weakness or the fault of the matter of the Teeth being not sufficiently glutinous and earthy or by a privation of matter by Worms or a loosnesse in the seventh year Teeth fall out and others grow in their places growing of Teeth continues until fourteen years afterwards very few grow unlesse they be those called Posteriores Gemini which sometimes grow at 80 years The sooner Teeth come forth the less pain but they are the weaker Teeth come forth in the Spring and Summer more easily but with worse Symptomes and effects in the Winter with more difficulty but with lesse danger for they are lesse troubled with a Feaver Loosness or Vomit because their inward heat is more strong But a modern Author says that in every time of the year some are more troubled some lesse according to the natural constitution of Children which the times of the year cannot hinder The Teeth are of an equal number in men and women being 32. The Cutting Teeth which are four above and below grow first which are made of a thin matter and as they are made first so weaker and are broke fall out sooner then the rest the next are the Teeth called Dogs Teeth whose use is to break the meat as to cut is before breaking so the Teeth that cut are first afterwards the Teeth that break the meat afterwards the great and grinding Teeth grow whose matter is more hard and earthy and therefore they break out the more slowly and last of all the Gemini which never are renewed and grow again Hence it appears why the breeding of Teeth causes so many evils if they should grow in the Womb they would not be troublesome but growing after the Birth of the Child and in that time when the Gums are most soft which being bruised and crushed by a hard body as the Bone is causes great pain The Signs are the Childs crying loosnesse pinching the Paps whilest they suck the Inflammation and heat of their mouths and when their Gums are rubbed they are eased Prog. The breeding of Teeth is alwayes dangerous by reason of the great and grievous Symptomes and effects it produces as Convulsions Feavers and other evils If the Child is loose he is lesse troubled with Convulsions and fat Children more than lean yet there may be Convulsions by the sharpnesse of pain If the Child hath an acute Feaver there is seldome Convulsions by fulnesse it being remedied by the Feaver Teeth come forth more slowly most commonly with a little Cough because there is a defluxion in the mouth which argues the weaknesse of the brain The Cure is in a cold dyet of the Nurse and the pap kept cool which much refreshes the Child the Child is not to eat any hard meat and the Gums are to be cooled and relax'd the Juice of Mallowes and Lettice cools Take the Juice of Mallowes half an Ounce of Butter washt in Mallow-water half one Ounce half the yelke of an egge mingle and anoint the Gums with it this that followes is stronger Take of the Juice of Night-shade half an Ounce of the Oyle of Roses six Drams of Butter washt in Lettice-water three Drams mingle them and anoint the Gums with it it being cold rubbing the Gums with your finger for it often mitigates pain The Gums are relax'd by things that are fat as all fat of a Hen c. Oyl of Almonds and the Brains of a Hare boyled in the place whereof may be the brains of a Hen Hony boyled is much commended It is conceived by some that the breeding of Teeth is the more easie by hanging about the neck Corral a Jaspis-stone or the Root of wilde Colothwiths which others think superstitious CHAP. XIII Of the Hiccough CHildren are more chiefly affected with Diseases in the lower Venter in three parts the Stomach Bladder and Guts which follow in their order The Hiccough is a motion like to a Convulsion in which the Stomach endevour to expell what is hurtful infixt in the mouth of it The cause is in Children the plenty or quality of the Milk or nourishment being too cold sharp or corroding vehemently irritating the expulsive faculty sometimes but rarely it comes from emptiness The external causes are a cold Air hot and sharp meats as Pepper The Signes are manifest for as the Proverb is Love and the Hiccough cannot be hid if it is from fullnesse the Child is greedy and Vomits if from cold it is known by rhe Nurses using cold meats and externall injuries that preceeded it if the Childs Stomach is fomented with hot Cloathes it ceases presently if from evacuation fasting flux or vomit preceeded it if from acrimony the meats are corrupted or the milk is sharp and biting and the Child often mourns and grieves and there are pains of the Belly besides the Ordure shewes it Prog. The Hiccough in Children for the most part is safe if it be made from emptiness it is mortal for Children which are naturally full and very moist if they are vehemently dryed by a great cause they are hardly restored If a Hiccough be with the Falling-sicknesse or another kind of Convulsion it is Mortall The Cure is if the Hiccough be from 1 cold use hot things inwardly and and outwardly Take the Syrrup of Mint or Betony outwardly the Oyl of Anniseed Chamomile and Wormwood besides Plaisters and Ointments that are hot and set forth in several Chapters 2. Plenty or quality of Milk correct it as is shewed in several Chapters and if it be from the Acrimony of the Milk let the Child use a little quantity of this Take of Saccharum Rosatum half an Ounce of Bole Armenick half a Scruple mingle them If from Evacuation the same remedies are good as are for Leannesse from Evacuation see the Chapter of Leannesse Bathing with sweet Water and Broth is good in elder Children the Yelks of Eggs and all Meats that easily nourish It is related by some that the Herb called Alyssus held in the hand look'd upon or smell'd to cures the Hiccough by Propriety of Substance Others say that Sneezing and holding the Breath cures all Hiccoughs but these Helps are too difficult for Children and Infants Sneezing and Vomiting because they evacuate the matter is commended CHAP. XIV Of Vomiting and a vain desire of Vomiting BEsides the Hiccough the vain desire of Vomiting and Vomiting happens to Children for the matter that troubles the Stomach is either infixed deeply in the mouth of the Stomach and so makes a Hiccough or infixed but not profoundly and either in the Mouth or Tunicles of the Stomach whence it is a vain desire of Vomiting or else the matter is contained in the Space of the Stomach and so makes a Vomiting The Causes of Vomiting or a vain desire of Vomiting in Children are The humidity and laxity of the Stomach the plenty of cold humours falling from the head the plenty of Milk or Meat the Acrimony and coldnesse of the same Milk The External causes
Tumor of the Head caused by the Collection of Waterish humours in some part of the Members constituting the head The immediate cause is either 1. A Wind which is seldome in regard of the rarity and purosity of the head which appears by the hairiness of it and the Thumes and Tenuity of the Wind made of a very thin humour and so easily dissolved and dissipated 2. Thin and Waterish humour which is sometimes thick and coloured by the mixture of the Ichor of other humours with it This humour is collected more often in the Womb then out of it and in the head then other parts because 1. Of the great moisture of the Brain 2. The plenty of Vapours which ascend to the head and by its coldness turne into Water 3. It being the seat of Waterish humors for the Head is placed over the Belly as the Head of a Still over the body of it 4. The Density of the Skull which retains the Vapours The Signes by which this Disease is known relate to the Cause or Place If Wind be the Cause the head lightly struck will sound like a Drum and the Tumor prest by a Finger yeilds to it and leaves a Dent which presently fills up again If an humour be the cause and not within the Skull the Tumor is soft clear if prest it slowly returns to its former fulnesse the Colour of the Skin is unchang'd and there is crying and want of sleep If the humour be within the Skull the Infant hath an heaviness of the head cryes and cannot sleep and in those of elder years the eyes are prominent and stand out weeping and can hardly be shut and sometimes the fancy is hurt The Presage If the Tumor is within the Skull some think it incureable others think it cureable by Cauteries and by Diaphoreticks If it is on the outside of the Skull it is dangerous because of the Dignity of the Head and the tenderness of it in an Infant for every Disease of the head is dangerous especially in an Infant whose tenderness cannot endure a Disease or Remedy and if the humor should move inwardly there is great danger of a Lethargy or Apoplexy The Cure is by discussing and extenuating the wind and evacuating the humour insensibly or sensibly by purging or manual Operation for the doing whereof a convenient Diet is necessary which ought to be directed to the Nurse if the Child suck otherwise to the Child Wherefore let the Air be hot and dry where the Nurse and Child is kept if it be not so naturally by the season of the year prepare it so by good fires and fumes of sweet and hot woods If the Child suck let the Nurse watch much and if it is wean'd let it sleep lesse then if it was sound because watching doth much dry the body as sleep softens it Moderate Exercise and a soluble belly is very convenient which if need let it be help'd by a Suppository made of Hony The Nurse and Child both are to abstain from Wine and in the place of it a Drink is to be made of Water with Coriander seed prepared and Anniseed let the Meat be such as discusses and breaks wind and dissipates humours wherefore let the Bread have a little Coriander seed in it and the Flesh be rather of Wild Fowl and roasted rather then boyled a Moderate use of spice is profitable and Coriander canded with Sugar All Herbs and Waterish Fruits are to be avoided If the Nurse be sound avoid purging her lest you hurt the Milk if she be unsound purge her as the quality and nature of the humour require External Remedies only belong to an Infant for Purges and other Remedies are to be used to the Nurse and very carefully least they hurt wherefore this Fomentation will be convenient Take of Pennyroyal Maryroom Savory of each an handful Cumminseed and Aniseed of each an Ounce boyl them together in a pint and an half of Water to a Pint in which wet a Spunge and apply it to the head afterwards anoint the head with the Oyl of Cammomile salted if this prevails not the Oyl of Anniseed may be added and to the two Oyles without the Salt you may add a little of the Powder of Anniseed and Fennel-seed It will be convenient for the Nurse to use the following Electuary which will make the Milk discusse wind Take the Conserve of Bettony and of Rosemary of each an Ounce the Powder of Coriander and Anniseed of each an Ounce mixe them and take Morning and Evening half an Ounce In a Child of some years that can endure Medicaments Purge the Child first gently with two Ounces of the Hony of roses solutive mixe it with a little Broath Afterwards prepare the humour thus Take of Mugwort Savory Staccados Celandine of each half an handful boyl them in a pint and half of water to a Pint. Take two or three Ounces of the said Decoction of the simple Hony of Roses of the Syrrup of Staccados of each half an Ounce mingle them and give it the Child 3. or 4. days together then purge the humours so prepared Take of the Pills called Pillula Aurea one Dram and a half of Castor two Grains of the Root of Ireos finely powdred half a Dram mingle them with the Hony of the Syrrup of Roses solutive and make thereof for one Doss or quantity to be taken at once five little Pills If the Child refuse Pills Take an Ounce of the root of Ireos of Raisins of the Sun half an Ounce the Seeds of Fennel and Coriander of each half a Dram boyl them according to Art Take of the Decoction an Ounce and a half of the Trochische of Agarick two Drams infuse them all Night then strain them strongly and add an Ounce and an half of the Hony of Roses solutive After sufficient Purging the use of the Electuary directed before for the Nurse and the External Remedies will be convenient to which may be added this following Lixivium Take of Figtree-wood two pound of Salt or common water twenty pints make of it a Lye according to Art when it is strained add to it Coriander-seeds and Anniseeds of each a Pugill of Bran one Pugill the Leaves of Penny-royal Maryroom and Mugworth one handful and an half boyl them away to a fourth part then strain and use them In the same manner you may prepare a Lye of Brimstone beaten and applied to the head with a drye woollen Cloth it dries the head very much stronger driers are dangerous There may be made Plaisters of the aforesaid Herbs being boyled and bruised to the form of a Plaister and laid upon the head a Plaister made of Snails bruised and applied to the head untill they fall of themselves is an approved of remedy The following Ointment doth very much discusse the water or wind in the head Take of the Oyl of Ireos and Cammomile of each two Ounces of the Powder of Sulphur and Ireos of each two
which make Phlegme all which is done by 1. A Convenient Diet let the Air be hot and dry the sleep little exercise moderate avoid much rubing or kembing of the head and bearing weight on the Head avoid all perturbations of the mind except moderate anger and Wine that is strong and thick if you use Wine do it moderately and mixe it with water Let your meat be attenuating and drying as Bread well bak'd and with Anniseeds or Coriander-seeds Let your flesh be of Wild-fowl and rather roasted then boyled avoid Spices as filling the head with vapours and all thick grosse viscid and cold meats as Beef Cheese Milk Eggs fried or hard and the like Hence it is that the Children of poor persons are more troubled with this Disease then the Children of rich men because they eat grosse and ill Diet which makes and â—oments the humour 2. Purging Take of the Leaves of Senna half an Ounce of Polypode two Drams Ginger 15. grains half an Ounce of Raisins stoned Sebestens Pruins of each three in number of the Flowers of Borrage Violets Red Roses and Rosemary of each half a dram boil them in a pint of fountain water until half be consumed Take of the Decoction two Ounces of the hony of Roses two or three Ounces Let the humours be prepaired thus Take of the Leaves of Brownwort Plantain Dry Bettony and Mint of each half an handful boyle it according to Art of the Syrrup of Roses and Oxymel of each half an Ounce mingle them After the humours are prepared purge thus Take 30 or 40. grains of the Pills of Agarick or infuse two Drams of the Trochische of Agarick in three Ounces of the Water of Bettony all night strain it and add 2. or 3. Ounces of the Hony of Roses solutive Observe that most gentle Remedies often used is better then violent and hath often cur'd 3. By the restraining of the moving of the humour into the Part by rubbing Cupping-glasses and Blisters and there is no remedy so effectual and fit for derivation diversion and evacuation of the humour and in all Swellings and Tumours in Children about the Neck as is the exulceration of the Skin of the Head which is best done with Mustard-seed and a Nettle but with prudence and moderation but have a care you use not Cautharides which cause great pain and pissing of blood 4. By discussing the humour in the part if it be moderately thick and viscid which is done by inward Medicaments as by the use of the Trochische of Vipers and Treacle but principally by outward Medicaments first by softning it and then by dissolving it Emollient or softning Medicaments are the Plaister of Diachilon with the Gums or this Ointment Take four Ounces of Diachilon one Ounce of Hyssop four Ounces of the Root of Ireos finely powdred mingle them and with the Oil of Almonâ—s make an Ointment which use several days until the matter is softned then use Discutients as drye Figs or a Plaister made of Hony or the root of a wild Cucumber bo led in old Oyl to the form of a Plaister is very effectual so is this following which is stronger Take of Stavesacre Nitre of each two Ounces Rocket four Ounces with as much Turpentine as is convenient make a Plaister The Ashes of Colworts mixt with Hony is also very good Observe that strong Discutients may not be used lest Feavers are caused and the tender Flesh of the Child hurt If the matter be very viscid and contumacious it is not cur'd but by cutting or burning it which is very dangerous and turns them into Cancers that are mortall as is experienc'd in the using such remedies for the Kings Evill in the Neck Breasts or Grayn CHAP. IV. Of Pustules and little Risings in the Head PUstules or Risings or Swellings for the most part they are in the Head but sometimes in the whole body In the beginning they are small and little afterwards they are sore and make hard white Scabs and Crusts by the driness of the humour In sucking Children they are call'd Crusta in those of elder years they are called Achores they are ulcerous Tubercles or Ulcers with small risings perforating the skin with small holes through which passeth a sanious or filthy matter The cause is as some think a nitrous and salt Phlegme mixt with Choler Others a putrid corrupted and Ichorous blood but I consent to them who think the humour is mix'd partly thick and partly thin waterish salt and nitrous and according to the various mixture of the humours with the salt waterish humours the various colours of the Sores arise being thereby black red white or yellow and those humours are either generated in the womb of the Mother out of the Menstruous blood or after the Child is born by the fault of Milk or Diet nature purifying and purging her self sends them forth into the outward parts of the body The signs are manifest to Sight the Child cries cannot sleep and are watchful the Child Itches and after Itching they are sore a bloody humour passes forth and oftentimes the Child is lowsy If they proceed from blood there is a redness pain and more easie Itch but if from a more sharp humour there is a great Itch. The Presage Pustules sometimes degenerate into great Ulcers and sometimes corrode the Skull by the Malignity and badness of the humour that the Membranes may be seen They many times preserve Children from great and many Diseases as Feavers Falling-sicknesses and others by natures purging her self by the skin They heal frequently of their own accord by Time and Age. The Cure is in 1. A Convenient Diet by avoiding salt sharp hot and sweet things fish and fruit If the Pustules are moist a drye Diet is convenient as the eating of Wild-fowl roasted bread twice bak'd c. which ought to be us'd only by the Nurse if the Child suck 2. Evacuation of the humours by Blood-letting Leeches or Cupping-glasses and purging the Nurse if the Child suck not prepare the humours with Cichory Eudave Fumitory and Agrimony of each an handful boyle them in a pint and an half of Water until half a pint be consumed Take thereof three Ounces and add the Syrrup called Syrrup Byzantius and the Syrrup of Fumitory of each half an Ounce or temper the humour that is faulty with the Syrrups of Borrage and Fumitory The humours being prepared Take of Rhabarb one Dram infuse it all night in three Ounces of endive-Endive-water in the Morning strain it well and add an Ounce and an half of the Syrrup of Roses solutive The Body being purged the part excoriated is to be cur'd by outward Remedies A Bath of common Water in which the Leaves of Scabius Agrimony and Plantane are boyled is very good The Ointments of Litheridge Cerusse or Diapompholiges cures it CHAP. V. Of Chapt Lips in Children THe Lips are made not only for Beauty but also for use for the defence of the Mouth and
plenty of Urine and worms If the defect is because the meat is not exactly prepar'd in the Stomach there is belching of Wind Vomiting and want of Appetite or some hot distemper If from the fault of food if in Infants the Nurses milk is not good for milk is made of food by the colour and ill constitution of the Nurse it is easily known if the Milk is bad it will not be very white have an ill taste not sweet of an ill smell and more thick and fluid then it ought to be The thickness and thinnesse of the Milk is known if some Milk is Milk'd upon the Nail of the Thombe and if it presently runs off it is too thin if it stayes and moves not off it is too thick Or if you curdle it the whey and curds ought to be equall else it is to thin or to thick besides if the Milk be thin andsharp the Child is troubled with Pain loosenesse and very ill breakings out If the milk is thick the Child is costive and there are little Inflamations Swellings and Vomitings they pisse little move and breath with difficulty and are full of Phlegm In those that are elder the badnesse of food is known by the colour of the Skin and out-side of the body wherefore if the countenance be ill colour'd scabby or pimpell'd or if any other part is weak as the head Stomach or Liver or if their be any infirmities distempers or passions of mind it is certain the Leanness is from the fault of the food Also it happens by the weaknesse from some Disease If these things had not been the Child would have had a florid and fresh colour good appetite and would eat and not complain If Leannesse be from Fascination no art or natural means is effectual and there is no internal or external cause of Leannesse in regard of the Nurse or Child Presage 1. All Suddain Leannesse proceeding from a Feaver is mortal because of the Vehemency of the cause weakness of the strength tenuity of the humour and laxity of the whole Body 2. Consumptions that are seldome and not from Feavers especially those that are great and ill are sometimes cureable 3. Lean bodies that are moist and have a moist Skin may be made fat because all soft bodies are apt and fit to be extended into any dimension 4. Bodies that are dry and have their Skin hard and rough can scarce be fatned 5. Bodies that have the Skin dry and cleaving to the bones that neither by the hand nor Art can be stretch'd out there is no hope of fatning them but if the Skin be wrinkled and rugged so that it may be drawn forth and as it were seperated from the bones there is some hope of making them fat The Cure is 1. in Children that suck if the Milk be too little or bad change the Nurse and choose one who hath good Milk the notes whereof you have before let her be of a good constitution of a white and red colour of a good converversation and behaviour not under 20. nor above 40. years old having had Children twice and being not above 2 or 3 moneths from her last delivery broad chested having breasts neither big nor small but moderate If the Nurse may not be chang'd let her be in a temperate Air let her Sleep well it augments Milk let her avoid Passions especially Anger Grief and Love for they corrupt the Milk and congresse with a man spoils the Milk or provokes the menstruous Flux that the Milk is lessened A Nurse that lives with her husband is allowed coition and congresse with him lest She be disturbed by desire of it and by experience we see that Mothers that live with their Husbands and use congresse Nurse the Child without any hurt The Nurse ought to use moderate exercive rubbing of her bosome and breasts before she eats is convenient let her not drink or very little and that which is sweet which lest offends the head lest by increasing Milk the Child hath the Falling Sicknesse The meat ought to be of a good and plentifull nourishment avoiding sharp salt and bitter things the best bread the Flesh of Birds Veal Mutton and the like Fish is to be avoided Broath especially with the Milk of Almonds increase Milk If the Milk be faulty by the coldnesse moisture and thinnesse of it the Dyet must be hot for the correcting of it If the Nurses body abound with cold and moist humours prepare and purge them but with gentle Purgatives as the Syrrup of Roses or Rhabarbe whose weak vertues are extinguish'd before they are communicated to the blood if you purge strongly let not the Child suck the Nurse two or three days after If the Milk is too thick the Diet is to be attenuating Vinegar Raddishes and the like are good a gentle Vomit is more convenient then a Purge If the Milk be sharp and hot the Nurse is to be kept in a cold Air Rest Baths of fresh water are convenient Wine is hurtful let the meat be Barly broth with cooling Herbs especially Lettice which cools and thickens the blood and increases Milk avoiding salt and things acrimonious and Spices If the fault be not in the Milk but in some part of the Infant the Nurse is to be dieted and purged and the Infant is to take no inward Medicament but external because these Ages bears not vehement Medicaments wherefore external remedies are only to be used and therefore if the Childs Stomach be cold and moist hot or dry Plaisters Bathings and Oyntments are to be used for the correcting of them Take the Leaves of Marjoram Mint of each one handful the Aromatick Reed and the Flowers of red roses of each half a handful the water of Calamint one Pint of Sweet Wine two Ounces boyle them well and with a Cloth dipp'd in it bath the Stomach if it be cold Afterwards annoint it with this Take the Oyl of Mastick half an Ounce the Powder of Cinamon and Cloves of each half a Dram mixe a little wax with them and make an Oyntment If the Stomach be dry bath it with Milk and annoint it with this Take fresh Butter the fat of an Hen of each half an Ounce Saffron four grains the Oyl of Wormwood three Ounces mingle them and make a Liniament If the Leannesse is from heat Take Cichory Endive Water-lilly and Wormwood waters of each four Ounces Vinegar two Ounces make a fomentation for the Liver afterwards annoint the side with this Take of the Oyntment of Sanders â—iâ—hory and Liverwort waters of each two Ounces of the Vinegar of Roses one Ounce make a Liniament If Leanness is from Loosness the Nurse is to use binding meats as Quinces Services Rice Medlers or Broth of an old Hen and Calves feet Corral or Jaspers Stone hung about the childs neck is convenient So is this Take of Mirrh and Quince of each half an Ounce powder of Red Coral two Ounces of Oakwater two Ounces the powder
Child was Epileptick but the Disease made in him by the Evil of the Divel The froth in the mouth is made because the Spirits and Fume which come from the Lungs is mixt with the Spittle and Phlegme that comes from the head which moved and exagitated to and fro turns into froth as the Sea-water agitated and broken with many winds The Noise is a kind of Voice made from the motive faculty hurt and depraved Prog. This Disease in Children is the most acute Disease and therefore mortal because of the straightnesse and narrownesse of the Veins that cannot receive the grosse Phlegme and so it remains in the Brain or because of the moistnesse of the Brain and the weaknesse of the motive faculty the humor cannot be dissolved or driven forth far enough out of the Ventricles of the Brain 2. Those that are once cur'd are never again Epileptick because the expulsive faculty continually expells gathering of humours the same way it did when the Disease was removed whereby it cannot be gathered into the Ventricles to offend 3. The Epilepsy which is by Error of Diet is incurable of it self without help 4. The Falling Sicknesse which is from the Birth of the Child and his Parents is cur'd of its own accord without any rethe great humidity which is the cause of this Disease is lessened by Age and the faculties are stronger If it happen after the change of Age that is after 25. years it is most difficult and impossible to cure because then the faculties are strong and congenited moisture lessned cannot overcome the cause of the Disease which is very powerful and as it produceth it can preserve the Disease and because the humours which makes the Episepsy are Melancholy and dry and so difficult of themselves to be taken away and daily increase by Age. The Cure is 1. A convenient Diet which belongs to the Nurse for a sucking Child and the same is to be used by a Child that doth not suck You are to choose and prepare the Air to be hot and dry they that live in cold Countries their Children are often Epileptick use moderate sleep for this Disease is as it were asleep avoid unseasonable exercises fears and frighting which hath often brought the Disease Bathes and fulnesse are hurtful so is much fasting it fills the head So Wine hurts the Nerves and is to be avoided the Drink is to be such that heats but not hurting the head the meat hot and attenuating which hath cur'd many but that which breeds gross humours is windy and with a certain propriety offends the head is to be avoided 2. If the Child suck and the Disease be by consent from the Stomach which is most frequent being oppress'd with too much Milk let the Child suck seldome Or from the ill quality and sharpnesse of the Milk correct the Milk and apply this Plaister to the Stomach Take of the Powder of Aloes and Myrrhe of each half a Scruple the Powder of Mastick one Scruple and mingle them with a little Wax and Rosine and apply it to the mouth of the Childs Stomach If it be by the fault onely in the head which is most frequently the use of Hony is profitable Take of Paeony half a Scruple of the Leaves of Stocados and Betony half a Pugill Cyperus one Scruple powder them finely put of this Powder in a little Spoon and put it into the Childs mouth and presently give him the Breast that he may Swallow the Powder A Seton in the neck is very profitable so is the following Powder sprinkled upon the head Take Maidenhair Cypresse Iridis of each two Drams Cloves one Scruple powder them finely and mix them The whole body may be anointed with Camomile and the oyle of Iridis Take the Leaves of Coltsfoot one handfull of Oak Misseltoe half an Ounce boyle it according to Art and dip a Cloth in it and wrap the child in the Cloth it is much commended Paeony and Smaradge is much commended to be hung about the Childs neck that it may reach to the Stomach If the Child be somewhat great and the Epilepsy be by consent and from other parts sending a thin humour or vapour to the brain Purge him as he is able to suffer and alter the distemper of the part If it be outwardly in the Arm Thigh Hip or other part rubbing is good and a discutient Plaister applyed to the part then if it will not do Blister the part If the Disease be by the fault only of the head use first this Clyster Take of the lesser Centaury half an handfull of Mallowes one handfull of Bran tyed in a Cloth half a Pugill boyle them according to Art Take of that Decoction 8 Ounces of Hony an Ounce and half of Chamomile 2 Ounces and an half of Salt half a Dram mingle them and make a Clyster then prepare the humours Take of the Leaves of Stocados Betony of each half a handfull the seed of Paeony one Dram boyle them according to Art Take of that Decoction 3 Ounces more or lesse as the Childs age will bear of the Syrrup of Stocados and Oxymel Simple of each half an Ounce mingle When the humors are prepared then Purge but although this Disease require vehement remedies yet they are not to be used by reason of the Age. Two Scruples of Pillulae Aureae are sufficient or take of the Trochische of Agarick two Drams infuse it all night in two Ounces of betony-Betony-water strain it hard then add two Ounces of the Hony of Roses solutive the Electuary di Psillie one Dram mingle and make a Potion this Disease many times appears not in two or three moneths and is very stubborn therefore for the perfect curing it Take of Guyacum two Ounces of the Water of Betony two pints infuse it 24. hours and boyle them to the consumption of a third part and in the end add two Drams of the seed of Paeony finely powdered of Oak Misselto one Dram and half of Coriander-seed one Dram afterwards Strain it and make a Syrrup of it then take the same Guiacum and put four pints of common water to it and boyle the fourth part away and in the end add two Ounces of Anniseed and use it as ordinary drink and give of the Syrrup three or four Ounces every morning continuing so 40. 50. or more days Blistering is good so are Fontanells and Issues There is no Disease that hath more remedies commended by Authors then this hath I shall content my self with the following remedies Take of the seed of Paeony and take Misseltoe of each two Drams Cardamums one dram Cantharades prepared two Scruples Powder them and make an Electuary of them of which half a Dram may be taken three hours before meat Take Coriander prepar'd Mustard-seed Nutmeg of each half a Dram the Seed of Paeony 7 Drams Dictamnes 2 Drams make a Powder of them and give the Child of it in the morning at your pleasure in
make a Clyster which is very good So is this Take of Mullen the greater Comfrey of each half a handful boyl them according to Art Take thereof two Ounces and an half of the Syrrup Deribes one Ounce mingle them Whey in which Steel is quench'd is good and may be given to six or eight Ounces at once If the Guts are sore this Confection is very useful Take of the Conserve of Barberies one Ounce of Thus one dram of Mastick half a dram of the powder of the great Comfrey two Scruples mingle them the quantity to be used is two or three drams every morning The Broth of an old Hen in which Mullen is boyled is good for all old and petuitous Fluxes So is the heart of a Beef burnt and powdered taken in Milk in which Steel is quench'd or in the Decoction of Mullen half a Scruple of it or a Scruple is to be used at once Clysters are good Take the Water of Barly in which Steel is quench'd eight Ounces Red Sugar one Ounce make a Clyster this is good in the beginning because it moderately dries absterges and mundifies the Ulcers afterwards the Ulcers are to be dryed and healed to which purpose use this Take of Whey in which Steel is quench'd nine Ounces of Thus Bole-Armonick and of Comfrey the great of each three drams Sanguis Draconis five drams mingle them and make a Clyster CHAP. XX. Of the Tenesme AFter a Loosness and in the Loosness and from them a distemper usually arises called a Tenesme which is a certain vain desire of evacuating the Filth of the Belly with pain and trouble The Cause is A hot or cold distemper of the Spyncter of the great Gut most commonly from a humour thick viscid and sharp adhereing to it where it stimulates the expulsive faculty which endevouring to expel the viscous and sharp matter but cannot in regard of the tenacity of the humour the Tunicle of the Gut is as it were strain'd into pieces and in the same divulsion the appetite and pain is made The antecedent causes most frequently are Preceeding Fluxes for the humors continually touching the great Gut distempers it if the humours are hot the distemper is hot if cold the distemper is cold whereby sometimes there is not only made a distemper but an Inflamation The Signs are manifest because the Child desires and endevours often to expell the filth of the Belly and with such endevours that sometimes the Fundament falls and comes down the Filth that is evacuated is very little slimy and bloody if it be from a hot cause a heat is perceived by the Children in the Fundament there is a rednesse and cold remedies help if from cold there is a lesser pain a little or no heat no rednesse and hot things help Prog. This Disease if it be diligently handled in the beginning ends well but it sometimes happens by continual pains watchings and crying of Children that it brings them into mortal Feavers and Consumptions The Cure is of sucking Children by ordering the Nurse if a Child somewhat great by abstaining from meats that are acid sharp salt and sweet and to use such as provoke Urine If the cause be hot to asswage the pain then lessen the desire of going to Stool Make a Decoction of Mullein or Dyptams and sit in it Take Mirabulous Chebules and the Leaves of Mullein and boyle them in Red wine and dip a Sponge in it and apply it to the fundament Turpentine put upon the Coales that it fume and smoke the fundament is very good if these will not help Take of Opium four grains of Saffron one Scruple of Thus one Scruple and make a Suppository of it with the White of an Egg roasted put it into the Fundament it takes away pain dryes up the humours that causes the distemper especially the hot humors CHAP. XXI Of the pain of the Guts THe Guts being very full of Turnings and windings and rowlings and very long retain the humors a great time in them which makes the internal Tunicles of the Guts bare and naked from the slime which covers the Guts and makes their sense dull for their receiving of hard and sharp excrements and corrodes the substance of them and distends them whereby there is a vehement torment and pain The cause is either wind that cools the Guts and oistends the Tunicles of them or humors that are cold or hot which distemper them or causes a Solution of continuity somtimes Worms is the cause The external causes are the coldnesse of Air Feet and meat also sweet meats and Summer fruits If it be from Wind the pain is sometimes vehement sometimes gentle goes and comes breaks forth upwards and downwards If from humors the pain is more durable and constant if from Phlegme that Filth that is evacuated is but little and slimy If from Choller the Excrements of the Belly are yellow If from the corruption or sharpnesse of Milk there are notes of the badnesse of the Milk and the Filth and Excrements evacuated resemble corrupted Milk Prog. Pains that are persevering are dangerous especially the vehement pains in the Guts of Children proceeding from Worms which many times kills them The Cure is If the pain is from corrupted Milk change the Nurse if the be so vehement that it will not allow time to correct the milk if from wind the Nurse is to abstain from all windy meats and use Coriander and Fennelseed So ought the Child that is elder to use Auodynes such things which heat in the first degree and evacuate the matter of pain and attenuate and dissipate it annointing the Childs Belly with the Oyle of Anniseed If it is not effectual put a Clyster-pipe in the Fundament so the Wind is drawn forth sometimes if not make three Ounces of the Oyle of Anniseed lumbricated is sufficient for a Clyster If the Child be great use Cummin or Anniseed in Sweet Oyle and the Oyle afterwards being strained take of it 6. or 8. Ounces for one Clyster Observe the Wind ought to be expelled out of the Guts by gentle remedies if more hot are used the pains usually are increas'd if the Cause of the Wind be in the Guts If the cause is a petuitous humour in a Child that is somewhat great the gentle remedies above mittigate pain afterwards take the Leaves of Dill Marjerome Cumminseed of each half a handful boyle them according to Art Take Take of the Decoction three Ounces of Oxymel Simple and of the Syrrup of Byzantine of each three Drams the humors being prepared purge with one dram of Hiera in Wine if the Child will take it and there being no Feaver otherwise Take of Electuary Lenitive 5 drams of Hiera Picra one dram mingle them and make a Bolus If the pain is from hot and sharp humors use outwardly the means as is said before Take of Barly water six Ounces Oyle of Anniseed two Ounces the Yolk of an Egge and make a Clyster
or weight of Cloathing encrease the Feaverish heat of the Child and if the tongue waxes black with heat the breathing is short and Swounding is fear'd let some cold water be near the Childs mouth that he may suck the cold Air in Sleep is helpfull but the troubles of the mind especially Fear is to be avoided only a little Anger may be admitted which help the expelling the humour If the Belly be bound a very easie Clyster or Suppository may be used which doth not hinder the motion of nature because they only work in the Guts and the motion of nature is to the Skin and in the Veins besides Clysters do not deject us that they may be fear'd contrary to what some think Avoid fulnesse and emptinesse let the body be kept in quiet and rubb'd a little for it expells the humour let the drink be Barly Water with the Juice of Limmons or Barberies or a Decoction of the roots of Sorrell or a Decoction of Ivory or Hartshorn especially in the beginning and whilest the Feaver is vehement If the Feaver is not very vehement a Decoction of Barly and Figs will be most convenient and commonly with successe hath been used by most eminent Physicians for that effectually expells the humours to the Skin If Wine be permitted it must be but a little and in it steep Lettice Endive or Sorrell Avoid gross meats Spice Salt and Sweet meats for sweet things destroy and so doth bitter things being dry and contrary to the Childs nature which is moist wherefore the meat must be easie to concoct cooling as Barly Broth or Broth in which cooling Hearbs are boyled and when the danger is over you may feed them with Broth and Yelks of Egs put into it with some Juice of Limon or Vineger A dried Fig is good meat for it expells the humour to the skin 2. Emptying of the blood before the Eruption and breaking forth of the Small Pox or Meazles If the Feaver is great and there be a fulnesse of blood then it may be admitted unlesse the Age is very tender or something else hinders it It may not be used upon Children that are weake and forbeare the emptying of blood in Children before they are 10. Months old though the Arabians appoint at five months The lessenning of blood ought to be upon the first visit of the Physician because of the beginning of the Ebullition of the blood which is commonly then the Fervour whereof ought to be abated and nature eased so that one ought not to stay until the fourth day but it may be done when one will before that time and not after The lessening of blood is done several ways as by letting blood which ought to be very seldome Cupping-glasses or Leeches the latter is most easie and one or two may suffice in the place of Cupping-glasses or opening a Vein 3. Medicaments All Physicians agree vehement remedies are not to be used but some think gentle means may be used in the beginning of this Disease but I conceive that Medicaments may not be used in the beginning because the operation of it will trouble nature in her work which is critical the Physician being called when the blood is boyling and it is a rule there is nothing to be done unlesse nature act imperfectly which cannot be known in the beginning but a Clyster may be then and at any time used for that works only on the Guts as is said a little before Take a pint of Barly-water 4 Ounces of the Syrrup of Violets three Ounces of Butter and an Ounce of red and course Sugar mingle them for a Clyster the quantity is to be altered as the capacity of the Child is A dried Fig is a convenient Suppository and one made of hony Where the humour moves forth and the whole matter comes forth there no evacuation must be used for there the Child and all things are quiet But if the Child is troubled the trouble may be taken away with a Lenitive Take of Tamarinds half an Ounce Sebestens 15. of Barly two drams of the Flowers of Borrage Violets and Roses of each a Dram boyl them in a pint of water to half a pint Take 4. Ounces of this Decoction and an Ounce of Manna or more as the Child is Some think a gentle purge before the eruption breaking out and appearance of the Pox and Meazles if the Child abound with ill humours and the Feaver rage may be used for it lessens the ill humours that thereby nature doth expel more cheerfully but if the Small Pox begins to break forth then a Purge is pernicious and mortall The rest of the Cure is in helping nature in expulsion wherefore if Nature doth not expell readily and strongly but slowly use such a remedy as cools binds and opens Take of Lents one Ounce of Figs 10. Maidenhair two Drams Smalledge roots half an Ounce Sorrell half a handful boil them in a pint and an half of water to a pint use it morning and Evening from four Ounces to six as the Child is If nature expels strongly omit the opening things in regard of the Feaver which is great and the openings are not then to be used but when nature expels slowly which is known by the fewnesse and slownesse of their coming forth This expels Take of Lents two drams of Figs fifteen of Barly one dram of Lettice and Sorrell of each an handful boyl them in a pint and an half of water to a pint use 6 7 or 8. Ounces of it Morning and Evening as the Child is Note that Lents boyled alone loosens the Belly from whence are mortal Fluxes nor it is not to be used alone for a remedy because of its thickness and binding qualities Take of French Barly one Pugil slic'd Liquorish half a dram red Cicers one dram of the greater Cold seeds of each half a dram Cordial Flowers of each one Pugill three Figs boyl them well in water to 6 Ounces after it is strained dissolve in it half an Ounce of the Syrrup of Granat which is to be taken at twice it is very good it mitigates and tempers the Feaver These that follow are also good to expell as Confection of Hyacynth Alkermes Contraherva Harts-horn or Scabius boyled so is Antimonium Diaphoreticum Bezar-stone and the Bezardical Minerall some use to bath with Luke-warm water to promote expulsion by relaxing the Skin Observe that Medicaments that are Cordials and expelling are to be used from the appearing and first coming forth of the Small Pox to the Eleventh day which some call the increase and state of Eruption of the Ebullition If the Scabs dry not of themselves and have matter in them and are ripe they are not to be opened unlesse they be malignant for if they be ripe and white their heat and fervour and eating of the flesh is gone and they will dry and fall of themselves and so there is no danger of its putrefying and leaving holes and marks If the
of Mastick and Tormentill of each half a Dram mingle them and make a Liniament the senting of the Clothes with Fumes of things that are binding are also convenient If Leannesse arise from the drynesse of the whole body use Bathing with fresh water in which are boyled Mallowes Lettice Water-Lillies or Endive and a Liniament may he made of the Oyl of Roses Violets Butter without Salt and Hogs grease Clysters are also good in these cases made of Milk or Bread boyled in broth or made of Eggs because they may nourish Children being they are next to Generation that is the state which they had in the womb in which they were nourish'd by the Navil without the Concoction and preparation of the Stomach Observe that Plaisters to draw nourishments to the parts are not convenient for Children because their bodies are as Wax and that sort of remedy by the heat of it doth enervate and wast the flesh of Infants If the Child is bewitcht a Saphir or Carbuncle hung about the Childs Neck is conceived good so is Hartsthorn hung in the house and many more which I omit as superstitious or false If the Child doth not suck but is nourish'd with solid Meats then the Cure is by removing 1. The External Cause or the Internal Disease if it be the cause of it caused by proper remedies to it Afterwards by procuring a good Nourishment distributed and assimulated which is done by a convenient Diet. Let the Air be temperate and moist heat hurts and be careful the Child is not Clothed too hot Let the sleep be long the mind quiet the Exercise moderate and that which is slow fatness and swift exercise consumes the Belly moderately loose Baths used seasonably Wine that is thin thick Wine obstructs and is not vehicle for the meat Odoriferous somewhat sweet not sharp but very moderately used The Meat nourishing somewhat fatty Juicy neither salt nor acide unless it be to provoke a Stomach as the Flesh of Fowl Veal c. Eggs the Brains of a Calf or Hog-bread boyled in Broth Rice boyled in Milk Parsnip steep'd in Milk Raisins and Almonds Besides these there are meats that fatten either by a quality 1. Manifest by helping concoction as Spices by being gratefu to the Stomach and increasing the native heat of it as Cinamon Cloves and Nutmegs Take the Pulpe of a boyled Capon and Patridge of each half an Ounce of the Pine Kernell Pistack Nut steep'd in Mallagoe Wine half an Ounce of Sweet Almonds an Ounce Cinamon Clove and Nutmegs of each an Ounce and an half Fine Sugar as much as suffices make Lozenges they are pleasant and fatten much or by apposing and fastning the meat as all Diureticks and Diaphereticks do which opens the wayes and carries the nourishment to the parts So doth Drinking likewise between Meals or by apposing and fastning the meat to the parts by their tenacious and viscid humidity which humidity in hot and drye bodies is to be cold and in cold bodies hot 2. By a Propriety and an occult quality as Sarcocolla now the Indian Nut is in great use the Marrow whereof being finely bruised an Ounce or two or half an Ounce is mix'd with broth Take of sweet Wafers and Sarcocolla of each one pound make a past with Butter and drye them then powder it and use five Ounces in cold water Observe cold water is praised by many and cold meats but this is by a manifest quality and good where Leanesse is by the great heat of the Liver The Third Book Of Inward DISEASES of several parts CHAP. I. Of the Epilepsy or Falling-Sicknesse IN the two precedent Books you have the External and Universal Diseases in this Book you have Inward Diseases belonging to particular parts of the body but in regard Children especially before 7. years of Age have not the use of reason reason being as it were drowned and drunk with moisture and humours which made one say the Souls of Children differ nothing from the Souls of Beasts for whilst we are Infants we all live the Lives of Beast using only the faculties of the Vegetative and Animal Souls therefore the faults of the Actions of the rational faculty as Phrenzy and Madness are not considered by Physicians amongst Childrens Diseases which likewise I omit in this Book The Epilepsy hath several Names I shall only mention three of them here It is called 1. A Childs Disease because Children are most frequently troubled with it by the cold distemper and large moisture of the Brain 2. An holy and divine Disease so divers of the Ancients testifie in their Writings 3. Lunatick 26. Matth. the Lunatick there was the same with this because as one excellently says they who are conceived in the change of the Moon when the Moon is in conjunction with the Sun without Light they have the Falling Sicknesse The Falling Sicknesse is a preternatural involuntary and intermitting contraction and retraction of all the Muscles and Nerves The mediate cause of an Epilepsy by consent is a Vapour raised from the lower parts to the head which some think is but seldome whether it be from fear corrupted Milk in the Stomach Worms breeding of Teeth the Small Pox Meazles or Feavers The immediate Cause of the Falling Sickness when the Brain is primarily affected is a thin humour or vapour because it is made and gone quickly therefore the matter of it must be such as may go away and return quickly which cannot be in a thick humour which must be dissolved by concoction which is done in time and not suddenly which vapour or thin humour by a peculiar vertue doth prick the Membrane of the Brain and part where the Nerves begins causing a Constriction of the passages and exciting the sensible parts to an Expulsion of what is hurtful thence is the shutting out and Retraction of the sensique Spirits and by a defect of them follows a diminution or cessation or abolition of the Actions of the mind and thereby all the parts of the body have a convulsive motion A cold and moist temper of the Body hereditary Disposition and the Nativity being in the Eclipse of the Moon are Dispositions to this Disease The external Causes are 1. Things which administer matter as grosse and vaporous meat as old Pigeons Sparrows Eales c. 2. Things that excite it as Moon-shine the smell of stinking things also great fear and tickling Signs of the coming of it in children are because the Child is born of Parents that have the Falling Sicknesse in those that are elder Pains of neck back heart fears and inordinate motions in the sleep often spitting Signs of the Paroxysme and when it is upon the Child are as 17. Matth. a noise crying out falls in the fire foames out of his mouth and is without sense so was the Child cur'd by Christ in the Chapter aforesaid but that Child was Epileptick and possest with a Devil as one learnedly sayes or as another sayes the
Ear are very nerveous Note the outward part of the ear is fleshy and cartilaginous The humidities of the ears are reckoned amongst Childrens Diseases by some but not the humidities of the Nose or Palate because the Expurgation by the Nose and Palate is natural to men and Children but the expurgation by the Ears is not natural The Cause of it is the great humidity of the Brain which cannot be all evacuated by the Mouth and Palate so that excrementitious humours which abound are evacuated by all Passages wherefore many will not drye up this humidity unlesse it ulcerate or threaten obstruction or deafnesse The Cause of the pain in the ear are the humours especially Choller Ichorous matter Wind or Worms Prog. The Pain of the Ear is very dangerous The Cure is 1. The mitigation of the Pain with luke warm milk or Water and the Oyl of Roses mix'd and a Cloth dipp'd in it and laid upon the Ear a Decoction of the heads of Poppy and as the Causes of the Pain are so ought remedies to be for the taking them away If the pain is from hot humours the part is red and hot and cur'd by cold things if from cold by luke-warm things if from Wind the Diet ought to be such as discusses Wind for which purpose Coriander is good for the Nurse to use and that the Child sleep upon the ear which pains him thereby natural heat is augmented and dissipates the Wind the Oyl of Cammomile or Anniseeds poured into the Childs ear is very good if the pain be from an Ichorous matter wipe and clense continually the Ear with Hony or Hony and water if from Worms put into the Ear bitter things that kill the Worms as the Oyl of bitter Almonds See the Chapter of Worms If there be humidity of the Ears and the Child old enough to be purged let him take three dayes this drink Take of the Leaves of Mirtles Bettony Staecados Violets of each half a handful let a Decoction be made according unto Art then take thereof two Ounces and an half of the Syrrup of Wormwood and Staecados of each two drams mingle them afterwards purge the head thus Take of the Pills of Agarick half a dram of Castor one grain two Cloves mingle them and with the Hony of Roses solutive make five little Pills The head being purged for the drying up of the humidity if it be cold infuse into the Ears the Oyle of Irnie or Rue If hot the Oyl of Roses with the Oyl of Cammomile Observe in the use of remedies that they be always lukewarm when you use them neither hot nor cold not in a great quantity but by drops and that the Child lye on the Ear that pains and observe the moisture flowing out of the Ears is not to be stopp'd CHAP. IX Of the inflamation of the Glandules in the mouth call'd the Almonds of the Ears THe Inflamation of these Glandules is reckoned by some amongst Childrens Diseases but onely in Children after breeding of Teeth Others say this Disease may be in Infants but in them it would then be very mortall by the plentifull flowing of humours which often strangles If the Gums are inflamed in Infants and the Glandules ulcerated before breeding of Teeth why may they not be inflamed what should hinder that an infant may not have this disease sometime and not be choak'd as I conceive The inflamation of these Glandules is an Intumescency of them made by a flux of humours The internal cause are all the humours especially Phlegm The external causes are a hot or extreme cold Air violent exercises hanging down the head vociferations strong drink and meat that heat the blood The Signes are if the mouth be opened heat pain rednesse and Swelling near the root of the Tongue difficulty in breathing and swallowing Prog. This Disease usually causes the Quinzey and inflamation of the Lungs and divers other dangerous Diseases 2. If a loosenesse of the belly happen upon this Disease the Flux cures it The Cure is 1. in a good Dyet avoiding any excesse of the air smoak the Sun all exercises of the body vehement motions of the mind especially anger bathing if the belly be bound move it with a gentle Clyster or suppository not by a remedy at the mouth for it is dangerous abstain from wine and use Barly water with the Juyce of Granates and Mulberries and Quinces let the meat be such as may be supt as Barly Broth bread boyled in broth with the Juice of the Seeds of Limmon the Yelks of Eggs in broth with the Juice of Granates 2. In revulsion of the humour by daily rubbing Ligatures especially Cupping-glasses applyed to the Loins and lower parts not the upper parts lest it draw the humor to the part affected 3. Repelling the humour by cooling and astringing remedies as the Sirrup of Mulberry Granate Mirtle with Barly water Rose water Plantain or Oak-bud water and wash the mouth with it to which purpose may be red Roses powdered finely and other astringent powders 3. Dissipating evacuating the humour with remedies that by a moderate heat attenuate and turns the matter into a wind Take the leaves of Dill Flowers of Camomile of each half a handfull of Bran half a Pugill the leaves of Marjarome six Drams of Common water a pint and an half boil it according to Art strain it and add three ounces of clarified Hony gargarize with it being Lukewarm If the matter cannot be discust but it begins to ripen help it with annointing the neck with the Oyle of Almonds or by applying a plaister of Diachilon The ripening of it is helpt inwardly by the roots of Mallowes or Figs boyled and Gargarizing and washing the mouth with it CHAP. X. Of the Sorenesse of the mouth THe Ulcers of the mouth in Children are Ulcers of the Superficies of the mouth that is the whole internal part of the mouth with a fiery heat They are easily caused in Infants by reason of the tendernesse and softnesse of the Palat of Children they being unaccustomed to meat being newly born and by their greedinesse and sucking more then they can digest wherefore it is a great fault in Nurses that whensoever the Child cryes to quiet them with giving the Breast for it is a rule amongst Physicians that milk should not be given not above three or four times in a day The cause is whatsoever is corroding or accrimonious or sharp whether the humours of the body meat or medicaments In Children they are chiefly caused by the sharpnesse and corruption of the Milk whereby ill vapours are sent from the Stomach into the mouth The external causes are whatsoever may heat the head of the Child as the air being hot the use of hot meats immoderate exercises and drinking of strong Wine The Signes are Swallowing with pain and difficulty if they are malignant they for the most part follow ill and pestilentiall Feavers besides they are fetid black or livid causing pain and
are a bad Air stinck or an ill tast the use of Oyly and fat things The Signs of Vomiting are manifest it is known if it be from 1. Coldness by the cold Diet of the Nurse preceding it and the help from hot things Besides the Milk is kept some time if the Stomach be cold it presently rejects the Milk 2. Acrimony then Children languish and are afflicted before and after Vomiting 3. Plenty then Vomiting eases evacuating the cause of Laxity Prog. Vomiting which is from taking more then the Stomach is able to bear and Vomiting only that which offended and retaining and correcting the rest the Child is not sick but more cheerful the Stomach being strong and the fault only in the quantity of the Milk 2. Vomiting immediately only what is taken if it continue causes a Consumption and Death The Cure is The Milk is to be corrected by lessening the quantity of it in suckling the Child and altering by purging and correcting the temper of the Nurse as is directed in several Chapters If the fault be in the Childs Stomach by the weaknesse of it Cloves or Coriander chewed by the Nurse and instill it into the Mouth of the Child sometimes alone sometimes with the Syrrup of Mirtles Quince or Granates is commended Outwardly apply the Plaister called Emplastrum de Crusta Panis or take the Oyl of Mirtles two drams of the Juice of unripe Grapes or one dram and an half red Wine one dram boyl them to the Consumption of the Wine then add Mastick Mirrh Acaciae and Frankinsense of each half a dram Wax and refine as much as will susfice to a soft Plaister let the Child wear this constantly above the Stomach CHAP. XV. Of the unvoluntary pissing of Children INvoluntary pissing or not holding of the Water in Children is more familiar to them then those that are elder because Children are rather governed by their appetite then will and cannot hold their water longer but this Incontinency of Urine is not here intended it being not a Disease but the involuntary pissing here meant is an Affection preternatural by which Children are forced and involuntarily make water at all times The cause is in Children an Imbecillity and cold and moist temper of the Muscle of the Bladder called Sphincter proceeding from pituitous and thick humours Sometimes the resolution of the Sphincter the motive faculty being not sent to it by reason of the obstruction of the Nerves especially about the Spinal Marrow from the like humour The External Causes are the coldness of Air and Meat drinking of cold water blowes about the Back and falls The Signs are elder Childrens wetting of their Clothes their inward garments being always wet with pisse but in Children newly born it is hard to know whither in an often sucking an often pissing is involuntary and that Age gives no testimony of voluntary pissing Prog. Involuntary pissing is more hard to Cure if it come from an obstruction then cold and moisture If it comes from an External Cause it is mortal especially from a fall or Luxation The Cure is in 1. By a Diet which is hot and dry as you have in several Chapters you are to abstain from meats that move Urine 2. The Belly loosned by a Clyster or Suppository use this Syrrup Take of the Leaves of Calamint Plantane and Mint of each half a handful the Seeds of Rue two drams boyl them according to Art Take of the Syrrup of Purslane Red Roses and Wormwood of each half a dram mingle them together After the humours are prepared purge with two Scruples of Pill Hiera cum Agarico or Take of Mirabuline Chebuline one dram of the Seed of Rue half a dram of the Flowers of Violets and Roses of each half a Pugil boyl them according to Art Take thereof three Ounces Trochische of Agarick two Scruples and an half infuse it all night then presse it and add the Syrrup of Roses Solutive two Ounces the body being purged outward remedies are to be used as Baths which heat drye and are binding it is good to annoint the Loyns and Parts nearest to the Bladder with the Oyl of Wormwood or the Oyl of Worms foment those parts with this Take of Calamint Mint Rue Marjerome red Roses of each an handful Galengal and Cyprus of each two drams boyl them in red Wine according to Art If these will not prevail then Blisters will be useful Divers remedies are propounded by Authors that are supposed by a Propriety to cure this Distemper as the Brain and Testicles of a Hare burnt and given to drink in White-wine the Bladder of a Sheep or Sow used in the like manner and divers others CHAP. XVI of the Strangury and Suppression of Urine THe difficulty of Urine is either when that no Urine is made which is called Ischury or when the Urine is made by Drops which is called a Strangury both which distempers differ only in degree The Causes are a coldnesse sometimes alone sometimes with moisture weakning the expulsive faculty that it cannot expell the Urine or if it doth not in such a manner as it ought so that the expulsive faculty is essentially hurt or the cause is either from a Stone or the humours viscid and thick The External Causes are an Air that is cold grosse thick and cold meats and drinks especially the Milk of the Nurse for as the manner of Diet is such is the Milk as the Milk is such are the Children that suck it The Signs are manifest for the Child makes no water or by drops and with groaning If it be from a cold distemper then if the parts be rubb'd heated or compress'd the Urine comes forth if from Obstruction if you compresse them no Urine is made it is known also by the course of Life preceeding to it and by the Childs being said before to have Urine that was thick and muddy Prog. The Strangury and Ischury in Children are difficult distempers for all distempers in Children of the natural faculties are dangerous The Cure is 1. In a good Diet avoiding fulness grosse and thick meats and drinks 2. Expelling the Excrements in the Stomach and first passages by loosning the Belly with two or three Ounces of the Hony of Roses then prepare the humours thus Take of the Simple Hony of Roses Simple Oxymel of the Syrrup of Bettony of each three drams mingle them and give it alone or else with Broth afterwards purge Take of Cassia five dâ—ams of Species Hiera one dram and an half mingle them or Take the Hony of Roses Solutive two Ounces of Electuary Lenitive three drams two Ounces and an half of a Cordial Decoction of Violet Roses mingle them and make a Drink 3. Provoking of Urine the Decoction of Grownsell Saxifrage Centmade or Red Cicers is much commended or Take the Roots of Asparagus half an Ounce the Leaves of Saxifrage and Maidenhaire of each one handful red Cicers one Pugil make a Decoction according unto Art give three