drink and from all things mentioned in the Chapter of prevention Keep the Belly loose by Clysters or Suppositories Take Marsh-mallow roots two ounees the five Emollients each a handful Aniseeds an ounce Chamomil flowers a pugil Agarick Senna each four drams boil them to a pint strained add Diacatholicon red Sugar each an ounce Hiera with Honey half an ounce Oyl of Chamomil Dill each two ounces Salt a dram make a Clyster Or make a Suppository of boiled Honey and a scruple of Hiera simple or for the tender sort make one of the Yolk of an Egg and Salt a Candles end a Fig turned inside outward or the like All know I suppose that little food is to be used not too moist or windy of good juyce and easie concoction chiefly roasted with Hysop Fennel Balm Borage Cloves and other hot and dry Cordials Some object against bleeding that it weakens the vital strength which is weak before nor can the disease be cured by it being not in the blood but I answer with Galen lib. de loc affect 5. that bleeding is a wonderful help in all Palpitations And he saith that this palpitation comes often suddenly upon young and old without any manifest accident and bleeding doth always good to such and cures them if they use an extenuating diet afterwards For bleeding doth good more by revulsion of humours from the Heart then weak and attracting by its motion then by any other way in regard there is then a cold distemper and the wind is cold Open therefore the Liver-vein in the right Arm and bleed by degrees for revulsion except there be any hindrance from age strength or the like Then use extenuating Diet and cutting Medicines that expel wind to correct the cold distemper of the Heart and strengthen it and consume flegm that breeds wind and stir up natural heat and restore the animal and natural actions Let Medicines be hot and such as strengthen the vitals as Diacinamomum Diacalaminthum Dianisum Aromaticum rosatum Diamoschu dulce and amarum Mithridate Treacle with Wine or in Electuaries As Take Citron peels candied an ounce and half Conserve of Borage flowers an ounce Aromaticum rosatum a dram Diamoschu dulce Diacalaminth each two scruples Citron and Melon seeds blanched each half a dram red Coral and Coriander seeds each a scruple with Syrup of Borage make an Electuary give as much as a Walnut in Wine three hours before meat Or make these Lozenges Take Aromaticum rosatum Electuary of Bay-berries each half a dram Cardamoms Citron seeds and red Coral each half a scruple Diacyminum a scruple make Lozenges with Sugar dissolved in Balm water of a dram weight give one three hours before meat and another at bed-time with four ounces of Wine or this Hippocras Take white Sugar four ounces Cinnamon three drams Ginger half a dram Electuary of Bay-berries and grains each two scruples strong Wine two pints Filter it or give every day four hours before meat half a dram of Treacle with Wine wherein Mace and Cinnamon are boiled Anoint the Heart or make an Epithem of Oyl of Spike with Amber and Musk or with Wine in which Balm Rosemary Cummin Bay-berries were boiled with Oyl of sweet Almonds and Cloves powdered Nutmeg and Cinnamon This is for the richer sort Take water of Balm and Citron flowers each half a pint Sack three ounces Mace Cloves Nutmegs each a dram Diambra four scruples Citron and Basil seed each two drams Saffron a scruple make an Epithem apply it hot before meat Or use this Bag. Take Rosemary flowers Borage and Chamomil flowers each a pugil Citron seeds Wood Aloes Cinnamon each a dram Cloves Cubebs Cardamoms each half a dram Saffron a scruple Beat them gross and make a quilted Bag sprinkle it with Sack and apply it to the Heart Thus must you cure a palpitation only from wind without a cause that feeds it If there be gross flegm that breeds the wind first prepare thus Take Balm Borage Bettony Calamints Rosemary each half an handful Stoechas Peach flowers each a pugil Aniseeds Cardamoms each two drams Raisons stoned a pugil Bruise them and steep them twelve hours in Rhenish Wine and balm-Balm-water each half a pint in a glass then boil them in Balneo Mariae three hours stopping the glass Clarifie it and add Syrup of Citron peels and Bysants each two ounces cordial Species a dram give it for four mornings Then purge thus Take Agarick a dram and half Ginger half a dram Infuse them twelve hours in the decoction of Balm Dodder Calamints and Hysop then give it three or four boils and strain it add to four ounces an ounce of Syrup of Stoechas Elect. Indi maj Benedicta laxativa each two drams give it at five in the morning If the matter be so clammy and thick that these will not do prepare it four days longer with such as do more extenuate and cut as with Oxymels Syrup of the five Roots water of Balm Scabious Hysop or with the Decoction of Organ Calamints Hysop Pennyroyal Bettony Rosemary or give with the Syrups two scruples of Treacle or Mithridate or a dram of Dianisum or Diacalamints and then purge against thus Take Turbith a dram Diagredium two grains Ginger half a dram Sugar two drams Powder them give it with Chicken-broth in the morning after these preparatives and purges give the former strengtheners If the wind that causeth palpitation come from a melancholy humour as in the Hypochondriack Melancholy prepare it with Syrup of Fumitory Apples juyce of Borage Epithymum or of Citron peels in the Decoction of Fumitory Pennyroyal Borage Dodder tops of Hops Wormwood roots of Polypody and Bugloss and purge with confection of Hamec Diasena and Diacatholicon or with the Syrup of John Montanus that is very excellent which is here described Take of all the Myrobalans each half an ounce Polypody Senna Epithymum each an ounce Liquorish Cloves seeds of Citrons each two drams black Hellebore half an ounce Bruise and steep the Myrobalans twenty four hours in seven pints of Fumitory water or in seven pints of the juyce then add the rest and boil them to half strain and divide it into six parts and add to each of Syrup of Fumitory an ounce and half Syrup of Citron peels half an ounce so that there be six ounces of the Decoction and two of Syrups This is Montanus his Apozem against Melancholy Give the other things mentioned Electuaries and Lozenges and Epithems in the order before mentioned CHAP. XIX Of the Cure of the puffing of the Stomach THe inflation of the stomach is a preternatural extension of the Membranes of the stomach by wind with pain In this the proper action of the stomach is frustrated which is concoction in regard the faculty of embracing the food doth not every where compass it by reason of weakness but there is a vacuity between the stomach and the meat This pain is sometimes before meat most sometimes after Before meat because
there is a gross clammy flegm with a cold distemper which oppresseth the heat and it laboureth to conquer it and so causeth wind that stretcheth and is disturbant This pain is allayed by belching or vomiting flegm It is worst after meat when it is only from a cold distemper without matter For the natural heat being weak or oppressed with cold or windy meats doth dissolve them but yielding to the burthen doth not concoct them and thence ariseth wind For the Cure of this the first intention is to evacuate what is preternatural The second is with thin and hot medicines that extenuate wind to abate it and after good diet the first thing is to keep the belly loose by a Lenitive or a Suppository then if there be gross flegm at the bottom of the stomach vomit with Oxymel of Squills or the decoction of Radish Dill Arrage sometimes before sometimes after supper as the Patient is easie or hard to vomit As Take Radish two ounces stamp them add Mead or decoction of Dill strain and drink it warm for luke-warm things provoke Vomit by relaxing Or Take Dill seed Radish seed each an ounce and half Agarick a dram in Powder Boil them in water to half to six ounces strained add Syrup of Vinegar or Oxymel of Squills if the matter be very thick an ounce then give and tickle the throat with a feather If by straitness of breast or the like he cannot vomit prepare the flegm with Honey of Roses Oxymel Syrup of Stoechas and the Decoction of Rue Pennyroyal Calamints Hysop Organ great hot Seeds and purge flegm with Pil. aureae of Hiera with Agarick or simple Hiera Electuary Indi major Benedicta laxativa or the like after flegm is purged use to chew Ginger or Elicampane candied but chiefly roots of Masterwort to which I give the Prerogative in this disease Then use Diatrionpipereon Diacalaminth Dianisum Diacinamomum Electuary of Bay-berries Mithridate Treacle or the Powder of Cummin with a little Salt and Chicken Broth or Wine or Chamomil boiled in Wine with Anise Cummin Nutmeg and Oyl of sweet Almonds I suppose there is no Remedy like it also Castor half a dram Cloves half a scruple drunk in Wine or Poli montane in Wine or Oxymel or Vinegar of Squills which cuts vehemently given an ounce twice in a day in Wine Aegineta saith that the bone of a Hogs foot burnt and drunk discusseth wind Also Cinnamon water of Mathiolus alone or with Aqua vitae or Sack with Cinnamon Galangal or Wine with Rosemary Carrot seed Cummin Caraway Bay and Juniper-berries or give this Hippocras to dainty palates Take Sugar four ounces Cubebs Grains of Paradise Galangal Ginger each a dram long Pepper half a dram Cinnamon four drams Sack two pints strain them But remember to use very hot things very seldom whether simple or compound before the gross flegm be purged or vomited For all sharp things or that are very hot if they fall upon clammy flegm do raise wind which they cannot discuss and instead of Cure will do hurt and that which is good after purging is bad before Beware then you use not too weak Remedies that cannot overcome or too strong out of order and so cast the Patient into a Tympany It is good outwardly to bind the stomach strait to hinder wind and further concoction and to foment the stomach with Oyl with Rue Calamints Rosemary Cummin Anise Smallage Carrot seed Bay-berries boiled in it or boil them in Wine and foment or use Oyl of Mace or Cloves These by their thinness open the skin and extenuate discuss the wind and strengthen and warm and restore the suffocated heat and refresh by a propriety of substance You may make of these an excellent Oyntment thus Take Oyl of Mace by expression six drams Oyl of Wormwood Mastich each four drams Wood Aloes Nutmeg Cubebs Cloves each half a dram Musk Benzoin Saffron each six grains Make a Powder and with Wax make an Oyntment anoint with it hot before meat after the former Fomentation and Oyntment apply a Bag of Feathers or this Take Organ Wormwood Mints each half a handful Milium Aniseeds parched each half an ounce Chamomil Lavender Rosemary flowers each a pugil Bay-berries a dram Nutmeg half a dram Powder them grosly and quilt them in thin red Silk sprinkle Wine on it and apply it hot to the stomach Also a large Cupping-glass applied three or four times without Scarification to the belly so that it may comprehend the Navel doth often make a perfect Cure Or a hot Tile in a double cloth wet in Wine changing it when cold Thus much of the inflation of the stomach CHAP. XX. Of the Cure of windy Melancholy THis is hard to be cured for divers causes For besides the vehement obstruction of the Meseraicks with gross crude Melancholy and flegm which constantly send up wind there is a great distemper of the bowels Hence come great accidents namely stoppage of excrements from a hot Liver that drys and sucks up the moisture difficult breathing from the stomach swollen and pressing the Midriff pain of stomach from wind that stretcheth and a cold distemper belchings vomitings and putrefaction from obstruction in time by the venomous vapours whereof the Soul fainteth and there is a doting This inequality of parts hath contrary indications for Cure For the heat of the Liver requires cooling and the cold of the stomach heating And it is plain that the medicines that cut gross humours and extenuate and prepare and evacuate and discuss wind must be very hot and hot things increase the heat of the Liver and the veins and heat abounding disperseth what is thin in the humours and thickens the rest and fixeth it more and makes more wind from that humour On the contrary cold things by congealing to thicken the matter stop the passages and abate the natural heat of the stomach hinder concoction cause crudities and wind Therefore the only way is to cure by moderate Preparatives and Purges and because moderation doth little good in so great a disease it is very hard to be cured But let not difficulty frighten but begin valiantly with this Clyster Take Polypody roots Senna each an ounce Mallows Pellitory Beets red Coleworts each a handful Chamomil flowers a pugil Aniseeds six drams boil them to half to a pint strained add Diacatholicon and red Sugar each an ounce Oyl of Dill two ounces with a little Salt make a Clyster Or give this Potion Take Senna four drams Agarick a dram Ginger and Asarum roots each half a dram Infuse them twelve hours in Succory water then boil them with Aniseeds bruised to four ounces strained add two ounces of Manna Syrup of Roses an ounce Or if he be poor Confectio Hamec Electuary of Dates each a dram Syrup of Roses an ounce give it in the morning The next day if there be no hindrance open the Basilica on the right side or on the left if the Spleen be stopt to five
purge with these pills Take Pilulae aureae a dram Troches of Alhandal three grains with Syrup of Stoechas make five Pills give them at midnight Or thus Take Agarick two drams Sal Gem Ginger Turbith each half a dram infuse them in Hysop and Sage-water each two ounces strain and add Elect Ind. Maj. two drams Electuary of juyce of Roses a dram Syrup of Stoechas an ounce This done often and the pain cease not let us use Topicks as Galen lib. de compos med sec loc saith sometimes wind or clammy matter is sometimes so fixed in strait passages that it requires long Cure Therefore it must be attenuated and the part dilated and the part strengthened that no more come or breed Therefore after preparatives and purges use cupping to the head without bleeding if blood abound not or scarifie the shoulders if blood abound This is very good Or roast a Turnep and take off the top and apply it hot behind the Ears and then another and so till the wind and pain pass away apply it to the side of the part pained or to both if the pain be all over This is good also for the Toothach from wind Or use Castor or Scents that pierce and extenuate or Gith-seed steept in Vinegar or anoint the Nostrils and Ears with Oyl of Castor or Spike or Oyl in which were boiled Castor Rue Calaminths Piony-seeds Then use Masticatories to take away the reliques and discuss the wind Take Mastich Pellitory-roots white Pepper bark of Capar-roots each half a dram with Vinegar of Squills make Troches to be chewed after a stool in the morning Or Take Roots of Pellitory Stavesacre each two scruples Nutmeg Ginger white Pepper each half a scruple Mastich two drams with Vinegar make Balls or discuss wind and evacuate with Neesings Take white Hellebore two scruples and half Stavesacre white Pepper each a scruple Ginger Cloves Gith seed each half a scruple with Turpentine and Wax make Errbines like great Cloves Or snuff up the juyce of red Coleworts or Danwort roots Orris with Marjoram or bettony-Bettony-water and Honey When we think the Brain is cleansed then dry and strengthen and discuss wind with a Lixivium As Galen lib. 7. de facult natural it is made of water and ashes one pound of ashes to three pints of water take most ashes of Willows and Vines and fewer of Colewort and Bean stalks This cleanseth dryes and consumes wind and tumours of flegm with Marjoram Bettony Asarabacca Bay and Juniper-berries and Rosemary boiled in it Or Take Wormwood Sage dryed Rosemary each a pugil Frankincense Milium parched red Roses dry Chamomil flowers each two drams Juniper-berries and Piony seeds each a dram Cloves long Pepper Cubebs Wood Aloes each a scruple make a Quilt of Silk Then give Diacyminum Diatrionpeperion Diacalaminth or Confection of Bay-berries fasting chiefly if the wind be cold or from a cold cause But if it be hot as Galen lib. 2. de compos med sec loc first repel with cold things then mitigate and concoct with Repellers then discuss with few Repellers by degrees ceasing from them till the medicine be most digestive and attenuating and less anodyne and then discuss Vinegar is a repeller attenuater and a discussive it is cold and thin like a clear North-wind but it must not be used along being too strong but with Oyl of Roses Purslane juyce or Nightshade or use Oyl of Roses with the White of an Egg and Vinegar with Stuphes to the Forehead CHAP. XV. Of the Cure of the Noise in the Ears from Wind. IF wind gets into the Organof Hearing and sticks there strongly as by the ringing hissing rustling cracking and murmur is gathered after general and particular evacuations as in the Chapter before use Cutters and Dryers to the Ears as Oyl of bitter Almonds of Castor Cummin Rue Spike with Vinegar and Honey if you will more discuss and attenuate Aetius saith Castor and Spike Oyls with Vinegar and Oyl of Roses do wonders dropt into the Ears and juyce of Leeks with Breast-milk or Oyl of Roses Or Take Nitre Mirrh each a dram white Hellebore half a dram Castor a scruple grinde them with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar and drop it in But first sume with a Funnel evening and morning with this Decoction Take Calamints Marjoram Centaury the less Rosemary each a handful Juniper-berries a pugil Bayes and Wormwood each half a handful Lupines ten or twelve Earth worms washed in Wine and tyed in a Clout half a pugil Water one part white Wine two parts boil and keep it for a Fume then drop in the former Or this of Solenander and stop with black Wool Take Oyl two ounces Oyl of Leeks bitter Almonds each an ounce juyce of Rue Radish each half an ounce Sack an ounce and half boil them in a glass till the Wine and the juyces be almost consumed Then add powder of Lavender Coloquintida Castor and Mastich each two grains Then stop the glass and set it three hours in Balneo then set it in another vessel in the Sun till it be clear then strain it add a grain and half of Musk. While the Fume is used chew Beans or Pease to open the passages of the Ears that the Fume may penetrate Or thus Take juyce of Garlick Calamints each an ounce Aqua vitae Oyl of Bayes and bitter Almonds each half an ounce Aloes Mirrh each a scruple Saffron four grains make a fine Powder fill two great hollow Onions therewith cover them and roast them under the Embers and strain out the juyce drop often some into the Ears chiefly morning and evening after fuming Also Wine with flowers of Chamomil and Lavender boiled therein discusseth wind very well if dropt hot into the Ears and often or a Bag made of the same and Rosemary and Lavender flowers Wormwood and Calamints and quilted and applyed after the Fume and Oyntment for all night lying upon it all the time of the use of these use Clysters that are gentle at seasons to keep the belly open lest the binding in of the excrements should heap up more new matter to cause the disease CHAP. XVI Of the Cure of the Toothach from Wind. WE shewed that wind would move very swiftly and in a moment go through the thickest bodies it is no wonder then if it get into the Nerves under the Teeth and cause intolerable pains by stretching and by its coldness Therefore the Cure is to being with common Evacuations by emollient Clysters As Take Diacatholicon an ounce and half red Sugar an ounce Oyl of Dill and of Chamomil each an ounce and half Salt a dram dissolve them in the common Decoction for Clysters a pint If after the excrements are discharged you desire to dissolve more the thickness of the wind and revel make this Take Rue French Lavender Beets Centaury the less each a handful flowers of Elder St. Johns-wort Chamomil each a pugil Bay-berries Cummin seed each half an ounce Agarick Senna each half an ounce
and apply it Or this Take Cow-dung two pound Sulphur Cummin each three ounces with Honey make a Cataplasm I have cured many Children by often heating them against the fire and with dry Fomentations with hot clouts often applied CHAP. XXVII Of Priapismus taken out of Aetius I Shall add nothing of mine own because I never cured this disease and none writes shorter and better of it as Galen lib. 4. meth saith He saith that Priapismus is a standing of the Yard swelling in length and breadth without lust from heat and wind with pain It is called Priapismus from Priapus the Satyre who is painted with such a Yard as natural It is from the mouths of the Veins and Arteries stretched in the Privities or from wind Galen saith it is from both but oftnest from the Orifices dilated Some have it from want of Venery having much seed and that used Venery and abstain from it and do not by much exercise abate the blood It chiefly comes to such as dream of Venereal fancies and the pain is like the Cramp for the Yard is as in a Convulsion being pufft up and stretched and they dye suddenly except cured and then the belly is swollen and there is a cold sweat as in other Convulsions when they dye Therefore against the pain and inflammation presently open a Vein and use a small Diet three days and foment the parts about and the Yard with Wool dipt in Wine and Oyl give a gentle Clyster not sharp and feed him with a little Corn and Water If it last long cup and scarifie if there be much blood use Leeches to the part and Cataplasms of Barley flour loosen the belly with Beets Mallows and Mercury boiled And give the Decoction of Shell-fish use no strong Purges and beware of Diureticks or provokers of urine Use Corn-food that attenuates gently without manifest heating Lay Coolers to the Loyns as Nightshade Purslane Housleek Henbane Let the space between the Fundament and the Yard be cooled with Litharge of Silver Fullers Earth Ceruss Vinegar and Water A Cerot of Rose-Oyntment washed often in cold Water and applied to the Loyns and Privities doth much good He must lye upon one side and lay under him things against the emission of Sperm And he must see no Venereal pictures nor hear no wanton discourse CHAP. XXVIII Of an Inflation or windy Impostume INflations come from Wind under the skin or the Membranes of the Bones or Muscles or gathered in fleshy parts Now as Aegineta saith it is either from the thickness of the members or grossness of the wind A gross vapour distends the place that contains it by its plenty and makes a tumour not such as is loose or will yield to the finger when pressed or pit like an Oedema The common way of Cure of these tumors is to evacuate what is preternatural wheresoever contained Now it cannot be evacuated except that which is gross be relaxed and the thickness of the vapour be extenuated Both are done by Extenuaters and things potentially hot I have shewed that Oyl which is of an extenuating quality wherein Rue or hot Seeds are boiled doth cure the stomach and other bowels stretched by wind Now I shall shew how other parts as Joynts and Muscles or Membranes about the Bones are cured when stretched with wind This is sometimes with pain sometimes without and that from a single cause namely a weak heat or a contusion For an inflation without pain according to Galen lib. 4. meth a Lixivium with a new Sponge will cure it As Take rain-Rain-water or Wine let Ashes of a Fig-tree or Juniper be infused therein twenty four hours Or thus Take Bay-berries Orris roots each an ounce Bay leaves Rosemary Nip each a handful Lavender flowers a pugil Cummin six drams Boil them in Water to half in four pints infuse ashes of Fig-tree Beans or Coleworts foment therewith with a new Sponge hot It cleanseth drys consumes and discusseth wind and the tumour If there be pain use no Lixivium for by sharpness it will increase it but use relaxing Oyls as that of Dill Rue or Chamomil If Diseases come from Contusions when the Muscle or the Membrane of the Bone is bruised then lay the Sponge aforesaid upon the Membrane of the Bone But when the Muscles are pained use a more mitigating or asswaging Remedy To these we use not Lixivium alone but add to it boiled Wine and Oyl It is best at the first to use no Lixivium but Wine and a little Vinegar and Oyl with Wooll to foment the part And if pain be great use more Abaters or Asswagers of it If there be no pain oppose the Inflation by stronger Medicines as Lixivium Vinegar and then Wine And when you are not to asswage pain put in more Lixivium and Vinegar For such Inflations as by neglect are worse first use things made of a Lixivium then some Plaister such as that which is made of Sweat from mens bodies But the use of that being forgotten in our Age we order instead of it the Plaister of Bay-berries or this Take Melilot Plaister and that of Bay-berries each three drams Nitre Cummin Sulphur unslak'd Lime Salt each a scruple Oyl of Bayes and Wax as much as will make a Plaister If the wind that makes this Inflation be smoak-like evil and corrupt and from a venomous matter with great pain and heat running through the members it is best when it is setled to tye the part above and beneath and to open the Inflation with a Lancet or hot Iron that the venomous vapor may get out Then fill the Orifice with Aloes and Bole Armenick dissolved in Oyl of Roses and Vinegar After three or four days fill the wound with flesh and heal it up And in this case of a venomous Inflation use a slender diet and purge and give a little Treacle sometimes HItherto Courteous Reader I have shewed according to my abilities the Nature and Effects of Winds and the Diseases from them and their Cures for the good of the Ignorant and help of the Diseased and that learned and ingenious persons may take occasion from hence to write better Therefore take it in good part for it was written for profit to all not for contention If you accept of these first fruits expect better hereafter The CONTENTS of the Chapters of this Book CHap. 1. That Flatus is a Spirit and of the Division of Spirits Fol. 1 Chap. 2. Of the Analogy or Proportion of Flatus with Wind. 4 Chap. 3. What the Wind in Man is 9 Chap. 4. Of the Place where Wind is bred 10 Chap. 5. Of the Manner how Wind is bred in the Body 13 Chap. 6. Of the Differences of Wind bred in the Body 16 Chap. 7. How many Kinds of Diseases are produced by Wind. 18 Chap. 8. Of the Causes of Wind. 21 Chap. 9. Of the Signs of Wind. 30 Chap. 10. Of the Symptoms coming from Wind 33 Chap. 11. Of the Prognosticks of Wind. 52 Chap.