mother 222 XV. Of the Green-sickness and Suppression of the Courses 231 XVI Of the immoderate menstrual Flux and the Whites in Women 237 XVII Of the Falling down of the Womb and Fundament 242 XVIII Of Barrenness 245 XIX Of Abortion or Miscarriage 249 XX. Of hard Travel in Child-birth 252 XXI Of Nephritick Pains and of the Stone in the Reins and Bladder 257 XXII Of extraordinary Pissing 269 XXIII Of involuntary Pissing commonly called Pissing in Bed 272 XXIV Of the Stoppage of Urine and the Strangury 274 XXV Of the scalding or sharpness of Urine 277 XXVI Of Venereal Affects 279 XXVII Of the Rachites or Rickets 288 XXVIII Of the Gout and Rheumatism 303 Praxis Medicinae Reformata OR THE Practice of Physick REFORMED BEING AN Epitome of the whole Art Wherein is briefly shewed The true Causes Signs Prognosticks and Cure of most Diseases BOOK I. CHAP. I. Of the Head-ach THE Head-ach may be divided into three Kinds The first is the momentany Head-ach it Cephalalgia is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caput and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dolor The second is an inveterate Head-ach and is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod
tegit Calvarium The third is a Pain on one Part of the Head before behind or on one side this is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hemicrania cranium and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dimidium There is little difference between Cephalaea and Cephalalgia only per Cephalaeam affectae partes multo redduntur quam in Cephalalgia debiliores These Distempers are caused by Halituous Vapours and Humours fuming up from the Stomach and other Parts to the Head 1. If the Pain be external so that the Signs combing of the Head be troublesome then the Pericranium is affected But if the Pain be internal reaching to the Eye-roots then the Dura mater is invaded with the peccant Humours 2. If there be pricking distending Pain with great Pulsation it is from sharp bilious Humours or Halitus but if the Pain be heavy it is caused from viscous Phlegm or Melancholy 1. If a violent Head-ach come suddenly Progn on a healthy Person and the Party become dumb and snort 't is a mortal sign unless a great Fever do immediately happen 2. If corrupt waterish Matter or Bloud do issue out of the Nostrils Mouth Ears or Eyes especially on the fourth Day the sick will suddenly recover but if the Pain be very violent and do suddenly vanish without a Crisis 't is doubtfull 3. If the Pain be without a Fever accompanied with noise in the ears deafness or megrim with numbness of the extreme parts an Apoplexy or Epilepsy is at hand 4. Those that have Cholerick stomachs are most subject to a Hemicrania and if it continue long it causeth weakness of the Eyes and sometimes blindness If the Head-ach proceed from Phlegmatick Cure Viscous humours abounding first give this Clyster Take of Vervain Betony Mallows Mercury Clyster of each one handfull Let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in a Quart of Posset-drink 'till half of it be boiled away then strain it and dissolve in it one ounce of the Electuary Caryocostinum Oil of Chamomel two ounces mix it for a Clyster Sour things and all that have a Lixivial salt either fixt or volatile and all Aromaticks do correct and amend the viscous Phlegmatick humours Let these forms serve for example Take the Waters of Baum and Mint of Iulep each three ounces Cinamon-water and aqua Coelestis of each half an ounce Syrup of Fennel and Mint of each six drachms Spirit of Salt as much as will make it of a gratefull taste mix it and give three spoonfulls of it often Take salt of Tartar vitriolated half a drachm Cream of Tartar one drachm Powder white Sugar-candy two drachms make it into a fine Powder for four Doses which may be taken every morning and evening in white or Rhenish wine For the Rich you may prepare a medicinal Wine This may serve for example Take the Roots of Elicampane Calamus aromaticus of each one ounce of Rue Sage A medicinal Wine Vervain sweet Marjoram of each three handfulls Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed of each an ounce and half Orange-peel half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and infused in two quarts of White-wine It may be given to three or four ounces in the morning fasting with twenty drops of Elixir proprietatis you may also give it by it self at dinner and supper When the Wine is used fresh Wine may be put to the Ingredients for a second infusion But farther to correct and gently evacuate the viscous Phlegmatick humours This opening Apozeme is effectual Take of the five opening Roots of each two ounces Liquorish an ounce and half Apozeme Guiacum half a Pound Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed the Berries of Bays and Juniper of each half an ounce Vervain Betony of each one handfull let them be cleansed bruised and infused in two quarts of rain-Rain-water very hot for twenty four hours then strain it out very strongly and add the best Manna Syrup of Roses solutive with Senna of each four ounces tincture of Cinamon three ounces salt of Tartar vitriolated half an ounce mix it and give three ounces every morning fasting If there be need of stronger Physick you Purging Pills may administer these purging Pills Take of Extract Rudii pil foetidoe Cochioe of each half a drachm Mercurius dulcis twenty grains mix it for three Doses If the pain be old and stubborn apply Vesiccatories to the Neck also Leeches to the Temples and Haemorrhoids or open the jugular or frontal Vein which hath often prov'd effectual Errhines Sternutatories and Apophlegmatisms may also be used and Ventoses with Scarification if need require Baths of Sulphur whether natural or artificial with Cephalick Herbs are good to bathe the Head and whole Body Some approve of the fume of Amber taken into the Mouth and Nostrils Also spirit of cranium humanum or spirit of salt Armoniack held to the Nose in a narrow-mouth'd Vial giveth present ease in all cold Pains of the Head Also you may touch the Nostrils and Temples with Oil of Amber or Nutmegs or apply this Epitheme to the Temples and Forehead with Linnen-rags Take the Waters of Vervain and Betony of each one ounce Vineger of Roses Ointment Epitheme of Alabaster of each half an ounce Laudanum opiatum one scruple mix it Cold distempers of the head may also be corrected by hot Cephalicks quilted in a Cap for the Head Take of sweet Marjoram Stoechas Vervain For a'quilted Cap. Betony Sage Flowers of Chamomel of each one handfull Nutmegs Cloves Wood of Alloes the Roots of Galangal Cyperus Calamus aromat of each half an ounce let them be all beaten into Powder for a quilted Cap. Before you put it on let the Hair be shaved close and the Head gently rub'd for some time the better to open the pores Let the Sick abstain from fat and viscous Food and let the mind be compos'd to chearfulness If the Juice of the Pancreas abounding in the Body be over sour it causeth a vitious Effervescency being oppos'd by Choler and Phlegm in the small guts from whence sour and ungratefull vapours may be sent to the Stomach and thence to the Head If the humours be over sour the sense of Signs hunger will be encreased notwithstanding the Pain of the Head This distemper is to be cur'd by giving Cure those things which temper and amend the acid Juice in the Body and do prevent its encrease Those things abounding with either a lixivial or volatile salt do powerfully destroy this acid Juice as Pearl Crabs-eyes Coral Chalk Amber Bloud-stone Filings of steel c. Take this as a form of a Powder Take of Crabs-eyes Pearl red Coral prepar'd Powder of each half a drachm white Sugar half an ounce let it be made into fine Powder for six Doses which may be taken morning and evening in two or three spoonfulls of the following Cordial Julep Take Waters of Baum and Mint of each Cordial Iulep three ounces
ounce to people of age a Child may take from half a drachm to a drachm either by it self or dissolv'd in Whey or parsley-Parsley-water or in any other convenient Vehicle After universal evacuation hath been made and the Patient's stomach be still nauseous this vomit may safely be given Take the Infusion of Crocus metallor Vinegar Vomit of Squills of each one ounce give it in the morning with Care After the operation of it give some of this Cordial Julep Take the Waters of Sage Couslips Lillies Cordial Iulep of the Valley of each two ounces Cinamon-water one ounce Syrup of Peony-flowers Stoechas of each six drachms Spirit of Castor two drachms Spirit of Salt as much as will make it of a gratefull taste of which you may give the sick three or four spoonfulls every fourth hour To correct a slow ferment and also to amend Phlegmatick viscous humours a Medicinal Wine may be prepared for the rich in this form Take the Roots of Galangal Elecampane Medicinal Wine of each half an ounce the tops of Wormwood Mint and Calamint of each one handfull Powder of Cinamon Anise-seed of each half an ounce Nutmegs two drachms let them be cleansed bruised and insused in six pints of White-wine The sick may drink of this Physick-wine at dinner and supper adding to every draught five or six drops of Elixir proprietatis When the wine is almost consum'd more may be poured on till it cease to be Aromatical External means for the Palsie and Apoplexy are also to be used Bathing is much commended both natural and artificial and how excellent it is daily experience doth manifest This artificial Bath or one like it may be prescrib'd where a natural sulphureous or nitrous Bath cannot be had Take Sage Penny-royal Betony Organ Bath sweet Marjoram Hyssop Rue Time Ground-pine of each six handfulls Flowers of Chamomel Melilot of each four handfulls Roots of Briony Pellitory of Spain of each four ounces Bay-berries Juniper-berries of each three ounces Brimstone six pound Salt-niter two pound let all be bruised and boiled in twenty Gallons of Spring-water till the third part be consumed Let the sick be well bathed with this as often as strength will permit After bathing anoint the hinder part of the Head and Neck and down the Vertebra of the Back with this Oil upon which let a Fox-skin drest be worn Take Chymical-oils of Juniper-berries Oil. Turpentine Spike of each half an ounce Oils of Chamomel Earth-worms Rue Foxes of each one ounce Spirit of Castor two drachms mix it This plaister may be applyed to the Head Take Galbanum Opopanax of each half an ounce Mustard-seed white Pepper Euphorbium Plaister Castor of each two drachms Chymical Oil of Sage and Rue of each twenty drops Oil of Spike and Turpentine of each a drachm make it into a Plaister which you may spread on leather and apply it warm to the Head Or you may make the quilted Cap as is prescrib'd in page 6. to wear constantly Oil of Nutmegs is good to embrocate the Ears and Nostrils also Errhines Sternutatories and Apophlegmatisms may be used with good success Take Castor sweet Marjoram Betony Sneezing Powder Root of white Hellebor of each a drachm beat them all into a fine Powder Blow up some of this Powder with a quill into the Nostrils to cause sneezing Let the Patient's diet be such as may not breed Phlegm and let it be thin and spare as Water-gruel in which boil some Mace or you may make Broth of Mutton c. in which boil Sage Rosemary Time sweet Marjoram Couslips c. Of this broth you may make Panado's with the Crums of white Bread and the Yelk of an Egg. Let Anise-seed or sweet Fennel-seed be baked with the bread Abstain from all clammy Diet as Fish and Milk c. and eat little or no supper CHAP. III. Of Convulsions and the Epilepsie THE Cramp or Convulsion is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Convulsio Spasmus It is a very painfull involuntary Contraction of the Nerves and Muscles towards their Original There are generally two sorts of Convulsions viz. A true Convulsion and a Convulsive motion A true Convulsion is either universal or particular Of the universal there are three Kinds The first is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin tentio ad anteriora when the Body and Head is drawn forward The second is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin tentio ad posteriora when the Head and Body is drawn backward The third is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek and distentio in Latin in this the whole Body is inflexible The particular convulsions are various If it be in the Eye it is called strabismus That of the Mouth is call tortura oris c. The Falling-sickness or Epilepsie is called Epilepsia in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 invado quod sensum atque mentem pariter apprehendat It is called also in Latin Epilepsia vel invasio item morbus hominem ita invadens ut retineat sistat sensuum actiones because the mind and senses in this disease are suddenly surprized It may be called morbus caducus a cadendo or morbus puerilis because it is most subject to Children or more properly noverca puerorum quod eos male tractat It is also called Herculeus Elephantiasis a magnitudine because it is difficult to cure Some call it morbus lunaticus because the sick are most subject to the fits at the change of the moon but enough of the Names The Epilepsie is an universal Cramp or Convulsion of the whole Body with deprivation of sense and motion in the time of the fit The parts affected are not onely the Brain Cerebellum and Spinalis medulla but all the Partes affecte Nerves and Museles The causes are either external or internal Causes The external may be by the biting of some venemous Creature or by a wound or puncture of a Nerve or Tendon Sometimes it may be caused by surfeiting or drunkenness and also by the taking of Hellebor c. It may be also caused by a mineral Gas fuming from the Mines of Lead or Antimony c. which infecteth the Air with noxious metalline exhalations of a venemous malignity which is many times the cause of Convulsions as they can tell by experience that live near those Mines The internal causes are acrimonious and flatuous Vapours rising from the small guts because of over viscous Phlegm and the over acidity and tartness of the Juice of the Pancreas which causeth a vitious effervescency of the humours by which the Lympha is also rendred very sharp These sour flatuous Vapours continually ascending to the Head together with the spirituous substance of the Bloud and going forward into the Ventricles of the Brain and Cerebellum and so to the first spreading of the Nerves and corroding them causeth an inordinate
agitation and very fierce motion of the Animal spirits and by a continual and grievous Irritation urging about the beginning of the Spinalis medulla is the cause of an universal Convulsion or Epileptick-fit in which all the Muscles of the Body are most vehemently contracted The Irritation in a particular Convulsive motion or the Cramp which may be oft observ'd in the thigh or leg and other extreme parts may be also ascrib'd to the same sharp and sour flatuous Vapours carried to the beginning of the Nerves and Tendons of the said Members fretting and gnawing them sometimes with great pain The signs of Convulsions are manifest Signs The preceding signs of the Epilepsie are trembling sadness fearfulness vertigo numness debility of the senses troublesome sleep with great pain of the Head The signs of the Epilepsie presently approaching are a vehement shaking of the whole Body foming at the Mouth and a sudden deprivation of all the Animal functions 1. A Convulsion or Epilepsie being hereditary is incurable Progn 2. If a pregnant Woman be taken with either of them it is very dangerous and also after Abortion 3. Children are most subject to these diseases because they abound with abundance of moisture and flatulent Vapours in the Brain and because they have Nervorum poros angustos whereby the Brain is easily filled with such vapours and therefore we see that Children are often troubled with them young People more rarely and old Folks but seldom and we find that Children better suffer them than either of the other who frequently die of these fits especially of the Epilepsie when in their falling there follows snorting gnashing of the teeth a ghastly countenance much some at the Mouth involuntaria seminis effusio and great cryings out 4. Of all the kind of Convulsions Tetanos is the most difficult to cure because it is as it were composed of the other two kinds but if a fever happen in this or any other Convulsion the sick will suddenly recover because a fever dissolveth it but if a Convulsion should succeed a fever it is very dangerous especially from a wound or proceeding from venemous matter So likewise it is very dangerous if it be caused by taking of Hellebor When a particular Convulsion is caused Cure from a prick of a Nerve or Tendon as it may happen sometimes by the unskilfulness or precipitancy of the Chyrurgeon in opening a vein then most speedily pour into the wound or puncture the Oil of Turpentine with rectifi'd Spirit of Wine both actually hot as that famous Chyrurgeon Mr. Ambrose Parey adviseth in his ninth Book Chap. 11. of which I have had large experience with good success The like course may be taken with all other wounds of the nervous parts But if the wound of the Nerve or Tendon yield not to this medicine the same is to be cut asunder cross-ways seeing it is safer to lose the action of one part than that the sick should be exposed to the danger of a deadly Convulsion When the Nerves or Tendons of the Muscles are prickt by sharp splinters of bones the grievous pains succeeding soon cause a particular Convulsion of that part and at length an universal Convulsion will attend the Patient if there be not speedy help Wherefore if possible the sharp fragments of the bone must be cut away or if this have been neglected or could not be done and an universal Convulsion be feared you must hasten to amputation of the member For Necessitas non habet legem If a particular Convulsion be occasion'd by a hot Tumour or any other sharp pain which hath rais'd an inflammation let the pain be diminisht as well by internal as external Anodines and Narcoticks to allay the over encreas'd motion of the Animal spirits To this end you may give the sick two or three grains of Laudanum opiat at a time either in a Pill or dissolve it in a little Wine or other convenient Vehicle And if the ingenious and judicious Physician or Chyrurgeon do add a little volatile Salt either of Animals or Vegetables to his topical Medicaments whether fomentations Cataplasms or Ointments he will wonder at the incredible benefit for by the help thereof the Tumour will be mollified and dissolved the internal obstruction loosned and the pain eased If a Convulsion be caused by the taking of Hellebor or any other venemous matter administer an Antimonial vomit with all speed But if it be a Child give it ten grains of Salt of Vitriol or half an ounce of Oxymel of Squills with a drachm of Oil of Almonds After the operation of the Emetick and also at other times you may give some of this Julep Take of Black-cherry-water the Water of Iulep Line-flowers of each two ounces Briony-water compound Syrup of Peony of each one ounce Tincture of Castor half an ounce Confection of Alkermes one drachm Spirit of Salt Armoniack twenty drops mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every fourth Hour Having briefly hinted at the Cure of particular Convulsions I come now to those more universal as likewise Convulsive motions and the Epilepsie And seeing there is little difference in the remote causes of them in the Body these diseases may for the most part be cured with the same Remedies 1. First then the peccant humours are to be temper'd and diminisht 2. The rising of vapours is to be hindred and their expulsion procur'd by sweat or insensible transpiration By which the over motion of the Animal spirits will be restrain'd and brought to tranquillity that is a more quiet motion All Aromaticks and all things abounding with either a fixt or volatile Salt do not onely correct and by cutting amend the viscous phlegmatick humours but do powerfully temper and destroy the over acidity and tartness of the juice of the Pancreas To temper and diminish these humours I commend these medicines Take the Roots of Male-peony Valerian Infusion Missletoe of the Oak and Peony-seeds of each two ounces Castor half an ounce let them be all bruised and infus'd in peony-Peony-water compound the Water of Line-tree-flowers of each one pint for the space of twenty four hours then strain it out very strongly and add Syrup of Peony and Stoechas of each three ounces Spirit of Castor half an ounce mix it and give three spoonfulls at a time every fourth hour with which you may mix Spirit of Salt Armoniack Elixir proprietatis of each six drops Also you may give the Patient half a drachm of the following powder in three or four spoonfulls of this Infusion with the aforesaid Spirit and Elixir Take of Crabs-eyes Salt of Tartar vitriolated Salt prunella of each half an ounce volatile Salt of Harts-horn Salt of Amber of Man's skull prepar'd of each two drachms make it into a fine powder which may be taken half a drachm at a time morning and evening The peccant humours being temper'd and diminisht by the frequent use of the abovesaid medicines the inordinate
involuntary and impetuous motion of the Animal spirits in Convulsive and Epileptick fits will be the better reduc'd to a calm and voluntary motion by the help of volatile and spirituous Sudorificks mixt with Anodines and Narcotick medicines us'd in a small quantity and at times which two will be expedient to be given together because then they will the better circulate to the Animal spirits and temper and educe the hurtfull flatuous Vapours For which I commend the following form Take of Treacle-water Fennel-water of each one ounce Syrup of Peony Syrup of Cordial to cause Sweat the Juice of Scurvigrass of each half an ounce Antimony Diaphoretick Bezoar mineral Crabs-eyes in powder of each ten grains Laudanum opiat four grains Tincture of Castor one drachm Oil of Cloves three drops Spirit of Salt Armoniack ten drops mix it and let the sick take it being well cover'd with cloths whereby the sweat will the easier come forth If the Body be costive let it be made soluble by a Clyster or Suppository such as is prescrib'd in the cure of the Apoplexy As often as the Stomach is naufeous or the sick inclines to vomiting let the Emeticks before mention'd be carefully administred and likewise three or four days before the full of the moon But if the sick be averse to vomiting and Pills or Potions are more acceptable take the following as Examples Take of Extract Rudij pil foetidoe ex duobus Purging Pills of each a drachm and half Castor black Hellebor prepar'd of each half a drachm Salt of Amber twenty grains Oil of Rosemary twenty drops with Syrup of Stoechas make it into a Mass for pills of which you may give half a drachm twice a week Also this purging Infusion is very effectual Take of the best Senna Rhubarb and Cream of Tartar of each an ounce and half Infusion Liquorish and the five opening Roots of each one ounce Guiacum China-roots of each six ounces Missletoe of the Oak Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed Bay-berries and Juniper-berries of each half an ounce let them be all bruised and infused in black-cherry-Black-cherry-water and the Water of Line-tree-flowers of each a quart very hot for the space of a Night then strain it very hard and add Syrup of Roses solutive with Senna Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb of each three ounces Cinamon-water two ounces Salt of Tartar vitriolated half an ounce mix it Let the sick take four ounces of this purging Infusion every morning whereby the viscous humours and flatuous Vapours may be both corrected and also evacuated gently by degrees If bloud abound let a Vein be opened in Women open the Saphoena in either Foot but in Men you may apply Leeches to the Hemorrhoidal Veins c. Bathing hath been often us'd with good success in these diseases A natural sulphureous Bath such as is in the City of Bath is excellent but when it is not to be had an artificial Bath may serve That which is set down in the Cure of the Palsie and Apoplexy is of excellent Virtue and very effectual in these distempers After bathing let the Spina Dorsi and other affected parts be anointed with the following Ointment Take the Oils of Euphorbium Rue Castor Ointment Petre Spike Turpentine Bricks Dil Chamomel of each half an ounce Oils of Amber and Juniper of each two drachms the Ointments Martiatum and Aregon of each one ounce mix them for an Ointment Issues are approved of either in the Neck or Arm also Ventoses with Scarification Sternutatories Errhines and Masticatories are all commended This Masticatory may serve for Example Masticatory Take the Roots of Pellitory of Spain Ginger Calamus aromaticus of each one ounce Mustard-seed all sorts of Pepper Nutmegs Castor Mastick of each half an ounce beat them all into fine Powder and with fine Honey boild into a Syrup make them into Troches according to Art When they are drie you may chew them one after another when you please to draw the Rheum out of the Mouth When the fit is coming or upon the party blow up some Sneezing-powder into the Nostrils or the Smoak of Tobacco into the Mouth Embrocate the Temples Fore-head and Nostrils with Oil of Amber and hold the Spirit of Salt Armoniack to the Nose in a Narrow-mouth'd viol Make a noise in the Ears and let the sick be kept in a light Room with the Head upright Let the teeth be kept open with a stick or rather with a little viscus quercinus if it may be had Let the soles of the feet be well rub'd with Salt and Vineger also Frictions and Ligatures may be used in the parts affected Some commend a Pigeon cut asunder and applied hot to the Navel for hereby the venemous halituous Vapours are partly drawn away I might add variety of medicines for the cure of these diseases but those before mentioned are sufficient to give light to the ingenious Artist who knows how to prepare diversity of them as well milder for Infants and Children as stronger for Adults I will therefore prescribe a powder to preserve Children from Convulsive and Epileptick-fits and so conclude this Chapter Take the Roots of Peony Valerian of Epileptick Powder each half an ounce the Moss that groweth upon a Man's skull the triangular Bone of a Man's skull prepar'd Missletoe of the Oak Elks-hoof the Seeds of Peony sweet Fennel and Annise of each two drachms red Coral whitest Amber and Emerald prepar'd of each one drachm white Sugar the weight of them all let them be reduc'd into a fine powder You may give a Child twenty grains of this powder with a little Oil of sweet Almonds so soon as it is born which may happily preserve it from Convulsions and Epileptick fits And because obstructions of the Belly in Children exposeth them to flatuous Vapours and Gripings and so consequently to Convulsive and Epileptick-fits I advise you to keep the Belly open either with a little Manna or a Carminative Clyster so often as you see convenient Let the sick live in a serene Air and abstain from all food that breeds bad nourishment and flatulent Vapours CHAP. IV. Of the Night-mare and Vertigo I Shall treat of these two distempers in one Chapter because if either of them continue long they are Forerunners of the Palsie or Apoplexy and sometimes Convulsions or Epilepsie The Night-mare is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Incubus in Latin 't is called Incubus ab incubando quod externa vis quoedam aut moles incubare videtur It is called the Night-mare because it oppresseth the sick in the Night at which time they think that some great weight lieth upon them by which they seem to be almost suffocated It happens most commonly after the first sleep whereby the party oppressed is deprived of speech and motion and sometime breathing for a time When the fit is upon the sick they do imagine that some Witch or Hag lieth hard on their Breast or Stomach from whence
it hath also acquired that Name in which they cannot stir nor call for help though they have a great desire and do strive very much to cry out but are possessed with a panick fear The cause of this distemper is most commonly Cause intemperance in eating and drinking especially in the Night whereby crude halituous Vapours are bred in such plenty that nature cannot disperse nor dissolve them before sleep and therefore they are raised up to the Ventricles of the Brain by which imagination sense and motion are all depraved The giddy motion is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. obscuritas oculorum In Latin 't is called Vertigo ex vertendo quod Caput vertere videtur Vertigo In this disease the Animal spirits are wrong mov'd which makes the sick believe that not onely all things they look on go in a Circuit about but their Head and other parts seem to turn round which many times causeth them to be in danger of falling or tumbling headlong The cause of the giddy motion is either Cause external or internal The external are either an intent looking at any object that turns round or about especially if very remote or a frequent turning about of the Body it self The internal cause is the ascent of flatuous Vapours to the Head together with the spirituous part of the Bloud and carried with the Animal spirits into the passages of the Brain and Cerebellum by which the motion of wheeling about is communicated to the Animal spirits and anon carried to the Cristalline humour of the Eyes by the Optick nerves and so a Giddiness seems to be produc'd For the Cure of these diseases seeing they are the Forerunners of the Apoplexy and Epilepsie I refer you to those excellent Medicines prescrib'd for the Cure of them Let such as are subject to these distempers be very sparing in their diet let them avoid all Herbs Roots and Fruits that are windy and all viscous and gross diet such as is of hard Concoction Let the external Causes be remov'd and the internal causes corrected Sublata causa tollitur effectus CHAP. V. Of the Lethargy Coma Carus and Catalepsie or Catocus THE Lethargy is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est ab oblivione Lethargus inertia Because in this disease the sick is very forgetfull and slothfull In this distemper there is a very great Signs propensity to sleep accompanied with a Symptomatical Fever and sometimes with the Hiccough with difficulty of breathing dulness of the Head and many times a deprivation of the Senses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sopor altus is an insatiable inclination to sleep the sick being called unto Coma. they open their Eyes and answer but presently fall a sleep again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is called in Latin crapularis redundantia because it is sometimes caused Carus by surfeiting end drunkenness It is deep and profound sleep whereby imagination sense and motion are all depraved In these there is no Fever in which they differ from the Lethargy Catalepsis vel Detentio is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a with-holding or restraining because in this distemper the mind with the senses and motion are all suddenly surprized so that the sick remain stiff and immoveable in the very same posture in which they were taken with their Eyes open The causes of these diseases are either Causes external or internal The external causes are gross food idleness spirituous wine or any other inebriating liquour taken in excess and sometimes by the Air inspir'd which is defil'd by the Smoak of Coals or other mineral Fumes by which the Air may be infested The internal cause is a Narcotick force mix'd with the Animal spirits bred by degrees in the Body by the frequent use of opiats not well corrected which not onely dulls the mind but causeth a sluggishness of the whole Body for the Animal motion being deprav'd the external as well as internal senses will be thence soon infected and defil'd These diseases are all very dangerous and except they are speedily cur'd they will soon Progn hurry the sick into the Boats of Acheron or devouring Jaws of Death But if a Phrensie cometh immediately after any of them it cureth the Patient with little help of medicine To cure these diseases let the drowsie Animal Cure spirits be stir'd up and rais'd from sleepiness and stupidness by potent external Objects which may sharply move the external senses let the sick be kept in a light room and be often called upon very strongly and let sharp smells be applied to the Nostrils such as Spirit of Salt Armoniack Harts-horn c. Also sharp spices or salts should be put into the mouth and gentle frications us'd with warm Cloaths to those parts that are affected with Numness The Animal spirits may be freed from the Narcotick force mingled with them and likewise slothfulness and sleepiness may be by little and little diminished by the frequent use of sharp volatile Salts and all Medicines endued with an Aromatick biting such as Pepper Cloves Castor Garlick Horse-radish Mustard Scurvigrass c. Of which you may make diversity of Medicines for example Take the Waters of Hedge-mustard Scurvigrass of each two ounces Syrup of the Iulep Juice of Scurvigrass one ounce Tincture of Castor two drachms Oil of Cloves four drops mix it and give the sick two or three spoonfulls every two hours This decoction is also very effectual Take the Roots of Horse-radish the best Decoction China of each two ounces Roots of Galangal half an ounce Scurvigrass Hedge-mustard of each one handfull Cloves one drachm let them be all cleansed bruised and infused in White-wine and fountain-Fountain-water of each a quart for the space of a Night very hot the next morning boil it gently for half an hour then strain it and add Syrup of Hedge-mustard Scurvigrass of each three ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water two ounces mix it Let the sick lying in bed meanly covered take often in a day five or six spoonfulls of this decoction whereby a light sweat may break forth to ease them By the frequent use of these medicines the Animal spirits will not onely be freed from their drowsiness but even the Narcotick force bred in the Body either in the length of time or received in from without may be corrected and by degrees gently educ'd by insensible transpiration So that at length these dangerous distempers may happily be overcome Let Clysters and Suppositories be often administred as need requires Those prescrib'd in page 17 18. in the Cure of the Palsie and Apoplexy are very effectual here If strength and age permit let a vein be opened in either Arm or Foot as you shall see cause for generally Authours consent to it besides Experientia docet Let Ventoses with or without Scarification be applied to the shoulders and hinder part of the Neck And let Sternutatories be
Armoniack twenty drops Laudanum opiat ten grains mix it let the sick take a spoonfull of it every quarter of an hour till they get some ease If the distemper hath persever'd long the peccant humours must be emptied out by purging and to educe them I prefer before all others Pills to be made of Gums seeing they loosen the glutinous humours and dispose them to be easier carried out For example Take of Galbanum prepar'd with Vinegar Purging Pills half an ounce Powder of Scammony prepar'd Troches Alhandal of each two drachms Oil of Carraway twenty drops make it into a Mass for Pills Take five or six of these Pills in the Morning fasting twice a week They who abhor Pills may use an Aromatick and purging Decoction The following though bitter is very efficacious Take the five opening Roots of each one Purging Decoction ounce Roots of Angelica Berries of Bay and Juniper of each half an ounce the best Senna Orange-peel Carraway-seed Coloquintida of each one drachm Guiacum four ounces let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of fountain-Fountain-water till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of Roses with Senna four ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water two ounces mix it Let the sick take four ounces of this bitter Decoction every other Morning which will by degrees diminish and mildly educe the hurtfull humours by purging But seeing not onely the cause ought to be removed but also the Symptomes asswag'd by refreshing the Heart you must administer cordial Medicines which have power to corroborate the Heart and to cherish and strengthen nature The following Cordial may be preferred in this Case Take the Waters of Baum Mint Borage Cordial Iulep Cinamon of each three ounces Syrups of Baum red Poppies of each two ounces Laudanum opiat Amber-greese of each ten grains mix it Let the sick take two spoonfulls of this rich Cordial every three hours which will wonderfully refresh and delight the sensible Stomach from whence the perfumed impressions will soon be communicated to the whole Body by which all the vital and animal Functions will be refreshingly cherished and strengthned and the Palpitation of the Heart eased and abated If the Patient hath a costive Body let a carminative Clyster be sometimes administred and if a Plethora concur let a vein be opened either with an Instrument in the Arm or by Leeches applied to the Haemorrhoids CHAP. V. Of an universal Languishing as also of Swouning and Syncope AN universal Languishing of the strength of all the parts and functions is sometimes observ'd to remain after some disease preceding not rightly cured especially when the Infirmity hath been grievous for then a weariness or defect of the Animal motion doth usually concur together with a weak or little pulse and dulness and debility of the internal and external senses whereby the sick continues weak and more languishing by certain intervalls than is natural All the kinds of Swounings may be divided for methods sake into two viz. the lighter kind and the most grievous The lighter kind of Swouning or fainting is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin animae defectio ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 anima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deficere because it is an Imbecility or Feebleness of the Heart and Courage The most grievous and singular kind of swouning is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Syncope concido to cut away quod praeceps virium omnium lapsus It is also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. pulsus privatio because there is no pulse neither indeed presently in the fit is there any Animal or voluntary motion or respiration to be observ'd so that they are more like dead than living Creatures The signs of these fits approaching are Signs yawnings a Cardialgy Anxiety of Compression of the Heart griping and distension of the Belly tinkling in the Ears dimness before the Eyes and a Giddiness and at the approach of a Syncope there are often Convulsive motions with a cold and glutinous sweat and paleness of all the parts of the Body The causes of these distempers are either Causes external or internal The external are many as extreme weariness of the Body exceeding passions of the mind prolong'd hunger or thirst ungratefull smells the sight of any Person or thing that is envied too great effusion of Bloud Seed or Milk over great evacuation of the humours by Vomit Stool Sweat Urine c. It may also be caused by the biting or stinging of any venemous Creature and by any other vehement pain Sometimes it is produc'd by a great heat either of the Sun Fire Bath or Fever Any of these Causes mention'd being extreme may so change and diminish the natural effervescency and rarefaction of the bloud that the Heart it self is not thereby enough expanded and contracted So that the vital bloud cannot be sufficiently effus'd into the Arteries and therefore the Pulse is felt less and more languishing yea sometimes none The internal Cause is glutinousness encreased in the bloud and the other humours and sometimes an encreased Acidity in the Juice of the Pancreas Lympha and Spittle by which the Circulation of the Bloud and Humours becomes too slow hence the Ventricles of the Heart are not enough dilated which causeth the Pulse to be weaker than is natural for the effervescency of the bloud and humours being not potent enough cannot provoke the Heart to contract it self and therefore a Swouning or Syncope will inevitably ensue They who are much subject to a Swouning Progn or Syncope dye suddenly Those fits which are produc'd from some evident cause as vehement passions of the mind immoderate evacuations c. are less dangerous than those which come from an internal cause as glutinousness of the bloud and humours c. Which in a great measure hindreth its free Circulation through the Ventricles of the Heart whereby there is a sudden and swift sailing of the vital Spirits and consequently of all strength To cure an universal languishing as also a Cure Swouning and Syncope the phlegmatick glutinous and acid Humours must not onely be corrected but when they abound must be diminish'd and educ'd out of the Body Therefore to correct and amend the said humours abounding both in the universal Body and Bloud I will here set down some forms of select medicines for the sake of young Physicians The following Decoction is an efficacious Medicine Take the Roots of Elicampane Galangal Decoction Angelica Calamus Aromaticus the sive opening Roots of each one ounce Sage Baum Betony sweet Marjoram the Tops of Hore-hound Centaury Wormwood the Flowers of Rosemary Staechas Chamomel Clove-gilliflowers of each one handfull the Seeds of Anise Sweet-fennel Parsley Cardamoms Berries of Bays and Juniper of each two drachms Orange-peel Cinamon of each half an ounce Nutmegs one drachm let them be cleansed bruised and infused
use of four things a little Harsh mixt with drink or Broth as beforesaid because they much conduce to restore by degrees the former consistency to the Bloud In Calentures Phlebotomy may be safely used CHAP. IX Of the Plague or Pestilence THE Plague or Pestilence is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 solvo quod vitam solvat It is called in Latin Pestilentia Pestis ex depascendo quod veluti incendium depascat It is also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 percutio hinc Angl. the Plague Pestis significat omne malum quod tam inanimis quam animatis mortem exitium repentino adfert The Plague is a contagious disease suddenly afflicting the Heart and all the vital animal and natural faculties with many grievous Symptoms The Cause is chiefly the sins of Mankind Cause provoking the great God to send this Pestiferous distemper as a judgment on them for their Impiety The Cause next to God's judgment is a sharp venemous and contagious volatile Salt in the Air very much heightned inspired with the Air into the Lungs or is swallowed down with the food or spittle into the Stomach it may also get in through the pores into the Body by which the acid liquor in all the conglobated glandules is weakned and made sluggish that it doth not circulate with its wonted force whence the natural consistency and rarefaction of the Bloud is diminsht and the separation of the Animal Spirits hindred and the vital strength is much opprest by which the Pulse becomes not onely little but also languishing till at length the Spirits are extinguisht and Death unexpected to many carries them speedily torrenti similis in fiery Chariots God knows where All the signs in Malign Fevers are common and much heightned in the Pest besides Signs many other grievous symptoms as Diarrhaea Hemorrhage at the Nose Ears Eyes Mouth and Secrets sometimes yellowness of the Eyes Buboes in the Groins Armpits and behind the Ears and in some white Bladders and Carbuncles also spots called the Tokens with raving c. 1. The Pest is deceitfull above all other diseases Progn therefore no certain prognostick can be drawn of it for many have died when there hath been great hopes of recovery and on the contrary many have escaped with mortal signs 2. A Bubo is less dangerous than a Carbuncle and it than the spots vulgarly the Tokens which most commonly portend Death wheresoever they are 3. Buboes incompassed with a blue or livid circle are most commonly a mortal sign especially if they suddenly disappear unless the Malign humour be sent to some other part and if with a Bubo behind the Ears there be pain of the Throat without inflammation 't is mortal 4. If a Carbuncle rise after a Bubo and look white with a litle push or tail at the end of it 't is dangerous except the Fever do very much abate and if after cauterizing or cupping the Carbuncle abate not in twenty four hours 't is a sign of Death approaching except matter appear and if Carbuncles seize the Stomach Guts Bladder or other Intrails it portends Death 5. Deliriums Drowsiness Heart-ach Trembling Convulsions great driness of Tongue are all bad signs also a Dysentery is most commonly mortal but a Hemorrhage at the Nose or Menses are not so dangerous To preserve from this Pestiferous distemper although transmigration in the fear of God may be lawfull yet let none think to escape by flying and so neglect their duties to God for 't is impossible to run out of his reach for he filleth Heaven and Earth with his presence wherefore let servent prayers be put up to God whose compassions fail not and then make use of an honest Physician 1. You must endeavour to purifie the infected Air with great fires wash the house daily and after sprinkle it with Vinegar and Fume either with Pitch Frankincense Mirrh Amber Benjamin Wood and Berries of Juniper c. 2. Avoid all passions watchings and immoderate exercise and venery 3. Eat nothing that is hard of concoction and use a moderate diet though easie of digestion and drink good sound Wine c. 4. Go not forth with an empty Stomach but always take some preservative against infection For example Take Spirit of Vinegar Julep of Roses of each one ounce mix it Vinegar Verjuice Oranges Limmons Citrons Pomgranats Barberries Quinces Wood-sorrel c. are all very good used as before directed in Malign Fevers This Poison must not be sent out by vomiting Cure or purging neither is phlebotomy allowed For it is known by manifold experience that the cure of the Pest is most happily instituted by Cordial Sudorificks rightly prepar'd of Antimony because it hath an admirable Sulphur in it whereby not onely sharpness is wonderfully temper'd but the Malign poisonous volatile Salt is thereby most safely driven forward and expelled by sweating out of the Body to which may be added other Cordials as followeth Take the Powders of Crabs-eyes Tartar Cordial Electuary vitriolated Antimony Diaphoretick Bezoar-mineral of each one scruple Bezoar-stone of the East red Coral prepar'd Salts of Rhue Scordium of each half a scruple Venice-treacle two drachms Spirit of Salt ten drops mix it into an Electuary with confectio de Hyacintho Let the sick take half a drachm of this Cordial Electuary every three hours and drink three or four spoonfulls of this Cordial Julep after it Take of epidemical-Epidemical-water the Waters of Cordial Iulep Carduus Borage Scordium compound of each three ounces the Waters of Treacle Cinamon Syrups of the juice of Carduus and Limmons Syrup of Saffron of each one ounce Salt Prunella and Salt of Wormwood of each one drachm Laudanum opiat ten grains mix it for a Cordial Let the sick person take the aforesaid medicines till sweat is plentifully provoked then let the sweat be gently wiped off with warm linen cloaths In the mean while give the sick a little hot Chicken-broth or other Broth of fresh Meat temper'd to a gratefulness with some sour thing as was directed in Malign Fevers as Barberries Wood-sorrel Limmons c. You must persist in this course till the danger be over and some time after though the sick think themselves well lest the disease deceive you by a sudden surprize again There are many Cordial Confections always to be had ready at Apothecaries Shops as Mithridate Diascordium Venice-treacle London-treacle Treacle-water c. any of which may be used by the Rich or Poor for they will not onely cause sweating but also will temper and moderate the hurtfull acrimony of the volatile Salt before mentioned You may dip a hot Toast in aq prophylactica and apply it to the region of the Stomach and also tye some of it in a rag and smell to it If there be great drowsiness avoid Opiates and take the Cordial Julep without the Laudanum but if there be great Watching Vomiting Flux of the Belly or Hicket you may give it with the
weakness or toughness of the matter Nausea Loathing is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Navis quod navigantibus proecipue contingit All loathing is either natural or adventitious The natural for the most part is common to Women with Child wherein 't is thought by some that the mind of the Child in the Womb is affected as well in this distemper as in the disease called Malacia or longing wherein if the Woman have not presently what the longs for wheresoever she first puts her hand on any part of her body in that part the Child is mark'd as we may see often by experience The adventitious loathing or that which cometh by accident is stir'd up in healthy People by prejudice they esteeming some sorts of food ungratefull or prejudicial to their Health and therefore their Stomachs loath them Sometimes nauseousness and loathing even to vomiting immediately follows Intemperance in eating and drinking which is dangerous That we may the better judge of the causes of this distemper let us first consider what is the natural Cause of Hunger by which we may the easier discover it I judge the chief Cause of natural hunger to be the remainders of food fermented in the Stomach and the longer it stays there it is still more and more fermented by the Spittle which is continually swallowed down and intermix'd with it and at length it raiseth a somewhat sour and gratefull Vapour which pleasingly affects the upper Orifice of the Stomach and so natural hunger seems to be produc'd And if food be with-held somewhat longer than ordinary then this hunger is increas'd even in healthy People which I think is promoted and augmented by the Juice of the Pancreas having a friendly Effervescency with Choler and Phlegm in the small Guts from whence sour and gratefull Vapours are sent to the Stomach which increaseth hunger and if food be seldom taken it may proceed to fainting fits Hence we may gather that if there be a Cause vitious Effervescency of the aforesaid humours in the small Guts then vitious Vapours are thence produc'd which rising up to the Stomach and other parts adjacent not onely diminish hunger but more or less deprave Thirst as also the senses of tasting and smelling hence it is that the sick do loath all sorts of food as soon as they smell taste or see it 1. Want of Appetite or Loathing is a digression Progn from the natural State and is therefore dangerous and is worse in Children than Adults because they require more Nourishment 2. In all diseases this is an evil Symptome and if the sick recover and want Appetite or loath their Food there is danger of a relapse This distemper either in healthy People or those that are sick may be cur'd Cure 1. First by freeing the mind from every prejudice 2. By correcting or purging out the vitious and peccant humours If the Humours incline upward they may be safely carried out by an Antimonial vomit and after the operation at night going to bed let the sick take this Cordial Opiate Take the Waters of Damask-roses Baum Cordial Opiat and Cinamon of each one ounce Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers red Poppies of each half an ounce Confectio Alkermes half a drachm Laudanum opiat four grains Oil of Vitriol six drops mix it But if the humours be very viscous and the Stomach be not nauseous let them be purged out by stool with such Medicines as have power to alter amend and evacuate the vitious humours For example Take of the Decoction of Senna Gereonis Purging Decoction four ounces the best Manna Syrups of Epithymum Roses Solutive with Senna of each half an ounce mix it for two Doses to be taken in the Morning fasting After purging the Stomach must be strengthned which may be done by this excellent Diet-drink Take the Roots of China Sarzeparilla of Diet-drink each eight ounces Guiacum two pound Cinamon Mace Nutmegs of each one ounce Raisins of the Sun stoned one pound Anise-seed Liquorish of each one ounce and half let them be bruised and infused in two Gallons of fountain-Fountain-water very hot for the space of twenty four hours then boil it to the consumption of the third part strain it and add Syrups of Cinamon and of the Juice of Rasberries of each four ounces mix it and let it be put into Bottles The sick may drink four ounces of it three times in a day Also candied Ginger and Nutmegs preserv'd are good to corroborate the Stomach a little of either of them may be eaten before the taking of the Diet-drink You may anoint the Stomach with Oil of Mace by expression after which apply a Plaster Stomachicum magistr to the Region of the Stomach CHAP. IV. Of the Hicket or Hiccough THE Hicket is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in Latin singultus ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum gula quod fere gula fiat vel a sono gulae It is called in English a Sobbing or Yexing being something like the Clocking of Hens with Chickens This disease was thought by the Ancients to be a deprav'd motion of the Stomach onely by which it striveth to expell something which is hurtfull but experience doth manifest that it is a convulsive Motion of the Midriff and not of the Stomach because in this distemper expiration is deprav'd and this is chiefly perfected by the Muscles of the Belly both by drawing down the Breast and compressing all that is contain'd in the Belly and driving them forward towards the Midriff and so compelling it upward its proper motion together concurring by which a greater straitness is made in the Breast which causeth the Lungs also to be straitned and consequently the Air contain'd in them to be suddenly expir'd 'T is true in this distemper the Stomach is primarily affected by sharp Vapours Wind or humours whencesoever proceeding which piercing to the membranous Centre of the Midriff provoke it by pricking or corroding to perform that convulsive motion in which the Diaphragma is contracted with a great force towards the Region of the Stomach which suddenly and violently driveth it forward and outward the convulsive Motion soon ceasing and again often repeating The causes of the Hicket are either external Cause or internal The external are hurtfull sharp and poisonous food or medicines taken into the Stomach by which the Midriff is soon affected and compelled to this violent and presently interrupted convulsive Motion The internal cause riseth up out of the small Gut by the vitious Effervescency of the humours there meeting from whence sharp halituous or windy Vapours are rais'd to the upper Orifice of the Stomach by which it is soon corroded and thence the sharp flatuous Humours or Vapours are presently carried through the Vessels of the Diaphragma and sticking in its substance do corrode its sensible parts and compell it to that Convulsive repeating contraction of it self When the
sorrow of mind or great passion be the Cause it ought to be prevented as much as may be both by Philosophical and Theological reasons about any troublesome matters and by confirming the mind whereby the sick may be the better enabled to bear and suffer stoutly any adversity This ought to be observed also in all other Diseases If Ebriety be the cause I commend Sobriety to cure it Sublata causa tollitur effectus If the humours be over viscous or glutinous the following Decoction will not onely alter and correct but mildly educe the peccant humours by which the Jaundice may in a short time be cured Take of Rhubarb the Roots of Madder Smallage the greater Celandine of each Decoction one ounce the Flowers of Broom one handfull Hemp-seed two ounces the Seeds of Anise Parsley and Columbines of each half an ounce Saffron two drachms white Tartar three drachms let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in White-wine and Fountain water of each three pints till the third part be boiled away then strain it and add the best Manna Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb of each three ounces mix it Let the sick take four spoonfulls of this three times a day till the viscous phlegm and Choler be sufficiently evacuated and the natural colour of the body restored As oft as the Jaundice is caused by the poison of a Viper or any other venemous thing whatsoever you must administer as soon as possible a volatile sudorifick to correct and expell the venome The following will serve to both indications Take the waters of Carduus Fennel Fumitory Sudorifick of each two ounces Treacle-water Syrups of the juice of Carduus red Poppies of each one ounce tincture of Saffron two drachms Venice-treacle half a drachm Bezoar-mineral Antimony diaphoretick Salt of Harts-horn of each one scruple Spirit of Salt-Armoniack six drops Laudanum opiatum six grains mix it and give three or four spoonfulls to provoke sweat and after it breaks forth give a spoonfull or two now and then to promote it Also this Decoction or one like it may be prescrib'd for the Icterick patient it being both Sudorifick and Diuretick Take the Roots of Scorzonera Juniper of Diuretick Decoction each two ounces Roots of Master-wort Sassaphras of each half an ounce Berries of Juniper and Bays of each one ounce and half Seeds of Nettles Hemp and Columbines of each one ounce shavings of Harts-horn three drachms the tops of Carduus Scordium Scabious the lesser Centaury of each one handfull let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of fountain-Fountain-water till half of it be boiled away then strain it and add Syrup of the juice of Carduus four ounces treacle-Treacle-water two ounces Salt of Tartar vitriolated two drachms mix it and give four spoonfulls every two or three hours Soap of any sort conduceth to the cure of the Jaundice upon a twofold account both by reason of its fixt lixivial Salt and also by reason of its fatness or oil for the Lixivial Salt doth correct and diminish the over volatileness and spirituousness of the vitiated Choler and the oil doth blunt the sharpness of the volatile and spirituous Salt ruling in Choler The following mixture is very effectual Take of Hemp-seed two ounces Soap two Opiate drachms bruise the seed and boil it in half a pint of new Milk till half of it be consumed then strain it and add Syrup of Saffron half an ounce tincture of Saffron two drachms Laudanum opiatum four grains mix it and give half of it in the morning fasting and the remainder at night going to bed CHAP. XII Of a Cachexy AN ill Habit of Body is called in Greek Cachexia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 malus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 habitus It may be called in Latin mala corporis habitudo There are many causes of this Distemper which may be distinguisht according to the diversity of the conjoin'd Symptoms It doth accompany all Chronical Diseases as Dropsies of all kinds Hypochondriack suffocation Scurvy Pox and Gout c. for it doth spare none neither Peer nor Peasant of any age or sex but it most frequently seizeth on Women when their monthly terms are supprest The cause is either external or internal The external cause is either bad Diet a long time receiv'd or for want of good refreshing Food after sickness for the Stomach being weak cannot digest course Diet by which the nutriment of the Body doth by degrees become peccant in quality vitiating the humours and Bloud it self so that an ill nourishment of the Body doth follow The internal cause may be the suppression of the Terms in Women which is more or less corrupted about the Womb having not its natural evacuation from whence the whole mass of Bloud is indued with a vitious quality by which the nourishment of all parts of the Body is deprav'd Also Choler and the juice of the Pancreas which are always confus'd with the Bloud being alike vitious or peccant in quality do not onely corrupt the separation of usefull and unusefull parts but by the vitious effervescency of these humours manifold flatuous vapours are rais'd which do not onely increase anxieties about the Midriff but being carried to the Heart there follows a pressing pain and palpitation thereof and in circulating through the Lungs it causeth a Dyspnoea or difficult breathing and being thence transferr'd every way throughout the Body it doth breed a general weariness in all parts But when the vitious humours abound together in plenty then several kinds of the Dropsie at length succeed if not the universal Body groweth lean by degrees From what hath been said the production of every Cachexie may easily be deduced by a judicious Physician The signs are paleness of the Face shortness Signs of breath palpitation of the Heart and often apressing pain of it accompanied for the most part with a lingring Fever either continual or intermitting or compounded of both in which the Urine is crude or watry at length there is a weariness of the universal Body which in some doth pine and become lean but in others the Body doth swell and is turgid If this Disease be not helpt in time it will become by degrees so stubborn and rebellious Progn that it will puzzle the wisest and most experienced Physicians to cure it for by the long continuance thereof phlegm becometh very tough and glutinous on which all Chronical or prolong'd Diseases depend besides all the other humours are by degrees vitiated which incorporate with the Bloud and diminish its effervescency so that the separation and excretion of the excrementitious parts to be voided together with Urine do not follow from whence many grievous symptoms succeed which oft proves mortal The cure of every Cachexie will consist in Cure the correction and amendment of the Bloud any way vitiated If flegm be tough and glutinous it must be corrected and evacuated for which
infused in two quarts of White-wine for two or three days then strain it and add Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb six ounces mix it and give four ounces of it in the morning fasting If any like Pills better I commend the following Take the Resins of Jallop and Scammony Purging Pills Tartar vitriolated Mercur. dulcis of each half a drachm Oil of Juniper one scruple make it into Pills with Venice-Turpentine of which you may give twenty grains at a time in the morning fasting The following Pills are also very effectual Take of Elaterium Gambogia Resin of Jallop Pills of each ten grains Oil of Nutmegs six drops make it into Pills with Venice-Turpentine for two doses The obstructions in the Lacteal veins or Lymphatick vessels may be cur'd by Medicines that do powerfully cut and happily open the said obstructions This Aromatick Sudorifick may be commended for these intentions Take the waters of Treacle Scurvigrass Sudorifick Fennel of each one ounce waters of Parsley Fumitory of each two ounces distill'd Vinegar half an ounce Syrups of the juice of Carduus and the five opening Roots of each six drachms Powder of Crabs-eyes Antimony Diaphoretick Salt of Amber Beans Worm-wood of each one scruple Spirits of Salt Armoniack Niter of each twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls of it every two or three hours After the Vessels are freed from the noted obstruction by the medicines before-mention'd or such like they will be easily consolidated again by conglutinating food in which you may boyle the Roots of Comfry Plantain and Solomon's Seal for the more quick and easie cure In a Tympany the dulcifi'd Spirit of Niter is excellent being taken in Broth or Sack three or four times in a day from six to twelve drops at a time for it doth correct both Phlegm and Choler and hinder Wind in its rise and dissipate it when it is bred Also the following exemplary Julep doth curb and discuss Wind remaining as well in the Stomach as Guts Take the Waters of Mint Fennel of Carminative Iulep each four ounces the Carminative Spirit of Sylvius Syrup of the juice of Mints of each two ounces Laudanum opiat eight grains Spirit of Niter one drachm Salt of Amber half a drachm Chymical Oil of Mace ten drops mix it and take three or four spoonfulls every three hours You may prepare a Medicinal Wine for the rich very beneficial in Dropsies Take the Seeds of Anise Fennel Caraway Medicinal Wine Coriander Berries of Bays and Juniper of each two ounces Salt of Tartar half an ounce let them be bruised and infused in three pints of White-wine for three days then strain it and add Spirit of Niter half an ounce Salt of Amber two drachms Syrup of Mint three ounces mix it and take four or five spoonfulls of it often Sweating is very profitable in all Dropsies either in Bed with the forementioned Sudorifick or in a Bagnio or Hot-house by which the water standing beside nature in any part of the Body will by degrees be emptied through the pores of the Skin Also it may be necessary especially in persons more elderly to use warm Baths That which is prescrib'd for the cure of the Belly-ach in page 201 202. is also very profitable in Dropsies into the which it may be agreeable to descend at evening before Bed-time and there to continue so long as the Patient can well endure without fainting after which Frications may have their proper use and great benefit And to strengthen the cutaneous Fibres and restore their true tone for their better service of the offices of Nature let the affected parts be anointed with the following fragrant Balsamick Ointment Take of Flanders Oil of Bays Nerve-oil Ointment Oil of Earth-worms of each two ounces Oil of Mace by expression half an ounce mix it Galen commendeth a Cataplasm of Snails bruised with their shells and laid upon the Navel But a Pultess prepar'd of the ingredients of the Bath and applied to the affected parts will be more effectual to discharge the Ichorous water Or you may make a Cataplasm after this manner Take the tops of Elder Dwarf-elder Vervain Pulcess Worm-wood Chamomel of each two handfulls Horse-radish-roots four ounces let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of the juice of Wild-cucumbers till they are very tender then strain it and beat them very well and add Barley-meal one pound and with the same liquor boil it into the consistence of a Pultess Let the Patients diet be drying and let them drink moderately you may infuse Juniper-berries Tamarisk and Elicampane-roots in their ordinary drink And for the benefit of those Physicians and Chirurgeons that live in the West-Indies there groweth almost every where in moist places a large Cane much like the Sugar-cane the Planters generally call it the dumb Cane because they that taste it are presently dumb and unable to speak for two or three hours after which the Tongue returns to its former use and volubility without any prejudice The reason why this remarkeable Plant doth so affect the Tongue upon the touch of it is its power of attracting such plenty of moisture into it as doth distend all the Vessels thereof and render it immoveable till the crouded moisture be gradually discharged Hence we may conjecture and indeed experience teacheth that of this Plant may be prepared diversity of medicines as Cataplasms Oils Ointments c. Which will be effectual to attract and easily and kindly discharge the swollen part of the Ichorous water which may be used for some time after the evacuation of it the better to prevent a farther accumulation or return of the Disease Likewise may medicines be prepared by a skilfull Artist of this Plant very effectual to be taken inwardly not onely against Dropsies but the Scurvy Gout c. If these choice medicines are not to be had and nothing be effected by other means A harmless Paracenthesis may be instituted in the Dropsie of the Breast or Abdomen provided the Apertion be made by such a little hollow instrument as is describ'd in page 81 82. of the Cure of the Pleurisie for by such a small wound there is no danger to the sick But this operation must not be delay'd lest the humour collected get an hurtfull Acrimony and by degrees corrode and corrupt the Membrane and hence the substance of all the parts contain'd and so make the Disease incurable CHAP. XIV Of the Scurvy and Hypochondriack Suffocation commonly called the Fits of the Mother THE Scurvy being a Hypochondriack disease it will not be amiss to treat of them together The Scurvy is called in Latin Scorbutus it is a Complication or Concatenation of Diseases generated by the Conjunction of divers Causes contributing to a scorbutick Deformity The Scurvy is generated or planted essentially in the vital Principles or digestive Offices and therefore it is not discerned by sense but the effects are distributed throughout the Body and
Antiscorbuticks The Hypochondriack suffocation having great affinity with the Scurvy the same medicines are proper for both The following Julep is both Diaphoretick and Diuretick and very profitable for the sick in these diseases to be taken two or three days in a week Take the Waters of Penny-royal Scurvigrass Iulep Treacle Syrup of the juice of Fennel of each two ounces Tincture of Castor half an ounce Oils of Amber Mace and Cloves of each six drops Spirit of Salt Armoniack twenty drops mix it and give three spoonfulls every two or three hours This Electuary may also be prefer'd Take of Conserves of Scurvigrass three Electuary ounces Confectio Alkermes half an ounce Powder of Crabs-eyes two drachms Flowers of Salt Armoniack Tarter vitriolated of each half a drachm Spirit of Castor one drachm Oil of Cloves twenty drops mix it and give two drachms morning and evening After the frequent use of this Electuary you may purge with this Powder Take Powder of Cream of Tartar half a drachm Salts of Wormwood Amber Purging Powder Scurvigrass Resin of Scammony of each ten grains mix it for two doses If the Patient like Pills better these may serve For Example Take Extract Catholicon Rudii of each ten grains Resin of Jallop Agarick Salt Armoniack of each six grains Oils of Amber Cloves of each two drops make it into eight Pills for two doses A Medicinal Wine may be prepar'd very effectual in these distempers Take of Water-cresses Brook-lime Scurvigrass Medicinal Wine Rue of each one handfull Roots of Polypodium Jallop Horse-radish Angelica Cream of Tartar of each half an ounce white Nettle-seed one ounce Orange-peel Cinamon Salt of Tartar of each two drachms let them be cleansed bruised and infused in three quarts of White-wine for two or three days then strain it and give four spoonfulls in the morning fasting In the Hypochondriack suffocation you may often hold to the Nostrils a glass with a narrow mouth containing the Spirit of Salt Armoniack for by its sharp smell the sick for the most part are wont to be rais'd both from that suffocation and from the Epilepsie If the Gums are putrified let the mouth be washed with the following Tincture mixed with some Plantain water and Syrup of Mulberries Take Powder of Gum Lacca one ounce Tincture burnt Alome half an ounce the small Spirit of Salt Armoniack one quart let them digest together 'till it be of a red colour then filtrate it through brown paper and keep it for use If the sick hath a costive Body you may administer a Carminative Clyster once or twice a week In pains of the Belly and Hypochondries this linament is effectual Take Oils of Earth-worms Scurvigrass Linament Chamomel of each one ounce Oil of Mace by expression half an ounce mix it with which anoint the parts affected This Antiscorbutick water will be very profitable to be taken two or three spoonfulls at a time morning and evening Take the Barks of Ash and Capers the Roots of Tamarisk Polypodium Horse-radish Water against the Scurvy of each three ounces Water-cresses Scurvigrass Brook-lime Sorrel Centaury the less Harts tongue of each four handfulls Berries of Bays and Juniper Goose-dung of each one ounce the Seeds of Citrons Mustard Carduus benedictus Cloves Cinamon Nutmegs Ginger of each half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and digested in one Gallon of White-wine and two quarts of Spirit of wine being close covered for three days then distill them with a glass Still according to art and keep it for your use Frictions Ligatures Ventoses Sternutatories c. are all profitable to stir up the sick in the Hypochondriack suffocation CHAP. XV. Of the Green-sickness and Suppression of the Courses THE Green-sickness is called in Latin Icteris Febris alba In English the Virgin 's Disease the White Fever and the White Jaundice because in this disease the native colour of the Face is pale This disease is caused either from defect of Bloud or it proceedeth from plenty of Cause crude viscous phlegmatick humours obstructing the veins about the Womb by which the courses are supprest the veins of the Matrix being obstructed that superfluous Bloud which nature hath ordained to be evacuated that way having not passage doth return to the greater Vessels and is circulated with the whole mass of Bloud and humours by which they are in time vitiated and a Cachexie or ill habit of body is thence caused for the Bloud and natural humours being indued with a vitious quality the nourishment of all the parts of the body will be deprav'd several ways according to the variety of the quality peccant whence likewise not onely the fermentation of Food but also the Appetite of it is deprav'd wherefore Anxieties and Palpitation of the Heart c. troubleth the sick as well before as after Food taken in This distemper may be also caused by external coldness of the air c. and sometimes great fear and sudden shame may be the cause of the suppression also aliments and medicaments that are too astringent taken inwardly In these diseases the Urine cometh away Signs crude thick and less colour'd because the phlegmatick watry humours abounding incorporating with the Bloud do diminish the desired effervescency so that the separation much less excretion of the excrementitious parts to be voided together with Urine doth not follow If the Hypochondries be afflicted and the veins of the Womb obstructed there will be great loathing of wholsome Food and a desire after those things which ought not to be eaten as Ashes Salt Coals c. which is called Pica and in Women with Child Malacia of which we have hinted in the Chapter of Hungar Vitiated page 145 146. 1. These distempers are sometimes of long Progn continuance causing much weakness and oft times barrenness in them that have been so afflicted and if they do conceive they bring forth weak and sickly Children and those that are very melancholy are in danger of falling into madness or other grievous affects as Palpitation of the Heart Swouning Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy c. 2. If the obstruction be onely of the vessels of the Womb and have not been of long continuance it may be easily cur'd 3. Bleeding at the Nose is sometimes beneficial but if the Bloud doth disburthen it self by the Eyes Ears Mouth or Bladder it is preposterous from whence may arise other bad Symptoms In the cure of these distempers such medicines Cure are to be selected which will mildly and by degrees alter correct and evacuate tough and glutinous Phlegm seeing that all prolong'd diseases depend on it either wholly or at least in part for by the frequent use of such medicines the Bloud and peccant humours will be the easier reduc'd to their natural constitution especially by the help of good Food easy of digestion in the mean while not neglecting the moderate use of the rest of the nannatural things An obstruction
and should all the Gravel and Stone come away the pain would not be the less untill the Kidneys themselves be reduc'd to their right temper For many in perfect health have voided much Gravel at a time without the least pain and therefore it is evident that Gravel is onely the product and not the producer or primitive cause of this pain The Symptoms of Nephritick pains are Signs so much like that caused by the Stone that they cannot be easily distinguished for the signs of both are great pain of the Loins loathing or vomiting there being a great consent between the Reins and Stomach The Patient often pisseth bloudy water and when the Reins are ulcerated the matter is often evacuated with the Urine Wherein the force of concreting or growing Cause of the Stone together of Stones in divers parts of the Body consists is not enough known I will freely declare what I conjecture in this obscure matter whereby I may according to my power the more help others that are ingenious to search out this hidden truth All the Stones that are generated in the Body may be dissolved in the sour Spirit of Salt Peter or Niter whence I conclude that the Coagulation of Stones cannot be expected from an acid Spirit as such therefore from another somewhat contrary to it in part at least If any consider the several things that promote the growing together of natural things they will find that such force is in tart things whence the Glutinousness and Toughness of fluid things is wont to be produc'd to which if earthy and volatile salt parts be join'd something will be produc'd not much unlike Stones I incline therefore to this opinion that an earthy and salt matter join'd to that which is glutinous groweth together into Stones by help of a tart humour Also Gravel of all kinds that is usually seen in the bottom of Urine testifieth that the conglobated Glandules are all affected by a frequent external Cold or else by sour things taken in and when the Gravel is great it is then near to the Nature of Stones yea sometimes groweth together into Stones especially in cold phlegmatick Bodies where for the most part it giveth Stones their first rising and daily cherisheth their production and increaseth them and the more especially where a glutinous stone-making faculty doth concur in the Body Many Histories mention that Stones are produced from a stone-making Spirit or Histories Breath out of the Earth which hath turned the Bodies of Men Beasts and other things into Stone Riverius in his last edition quoteth Aventius Annal. Bavar lib. 7. Anno 1343. who saith that above fifty Men with many Cattle were turned into Stone Ortelius telleth the like story that whole Herds in Russia have been turned into Stone And Camerarius reporteth that in the Province of Chilo in Armenia at the blast of a South-wind which happeneth four times in a Year whole Troops of Horse have been turned into Statues of Stone standing in the same warlike Posture in which they were marching Children are most inclinable to this Monster in Nature because they have much moisture and weak digestions which generate Crudities Stones are generated in many parts of the Body as the Gall Reins Bladder c. I once opened a Woman that had sixty History four Stones in her Gall. I also dissected another whose Ureters were stony and out of her Gall I took out a large Stone and a small one about the bigness of a Hazle-nut out of the Neck of the Gall. 1. These distempers are very dangerous Progn and bring many sad Symptoms to the afflicted Patient as great pain inflammations exulcerations long watchings weakness fevers suppression of Urine and Death it self 2. Pain from acrid Lympha c. may be cured in those that are young if the strength be not too much dejected nor the Disease hereditary That we may now address our selves to Cure the Cure of these grievous Diseases I would advise those who are not very skilfull in the Art of Physick to forbear giving of any thing in these Distempers without the Advice of an experienc'd Physician for I believe many Stones have been bred in those Bodies who before were free from it and were onely troubled with Nephritick pains by the frequent taking of ill Medicines for many Remedies have been invented to dissolve the Stone but experience teacheth that they are most of them inimical to the Reins and Bladder and debilitate their Ferment The solvent of the Stone ought to be homogenious and so singular that it submit not to any digestions or fermental Powers through which it passeth in its way to the parts affected for the Virtue of all common Remedies taken at the Mouth are alter'd and transmuted in passing three digestions For acid things from which much hath been hoped as soon as they are past the Stomach lose their acidity and are converted into a saline Nature so that the dissolving Power of the acid is wholly transmuted before it gets either to the Reins or Bladder Likewise those Medicines which are injected into the Bladder with a Syringe ought to be agreeable to its Ferment that it may not be painfull thereto for if but a small quantity of any sharp Medicine be injected it stirreth up an intolerable Strangury it being wholly foreign to the Ferment of the part And seeing the Stone and all other Distempers of the Reins and Bladder are wont to be bred and increased in length of time the Remedies which you administer must be long us'd before you may have experience of their effects I will here set down some choice Medicines not onely to hinder the increase but to dissolve small Stones in humane Bodies if they be long enough us'd Amongst which we may deservedly attribute the first place to Spirit of Niter seeing Stones of any kind are so easily and manifestly broken and dissolved by it which may commodiously be mixt in any ordinary Drink or Wine and Broths c. to a light acidity whose excellent effects all may admire If the Patient have a costive Body you may give the following Lenitive three or four times in a week Take of Cassia newly drawn one ounce Venice Turpentine half an ounce Crystal Purging Bolus prepar'd Salt of Tartar vitriolated of each one drachm Oil of Juniper Spirit of salt Armoniack of each four drops Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it for two doses The following is also very effectual Take of Cio-turpentine half an ounce Powder of Rhubarb one drachm the Yelk of one egg mix it for two doses give it in the morning fasting and drink four ounces of this Julep after it Take the Decoction for Syrup of Marsh-mallows Iulep one quart the waters of Horse-radish Pellitory of the Wall Speedwell Winter-cherries Syrups of Marsh-mallows and the five opening Roots of each two ounces Crystal prepar'd Salt Prunella of each half an ounce tincture of Salt of Tartar two drachms
very hot for the space of a Night then boil it gently till a third part be boiled away strain it and keep it for use Let the sick take four spoonfulls of it with ten grains of Antimonium diaphoret every Morning and Evening for four or five days following and sweat after it in Bed or in a Hot-house or Bagnio so long as can be well endured Then omitting a day or two you may take another Dose of Pills then sweat seven days more after which purge as before this doe for forty days or till the Cure be perfected You may make a second Decoction of the Ingredients for ordinary drink But if the sick have extreme Pains in the Night ten grains of the following Pills may be given to bed-ward instead of the Decoction Take Gum of Guiacum two drachms Antimony Diaphoretick Bezoar-mineral Purging Pills Flower of Brimstone Diagredium Mercur. dulcis humane Bones calcin'd of each one drachm Saffron Laudanum opiatum of each half a drachm with Syrup of Saffron make it into a Mass for Pills If there be a Defluxion of Rheum on the Lungs you may give ten or twelve drops of Balsam of Sulphur in a little of the Decoction every Morning and the like quantity with half a drachm of Venice-treacle every Night after which drink four ounces of the aforesaid Decoction to promote a gentle sweat You may also make Fontinels in the Arm and Leg with good success But if the sick be of a hot Constitution and the Disease be inveterate and stubborn the shortest and best way of Cure will be by salivation I do not approve of unction with mercurial Ointments to raise the Flux nor Turbith-mineral to be given inwardly but the safest way is to administer Mercur. dulcis but let it be well prepared Then you may give twenty grains of it with a little Diascordium or Conserves of Roses give it three or four Mornings successively and drink a draught of the Diet-drink after it Also the second Decoction may be sometimes made use of for ordinary Drink all the time of the Cure and warm Posset-drink at other times when desired When the Salivation is rais'd let the sick have a piece of Gold between the teeth and keep warm and continue spitting till the Spittle become insipid which is commonly in twenty days In the mean time wash the Mouth with Plantain-water and Syrup of Mulberries When you would abate the spitting administer a Carminative Clyster or a Clyster of Milk and Sugar every Night and after its operation give the following Bolus Take of Diascordium half a drachm Gascoigns Bolus powder fifteen grains Oil of Vitriol two drops with Syrup of Poppies make it into a Bolus give it at Night going to bed Pustules Tumours and Ulcers of the Mouth Tongue Gums or any other Place will be all easily cured when the Salivation is over You may dress the sores with the following Ointment which is very effectual to cure all Pocky ulcers Take of Verdigreece and common Salt of each two ounces powder them and Ointment calcine them together then mix it with eight ounces of Unguentum Enulatum When the filthy Enemy or Neapolitan disease is cast out by Salivation you may sweat the Patient with the Decoction of China c. before mention'd for sometime as is there directed Let the Diet be drying rost Meat is better than boil'd Mutton Chickens Partridges Rabbets c. are all good Food When strength doth begin to increase Bread and Raisins may be eaten The greater Symptoms of this Disease are the Running of the Reins Nodes Caruncles c. The Running of the Reins is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 semen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fluo it being a Flux of natural Seed of Man or Woman unwittingly If the Gonorrhoea be virulent it is a praeludium to the Pox and must be cur'd the same way but if it be newly contracted it may wholly and most safely be absolved by purgation The same Apozeme and purging Pills before mention'd are very proper which must be continu'd till the Running of the Reins cease If the Patient be plethorick let a Vein be opened To strengthen the spermatick parts the following Balsamick Pills are effectual Take of Mummy Bole Armenick Gums Balsamick Pills Dragon and Arabick of each one ounce Balsam of Sulphur two drachms with Syrup of dried Roses make it into a Mass for Pills of which you may give half a drachm every Morning and Evening If there be Nodes Caruncles or Ulcers in the urinary Passage The following Medicine may be daily injected Take the Water of the Spawn of Frogs Injection four ounces Honey of red Roses one ounce white Troches of Rhasis one drachm powder the Troches and mix all together for an Injection After injection put in an hollow Instrument made of Silver or Lead being first anointed with some consolidating Ointment as was directed in the Stoppage of Urine I do not approve of Astringents in the Beginning of the Cure of a Gonorrhoea till the Patient be well purged and the running begin to cease because all Astringent means conduce to prolong the Distemper but after the Cause is eradicated by purging then they may be safely administred if the Cure be not effected without it To prevent the Return of the Distemper I advise the Patient to purge and bleed every Spring and Fall Also keep a good Diet be moderate in Exercise and all other of the nonnatural things When thou art recovered give God the Praise and have a care of committing the like sin again lest a worse thing befall thee for it is a fearfull thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God Hebr. 10. 31. CHAP. XXVII Of the Rachites or Rickets THIS Disease may be called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It may be called in Latin morbus spinalis it being a Disease of the Spine of the Back This spinal Disease is commonly called in English Rickets It is peculiar to Children because they abound with a crude phlegmatick matter for if they labour under a cold moist Distemper there is presently a Penury and Paucity of the Animal Spirits for the Brain cerebellum and spinalis medulla being more compact than is wont is unfit for percolation so that the most spirituous part of the Bloud cannot pierce or be strein'd through it Hence the separation of the Animal Spirits is diminisht For the aforesaid cold moist phlegmatick Humours compacting the soft substance of the Brain c. it is thereby too much thickned and straitned in its porous passages The coldness of Air Water or Snow vehemently affecting the Head seems to confirm and prove this opinion because when the Glandules of the Brain are affected and thickned by a stuffing of the Head with Coldness then a more sparing production of the Animal Spirits useth to follow The essence of this Disease consists not onely in the Animal and vital but
is incurable according to Ovid Tollere nodosam nescit medicina Podagram But if there be no Knots in the Joints and the Patient is laborious and the Body is for the most part soluble and there be swelling of the Veins called Varices then it may be happily cured 3. If it becomes habitual to the sick the morbifick Idea is implanted in the vital Spirit and transfer'd through the seed which makes it Hereditary The Cure of the Gout will consist Cure 1. First in defending the afflicted Joints as well against future Pain as freeing them from that which doth molest at present 2. In the universal amendment of the juice of the Pancreas 3. In the correcting and evacuation of the vitious Choler 4. In the altering and diminishing of Phlegm any way peccant To asswage the present Pain I commend the following Medicaments which will conduce much to mitigate the sharpness of the acrimonious humours in all Gouty people and ease the part affected When there is excessive heat you may bathe the Gouty part with this Fomentation very hot with wollen Stuphs which must be often renewed Take the Waters of the Spawn of Frogs Fomentation Fumitory Elder of each one quart Vinegar of Mary-golds one pint Opium Camphire of each half an ounce mix it according to Art But when the Pain is more corroding than burning I commend the following to be used as the former Take of treacle-Treacle-water half a pint the Waters of the Spawn of Frogs Parsley of each one quart Opium Camphire of each half an ounce mix it After Bathing with either of these apply this Cataplasm Take Powders of the Roots of Marsh-mallows Pultess Flax-seed Barley-meal of each four ounces new Milk three pints boil it to the Consistence of a Pultess and add Oils of Flax-seed Earthworms the Ointment Martiatum of each three ounces Camphire half an ounce mix it according to Art Where exceeding heat doth concur and the Body abounds with sharp Choler instead of sweet Milk you may substitute Butter-milk Also a Pultess made of the Crums of White-bread new Goats or Cows milk and Saffron with Oil of Lin-seed and Earth-worms may be deservedly commended to asswage any Pain If the sick be very phlegmatick and impotency of motion doth afflict more than pain then Opiats may be omitted and things more Aromatical may be used in all external Applications The following Pultess or one like it may serve for Example Take the Powders of Orris-roots the Cataplasm Flowers of Chamomel and Elder Cummin-seeds Barley-meal of each four ounces the Tops of Wormwood Mints of each four handfulls boil them in two quarts of water of the Spawn of Frogs to the Consistence of a Pultess when it is almost cold add Treacle-water Oils of Chamomel Earth-worms of each three ounces mix it Also the Root of Briony and Cuckow-pintle bruised and made into a Pultess with Cow-dung is excellent If you add Volatile Salts of Animals or Vegetables to your Medicines whether Fomentations Cataplasms or Ointments they will be the more effectual You may prepare an excellent Volatile Salt of Earth-worms of great Virtue for the Gout which may be resolved into Liquour by fermentation and putrefaction If the Gouty Patient do abound with Phlegm or the Juice of the Pancreas exceed in an acid Acrimony causing a corroding Pain it may happily be mitigated and remov'd with Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Amber with which let the grieved part be embrocated and it will forthwith raise a very hot Effervescency which will presently cease again and remove the great Pain in a moment even to admiration After the pain is over you may apply one of the former Cataplasms or some Anodyne Ointment to comfort and by degrees restore again the membranous parts The following Linament may serve for Example Take Oils of Earth-worms Scurvigrass Linament Saint John's-wort of each one ounce Chymical Oils of Rosemary Rue of each twenty drops mix it Afterwards you may apply a Plaster of De minio cum sapona In the mean time inward means to take away the Cause and ease the pain must not be neglected If the Patient have a plethorick Body after a Stool hath been procured by a Carminative Clyster with Electuar Caryocostinum c. Let a Vein be opened Bloud drawn from the Vena poplitis or sciatica Vein hath been succesfull in the sciatica But Leeches applied to the Hemorrhoidal veins are effectual in all Gouts Two or three days after bleeding you may administer the following Pills Take of Pills Hermodactils faetidae ex Purging Pills duobus Mercur. dulcis of each one scruple mix it for two doses and give them in the Morning fasting Or you may give half a drachm or two scruples of pul Arthriticus in any convenient Vehicle But if the sick be inclining to vomit administer an Antimonial Emetick You may purge and bleed so often as you see occasion Issues near the part affected and also to raise Blisters upon the part have been found by experience to be very effectual Also bathing and sweating in nitrous or sulphurous Baths either natural or artificial are much approv'd of That which is prescrib'd in the Chapter of the Belly-ach is very effectual which may be used as is there directed I might fill a Volume with receipts against the Gout but I shall onely commend the following water or spirit to be often taken inwardly in any fit Vehicle the quantity of half a spoonfull at a time Take the Roots of Orris Angelica Saffaphras Water against the Gout of each two ounces the Tops of Ground-pine Penny-royal Sage Mother of Time the Flowers of Saint Johns-wort Chamomel Prim-roses Rosemary Lavender of each three handfulls the Berries of Bays and Juniper of each one ounce Castor two drachms let them be all cleansed bruised and infused in six quarts of Spirit of Earth-worms compound for the space of twenty four hours then distill it in an Alembick according to Art The Rheumatism is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rheumatismus ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fluo it being a distillation of Rheumatick humours not onely affecting the Joints but the adjacent parts yea sometimes the whole Body especially the Muscles Membranes and Periostium of the Thighs Legs and Hip-bones The humour is of a very malign Nature and soon causeth a Cariosity of the Bones if it be not prevented The Cause is the same with the Gout but sharper Cause 'T is seldom mortal but may be of long Progn continuance with great Pain so that the Sick cannot endure to be touched In the Cure of this Distemper Phlebotomy Cure must be often repeated and carminative Clysters often administred Foment the pained parts with stale Urine made very hot wherein Castle-sope is dissolved after which anoint with this following Take Spirit of Salt Armoniack Oils of Linament Guiacum Bricks of each two ounces in which dissolve Opium one ounce Spanish Sope four ounces
then add Oil of Roses six ounces and make it a Linament according to Art If you would have it for a Plaster you may add so much Empl. de minio to it as will give it a sufficient Consistency The Medicines and Directions prescrib'd in the Cure of the Gout are also proper here From these few observations it will not be very difficult to select other choice Medicines out of the writings of Practitioners to cure both the Gout and Rheumatism To prevent a Relapse purge and bleed Spring and Fall and keep a good Diet and use moderation in all things I have now finisht this little Tract or Manual of Physick which I have written for the common good not onely to serve young Beginners of the Art of Physick but also for the sake of the sick themselves GOD grant that it may prove succesfull and tend to the good of them both Now unto the onely wise God and our Saviour Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost our Comforter three Persons and one God be ascribed and given all Laud Honour Glory and Dominion from this time forth and for evermore Amen POSTSCRIPT HAving often prescrib'd the Carminative Spirit of Sylvius and also his preservative water against the Plague and his Carminative Plaster c. I will here give you the Receipts of them in English that you may make them for your own use as you see occasion The Carminative Spirit of Sylvius Take Angelica-root two drachms the Roots of Masterwort and Galangal of each three drachms the Tops of Rosemary sweet Marjoram Garden-rue Centaury the less Basil of each one handfull Bay-berries six drachms the Seed of Angelica Lovage and Anise-seed of each an ounce Ginger Nutmegs Mace of each half an ounce Cinamon one ounce and half Cloves Orange-peel of each two drachms All these things being grosly bruised pour thereon Spirit of Malaga or Spanish-wine six pints Digest them two days in Balneo Marioe and draw off all the Spirit You may pour upon what remains the same quantity of Spirit of Wine and after two days digestion draw it off as before which may be kept apart as weaker than the former but of much virtue to discuss Wind. Aq. Prophylactica or the Preservative-water against the Plague Take the Roots of Angelica and Zedoary of each one ounce Roots of Butter-bur two ounces the Leaves of Garden-rue four ounces of Baum Scabious Marigold-flowers of each two ounces unripe Wall-nuts cut two pound new Pome-citrons cut one pound bruise them all together then pour on twelve pints of the best Wine-vinegar distill'd by it self to three fourth parts in Sand in a Glass cucurbit then digest them all Night in the Morning distill the water with a slow Fire This gratefull Medicine may be mixt with ordinary drink broth or any decoction or Cordial Julep c. to a gratefull acidity for any that are sick to take away thirst and to promote a mild Sweat The Plaster of Sylvius discussing Wind. Take gum Galbanum Bdellium and Amoniacum of each half an ounce Male-frankincense red Mirrh of each two drachms Opium of Thebes one drachm dissolve them in Vinegar of Squills and when they are again thickned add yellow Wax Colophâ—ny of each three drachms natural Balsam Oil of Bricks of each one drachm Oil of Earth-worms half a drachm distill'd Oil of Caraway a scruple Venice Turpentine what sufficeth to make it into a Plaster according to Art This egregious Plaster may be spread upon soft Leather first form'd according to the shape and greatness of the Tumour to be dissolv'd The Cholagogue Electuary or Diaprunum of Sylvius Take the Pulp of Prunes sourish-sweet ten ounces Powder of Cream of Tartar best Scammony of each two ounces Powder of Rhubarb ten drachms Cinamon half an ounce yellow Sanders two drachms refin'd Sugar a pound make it into an Electuary according to Art The Hydragogue Electuary of Sylvius Take of Juniper-berries boild in water exprest and reduc'd to the Consistency of a Pulp the Pulp of Tamarinds of each four ounces Powder of Jallop-root one ounce and half Diagredium one ounce sharp Cinamon sweet Fennel-seeds of each two drachms clarifi'd Sugar ten ounces make it into an Electuary according to Art The Dose of either of these Electuaries is from two drachms to half an ounce they are gently effectual and no ungratefull Medicines they may be dissolv'd in any convenient distill'd water as Parsley Fennel c. or it may be taken by it self in the manner of a Bolus FINIS ADVERTISEMENTS THIS is to give notice to all Persons chiefly country Physicians and Chyrurgeons that all the Medicines prescrib'd in this Book are faithfully prepared by the Authour hereof and may be always had of him at reasonable rates without Adulteration or any other Deceits ALL sorts of Chymical preparations are faithfully prepared without the least Sophistication or Adulteration and to be sold at reasonable rates by Christopher Pack Chymist at the Globe and Furnaces in the Postern by More-gate where a Catalogue may be had Gratis An Interpretation of certain hard Words which you shall meet with unexplained in this Treatise A. ABdomen All that part of the Belly which is between the Ribs and the Privy members consisting of Skin Fat and Muscles Abcess an Impostume or gathering of ill Humours to one part of the Body and there drawn to a Head Abstersive a cleansing Medicine Acerbity Sourness Acid eager sour or sharp Acrimony Sharpness An acute Disease is a sharp Sickness which doth quickly either dispatch or deliver the Sick Aetites the Stone with Child found in an Eagles-nest Affected part the part grieved or distempered Alchimy the Art of melting or dissolving Metals c. and separating the pure from the impure Alexiterion Alexipharmacum a preservative Medicine against Poison and Infection Amputation the cutting off of a Member Amulet any thing hanged about the Neck Anatomy the Trunk of a dead Body from whence all the Flesh Sinews c. is cut off and nothing remaining but the bare Bones Anodyne appeasing Pain Antidote a Preservative against Poison and Infection Antimonial made of Antimony Anus the Fundament Apertion an Opening Apophlegmatism a Medicine which chewed draweth Phlegm and other Humours out of the Head and voideth them at the Mouth Apoplexy a general Palsie of the whole Body Apozeme a thin Decoction of Herbs Aromaticks Medicines made of Spice Arteries hollow Vessels wherein the vital Bloud and Spirits are contained which causeth the Pulse as you may feel at the Wrists c. Arthritick pains the Gout or any other Pain of the Ioints Aspera Arteria the Wind-pipe Astrictive Astringent which hath Power to bind B. BAlneo Bath Balsamick Healing of the Nature of Balsam Bechical easing the Cough Bile Choler Bolus a Lump a Morsel Bronchia the Gristles of the Wind-pipe Bubo a Sore about the Groin C. CAchexy ill habit of Body Cacochymy ill Iuice in the Body Calcinate to burn into Ashes Capillary as small as a Hair Carbuncle a Plague-sore
is called stupor corporis it being an Abolition of sense and motion through the whole Body The parts affected are the Brain Spinalis medulla and Nerves the motion of the Animal spirits through them being deprav'd The causes are either external or internal The external is much cold and moisture Cause which doth chill and over moisten the Head and extreme parts and this seems to prove Cause internal that phlegmatick and watry Humours abiding about the Ventricles of the Brain and Nerves may over moisten and perhaps so far loosen the Tunicles or Membranes of them that it may render them unfit to let the Animal spirits pass through them hence it is that sometimes one particular Member hath been Paralytick by too much Cold and Moisture and sometimes more parts have more or less lost sense and motion It is the opinion of most eminent Physicians both ancient and modern that the Animal spirits being severed from the Bloud in the Brain c. are from thence carried through all the Nerves to exercise the external senses and Animal motion which is continual and equal in healthy persons but changeable and unequal according to the divers diseases of the Body or Mind Wherefore when no Animal spirits are carried to the Organs of the external Senses or Animal motion the functions of seeing smelling tasting hearing and touching and the sense of heat as also of motion in the Palsie and Apoplexy cease all that time The Signs of the Palsie are manifest to wit deprivation of sense and motion of the Signs Paralytick parts the Eye and half the Tongue viz. of that side affected is much weakned and deprav'd The signs of the Apoplexy approaching are these a sudden crying out for help with an abolition of sense and motion 1. If the Palsie or Apoplexy do invade the sick in the decrease of the Moon and the Patient Progn be old 't is an ill sign 2. If the sick do snort and is droughty and cast spume or froth out of the Mouth and have great sweat with difficult breathing 't is mortal But if the Person be young and a strong Fever immediately happen 't is a good sign for the Fever consumes the superfluous moisture and makes a Dissipation of the gross and phlegmatick Matter 3. A Palsie coming after the Apoplexy is ill and many times turns to the Apoplexy again When any of the extreme parts be Paralytical Cure or when the Head is ill affected by the external coldness of Air Water or Snow or a stoppage of the Head be also bred thereby or the defect of the Animal spirits chiefly urge then the sick may be cur'd by driving out whatsoever cold has pierc'd into the Head or any other parts of the Body which may be done by spirituous and volatile Sudorificks for they do not onely alter and correct the cause of Cold and other Evils accompanying it but do also amend the harm entring into the Body containing and contained To this end I commend this following Form Take of Treacle-water one ounce Fennel-water Cordial to cause sweat and Epidemical-water of each two ounces Syrup of red Poppies and Syrup of the Juice of Scurvigrass of each half an ounce Bezoar-mineral Antimony Diaphoretick of each ten grains Laudanum opiat three grains Spirit of salt Armoniack twenty drops Oil of Cloves four drops mix it give the sick three or four spoonfulls of it and expect to sweat being meanly covered and a spoonfull every half hour afterward till the sweat break forth then give them some pure Broth with a little Wine in it whereby strength may be recreated and the Patient enabled to bear a Sweat longer for nothing so much helps the sick as a sweat continued mildly a while which experience hath often taught me For by the help of this spirituous and volatile and also Aromatick medicine or one like it the troublesome Cold and dulness of motion are discust They who let bloud in this Distemper caused Observation by external Cold or think they can carry out the Cause of this Evil either by vomit or siege put the sick into danger of death or at least of most grievous Evils But when phlegmatick and watry Humours stick about the Nerves c. And too much moistening and loosening their Membranes and Marrow be the cause of the Palsie and Apoplexy and if the same humours much abound in the Body then Phlegmagogues and Hydragogues may conduce to the Cure after Clysters and internal Aromatick Sudorificks Wherefore to begin the Cure of this you may first give this or the like Clyster which must be made strong Take of sweet Marjoram Betony Sage Penny-royal Clyster Hyssop Rue Mercury Marsh-mallows the lesser Centaury the Flowers of Chamomel and Stoechas of each half a handfull Anise-seed sweet Fennel-seed Juniper-berries of each half an ounce let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in a quart of Fountain-water till half of it be boiled away then strain it and dissolve in it the Electuary Diaphoenicon benedicta laxativa of each half an ounce pil Cochioe twenty grains common Salt one drachm Oil of Rue two ounces mix it for a Clyster The next day if the sick have a Plethorick body you may draw bloud from either arm to eight or nine ounces If Phlebotomy cannot be done apply Ventoses with Scarification to the shoulders afterward sweat the Patient with the aforesaid Sudorifick Sometimes Suppositories may be used in stead of Clysters This may serve for Example Take the Powders of Coloquintida Salt-niter Suppository Hiera-picra simple of each one drachm Euphorbium half a drachm Honey boiled as much as will make it into a Suppository But if it appear that phlegmatick and viscous Humours do abound in the Body Purgers may be prescrib'd most conveniently in the form of a Pill because the Gums are most apt above all other Medicines to loosen and cut viscous Phlegm neither can they be easily dissolv'd in any liquour Let this or such a like form of Pills serve Take the Gums Amoniacum and Galbanum of each two drachms dissolve them in Vineger Purging Pills of Squills strain it and boil it to a due consistence then add Powders of Troches Alhandal Scammony Mastick of each one drachm Oil of Anise-seed eight drops make it into a Mass of Pills according to Art Let the sick take five or six small Pills of this in the morning fasting and an hour after drink some thin broth If the humours be more serous I commend this Electuary Take Juniper-berries one pound boil them in six pints of Fennel-water till Purging Electuary half of it be boiled away then add the Fruit of Tamarind eight ounces and pulp them both through a Sieve To which add Powder of Jalap and Scammony prepar'd of each three ounces Cinamon sweet Fennel-seed of each half an ounce white Sugar one pound make it into an Electuary according to Art The dose of this effectual Medicine is to half an
immediately brought up but if vomiting hurts the sick the humours may be evacuated downwards by gentle purgation with powerfull and effectual Phlegmagogues and Hydragogues such as is prescrib'd in the Chapter of Catarrhs page 56. 57. If the Patient hath a costive Body let carminative Clysters be often administred and if the Body be plethorick let a vein be opened either in the Foot or apply Leeches to the Haemorrhoid veins which will much conduce to free the respiration Such medicines as have an expectorating quality and have power to temper and discuss the over sharp vapours may be often us'd in a little quantity The following Julep may be commended in this case Take of the pectoral Decoction half a pint Pectoral Iulep cinamon-Cinamon-water Syrups of Hore-hound Fennel of each one ounce and half Spirits of Salt Armoniack Niter of each twenty drops Laudanum opiatum ten grains Oil of Sulphur per Campanam ten drops mix it Quercetanus his Syrup of Tobacco is commended in this distemper Also Tobacco taken in a Pipe or chewed in the mouth draweth abundance of viscous Phlegm out of the Stomach and Lungs Many more medicines might be inserted but I refer you to the Chapter of Catarrhs where you may be throughly furnished CHAP. II. Of the Pleurisie and other Inflammations THE Pleurisie is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 latus quod tunicoe costos succingentis Pleuritis lateris dolor It is also called in Latin Pleuritis Inflammatio it being an Inflammation of the Pleura and also of the intercostal Muscles and other adjacent parts as the mediastinum pericardium diaphragma c. It is attended with many Symptomes as difficulty of breathing shooting and pricking pain of the sides which is the more Signs exasperated by coughing and is common in this distemper the Patient hath also a continual acute Fever which is most commonly symptomatical The Inflammation of the Lungs is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 circum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Peripnmonia pulmo quod a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiro It is also called in Latin Peripneumonia Peripneumonicus morbus It is not different in the causes or signs from a Pleurisie The cause of the Pleurisie and Peripneumony Caus and all other inflammations is an obstruction of the Capillary vessels in the inflamed part by glutenous Phlegm carried together with the bloud through them and if a Plethora concur the bloud and humours will soon be stagnated and become acrid and fervid which preternaturally distends the vessels by which circulation of the Bloud is hindred so that at length the vessels break and the Bloud is poured into the part affected which there corrupts and increaseth the pain and inflammation and consequently produceth a tumour whee the putrid bloud and humours being â—y degrees corrupted are converted into â—urulent matter for the bloud being stagnated or standing still in any part the sâ—irituous and more volatile and sâ—btle parts that are wont to temper both the acid and salt parts do afterward begin to vanish whence both being made sharper do more fiercely rise up one against another and stir up an hot Effervescency because of the Oily parts of the bloud present yea by degrees do so corrupt the bloud as it turns it into matter which is different according to the variousness of the bloud corrupted 1. The sooner the inflammation and Tumour Progn comes to suppuration the more easie will be the Cure 2. If a Pleurisie follow an Inflammation of the Lungs there may be hopes of recovery but if a Peripneumony follow a Pleurisie or Quinzy 't is dangerous and for the most part mortal 3. If much matter be expectorated by coughing and there still remain difficulty of breathing 't is an ill sign so likewise is it if in coughing nothing be spit up 4. If the Pleurisie or Peripneumony remain above twelve days an Empiema will inevitably ensue for the bloud standing still is by little and little collected in its vessels and beâ—ng peccant in a great excess it distends them more and more till at length they burst whence there happens an effusion of bloâ—d into the Cavity of the Breast and being there collected and corrupted into matter it constitutes a suppuration called Empienâ—a Empiena Cure To â—ure a Pleurisie and any Inflammation and Aposteme following it is required that 1. The obstruction of the vessels be opened that the Circulation of the Bloud stopt and standing still may be restor'd 2. That the Bloud effus'd out of its vessels if possible may be discuss'd before it turns to matter 3. That if the Suppuration cannot be hindred it must be promoted with all expedition that the purulent matter collected might be evacuated 4. That the cleansing and consolidation of the Ulcer be speedily performed An obstruction of the vessels by viscous Cure Phlegm or bloud coagulated in them may be cur'd by volatile Salts prepar'd not onely of several parts of Animals but also of Scorbutick plants viz. Dandelion Hedge-mustard Scurvigrass Garden and Water-cresses c. To these may be referred Crabs-eyes the Jaws of a Pike the Bone of a Harts-heart Mummy Sperma coeti Antimony Diaphoretick Opium prepar'd c. as also all fixt metallick and mineral Sulphurs These volatile medicines have an egregious Power of dissolving all things coagulated and conglutinated in Man's body and of reducing the same to their wonted fluidity and do mildly promote sweat hence it is that often by one such Diaphoretick given in season both a Pleurisie and Piripneumony and also Inflammations of other parts have been most happily and safely cured without Phlebotomy But where a Plethora concurs after a stool hath been procur'd by a carminative Clyster let a vein be opened for thereby the bloud standing still will be restor'd to its wonted Circulation for some of the bloud being let out there will be a larger space made in the veins for a more brisk and swift motion of the universal Mass of it After a sufficient quantity of bloud is taken away it will be profitable to give a Sudorifick This may serve for example Take the pectoral Decoction four ounces Sudorifick the Waters of Hyssop Fennel Parsley Juice of Horse-dung clarified distilled Vineger of each three ounces Treacle-water Cinamon-water Syrups of the five opening Roots and of red and white Poppies of each one ounce Powder of Crabs-eyes two drachms Mummy Sperma coeti of each half a drachm Laudanum opiatum ten grains volatile Salt of Harts-horn half a drachm Spirit of Salt Armoniack twenty drops mix it Let the sick take often a spoonfull of this Julep which is rich in volatile Salt and powerfully corrects the acidity of the bloud by the help whereof the clottering of it will not onely be hindred but it s over thick parts incided and by degrees attenuated and it s over thin parts will be discust and evacuated together
Spirit of Niter twenty drops Laudanum ten grains mix it and give four or five spoonfulls of it often This Powder is also excellent Take Salt of Tartar vitriolated two drachms Powder of Crabs-eyes Salts of Powder Pigeons-dung Broom Beanstalks Wormwood of each half a drachm mix it and give twenty grains of it every morning and evening in the foremention'd Julep If the Patient be plethorick Phlebotomy may be used with good success If a Stone chance to stick in the Ureter which causeth numbness by its pressing upon the Muscle Psoas and the Nerves In this Case apply a Ventose on os Ilium which may bring the Stone by degrees into the Bladder afterward anoint the parts grieved with Rabbets fat If the Stone in the Bladder be very big there is little hopes of dissolving of it wherefore if the Patient being in continual pain be willing to submit to Lithotomy I advise them to make choice of an experienc'd Artist lest by Precipitancy the Operatour neglect to cleanse the Bladder after the Extraction of the Stone by the neglect of which many have generated the Stone again and have been forced to endure that dreadfull operation the second and sometimes the third time under which many have died and others who recovered have never held their Urine In other Nephritick pains if the fleshy parts of the Kidneys be obstructed they may be opened by Diureticks that cut attenuate and make glutinous Phlegm fluid For example Take of Eringo-roots the five opening Roots of each one ounce the Tops of Agrimony Decoction the greater Celandine of each two handfulls the Berries of Juniper and Winter-cherries of each two drachms let them be cleansed bruised and boiled in two quarts of Fountain-water till half be confumed then strain it and add Syrups of Marsh-mallows and the five opening Roots of each two ounces Tincture of Salt of Tartar two drachms Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls of it every morning and evening They who like Juleps better may use this or the like Take the Waters of Fennel Parsley Pellitory Iulep of the Wall of each two ounces the carminative Spirit of Sylvius Syrups of Marsh-mallows the five opening Roots of each one ounce Oil of Juniper Spirit of Salt Armoniack of each ten drops Spirit of Niter twenty drops Laudanum opiat four grains mix it and give three spoonfulls every three or four hours The Patient may also drink freely of the mineral Diuretick-waters of Tunbridge c. which will conduce much to the Cure especially if some old Diuretick-wine and a little oily Volatile Salt made of Diuretick Vegetables be mixed with the water When the glutinous Phlegm is prepar'd and loosned it may be educ'd with some convenient Phlegmagogue either in the form of Pills or Potion of which there are variety mention'd in page 3. and four c. The fixt Sulphurs of Minerals and Metalls exalted to their highest perfection do before all others mildly temper all the humours next to which oily Volatile Salts come and Aromaticks next to these By the force of which prudently us'd not onely an effervescency of somewhat contrary Humours most agreeable to Man's nature is bred in the small Gut and afterward in the Heart but the preternatural growing together and uniting of the more sharp humours being first moderated by them is again dissolv'd in the Bloud I speak these things by experience and because it is of great moment in practice I commend them to the truly Studious of Physick If the Urine be bloudy it testifieth the opening of some Vessel of Bloud in the Kidneys Ureters Bladder or its Neck To heal and consolidate this harm the following is excellent Take the Waters of Parsley Plantain of Cordial Astringent each two ounces Cinamon-water Syrups of Mirtles Comfry Marsh-mallows of each half an ounce Powder of Dragons-bloud red Coral prepar'd of each ten grains Laudanum opiat three grains Spirit of Niter ten drops mix it and give three or four spoonfulls every two hours If there be an Ulcer in any of these parts it may perhaps be more happily cur'd by the daily taking of Balsam of Sulphur made with the Oil of Amber Juniper Anise-seed or Turpentine in any convenient Vehicle than by any other Medicine hitherto known In all suppression of Urine the following is very effectual Take the Waters of Chamomel Golden-rod Iulep Winter-cherries of each four ounces Syrups of Marsh-mallows the five opening Roots of each two ounces Powder of Egg-shells calcin'd one ounce Tincture of Salt of Tartar two drachms Spirit of Niter twenty drops mix it and give four spoonfulls every three hours CHAP. XXII Of Extraordinary Pissing c. THIS Distemper is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. pertransire quod urina ureteres urethram subito pertransit It being a quick or plentifull pissing or making of water The cause is either external or internal The external or primary efficient Cause Cause is an immoderate drinking of stale Beer Sider or acid Wines either French or Rhenish by which an incurable Diabetes hath been ofttimes suddenly contracted The internal Cause of this Disease is sharp serous humours abounding in the Bloud by which not onely the whole Mass of it doth in time become too thin but the nervous Juice is also thereby ill affected and consequently the Reins inflam'd by the continual flowing of the over acid serous humours Whence the attractive faculty of the Kidneys is increas'd drawing the serosity of the Bloud more potently from the emulgent Vessels into the Funnels and provoking the expulsive faculty it is soon sent through the Ureters to the Bladder from whence it is often evacuated by pissing The signs are a continual pissing so that much more moisture is voided than is taken Signs into the Body by eating and drinking It is always accompanied with an extraordinary Thirst the sick is also feverish something like a Hectick If it continue long it will decay all the Progn radical moisture of the Body which will render it incurable but if it be taken in the beginning and the Patient be young it may be easily cured All things which have power to incrassate Cure the thinness of the Bloud and temper the over acidity of the humours may be administred in this Distemper In the beginning of the Cure after a stool hath been procured by an emollient Clyster you may open a Vein in the Arm. The next day a gentle Purge of Rhubarb may be administred but if the Stomach be foul and the sick can vomit easily you may give an Antimonial Emetick with good success because it will potently draw the sharp peccant humours from the emulgent Vessels and Reins and evacuate some of them both by Vomit and Stool After the Operation of the Emetick let the sick take two spoonfulls of this Cordial Opiate often which will ease pain and thicken the humours Take the Waters of Barley red Poppies