Blood Stone and Manus Christi composed with Pearls and Corals If you are not inclin'd to sleep procure it by intervals with Art take care therefore to prepare either Diacodion Tabellatum or use Syrup of white Poppies dispensed as it ought to be using them at the hour of sleep and taking them in the Cream of Barley beginning with half an Ounce or three Drams and so proceeding by degrees to an Ounce at most if necessity require it but have a care you use them not if they may be spared As to General Remedies viz. Purgation and Blood-letting let the use of the first be seldom always avoiding strong Purges for it is enough to use Laxative Ptisans prepar'd with Senna Tamarynds Cassia and Syrup of Cichory with a fourfold proportion of Rhubarbe sometimes adding new granulated white Calabrian Manna all being well clarified Neither omit letting blood which let it be frequent rather then much according to indications moreover the revelling and derivative Medicines prescribed by your Physicians are to the purpose and therefore to be apply'd at convenient times according to advice As to the Issue which is in your Arm I do not dislike of it but according to my Judgement I had rather have one made by burning in the Neck betwixt the first and second Vertebra's or two Issues made upon the Shoulders betwixt the superiour Angles of the Omoplats and the Spine of the Back Besides these let Medicines be provided ready against the Paroxysme that is when the blood doth abound in this case I do no â—…ess approve of opening a Vein in the Foot than in the Arm or let a Cupping-glass be apply'd to the region of the Liver use Oxycrate made with Plantain water and Frog Spawn Let Trochises or little Balls be made with Gum Tragacanth dissolv'd in Plantain water and compacted with a Powder composed with half a part of Rock Alom reduced to a subtile Powder a fourth part of Harts-borne calcin'd with fire till it be white also a fourth part of prepar'd Blood stone and coroâ—…ted Manus Christi the weight of all of them Hold these Balls in your mouth and let them melt by degrees and so swallow them for they dissolve but slowly The effect of Alonâ—… 〈◊〉 this cafe is very great it may be given at â—…he hour of sleep to the quantity of a Dram 〈◊〉 Barley Broath several days successively it may also be dissolv'd in Milk that is turn'd â—…d become thin by Boiling in it Plantain Mullin Allheale Pimpernell Tormontill and Vinca per Vinca or Periwinckell clarifying this Milk by settling and adding Alom to it that so it may be given with Apozemes or Iuleps I cite here this Experiment taken out of our Authors because by the prescribing the use of it I have gain'd honour and credit especially in the ordering the use of it to a Noble Matron afflicted with a desperate Haemoptysis or spitting of Blood from the Lungs ejecting from thence divers pounds for several days together I ordered to bruise the tender Leaves of red stinging Nettles and to give five Ounces of the juice pressed out of them and clear'd by settling Twice in a day if there be added to this an Ounce of rightly prepar'd Syrup of Coral the Medicine will be more efficacious And although she was then Threescore Years Old weak and helpless yet she was restored to perfect help for five years You may put the Councel I have given you into use for now I have nothing more to say If God grant you Life it must be restor'd by proper Remedies I shall always be ready to serve you in the preservation of your Health as far as my Experience in the Practice of my Profession will enable me London February 20 1657. This Illustrious Nobleman is now living Anno 1674. He is more then Threescore Years Old a Batchelor hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Shoulder Blades which stand off like Wings shewing by his Habit of Body and all other signs his native propensity to a Consumption spitting Matter perpetually afflicted with a Cough only using drying Food as Salt-meat Herrings and smoaked Meats finding moist Food to be hurtful for him COUNCEL the Third In various Hypochondriacal Distempers For a certain Noble Councellor at Law Written in French WHen I carefully take under examination all those Symptoms with which you have been molested and tired out and having also an Eye to your Temperament I do constitute the root of aâ—… those Griefs with which you have been afflicted to be in a Melancholly humour not only geâ—…erated in the Liver and evilly separated or expell'd worse wrought upon in the Spleen remaining to the hurt of the Stomack anâ—… those parts by which it ought naturally tâ—… be discharg'd but also mixed in the Veins with the rest of the Mass of Blood nay extended as far as the Brain which this offensivâ—… Enemy of Nature doth assault as an Organical part upon whose temperament an alteration being made by it from hence the Principle Functions of the Soul do act erroniously at sometimes And from this humour and from nothing else is the Original of your fore-pass'd Melancholly afflictions returning upon you by fits the settling of humours in the parts near the Fundament the malignancy of which humours consists in a Septick and Corrosive Salt hath begotten that great Ulcer which is now turn'd to a Fistula That troublesome heat of the Palm of your left hand and the sole of your Foot doth plainly shew the power of the Spleen affecting the upper as well as the nether parts also the intense dryness of your Mouth all which are induced by Sulphurious Nitrous and Vitriolate exhalations sent up from the Bowels Moreover the Stupor and Numbness of your Arms Legs which affects you only by Periods and Fits not constantly to all which may be added the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stuttering of your Tongue returning by intervals from these without doubt I say is the Idea of your Melancholly afflictions all which may be constituted to proceed from the Reciprocal flowing of that juice from the Spleen to the Brain and contrary ways flowing back again which oftentimes introduceth grievous Symptoms as the Epilepsia and others insomuch that it is not absurd to make a presage from these signs of the near approach of a Palsie though I think the danger may be prevented if you be but strong enough let us omit the Cure of the Fistula since it is almost healed But lest we Triumph before the Victory be gain'd we must allow the space of five or six Months to expect whether perhaps any new budding of the Disease do not cause us quite to lay aside our conceived hopes of a perfect Cure for the Melancholly humour is not unlike the dispositions of the most sort of Poysons which by the force and efficacy of Antidotes are somewhat weakened and the Tempest which they brought with them allay'd and the introduced Symptoms ended so that Nature being restor'd to
together according to the rules I have prescrib'd This being perform'd I hope your Bowels being strengthen'd the humours will be amended and the Collection of all the Causes of â—…he before past accidents being cut off nay the fear of a recidiva or relapse which might happen upon closing up the Fistula in the Fundament which though it be a thing to be desir'd yet it is osten full of danger when nature of her own accord seeketh a vent And this is confirm'd by Cardinal Richâ—…leus Arm who possibly might have injoy d a longer liâ—… if the Cure of his Fistula had been prosecuâ—…ed with less diligence In the using of the Steel let necessary Purgations be interposed having a care from henceforth of such as have Aloes in them they irritate and offend the Fundament unless their bitterness be altogether taken away which though it may be perform'd by Art yet in my judgement it signifies little to attempt that thing which hath less utility then Ostentation in it Having taken your Essence of Steel which ought not to procure any loathing to you warm Bathes are to be thought off and the use of Asses Milk and of mineral Waters but the place of these I believe will be supply'd by the Steel I wish I could be by your side to direct you but whether that will be hereafter or no I know not although I heartily wish that I may once again see my Country The Steel sent to you was prepar'd wholly and compleatly with my own hands and by Gods assistance you will receive more advantage from it than from all the rest God give it his blessing c. COUNCEL the Fifth In the same disaffections of the Hypochondries for the same Noble Councellor at Law Sent into France MY last Letters gave you a large account how to make use of the Steel which as I suppose is the chief and apt remedy to recover your health it only remains that I send it to you ready prepar'd which I now do you are to receive seventeen Ounces weight of the Syrup which that it may be temper'd and fitted to be used according to the rule laid down in my former Letters take order to have this following Syrup carefully made Take sweet smelling Apples commonly call'd Queen Apples with short Stalkes as many as you please cut away their rind afterwards draw a water from them in a double Vessel in a boiling Balneo Maria till you have got a sufficient quantity pour the foresaid water upon the rinds which have been first laid upon a Table until they are almost dry add to them new Lemon peels cut small distil this Water again by a Body of Belvee Earth or Tin or so that the Distiller may carefully avoid the breaking of the Vessel in a large glass Alimbeck and head of the same Metal put into the inward part of the spout of the Alimbeck a Nodule or little Bag made with fine Linen and fill'd with half a Dram of Ambargreece and six grains of Mosck put the Vessel into a Kettle of Water filled with Hay or Saw-dust Make the joining of the Body Head and Reciver fast with Lute or Paste made of Meal Quick-lime and the White of an Egg draw a Water from this by distillation in which with a gentle heat dissolve as much white Sugarcandy ground to a fine powder as it can possibly contain to make it of the consistance of a Syrup of which take exactly twenty three Ounces dilute and mix it with that quantity of the prepar'd Steel which I send to you which is sufficient for you to use threescore days which is the time prefix'd by me This Syrup is included in an Earthern Bottle well stopt and sealed with my own Seal which Note least it be chang'd I would willingly have sent you the whole prepar'd but that the price of the carriage would have been insufferable keep this as a Treasure for the recovery of your health which perhaps you will not attain too in the place you now dwell in take it all leaving no remainder of it I wish I were nearer you for my presence would conduce much for the right use of so great a Remedy although you cannot want expert directers when you shall be in that vast City of Paris Give me an account of the success chiefly if the desire of recovering your perfect health shall call you home and hinder you from expecting the Spring which assists the efficacy and operation of Medicines As to the swelling behind your Ear it is a thing of difficulty and for the most part eludeth the force of Medicines I hardly think you are in that condition now that upon the account of that you need my advice since I imagine this grief of yours is already past the declination but if there do remain any stubborn hardness let that be overcome by some Mercurial Remedies which will advance the power of other Medicines and efficaciously overcome the hardness I do often make use of them and I do find if all hope of suppuration be gone yet these do so rarifie the humours that nature is able to dissolve that humour that was congeal'd into the form of perfect Matter This besides other Experiments happen'd in two Pestilential Tumours of which one was under the Arm-pit they retain'd their hardness for six weeks though the Malignity was extinct yet by the help of Mercurial Remedies they were brought to a happy suppuration COUNCEL the Sixth In the same Disease for the same Gentleman IN convenient time as the next Spring a little after the Equinox the general praescripts being before made use of and by them the peccant juices carefully prepar'd and evacuated then exhibit the Chalybeat Medicine Continue the use of it according as it ageees with you for threescore days observing necessary cautions Wherefore let this number of days be so divided that there be exhibited of our Steel Syrup two Drams for six days three Drams for as many days four for xii days five for xii days more six for eight days together seven for eight days eight for eight days let it be given in any grateful Liquor whether it be in Clarified Whey the water of Apples of Fumaterry Burrage Baume or thin Capon Broath Wine small Beer c. or in the Restorative Water of which mention is made in what follows After the taking of the Medicine you must walk or use some other gentle exercise by which the body may be moderately warm'd without procuring sweat but forbear Dinner for four hours which may be sufficiently large according to your Appetite and the disposition of your Stomack easily to concoct meat of good juice But let your Supper be sparing not cramming in Meat before the former Food be digested let your ordinary Drink be Oligophorick Wine that is such as will bear but little water of a Brick colour or a Flesh colour very well diluted with the Decoction of cleansed female Fern roots of Lentisk or Mastick wood and Nephritick
strew some of it upon coals for a Fume If you add Ê’ ij or Ê’ iij. of Amber to the â—…foresaid Powder though it will not be the gratefuller yet it will be the more efficacious Trochises to Fume the Kings Shirts and Cloaths â„ž Damask Roses gathered after the Sun-rising lb ss Benzoin â„¥ ij Mix them and make them into a Paste by â—…ong beating them together in a Mortar of which form Trochises to be dryed in the â—…hade â„ž Of these Trochises reduc'd to a Powder â„¥ j. Musk gr j. Civet gr iij. Caraman Balsom ℈ ss Make Trochises with Rose-water and a little Gum Tragacanth to be dryed and kept in a â—…ox close shut to be used in the mornings II. Trochises â„ž Trochises of Roses â„¥ vi Powder of Benzoin â„¥ ij Musk gr j. Civet gr xvi Rose-water as much as is sufficient Make a mass The III. Perfume â„ž Very fine Powder of Juniper-wood Benzoin an Ê’ vij Musk ℈ j. Rose-water q. s. with the Muscilage of Gum Tragacanth Make a mass It will be convenient to sprinkle his Hankerchief with Aqua Angeli let the settling of this Water be made up into Pastills for to fume the Chamber Shirts and other Vestments Aqua Angeli â„ž Wood of Aloes Storax Calamita an â„¥ ss Benzoin â„¥ iv Nutmegs Yellow Sanders Cloves an Ê’ ij Boil them in Rose-water such a quantity aâ—… may cover them four fingers do this in 〈◊〉 close Vessel with a gentle fire in Sand oâ—… Ashes continue the boiling for a day and 〈◊〉 night then strain it and add to it Of the best Rose-water lb iij. Orange flowers Jessamin flowers Musk an ℈ j. Of the remaining mass being warm make Pastills The Balsom for the Nostrils â„ž Balsom of Peru Ê’ iij. Distill'd Oyl of Angelica or if you have it that which drops from the Stalks being cut Oyl of Citron-peels an Ê’ ij Rosemary Juniper an Ê’ j. Roses distill'd Ê’ ss Orange Butter Jessamin Butter an â„¥ ss Ambergrease ℈ iv Oriental Musk Civet an ℈ ij Mix them all together as they should be and by grinding them upon a Porphiry make a Balsom for the King to anoint with in a morning before he go out of his Chamber Oyl of Amber often rectified with Spirit of Wine is excellent good Mathiolus's Oyl of Scorpions is very efficacious if our Lord the King anoint his Pulses and the region of his Heart with it when he hears a Sermon or admits a crowd of people to come to him Let his Diet be refrigerating and drying let him change the Air and avoid the concourse of people Besides these Prophylactick for the cure of the disease when it is present have these following ready prepar'd Aqua Theriacalis described in the London Pharmacopoea p. 12. Antidotus Saxonica vera Electuar de Ovo Vegetabile ac Minerale Pulvis rubaeus Pannonicus alter Pharmac Aug. p. 114 Pulvis griseus Caesaris ibid. p. 3. Species Liber ibid. p. 137. Diascordium Magistrale Mayernii Diascordium Fracastorii Theriaca Andromachi Londinensis Antidotus p. 91. Mithridatium Damocratis Confectio Alkermes Confectio Hyacinthina Salts of Butter-Burr Meadow-Sweet Elder Rue Scordium Iuniper Pope Leo's Oyl of Scorpions Species for Emulsions composed of Citron Seeds Mustard Seeds â—…actis â—…erlurum or Milk of Pearls Let these Purges be in a readiness Tryphera Persica Mesusi vel Iohannis Damasceni Pharm Aug. p. 56. Pilulâ—… Ruffi Mastichinae Fernel Angelica Seeds with other Cordial Herbs Another Councel or Advice in the Plague Written in French and presented by the Kings Physicians to Lewis the XIII the French King The Curative Part. THese are the signs of the simple Plague when it is alone and it is joyn'd with no other kind of Feaver a small Pulse Lâ—…nguid low unequal decay of strength Fainting Vomitings and Anxieties but nevertheless the heat is so moderate that the Feaver is insensible there is no Thirst no Pain the Urine is like healthy peoples But the sick dye in this gentle state of the Disease contrary to hope and opinion If the Pâ—…st be joyned with a putrid Feaver then there are these Symptoms a most sharp pain of the head drousiness ravings difficulty of breathing with a stinking breath unextinguishable Thirst loss of the Appetite urgent Vomiting burning heat of the inward Bowelâ—… with coldness of the extreme parts turbid confused and flame colour'd Urine the excrementâ—… of the Belly extremely stinking If the Plague be simple let this Composition be made use of â„ž A new lay'd Egg pour out the White and fill it with Saffron rost it under hot Ashes till it be almost hard then the Shell being taken away beat the Egg with these things added to it White Dittany Tormentil Angelica Juniper-Berries an Ê’ ij Camphire gr iij. Mix them all in a Mortar with the weight of all of them of the best Turpentine or Mithridate Let there be taken gr xx in equal parts of spring-Spring-water and White-Wine reiterate this Dose thrice in an hour if it happen that the Stomack cast it up by Vomit but after that hour is elapsed give a simple Glyster to expell the Excrements in which oftentimes the Contagion is lodg'd which being voided presently procure Sweat by giving of the folâ—…owing Water â„ž Of the roots of Sorrel Gentian White Dittany Tormentil an â„¥ ss Juniper-Berries â„¥ ss Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Citron an Ê’ ij Old Mithridate â„¥ j. Shaving of Guajacum-wood â„¥ ij Water of Sorrel Meadow-sweet Carduus Benedictus an lb j. Let there be taken of the foresaid Water two or three Ounces with â„¥ ss of Syrup of Lemons sustaining the sweet for 5 or 6 hours according to the strength of the Patient avoiding Sleep whilst it is breaking forth in the interim giving the Patient slices of Citron to suck infused in cold Water the Berries of ever-green Thorn and wash'd Cherries and the like that he may cool his Mouth The Heart being thus fortify'd the Excrements voided and the Venom expell'd by Hidroticks or procurers of sweat let there bâ—… given to the sick Broaths made with Sorrel Lettice Cichory season his Meat with the juice of Sorrel Oranges Lemons give fooâ—… often but little in quantity lest the stomack be burthen'd Let Drink be allow'd morâ—… freely for Thirst is hurtful Let there bâ—… given spring-Spring-water in which is infused Liquoris and a good many slices of Citron noâ—… omitting to boil it But our opinion is Wiâ—… may be allowed notwithstanding the heat to defend the Heart which is destroy'd by often â—…aintings But let the Wine be small and thin and a little rough according to the height of the Fever if the Patient be desirous of it Let his Sleep be little and every hour to temper the heat of the Mouth Gargule with simple Water or diluted with a little Wine in the mean time make the Patient chearful nourishing the hopes of health in him for nothing is so pernicious in these kind of Diseases as terrour and fear is Also let the sick be in a temperate
wood In the passing through the Chalybiate course let your body be purged by this following Potion the days which follow the xij the xxiv the xliv the Lij and the Lx. giving the draught four hours before any Broath observing due Orders â„ž Fresh Polypody roots Pulpe of Tamarinds an â„¥ ss The clean picked Leaves of Senna cut small and sprinkl'd with well sented White Wine Ê’ v. The small strings of the roots of true black Ellebor Ê’ j. Tragee Commun Cream of Tartar an Ê’ ij Make a decoction in a sufficient quantity of the distilled Waters of Fumaterry and Water Lilly flowers add to the straining Of choice Rhubarb ℈ ij infused by its self in Baume Water Of yellow Sanders Ê’ ij reduce them all unto a small Dose in which dissolve The solutive Syrup of Damask Roses with Agarick â„¥ j. Calabrian Manna â„¥ ss Mix them make a Potion to be taken in the Morning In the days betwixt let the Chalybeate Syrup be dissolved in a draught of Laxative Ptisan prepar'd with Senna and Liquoris according to Art do this every third day Let the restorative Water be prepar'd of the juice of the pulpy flesh of a Calf a Capon 〈◊〉 Weather the hart of a Lamb and a Calf distilled in a body and head to which let there be added the juice of Queens Apples â—…ew Whey and the Blood of a Golt Pig a Lamb a Calf all agitated so long till they â—…re freed from the Fibers and Strings Some Cinnamon and Mace and let them be distill'd 〈◊〉 a double Vessel to the distilled Liquor â—…dd the fourth part of the strongest and best â—…d Wine and distil it again reserve the Liquor in a glass Viol close stopt for use â„ž Syrup of Queen Apples Of the flowers of red Fluellin an â„¥ vi Of Citron Peels â„¥ iv mix them and drop into them as much Spirit of Salt as will make them moderately sower add Of Confection of Alkermes â„¥ ss Reserve it for Iulips mixing â„¥ j of this Syrup with four of the aforesaid Water to be taken five hours before Dinner and two before Supper those days in which you take the Martial Syrup or if your Stomack be any way disturbed with this drink betwixt the two Meals then you may take it at the hour of sleep chiefly if you perceive that the Spirits are low or any inclination to swounding These things being perform'd exactly and in order there will be place for the usual strengtheners and renovators of the Body and the Specificks against Melancholly warmisâ—… Baths of fresh Water Whey of Asses Milk and perhaps Mineral Waters All and every one of which are to be prescrib'd according aâ—… occasion shall offer and according to the sucâ—… cess of the former In the interim let there be prepar'd by thâ—… hand of a'careful and expert Artist the following Bezoartick Pastills than which theâ—… is nothing more precious to defend the Heaâ—… and Brain against the impulse of any sort 〈◊〉 malignant vapours The Bezoartick Pastills â„ž Harts-born Philosophically calcin'd by the vapour of strong White Wine with the shavings of Iuniper Ebeni and Rhodium wood according to Art Harts-born Bezoar prepar'd from Harts-born calcin'd to whiteness with the strongest Oils of Vitriol and Salt an two Ounces The Scull â—…f a Stag and of a healthy man that was hang'd both prepar'd the same way of each one Ounce Of the Majestery of red Coral Of Pearl Of Mother of Pearl precipitated with Alom an six Drams Crabs Eyes The black tips of the Thighs of the greater sort of Sea Crabs prepar'd an one Ounce and half The roots of Carlin Thistile ten Drams Indian Contra Yerva half an Ounce Cuchinill The Oriental Bezoar stone The Occidental an five Drams Of the Flesh of the Liver Heart and of the Back-bones of Vipers taken at a fitting time twelve Drams Of Cloves Of Mace an one Dram Ambar-greese two Drams Mosk half a Dram. Of the fixed Ceruss of Antimony one part to five of the rest Make a subtile powder of all of them and taking a sufficient quantity of the strong Gelly of Harts-born a little coloured with Saffron adding a little of the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth made with distill'd Treacle Water make a Past of which form Pastils of convenient shapes for use let them be dry'd and kept in a Box impenetrable by the Air in a dry place When the Melancholly vapours are oppressingly urgent the Palpitation of the Heart or other vaporous disaffections assaulting let there be given ten twelve fifteen or twenty grains in Confection of Alkermes the Water of a Stags head Treacle water Wine or any other Cordial Liquor These things being exactly performed this Noble Gentleman was Cured though he followed his Pleasure c. COUNCEL the Seventh In divers disaffections of the Perinaeum upon which followed a Gangreen and an Ischuria or difficulty of Urine For a Noble Person The Description of the Disease BEcause you are desirous to know the state of this Noble Patient I will in few words but in order open it to you at his intreaty Upon his return hither out of England he often complain'd of heat in his Urine and many times also of a stoppage of it but taking of the Emulsions and Glysters you prescrib'd him applying also of Candles he was easily recover'd but he was continually sensible of a pricking pain though not very sharp in the left part of the Perinaeum and this for two or three Months before this Disease which continued till the Aposthume in the Perinaeum was broke But about the beginning of the Month of April this year 1620. when not exactly observing the lâ—…iet prescrib'd him and also exceeding in the exercising of his Body there was a certain stinking scent perceived in his Urine This stink by degrees was so increased that it was wonderful how such put refaction could remain so long in the Body without a Feaver Nauciousness and other grievous Symptoms Also at the same time there was to be seen at the bottom of the Urine a certain viscous matter not unlike the Spawn of Frogs The Month of May being past when he travelled to the Alpes to see his Lands and Possessions he went on Foot up and down the Rocks and contrary to custom and above measure having overheated himself he was invaded with Symptoms after a more grievous manner When he was return'd I prescrib'd him Emulsions and caused him to take Milk Glysters several times I anointed his Reins with refrigerating Ointments and Oils I have purged his body with gentle Cholagos or purgers of cholor and opened a Vein in his Arm And because plenty of that stinking viscous matter was expell'd with his Urine I perswaded the use of Whey with Sugar for some days together These things being observed together with an exquisite Diet for xiv days all things appearing fair and well and the stench of the Urine seeming to be much abated I was call'd to Solâ—…durum not long after my going away the Disease
the account of stirring up a destuction But I account it worth while to buy with a small present inconveniency a great benefit arising from thence Let the parts in which the Sandy Bâ—…ost is lodged be fomented with Relaxing Emollient and Diuretical things prepare a Semicupe or half Bath if the decay of the Limbs be not very great adding to it very much Oil. To remove the rubs and obstructions stopping the passages let there be given the before describ'd Tartarus Vitriolatus in Pelletory water white Wine Oil of sweet Almonds c. The Liquor of Raddishes prepar'd with Sugarcandy is excellent nothing is more precious then Lapis Prunella dissolved in common Ptisan or Pellitory Water adding a little Syrup of Marsh-mallows The Conserves of common Mallows-flowers and of Roses prepar'd at a fit time renders the passages slippery to which let there be added a third part of powder of Liquoris Gum Arabick and the pulpe of Pruines mixed in equal proportions and let this Noble Person take the quantity of a Wallnut of it in a Morning for five or six dayes drinking a little white Wine upon it and that before his taking the Monthly Purge and the Dinretick Broath Ease the bitterness of his pain as often as there shall be need by giving of Laudanum I neither will nor ought I to burthen this worthy Person with more Remedies the Omnipotent God grant that these Medicines may remove the cruel tortures with which this stout Commander is afflicted Dated London February the 17th An. 1622. COUNCEL the Ninth In a case of a Caruncle in the Yard For a Noble Person The Description of the Disease THe Noble N. is of an excellent habit of Body strong and now is past the 37 th year of his age and is by Nature of a hot and dry temper When more then xij years ago he had contracted a Gonorrhea by immoderate and too violent Copulation and had been afflicted with it for some time he relateth that a certain Night in the act of carnal Copulation he had a large efflux of pure blood instead of Seed From the beginning and truly for many years since out of modesty he concealed his Disease and almost quite neglected it by degrees there followed upon it a difficulty of Urine which for all that was sometimes more violent at other times more remiss according to his Diet and Exercise But in the mean space for many years this Patient could scarce ever make water without difficulty and heat and in the time of making Urine he felt also pain almost in every part of his Yard and a Branny substance did often appear in his Urine and doth also still appear he voids his Urine not in a strait line but sometime on one hand and sometimes on the other also for many years there hath continually distilled by his Yard a certain purilent matter but without pain and sometimes though not often after the excretion of Urine there hath follow'd a drop or two of Blood Though his pleasure in Copulation be less then it was formerly yet nevertheless he-hath many Children by his Wife Moreover when the last Summer by reason of publick business and that of great moment he rode Post a very great journey on Horseback the disaffected part was so bruised and rubb'd and also the grief was so exasperated that all the Symptoms which I have related were wonderfully increased wherefore about the end of the Month of September at which time I was call'd to him I purg'd him divers times with Cholagogs and the Patient used a Semicupe or half Bath as also I exhibited by 〈◊〉 the Syrup of Violets and Marsh-mallows with the water of the Opening Roots that it might be as it were a vehicle to the Syrup I commanded the Perinaeum to be â—…inted with an anodine liniment and the â—…ins twice every day with a refrigerating Ointment which Medicines were not made use of without advantage his pain abated and he began to make Water with less difficulty when therefore all things were safe for I knew nothing yet of the Caruncles or that it was a Disease inveterate I did hope that I might return to my own Family and what was further to be done I left to the Patient and his Domesticks to perform Not long after my going away when the Disease began to renew it self again there was another Physician call'd in to advise He again purged his Body with Cholagogs and with Syrup of Violets and Marsh-mallows he exhibited also with great success Emulsions made with the greater cold Seeds and sweet Almonds when I was call'd again the pain still continuing the sick person then discover'd to us that it was a Disease of long standing it was agreed upon then by us that I should search with a Probe and a Catheter what was at the bottom of this grief or what was its cause Wherefore the Body being re-purged with Cholagogs composed of the compound Syrup of Roses solutive together with the Electuary of the juice of Roses and the Catheter being put in I found Caruncles in divers places chiefly towards the left side of the Urinary passage which Caruncles do even now so stop up the passage and are so painful that to this very time he could not search farther then the half way of his Yard neither with the Catheter nor with the Syringe or could the Patient Probe or feel any further with wax Candles which instruments and Medicines he hath hitherto applyed to himself with his own hands therefore I could not hitherto make any Medicine reach any farther though I doubt not that a great part of the Distemper nay the root of the Disease is hid in the Prostatas For if the Urinary passage was exulcerated from the long continuance of that Gonorrhea and the Caruncles grew from that occasion how much more reasonably may we suspect the disaffection and exulceration of those Glandules Moreover the pain although obscure which the Noble Patient did feel more then two months since about his Fundament as I shall declare afterwards did denote some kind of Grief to be lodged there for truly as Hippocrates and Experience cause us to believe Ubi dolor ibi morbum esse where there is pain there the Disease is His Urine also the last Autumn did many times flow from him against his will and that whilst he slept without doubt by reason of the Sphincters being hurt which doth immediately adjoin to those Glandules and the great pain which the Patient did suffer heretofore proceeded from the Sympathy that part hath with the Prostatas The Urinary passages being searched and the Caruncles being discovered we applyed two Bags composed of emollient resolving and pain easing Roots Herbs Flowers and Seeds and we anointed the whole Perinâ—…um with an anodinus and Emollient â—…iniment As also we injected an Emollient decoction with a Syringe into the Urinary passage But as I said before the Pipe of the Syringe could never be admitted deep enough by reason of
place letting in often fresh Air by opening the Doors and Windows which oâ—…ght to be towards the North These Remedies together with Diet so used it is taken by many for an excellent thing to anoint the Arm-pits and Grain with Oil of Scorpions or Oil of Lillies adding Treacle to it and this to be done several times to extract the Venom by this â—…he Heart is defended and freed from it Blood-letting doth not seem necessary unâ—…ess a putrid Fever be joyn'd with the plague with extreme pains inflamations anxieties difficult breathing a high Plethora and other â—…he like accidents which are the issue of fulâ—…ess in letting blood observe not so much â—…e quantity as the measuring it by the teâ—…our of the Patients strength and vigour let this Medicinal Indication be a general Canon and Rule Observe these few things with whatsoever means the Disease is to be opposed let it be done at first before the Disease be confirm'd and have taken root Begin with the Cordial Potion giving of it thrice in an hour if the Stomack cast it up again At the same time cast in a Glyster and presently let blood except something hinder exhibiting a little after the Sudorifick Water so that these helps and remedies are to be administred in the space of six hours letting blood procrastinated is unuseful since it is better to let it alone then to make use of it when a Bubo appears for he that doth that intends mischief not to Cure To Cure a Bubo Many use only boiled Scabious bruised and brought into the form of a Poultess adding Hogs-lard to it from the great power thâ—… is endow'd with in these Diseases it haâ—… gained the name of Casse bosse the Cure 〈◊〉 Bubo's To this Cataplasme some add Liâ—… roots or Onions baked under the Embeâ—… to which being bruised they add some Yollâ—… of Eggs Pigeons-Dung and Leven beatiâ—… them all together with a sufficient quantity 〈◊〉 Oil of Liâ—…tes afterwards they apply it warm changing it every other hour They add to every Ounce of Oil one Dram of Treacle To Cure a Carbuncle To this purpose it may be sufficient to apply only Scabious or Sorrel backed under the Embars making it into the form of a Poultess with Yolks of Eggs and fresh Butter to be renew'd every hour The leaves of Mallows March-mallows Pellitory of the wall c. The rest are wanting Advice for the Constriction or Stranguling of the Throat arising from Melancholly vapours proceeding from the Hypochondries For Dr. Bouvard chief Physician to Lewis XIII King of France Written in French FRom the relation of the compression of your Throat which is not fix'd and stable nor continual and is without an Ulcer Tumour and Inflamation And from your perceiving an agitation in the region of the Hypochondries from whence acrid and hot vapours are carried to the Throat which is the Tube and Funnel of the Chimny in the extremity of which there resides a Distemper which proceeds from another place just as the Nostrils are exulcerated by acrid Phlegm and Choler inflames and vellicates the Fundament in Bloody-fluxes although the cause of those evils lurk in other places We suppose this Disease is only a Symptom of an internal cause afflicting you to wit of the Hypochondries Liver and other adjacent parts with a notable hot and dry distemperature upon which account the Belly is bound and all the Thin and serous humours are snatch'd into the Veins there being lodg'd plenty of Choler and other gross humours in the chief Veins of the Mesentery and the natural Caveties of the Bowels This foundation being laid it is easie to procure help by Diet and generous cooling and moistening Evacuators And if your recovery do not presently follow according to wish you must not therefore abstain from Medicines a word is sufficient to an understanding Physician Prescribe your Diet to your self by strong refrigerators I understand you have used weak mineral waters such as Monfran once or twice a year I hear to evacuate you have frequently let Blood in your Arm use Laxative Ptisans with Cassia and Senna and other slight sort of Purgings of that kind with Syrup of Roses and Peach-blossoms universal Baths and also use Milk and clarified Whey in which Fumaterry hath been insused drink Asses-milk plentifully persist in the use of these according to the vehemence of your contumacious and habitual Disease which otherwise no doubt will encrease and bring upon you worse Symptoms In the same Disease By Dr. de Arduynes Physician of the Hospital of Charity at Paris call'd St. Iames. Written in French WE have been made acquainted with the Disease with which N. D. is afâ—…licted which in my judgment is an off-spring of the distemperature of the Bowels whose office is to prepare the nourishment from which Bowels plenty of vapours ascend to the Head which afterwards fall down to the Throat and parts adjacent The parts which are affected are the spaces betwixt the Laryngx or Tope of the Wind Pipe and the Bone Hyoides To the Cure of this Disease frequent and iterated Purgation is necessary to be begun with this usual Ptisan following â„ž Of the common Ptisan made of the roots of Cichory and Bugloss Flowers two pounds in which infuse of Oriental Senna Leaves Ê’ ij strain it and prepare a Ptisan of which take two or three Wine Glass-fuls in a day one upon an empty stomack another a little before Dinner the third about four of the Clock in the Afternoon This Purgation being perform'd in the use of which you are to persist for five or six days first the Basilica in the right Arm then that in the left Arm is to be opened Let Bathing follow this letting of blood for seven or eight days other Topical Medicines as Oils Poultises of Swallows-Nests c. are altogether useless for having used the former Medicines health will follow If any thing remain of this Disease it is easie to look to its specifick cause but in this case we are to be warned of the effect By the same Person for the same Person Out of French into Latine WE do collect from your Note sent to us in which the Symptoms with which the Noble D. is afflicted are related that there is some lessening of the Disease and that it did arise from vapours in the Head whiâ—…h descended by the way of the Throat And because there is less plenty of these dry vapours from hence there doth not follow so great a distention of the part but on the contrary they being confin'd within their first region from hence there follows a greater distention of the Hypochondries then formerly from hence ariseth that kind of affection or Disease we call Windy Melancholly which is now much flighter then it was Nor is it needful to enquire if there be a Phlogosis or Inflamation or no in those places for this is certain wheresoever adust Melancholly lurketh there is always present and joyn'd with it a distemperature the reason
upper and inferiour parts do difficultly admit of Cure but all our endeavours must be made use of and the success submitted to God expecting from his will a happy event You have already been under the Cure of Experienc'd Men of Art which their own accounts testifie And amongst our rules this is the Chief If all things be done rationally and success do not presently follow the intentions and indications of Cure remaining still the same we are to insist upon the same Medicines without any alteration unless something happen which absolutely compells us to it But to satisfie your desire because you expect my advice I will having begun proceed farther submitting my Councel to the judgement and experience of those Learned men under whose hands you now are I being at so great a distance from you And in the first place I advise as soon as the Weather shall be more temperate That you try the Change of Air experimenting another and more propitious one without delay being carried in a Litter or otherways so that the motion may not hurt you beginning your Journey with the rising of the Sun and getting into your Inn before Sun-set Travel to Volcas Aurange Mompilier Bitteras c. breath dry Air the heat of whieh you may easily temper in the House according to the conveniencies the place allows Galen the Master of Physicians used to send Consumptive Patients to Tabias not that he might be rid of the care of them but to dry up the Ulcer and Defluction by drawing in of a more pure Air indow'd with a drying faculty and a Balsamick power from the Plants which grew there Some years since a Gentleman of these parts call'd Mr. Cotton who was in a confirm'd Consumption spit matter mix'd with blood and was extreamly extenuated being a mere Skeleton cover'd with a dry skin This Gentleman was sent to these parts and upon his return he was absolutely recovered he liveth healthy with his Family and is Father of many Children I have seen that I may discover the Efficacy of the Air in Diseases of the Lungs a Gentleman who having received a deep wound in his Breast he was twice Cured thereof by making an Aperture in the opposite side which necessity compell'd to be made betwixt his Ribs which Aperture became a Fistula He travel'd into Spain where after five years stay the Fistula healed up returning to his own Country which was a cold and moist Climate it open'd again of its own accord and he was healed again by going into Spain for the same number of years as formerly From hence it will plainly appear to you that the Air pervading all the Bronchia or Pipes of the Lungs and passing directly to the Heart is more efficacious in exerting the force of its native or acquir'd qualities and virtues than any other sort of remedy whatsoever The Second head regards Drink If you can forbear Wine altogether you will do very well to do so for whether you drink much or little it doth affect and will afflict your head I hear they make good Beer at Geneva if you can get that which is small and clear or else the Decoction of Barley well fermented and without Hops that may be commodious for you which moreover you may render Medicinal by the addition of China roots or the roots of the greater Canes or Reeds of Narbon and with Troâ—…matick or wound Herbs and Pectorals amongst which the Male Veronica Bugle and self hete are the best If you leave your native Soil and your own House which are not healthy for you to dwell in there may be prescribed a weak Hydromel or Meade or else a thin drink made with Raisons but well fermented and impregnated with the virtue of the foresaid simples and others as Pimpernal the greater Comfory AElurop Plantain Midlin broad leaved Lungwort which is a Moss of an Ash-colour growing upon old Oaks These kind of Drinks rendred familiar and ordinary and pertinaciously continu'd by their constant use work wonders they being endow'd both with a Nutritive and Medicinal Virtue Arcaeus an approved Author a Spaniard doth much commend Guajacum in Ulcers of the Lungs and I know by experience it is very successful nor is the use of it to be feared in lean bodies for its accrimony and heat if you proceed by degrees to use it may be temper'd by adding the larger quantity of Water or it may be boyl'd in Barley Water or else the Roots of China or Reeds are harmless and without heat dry sufficiently moreover do not descend from the necessary advice given you about Diet by your Physicians Cows Milk is useful to condense and nourish well but to refrigerate and cool Asses Milk is more efficacious it detergeth and cleanseth better and carries off the watery Excrements by Urine to which intent also lignum Nephriticum conduces being added to your ordinary drink add to this that it leaves nothing untouched but brings it away with it self if only it pass well And this your own experience will make out to you there being this occasion given to make proof of its effect Follow what your Physicians advise you The force and virtue of the Milk will be augmented if the Beasts feed upon Herbs which are appropriate to your Grief I commend Sugar of Roses with which sweeten your Milk I firmly hold upon this account that a Syrup made with Vulnery Herbs and Wood Tortoises in Narbon call'd Garrige shell Snails the Tayles of Craw-fish green Froggs of which you have plenty will be of great use to you for the future dilating'an Ounce of it with a draught of Milk You may cast in a fourth part of Rose-water into the Decoction of the aforesaid simples being clarefi'd before the Sugar is put to it I would have to be added to the Tabblets of Sugar of Roses which you use some truly prepar'd Blood stone Harts-borne well and Philosophically calcin'd by the vapour of some Pectoral Water and I approve of Crabs Eyes prepar'd after the common way Concerning the Lapis haematitis or Blood stone read what is delivered of its virtues in your Disease by the most experienc'd amongst the Ancient Physicians Alexander Trailianus cap. 1. lib. 7. Practicae under the title of Such things as are convenient for those which spit blood from the defluction of an acrid humour which I also think useful for those which spit blood by reason of an Anastomasis and all sorts of Haemoptysis proceeding from the Breast let the Cause which produces it be what it will A Cough is the most troublesome Symptom of these kind of Diseases for it irritates and shakes the Lungs and will not permit the mouths of the Vessels to close nor grow together Take care therefore to prepare Becâ—…hical or Pectoral Tabblets of an Extract made without the least burning but perform'd with the vapour of water let it be made of the best Liquiris macerated in the waters of Fluellin and Mullin adding to it new made Penidies
her former state doth easily overcome what remains Let us direct our aim then at this point since in my judgement any other method of Cure though it may appear never so useful will prove ineffectual for the future I do not touch upon your Diet being certain that those to whose care you have committed your health will not pretermit any occasion of either doing what is fit or omitting what is inconvenient let us proceed to remedies of these I think it will be vain for the future to continue in the use of slight ones which are usually prescrib'd more for the comfort of the Physician then the Sick which are really adiaphora or indifferent they are innocent truly but by being so they afford no help This Evil is to be pluck'd up by the Roots otherwise it will be perpetually hatching and producing a new Brood Let Vomits lead on the first and main Battle as well for their efficacious removing the filth of the first regions of the body as also to remove by their specifick efficacy from which only the Triumph and Victory over Melancholly is to be expected future impediments Of these I know none more prevalent nor of less danger than the infusion of Crocus Metallorum made in Canary Wine allowing an Ounce of this to a Pint of the Wine of which if you are easie to Vomit you may take the first time one Ounce adding of simple Oxymel half an Ounce and one Ounce of Cardus Beneditus Water if you are hard to work upon then you may take from the quantity of ten Drams to an Ounce and half of it though I think it safest to begin with a small Dose except the vehemence of the Disease perswade otherwise Vomit three or four times nay more making use of no other Medicine between but if your endeavours to Vomit prove fruitless the Stomack may be easily moved to it by drinking of Barley Water or thin Chicking Breath nay only with warm Water procure this sort of Evacuation at least three times allowing the space of two or three days between after which apply your self to Purgation beginning with Elleborat and Hypochondriack Apozems If by rubbing and pressing hard with your hands the whole Abdomen and the Hypochondries there be found pertinacious obstructions there it will be necessary then to exhibit some preparing Medicine for 7 or 8 days together which being perform'd the Purgation of the humour is to be administer'd again If there be any occasion to open a Vein from which nevertheless I expect little benefit let the Physician that is present take care of that I note this one thing to you that I prefer the opening of an inferiour Vein in the Malleoli or Ancles rather then a superiour in the Arms unless there be somewhat else that hinders it The Body being thus conveniently Evacuated the whole business of the Cure is to be directed to the use of Steel in this Cure the chief Medicine There are three Weeks at least to be imploy'd about the foresaid general praescripts and in the mean time care must be had of that intense dryness of your Tongue which is so troublesome to you which I hope in a small time will be dissipated from which no great danger is threaten'd so that care be took that the Body be cleansed from those hot dry and vitriolick juices of the nature of Canker of Brass which doth enduce this intense and unsatisfy'd thirst in which case there is great relief found in the opening the Veins situate under the Tongue by which the heat of the Lungs and Heart is allay'd and the Brain effectually discharg'd if you find the Brain to be possess'd with this matter and if you find the continual Numbness of the Members to remain together with an imbecility to move apply a great visicatory to the Nuck of the Neck and make two Issues in the topes of the Shoulders The Head being shaved put upon it Fernelius his Cataplasme or some other Epispatick Anointing the whole Back-bone every day with Balsom of Earth-worms or Batts c. And when the Weather is convenient for it go to the Baths of Borbon or Aquense which are not far from your House and use to wash your Body with them and let the whole Spine of your Back be dropt upon by these Waters I do firmly believe your Panick fears will vanish if you devote your self to the use of Steel by the virtue of which I have seen many Melancholly persons deliver'd the weakness of whose Limbs did declare that they were already Paralitick And among these a certain Maid of Honour committed to my â—…re the last year by the Queen of Bohemia who by the force of this Melancholly juice had the motion of all her Limbs took from her whom by Gods assistance I restor'd to the Queen again Merry and enjoying a firm health to the admiration of all those which had her in Cure before me in whose judgement she was afflicted with a Palsie I proceeded altogether another contrary and yet common way by the help of which she attain'd her health For 't is only old Dogs that are the best Hunters But concerning your Fistula I think it is not far from being healed if your Chyrurgion may be credited who is a most expert man to whom which you before desired me to do since I have lately writ there is no need that I take up my pen again that he may be further satisfy'd of my kindness Outward Remedies are needless for the future but lest I should seem to be wanting in my Care and Friendship if there is any thing needful to dry and confirm the Cicatrice use the Balsom of Sulphur of which you have heard me spake often which will supply the place of all other Medicines which are fit for the part affected you may apply Emplastrum Diasulphuris to the part which since it needs some detersion and cleansing upon that account it is convenient to use the solution of Crollius his Lapis Mirabilis or another according to my judgement of equal efficacy consisting of pure Bole-Armenick White Vitriol and Camphor prepar'd according to Art or you may well use the Mercurial Water described by Hartman made of Mercury sublimate freed from its corrosive Spirits by Tynne according to Art When the fear of a Palsie shall be dissipated and the humour bred in the Hypochondries overcome and cut off also when it shall only remain to imploy our endeavours that the Cure of the Fistula be made firm and undoubted And that the birth of the same germinating kind of Ulcers in those lower parts subject to corruption may be prevented then the use of Mercurial Medicines taken inwardly will be seasonable which in convenient time and place shall be prescribed to you with necessary cautions as also certain other exsicating Medicines taken from the Classes of Minerals and these such as promote a Diaphoresin or transpiration at the pores whose power and faculty is to discuss malignant vapours and
to hinder defluctions These produce different actions according to the divers distemperatures of the receiving parts which Distempers they master and overcome by their particular efficacious impressions But enough for this time and I will only subjoin an orderly description of certain Medicines promised above If you please you may make use of Mr. Favonius the Apothecary who will be very careful in their preparation If your Fistula be healed and Cicatriz'd that it may long remain so it is necessary you go to Geneva c. In the first place prepare the Stomack for the space of two days before that so you may Vomit easily As â„ž Of simple Oxymel â„¥ iij. Oxymel of Squills â„¥ j. Mix them for 4 Doses taking them in a draught of Ptisan at a large distance from Meals Then â„ž Of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum made with Canary Sack proportioning â„¥ j. of the Crocus to â„¥ xvi or a Pint of the Sack take I say of this infusion philter'd through a Papire â„¥ j. Of the water of Carduus Benedictus â„¥ j. Simple Oxymel â„¥ ss Mix them and make a draught to be given in the Morning with observing a due and regular order in the time of its Operation Let this Medicine be repeated Thrice interposing the space of two or three days betwixt each time of taking according to the strength and disposition of the Stomack a regard being had to the Operation of the Medicine If there be occasion those that can bear the Operation well may increase the quantity of the infusion to Ten Drams or an Ounce and half In the days between it will be necessary to soment the Hypochondries and region of the Stomack with an emollient inciding and Opening Decoction by this means the humours which are to be discharg'd by Vomit will be render'd fluid and the Operation will succeed with the less trouble After taking the third Vomit a day or two being allowed for quiet let there be given the following Apozem â„ž Of the Roots of female Fers Cichory Lions Tooth The Middle-Barke of an Ash-tree the Roots of sharp Leav'd Docks an â„¥ j. Marsh-mallows â„¥ ss The Barke of Caper-roots Of Tamariske an Ê’ x. The fresh Roots of Polypody â„¥ iij. Of the Leaves of Fumaterry Germander Ground Pine Agrimony Bettony Of all the sorts of Maiden-hair an M. j. The Flowers of Cowslips St. Iohns wort an P. iij. Water-Lillies P. ij ss The Tops of Rosemary Marjarom an P. j. The Seeds of male Piony Ê’ iij. Of sweet Fennel Of Corryander prepar'd an â„¥ ss Of Carthamum fresh full and such as sink in water â„¥ ij Raisons of the Sun stoned Iujubs an Ê’ iv Sweet smelling Apples cut into bits with their peels on N. iij. Make a decoction of all these in a s. q. of water in which was steeped before for the space of four hours Sparkling Tartar of White Wine Ê’ vi Clean picked Senna Leaves â„¥ ij The small shings of true black Heâ—…or roots Ê’ iv After a sufficient decocting strain it which reduce by gentle Boyling to â„¥ xv in which dissolve Of the solutive Syrup of Damask Roses made with Agarick Of the Syrup of Cichory with a fourfold proportion of Rhubarb anÊ’ j. ss Spirit of Vitriel gut xii mix them and make an Apozem for three days to be taken a Mornings with care and keeping within doors either every day or every other day according to your strength and this to be done three hours before you take any Broath If it seem convenient either between or after these Purgations to open either of the Saphena Veins let that be committed to the pleasure of your Physician which is present with you Afterwards let the peccant juices be prepar'd again and again and the obstructions of the Bowels powerfully recerated by this following Medicine â„ž The Decoction of sweet seuted Apples Nephriteck wood adding a little 〈◊〉 â„ž iij. Small White Wine lb j. Spirit of Salt Vitriol an Ê’ j. Mix them exactly in a flat glass dish then â—…resently drop leisurely into it of Oil of Turâ—…ar made per deliquium q. s. to extinguish â—…ll acidity or sowerness add to thâ—… Syrup of the flowers of red fluelin with the Violet flower Syrup of Cowslips an â„¥ â—…j Clâ—…on water one spoonful Make a perfect mixture of them by long agiâ—…ating them together Take of this Liquor 〈◊〉 v for a Dosâ—… twice in a day at a good â—…stance from Meals do this eight days together which time being elapsed repeat Purging Thus. â„ž Clean pick'd and small cut Senna Leaves Ê’ iv Choice Rhubarb Ê’ ij The stringy fibers of true black Hellebor roots ℈ iv To these being strain'd pour such a quantity of the strain'd Decoction of Tamarynds and Tartar as is sufficient to make the infusion for a whole Night upon warm Ashes adding Of Lavender flowers ℈ j. One blade or flower of Mace In the Morning after a gentle boiling strain it in which reduc'd to a Dose dissolve Syrup of Damask Roses with Agarick Calabrian Manna an â„¥ j. Spirit of Vitriol gut iv Mix them for a Potion to be given in the Morning with a careful governing of yourself This being perform'd your Body is sufficiently fitted for the use of Steel the methoâ—… of taking which was sufficiently describ'â—… to you the first time In the interim Sir while you are at leisure betwixt making uâ—… of the prescriptions and that will take up good space of time but absolutely necessarâ—… to the right preparing of the peccant juice and the Cure of your Body In the mean spâ—… use these things which have a respect to tâ—… dryness of your Tongue As a Syrup made with the white of an Egg and Sugarcandy Trochisch's of Liquoris prepar'd from its Extract mix'd with Sugar of Roses adding a â—…ittle of the Mucalage of Gum Tragacant The distill'd Water of Milke with the Syrup de Mucilaginibus taken by a Spoon or put of a glass Bottle or out of a phyol with a narrow mouth The use of Rock Chrystal truly prepared with Conserve of Violets or Water Lillies is good An injection into the Iawes made with Barley water and Milke warm from the Cow either by it self or adding a little Sal pruâ—…lla Syrup of the Juice of the greater Semperâ—…uive or House-leek boyl'd with Sugar adding 〈◊〉 little of the same Sal prunella see that you â—…se them by turns lest Nature being too much accustomed to one frustrate or reject â—…eir effect I doubt not but those Symptoms which â—…hreaten a Palsie will either be diminished â—…r for the most part removed by the before â—…rescribed Medicines which Symptoms if they â—…ould persevere though but a little that â—…he fearful mind of the Patient may be satisâ—…'d by the advice of the Physicians which â—…re present let there be apply'd to the head being shaved Fernelius his Cataplasme against Catarrhs described in his Councels for divers days together Apply to the hinder part of the Neck a large Visicatory with which excite a Blister
which keep running a long time Affix a couple of Pyroticks or Causticks to the superiour angles of the Shoulder Blades with which large Ulcers being made let them be kept continually open with many Pease applying upon them a strong sticking and drawing Plaister Morning and Evening anoint the whole length of the Back-bone with our Balsom of Batts rubbing it very well in with a warmed hand The Balsom of Batts â„ž The greater sort of Serpents or Snakes cut into pieces their Skins being first strip'd off Num. iij. Butts Num. xii Very fat sucking Puppiâ—…s Num. ij Earth-worms wash'd in White Wine lb jâ—… Common Oil lb iij. Malago Sack lb iv The Leaves of Sage Marjarom Bayes Calaminth Origanum Penyroyal an M. ij Boil them adding new Hogs-lard lb ij 〈◊〉 the consuming of the Wine and the falling â—…f pieces and putrilage of the Animals let 〈◊〉 Fat be well pressed out â„ž Of this fatness lb j. Gum. Elemi Tacamahaca an â„¥ j. ss The Marrow of a Stag An Oxes Leg an â„¥ ij Of pâ—… Gum Galbanumâ—… â„¥ j. Liquidambar gut x. Butter of Nutmegs Oil of Bayes an â„¥ ss Mix them and make a Balsom I believe and I hope that the Ulcers which â—…ere caus'd by the incisions about the Fundament are closed and confirm'd by a Cicatrice it happen to be otherwise let them be â—…ashed with the dissolution of the Artificial â—…one which is call'd Lopis Mirabilis or â—…uch the Ulcers with Mercurial water made sublimat delivered from its Corrosive Spirit â—…d deaded by Tin apply Balsom of Sulphur them such as is describ'd by Rulandus 〈◊〉 put upon them a Lead Plaister with â—…alk or Emplastruin Diasulphuris which â—…dicines may be approved of as specificks Ulcers of the Fundament and the circumâ—… parâ—…d 〈◊〉 there be any internal Symptoms continue or bud again these evils are to be remedied by Mineral Medicines such as are madâ—… of Mercury and Antimony rightly prepar'd which shall be prescribed by us in their duâ—… time according to the degree of urgent necessity POSTSCRIPT The use of the aforesaid Remedies AFter your return into your own Country about the beginning of the Monâ—… of September take care to have prepar'd 〈◊〉 you an Emollient and detergent Glyster addiâ—… lenitive Electuary and honey of Dog Nettlâ—… let it be injected in a Morning about thâ—… hours before Dinner The day after take the Purge prescrib'd and if you like the form of a Bolus you 〈◊〉 add a Scruple of Mercurius dulcis truly prepar'd observing to govern your self order in the working The day following begin the use of 〈◊〉 Apozem continuing the use of it for eigâ—… days Which being ended purge your body agaâ—… with the same proportion of the Purge or the Bolus After which if necessity require proceed to the use of Steel observing the Order laid down If nothing do absolutely insinuate the use of this then a good Diet will be sufficient the particulars concerning which you may easily gain the knowledge of Omit not in the mean time the exercising of your Body which is absolutely necessary for you Also by intervals at least once in a Month purge your Body taking the before prescribed Bolus with Mercurius dulcis Let the Infusion be familiar to you or the gentle Decoction remember'd in the second Councel to which you may if you please add half a pound of the filings of Steel to four measures of Fountain or cistern-Cistern-water taking every time two Ounces COUNCEL the Fourth In the same disaffections of the Hypochondries for the same Noble Councellor at Law Written in French WHen the Pâ—…st had-now come three times to us and yet no account was written to me concerning your health Iâ—… was possessed with careful and troublesome thoughts by reason of the great and dreadful Symptoms describ'd in your last Letter upon the account of which I writ and sent you my Advice and Councel But your last Letter hath expell'd all my fears which doth manifest that the troublesome dryness of your Mouth and all those Symptoms which were praeludâ—… and fore-runâ—… of a Palsie did wholly seize upon the unlook'd for arising of an Apostbume in your right Cheek which as well upon the opening of it by Mr. Iuis as also at your Ear did pour out laudable and well digested Pus or Matter As to your Fistula's heretosore so afflictive to you they are shortly to be closed up with a Cicatrice for they are now almost healed by the acurate care and diligence of your Chyrurgion for which both from my self and all experienc'd Artists he worthily deserves praise which I will publickly make known whensoever you require it although I am equally averse to admit or impart adulatory expressions Before your Sores can attain a perfect consolidation the greatest part of the Winter will be past over and the subsequent Spring will be near at hand at which time you will much better pass through that tedious course of Diet and Medicines which are to be made use of then you can do in the height of Winter Wherefore since it is necessary to preserve and repair your life that something be couragiously taken in hand and yet nothing urgeth to begin it now my opinion is that you Elect a proper time in which without interruption you may prosecute the course of your Cure and use your Medicines successively in due ordeâ—… and with advantage which if they be otherwise administred by fits or broken intervals and not with one steady course although they be artificially and properly prescrib'd yet they cannot have the least success I advise to compleat the Cure that as soon as Dr. Guenalt c. shall think fit your Body be emptyed by Purging according to the method I have prescribed from thenceforth you may safely be quiet only studying how to repair your strength as well by aliments of good juice as by gentle Cordials such as the Majestery of Pearls red Corals and Crabs Eyes sometimes given in Broaths sometimes with the Confection of Kermes and Syrup of Queen-Apples procuring gentle Purgations betwixt whiles with Laxative Ptisan compos'd only with Senna or sometimes adding Cassia Tamarinds and Manna Clarifying all of them well sometimes putting to the same quantity of the infusion a double Dose of the Purgers upon the account of cleansing From the going through this course to the time that remains to the Vernal Aquinox I advise you to rest but when that time is come then apply your self to the other course nourishing your body afresh insisting in the method I sent you before according to which having used the general remedies the Prascripts of which you have by you you are to make use of the Essence of Steel which I send to you mix'd and prepar'd with my own hands And in my Opinion this sort of remedy is so powerful and so fitting for you that if it agree with your nature which I suppose it will not be repugnant too I think the use of it is to be continu'd for threescore days
sell a raging with more bitterness and cruelty then before for there was not only a fierce Feaver and a continual suppression of Urine but also a Phlegmon or Inflamation did arise in the Perinaeum it self Wherefore in my absence he was necessitated to send for another Physician He insisted in the use of Emulsions and Glysters and anointed the place affected with convenient â—…ls he was forced also to make use of a Bath by reason of the vehemence of the pain In the mean time I return'd and found the Patient as it were in an Agony for he was seized with a vehement Feaver frequent Soundings Nauciousness and loathing of Food heat and retention of Urine and all the eminent signs of Death The inflamed Tumour in the Perinaeum was bigger then a Goose Egg with extreme pungent pain with a Tumour and hardness of the Cods and Yard The Kings Doctor before my coming had made use of discutient and resolving anodyns but without success Wherefore it was fit to procure digestion and ripen the matter which was effected by this Cataplasme or Poltess â„ž Of the roots and leaves of Marsh-mallows Mallows an M. j. Boil and bruise them according to Art and add Of Wheat Meal â„¥ ij â—…aenugreeg Seed Linseed an â„¥ j. Fresh Butter Oil of White Lillies Ointment of Marsh-mallows an â„¥ j ss Saffron Ê’ ss Yolkes of Eggs Num. ij mix them and make a Poultess Which was applyed twice in a day warm The xxix of May the Aposthume was broke in the middle of the Perinaeum upon the very Seam upon which there flow'd forth in a large quantity such stinking and putrid Pus or Matter that the whole Chamber was fill'd with a most incredible nay a cadavorous sent like that of a rotten Carkass which continu'd for several days for such was its Gangrenous putridness that the whole Perinaeum being mortifi'd fell off and there succeeded a very large Ulcer Notwithstanding he applyed such things as hinder putrefaction I apply'd to the Ulcer my Ungnentum AEgyptiacum with pleggets and two Tents of which one ascended towards the Scrotum and the other was thrust downward towards the Fundament I afterwards put upon it the following Poultess â„ž Meal of Lispine Of Beans an â„¥ j. ss The powder of the Tops of Wormwood Of Scordium Rue an Ê’ ij Boil them in simple Oxymell and make a Poultess to which being yet warm add Aloes Myrrh an Ê’ j. ss But I cut off as much as I could of the dead flesh with Scissers and Knives as often as I open'd the Ulcer I wiped away the Matter with Pencils made of Sponge dipt in the decoction of Scordium Rue Wormwood and Lupines adding a little Salt by which means the putrefaction went off by degrees and that in three days time and spread no further Wherefore I omitted the further using of the Aegyptiack Ointment and apply'd to the Ulcer a Linement composed with the powders of round Aristolock roots the roots of Florentine Oris Angelica Aloes and Myrrh with the Extract of Scordium mixt with a little Yolke of an Egg I did use the before prescrib'd Cataplasme for more then three weeks for not only the Skin and Flesh of the Perinaeum were wasted and eat away by the putrefaction but also much of the membrains were rotted as without doubt were the Tunicles or Coats of the Urinary passage which we were fain to cut off and take away wherefore almost all the Urine did issue out at the Ulcer for a long time About the beginning of Iune that Pimple or small Tumour in the middle of the Yard upon the right side thereof which was hard almost from the beginning of the Disease became an Aposthume and a little while after it also broke but it did not penetrate to the passage of Urine wherefore applying of Emollients Digestives and Mundificatives it was with difficulty healed Three days after the breaking of the small Tumour in the Yard the humour which was before spread through the whole Scrotum fell down to the lower part of it toward the Ulcer in the Perinaeum and there made a hard extuberance but by applying of Emollient Bags Ointment of Marsh-mallows and Melilote Plaister the matter which was collected there was by degrees evacuated by the Ulcer of the Perinaeum The Ulcer being sufficiently cleansed from putrid flesh and mortify'd Membrains we made use of a Traumatick decoction or wound think composed of Winter green Ladies mantil Sanicle or Butter-wort Saâ—…acens consound Mugwort red Betts all boil'd in adstringent red Wine after this manner The Patient drank a draught of this three hours before Dinner and another as many hours before Supper we also injected it into the Ulcer twice a day warm we also put in two Tents moistened in the same decoction into the Ulcer thrusting one of them forwards the other backwards towards the Prostatas at last we apply'd a doubled Linen Cloath dipp'd in the same warm We did not only pour in the decoction with a Syringe into the Ulcer but also into the Urinary passage both above and beneath which that it might be done the more conveniently we caused a crooked Pipe to be made to the Syringe 'T is to be admir'd that in this great and high putrefaction the Sphincter of the Bladder did always remain safe and untouch'd which appear'd from hence that the Patient even in the height of his Disease could always retain his Urine nor did he ever let it go from him against his will Nevertheless the Ulcer which went downward towards the Bladder was deep and touched the Prostatas which I suppose were evilly affected heretofore as often as he made water it flowed partly at the Yard partly at the Ulcer but without any difficulty or pain He used the foresaid Traumatick Decoction for three Months so that by degrees the Ulcer was fully consolidated nor did there remain any Fistula Besides Topical means general Medicines were made use of and the strength being recruited by degrees I gave him every other day and sometimes seldomer a little of the best Turpentine by the benefit of which his belly was loosened and the Urinary passages also cleansed the Reins were anointed with Ointment of Roses with Camphor and there was apply'd a plate of Lead big enough to cover the Loins and the Os Sacrum Now God be prais'd this Gentleman enjoys a perfect health nor doth perceive any inconveniency of these great Griefs he makes water freely there being only left this impediment that he is sensible of a certain painful itching in the place where the Ulcer was formerly moreover many times there appeareth a Branny substance in his Urine and as often as he makes water there appeareth one drop of a white viscous glutinous matter at the top of the Urinary passage before the making of his water This Gentleman desires to know of you what kind of matter this is and from whence it cometh I suppose this matter to proceed from the weaken'd and not sufficiently strengthen'd
and upon that account hath undergone much labour and trouble From â—…ence it was that more then twenty years â—…nce he began to be afflicted with defluctions â—…on his Ioints When the hot distemperaâ—…re of his Liver continually sending up vaâ—…urs to his head did not a little increase the â—…isease Also upon the account of these â—…ins in his Ioints and the Defluction his excellence made use of the Advice of Dr. Riviâ—…rus and Dr. Quercetan and other Physicians and used their Medicines with somâ—… success but for all that he endured long anâ—… grievous crucifying pains insomuch that aâ—… length it turn'd to the knotted Gout and hâ—… was forced to keep his Bed for many Weekâ—… together but in the mean space the paiâ—… ceasing besides his domestick and privaâ—… business he took care also of publick affairs and they also of the greatest concern and bâ—… stow'd great pains about them But becausâ—… he had hitherto made use of his familiar Medicines prescrib'd him by the fore-nameâ—… Physicians to defend him from the pains 〈◊〉 the Gout and to lessen the cause of the Disease with good success and found no smâ—… advantage by the Issues which he had hâ—… Excellency would not have burthen'd yâ—… with Letters but that more then a year sinâ—… he being troubl'd with another Distemper 〈◊〉 had requir'd your Excellencies advice aâ—… had found relief thereby but that you mâ—… the better understand the business I will expose it to your eyes in few words Iune the xviij the last year 1620. at sumptuous â—…east he filled his Stomack wiâ—… Crude and with fryed Meat and did driâ—… Wine contrary to his custom refrigeratâ—… with Fountain water he was taken with Nauciousness and Belchings But when 〈◊〉 found he was bound in his Body about the xxij day a little before Dinner without the advice of a Physician he took a little Turpentine by the help of which he had two Stools But what follow'd about the beginning of the Night his Urine was plainly and fully stopt upon which he was afflicted with sharp pains Nauciousness Gripes and Vomiting When I visited him upon the 23d day of the said Month I found him as it were dead with extreme pain his Belly was extreme hard and his Bladder by reason of the plenty of Urine was extended after a wonderful manner I perswaded him to loosen his Belly with a Glyster and that he would admit of a Catheter to be put into his Bladder But this Noble Patient was infinitely averse to this Operation by reason of the narrowness of his Urinary passage which he said was natural he desired I would try all other Remedies before I put in the Catheter I caus'd him to take several Glysters and prescrib'd him a Bath with Emollient Roots Herbs Flowers and Seeds and such things as relax'd and eas'd pain I apply'd also Bags compos'd with the same simples to his Belly and also anointed the Perinaeum with Oil of white Lillies and Oil of sweet Almonds But when I had used all my diligence and yet his Urine did not pass the pains and other Symptoms were increas'd more and more the xxvi day about nine at Night I exhibited to him a small Potion of three grains of Laudanum Confectio Alkermes ℈ j. dissolved in the Pectoral decoction and a little Cinnamon water by the benefit of this Medicine he slept quietly that Night and his Water came plentifully from him in his sleep But whether he voided at the same time with it any small Stones or Gravel was not observed But after a few days we found in the Urinal a small Stone porous and of the colour of Ashes From that time he was oftentimes sensible of pain chiefly in the region of the left Kidney but applying a Bag made with Marsh-mallow Roots Mallows Pelletory Chamomil Mellilot and Emollient Seeds and such as discuss wind his pains remitted neither from thenceforth did any grievous Symptoms afflict him But from that time ever since he hath voided certain small red hard and rough Stones also about xiv days since in his last sickness That which remains is that he keeps an exact Diet by intervals purging the first and common passages with a Medicinal Wine made with Agarick Senna Rhubarb Creme of Tartar and certain appropriated Herbs prepar'd in the time of Vintage after which to wit the following or the third day after he doth purge the Urinary passages with Turpentine and osten drinks a water made of the opening Roots Saxafrage and the like things but never useth these unless his body be first rightly purged The Generous Patient desires to be inform'd if the Turpentine is to be washed or not because in this Practisers disagree hitherto by my advice he hath used it unwashed for to me it seems likely that the subtiler parts which go to the passages of Urine are lost in the washing c. the 3d. of December 1621. The Answer AS to the material cause the Stone and the Gout are the same kind of Disease they differ only in Place and in the condition of that juice which accompanies the Disease that which passeth to the loose and weak Ioints belongs to the kind of dissolved Salts But that which seats it self in the Kidnies and Bladder is like coagulated Tartar Worthy Sir you acurately describe those Symptoms with which this Noble Person hath had a sharp conflict the abating of which nay if it were to be hoped for by the removal of the cause that the Patient might be relieved from it is your desire the like I also wish with my Soul The Knotted and stony Gout resuseth Medicinal helps Now then let us only be sollicitous concerning the future coming on of a suppression of Urine from Gravel oftentimes impacted in the narrow passages by which the discharge of Urine is hinder'd The generating of the Stone is powerfully impeded by procuring a revulsion of the viscid slimy matter to the upper parts and excluding them by Vomit after liberal eating and large drinking Let this be done once in a month or every other month after Supper that by sleep presently following after it the Body may be refresh'd again and the Spirits recreated About the last Quarter of the Moon let his Body be purged with the pulpe of Cassia with Turpentine and powder of Rhubarb And for four mornings together after that let there be given ℈ j. or Ê’ ss of vitriolated Tartar prepared after Crollius's way described by him in his Basilica Chymica after this drinking Broath seasoned with Salt and render'd Medicinal with the Opening Roots with the tender tops of Mallows and stinging Nettles let this Worthy Person ride since by reason of the weakness of his Limbs he cannot admit of other kind of Remedies From henceforth let his Belly be emptied and his Kidnies temper'd with Emollient and Cooling Glysters adding to them Quercetanus Antinephritick Electuary The drinking the Mineral Waters will not be unuseful hereafter unless perhaps it be a little inconvenient for the Gout upon
and dangerously The effect of the Medicine will never prove vain but you may accelerate it by adding of Mercurius praecipitatus but why do I light a Candle to the Sun receive this as a testimony of my kindness if you desire greater and more solid ones know that they shall not be denied you I answer nothing to your Questions if you require my Testimony concerning what you have advis'd or administred heretofore to the Noble Patient whoever calumniates you let them learn to know that Men experienc'd in the Art are to be believed and I do aver that you have done all things according to Art c. Dated London February the 5th An. 1616. COUNCEL the Tenth In a Catarrh For a Noble Person Written in French SIR I Participate in the evils which happen to my Friends and suffer by consent or sympathy with them chiefly if they be such to whose service I have devoted my self my Genius compelling to do so I hear that a troublesome Catarrh afflicts you which by Day gives you some respits but by Night is exasperated and very troublesome The disposition of these sort of disaffections is that they grow worse when the Night approaches at which time Phlegm predominates over the rest of the humours Now since your Body in general is sufficiently purged already it remains particularly to cleanse your Brain and afterward by means of drying Medicines to strengthen it To which intent I advise that in the Mornings two days together and again every other day for some time you use a Gargarisme composed of twelve spoonful of White Wine four spoonfuls of Vinegar three of Hony and two of Mustard distemper'd and as the custom is ground together let this Mixture be warm'd and take of it a spoonful or two Gargarising with it and carefully spitting out whatsoever Phlegm it draws from the Brain Reiterate this Gargarisme five six or seven times until you find your head emptied and made lighter if there remain any heat in your Iaws that will be removed by Garguling with a temperate Oxycrate or mixture of Vinegar and Water Cause to be prepar'd a Powder made of Mastick six Drams Yellow Amber three Drams Benzomin two Drams Red Roses and Coriander Seeds of each two Drams and a half fume those things you cover your Head with in a Morning and at Night going to Bed with this powder or rather a Cap made of Tow or Wool quilted and make a paper Coif to be worn perpetually putting over it the foresaid Cap 'T is absolutely necessary for the Cure of the present sickness and to prevent greater dangers which are ready to fall upon you that you defend your self the whole Winter against the injuries of the Cold In the Mornings use Frictions or rubbings of the upper parts of your Elboes and Arms and the whole length of your Back-bone with moderately warm linen Cloths Apply to your Pole hot Bread newly drawn out of the Oven and cut in the middle or rather a Mornings apply dry Cupping Glasses All these things being observed unless you go to Stool of your self your Belly is to be loosen'd to which purpose Glysters are useful But if you abhor them than at the beginning of your Meal use Prunes stewed with Senna If my advice prove effectual to you I shall be abundantly satisfi'd c. Precautions and Cure Against the Plague cruelly raging The Remedies Prescribed by the common consent and joynt endeavours of the King and Queens Doctors and Physicians in Ordinary in pursuance of their Duty and directed to their Majesties Apothecary July the 6th 1625. Preservatives against the Plague The Medicinal Broath FOr the Kings Break-fast let him sup this Broath Let his Majesty take Broath alter'd with the leaves of Wood-Sorrel threeâ—…eav'd Sorrel Porcelan Borrage Bugloss 〈◊〉 Baume Pimpernel the red flowers of Fluellin the fruit of Barberies shaving of Harts-horn in â„¥ viij of the straining of this â—…et there be dissolved of the sweet Majestery of Coral of Pearl of each ℈ j. Chrystals of Sorâ—…el and of small Oster of each Ê’ j. mix them If the Chrystals be wanting drop in as much Oyl of Sulphur made by a Bell as will render it moderately sower Let the King take this Broath before he come out of his Chamber having first been at Stool let him deferr Dinner for three hours after it If this Broath be troublesome to him and his Stomach require change of Break-fasts then every morning let this following be ready to be given at his Majesties command Gelly of Harts-horn â„ž Of the thin and broad shavings of Harts-horn made of the horns of a Beast newly kill'd â„¥ j. ss spring-Spring-water lb ij boil it till half be consum'd not taking away the Scum then presently strain it through a Tammy cloath to which whilst it is yet warm add as much as you please of Rhenish Wine juice of Limons or Pomecitrons a little Cinnamon-water and a few grains of Ambergrease it may be made of a yellow colour with two grains of Saffron made into a little knob by tying it up in a piece of Tiffany which being moistned with the liquor let it be often squeezed out Let the Gelly yet warm be poured into a Murrhy or a Chinâ—… Dish and suffer it to congeal in a cold place Another Gelly more Cordial â„ž Rasped Harts-horn â„¥ j. ss Flowers of Borrage Bugloss an Pug. iv Celandine Red Veronica or Fluellin an Pug. j. The tops of Baum M. j. Fountain Water lb ij The best Rhenish Wine lb ss Boil it till there remains lb j. to which add Of the Quiddenies of Mulberies Rasberies Currans an â„¥ ij Cinnamon Water one spoonfull Ambergrease gr iv Oriental Musk gr j. All being melted with a gentle heat pour it out and put it into Murrhy or else China Dishes and permit it to cool for use Biskets of Pomecitron-peels â„ž Of fresh Citron peels both the yellow part and the white only removing the soure part take lb j. boil it in Spring-water for the space of one hour and removing the Vessel from the fire suffer it to remain in infusion for xxiv hours in an earthen vessel pour off the water and dry the Peels well with a clean linen cloth beat them in a Stone-morter into a Past and then let there be added a double proportion of Sugar dissolved in Rose Orange and Baume Water boil it to the consistance of a solid Electuary adding Ambargrease ℈ j. Oriental Musk gr v. Majestery of Pearls and red Corals an â„¥ ss of Oriental and Occidental Bezoar-stone subtilly powder'd and ground upon a Porphery with Baume Water an Ê’ j. mix them and make Morsels or little Cakes like the solid Conserve of Roses Let his Majesty take one or two of them in a Morning for his Breakfast Let the King drink upon them a Draught of well wrought clear Beer in which hath been infused Pimpernell and Meadow sweet the flowers of Borrage Bugloss and the Tops of Baume The Cordial Syrup Cut off the
Tops of the Stalks of Augelica cross ways whilst they yet remain fix'd in the ground then fill them up with white Sugar-candy finely powder'd and stop them up with Cotten and cover them on the top of that with Nut-shells and after two or three days pour the Sugar which is dissolv'd into a Syrup into a convenient Vessel and let there be prepared a sufficient quantity of the Syrup this way of which take â„¥ viij Syrup of Mulberries Rasberries and the sower Syrup of Citrons an â„¥ iv Ambargrease gr vj. Mosck tied up in a Cloath gr ij Oil of Sulphur as much as is sufficient to give it a pleasant sharpness keep it in a Viol close stopt for use which is to be taken in a Morning to the quantity of â„¥ ss in the stead of the foresaid Prophylacâ—…icks or Preservatives Let him eat sometimes new Butter spread upon Bread with the Leaves of Sorrel and three leaved Sorrel and a little Salt and let him drink upon it a Draught of Beer with the infusion of the before-named Herbs Tabella Hypoglottides or Tabellets to be put under the Tongue â„ž Of Bole Armenick wash'd in rose-Rose-water â„¥ j. Sealed Lemnian and Strigoninan Earths an â„¥ ss Harts-born burnt white Ê’ x. Sweet Majestery of Pearls Coral Crabs-Eyes an Ê’ vj Bones of a Stags-heart Ê’ iij. Fragments of Iacinths Emrods Chrystals prepar'd an Ê’ ij The Stone call'd Lapis contra Yerva which is prepar'd of the juice of the Herb in the Indies â„¥ ss Oriental and Occidental Bezoar an Ê’ j. ss The roots of Zedoary Tormentil an ℈ v. Candied Citron-peels Ê’ ij ss Ambargrease Ê’ j. The best Mosck ℈ ss Let all of them be finely powder'd and made up into a Past with the Mucilage of Quince-Seeds extracted with rose-Rose-water adding to these a double proportion of Sugar of which make Trochises and keep them for ordinary use drying them with a gentle heat Let them be held in the mouth and swallow'd by degrees and let them be dissolved as often as his Majesty goeth by suspected places Bezahartick Trochises â„ž Of the Chrystals of Wild-Sorrel of three-leav'd Sorrel an â„¥ j. Strigonian Earth Ê’ vj. Harts-horn burnt white The sweet Majestery of Pearls Corals an Ê’ v. Bones of a Stags-heart Ê’ iij. Roots of Contra Yerva Tormentil an â„¥ ss The Hearts and Livers of Vipers taken at a fitting time Ê’ ij Ambargrease Ê’ j. The best Musk ℈ ss White Sugarcandy the weight of them all make of them all a fine Powder which make into a Past with Baume Roses and Orange flower Waters of which form Trochises to be used as before a portion of which may be acuated with a few drops of Oil of Angelica or with that which drops out of the ripe Stalkes without pressing when they are cut The Pomeambar â„ž Of the best Labdanum â„¥ iv Benzoin Gum. Caranna Stirax Calamita Wood of Aloes Angelica roots Zedoary an â„¥ ss Sweet smelling Reed â„¥ j. Rhodium Wood Yellow Sanders Juniper Cedar anÊ’ vj. Lavender flowers Oris flowers Marjarom Citron-Peels Aurange-Peels an Ê’ xij Cloves Ê’ vj. Ambargrease Ê’ iij. Musk Ê’ j. Rub the Rosins and Gums to a fine powder in a hot Mortar bruise and mix them altogether and by adding as much as is sufficient of Balsom of Peru make a Past of which form round Balls to be carried about and smelt to The sweet sented Pestilential Liquor Because the King hateth to smell to Vinegar prepare this sweet sented Water following to infuse the species in â„ž Of Oris flowers lb j. the leaves of Marjarom M. iv Common-Time Wild-Time an M. iij. Basil M. iij. Baume M. v. Sage Rosemary Bayes an M. ij Of the flowers of Elder P. vj. Red Roses Red Fluellin Spanish Broom Pipe-Tree an P. viij Shaving of Cedar-wood â„¥ vj. Cinnamon â„¥ vj. Rose-water lb xviij Let all the simples be very new and fresh and put them in a double Vessel or a Body and Head and having poured upon them the Liquors distil it according to Art in a Balneo with a Refrigeratory Then â„ž Of the roots of Butter-burr Enula Campaine Gentian an â„¥ iv Winters-Barke â„¥ iij. Of the Roots of Angelica the great Valerian Master-wort Carlin Thystil an â„¥ ij Galangal sweet keed Zedoary Wood of Rhodium Juniper an Ê’ x. The leaves of dryed Scordium Baume Lemon Time Sage Marjarom Rosemary an M. j. Rue M. ij Dittary of Crete Malabarâ—…hrum an â„¥ ss Flowers of Elder P. iv Lavender French Lavender both sorts an P. ij Orange-Peels The yellow rind of Citrons â„¥ ij ss Cloves Ê’ xij Nutmegs Mace an Ê’ ij All of them being cut and bruised sprinkle them with Malago Sack afterwards put them in a Stone-Pitcher and pour upon them Of the before described Water lb viij Rose-water Orange-water Water of Jassemy flowers an lb ij Put them to digest in Dung or a Balneo for the space of four days strain some of it immediately for the Kings present use which Liquor may be made stronger sented by adding some grains of Ambargrease and Musk. Our Lord the King may carry about with him a Sponge dipped in this Liquor and put into an Ivory Box full of small holes You may pour Vinegar upon the remaining Mass and make another infusion for the Courtiers adding a greater quantity of Lavender flowers Citron-Peel and Cloves Also add Treacle and Mithridate that it may become an Acetum Theriacale The moist Fume for the Kings Bed-Chamber â„ž Of the Roots of Florentine Oris â„¥ vj. Enula Campaine Angelica an â„¥ iv Winters-Bark Storax Calamita an â„¥ iij. The inward Bark of Cinnamon â„¥ j. Sweet Garden-Reed â„¥ ij Rhodium Wood Juniper Wood an â„¥ j. ss Yellow of Citron-Peel Benzoine an â„¥ v. Zedoary Galangal an â„¥ xij The dryed leaves of Marjaram Sage Rosemary Time an M. ij Lavender-flowers P. vj. Cloves Ê’ x. All being bruised and cut put them in a Stone Vessel and pour upon them of the best Rose-water lb x. of the strongest Vinegar lb ij Let the Vessel be a fourth part empty and put it in a Balneo and let it infuse for three days then take it out again for use whilst it is in infusion let he Vessel be covered with a Bulls Bladder cast of this Liquor upon a hâ—… plate of Iron and thus fume the Kings Bed Chamber three or four times a day every day Or make with this that which they call Cassolets to boil in a Corner of the Kings-Chamber but then you may add stronger sents or perfumes as Benzoin Storax Calamita Ambargrease or you may pour this Liquor into a Spanish Cassolet with silver little Balls and so make it to boil according to Art The dry Fume for the Court-Chambers â„ž The Wood of Rhodium Juniper Cedar Pine an â„¥ iv Mastick Frankincense Sanderack Colophonium an â„¥ iij. Dry Balsom Gum Caranna Storax Calamita an â„¥ iij. ss Benzoin â„¥ x. Red Roses Winters Bark The inward Bark of Cinnamon an â„¥ ij ss Mix them all together and make a gross Powder
is that the presence of the vapours doth suppose heat which stirs them up But to the Cure of this Disease the now prescribed Remedies are to be insisted on afterwards proceeding in the use of the following Let the beginning be with opening a vein unless it have been perform'd already and first strike the Basilica afterwards the Saphena in the intermediate time let there be constantly used Semicups or half Baths in which the Patient sitting let him take the Decoction of Scorzonera with the simple Syrup of Apples not omitting Pimpernel the third or fourth day after the Encathisme or sitting in the Bath this following Purgation is to be made out of hand â„ž The foresaid Decoction lb j. in which infuse Oriental Senna leaves â„¥ j. in the straining dissolve clean Pulp of Cassia Ê’ ix strain it again and make an Apozeme to be taken at three Doses without the Syrups adding to every Dose Syrup of Dodder â„¥ j. and so make an Apozeme to be taken in the Bath After the celebrated use of the Bath let Bloud-Leaches be apply'd to the edge of the Fundiment And after that sit in a Chair with a hole thorow it a Bâ—…son of hot water being placed underneath it that the Haemorrhoides may be excited by the vapours of it which if by Natures assistance you can cause to appear it will be a good Omen And afterwards persist in the use of altering Remedies adding to them Capper roots and Tamarisk wood these things being rightly perform'd send us back word how the Patient finds himself then The Patient was restored a little while after by using the Mineral Waters and Chaâ—…byate Wine Advice in the Epilepsia or Falling Sickness For a Noble Virgin Written in French by a Physician whose Name is not known ALthough the Disease of this Noble Virgin is called the Epilepse and is noted to be fixedly rooted and confirm'd as having eluded and baffled many Medicines yet I hope God the chief Physician of Chronical diseases giving his blessing in progress of time she will be freed from it and by changing her Age and Temperament which happens in Climacterick years to wit on the seventh year by the help of the natural heat grown more and more viget and lively she will overcome that pernicious Diathâ—…sis or indisposition chiefly when Nature at her appointed time shall have cleansed the body of this Maid of its impurities by the coming on of that Flux which is familiar to the Sex And this is the rather to be hoped for that those which have been by and present when the Fits invade her and have noted the signs going before do deny it to be idiopathical but rather assert it to be produced by Sympathy and consent of parts That is its Original is not to be derived from the evil Constitution of the Brain but wholly from the inferiour parts chiefly from the Bowels with whom the Brain consents by affinity from which gross vapours ascend upwards chiefly in the time of sleep which is stirr'd up from their proper Mine by the heat then going to the inward parts And this is manifest from the pain which is perceived in the upper part of the Belly before the assault of the Paroxysme or Fit and the turbulency and want of sleep going before it indicating the Bowels are filled or stuffed with vitious humours to which perhaps may be joyned Werminous or Wormey matter a thing familiar to that Age which first pour sorth vapours which procure those terrifying wants of sleep and afterwards produce the Epileptical Insults by obstructing the passage of the Animal spirits and hence for a time intercepting their action untill those vapours be dissipated or are transmitted to the inferiour parts Now since according to my judgment the antecedent and first cause of this rebellious and troublesome disease is constituted and made by those depraved humours and that vitious Minera we may well hope they will be taken away and their effects removed in time by the Divine assistance and blessing And that the rather because perhaps all things have not been prescribed with a fit and due Method nor Chymical Medicines made use of by the help of which most pertinacious diseases are overcome which sort of Medicines are to be rightly used slighter ones having been first made use of Let the first scope or intention of Cure be to purge the Sink of the Body by the help of the Emetick and Purging Medicine noted A. taking of it presently in a double proportion of Breath walking after it the space of an hour to make it act the better also taking several spoonfuls after it of Broath somewhat more then warm till it begins to nauceate by which the Vomiting will be the casier If perchance the Epileptical Paroxysme shall happen whilst it works that ought to be no cause of fear since it is an effect of the commotion of the humours stirr'd up by it which ceasing the Fit also will cease Let the second intention be to prepare the Morbifick or offending humours with the Decoction prescribed for that purpose and noted B. of which a draught is to be taken six days successively in the morning two hours before Dinner The third thing that occurs is that the humours thus prepar'd be excluded by the pargation in the form of a Potion noted with the Letter C. let her drink that two hours before she take thin Broath Let her be allowed to Dine two hours after that but in the mean time let her keep the House all day Let the fourth scope be to remove thosâ—… vapours wâ—… are the authors of the Epileptical Fits â—…ne other place by making Issuâ—… in a convâ—…ent place to wit in the inwar part of the Legs â—…so procure a constant Evacuation of the Exâ—…rements of the Braiâ—… which otherways bâ—…ng joyn'd to the vapour arising from the lower parts they are thereby melted and prove mischievous for beinâ—… become liquid again and being first expressâ—… or squeez'd out of the Brain they fall dowâ—… upon the Throat and produce that Stertor oâ—… Snorting which is manifestly perceived boâ—… before and after the Fit we may obtain tâ—… delivering of the Brain from these Excremeâ—… titious humours by making of another Issâ—… in the Pole which after full six months mâ—… be permitted to be stopt up making anothâ—… in the Arm if there be occasion The fifth scope regards Specificks design'â—… 〈◊〉 strengthen the Brain and marked with 〈◊〉 â—…ter D. the application of which is 〈◊〉 to the judgement of the Apothecary â—…f the Disease resist these Medicines moâ—… efficacious ones must be made use of viz. Chymical ones which are frequently used by the most excellent Physicians of our times as Dr. Quercetan and Dr. de Mayerne and are marked with the Letter E. As also Peacocks-Dung must be used which I look upon as a Specifick remedy amongst these Medicines If the Paroxysmes do continue or are protected there is to be given a spoonful or two of Rondeletius's Water of
the French King Written in French 13. Another Councel in the same Disease for the same Person Written in French by the renowned Dr. de Arduynes Physician of the Hospital of Charity at Paris called St. Iames Hospital 14. Another for the same Person Written in French 15. Advice against the Epilepsia or Falling-sickness For a Maid of Quality Written in French by a Physician whose name is not known The First COUNCEL In a Case of Consumption for a Noble Person Written in French My Lord I Give you thanks for your Charitable and Pious advice sent to me and taken out of the last Chapter of Ecclesiasticus It is very fit for me who am now growing into old Age the inconveniencies of which are already incumbent upon me The Inhabitants of this Kingdom being disturbed with Tumults and I at a distance from my Lordship of Aubonne In that place it would not have been difficult to have found a Sanctuary where I might have took a farewell of the World and there quietly have resign'd my Soul into the hands of my Saviour But perhaps it is otherways decreed by Gods over-ruling power to resist which were impious and wicked I know not if there yet remain such a happiness for me which the troublesomeness and incommodity of the journey proceeding from the distance of the place and length of the way forbids me to hope that I may yet enjoy your Company But if God do grant it it will be much to my satisfaction and content if otherways accept favourably of the friendly and kind propensity of my mind and my desires to be near and present with you I am ready by all sort of services to deserve your favour But being separated from you by a fatal necessity since I cannot assist you nearer hand for the honour you confer upon me in desiring my advice in the recovery of your health which I wish to God you may injoy better though this present intemperate Weather doth not savour it but rather puts a stop to the use and efficacy of Medicines yet for all that as improper as the Weather is accept of and follow the Councel I here send you the which I offer to you with an affectionate mind I do not doubt but that Mr. de Gras hath exactly and throughly examined your Constitution in general and the unequal distemperature of all your parts both Natural Vital and Animal and I do firmly allow of the conjectures constituted by so Learned a Man and one knowing in the Art but since I have been acquainted with you from your Cradle nay with your Ancestors before you the last fate of whom was throughly examin'd and look'd into by me I suppose this affair ought to be deeper inspected Your Illustrious Father of happy memory had the thread of his Life broken off before its due time by a continual Cough and an incessant defluction upon his Lungs But as to what concerns your self if I remember rightly you are like him in every thing both in your Mind and in your Body you had always weak Lungs you wax Lean of which I have been an eye witness and oftentimes also you did use to spit blood though in small quantities This I suppose That as those parts which are weak by Nature are subject to suffer by all sort of injuries so the Lungs are so above the rest both upon the account of their proper Texture which is rare and spangious as also by reason of their Scituation by which they easily receive the Morbiffick Causes as well from the superiour parts which lay over them as also those which to their great prejudice are transmitted to them from the inferiour parts I do not deny but that the Stomack performing of its Office ill the Mesentery filled with Obstructions and the Liver generating acrid and thin blood may from the depraved condition of the aliment they afford evilly affect the Brain and Lungs whose Excrements whether they are transmitted thither from other parts or Congested there are yet very Liquid as long as they remain in their state of Fluidity which is common for all dissolv'd Tartars but having gain'd a place and being lodged in the Pipes of the Lungs they Coagulate into a glutinous and mucilaginous substance producing that Asthmatick and Pâ—…isical disposition or difficulty of Breathing with which you are molested For this mischief viz. the Leanness and Corruption of the whole Body is occasion'd and doth proceed from these Excrements although there be no present Aposthumation Vomica or Ulcer yet do these Excrements threaten the same effects and no less mischievous That you may receive relief there is a necessity by a good Diet to amend the Vices of the antecedent Causes in their Fountains or Spring-heads reducing by degrees to a better state the deprav'd Faculties of the parts in which the First and Second Concoctions are perform'd Secondly to hinder the Flood and defluction from the Brain and that by strengthening drying and diverting to other parts that humour which otherways perpendicularly flows from thence upon the Lungs Thirdly repairing their Balsom retrieving them from put refaction by the sorce of Medicines indow'd with a Balsamick power And if in the course of doing this in the mean time the Anacatharsis or upward Evacuation happen to be difficult or stopt care must also be taken of that And at last there must be Analeptick means made use of to refresh and restore the parts which are tending to a decay and Consumption 1. That you may attain this end follow exactly the advice given you by your Physitians concerning Diet which if I should particularly describe this Councell would swell into a Volume 2. Upon the account of the Brain prepare Emissary passages for it besides such as it hath naturally of its own I do not disapprove of Issues in the Arms but they are no way comparable to those which are made in the Shoulders upon the Region of the Omoplats or Shoulder Blades at an equal distance from the Spine or Back-bone perhaps you will object your Leanness to which I answer That I have not spar'd those which have been extenuated and I find them to be more efficacious then those made in the Neck betwixt the first and second Vâ—…tebra's Wherefore omit not this remedy and in this case it is sufficient to put in and closely press down five or seven Pease applying a sticking Plaister upon them I approve of the Plaister pro suturis which is compos'd of moderately warming and gently adstringent things which doth powerfully strengthen and confirm the parts and helps to suspend the defluction The place of this may be supply'd by a Capp or Coife which I make of dryed Bettony Rosemary Red Roses and the Barkes of new Pistacho Nuts adding moreover yellow Amber and the Seeds of Roman Nigil with a few Cloves Keep your Head neither too hot nor too cold but nevertheless let it be so cover'd that the cold may not offend it I cannot forbear to press
upon you the advice of Celsus whose words are these Nothing is so profitable to the Head as cold water is Therefore he that hath this part infirm he will dâ—… well in the Summer time to hold his head for a good while together every day under a large spout of Water or to cause it to be Pumpeâ—… upon Let your Capp be covered on both side with whited brown Paper and quilted betwix with Tow or Flax it is convenient to sum with some Cephalick Powder in the composition of which there ought to be a largâ—… quantity of yellow Amber I know not iâ—… you ever have used to take Tobacco You may make a powder of Colts-foot the Bark of Pistacho Nuts Rosemary yellow Amber and a twelfth part of Tobacco To which if the Lungs abound with tough Phlegm and there be an Asthma you may add as a powerful help and wonderfully beneficial a little Orpiment for as Dâ—…sconides says it is very useful in these Diseases you cannot be ignorant how it is to be made use of to wit in a Pipe you may use it Morning and Evening passing the smoke through your Nostrils or only blowing it out at your mouth as you shall find it to be most effectual In favour of the Lungs it is particularly advantagious to drink thin Metheglin or Meade not too strong but well fermented or wrought composed with Agrimony Bettony both kinds of Veronica or Fluelling and both sorts of Lungwort Colts-soot and a large quantity of Iulubs This kind of drink if it be made right is not unpleasant to the Tast. Wine is hurtful for you but I doubt whether you can leave off the use of it but if you can abstain from it do A Syrup made with the flesh of Tortoises Snails the Lungs of Animals Froggs and Craw-fish all boyl'd in Scabiose and Colts-foot water adding at last Sugar Candy will prove very useful Lac Sulphuris is a precious Balsom which may be taken in a rere Egge with a few grains of Benzâ—…min and Sugar or it may be made into Tabellets with Sugar and the pulpe of Marsh Mallow Roots These sort of Medicines require to be used long nevertheless forbearing the use of them for some days least Nature being accustomed to them should at last neglect them though they are precious as she useth to do other things The unadulterated Balsom of Peru either black or white if you can procure it taken to the quantity of four or five drops at a time in Oxymell is highly conducive also the Ruby of Sulphur rightly prepar'd with the white Aetherial Oyle of Turpentine S. A. but as this Operation is artificial so the preparation of it should be committed to an expert Artist The before said suffumigation promotes Expectoration If the Phlegm be yet Tough take care to prepare an Oxymell with the Pectoral decoction well clarifi'd Sugarcandy and Honey made sharp with Oyl of Sulphur and this upon urgent necessity may be licked with a Liquorish stick bruised at the end As to what relates to restoration or nutrition persist in the use of Cock-broath made with China Roots and cleansed Barley besides the use of the beforomentioned Syrup of Tortoises but Asses Milk with Sugar of Roses is to be used both Winter and Summer and is very prevalent to this intention I also advise you to change the Aire for the scituation of your House is absolutely unwholsome for you The next Spring go to Delph and find out the House of your Noble Brother nay travel as far as Aurange Lunell Biterras and Mompelier staying in those places some Months or longer I have not time to say any more but this one thing if perchance any of your Relations come about you have a care that they do not contract the same Disease in their Lungs You ought to follow this my advice exactly in every particular which if you do undoubtedly it will prove beneficial to you for preservation God prevent an ill Omen Dated London 1645. The Second COUNCEL For an Illustrious Nobleman Son to the former inclin'd to a Consumption Written in French My Lord APologies are remote from the businesâ—… in hand and are needless for yoâ—… are not guilty of any injury to meâ—… My Friends and your self above the rest 〈◊〉 them ought to esteem me altogether of another mind from the custom of those witâ—… whom Complements and Ceremonies is usuaâ—… amongst their familiar acquaintants whicâ—… can hardly be practic'd by sincere minds 〈◊〉 at any time I admit any one into my intimatâ—… friendship and addict my self to serve hiâ—… which I have long since done to you and devoted my self to your whole Family 〈◊〉 never impeach them for being nice or omitting of officious occasions nor interpret any thing in the worst sense being secur'd of their constancy supposing business doth hinder my friends or that there is some other great occasion that is the cause of the intermitting of their writing to me but if my pains may be useful to them at any time I never deny it to them greedily laying hold of all opportunities to deserve well at their hands whensoever occasion doth offer it self chiefly where I may be assistant by my Art or Profession I have long been afraid lest this Disease which hath threatned you a great while should at last break out into act I was heretofore throughly acquainted with the Nature and Constitution of your Illustrious Father and Grandfather who are to be reverenc'd by me upon many accounts the depraved Constitution of whose Lungs I could not so well alter but that it hasten'd their fate Their infirmities are descended to you by way of Inheritance together with their great Endowments and Virtues If you have done any thing which hath hasten'd this misfortune to fall upon you it is unknown to me and it were necessary that you acquainted me with it for accurate instruction is necessary that you may receive the full advantage and fruit of my advice I particularly wish to be inform'd what kind of Tumour that was on your Breast and what those acrid Medicines were which your Physician writes you have made use of and whether they were Mercurial or no also the quality and quantity of the matter you excluded by Vomiting it were convenient to know whether it were purulent and stinking or not These things being well inquir'd into are of great moment towards the Cure of your Lungs which are the Basis and Original of your Griefs a Consumption is but a fingers breadth off from you and evil is threatned unless you seasonably use your utmost endeavours to extricate your self from the power of it with which to my sorrow I perceive you are already insnar'd I have often observed Aposthumes to break in the Lungs some of them with good success some of them with ill God preserve you from them Ulcers of the Lungs because the Lungs are in perpetual motion and are filled with large Vessels and constantly receiving humours both from the