laid eggs boiled hard of Mirth Tutty and the white Troches of Rasis of each a drachm Sarcocol Frankincence Aloes and Ceruse of each half a drachm pouder them that are to be powdered and mixe them all in a stone morter then put them into a smal glass body with a head and receiver and distil it in Balneo This Water is excellent against Ulcers in the eys These three Diseases I thought good to annex to the cure of the inflamation of the eyes having a dependency thereupon CHAP. XV. Of the Cancer and Rupture of the Cornea SOmetimes a Cancer groweth up and is perfected in the eye of which there is two sorts either occult or ulcerated The occult is called a Cancerous Tumor or Cancer of the Eye The ulcerated is called a cancerous ulcer in the eye It is known by a blew leaden colour and unequal hardness the veins adjoyning are very full and blew and the eye the temples and the whole head is afflicted with a strong and pricking pain If the Disease be fixed and perfect it is incurable except it be taken away by manual operation but if it be taken in the beginning it may be cured you must administer convenient Physick and adjoyn a sutable diet You must draw bloud on the same side if you finde occasion bleed the Hemorrhoid veins by Leeches and apply them behind the ears after the use of these or the like revulsions purge melancholy often and gently once or twice a week if the body be strong enough purge with the extract of black Hellebore These remedies will much diminish the humours and decrease the pain after which you must use Topicks such as have prepared Tutty and the white Troches in them for which have recourse to the preceding Chapter The flesh of young Pigeons or Chickens applyed to the Cancer hath been found very available The Rupture of the Cornea is when the Tunicle is so divided that the watry humour and sometimes the Uvea cometh forth The cause of both is a Wound Ulcer or a great afflux of humours by which the Cornea is so distended that it cracks and the humours contained are let out and sometimes the Uv a shooteth out Paulus divideth this Disease into four kinds the first cometh forth like the head of a Fly and therefore he calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The second is when a greater part cometh forth and is like the stone of a Raisin and is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third is when the Eruption is so great that it seemeth like an Apple and is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The fourth is when the Uvea being come forth is hard and is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cure is very difficult alwayes but for the most part it is incurable After bleeding if need be and purging the peccant humours you must use astringent and glutinating medicines as the white Troches and the white of an Egg dropt into the Eye then make a Cataplasme to the part thus Take the root of Solomons Seal four ounces Quinces pared and fliced two ounces Red-rose leaves a handful Acatia a drachm Saffron two scruples boil these in red wine and Plantane water of each a like quantity as much as is sufficient to make a Cataplasme Afterwards to make a perfect consolidation take an ounce of the Mucilage of Gum Traganth made in Plantain water the clarified juyce of Plantain and of the root of Solomons Seal of each one spoonful of the white of an egg beaten to clean water and a womans breast-milk of both a spoonful washed Aloes prepared Tutty and Sarcocol of each two scruples Saffron one scruple pouder what is to be poudered and mix them for a Collyric CHAP. XVI Of the Diseases of the corners of the Eyes and Eye-lids SOmetimes there happeneth a Tumor in the corner of the Eye at the root of the nose if it do not break it is called Anchylops if it do break it is called Aegylops Sometimes this Tumor cometh without inflamation and is bred of a thick flegmatick slimy humour as the Tumors called Atheromata Steatomata c. of which you shall have a brief account in the next book When it cometh with inflamation it is like a Bile with shooting pain and very red and it cometh by thin and cholerick bloud flowing thither and then imposthumateth which being open produceth an Ulcer then it becomes hollow and is called Fistula Lachrymalis The Cure is very difficult because it is ill applying medicines the eye being so near If it hath not been of long continuance and the Orifice to be seen externally it may be cured by medicines But if it hath continued a year the Bone is foul and hard to be cured without burning If it turns to a Cancer it is incurable because medicines will enlarge it and increase pain and is known by the hardness and blewness of the skin the extension of the veins and extremity of the pain You must open a vein if nothing hinder and revel the humours by purging which you may do by these following Pills viz. Cochiae Arabicae Aureae and Lucis Majoris then you must endeavour to stop the progress by repelling medicines take the juyce of Night shade Shepheards purse and Knotgrasse of each two ounces Acacia the flowers of Balaustines Bolearmeniack Gauls Frankincense and Roch-allum of each a drachm boil them well together then with four ounces of white Wax and four drachms of Turpentine make a Cerate to be applyed to the fore-head Afterwards endeavour to resolve the humours Amatus Lucitanus commends this following Cerate Take of the Powder of Cockle-shels two drams Mirrh Aloes and Frankinsence of each half an ounce Sarcocol Sanguis Draconis and Ceruse of each three drachms Opopanax dissolved in Wine Vinegar and Bloud-stone of each one drachm and an half Saffron two scruples Wax and Rozen of each three ounces make a Cerate according to art and apply it to the corner of the Eye and Forehead If after all this it will come to Suppuration make use of such things as will hasten it least the humours corrode the part apply a Plaister of Diachilon Simplex If an inflamation approach apply a Cataplasme made with white bread and milk If it break not suddenly open it with a Launcet cleanse the Ulcer and heal it But if it prove a Fistula you must be the more careful first to cleanse it thus Take of Aqua vitae and Honey of Roses of each one ounce Mirrh two ounces with Allum and Verdegreece of each a drachm boil them together and make a Liniment Unguentum Aegyptiacum and Apostolorum is of great virtue in this case If the bone be foul it must be cured by an actual Cautery yet Fabricius Hildanus saith he cured a Lachrimal Fistula with medicines he applyed Euphorbium and upon the same an Emplaister of Gum-Elemi and this he did till he skaled the bone afterwards with the Tolutan Balsome a drop upon a little lint he incarnated and
Humours oppressing the Stomach and afterwards strengthen it You must evacuate the Humours eitherby Vomit or Stool give no Vomits but to those who are easy to vomit Of Purges Pills are most profitable because of their long continuance in the Stomach the last Booke will furnish you with purging Medicines If the Humours in the Stomach be tough you must dissolve them with Hony of Roses Oxymel and the like Beware how you administer Pills which are strong in operation lest they draw Humours from other parts to the Stomach If the Liver be very hot you may be let Blood otherwise not and in this case you must administer such things as cool the Liver After sufficient Purging you must come to strengthen the Stomach internally and externally Take of the Sirrup of Wormwood and Quinces of each two Ounces the Sirrup of Citron Peels one Ounce Cinnamon water four Ounces the Spirit of Sulphur ten Drops mix them and let the Patient take a Spoonfull or two Morning Noon and Night or oftner as necessity requireth Quercetanus his Sirrup of Cinnamon is very good See the last Book If the Disease be of long continuance let the Patient make use of the Guajacum Drink prescribed in the Second Chapter of this Book the bath of Bath is profitable in this Case But if a hot Liver attend a cold Stomach as it often doth your Medicines ought to be the more temperate Zechius commendeth this Bolus Take of washed Turpentine two Drachms Powder of Mastich half a Drachm Aromaticum Rosarum half a Scruple make a Bolus and let the Sick take it two hours before Meat Candied Nutmegs and Ginger is good and it is convenient for the Patient to drink his Beer warm This Liniment is good Take of the Balsom of Peru three Ounces the Oyles of Nutmegs Wormwood and Mastich of each one Ounce mix them and anoint the Stomach Also with these and other ingredients which have a heating and expectorating Quality you may make Unguents and Plaisters to be applyed to the Stomach CHAP. XXXV Of a depraved Appetite The Appetite is depraved two wayes Either in Quantity or Quality If it be depraved in Quantity Nourishment is desired in greater quantity then Nature would it is called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latines Fames Canina whence we call it Dogg's Appetite It is depraved in Quality when things which are not Food but vitious and unwholsome are desired This is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 First those that are troubled with the Dogg's Appetite do feed insatiably and afterwards some do vomit like Dogg's some do purge and others do digest it and if they have not more presently are sick The part affected is chiefly the mouth of the Stomach The Cause containing is Sense of sucking and vehement pulling which stirrs up the Appetite Vicious Humours sticking to the mouth of the Stomach by their too much Coldness Sharpness or Sowrness do bind wrinkle and pull the mouth of the Stomach and so beget a false Appetite Melancholy sent from the Spleen to the Stomach if it exceed and be praeternaturall causeth an unnatur all Appetite It may be caused by want of Food and Emptiness caused by too great Evacuations by which the Veins do continually suck Somtimes it cometh from Wormes in the Stomach which devour the Chilus The Hermetick Physitians do attribute it to a sharp salt and devouring Spirit or Faculty in the Stomach which doth readily consume what ever Meat is taken as Aqua Fortis doth quickly dissolve the fixedst Mettals the hardest Stones into Liquor and by this meanes doth not allow Nature a lawful and necessary bound of Nourishment The Disease it self needs no other Signe then the devouring of Meat The signes of the Causes may be easily found they which manifest a cold Distemper and sharp Humours in the Stomach are belching and sharp vomiting crude Ejections want of Thirst and external Causes of Refrigeration If defect of Nourishment is the Cause the Patient is Lean and there are Causes present or a foregoing of the decay of Moisture If Wormes be the Cause in the Chapter of the Wormes their signes shall be spoken of Prog If this Disease come from external Causes or from Wormes it is not dangerous Judge the contrary if it follow Emptinesse and great Evacuations or if the Patient doth vomit or purge much for then the Body for the most part falleth into a worse Disease To cure this Disease you must purge by Vomit or Stools taking the Caution in the last Chapter the Phlegmatick and Melancholy Humours sticking to the Stomach Then you must labour to strengthen the Stomach with internal and external Medicines prescribed in the former Chapter Six graines of Ambergrease taken in a reere Egg hath a special Quality to strengthen the Stomach and cure the Disease Narcotick Medicines by dulling the exquisite Sense do sometimes cure the Disease but must not be used till all other meanes fail and then advised by an able Brain Hippocrates saith that Wine and Aqua vitae is good and experience teacheth that Oyl and Fat things are seldom given without Successe Pica and Malacia is a depraved Appetite by which unprofitable and hurtfull things are desired It is caused by the eating of evil Meats by which the Stomach is disposed for the production of Melancholy and Phlegmatick Humours hence divers Apperites of evill things are engendred Some desire things that are sowr sharp bitter and cold as Vinegar Juyce of Lemmons and Orenges cold Water Snow Ice unripe Fruits and the like Some do desire earthly dry and burnt things as Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon and other Spices Salt Ashes Coles Chalk Tobacco-Pipes Lime Oat-meal Tar Candles and such like This Disease happeneth for the most part to Women with Child or to Maids which have the Green-sicknesse who having their Termes stopped and staying corrupteth the Body and ascending infecteth the Stomach and taketh the Appetite from its Natural Condition Sometimes though seldom Men and Boyes are thus troubled Fernelius speaks of a Noble man who having an extraordinary Appetite to Lime did devour a piece as big as his fist without offending his Stomach or Bowels The Cause of this Disease may be found out by the things desired For if they desire Coles Salt or the like we may conclude that the Disease depends upon salt and burnt Humours This Disease is Chronical and of Continuance but is seldom dangerous yet somtimes if the Stomach cannot be reduced to its former Condition Obstructions Evill habits Dropsies and Cardialgiaes are produced The more contrary to Nature the things desired are the farther distant is the Stomach from the Natural Temper If you aim at the Cure it differeth not from the former but you must consider the variety of the Bodyes affected If this Disease happen to a Man it hath its original from the Obstruction of the Liver and Spleen and you must seek
Patient be weak and indisposed to Vomits give often Clisters or purge the Body with this or the like Pills Take de Aloe lota three Drachms yellow Myrabolans and Rubarb in Powder of each half a Drachm red Sanders and prepared Coral of each one Scruple with the Sirrup of Roses solutive make them into a Mass give a Drachm every other or third day and if the Sick be weak give but half so much If the Vomiting be violent give two Scruples and an half of Cochie the lesse with three grains of Laudanum in the morning Then you must strengthen the Stomach with the sirrup or conserve of Quinces conserve of Roses Mastick in a small quantity sirrup of Mints Plantane water made sowr with Oyl of Vitriol c. All these strengthen the Stomach and stay Vomiting of which you may make Medicines in divers forms Foment the Stomach with a sponge dipt in Plantane water Rose water and Rose Vinegar But First boil in the water a handful of Mints Or apply this following Cataplasm Take of Marmalade of Quinces or Quinces boiled soft in Rose water or Vinegar four Ounces the roots of Bâ—stort and Tormentill of each two Drachms Mastick Moce and Nutmegs of each two Scruples Sowr Leaven halfe a pound with the juice of Mints and Vinegar make a Cataplasm and apply it If your Patient vomit Blood the Causes and Sâ—gnes you may find in the 19 and 30 Chap. and the Medicines prescribed in the 30 Chap. Of Spitting of Blood ordered by an able Head-peece may perform the Cure CHAP. XL. Of Cholera 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek and Cholerica Passio in Latine is a Disease violently sending forth by Vomit Stool sharp and cholerick Humours this Disease is a symptom of the expulsive Faculty being hurt by Meats not well concocted and if the retentive Faculty be also in fault the Disease is the worse and more violent Some will have two sorts of Choller a moist and a dry A moist is that which hath relation to what hath been said The dry is more rare and cometh from a windy spirit produced in the Stomach by the fiery Heat of the Part corrupting the Meat or by Meats which are Rank and Windy and this is the opinion of Hippocrates himself Sennertus from the Hermetical doctrine addeth another Cause viz. Salt and adust Humours in the Hypochonaria which grow hot by the mixture of another Humour and demonstrateth it by the mixing of Aqua fortis and Oyl of Vitriol with Salt of Tartar which produce very flatuous Spirits So that the immediate Causes of this Disease are cholerick burnt sharp salt or rotten Humours in the Stomach Bowels Spleen Mesentery or some Nourishment of an evil Quality or some strong Medicine or Poyson taken The signes of this Disease are often and plentiful Evacuations of cholerick sharp and corrupted Humours by Vomit and Stool swelling with Wind Thirst and a Gnawing of the Stomach and Guts a Loathing which is appeased a little with cold Drink which is soon after cast up The Pulse is small and unequal Sweating with Convulsion of extream Parts Swooning and such dangerous Symptoms It is easily discovered whether the Cause come by some violent Medicine Poyson or offensive Diet. The internal Causes are known by the Quality of the Humours that are ejected If there be a continual Loathing and Gnawing the Disease is in the Stomach If a malignant Feaver be joyned it is in the Veins If it hath its original from some evil Food there is hopes that when the Matter is cast forth the Disease will end If it be very violent it is dangerous I had almost said desperate for the greater the Convulsions Swoonings and Coldnesse of the extream Parts be the nearer is Death at hand In the beginning of the Cure you may help forward Evacuations with gentle cooling and cleansing Clisters thus Take of Milk half a pint Sirrup of Violets and Lettice of each one ounce The Oyles of Roses and water Lillyes of each halfe an ounce The yelks of two new laid Eggs well beaten mix them and give it Or you make a Clister with Chicken Broth or Oxycrate It is good to open a Vein by which means the burnt and boiling Blood may be cooled revelled and asswaged but do it with discretion twice or thrice if the strength be not impaired by the first You must endeavour to qualify the sharpness of the Humours thus Take of the waters of Plantane Purslan and Mint of each two Ounces Sirrup of Quinces and dried Roses of each one Ounce Sirrup of Vinegar half an Ounce mix them and dissolve therein two Scruples of Theriack Andromachi and six drops of the Oyl of Vitriol give now and then a Spoonful But if the Patient hath someease and the Symptomes abate or appear not beware lest they suddenly return and destroy the Patient as it sometimes happeneth in this case Therefore nourish him and strengthen his Stomach with this restoring Opiate Take of the Gelly of Harts-horn made with Canary Wine four Ounces of the Conserves of Roses Burrage Bugloss and Clove-Gilliflowers of each one Ounce Confectio Alchermes half an Ounce Citron Barks and Nutmegs candied of each three Drachms the Essence of Cloves Mace Nutmegs and Cinnamon of each three drops with the Sirrup of Clove-Gilliflowers make an Opiate of which let the Patient take often the Quantity of a hazel Nut and more Mornings and Evenings To conclude the Medicines prescribed in the last Chapter against cholerick Vomitings may be useful here CHAP. XLI Of Pain in the Stomach Dolor Ventriculi or Pain in the Stomach is caused by naughty venemous and gnawing Humours contained therein the Ancients made this distinction viz. that if the upper Orifice of the Stomach which is of exquisite sense by reason of the great Nerve which it hath from the fifth Conjugation be affected the Pain is very sharp which maketh the Heart the most Noble part and near unto it sensible of the same from thence it is called Cardialgia But if the Membranes of the Cavity or lower Orifice called Pyloras be affected it is called Dolor Ventriculi or Colica Ventriculi especially if it comes of Wind. The Cause of this Disease is either Worms gnawing the Tunicles of the Stomach or Wind lodged in the Cavity of the Stomach which causeth Swelling and painful Distension or sharp and malignant Humours therein contained as salt Phlegm green and black Choller whose sharp Vapours cause Pain corrupt Matter from an Imposthume of the Liver or the Breast Diseases of the Stomach and the Parts adjoyning evil Humours from the whole Body in Feavers Choller from the Liver Melancholy from the Spleen and salt Phlegm from the Head all these may be the Causes of this Evill The external Causes may be evil and corrupt Nourishment or Meats that are too hot that breed Wind or Choller Meat taken in too great a Quantity Poyson strong sharp and deadly Medicines not well corrected Diagnostick Signes are thus taken
and speak comfortably to him Let no unseemly action nor uncivil word proceed from him Let him not forsake his Patient for any cause whatsoever Let him consult with God in the beginning of all his cures and heartily give God thanks for the performance of them Let him love godliness and honesty and be an unblameable servant to God and Nature These are the principal and chief Characters by which every diseased man may make choice of his Physician of whom I shall say with the learned Fernelius Medicus remedia confert non solum ut naturae minister fed interdum ut adjutor interdum etiam ut opifex primarius A Physician doth cure not only as Natures servant but sometimes us her helper yea sometimes as the chief workman I shall not build my discourse Theorically but Practically and having in the former Book briefly desctibed the principal parts of man and the humane faculties and virtues thereon depending I shall in this Book declare the Causes Symptoms and Cures of Diseases in those parts which hinder them in the exercise of those humane faculties I shall treat of each disease simply and distinctly and leave this Aphorism to the consideration of the ingenious Simplex affectus simplici remedio compositus composito propellendus A simple Disease is removed by a simple remedy a compound Disease is expelled by compound Medicines CHAP. II. Of Diseases of the Head MAny Diseases are incident to the Head of Man I shall treat of them in order according to the places which they possesse which I shall devide into three parts First the Membranes Secondly the substance of the Brain Thirdly the Nerves which nourish the Brain The Membranes is the first pannicle within the Skull called Dura Mater or without the Skull called Pericranium which are subject to these Diseases viz. the Head-ach the inveterate Head-ach and the Megrim In the substance of the Brain which is the seat and instrument of the intellectual faculties of the Soul viz. imaginations judgment and memory are defects also viz. the depravation of those faculties as a Frensie Melancholy and Madnesse Sleepy Disease Lethargy The Ventricles of the brain are subject to many distempers as Vertigo Falling sicknesse the night Mare the Apoplexy Palsy Convulsion trembling and quaking and Catarrhs Of inveterate Head-ach â—…d the Megrim The inveterate Head-ach is called in Greek and Latine Cephalaea it is a disease of long continuance very painful and upon every light occasion invadeth the Patient with sharp fits that he cannot indure noise nor light but desireth to lye still in the dark sometime this Disease is with continuance and sometimes with intermission The Cause This Disease is caused through blood or other humors abounding or by sharp humors or vapours within or without the Scull inflaming the Head sometimes weaknesse of the Head is the Cause The Sign If fulnesse of humors be the cause of the Disease then is the Head very heavy and lumpish if the humors be sharp the pain is felt with pricking shooting if there be inflammation the Head worketh like the Pulses if wind be the peccant cause there is found distention or stretching out without heaviness or beating if two or more of these Symptomes appear together judge accordingly Note that if the pain be felt superficially or outwardly than is the perieranium grieved If it be felt within which is known by the pain at the roots of the Eys then is the grief within the Dura Mater Hemicrania or the Megrim differeth not from Cephalaea saving if in the Megrim one half of the Head is afflicted whereas in the other the whole Head by the aforegoing Symptoms you may discover the humour offending The Cure As there are diversity of Causes so there is of Cures If the Disease be ingendred of plenitude of humors and the whole boy appâ—…â—…ll it is not amiss to begin the cure with the evacuâ—… of the whole body and if age strength and the season consent open the Gephalick or head Vein If flegmatick and viscuous humors be the Cause it is good to extenuate and make thin the humors thus Take of Oximel scilliticum and syrup of Staechas of each half an ounce distilled water of Marjerom Betony and Parsley an ounce mix these and make a potion for the morning Or else make a decoction in this manner Take Mint Calamint Marjerom Betony Sage of each half a handful the seeds of sweet Fennel Annis and Parstey of each half an ounce the roots of Asparagus Fennel and Parsley of each two ounces Peony root half an ounce shread the hearbs bruise the seeds slice the roots and take out the pith and boil it in a quart of water till half be consumed strein it and add of syrup of Betony compound one ounce and Oximel simplex as much and make a potion for three times take it at night two hours after a light supper the Body thus prepared you may come to purge and evacuate the peccant humours Take half a dram of Pill Cochiae the greater in the morning and keep the Chamber they which are most commendable are pills of Hiera with Agarick Take half a drachm at night two hours after a light supper take some warm broth in the morning and keep the house thus do for a week or longer in like manner you may use Pill Alephanginae and order your body as before and remember that grosse and clammy-humours will not follow a sudden purgation and therefore often purging is used that so they may be drawn out by little and little Also clisters are necessary because they cleanse the bowels and pull back those humours and vapours which ascend and annoy the head Take of Mallows Pellitorie of the Wall Endive Succorie Violet-leaves Cammomell-flowers of each one handfull sweet Fennellseed halfe an ounce Linseed Two drachmes boile them in a quart of Spring water or rather cleare posset-drink till halfe be consumed streine it out and to the decoction adde of the pulpe of Cassia Fistula one ounce Oile of Rue halfe an ounce Benedictae Laxativae half an ounce The Body being purged by discretion it is not amisse for the patient to make use of some diet drink that hath power to warme the braine to exsiccate and concoct crude humours to attenuate the grosse cut that which is tough and expell the thinnest either by Urine or insenfible transpiration You may make it thus Take of Guajacum Sassufras the Root of Salsaperilla of each two ounces English Liquoris and Cinamon of each one ounce Coriander-seed halfe an ounce infuse them 24 houres in 4 quarts of Spring-water the vessell standing in hot embers and close covered afterwards boile it gently to the consumption of halfe sweeten it with honey whilst it is hot let the Patient drink halfe a pint in the morning and dispose himself for sweat and if he drink it for his ordinary drink 15 or 20 dayes more or lesse as necessity requireth it is the better If the Patient become costive
by the use of this diet drink let him take a Clyster as often as need requireth and once in seaven dayes let him take some purging medicine that day omitting the diet drink This bole taken in the morning two houres before meat is exceeding good to strengthen the head after due evacuation of the peccant humours viz Conserve of Roses and of Rosemary-flowers of each two scruples of Venice Treacle the weight of both with a little fine Sugar make bole and administer it as before Likewise may Gargarisms be made and used in manner following Take the root of Masterwort a drachme Long-Pepper and Nutmegs halfe a dram Mustard-seed one scruple beat them to powder and put them in a linnen cloth and chew it halfe an hour which will purge the head of grosse and phlegmatique humours Somtimes it is convenient to use Sneezing-Powders and you may make them in this sort Take the Leaves of Marjarom Rosemary and Betony dryed two scruples white Hellebore Cloves Nutmegs Cubeba of each halfe a scruple beat them into fine powder and by the help of a quill provoke sneezing Also a quilt to corroborate and strengthen the Brain may be thus made Take of Wood-Betony dryed one ounce the flowers of Rosemary and Stachas a Drachm Red-rose-leaves two drachms Frankinsence Mastick Benzoin Mace and Cloves of each halfe a Drachme beat them to powder and quilt it in Silk or Linnen and apply it warme I might here reach you to make Plaisters to corroborate the braine to attract or resolve the humours but I forbeare here for brevityes-sake and referr you to its proper place where I shall treat of the making of Plaisters and their uses If the distemper hath its originall from Cholerick humours let him use meats and drinks that are naturally cold and moist it is convenient that the humours be prepared quenched and concocted for which purpose you may use this medicine following Sirrup of Violets one ounce of Water-Lillies halfe an ounce distilled waters of Endive Succory and Lettuce of each one ounce mix them and drink it in the morning fasting the humours thus concocted and made mild and obedient unto nature may the better be removed by purging medicines To which purpose take fine Rubarb two drachms Spickuard one scruple cut small and infused in the distilled water of Endive Succory and buglosse of each one ounce for the space of twelve houres dissolve therein a drachme of the electuary of the juyce of Roses and make a purging potion Pills of Reubarbs and Alephangina may be safely used in this case the dose is a scruple or halfe a drachme taken at night going to bed Pill aureae or golden Pills taken halfe a drachm in the morning purgeth cholerick and other offensive humours from the head Clysters in this case profiteth much Take of the decoction for a Clyster before described adde one ounce of Cassia fistula Hiera picra halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce Salt halfe a drachme mix them and make a Clyster After purging of the Cholerick humour it is convenient to coole and strengthen the head by outward medicines oyle of Roses and oyle of Cammomell mixed with a little white-Wine-Vinegar is good to anoint the head but if there need greater cooling you may adde to the oyles juyce of Housleek Purslane Nightshade or Sorrell If the sick cannot sleep anoint the forehead with oyle of Water Lillies and Poppy If the symptomes declare wind to be the cause let the Patient eschue all meats that do breed windinesse empty the belly with Clysters that are made of such things as do naturally dissolve windinesse viz. The seeds of Annise Sweet Fennell Carraway and Comin of each one ounce boile them in a quart of posset-drink till halfe be wasted streine it and adde to the liquor Catholicon and diaphaenicon of each halfe an ounce This Clister doth not only purge the intestines and those parts about the Liver but also pulleth back those vapours which ascend to the Head To the outside of the Head may be applyed repulsive medicines as Vinegar Wormwood Melilot Mints Pomegranate-rinds Shephards Pouch Purslane Lawrell Nutmeggs c After a moderate use of these adde medicines that have power to mitigate concoct and digest as Camomell Linseed Fenugreek Saffron yelks of Eggs Hens and Goose-grease Lastly apply medicines that have power to discusse viz meale of Lupines and Barley Lilly-roots Nigella oyles of Dill and Rew. CHAP. III. Of the Frensie THe Frensie is an inflammation of the braine and membranes thereof caused by the abundance of blood or choler occupying those parts it differeth from madnesse in this that a fever is joyned to the Frensie Some that are thus grieved do erre much in imagination others are acute in imagination but want judgment to regulate their cogitations and some are deprived of memory Symptoms and Signes They who are thus greived are in a continuall Fever are mad and cannot sleep Somtimes they sleep and are much troubled therein They often rub their eyes which are red and somtimes dry somtimes afflicted with a hot rhume The tongue is rough sometimes they bleed at Nose they snatch and catch at the bed-clothes their Pulse is weak and hard like the motion of a sinew they breathe seldome If choler be the cause of the I hrensie they rage very furiously and can scarcely be ruled if blood be the cause they somtimes laugh and rejoyce This disease according to the opinion of the wisest Physitians for the most part is deadly and incurable The Cure For the cure of this distemper the blood or cholet afflicting the braine must be discussed pulled back repelled and evacuated so that the distemper of the head be removed the strength of the head and of the whole body be preserved It is convenient as soon as the disease is discovered to open a Veine having first administred a Clyster thus made Take of the Leaves of Violets Mallows Endive Beets and Lettuce of each one handfull of the root of Marsh-Mallows an ounce of the flowers of water-Lillies and the tops of Dill of each halfe a handfull let them be boiled in a sufficient quantity of Barley-water then streined out to a pint of this decoction dissolve Cassia newly drawne Sirrup of Violets Diaprunum Lenitive of each halfe an ounce browne Sugar one ounce and make a Clyster You must soone after the Patient hath had a stoole open the Cephalick or Head-Veine but if blood do abound open the Basilick or Liver-veine or the middle Veine first and after a while breathe the cephalick Vein If you find that suppression of Menstrues or the hemorrhoid hath been the cause of the distemper you may first open the Veine under the Ancle called Saphaena and afterwards open the Cephalick Veine If the age and strength of the Patient forbid not you must bleed him often in the Cephalick Vein if the body be weak open the Veine under the Ancle be sure not to draw too much blood at once least the sick faint
If you feare blood-letting by reason of age want of streangth or a bad season use cupping with scarification behind the neck upon the back bone It is good also to use Frictions and Ligatures upon the legs and to draw blisters upon the Armes and Shoulders After Phlebotomy you must apply medicines that do coole the Braine and repell and hinder the humours from ascending to the head as Oyle of Roses two ounces Rose Vinegar one ounce the water of Plantane and Lettuce of each two ounces with the whites of two Eggs mingle them together and apply it to the forehead with a double cloath If that prove not essicacious take oyle of Mandrakes Roses Violets and water Lillyes of each two drachms the juice of Lettuce and Puâ—slane of each halfe an ounce the whites of two eggs mingle and apply it But here let me advise people to be very wary and carefull in the applying of these medicines by no mâ—anes apply cooling medicines in the extremity of the fit nor refrigerate and stupsie the Braine too sodainly lest by overmuch cooling you turn the Frensie into a Lethargy and make your Patient sleep his last Likewise consider from the Symptomes of the disease to what part of the head to apply your medicine having consideration to the age of your patient and season of the yeare your Wit will informe you whether you are best to apply it warm or cold If you find the inflammation extend it selfe to the skin and exterior parts use no repelling medicines for feare you drive the distemper to the Braine It is convenient likewise to refrigerate the interior parts thus take of the syrups of Violet erratick Poppys and Pomegranates of each four drachms the distilled waters of Plant Lettuce Poppy and Purslane of each two ounces mix them and make a julep for three doses This electuary is good in this case Conserve of Roses and Violets of each one ounce the conserve of Clove-Gilliflowers and water Lillys of each halfe an ounce Diamargatiton frigidum halfe a drachme with Syrup of Violets make it into an electuary give the sick the quantity of a Nutmeg once in an houre two or three as necessity shall require Having thus prepared the humours you may evacuate them by purgations but it is convenient to use the most gentle purgers you may safely administer an ounce of Catholicon in the evening drink somwhat warme in the morning it is a fine cooling and gentle purge Or you may make a decoction of some cooling hearbs and in halfe a pint of the liquor warme infuse therein a drachme of Rubarb 12. hours dissolve therein halfe an ounce of Catholicon and two drachms of syrup of Roses and make a potion Let his drink be Barly water and mingle with it the syrup of Pomegranats Lemons or Barberies By this you may know how to cure not onely Frensies but all ravings and watchings which are ingendred by Feavers CHAP. IV. Of Madnesse THe Latines call this disease Insania and Furor and the Greeks Mania we call it Madnesse In this distemper the body is much out of order and the Spirits much disquieted It cometh without a Feavour and therein it differeth from the Frensie This disease is caused somtimes of the abundance of blood flowing up to the Braine Somtimes of hot and cholerick humours or of a hot distemper of the Braine The Symptomes of Madnesse are weaknesse of the Head tickling of the Eares and shinings before their eyes watchings strange thoughts and ravenous appetite If it proceed from the abundance of blood there followeth continuall laughing objects of laughter evermore appearing before the eyes When it proceedeth from both blood and choler it causeth a dashing and fervent motion in the braine which maketh the sick irefull full of motion and bold But if the choler wax grosse the sick is more mad and harder to cure There is another sort of Madness caused by melancholy occupying the mind and changing the temperature of it Somtimes the blood is generally corrupted by melancholy and the brain hurt thereby Somtimes melanchollyblood ascendeth to the braine when the blood is not generally corrupted Somtimes inflammations obstructions and evill effects of the Stomach and Spleen may be the cause thereof There are many Signes of this distemper they which are most common are these fearfullnesse sadnesse hatred and very strange imaginations Some have fancyed themselves beasts and have counterfeited the voice of Beasts others earthen-pots and have fled from company for feare of being broken Somtimes they desire death and to make away themselves Somtimes they much dread death Some think themselves inspired with the holy Spirit and do Prophesie others fancy themselves great Philosophers If the blood be generally corrupted the body is leane pale and rough and generally melancholly They whose distemper arise from defects of the stomach or Spleen have burnings grevious inflammations and plucking of the sides are subject to be costive troubled with wind fuming to the head causing lightnesse and troublesome dreames For the cure If blood abound after the administring of a Clyster you must come to blood-letting You may open the Cephalick if that appeare not the middle veine draw as much blood as the strength of the Patient will beare you may as you find occasion open the veine in the forehead if it appeare if the sick be a woman open the veine under the Ancle you may also bleed the Hemorrhoid-veines I beseech you not only here but in all other distempers to be very carefull and sparing of your Patients blood draw not too much at a time lest you weaken nature too much in this case it is best often to bleed and in the mean time keep the body soluble either by Clysters made as the former Chapter will direct you or other convenient purges viz Take black Hellebore sliced small one ounce infuse it three days in a quarter of a pint of raine-water then boile it gently to the consumption of the third part keeping it close covered streine it out and add to the liquor two ounces of clarified honey let the sick drink halfe an ounce in the morning in a little broath or posset-drink for severall dayes together increase or decrease the dose according to the strength or debility of your patient Or take of the extract of black Hellebore halfe a scruple Syrrup of Violets one ounce mix it for one dose If the body require a stronger purgation Take of Diagridium and Lapis Lazuli of each halfe a drachme Turbith one drachm Sena halfe an ounce Epithymum Cremo-tartar of each two drachms Of Cinamon and Citron pills of each one scruple Safron halfe a scruple Let them be finely pulverized the dose is a drachme or four Scruples administred in broath or some other convenient Liquor These are convenient medicines which purge both choler and melancholly You may purge with confectio Hamech Diasenae Pillulae Indae Pill Lapid Lazuli the dose must be regulated according to your patients condition strength and
thing turneth round and suddainly his sight faileth him all things appear misty and dark This disease is caused through inordinate moving of windy vapours and Spirits contained in the Brain or in the Mouth of the Stomach offending the Brain The Sign Those that are thus troubled a darknesse and mist appears before their eys upon every light occasion especially if they turn about It astonisheth him to see a man a wheele or any thing turn round When it is accompanied with sound and noise in the ears and vehement pain in the Head with much heavinesse the deprivation or debility of any of the senses these are infallible testimonies that the cause of the distemper lyeth in the Brain then is the fit worst when the head is heat by the Sâ—n or any other means If gnawing of the stomach or a disposition to vomit precede the fit then the disease proceedeth from the mouth of the Stomach This Disease is oftentimes a Prodormus or forerunner of the Epilepsie or Falling-sicknesse and sometimes of the Apoplexie The Epilepsy is a Writhing Cramp and Convulsion of all the parts of the Body it attacheth and much hurteth the sense and mind Sometimes it is caused through grosse and clammy flegm or choler stopping the passage of the Ventricles of the Brain and sometimes from the mouth of the Stomack as in the Vertigo There goeth before this Disease an evil state of the body and mind sadnesse forgetfulnesse troublesome dreams ach of the Head and continual fullnesse of the same palenesse of the Face and inordinate moving of the Tongue The Sign They who are afflicted with this Disease fall down are plucked up together they tremble and turn about snort cry out beat themselves and foam at the Mouth The Cure It is good for those that are thus afflicted to eschue all meats of a hard digesture and such as afford a crude nourishment or breed fumosities observe the same in all Diseases of the Head In the beginning of the cure make the body soluble by Clysters if need be If plentitude appear and the sick be of a sanguine complexion begin the cure with blood letting otherwise observe the same order before prescribed in the Cephalaea or Headach proceeding of grosse and phlegmatick humours this remembring to adde to the Medicines there described the roots and seeds of Peony and Misleto of the Oake which have a notable faculty in the cure of the Falling-sicknesse as experience teacheth Make use of the sudorifick drink there described thirty or fourty days adding to every dose three or four drops of Vitriol You must purge the sick with Pillulae Cochiae Pillulae cum Agarico or such as purge flegm but remember to regulate your purges according to the strength of the sick and to prepare the body with Medicines which do attenuate and cut grosse and thick humours as be the syrups of Wormwood Hysop Stechas or Oximel scilliticum or with the decoction of Hysop the roots of Peony or such like Stibium is of great force and doth mightily purge the superfluous humours of the Head you must use it thus take 12 grains and make it into fine powder put it into four ounces of Wine and there let it remain 24 hours shaking it every three or four hours then powre off the Wine leaving the powder and drink it with a little Sugar let none use this Medicine but such as have strong Bodies and be first well advised by a skilful Physitian The syrup of Tobacco mentioned by Quercetanus in his Pharmacopaeia is of great force and virtue against this disease but before you make use thereof be well advised as I said before After the Body hath been diligently and carefully purged it is meet you make use of this or such like Medicines viz. Take of the flowers of Betony Rosemary Peony and Buglosse of each one ounce the root of Eringo and the rind of Citrons preserved of each two drachms powder of Sassafras one ounce of the seed of Peony and Misleto of the Oake gathered the Moon decreasing Elks claws of each half a drachm of the Scull of a man not buryed calcined half a drachm of Coral Pearls and Harts-horn prepared of each four scruples of Bezoar one scruple Diamosh dulcis four scruples Theriaca Andromachi and Confectio de Hyacintho of each one drachm Oyl of Vitriol 20 drops with as much Syrup Citron Pills and Oximel as is sufficient to make a liquid Electuary or Opiar of which take three or four times in a day the quantity of a Filberd Emplastrum Epispaslicum and such as have power to draw blisters and Causticks may with good successe be applyed to the hinder part of the Head and Neck Fabius Columnus extolleth the root of Valerian to the Skies for the cure of this Disease a drachm in powder administred in Wine or other convenient liquor is a sufficient Dose Of no lesse esteem is this Chimicall Medicine following Spirit of Vitriol one scruple Spirit of Tartar one drachm Treacle water camphorated one drachm and a half mix them and in a glasse well sealed digest them a Month the Dose is one drachm taken with some convenient liquour If a Child have this Disease you must make use of Medicines sutable to the age and strength of the Child If it suck let the Nurse use a moderate diet and eat such meats as afford good nourishment By Clyster or Suppository make the Child soluble Take one ounce of fine Sugar of Poony root and Misleto of the Oake of each half a drachm with as much oyl of sweet Almonds as is sufficient to make a Lohock and let the Child lick often thereof Riverius commendeth this Epileptick powder by him called Pulvis de gutteta Take the root and seed of Peony the root of white Dittany Misleto of the Oake of each half an ounce the seed of Arach two drachms of mans Scull three drachms red Corall prepared of Hyacinthus or Jacinth of each half a drachm of Elks claws prepared half an ounce Musk one scruple leaf-gold one drachm mix them and make them into very fine powder of which administer from half a scruple to a scruple in milk broth or some Antepileptical water as the compound water of Peony c. Annoint the Head of the Child with oyls of Dill and Marjerom apply Medicines to the Head that have power to discusse the peccant humours and to corroborate the Brain Annoint the Back-bone and those members which are contracted and drawn together with this following Liniment Take of the Oyls of Rue and Earth-worms of each two ounces the oyl of Castor a drachm with a little Aqua vitae make a Liniment Or take of Venice Treacle one drachm Confectio Alchermes and de Hyacintho of each a scruple the waters of Betony Sage Marjerom and Cinamon of each half an ounce mix them all and bathe the Nose Temples and Eares and you may give the Child half an ounce to take inwardly You may purge the Child twice in the
humours Take of Cassia newly drawn one ounce and a half Manna dissolved in Rose-water an ounce Catholicon half an ounce Powder of Rubarb two drachms with Sugar sufficient make a Bolus for three times If the body be slagmatick purge with pills of Agarick or Lucis Majores but take this caution along with you that you administer no strong purgation in this distemper without the advice of an able Physition After sufficient Evacuations you may profirably apply a Cataplasme to the forehead and temples that hath an astringent power by which the humours flowing to the eyes may be stopt Take of Bolearmonick Mastich Frankinsence Sanguis Draconis and Wheat-flower of each one drachm the powder of Lentils and Red-Roses of each two seruples with the White of an egge juyce of Nettles Vinegar of Roses of each a like quantity sufficient to make a Cataplasme An Apple roasted with Frankincense and Mastick in it moisten it with the White of an Egg beaten to water and as much of a sound womans breast-milk make a Cataplasme and apply it to the eye or with crums of bread and womans milk with a little Rose water you may make a convenient Cataplasme Then you must prepare Collyries Unguents and Fomentations which must be used with discretion and varied as the pain or inflammation increaseth or decreaseth or as the humours are discussed or fixed c. out of the multiplicity of such medicines I shal insert a few and but a few for brevities sake Take the Salt of Lead one scruple Sal-Armoniack six grains Rose-water and Plantine-water of each three ounces the White of an egge beaten to water one ounce let them be mixed therein and the Salts well dissolved drop a little into the eye morning and evening Quercetan commends the infusion of Crocus Metallorum made in Eye-bright and fenel-Fenel-water and used as before Paenotus his Ointment is very good in these ocular inflmamations and the way to prepare it is thus Take of Tutry prepared an ounce and a half Camphire one drachm Verdegreece 12. grains beat the Tutty and the Camphire together in a morter into fine powder likewise the Verdegreece by it self then take of fresh butter or May butter if you can have it one ounce Rosewater one drachm boil them gently together then take them from the fire first put in the Camphire and Tutty then the Verdegreece by degrees stir them well together and strein them through a piece of Sarsenet put it into a glass and keep it for your use anoint the inside of the eye-lids especially about the corners and you shal find ease whether it be a moist or dry inflamation If you make an Ointment of fresh butter and juyce of Tobacco you may do wonders in this case but you must onely anoint the outside of the eye lids In the declination of the Disease you may make a fomentation which hath a power to discusse and resolve of the decoction of Camomel Melliot Roses Eyebright and Marjerom and with clothes foment the eyes If the Disease hath its original from a flegmatick humour your resolvents must be the stronger Baths also the drinking of Wine hath been approved and much commended by Galen and Hippocrates as a means to extenuate dissolve diffuse and discuss the thick humours gathered in the eyes and to open obstructions If you find that the Ophthalmy is caused by defects of the brain by defluxion or a hot distemper of the Liver then labour first to remove the cause as the several Chapters thereof entreating will instruct you Sometimes if the humour cannot be resolved there is a suppuration and an Ulcer sometimes followeth it and sometimes matter gathereth under the Cornea this is called Hypopye this cometh also sometimes by a contusion sometimes it covereth the Pupilla and sometimes compasseth the Circle of the eye and is like a mans nail Hence the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Disease is known by the inflamation going before the matter is white under the Cornea and when the eye is moved it hath a motion For the cure of this you must if any of the inflamation remain use the aforegoing medicines afterwards do as you are taught in the cure of a Cataract Sometimes not onely in the Cornea but also in the Adnata little blisters do arise like little bubbles like Pearls or Grumwel seed it hath its original from a sharp and watry humour it is called Phlyctaenae in the Adnata they are red in the Cornea white within but if they be on the outside they are black They which are in Cornea are more dangerous then those that are in Adnata and the more superficial they are the less is the danger The cure consisteth in the resolving the matter conjoyned and averting of the antecedent cause labour to prevent a Suppuration lest an Ulcer follow For the particular cure of this Disease you must use those medicines proper for the cure of the Ophthalmy After an Ophthalmy and blisters in the eyes ulcers sometimes happen in the aforesaid Tunicles when the humours there gathered or the blisters come to suppuration and sometimes they follow sharp corroding and watty humours flowing into the eys Some of them are superficial or profound broad or narrow A hollow narrow and hard Ulcer is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Fossula or a little Ditch An Ulcer that is broad and not so deep is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which cometh in the Circle of the eye is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Ulcus coronale They that are deep solid hard and crusty are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If the Ulcer be in the Cornea there will be a small white blemish in the black of the eye If it be in the Adnata there will be a small red blemish in the white of the eye because the Adnata is full of blood All Ulcers in the eyes are dangerous and hard to cure but more in the Cornea than in the Adnata If it happen in the pilla though it be cured it much prejudiceth the sight because it leaveth a scar which hindereth the perspicuity of the Cornea For the Cure you must use such medicines as dry and cleanse moderately such as asswage pain and revel and restrain the humours flowing upon the eyes You can scarcely read thus far and be ignorant of particular medicines yet for the benefit of the unskilful I shall insert one or two Take an egg boiled hard pilled and cut in two pieces take out the yolk and fill the hollow with Sugar-candy and Mirth in Powder tie them last and hang them up in a Cellar and a Water will drop from it which is good to cleanse the eye without pain the water of honey distilled hath been found very effectual But if these medicines are not strong enough do as followeth Take of Plantane Vervane and White rose water of each one ounce honey two ounces the Whites of ten new
with a defluxion of humors otherwise heat is freindly to those Nervous and Membranous parts The cold matter which causeth pain is Flegme water or cold wind either coming from without or from some inferiour part within The hot matter is Choler or blood There may be other evident causes of pain as wounds Contusions Ulcers or breaking of an impostume or any hard or pricking thing got into the Eare. You may judge the distemper to be from cold if a cold cause hath preceded and hot medicines profit the contrary declareth a hot distemper If Flegme cause the paine the Eare and Head will be heavy some Rhume falleth upon some other part the distemper is taken in cold wether or the Patient is old If wind be the cause the paine is without heavinesse nor is it constant If water causeth the pain the Patient is troubled with a sharp defluxion upon the Teeth Eyes Breast c. If it come from Choler the paine is sharp and pricking cold things give ease the body is Cholerick c. An inflammation is accompanied with a great heating paine the parts adjacent are very red and there is joyned a Fever A wound maketh it self known by blood issuing out at the Eare and an Ulcer by filth But somtimes there issueth filth from an Impostume in the braine but this may be distinguished by Head ach preceding and other signes of Impostume the filth cometh away in great abundance at first and decreaseth by degrees If an Ulcer follow an Impostume in the Eare the symptomes of an Impostume going before declareth it If the Ulcer come by defluxion there is a burning and shooting paine and the matter issueth forth by little and constantly If the Ulcer be in the bone the matter is thin and yellow and hath continued long the deeper the Ulcer is the more matter issueth the fouler it is the more and thicker is the matter If it be Virulent the matter is thin if putrid it stinketh much if it corrode blood accompanieth the matter If it continue very long it groweth Fistulous and then the matter is Virulent and the flesh groweth hard If the distemper proceed from a cold cause with or without matter you must use the medicines prescribed for the cure of deafnesse especially fomentations and fumes with warme oyles dropt into the Eare and if it be with matter you must evacuate and purge the humor If the distemper come from a hot cause without matter use cooling Topicks If it hath a Cholerick matter you must revel the humor by Phlebotomy and with cooling drinks and Juleps allay the preternaturall heat of the Liver but this having dependancy to the diseases of the head proceding from a hot cause also to the inflammation of the Eare I leave the ingenious there to seek the Cure The inflammation of the Eare is cured by making revulsion after the administration of an Emollient Clister by blood-letting and this must be done in as great a quantity as the violentnesse of the disease requireth and the strength age and constitution of the Patient permitteth open the Head-Vein on the same side the inflammation is If the stoppage of the Termes hath been prejudiciall open the Saphaena or the Hemorrhoids if you see occasion Revulsions by frictions and ligatures of the Armes and Thighs Cupping the Shoulders and Back with or without scarifications are often successefull a Cupping-glass fixed behind the Eares with Scarification hath been attended with admirable successe and Horsleeches applyed to the same place hath been no lesse effectuall If you find the Cure difficult the opening of the Arteries in the Temples is good to prevent hot and windy bloud which doth much feed the inflammation you must often purge Choller and temper the Humours with cooling Juleps thus Take of Lettice Purflane and Sorrel Water of each two ounces the Water of Plantane and Succory of each three ounces of Syrup of Lemons two ounces the Syrup of Erratick Poppies one ounce mixe them and make a Julep take sour spoonsuls morning and evening You may foment the Ear with the decoction of cooling and piercing Hearbs and let the Patient receive the same with a Funnel then come to the use of Topicks which have power to mitigate pain thus Take of Breast milk two Ounces the Oyl of Roses and Water-Lillies of each one ounce and an half the Water of an Ashen stick before mentioned one ounce the White of an Egg beaten to water half an ounce mixe them and drop some into the Ear after you have formented and famed it If you would have it repelling add Vinegar of Roses to it but use it with moderation lest you drive the Humours to the Brain If the vehemency of the pain constrain you to make use of stupefactive Medicines mixea scruple of Opium or an ounce of Oyl of Poppy seeds with your former Medicine but be careful also in the use of this lest you offend the Brain If you see occasion for resolving Medicines the Oyls of Camomil Dill sweet Almonds and Violets all or either of them may be mixed with your aforesaid Medicine If after all this you find that the Imposthume will come to suppuration you must help Nature therein thus Take the leaves of Mallows Nightshade Camomel and Dill of each one handful bruise them well in a STONE-MORTAR boil them in a quart of milk to the consumption of half add the Musilage of Line-seed Fleabane and Fenugreek seeds of each one ounce Ducks and Hens Grease of each one ounce the Oyl of Camomel Roses and Violets of each one ounce with the crum of White Bread as much as is sufficient make a Cataplasm and apply it After the Imposthume is broken and the Matter run out you must apply cleansing Medicines viz. Mixe Barley water and Honey of Roses and drop it into the Ear. If the Humour be sharp and cause an Ulcer you must after the use of needful Purgings necessary bleeding and all requisite Evacuations make use of cleansing and drying Topicks Take of the juyce of Reets and sow-Bread of each one ounce Horehound Smallage and Wormwood of each half an ounce Myrrh and Frankincense of each half a drachm Saffron and Verdegreece of each one scruple White Wine and Honey of each four Ounces boil it and scum it till the Wine be consumed then drop of it into the Ear 2 or 3 times in a day After you have well cleansed it you must come to cicatrize it Take of the Powder of Galls and Burnt Allum of each one drachm Frankincense and Myrrh of each half a drachm Gum of Juniper and Sarcocol of each one seruple make them into fine Powder and mixe them with White-Wine and drop it into the Bar. If you find that it is sed by defluxion you must labour to divert the deflaxion as you are taught in the 9th Chapter of this Book If the Ulcet be very foul you must mixe Unguentum Aegyptiacum and the Rust of Iron powdered with White-Wine and drop it into
the Ear. If the Humor be sharp and you find sharp Medicines disagreeing to it make use of the Oyls and yelks of Eggs of sweet and bitter Almonds If any thing be fallen into the Ear you must endeavour to get it out with an Ear-picker but beware lest you thrust it further If you cannot prevail so inject Oyl into the Ear to relax it that it may the easier come out and anoint the Ear-picker with Birdlime and see if by that means you can draw it out Provoke sneesing with the Mouth and Nostrils shut and by that means it may be forced out If a Flea being got into the Ear procure pain and trouble to the Patient make a little Ball of Dogs hair and put it into the Ear and the Flea will come into it If by swimming or washing the Head Water getteth into the Ear and is the cause of pain hop on the contrary foot to that side and hold your Ear downwards or put in a dry Spunge into the Ear and as it groweth moist take it out and put in more till you be freed CHAP. XVIII Of the Diseases of the Nostrils AS God and Nature hath wisely instituted and ordained this Member as needful and official to the service of the body so the Corruption of Nature by our Fall hath brought many Distempers therein viz. the Ulcer of the Nostrils and Ozaena Sarcoma and Polypus the loss of Smelling in the Nose the Coryza Sneezing and Bleeding the last of which I shall treat of in a Chapter by it self and speak briefly of the rest in this Chapter And first of the Ulcer of the Nostrils which whilest it is new is called the simple Ulcer of the Nostrils when it is old it is called Ozaena The cause of the simple Ulcer is either internal or external Internal when a sharp or salt Humour floweth to the pare External either by a Wound or Contusion The cause of Ozaena is a malignant and acrimonious Humour or the other Ulcer neglected They are easily known and distinguished one from the other The simple Ulcer causeth but little pain sometimes sends forth bloud and sometimes casteth forth a Scab The Ozaena is more painfuls foul and stinking anoying not onely the Patient but all that come near him If it turn to a Cancer it eateth the Gristle of the Nose and destroyeth the Pallat and for the most part hath its original from the French Pox or Elephantiasis The New Ulcer may be easily cured the old one hardly If it turn to a Cancer it is never cured If it hath its original from the French Pox or Elephantiasis it cannot be cured till the Disease be cured For the Cure you must use convenient Evacuations Purging and Bleeding Revulsions and Derivations by Cupping Vesicatories or Causticks applyed to the hinder parts and then strengthen the head and withall appoint a good Diet which may hinder and asswage the sharpness of the Humour This being done if the Ulcer be covered with a Scab you must endeavour to take it off gently and not rashly for fear of a Defluxion of Humours and to that end you must mollifie the Scab with Oyl of sweet Almonds or fresh Butter and warm Water Then you must cleanse it by washing it with Barley Water and if you mix a little Oyl of Roses with it it will not be the worse then apply Medicines which are astringent as the Oytment of Tutty the white Oyntment more commonly known by the Latine Name Unguentum Album the Oyl of the yolks of Eggs the Oyntment of Tobacco is good being carefully applyed Ozaena must be carefully cleansed Take of Smiths water half a pint Barley water four ounces the juyce of Plantane and Wormwood of each two Ounces boil them together till half be consumed and scum it carefully then put in sour Ounces of Honey of Roses let the diseased often snuff it up into his Nostrils wherein the ulcer is You may make an Oyntment more powerful for this purpose thus Take of the juyce of unripe Grapes half an Ounce the Peels and Flowers of Pomegranates of each three drachms of Myrrh Allum and Laudanum of each two drachms Aloes Chalcitis and Frankincense of each one drachm the Oyl of Roses and Myrtles of each two Ounces with red Wax as much as sufficeth to make an unguent which apply to the ulcer Or you may wash it with Allum Water and if it want cleansing mixe a little Aegyptiacum with it The sublimate Water doth dry and cleanse wonderfully and you may prepare it thus Take of Crude Sublimate in Powder twelve Grains put it into four Ounces of Plantane water and boil it to the consumption of half Now and then touch it with this water When it is throughly cleansed you must prepare Medicines which are powerful to dry it up Rondeletius commendeth the smoke of a Wax Candle taken up into the Nose often or you may make a Fume thus Take of Labdanum Benjamin Hypocistis Maslich Myrrh Red Storax and Calamith Sandarach Frankincense Bark and red Arsenick of each three drachms with surpentine sufficient to make Troches of which let the Patient take the Fume Morning and Evening Sarcoma and Polypus is a preternatural Tumor or Excrescency of Flesh in the Nose The first groweth without shape like proud flesh but Polypus springeth as it were from small Roots and hangeth down to the lower part of the Nose and sometimes out of the Nose If it be rooted high it sometimes falleth into the passage that goeth into the Pallat. It is a spungie soft flesh white red or blew and it is fuller at the full of the Moon then at the Change The cause of both is a gross Humour coming from the Brain mixed with bloud The first for the most part is easily cured The second with more difficulty The lower it is rooted in the Nostril the easier may the Cure be effected If it be soft white or red it is more easily cured but if hard and blew it is dangerous You must prescribe a dry and attenuating Diet you must purge the Humour you see abound you must revel and repel the Humours and strengthen the Head as you are taught in the aforegoing Chapters Then you must apply such Medicines to the Tumour as are drying and astringent If it may not be thus cured it must be taken off by a Caustick or by Incision But apply the mildest Medicines first Take the Juyce of the three sorts of Pomegranates beil it to the thickness of Honey apply it often to the Excrescencie Then make use of this Sublimate Water spoken of before in the Ulcer This following Water is commended by Weckerus Take of unripe Grapes three pound Pomegranate Peels and Flowers and Sumach of each two pound macerate them in Vinegar and distil them then add to the water thus distilled Allum one pound Vitriol three Ounces Distil them again and with this water often touch the Tumor for it hath a great power to dry and consume it You
Vein and to purge the same day or else his Patient had bin strangled To derive the humor from the part it is good to open the Veins under the tongue called Ranulae If the ease be desperate open the jugular Vein and if the blood cannot be stopped make use of Galens Emplaister against a flux of blood You must make use of Gargarisms which have power to allay the inflammation somewhat to repel Take the leaves of Plantaine Nightshade Woodbine Strawberry and Cinqueoil of each one handful the flowers of red roses and pomegranates of each one pugill boile them in a quart of running water to a pint Strain it and adde four ounces of Sirrup of Mulberies But beware lest repelling medicines drive the matter to the Lungs The oyle of Vitriol mixed with water sufficient to allay its sharpnesse often taken is good to allay the inflammation of the stomack Liver and veins also the parts inflamed in this distemper Then you must apply loosning and resolving Liniments adding such things as easeth pain Take of the juice of Mallows Chamomel and Orpine of each two ounces the oyle of Chamomel sweet Almonds and Lillies of each one ounce hens grease and frish Buter of each three ounces boile it to the Consumption of the juices and make a Liniment You must apply such things as have power to dissolve among those which have a peculiar property against the Quinzy as Riverius teacheth Take of a Swallows nest and Album graecum of each one drachm powder them flowerdeluce roots and Chamomel of each halfe a drachm Hens grease and oyle of Lillys of each one ounce yellow wax a little make a Liniment Orpine hath a peculiar faculty against the Quinzy if the bruised hearb be outwardly applyed and the juice sweetned with hony often swallowed Let us not forget the old and vulgar medicine viz. album graecum and hony mixed and administred like a Lohock For sqeemish stomacks or such as delight in dearer medicines you may prepare this lohock Take of Species Diatraganthum frigidum and diapenidion of each one ounce Lohock Epinis et Sanum et Expertum of each halfe an ounce mix them and with the Sirrups of Mulberies and Jujubes sufficient make a lohock and take as before If it tend to Suppuration make use of the first Liniment prescribed in this Chapter Cassia newly drawn held in the mouth and gently swallowed easeth pain and maturateth the humors when it is ripe and will not easily break you must open it with a crooked incision-knife or drop a little oyle of Vitriol upon it when it is open let the Patient hold down his head that the matter may run forth then wash it often with barly water and hony of roses CHAP. XXVI Of the Asthma Asthma is a difficulty and shortnesse of breathing which cometh from the stuffing of the Lungs and the obstruction of the Bronchion or gristles of the wind pipe and is naturally with out a feaver yet sometimes it may be joyned therewith This disease is divided into three sorts the first is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is a difficulty of breathing caused by the stuffing of the substance of the Lungs and not the gristles and is not accompanied with snorting and this is the least of the three The second is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when the bronchia of the Lungs are filled with flegm and doe make a great noise with snorting and wheezing in which the Diaphragma and the intercostal muscles between the ribs and the Abdomen are violently moved The third is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which the Patient fetcheth his breath with much difficulty with his neck stretched upright the aforesaid Muscles together with the Muscles of the breast and shoulders violently moved This disease is caused for the most part from flegm which falleth from the head into the Lungs and obstructeth the wind-pipe sometimes humors brought thither by Arteria Venosa flow to the Bronchia and causeth Asthma with snorting but if they fall into the substance themselves or into the smooth arteries it causeth an Asthma without snothing There needeth no more signes for the discovery of this disease then what may be gathered from its description As to the prognostick I say that this disease is Chronical hard to be cured unlesse the Patient be young and of a strong Constitution if a child hath this disease if it be not speedily removed it dieth of a Catarth In men it ends in Chachexia or the dropsy If it turne to a pleurisy or peripneumonia it is deadly You may begin the cure with blood-letting if the body be plethorick or Corpulent for when the Veins are empty of blood the respiration is free But you must beware of phlebotomy in such bodies where you fear diminishing the natural heat lest flegme increase You may openthe Saphaena or ancle-Vein without danger you must in the next place purge the head of Phlegmatick humors which are prescribed in the second Chapter of this Book It oftentimes hath bin proved that vomitting is good in this case that the stomack may be emptied of flegm and thick vapors which puffing up the stomack compresseth the diaphragma and causeth difficulty of breathing one ounce of Tobacco water sweetened with Sugar will cleanse the stomack by vomit Let the Physitian be careful how he administreth vomits to weak people Sharp Glisters are good in this disease for revulsion but let them be given in small quantityes lest the fulnesse of the Bowels compresse the diaphragma The Patient must make use of such things as extenuate and make thin the humors Take of Coltsfoot-water two ounces Cinamon water one ounce with an ounce of Oximel Simplex and take it in the morning Then let him make use of such as have an Expectorating quality Take of the powder Diatraganthum Frigidum the powder of Liquorish and Colts soot of each one drachm the roots of Elecampane and Marsh mallows Candied Conserve of roses and Violets of each halfe a drachm the flower of Brimstone and Sugar Candy of each a scruple with oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn and Sirrup of Maidenhaire make a Lohock And let the Patient take the quantity of a Nutmeg Morning and Evening and halfe so much every two houres this I have often given with good successe In the extremity of the Fit rub the breast with a cloath to open the pores then anoint it with this following ointment Take of the Oyle of Chamomel Dill Rew and sweet Almonds of each two drachms the Roots of Elecampane and Flowerdeluce in powder of each one drachm the meale of flax-seed and Fenugreek a drachm Saffron one scruple with wax sufficient make an ointment Out of the fit to perfect the cure you must endeavour to stop the defluxion and to cleanse the Lungs For the first you may find sefficient remedies in the ninth Chapter of this book adding such which respect the breast to them Let your medicines not be
and commeth up with pain That which comes from the Gullet and Stomack is known by Vomitting from the Jaws and Wezand by Hawking from the Mouth by simple spetting Sometimes the Blood is sent from some other part to the Lungs and spet forth but this may be known by pain or some hurt happened there You must judge of the signes from the quantity or quality of the Blood the Nineteenth Chapter will instruct you To the Prognostick Hippocrates saith that what kind of Blood soever is spit from any of the inferiour parts is evil for every opening of a Vessel which letteth out Blood is dangerous especially in the Lungs But sometimes it happeneth without hurt when nature critically doth evacuate superfluous Blood that way as it is seen sometimes in women who have their courses stopt You must begin the cure with Blood-letting open a Vein on the same side you judge the distemper to be If there be obstruction of the Termes open the Saphaena If your Patient is subject to the Hemorrhoids Bleed with Leeches Cupping or other Revulsions you may use if occasion be Then purge Choller which causeth the Blood to be thin and fluid with Rubarb Mirabolans and the like Then give Medicines a stringent to close the Orifice of the Vessels but at the first give such things with them which have an expectorating quality lest Blood in the breast or other parts out of the proper Vessels should be coagulated Take of Conserve of Roses and the juice of Purslane of each two ounces Sugar of Roses one ounce Red Coral Blood-stone Bolearmenick and Terra Sigillata of each half a dram Troches of Amber a scruple the Oyle of Vitriol six drops with the Whites of eggs beaten to Water make a Lohock of which let the Patient lick often especially Night and Morning Quercetan prescribeth a Water excellent against spitting of Blood see the fourth part of this Treatise among Distilled Waters The Chymical Oyle of Amber two or three drops hath an excellent astringing quality take it in the Distilled Water of Knorgrass or Plantane or the like so you may take or give half a drachm of Sanguis Draconis or the Blood stone alone finely powdered out two scruples Opium Laudanum Philonium Romanum and Persicum These and such like may be given provided the dose be regulated by an able brain the juice of Nettles drunk four or five ounces in the Morning hath prevailed when all other have failed saith Amatus Lucitanus If by the use of Astringent medicines your Patient be costive give a Clister or purge that leaves an Astringency behind it and if the use of Astringents hinder spitting mix those things which doe not only stop Blood but mollifie the breast also such are the juyces of Plantane Purslane the Sirrups of dryed Roses Quinces Myrtles and of jujubes Gum Arabick Traganth and Starch and such like If Blood be congealed in the breast indeavour to dissolve it by administring six ounces of Oxycrate three times a day if it cause Coughing sweeten it with Sugar or Sugar Candy Apply this cooling Epithem to allay the heat of the Liver if you see occasion Take of the Water of Rose Plantane and Succory of each four ounces Vinegar of Roses two ounces of the powder called Diatrion Santalen a drachm and an half Camphire one scruple make an Epitheme apply it warme to the Liver afterwards anoint with unguentum Rosarum and Rose Vinegar Anoint the reins with Oyle of Roses and Water Lillys and the Testicles with Oxycrate If a Defluxion of sharp humors from the head unto the Lungs be the cause of the Disease seek the cure in the ninth Chapter When the Blood is stanched let your Patient avoid all things that may cause a returne thereof as Salt and spiced meats rich Wines great heat anger and violent exercise If you judge him inclinable to the Distemper by reason of thin Cholerick humors mixed with the Blood purge those humors at the Spring and Fall CHAP. XXXI Of the Consumption or Ptisick This Disease is called in Latine Tabes and in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which although it signifieth every Consumption yet is most properly taken for the extenuation of the whole Body caused by an Ulcer in the Lungs An Ulcer in the Lungs by reason of its nearnesse to the heart afflicts it with putrid vapours the heart disperseth it into all parts hence commeth a Feaver hectick joyned with a putrid and by its unnatural heat does hinder the well concocting of nourishment hence the whole Body decayeth Sometimes sharp corroding and Salt humors falling from the head or the Suppurated humors from the Pleurisie or Empyema which humors putrifying upon the Lungs may Ulcerate them Many times the cause is in the Lungs themselves which have a vitious hereditary constitution naturally tender and disposed to corruption Sometimes a Pustule is bred in the Lungs and never breaketh but groweth till it stop the passage of the breath and killeth the Patient Sometimes it commeth to Suppuration and is called the Imposthume of the Lungs which being broken and flowing to the Bronchia or passages in the Lungs it may be spit up if the body be strong and the matter little in quantity but many times an Ulcer remaineth which causeth a Consumption If the Impostumated matter flow into the Ventricle of the heart the sick dye sudainly and many times insensible of any pain or sicknesse take examples from Fernelius lib. 5. de partium morbis et Sympt Chapter 10 Pag. 288. To the causes of this Disease here mentioned you may adde all the causes mentioned in the ninth Chapter of Defluxions Hippocrates mentioneth many more kinds of Consumptions too tedious for me to insert in this Volume as those proceeding from nocturnal pollutions the running of the Reins also the obstruction of the Nerves or the flowing of Choler to the Back so of nourishment or drying causeth a Consumption likewise a Distillation from the head to the Marrow on the back may be the cause as Hippocrates faith when a Defluxion falleth upon the Spinal Marrow there is a secret and undisernable Consumption Sometimes it hath its original from hunger and want of nourishment Sometimes when the Meseraick Veins are obstructed that the Chylus Concocted in the stomach cannot passe to the Liver In the Diagnostick we must observe the signes of a Consumption beginning begun or confirmed Signes of a Consumption beginning are a small Defluxion the Lungs not much hurt thereby the Cough but small the spittle Sweet Salt or Bitter the body a little Feverish The signes of a Consumption begun the Distillation is stronger the Lungs pierced by which the Lungs are exasperated and the Cough violent The matter contained in the Lungs maketh the stomach weighty a sharp pain before and behind from the humors suppurating sharp and hearing humors fall into the body and sometimes into the Veins causing a hective Feaver sometimes joyned with a Putrid The Lungs by contracted Filth grow hot
when the Pain is under the Ensiformis it shews that the upper Orifice of the Stomach is affected a very sharp Pain that the Patient cannot rest and sometimes fainteth the Vapours sometimes offend the Brain and cause inveterate Head-Ach the Megrim Vertigo and Epilepsy In the other parts of the Stomach there are not so violent Symptomes but great Paines like the Chollick Thus you may know the Causes The Humours offending may be known by the Excrements avoided at the Belly or Mouth also Choller Phlegm Wind or Worms may be knowne by their proper Signes The Diseases of the Stomach or parts adjoyning causing this Disease may be known by their proper Signes Prog This Disease is more dangerous then any other Disease of the Stomach The danger is greater if a Feaver accompany it if the extream Parts be cold Death is at hand thus saith Hippocrates It is least dangerous if it proceed from Worms yet sometimes dangerous Symptoms appear and the Patient dyes sometimes if the cause of Wind cannot be removed a dry Dropsy followeth If it come from other Parts there begin your Cure if it be in the Stomach properly consider the peccant Humour If Wind be the Cause first administer a Clister Take of Camomil Penny-royall Miats and Pellitory of the Wall of each one handful the Seeds of Annise Fennel Cummin and Dill of each two Drachms make a Decoction in white Wine Posset Drink add Benedicta Laxativa half an Ounce the Oyls of Dill Rue and Chamomil of each half an Ounce the Chymical Oyl of Juniper Berries ten Drops make a Clister and give it or the like as often as need requireth Make a Fomentation with the Herbs and Seeds aforesaid or with others of the like Nature then anoint the Stomach with the Oyls of Sage and Cloves Chymical Oyl of Dill Camomil Rue and the like Then administer this or the like Julep which hath power to asswage Pain discusse Wind and strengthen the Stomach Take of Wormwood Pennyvoyall Century the lesse and Agrimony of each one handful the Flowers of Camomill and Juniper Berryes of each one Ounce the Seeds of sweet Fennel and Anise of each two Drachms Boil them in a Quart of white wine to the consumption of half sweeten it with the compound Sirrups of Wormwood and Betony of each two Ounces Let the Patient take a spoonful of this often and six spoonfuls Night and Morning this have I often proved with good successe let the Cause be what it will If the Disease be yet too stubborn to yeeld to ordinary Medicines make a Bath of mollifying Herbs and let the Patient sit in it giving inward discussing Medicines In vehement Pain some do give a Purge and mix Narcoticks with it to allay the Pain and this following is much commended by Forestus Take of Diaphenicon half an Ounce Philonium Romanum two Scruples with Camomil water in want thereof the Decoction make a Potion If Choller cause pain purge it administer Juleps cooling and thickning Foment the Stomach and apply a Cataplasm made of mollifying cooling and discussing Herbs and Seeds CHAP. XLII Of the Inflammation Ulcer and Imposthume of the Stomach The Inflammation of the Stomach is a Tumor comming of Blood sent into the Stomach and its Membranes from the Vena Porta by the small Veins which Blood is either pure and maketh a proper Phlegm or mixed with Choller and maketh an Erisipelatous or with Phlegm making an Oedmatous or with Melancholy making a Schirrous Tumor In a word all things that may inflame the Blood may be the Cause of this Tumor Diagnostick Signes are great Pain burning pricking distending beating even to the Back you may see or feel the Tumor belching and sometimes vomiting of Blood and the Breath is ferched difficultly and a burning Feaver If it be onely of Blood it is somwhat gentler but if it be with Choller there are grievcus Symptoms But be carefull to distinguish this Inflammation from that of the upper side of the Liver see the Chap. of the Inflammation of the Liver This Disease for the most part is deadly If the Inflammation be in the upper part of the Stomach or over the whole or much loathing of the Stomach or rumbling in the Belly all these are deadly Symptoms If the Inflammation kill not and the Feaver and Pain ceaseth and the Tumor remain then it turns to an Imposthume which being broken there remaineth an Ulcer which is known by voiding of Matter by Vomit and Stool But an Ulcer may be bred in the Stomach from other Causes as sharp salt cholerick Humours bred in the Stomach or sent thither from other parts the breach of a Vein which could not grow together again a Wound not well cured Poyson or corroding Medicines taken The Signes of an Ulcer bred in the Stomach are the same with the former to which I add these a constant lingring Feaver stinking Belching no Appetite a pricking Pain and Burning when any thing is taken which is hot cold sharp salt or sowr This Disease for the most part is deadly because Cleansers encrease Pain and Dryers cannot execute their Office but are hindred by Meat Drink and Chylus The Cure of theso Diseases must be diversly considered Purging is altogether prohibited lest more Humours be gathered to the Stomach but give an emollient and cooling Clyster every day such an one as is prescribed in the last Chap you must let Blood in both Arms as much as strength will bear bleed the Haemorrhoids if you see Occasion cup and scarify the Shoulders Back and Buttocks rub and bind the extream Parts and heat them with the Oyl of Spike or Flowerdeluce and the like You must give Medicines which are altering and strengthning and with them mix such which have power to dissolve This Julep is good Take of Barley water well clarified two Ounces Fennel and Purslane water of each one Ounce the Sirrups of Water Lillies and Violets of each one Ounce the Sirrup of Poppy half an Ounce Diamarganiton frigidum a Drachm mix them and make a Julep for three Doses give it Morning Noon or Night Foment the Stomach with â—he Decoction of cooling and mollisying Heâ—… Roots and Flowers and afterwards anoint it with Oyl of Roses Violets and the like Some commend Turpentine washed in Wormwood water given in Pills three or four times which will quickly dissolve or maturate the Imposthume If you find that the Imposthume tend to Suppuration apply this Cataplasm Take of the Roots of common and March Mallows of each one Ounce Camomill two handfuls red Rose leaves a handfull boil them well together and then beat them in a stone Morter then add of the Meal of Barley Flax seed and Fenugreek of each one Ounce with Hen's Grease and Oyl of Roses and Camomill alike QUantity sufficient to make a Cataplasm which must be applyed and often removed When the Imposthume is broken cleanse the Ulcer with new Milk and Sugar or Hydromell or Take of Barley water 3.
afterwards apply a Plaister of Tacamahacha Also the Decoction of Guajacum given for many dayes is good and afterwards purge Phlegm if there be occasion The cholerick Chollick is cured also by giving of emollient Clisters and such as temper the Acrimony of the Humours as the Decoction of Camomil Violet leaves Endive the Seeds of Faenugreek Linseed Hens-grease Goose-grease Oyl of Roses Cessia and the like Foment the Belly with an emollient and cooling Decoction and aroint it with a Cataplasm made with the Meal of Linseed Faenugreek and Barley boiled in Oyl of Camomil and Roses Cool the Liver outwardly by Epithems and inwardly by Juleps made of Poppy Lettice Succory Endive Sorrel Violets and the like forget not to add a little spirit of Vitriol to your Juleps If the pain be violent use Narcoticks afterwards purge the Humour with such Medicines which purge gently or strongly according to the strength of your Patient and the Degree of his Distemper CHAP. LXIIII. Of the Iliack Passion This Disease is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Iliaca Passio in Englsh the Iliack Passion from the Gut Ilion which is chiefly affected in this Disease But because the other Guts are capable of the same it is rather derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth to be rowled or girt about and therefore the Latines call it Volvulus or Convolvulus It is a praeposterous motion of the Intestines the Guts are obstructed nothing passeth downward sometimes the Excrements are brought up into the Stomach and issue out at the Mouth The Intestines have a natural Motion downwards which is compared to the Motion of Earth-Worms which move the parts of their Bodyes succesfully by which they carry the Faeces and Excrements downwards The expulsive Faculty of the Guts is sometimes too vehemently stirred up the Passage being obstructed that by a violent motion the Excrementitious Matter is cast upwards so that not onely the Chylus and Excrements but also Clisters and Suppositoryes are violently snatched up and vomited Any thing which causeth the obstruction of the Guts as hard Dung long retained grosse Vapours Inflammations Tumours or the like may be the Cause of this Disease Sometimes an Ulcer in the Guts may be the Cause when the Excrements touch the part ulcerated it pricketh it so that the Faculty is provoked not to let so noxious a thing passe but driveth it upwards the other Guts by Sympathy assisting forceth it into the Stomach which also by a Peristatick inverted Motion casteth it out by Vomit The Diagnosticks of this Disease are partly common to those of the Chollick and partly proper or peculiar to it self Common Signes are the Belly bound and puffed up Pain in the Abdomen loathing vomiting difficulty of Breathing and Pissing want of Rest The peculiar Signes are a violent Pain great Distension a hard Tumor in the Hypogastrium nothing voided downwards an irregular vomiting of Choller Phlegm and Chylus at last the Excrements are vomited up The Signes of the causes are thus gathered If Inflammation of the parts cause the Disease it quickly cometh to the height an intense Feaver with vomiting as aforesaid If hard Dung in the Bowels be the Cause there went before Constriction of the Belly it is of longer Continuance the Pain not so violent at first nor the Feaver so great if any If Wind or Phlegm be the Cause for the most part the Chollick preceded and the Signes thereof are laid down in the preceding Chapter This Disease is dangerous more or lesse according to the Causes and Symptoms that which is accompanied with the Strangury or that irregular vomiting before mentioned for the most part is deadly If there be a remission of Symptoms and things taken at the mouth find passage downwards there is hopes of recovery What belongs to the cure of this Disease must thus be considered viz. If hard Dung obstruct the passage you must often inject emollient and laxative Clisters in the mean time give Medicines inwardly of the same Nature mixing with them such as strengthen the Stomach and Vital parts having read thus fair you cannot be ignorant how to prepare them by this means I cured one in this Condition who went not to Stool in sixteen or eighteen dayes You may likewise apply Fomentations Liniments and Cataplasms of an emollient Nature to the Belly If you find the Body flatuous and in much pain administer the Medicines prescribed against the Chollick If the Guts be inflamed you must open a Vein and draw as much Blood as the strength of the Sick will bear Administer cooling and emollient Clisters and other Medicines prescribed in the 42 Chapter for the inflammation of the Stomach If he vomit not give him warm Water and Oyl of Violets for it is a good Revulsion Let his drink be Barly Water and sometimes give in a draught thereof two ounces of Oyl of sweet Almonds and if the Pain be violent use Narcoticks Let him abstain from Food for it turns to no good Nourishment let him now and then take a spoonful of Broth and drink such things as are before mentioned If the Bowels fall into the Cods and cause this Disease you must foment the part with emollient Oyls and relaxing Decoctions giving emollient and carminative Clisters then let the Patient ly with his Heels higher then his head and gently thrust them back and keep them up with a Trusse If there be a Circumvolution of Hoisting of the Guts Hippocrates prescribeth this as the last Remedy namely to apply a payr of Bellows to the Fundament and blow into the Belly and afterwards to give an emollient Clister this hath been proved by many able Physitians and highly commended Others have commended the taking of Quicksilver in a great Quantity which hath cured when all other means have failed CHAP. XLV Of the Flux Lientery and Coelick Passion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lientery is a Flux of the Belly in which the Meat is quickly sent through the Body undigested 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Coeliack Passion is when the Meat comes forth crude and impertectly digested these two differ onely in degrees and their Cures are the same This Disease is not to be referred to concoction-hurt onely but to the Debility of the retentive Faculty for the Meat is not long enough receined to be concocted hence it appeareth that the Disease cometh from a fault of the Stomach as well as the Guts The Causes of this Disease are referred to three Heads First a cold Distemper of the Stomach and Liver which generateth flegmatick and glutinous Humours which cover the wrinkles of the Stomach that it cannot retain the Food Though Retention be made by the astringing Quality yet it operates by fit Instruments viz. the Roughnesse of the inward Coat of the Stomach which Roughnesse being taken away and the wrinklesfilled up by the Humours aforesaid the Retention is hurt and the Meat slippeth away without Concoction Secondly sharp Humours prick and twitch
mollifieth the crustiness and caseth pain If it be corrupt and putrified you must make use of incision cautery or hot Iron Gangrena is a mortification of any part occasioned by exceeding inflammation but not fully accomplished but some sense remaineth Sphacelus is when the part is utterly deprived of senle is mortified so that if it be stricken burnt or lanced it feeleth no hurt The fleshy parts are not onely subject to this but even the Nerves and Bones The cause is adust bloud flowing to or lodged in the part Outward causes are cold Air or Medicines unmeasurable Heat or Venome Ligatures Compressions Contusions Gangrena is known by the loss of sense though not wholly black or swartish colour there is pain heat and beating of the Atteries In Sphacelus there is a total loss of sense black colour putrified stinking rotten being pressed yieldeth to the bottom and returneth not The first is difficult to cure the other more and not without cutting when the Bones and Sinews are affected it is incurable unless it be cured in the beginning the part affected dyeth and it creepeth to the near parts to the destruction of the whole Body In the Cure first temper the bloud by a cooling Diet as before and give preparing Juleps such as are afore prescribed Diminish the same by bloud-letting if nothing forbid it and by gentle Purges as Cassia Fistula Tamarinds Fumitory Catholicon Diaprunum Lenitive and the like Lay repressing Medicines to the parts round about Take of the Oyl of Roses and Myrrh of each three ounces and an half the Juyce of Plantane and Nightshade of each two Ounces boyl them to the consumption of the Juyces add to it white Wax one Ounce and an half the Meal of Beans Lentils and Barley of each half an Ounce of all the Sanders two drachms and an half Bolearmenick one Ounce the Powder of Myrtles one drachm mixe them for a defensive Give the Patient such things inwardly as chear the Heart and revive the Spirits This done draw up your forces against the conjoyned cause and first if nothing prohibit bleed your Patient and scarifie the place and wash it with Water and Salt cut the member or burn it with a hot Iron and leave nothing that is putrified to preserve the rest of the Body then apply Medicines whose property is to dry and resolve Quercetanus preseribes two Unguants of great force for the purpose Take of Honey two Ounces Crocus Martis and Crocus Veneris of each half an Ounce Myrrh and Round-Dirthwort of each one Drachm Camphire one Drachm and an half the Phlegme of Vitriol six Ounces Boil them to the consistence of an Unguent then add of Mercury Precipitate half an Ounce and make an Unguent Or this Take of Butter of Arsenick two Ounces Mercury precipitate half an Onnce Oyl of Myrrh two Drachms Mixe them with Honey being first washed with the juyce of Celandine When the putrifaction cealeth to go any farther remove the Escar as you were taught before then mundifie and heal it CHAP. VIII Of Cholerick Tumors FIrst Erysipelas or ignis Sacer is a Cholerick Fluxion chiefly consisting betwixt or about the skins The antecedent cause is Choller abounding and flowing to the part The conjoyned cause is the same Humour there setled The first is known by a Cholerick Constitution and Diet. The second is known by great heat small Tumour reddish or yellow colour soon vanishing in touching and quickly returning The pain is not with pulsation and beating but biting and pricking and the Patient is sensible of the motion of a Tertian Feaver Erysipelas about the head is a hard thing to cure and it easily gets into the Face and there spreadeth for the flesh there is thin and the humour light and active If it happen to the Womb of a woman with child it is deadly if it lye near the bone it is dangerous if it return from the outward parts to the inward it is very evil the like judge if it come to suppuration which it seldom doth but is sent forth by transpiration First order the Air to be cool and moist where your Patient lodgeth and his Diet of the same nature Bleed not unless bloud be mixed with Choller which is called Erysipelas Phlegmonosum Then prepare the Humours with Tuleps convenient made of the Syrups of Vinegar Simple Bugloss Maiden-hair Violets Water-Lillies Endive and Succory and their distilled Waters or others of the like nature When you have prepared the humour purge it either by Clister or Potion This Potion is much commended Take of the best Rubarb four seruples the Flowers of Violets and Borrage of each one drachm the decoction of Tamarinds sufficient insuse the Flowers and Rbubarb ten hours strain them and dissolve therein Diacatholicon three drachms Syrrup of Roses two ounces and make a Potion Vesalius You may alter or make variety of Potions as you see occasion Or empty your body with this Clister Take Marsh and common Mallows Violet leaves Camomel and Lettice of each one handful the seeds of Anise Fennel and the four great cold seeds of each one drachm the flowers of Borage Bugless Violets and Water-Lillies of each one Pugil Polypodium and Senna of each one ounce make a Decoction to a pint of which add of Cassia one ounce Diacatholicon half an ounce Oyl of Violets two ounces make a Clister Add strength and aid to the part by cooling and repelling Medicines viz. Epithems and Liniments made of the juyce or distilled Water of Night-shade Housleek Stonecrop Fleabane and Henbane Purflane Lettice Endive Succory and such like the Oyl of Roses and Water-Lillies Vinegar Sanders the White of Eggs the Musilage of Quince seeds c. Compounds are the Unguent of Roses or Refrigerans Galeni and such like The conjoyned cause must be removed by Medicines which have power to evacuate and discuss Take of the Litharge of Gold one ounce washed Ceruse six drachms the juyce of Plantane and Womans milk of each one ounce and an half Oyl of Roses three ounces white wax as much as sufficieth to make an Unguent There are other Yumonis which do commonly associate with Erysipelas viz. Herpes Exedens or Miliaris which are called Chollerick Pushes and the Shingles The first is caused of a thick and sharp 〈◊〉 of yellow Choller slowing into the part which doth feed upon and eat the skin Herpes Miliaris are small Pastules rising upon the â—kin like the seeds of Millet from whence it hath its name It is caused of yellow Choller mixed with thin Phlegm These Humours abounding in the body will declare The cure of these differ little from the former appoint the same Dier and Medicines externally and internally making this difference In the first let the Medicines preparing be more cutting and the purging Medicines stronger because of the thickness of the Humour and let the outward Medicines be more powerfully discutient In the cure of Herpes Miliaris observe the same Diet to your Preparatives and such
greater Celandine six ounces Crocus Metallorum one drachm infuse it in the same water and drop two or three drops into the eye three or four times a day as long as need requireth I could insert many more Receipts of Learned and able men but I fear my Book will swell too big I shall onely insert the Ointment of Zacutus Lasitanas which he commends for drying and purging the moiffure flowing into the eyes Take of the Oyl of Roses three ounces white Rose-water nine ounces Camphire one drachm Tutty one scruple Honey two ounces the Gall of a Goat half an ounce Lupin meat half a drachm Aloes Succotrine one dram Sugar-candy half a drachm the juyce of Horehound Fennel and Rue of each half an ounce Mirrh one scruple Ammoniacum half a drachm Saicocol one dram and a half Pouder them that are to be poudered mixe them and boil them a little with a gentle fire and with the grease of a Goat or Sheep and a little Wax make an Ointment accorbing to Art anoint the Eye-brows twice in a day three hours after meat which will purg plenty of water out of the head through the corner of the eye When you have finished your Cure whether by Mâ—…es 〈◊〉 by the Needle you must keep your Patient 〈…〉 of Physick for fear of a Relapse and administer such things as threaten the head and eyes and hinder defluxion It is good to wash the head and eyes every morning with white wine wherein hath he en infused sweet Fennel seed in pouder till they smart but for other medicines to strengthen the head and eyes I refer you to the preceding Chapter CHAP. XII Of the enlarging and dilating of the straitening or contracting of the Pupilla THis Disease is called in Greek Mydriasis because too much light going in hurteth the sight hence it is that those that are thus distempered see better in a darkish place than in the light And this may be demonstrated by the natural change of the Pupilla in sound eyes in bright and obscure places For when a man is in a bright and clear place the Pupilla is contracted and made less lest the light going in too fast should dissipate the spirits so that a man going suddenly out of a very light place into a house or place more obscure at the first entry he seeth almost nothing at all the Pupilla being so lately contracted he remaining in the same place the Pupilla is soon dilated or enlarged to receive more light and then he seeth perfectly those things which before he could not Then if he go out suddenly into a very light place his eyes are dazled and he seeth not perfectly because the Pupilla is enlarged and the Light going in so fast doth dissipate and dispierse the Visive Spirits Hence you perceive that the Light ought to pass into the Eye in a moderate quantity and the Pupilla ought to be of a moderate size Hence Galen observes that they who are born with narrow Pupillas see best The Pupilla is enlarged or contracted by dryness or repletion It is enlarged by dryness which stretcheth the Uvea which maketh the form of the Pupilla larger as Leather being pierced when it is dry the hole is larger and this proceeds from Feavers and such drying Diseases which are attended with want of sleep So may the Pupilla be straitned by dryness when the Tunicle Uvea by reason of the diminishing of the humours of the Eye loseth its former extension falls together and is wrinkled and so the hole of the Pupilla is made streighter whereas in the former the Tunicle though dry holdeth its extension It is made larger also by repletion namely by vapours or wind sent unto the Eye or by the extraordinary flowing of the watry and other humours to the eye or by the swelling of Uvea it self it is distended and the Pupilla made larger So the same watry humour may work a contrary effect namely by relaxing the same Tunicle and by that means making the hole streighter The Pupilla is inlarged sometimes by Convulsion as may be seen by some Epileptick Children Sometimes a stroak or fall may cause a deflaxion into the eyes hence comes extension retension of the Spirits causeth wind and humours and that causeth distension of the Pupilla and sometimes the Pupilla is made streighter by reason of the want of the visive spirits to extend the Tunicles for want of which they are relaxed and fall together as may be seen in old men These Diseases though they are contrary yet are to be cured by the same medicines remember this that if these Diseases be of long continuance and in ancient people they are without doubt incurable But if the Patient be young and the Disease of no long continuance you must proceed with this consideration that the cure must be varied according to the variety of causes If it proceed from dryness you must refresh the body with medicines which are moist and restaurative and such you shall finde in the cure of the Hective Feaver If it comes from a humour filling the Eye you must purge and cleanse the head and whole body of that humour as you are taught in the cure of a Cataract If from Wind after due Evacuations you must labour to discuss the Wind with the decoction of Fennel Rue Dill Cammomel Red-Roses made in Red Rose Water and White-Wine and the Eyes fomented therewith If there be occasion for Astriagent Medicines to bring the Pupilla being enlarged to its former state make use of this following taught by Ryverius Take of Red-Roses dryed two Scruples Saffron Spicknard and the Bark of Frankinsense tree of each half a scruple Tutty prepared Burnt-Ivory and Acatia of each one scruple make them into fine pouder and tie it up in a fine linnen rag and hang it in three ounces of Red Rose water woen you have occasion to use it squeez the cloaih and drop the water into the eyes and wash them therewith If a blow in the eye causeth an inflammation cure it as the inflammation of the eye but if by the blow the Pupilla be enlarged without inflammation drop in a drop or two of Pidgeons blood and apply a Cataplasme made with Bean-flower and Red-Roses juyce of Plantane and Red-rose water CHAP. XIII Of the Pin and Web. THE Tunicle called Cornea sometimes loseth its colour and brightness somtimes it grows thick by driness as in old men and is incurable Sometimes gross humours are fastened to it by reason of inflamation Sometimes by resolving Medicines the thinner humours are dissolved and the thicker remain or by the use of cold medicines the humours are thickned and a white humour is contracted which is called by some Leucona by others Albugo commonly a Pin and Web. Sometimes it comes from a Sear after an Ulcer and so the Cornea loseth its transparentress Sometimes the Eye is bloud-shod and that spoileth the natural colour of the Cornea and this is called
science truth and virtue hath its entrance into the soul this member is subject to divers diseases Similary Organick and Common which are known and distinguished by their symptomes There is first deafnesse or dullnesse of hearing which I shall joyne because they differ only in degrees and are the same in causes I shall not spend my time to shew you the difference between deafnesse and dullnesse of hearing only declare the causes of both The first is called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both of these have their originall from a distemper of the braine The cause lyeth either in the exterior or interior cavity the exterior cavity may be obstructed or stopped by Tumor Impostume blood matter flegme or the like which may prove defective to the hearing but this cause cannot make an absolute deafnesse because there is an open way from the interiour eavity to the Pallat by which the sound is carryed as you may observe by those that are hard of hearing for they are subject to hold open their mouths that so they may heare the better and you may prove it by this example Hold a stick between your teeth with which strike the strings of a musicall instrument Ropping your Eares and you may heare the sound as well or better then with your open Eares The interior Cavity is somtimes obstructed by Flegmatick and Cholerick humors and somtimes by blood Somtimes humors from all parts of the body are sent to this Cavity as it happeneth somtimes in Feavers Somtimes the Tympany may be relaxed somtimes by excesse of moist humors and somtimes by some violent and suddaine noise somtimes it is stretched or dried after some violent disease accompanied with watching or fasting somtimes it may be broken by a violent motion or corroded by a sharp humor Somtimes Narcoticks administred over much somtimes a cold distemper or cold water got into the Eare or somtimes the instruments of hearing hurt by some stroke or fall or the like may be the cause of this disease Though it be hard to distinguish all these by their proper signes yet you may by Art and Conjecture come neare it If the distemper comes from a distemper of the brain either there is an appearance of some disease in the head as the Head-Ach Apoplexy c or some of the other sences are hurt If the externall Cavity of the Eares be obstructed by excrementitious humors or somthing fallen in it may be discovered by the Eye If the interior Cavity be obstructed by some humor the humor may be known by some present or preceeding disease or by the constitution of the body The loosenesse or moistnesse of the Tympane may be conjectured by some preceding moist distemper the drynesse of the same part by the drynesse of the whole body The Tympane cannot be broken unlesse there hath been some violent cause which might break it preceded If deafnesse be absolute and of long continuance or if the Patient was borne so it is incurable If it proceed from a sharp or continuall Fever the cure of the Fever is the remedy The Tympane broken the deafnesse is incurable If it increase and decrease it proceedeth from a moveable humor and is curable If it hath its originall from a distemper of the brain it is easier cured then if it comes from a proper distemper of the Eare. For the Cure you must consider what humor is the cause of the defect and you must purge the body and particularly the head you must use Revulsions as Cauteries Vesicatories Gargarisms and Masticatories to be breise these and other remedyes effectuall against this distemper may be sought out of the Chapter treating of cold distempers of the brain Sulphurous and Bituminous Baths are very profitable especially if the Patient wear a cap made of Spunge and the water pumped upon his head It is good also to make fomentations of these following hearbs viz. Mallows Marjarom Hysop Centuary Mints Camomell Rosemary Peneroyall Sage boyle them in white Wine and soment the Eare If you would have it stronger add a dram of the pulp of Coloquintida and as much white Hellebore to the fomentation a sumigation made with a Punnell of the same decoction doth wonderfully peirce the Cavity of the Eare. Or make a Loafe of bread and mâ—x with the meale a good quantity of Carawayseeds Bayberryes Juniper berryes Nutmegs and Cloves and when it is baked cut it in the middle and apply it hot to the Eare affected or to both if need be and if you think it not of sufficient force dip it first into the spirit of Wine this will serve instead of a somentation After which you must put some Oyle or Liquors proper to the Cure into the Eare as Oyle of Bitter Almonds Castor Rue c. The Chymicall Oyles of Rosemary Marjarom Sage Fennell Spike and Cloves which are too hot to be used alone but may with good successe be mixed with other Oyles and applyed Take the water of an Ash that runneth out at the end the other being in the fire one ounce The dripping of a silver Eel rosted upon a spit as much a fruple of any of the beforenamed Chymicall Oyles or a drachm of the other mix them and drop it into the Eare. Observe this generall rule that you drop nothing cold into the Eare and that you stop the Eare afterwards with Wooll or Cotton and a little Muâ—k into it Somtimes the sense of hearing is prejudiced by a preternaturall noise in the Eares the causes of which are many but cheifly a wind or vapour sent thither from other parts or bred there It cometh from all parts of the body when it happeneth in a Fever and this according to Hippocrates is deadly Somtimes it cometh from the Stomach Liver Spleen Midriffe and Womb witnesse Vomitings Hypocondriak Melancholly and fits of the Mother which for the most part are attended with a noise in the Eares Somtimes it is caused by Flegme contained in the Eare for they that are thick of hearing are seddome free from a noise in the Head a blow great sound or an Ulcer in the head may cause a noise in the head a hot distemper in the head filleth the Arteries of the Eare with much spirit and causeth a noise If the noise hath been of long continuance it is hardly Cured if it proceed from Flegme Obstructing the passage 't is doubtfull that it will end in deafnesse If you judge it curable you may find the cure in this Chapter for it differeth not in cure from dullnesse of hearing in some Cases and agreeth with the cure of the paine of the Eares in others But this remember that if it come by consent of the Stomach Liver c take away the cause and the effect ceaseth Pain in the Eares is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is caused by cold winds cold baths or the like or by a hot distemper so it be accompanied
corrupt and their proper signes appeare in the body If the weaknesse of the retentive faculty let it go the body is weak the face is pale or some disease hath preceded which hath weakened the Liver If it cometh from an Artery it cometh with great force hot pure and fresh if from a vein that contrary appeareth If it come from the Liver Spleen c pains extensions or inflammations in those parts will declare it If blood issue out of the Nose upon a judiciall or criticall day it is a good signe and is not to be stopped if it flow not immoderately But if it happen in the beginning of a disease it is symptomaticall and dangerous If the Liver be affected and the blood issue out at the right Nostrill it is good and if the Spleen be affected if the left Nostrill bleed it is good the contrary to any of these happening is bad If the Haemorrhagy continue long it cooleth the Liver and causeth a Dropsy Likewise bleeding is very hurtfull to Melancholly and Flegmatick people as also to such as have a quartane Feaver For the Cure you must consider whether the Haemorrhagy be Criticall or Symptomaticall If it be Symptomoticall you must endeavour suddenly to stop it Iâ— it be Criticall immoderate and the constitution not able to endure it without prejudice you must do the like you must begin with revulsions of which blood letting is the cheise you must open a veine on the Arme on the same side the Nostrill is that bleedeth you may draw as much blood as the strength of the Patiens will beare Apply Cupping-glasses behind to the Shoulders and Armes to the Hypocondria but make use of this after sufficient blood letting for feare of an inflammation of the Liver Forrestus commendeth the application of Cupping-glasses to the feet others commend an actuall Cautery Throw cold water into the face on a sudden which doth repell the blood It is good to put a Cloath dipt in Vinegar to the neck behind another to the Cods and to snuffe up Vinegar and water into the Nose and hold the mouth full of it as long as any thing is snuffed up take up the fume of Vinegar thrown upon an hot Iron Foment the Forehead and Temples with water and Vinegar cold Vinegar put into the Eare on the same side on which the bleeding Nostrill is is good Then apply a Cataplasm made with the juice of Plantane Nightshade Vinegar of all a like quantity and Bolearmenick sufficient to make a Cataplasme which must be laid to the forehead from Temple to Temple Or thus Take of Sanguis Draconis Terra Sigillata and Bolearmenick of each a drachm Rose Vinegar and the juyce of Nightshade of each one ounce the Whites of two Eggs with the distilled water of Red-Roses and Plantane make a Cataplasm and apply it as before If you perceive that the veins of your forehead are swelled bind a six-pence or a dry bean slit upon the root of the Nose between the Eye-brows Also the powder of Hoggs-dung blown into the Nose or mixed with the juyce of Nettles and a Tent dipped in it and put up into the Nose hath an excellent property to stop bleeding Others commend the Powder of a dried Toad put in fine red Sarsnet and put under the Arme-pits or held in the hand It is convenient likewise to make use of those things which have a faculty to close and glutinate the Veins Take of Bolearmenick Sanguis Draconis Aloes and Cobwebs of each two scruples white Vitriol burnt Egshels and Paper of each one scruple powder them finely and blow it up into the Nostrills to prevent its coming into the mouth hold the mouth full of cold water and Vinegar or else you may mix it with the whites of Eggs beaten to water and the juyce of Plantane and dip a Tent in it and apply it If hitherto you are succeslesse you must make use of Escharotick medicines of which burnt Vitriol claimes the preheminency powdered and used as before but if you feare to use it alone adde the same quantity of Dragons blood Bolearmenick and Frankincense A dram of the powder of Spicknard drunk in the morning in broth is very good If the disease doth often invade the Patient let him make use of inward medicines which have power to Coagulate thicken coole bind and restraine its motion Take of dried Knotgrasse Fumitory and Bistort root of each half an ounce the Troches of Spodium and Amber Terra Sigillata and Sal-prunella of each half a dracbm Corall burnt Harts-horne and Bloudstone of each one scruple powder them Conserve of Roses and Quinces of each two ounces with the syrrup of the juyce of Plantane make an Opiate of which let the Patient take the quantity of a Nutmeg five or six times in a day To conclude if it be inveterate let the peccant humor be diligently evacuated and if it hath its originall from the disaffection of any other part as the Liver Spleen Womb Kidneys c let that be considered and their Cures sought in their proper Chapters CHAP. XX. Of the diseases of the Tongue THe Tongue being the cheife instrument of speech and tast a very necessary though unruly member it is not amisse if we consider and breifly treat of the distempers incident to it by which the actions are hindered This member is subject to inflammation and Tumors which have their originall either from pure Cholerick Flegmatick or Melancholly blood If pure blood cause the inflammation there is paine felt with heat and rednesse of the Tongue and face and this is a true Flegmon If the Tumor hath its originall from Choller then is it called Erisipelas if from Flegme Oedema if from Melancholly Schirrhus all which may be discovered by the humor predominate and shall be more plainly discovered in the next Book where I shall treat of Tumors and their kinds These Tumors are somtimes only troublesome but do not oftentimes endanger life except they grow so big that the body is endangered by suffocation or a malignant melancholly humor do breed a Cancer which may be discovered by its hardnesse blewnesse and pricking paine you must begin the Cure with blood-letting and if you can come at it open the Veine under the Tongue afterwards if you see occasion open a Vein in the Arme and draw away as much blood as the Patients strength will permitt You must purge the humer with convenient purgatives or administer a sharp Clister Some do draw back the humors by Cupping-glasses fastened to the shoulders or a little one under the Chin. Cooling and repelling Gargarisms must be used and you may prepare them thus Take of the distilled water or decoction of Plantane Nightshade and Sorrell of each four ounces the syrrups of Mulberys Pomegranats and Lemons of each one ounce let the Patient often wash his Tongue Zacutus Lusitanus commendeth the application of Horsleeches to the Tongue If you find it inclinable to suppuration you must help nature
apply Cataplasms lest the Humours be repelled and do fall into the Throat Many find ease by Masticatories by which they draw much Rheum from the Teeth Take of Mastich and Pellitory of Spain of each a drachm the Seed of Henbane Satuesacre and Pepper of each half a drachm Pouder them and sew them up in Linnen bags like little Balls and chew them If the Teeth be hollow the Oyls of Cloves Camphire Tobacco Box and of Hazel Nuts are good if a little Lint dipt in any of them be put into the hollow Tooth If the pain cease not add Laudanum and Opium for sometimes Narcoticks by stupefaction do give ease when other means have failed Sometimes all Medicines can do no good till the Nerve in the hollow Tooth be burned with an actual Cautery This may be done with Aqua Fortis or safer with Oyl of Vitriol but be well advised before you operate with things of this Nature If Worms be in the Hollow Tooth Take of Aloes two scruples Camphire one scruple Aqua Vitae one scruple the Oyl of Vitriol and Tobacco of each three drops mix them and with Lint dipped in it apply it If all the Medicines prescribed take not away the pain of the Hollow Teeth you must draw it out but beware of drawing Teeth when the Defluxion is great the Head aketh or the Gums swell Draw not a Tooth violently lest you injure the Jaw bone or cause a Flux of bloud which may prove dangerous but if such a thing should happen and the bloud not easie to be stanched you must apply Burnt Vitriol to the Gum and dip Lint in Vinegar and lay thereon or if you see cause you must burn the Nerve with an actual Cautery Many people have their Teeth disfigured by black or yellow Humours cleaving to them which in time make them rotten this is caused sometimes by a Defluxion of Humours into the Teeth by Distempers of the Stomach and evil nourishment thence arising Sometimes the Scurvey is the cause For the cure it is requifite that the antecedent cause be removed by purging and other Remedies and that things that corrupt the Teeth be abstained from especially things that are sweet Many are the Medicines prescribed to make the seeth white as Corral White and Red poudered Tobacco Ashes and the Ashes of Vine Branche burnt Burnt Allum and many more that which I have found to be the most excellent is the Oyl of Vitaiol mixed with Spring Water and the Teeth washed therewith some say the Oyl of Sulphur hath the same virtue CHAP. XXII Of the Diseases of the Gums SOmetimes sharp and corroding humours flowing from the Brain or occasioned by some Disease of the Stomach Liver or Spleen may cause an Erosion or exulceration of the Gums this Disease is easily known you must purge the humour offending and if the cause be in the Liver Spleen c. you must endeavour to remove it the Flux must be diverted from the part affected by convenient Revulsions Then you must apply Topical Medicines that are astringent and drying Take of Acorn cups Galls and Allum of each one drachm Sanguis Draconis Burnt Hartshorn Red-Roses of each two scruples Sugar-candy Tobacco-ashes and Mirrh of each one scruple pouder them all the white of one Egg beaten to water with as much honey as sufficeth to make it into the form of a soft Ointment spread it upon a Rag and apply it The Oyl of Vitriol or Sulphur mentioned in the former Chapter may be here applyed as there described or a few drops mixed with the aforegoing medicine Sometimes a fleshy excressence is generated upon the Gum and in time groweth so big that it hindereth the speech Fernelius saith that it hath its original from an Ulcer not well healed see Fern. lib. 7. pag. 340. Sometimes it groweth to a Cancer It must be taken off by a careful and well-skilled Chirurgion and afterwards burnt with a Cautery or the Oyl of Vitriol Some cure it thus after purging and sufficient revulsions to divert the defluxion of humours they tye a double thread about it close to the Gum so streight that in time it falleth off then use your Cautery as before to prevent its growth again CHAP. XXIII Of the Ulcers of the mouth IN the upper part of the mouth there are certain Ulcers bred called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we call it Trush vulgarly Thrush it is most common to children presently after they are born caused by the sharpness of the milk or by reason of the milk corrupting in the Stomach for want of good digesture sometimes they happen to men of ripe years they are more or less dangerous as they exceed in quantity or quality their bigness may be discovered by the Eye also how deep and putrid they be their colour declareth the quality of the humour which is the cause of them It Flegme be the cause the Trush is white and easily cured If yellow Choller is the cause and 't is harder to cure If red Blood predominateth If black Melancholy is the cause and 't is the worst and hardest to cure It cometh sometimes by reason of a foul Disease in the body or when the Patient hath got the French Pox. For the Cure if it be in Children you must wash the mouth often with Plantane water and Sirrup of Mulberries or dryed Roses if you find that too weak add some Allum to it Let the Nurse eat such things as are cooling and drying as Pears Medlers and Services Marmalade of Quinces is very good in this case let her likewise make use of Lettice Purslane and other cooling hearbs and if need require let her bleed and purge If your Patient be a man and the Disease be stronger and more violent after the use of mild medicines you must proceed higher If he hath the French Pox he must be freed from that or else you labour in vain Generally you must consider what humour offendeth and purge that you must bleed and use such revulsions as necessity calls for Then you must make a decoction of Plantane Bramble Violet and Strawberry leaves Pomegranate flowers c. add Allum and the Sirrups before mentioned and wash the mouth with it if you finde that it healeth not dip a little Lint in Oyl of Vitriol and often touch it If there be an inflammation add to the before mentioned decoction the juyce of Purslane Housseek and Nightshade or the Mucilage of Quince-seeds or the emulsion of the cold seeds If you find an extraordinary defluxion and your Patient want sleep administer Laudanum the Dose regulated according to the age and strength of your Patient CHAP. XXIIII Of a loose Columella and the inflammation thereof and diseases of the Tonsils The Columella or the Uvula is relaxed or loosened by a waterish humor falling upon it which doth so moisten and soften it that it is extended to the upper part of the Wezand and causeth a Nauseousness and the Patient often striveth to
is sound and the Distemper may be taken away if the Humours which corrupt the Blood be evacuated In the Cure of this Disease your main work is to strengthen the Liver correct the Distemper and stay the Flux If it come from a cold Cause deal with it as with a Dropsy But if it come of a hot Cause as for the most part it doth you may gently evacuate the peccant Humours with Rubarb as you are taught in the Cure of the Dysentery Then you must give Medicines which strengthen the Liver Take of the Roots of Succory Sorrell Bloodwort and Monks-Rubath of each one Ounce the Leaves of Plantane Endive Succory Purslane Agrimeny and Dandelion of each one handfull Wormwood half a handfull Red Sanders two Drachms Coriander seeds prepared a Drachm red Roses one Pugill the shavings of Ivory and Spodium of each a Drachm boil them in Barly water to a Quart and in the straining dissolve of the Sirrups of Quinces Vinegar Simple and dried Roses of each two Ounces of the Oyl of Vitriol as much as will make it moderately sharp and make a Julep for six Doses to be given Morning and Evening First and Last The Sirrup of Myrtles of Succory simple or compound with Rubarb the Sirrup Tincture or Magistery of Pearl is very good and may be made use of as the former or made into a Julep with Plantane or other cooling Waters The Liver of a Wolf is much commended and it may be made into an Electuary Opiate or into any other form with the aforenamed ingredients The Tops of young Nettles boiled in Broth or Water are good and the juyce taken is more powerful to stop the Flux and to purify the Blood It is good to apply an Epitheme to the Region of the Liver made of the aforenamed Ingredients or as many of them as you think good It is convenient that among your Medicines which you give to stop the Flux you administer such as are restorative because in this Disease the Body is much consumed Riverius much commendeth this distilled Water and the truth is it deserveth commendation Take a fat Capon and a Partridge pull and draw them and filth ir bellyes with Succory Agrimony and Snails of each one Handfull Conserve of Roses three Ounces Plantane and Coriander Seeds prepared of each two Drachms Citron Myrabolans one Drachm the Leavs of Bloodwort half a handfull the Troches of Amber and Spodium of each four Scruples the Powder of the Electuary de Gemmis Triasantalon and Diamargariton frigidum of each one Drachm Sprinkle them with Styptick Wine and put them into the Fowls Bellyes boil them in a close Vessel in four Pints of Water till half be consumed then put them into a glasse Limbeck with three Ounces of good Wine and distill them in Balaeo give a little of the Water often by it self or with other Medicines CHAP. L. Of the Worms VVorms for the most part breed in the Guts therefore I shall speak of them here Galen Propounds three kinds of Worms the First are round and long and are called Teretes and are more common then the rest and are bred in the Guts but do somtimes get up into the Stomach The Second are called Ascarides they are little and smal like threds and they commonly ly in the lower part of the thick Intestines and over against the Sphincter-Muscle The third sort are broad Worms and long though seldome seen sometimes they are voided of an incredible length They are bred of such Nourishment as easily putrifieth in the Stomach hence it cometh to passe that Children and such as are gluttonous who eat much Fruit and such things as easily putrify especially more being eaten before the former is digested are troubled with Worms The Signes of Worms in the Guts are divers not in all alike a stinking and sowr Breath Stools like Cow dung in colour Gray like Potters earth Sometimes there is a continual Feaver Heavinesse Fainting Loathing Vomiting unquenchable Thirst and sometimes cold Sweats an unequal Pulse the Cheeks are sometimes red sometimes blew the Eyes shine the Nose itcheth the Teeth gnash a dry Cough There is pain in the Belly sometimes by Inflammation and sometimes by Distention some start in their Sleep Sometimes the Body pineth and the Patient hath an insatiable Appetite this is a Signe of flat Worms which eat up the Food The Ascarides are known by the itching of the Fundament and the Excrements are many times full of them Sometimes the eating away of the Gums is a Signe of Worms Though to Children and older Folk Worms are common and little feared yet many and dangerous Symptoms and Diseases are bred by them In the beginning of a Disease it is evil for Worms to be voided alive or dead especially alone without Dung if they be alive they signify great Crudity and Want of Nourishment if dead great Putrefaction by which they are killed In the declining of a Disease Worms comming forth with the Excrements is a good Signe The Cure of the Worms consisteth in giving Medicines to kill them and to evacuate them being killed The best way to kill them or at least to drive them to the lower Intestines are these Simples which follow viz. all the sorts of Wormwood Southernwood Calamint Dogs-tooth Century Horehound Dittany Hyssop Rew Savin Peach leavs Coriander seed Harts horn Lupines Mints Garlick Elecampane and many other of these Simples may several forms of Medicines be composed mixing with them such things as purge not onely to kill but also to carry away the Cause of Worms Rubarb is much commended because it may safely be given if a Feaver be present Take of Rubarb one Drachm yellow Sanders half a Scruple infuse them in Purslane water three Ounces strain them and dissolve the Powder of Rubarb and the Powder against the Worms which you may have at the Apothecaryes of each one Scruple Sirrup of Roses one Ounce mix them and make a Potion If the Feaver be not great add Hiera picra to your Potion more or lesse according to the strength of your Patient afterwards give a Clister made of the Decoction of Liquorish Raisons Figs or Chicken Broth sweetned with Sugar and Hony of Roses such Clisters are good to draw them down into the thick Guts Afterwards give a Clister made after this manner Take of Wormwood Southernwood Century of each one handfull Lupines half an Ounce the Seed of Wormwood and Coriander seed prepared of each two Drachms In a half Pint or a Pint of the strained Liquor according umo the age of the Patient dissolve one Ounce or two of the Oyl of Wormwood and Salt one Drachm and an half To bring them out being killed add to the former Clister Benedicta Laxativa Hiera picra and Cassia newly drawn of each three Drachms or more if your Patient can bear it Rondoleitus doth highly commend Diaearthamum and the Infusion of Agarick in Oxymel because it not onely killeth Worms but purgeth Phlegm and corrupted
Greek is a Disease which modern Writers call Scalding of the Urine it differs from Stranguria in this that more Water is made and with farr more pain Any thing that can wound the Sphincter-Muscle or passage of the Bladder may be the Cause The usuall Cause is either a mixture of sharp Humours with the Urine or sometimes the sharpnesse of the Urine caused by the eating of hot and sharp Meats or by the hot Distemper of the Bowels Liver or other parts or from evill Concoction in the Stomach or Liver by which the Blood is not freed from salt and tartarous Humours which being sucked to the Kidneys is sent to the Bladder causeth pain Filthy Matter comming from an Ulcer in the Reins or Bladder may be the Cause he who is troubled with a Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins is seldom free from scalding Urine To conclude the Stone or large Gravel may be the Cause The Knowledge of this Disease is evident the Signes of the Causes are easily gathered If it be caused by the Stone Inflammation or Gonorrhaea it is known by their proper Signes If from sharpnesse of Urine by the mixture of Humours the Urine will be thin and high coloured or in it will appear a mixture of Choller Phlegm or Matter the Patient hath eaten hot things or else hath some hot Distemper This Disease is not very dangerous unlesse it continue long and ulcerateth the Neck of the Bladder Sometimes it is hard to be cured especially if the Patient be old The Cure must be wrought by taking away the Cause If a mixture of sharp Humours make the Vrine sharp first make use of Phlebotomy which is good to correct the hot Distemper of the Liver and other parts make use of this Evacuation as often as the Patient's Constitution will bear and the Distemper require then to derive it from the part affected open the lower Veins Then purge with Cassia Manna Rubarb Mirabolans Tamarinds and such things which purge gently if you give it with the Decoction of Plantane Mallows Lettice Purslane and the like it will be the better A gentle Vomit is much commended as a good Revulsion Cooling Clisters are good Inwardly the Whey of Goats milk or Mineral Waters that cool are good for ordinary drink Or this Julep Take of the Roots of Marsh and common Mallows of each one Ounce Lettice Endive Purslane and Violet Leavs of each one Handfull Jujubes and Sebestens of each one Ounce of the four great cold Seeds a Drachm the flowers of Violets Roses and water-Lillyes of each one Pugil boil them in Spring Water to a Pint and an half strain it and add of Jujubes Violets and Poppyes of each one Ounce and an half Oyl of Vitriol twenty Drops make a Julep for four Doses to be taken Morning and Evening If there be no Feaver give Milk by it self The Troches of Winter Cherryes is good If the pain be very great let the Patient when he maketh Water put his Yard into warm Milk or a Decoction of Mallows and other cooling Herbs Or inject Milk Plantane-Water or an Emulsion of the cold Seeds into the Passage Baths and Fomentations made of cool Herbs are good and if the Privities be anointed with Unguentum Populeon the Oyl or Unguent of Roses Oyl of Lillyes and the like it profiteth If the Liver Reins or other parts by their Heat be the Cause use Medicines that are good to cool them If the Liver be too hot bleed the Haemorrhoids or make an Issue in the right Leg. If it come from the Stone Inflammation or Vlcer of the Bladder or Kidneys cure them according to the Rules in their proper Chapters but the cooling Medicines before mentioned are good to allay the Symptomes CHAP. LXX Of Pissing of Blood THough Blood may come from divers parts of the Body to the Passages of the Vrine yet I shall here speak onely of that bloody Vrine which is made from the defect of the Reins or Bladder The usual Causes are much sharp Blood which corrodeth the Veins or plenty of Blood which bursteth them Sometimes a Stone in the Reins or Bladder being moved by Riding or violent Excercise by its roughnesse teareth the part A Fall or Stroak vehement Motion lifting or carrying may break a Vein Sometimes the Weakness of the Reins being not able to divide the Vrine from the Blood may cause this Disease This Disease is apparent to the Senses for when Blood is mixed with the Vrine it appeareth like Water wherein Flesh hath been washed with Clods of Blood at the bottom if it stayes too long in the Bladder it looks black The place that is pained shews the part affected If it come from the Reins it is more mixed with the Urine then if it come from the Bladder If it come from the Bladder it is in a lesser Quantity If it come from the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder the Signes mentioned in their proper Chapters will appear If it come from Repletion or Sharpnesse of Humours the Abundance of Blood Choller Melancholy or such Humours appear in the Body If it come by a Blow Fall violent Exercise c. the Patient is able to inform This Disease if it be violent and continue long is very dangerous for sometimes the Patient falleth into a Consumption sometimes into the Dropsy Sometimes it causeth a Stoppage of Urine and sometimes an Vlcer breedeth in the place from whence the Blood Floweth If Blood or sharp Humours abound begin the Cure with blood-letting after a while for derivation let the Haemorrhoids and the Saphaena or Ancle-Vein be opened Then purge the chollerick Humours with those Medicines that are prescribed in the 30 Chapter Of Spitting of Blood After you have purged sufficiently give things that knit the Veins and stop Blood For this purpose give four or five Ounces of the Juyce of Plantane and a Scruple of the Troches of Amber or of Gordonius Morning and Evening Forestus in his Observations doth much commend Sheeps Milk six Ounces with one Drachm of Bolearmenick is the Dose The Decoction of Knot-grasse Purslane Horse-Tail Comphry roots Plantane Pomgranats Quinces and the like Likewise the Powder of red Coral Blood-Stone Sanguis Draconis Terra Sigillata given with the Water or Juyce of Plantane is good Giye cooling Juleps to allay the Heat of the Blood Apply such things to the Loins as cool and astringe thus Take of the Roots of Bistort Comphry and Clowns-Wound-Wort of each one Ounce Horse-Tail Plantane Purslane Knot grasse and Shepherds purse of each one Handfull Pomgranate peels half an Ounce Sumach Myrtle Berryes and Hypocystis of each two Drachms Acorn cups red and yellow Sanders of each one Drachm red Roses three pugils boil them in Smith's Water and Vinegar therewith soment the Reins Then anoint the Loins with Unguentum Comitissae and Refrigerans Galeni and if you would have it bind more add the juyce of Plantane or such like Sanguis Draconis c. Then wear a
sort are these the Powder of Mercury Unguentum Aegyptiacum or Apostolorum with Natural Verdegrease Of the stronger sort are Quicklime Red Vitriol Burnt Vitriol Mercury sublimate Of these may many Compounds be made which for brevity sake I omit If the Lips of the Ulcer be hard soften it with mollifying Medicines made of the fat of a Goose Hen Duck Lion Bear Calf Oxe or the like the Oyl of Lillies Sweet Almonds Earth-Worms Foxes Unguentum Basilicon Diachilon and Emplastrum de Mucilaginibus If it be so hard that it will not yield to Medicine make use of In cision Cautery or of the aforenamed corrosive Medicines If the Bone be defiled by an Ulcer take it off with a Scaling Instrument or an hot Iron after you have loosed the Scale the first three days apply Oyl of Roses and the White of an Egg warm the next three days the yolk of an Egg and Oyl of Roses after that with Butter and Hony If the Bone lie so deep that you cannot apply your hot Iron inject this Water Take of White Wine one pound and an half the distilled Waters of Plantane and Roses of each one pound Mercury sublimate three drachms Bolearmenick half an ounce Burnt Allum one ounce and an half white Vitriol and Borax of each half an ounce White Sugar two ounces Maslick Sarcocol of eath one ounce and an half Powder what is to be powdered boil it to the consumption of half then filter it and add of the best Aqua Vitae one pound and reserve it to your use It is good also to lay this following Powder to the putrified Bone Take of round Birthwort and the Bark of the Pine-tree of each three drachms of the Root of Hegs Fennel and Reeds of each two drachms of Agarick and Tartar of each one drachm and an half Eupborbium one drachm make a Powder lay it upon the putrified Bone or mixe it with Honey or Aegyptiacum or such like If Worms breed in the Ulcer take away the humidity and putrefaction whereof they are ingendred kill the Worms with the Juyces or Decoction of Wornewood Centory Eupatorium Wormwood and such like bitter Hearbs So much for the general cure of Ulcers CHAP. XII Rules for Vomiting and Purging THE first thing herein confiderable is the matter offending what part of the body is afflicted and which is the best way to evacuate the peccant humour The matter offending is either Flegm Water Choller or Melancholy Purging Simples work gently or strongly those that work gently onely are to be given to weak Bodies the strongest to stronger persons Be well advised of the offending humour before you purge least instead of helping you weaken Nature Before you take a purge let the Humours be prepared by some Medicines proper for the purpose especially if Flegm or Melancholy be the humour you would purge Prepare the body before with Medicines that are attenuating and cutting and let your Purge be made up with it The next Book will furnish you with variety of altering and preparing Medicines It is a matter of consequence to consider what part of the body is afflicted and to form your Purges accordingly If the remote parts of the body be afflicted as the Head Arms Feet and the like let your Purge be made up into a hard form as Pills that by their long stay in the body they may be the better able to draw the humours from those parts If the oftending humour lye in the Bowels or adjacent parts use liquid Medicines and in all these look not upon the multitude of Ejections but of the matter ejected If the humours lye in the Tunicle of the Stomach a Vomit is necessary and in many cases more it is a good Revulsion but take them not without advice from an able Physitian If the Purge work not at all give warm Broath and Posset Drink and if the Purge were strong give a Clister If it work too stronâ—ly which is worse give such things as make the Bowels slippery for Ejection as the Oyl of Almonds which is good if the mouths of the Veins be opened or if there happen excoriation for the same purpose Quince-seeds and Mallows boiled in milk is good and Gum Traganth dissolved in water or Milk the Syrup or Marinalade of Quinces have the like virtue If Vomiting hold too long give a draught of Milk with a little Mastich therein and lay to the Stomach Emplastrum è Crusta Panss If either Vomit or Purge work too churlishly some give a Pill of Laudanum and with good success Anoint the Stomach and Belly with Oyl of Roscs and lay on it the Powder of Mastich of Galls and Red-Roso leaves Chymical Medicines if they be rightly prepared and administred with care and judgment are the best for they stay but a little while in the body and do not bind afterwards because the Terrene part is taken away If the Humour be tough it is not easily carryed away therefore in such cases purge gently and often The Dose ought to be regulated by an able Brain In the next Book I shall give you the Faculties and Dose of most of the Medicines in use amongst us For the Times and Seasons of purging in respect of the motion of the Moon and Stars I have given you a few general Rules at the latter end of my Almanack for the Year 1659. to which I refer you An end of the Third Book BOOK IV. IN this I shall shew you the Faculty and Natural Operation of most of the compound Medicines now in use amongst us and sold by the Apothecary together with a general Rule for the making of all such kind of Medicines Those that desire a more particular Description of their Ingredients or Compositions let them peruse the Dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physitians of London If they cannot understand the Latine Tongue let them make use of the Translation thereof by Mr. Culpeper it being unbefitting for this Volumne Be pleased therefore to accept of their Faculties and Doses from the least to the greatest which must be regulated with judgment and discretion according to the age or strength of the Patient the Season of the Year and the nature of the Distemper CHAP. I. Of Distilled Waters COld or simple Distilled Waters are drawn out of Hearbs Flowers Fruits and Roots all which ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigour and ought to be gathered in a dry day about Noon The common way is to distil them in a Peuter Still the Water thus distilled is of all Medicines the weakest yet is of use in mixing them with other Medicines that they may be the better taken To avoid burning put fifted Ashes under the Vessel which holds the Hearbs and give a gentle fire But to make the Water have more smell and vertue of the Hearbs do thus Take what green Hearb and Roots or Flowers fresh gathered if you please bruise them and mix with them some Leaven and let them stand close
covered four or five days then distil them as aforesaid To make it stronger do thus When you have distilled any Hearb as aforesaid in a common Still by putting a Paper under them to prevent burning and drying the Cake overmuch Put the Water and the Cake together into a hot Still or Alembick and let them stand warm 24 hours then distil them and if you would have the Water yet stronger pour this Water upon more Cakes and do as before and if there be any Oyl upon the top of the Water separate it thus you shall have a very strong and excellent Water Or if you perform this distillation in a glasse Gourd in a gentle Balneo that is in warm-water your water will be very good and far excelling the water distilled the common way To know the virtue and use of these waters you must find the virtue of the hearb by some Herball or History of Plants and Hearbs If you would have a distilled water out of flowers which shall retaine the smell of the flower do thus Take Roses Violets Honey-suckles or what other flower you would distill pick them being first gathered in a fair and Sunshine day infuse a handfull or two of them into two quarts of the best White-wine the space of half an hour not much longer lest with the subtill spirit the carthy part also come forth then take them forth and infuse in the same Wine the same quantity of flowers do so eight or ten times Then put the Wine into a glasse body or Gourd and close the joynts well with Lutement and distill it in a gentle Balneo or place your Glasse over the Vapour of hot water that so the subrill spirit only may assend By this meanes you shall have a water of a most fragrant odour You may distill a water strong of the vegetable out of dried hearbs thus Take of any hearb dried or seed or root if you please a pound put it into twelve pints of clear spring water let it stand warm as aforesaid then distill it in a hot Still or Alembick to this distilled water add more dried hearbs and distill againe as often as you please till your water become like a Spirit Or if you add White-Wine to the hearb it will be the stronger which leads me to the distylled waters prescribed by the Colledge of Phisitians of one of which I shall set down the manner of distilling and content my self in describing the virtues and quantity to be used of the rest Spiritus aqua Absynthii minus composita The Spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition Take of the Leaves of dried Wormwood two pound Annis seed half a pound sleep them in six Gallons of small Wines twenty four hours then distill them in an Alembeck adding to every pound of the distilled water two ounces of the best Sugar Let the two first pound you draw off be called the Spirit of Wormwood the rest wormwood-Water the lesse composition In the same manner omitting the Anniseeds you may distill the Spirit and Water of any hearb root flower or seed whatsoever Spiritus aqua Absynthii magis composita The Spirit and Water of Wormwood the greater Composition Take of common and Roman Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Salme of each two handfull the roots of Galanga Ginger Calamus Aromations and Elitampane of each three drachms Liquoris one ounce and Raisons of the Sun stoned three ounces the seeds of Annis and sweet Fennell of each three drachms Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms and Cubebs of each one drachm let the things that are to be cut be cut and bruised that are to be bruised and all of them infused in twenty four pints of Spanish Wine for twenty four houres then distilled in an Alembeck add two ounces of white Sugar to every pint of distilled water Call the first pint the Spirit of Wormwood the greater Composition The vertues are these it heats and strengthens the Stomach and Lungs helps Concoction and stays Vomiting it kills Wormes in the Stomach and Belly expells wind mitigates the paines of the Teeth The dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Spiritus aqua Angelicae magis Composita The Spirit and Water of Angelica the greater Composition It comforteth the heart and vitall Spirits it rarefieth and discusseth flatuous humors it is good against Poyson taken against the Pestilence it is prevalent and a good preservative in pestilentiall times and against ill Aires It is good against Crudities of the Stomach and diseases of the Matrix proceeding from a cold cause The dose is from two drachms to six Spiritus Lavendalae Compositus The Compound Spirit of Lavender This is a very chargeable Spirit and is of great efficacy against passions of the Heart Convulsions Cramps Palsies Apoplexies and all sleepy diseases vertigo and comforts a cold brain The dose is the same with the former Spiritus Castorei Spirit of Castor It resisteth Poyson and is good for such as are bitten by Venemous Creatures gives speedy delivery to Women in Travail and easeth the Fits of the Mother It helpeth Deasness proceeding from stoppage mixed with White Wine and dropped into the Ears It is good against the Diseases mentioned in the former The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Give it in something that is cooler Aqua Petasitidis Composita The Water of Butter bur Compound It is good against the Pestilence and a good preservative in Pestilential Times it gives ease to those who are short-winded easeth the Fits of the Mother it dryes up moist Humours in those that have Sores hard to be cured The Dose is two three or four drachms in some cooling Cordial Aqua Raphani Composita Radish Water compound This Water is good against obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Womb prevaileth against the Scurvey and cleanseth Women after their lying in The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Peoniae Composita The Compound Water of Peony This is very prevalent against the Falling Sickness and Convulsions If the Fits come daily take it Morning and Evening If it come Weekly take it at the New or Full Moon the first or last Quarter If the Disease decline give it onely at New and Full Moon In the Fit it is good to rub the Jaws Nostrils and Temples with it The Dose is from two drachms to six Aqua Bezoartica Or Bezoar Water It withstands Melancholy and is good for such as are in Consumptions It strengtheneth the Heart and Vital Spirits It is Diaphoretick and is good in Pestilential Feavers The Dose is from half a drachm to a drachm Give it with other cooling Cordials Aqua Spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis The Magistral Water and Spirit of Earth-Worms I conceive this was composed for a Restorative for such people that have lingring Diseases occasioned by obstruction of the Liver Spleen and Kidneys as the Evil Habit Hypochondriack Melancholy Scurvey c. The Dose
is from half an Ounce to an Ounce Aqua Gentianae Composita Gentian Water Compound It is a good Preservative against the Pestilence caseth pains in the Stomach and helpeth Digestion and drives out old Colds openeth Obstructions of the Liver easeth the pricking pains in the sides and is good against the yellow Jaundies it provokes the Terms and expelleth a dead Child or After-Birth The Dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Aqua Gilberti Gilberts Water This Water is a very great Cordial it strengtheneth the Heart and reviveth languishing Nature it may be taken from half a drachm to a drachm it is so costly that it is almost out of the reach of ordinary people Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae It is a very cooling Water and profitable in Feavers and to allay the heat of bloud it giveth rest by sleep You may take from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Theriacalis Or Treacle Water This Water is of excellent vertue against the Pestilence and other Feavers it is a very good counter-poyson and good for those that have been bit by any venemous Creature or such as have the French Pox for it driveth forth all vitulent Humours from the Heart and is a great Cordial The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Brioniae Composita Or Briony Water Compound This Water is Hysterical easeth the Fits of the Mother it expelleth the After-Birth and provoketh Womens Courses Let Women with Child forbear it Let those that have occasion take from half an ounce to an ounce in the Morning fasting Aqua Caponis Or Capon-Water It is good for such whose strength is decayed by Feavers or other Sicknesses it is an excellent Medicine for those that are in Consumptions or wasted by a Feaver Hectick or Marasmus Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Limacum Magistralis Or the Magistral Water of Snails It openeth Obstructions of the Lungs and purgeth them of Flegm and is very good for the Consumption of the Lungs Take half an ounce or an ounce Aqua Scordii composita Or Compound Water of Scordium This is a good Preservative against the Pestilence gives rest in Feavers and is friendly to the Stomach and Womb. Take it from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Imperialis and Aqua Mariae It strengtheneth and corroborateth the Heart and is therefore good for such as are subject to Faintings Swoonings and Palpitations of the Heart and is a Preservative against Apoplexies The Dose is from one drachm to three Aqua Mirabilis This is of admirable force and virtue to preserve the Body from the Apoplexy and all Diseases of the Nerves It is very good against the Palsie Convulsion and Cramp and is good for cold Stomachs From two drachms to half an ounce is the Dose Aqua Papaveris composita Or Poppy Water compound It is good against Surfets and Feavers thereâ—from arising it provoketh sleep cooleth the bloud and concocteth the Humours Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Cinnamomi Cinnamon Water It strengtheneth the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves It cleareth the sight is an Antidote against Poyson and biting by venemous creatures and is good against a stinking Breath and nauseousness of the Stomach It is very friendly to the Womb and is of an attenuating opening digesting and strengthning virtue From two drachms to six is the usual Dose in cold Diseases you may take more Aqua Caelestis This also prevaileth against Malignant and Pestilential Feavers restoreth such as are in Consumptions comforteth the Heart and reviveth drooping Spirits It is very hot in operation You must scarcely exceed half a drachm for the outmost Dose without the advise of a Physitian In Feavers mix it with cooling Juleps Aqua Melissae Bawm Water It restoreth Memory lost it maketh all the Senses acute it strengtheneth the Heart Brain and Stomach and for those who are troubled with cold Stomachs and Brain it is a Jewel It maketh the Heart glad the Tongue nimble in those who are subject to the Palsie in that Member the Teeth white and the Breath sweet The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Menthae Mint Water It cools and strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Spleen helps Concoction breaketh Wind and stays Vomiting The Dose is from one drachm to three Ordinary Aqua Vitae Annise-seed water Usquebath and such like are commonly used and most people know they comfort a cold Stomach and is good against hurt of Digestion coming from a cold cause It breaks Wind and the like Tinctures are made of any Hearb or other Simple by first bruising them and putting to them as much Spirit of Wine as will cover them three or four fingers cork it up or seal it and let it digest in a Bath as long as you see good If you know the virtue of the Simples you cannot be ignorant of the Tincture To make Physical Wines is easie Take this one for an Example Take a handful of dryed Wormwood for every Gallon of Wine stop it in a Vessel close and let it remain in steep So you may prepare a Physical Wine of any Hearb Flower or Seed whatsoever either simple or compound Physical Vinegars are prepared thus Take of Red-Rose Buds gathered in a dry time the Whites being cut off and dryed in the shadow three or four days one pound Vinegar eight Sextaries set them in the Sun fourty days then strain out the Roses and repeat the infusion as often as you please Thus may you prepare Physical-Vinegars of any Flower As the Hot Waters and Spirits are best for cold Bodies and hot Diseases so on the contrary are Vinegars best in hot Diseases and may be externally used These I thought good to add the Treatise of Distilled Waters For the preparation of Distilled Waters of this nature read Quercetanus his Dispensatory one of which I shall here insert having prescribed it in the afore going Books which is his Distilled Water against spitting of bloud Take of the Roots of Bistort Comphry and Tormentil of each one ounce the Leaves of Knotgross Yarrow Speedwel Winter Green Sanicle Shepherds Purse with its Root of each one handful of the tops of the Blackberry Bush and Mastick Tree of each half a handful the Seeds of Sumach Myrrles Plantane Barberies and white Poppy of each 6 drachms the Flowers of Water-Lillies Gourds Quinces and Red Roses of each two Pugils let them be mixed and beaten then macerated in Balneo for the space of four days in the Juyces following viz. Plantane Purslane Sorrel and Agrimony of each two pound Let them be afterwards strongly pressed out then add of the Juyce of Acatia Hypocistis of each two Ounces Terra Sigillata and Bolearmenick of each half an ounce Electuarium Diatraganthum frigidum of each two drachms Macerate them for four dayes and distil it in Ashes till it be dry Let them who are troubled with spitting of bloud or any inward Wound or Bruise take
Syrup of Harts-Tongue It opens the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen prepares Melancholy and is good against the Quartan Ague and the Rickets The Dose is from half an Ounce to two Ounces Syrupus de Staechade Syrup of Staethas It strengtheneth the Brain and corrects the cold distemper thereof it is of excellent virtue in the Palsie Convulsion c. coming of cold Causes The Dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus de Symphyto Syrup of Comphry It helps spitting of Bloud the Ulcer of the Reins stops the immoderate Flux of the Menstrues all inward Wounds and Bruises and healeth the Rupture From one ounce to four is the Dose Syrupus Violarum Syrup of Violets It cools and moisteneth it corrects the sharpnesse of Choller quencheth Thirst in hot Feavers and cooleth the Heart and Liver comforts hot Stomachs resisteth putrefaction the Pestilence and Poyson The Dose is from one ounce to four Syrupus de Portulaca Syrup of Purflane It is cooling and good for all hot Diseases of the Stomach Liver Reins and Bladder it cooles the Bloud quencheth Thirst provokes sleep and thickens thin Humours The Dose is from one Ounce to three Syrupus Tussilaginis compositus The Compound of Syrup Coltsfoor It holps the infirmities and weakness of the Lungs as difficulty of breathing want of Voice Hoarsnesse Coughs Catarrhs c. Take it with a Liquoris Stick or an Ounce or two thereof in some Pectoral Decoction Syrupus de Eupatorio Syrup of Eupatorium It hath an opening Faculty but purgeth not it opens the Obstructions of the Liver and correcteth the cold Distemper thereof helps the Dropsie and evil state of the Body provokes Urine and is good against the Hypochondriack Melancholy The Dose is from one Ounce to three Purging Syrups Syrupus de Cichorio cum Rhabarbaro Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb It purgeth the body of Cholerick and venemous Humours it cleanseth the Liver it evacuatech by stool and urine The Dose is from one Ounce to two Syrupus de Epithymo Or Syrup of Epithymum It prepareth and purgeth Melancholy or adult Humours and Scabs Itch c. It strengtheneth the stomach and Liver Take it as Syrup of Fumitory Syrupus è Floribus Persicorum Syrup of Peach Flowers It gently purgeth Choller and may be given in Feavers to evacuate the sharp and Cholerick Humours It is good against Wounds in Children Take from half an Ounce to two Syrupus de Pomis Purgans Magistralis Syrup of Apples Purging and Magistcal Both of them purge cool and rectifie the Distempers of the bloud and free it from Choler and Melancholy it is good against the yellow and black Jaundise Madness Scurf Scabs and Itch The Dose is from one Ounce to three Syrupus de Rhabarbaro Syrup of Rhubarb This is a gentle Purge fitting for Children ancient People and such as are very weak it purgeth Choller and Melancholy An Ounce a weak body may take Syrupus Rosaceus Solativus è Succo rosarum Syrup of Roses Sclutive and of the Juyce of Roses It looseneth the Belly and gently bringeth out Choller and Flegm The Dose is from two Ounces to five Syrupus Rosaceus Solutivus cum Agarico Syrup of Roses Solutive with Agarick It purgeth Flegm more powerfully then the former frees the head thereof and relieves the Senses oppressed by it it purgeth the Stomach and Liver provokes Urine and the Terms The Dose is from an Ounce to two Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Helleboro Syrup of Roses solutive with Hellebore It purgeth Melancholy and resisteth Madnesse The Dose is from half an Ounce to an Ounce Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Sena Syrup of Roses solutive with Senna It purgeth Choller and Melancholy and leaves a binding quality behind it The Dose is from one ounce to two Syrupus de Spina Cervina Syrup of Purging Thorns It is good against the Dropsie The Dose is an ounce Syrups made with Vinegar and Honey Mel Authosatum Honey of Rosemary Flowers IT is good against all infirmities of the Head arising from a cold and moist cause it dryes the Brain quickens the Senses and Memory and strengtheneth the Nervous parts it helps all cold Diseases of the Head Stomach Liver and Belly It is good against the Dumb Palsie Lethargy c. and all cold Rhumes falling into the Eyes See the virtues of Rosemary Flowers The Dose is from half an Ounce to an Ounce Mell Helleboratum Honey Helleborated It purgeth Melancholy and Scabs Itch c. it is good against the Quartan Ague Madness the Dropsie Sciatica Gout Cramp c. An Ounce is the Dose Be careful in the taking of such Medicnes without good advise Mel Mercuriale Honey of Mercury It is good in Emollient Clisters Mel Nuceum Honey of Nuts It is a very good Medâ—cine for such as have weak Stomachs and Defluxions it is a great preservative against the Plague Take an Ounce in the Morning Mel Passulatum Honey of Raisins It maketh the body soluble comforteth weak stomachs and is a very nourishing thing for people in Consumptions You cannot err in taking of it Mel Mororum Honey of Mulberries It is very good for sore Mouthes and Throats and for heat and inflammation there mixed with a little Plantane Water it is good for sore mouthes in children Mel Rosatum soliatum sive colatum Common Honey of Roses or strained They are both used for Diseases of the Mouth as the former Mel Rosatum solutivum Honey of Roses solutive It is used to cleanse Wounds and is a good Laxative in Clisters Mel Scilliticum Honey of Squils It is very effectual against divers distempers of the Head viz. Falling Sickness Head-ache Dissinesse it drives away an old Cough cleanseth the Breast and Bowels very gently and some say it leaveth nothing offensive in the body The Dose is half an Ounce to an Ounce and an half Oxymel simplex Simple Oxymel It is good to cut and attenuate Humours and to open Obstructions provokes gentle Vomiting in some It is good to expectorate and to prepare tough Flegm against the taking of a Vomit Take it from one ounce to two Oxymel Compositus Oxymel compound Use this if you find the former too weak to expectorate viscuous Humors it is good also in the Asthma stoppage of the Pipes and in the Plurisie The Dose is from half an Ounce to two Oxymel Helleboratum Oxymel Helleborated It strongly evacuateth Flegm Melancholy and tough and viscuous Humours The Dose is from half an Ounce to an Ounce for strong people onely Oxymel Julianizans It is good against the Hypocondriack Melancholy and the Rickets for it is a fine opening Medicine Take an Ounce two or three Oxymel Scilliticum simplex the simple Oxymel of Squils It cuts and divides tough and viscuous Humours frees the Stomach and Bowels of such humours and helps sour Belchings The Dose is an Ounce for a man Oxymel Scilliticum compositum the compound Oxymel of Squils This is used when easier Medicines cannot expectorate
Sanders It helps hot infirmities of the Liver Stomach and other parts FINIS A Table explaining the Terms of Art and other Words which are not in the reach of Vulgar Capacities A. ABdomen the Belly or Paunch Absurdity Unreasonableness Abstergent Cleansing Actual heat Is a heat that can be felt with the hand as in the fire or things heated by it or in the body of one in a Feaver Actual cold Understand it as the former Accidentally By hap or chance Acrimony Sharpness Accident Is a symptome or something happening in a Disease Access Addition joyning to Acute Sharp violent a Disease that soon ends Adventitious Not natural springing from external causes Adstriction Binding together shutting up Adust Burned Adjacent Lying near Adverse Contrary to Adjunct causes of a Disease Are such qualities are joyned with it Adjuvant causes are such as assist the principal cause Aduata The outmost panicle of the Eye Affected Diseased troubled disordered Afflux Flowing to Agglutinative Joyning glewing souldering together Aliment All kind of Nourishment Alexipharmacal Medicines are such as resist the Plague and all venemous Diseases Albugo The White of the Eye Alteratives Are such Medicines as alter the quality of the Body and the Humours by heating or cooling moistning or drying Animal Faculties Are Imagination Judgment Memory the Senses Hearing Seeing Smelling Tasting Feeling Going Standing and all voluntary Motion Antecedent cause Is the cause afore-going of any Discase The antecedent cause of an Erysipelas or Cholerick Tumour is Choler abounding in the Body The conjunct cause is Choler gathered in the part Anodines Medicines which asswage pain Aneurism Is when the internal coat of an Artery is broken and the external coat swelled Aâ—tepileptical Medicines Are such as are good against the Falling-Sickness Anus The Fundament Analogically Proportionably conveniently equally Apophlegmatisms Medicines which draw Flegm from the Head Apozeme A Medicine made of the decoction of divers Hearbs altering and purging sometimes Syrups mixed therewith to prepare and gently to purge the Humours Apoplectick Medicines Are such as are to be administred in the Apoplexy Apply Lay on Aquae Acidulae The Spaw Waters they are of the nature of Tunbridge Epsome and Barnet Aranea Tunica The sixth Tunicle of the Eye which is like a Cobweb Articulate Voice Is Human Voice or Speech Aromatized Spiced perfumed sented Artery Is a Sinew or Vein wherein passeth the Spirit of Life with the Blood or Vital Blood Arteria Venosa Is an Artery or rather a Vein which from the right and left Region of the Lungs carries Blood and Air to the left Ventricle of the Heart Arteriosa is a Vein from the right Ventricle of the Heart administers blood to the right and left part of the Lungs Aspera Arteria The rough Artery or Wind-pipe Ascent Going up Astringents Medicines that bind together and straiten the pores and passages of the body Astriction Straitening or binding together Asthmatical Trouble for want of Breath Atracting Drawing together Attest Witness declare Atrophya When the body pines away for want of nonrishment Attenuating Making thin Augment Is when a Disease encreaseth and is not at the height Autumn Harvest or Fall of the Leaf Axiome An undoubted Truth B. BAlneum Mariae Is when a Still standeth in warm water Bolus Signifieth a Morsel it is a Medicine to be taken upon the point of a knife Bellilucanae Thermae Hot Bathes in France Bituminous Bathes come from a fat Clay of the nature of Brimstone Bronchia The Branches of the Wezand and Wind-pipe which spread themselves through the Lungs C. CAruncle is a piece of flesh growing upon any part Catarrh is a defluxion or distillation of Humours upon the Lungs or other parts from the Brain Cataphora Dead sleep Catalepsis Congelation or stiffness of the body Causticks are Medicines which burn the Skin and Flesh to make Issues Cautery actual is burning with a red hot iron Cataplasm A Pultiss Cavity Hollowness Carus Foulness Corruption Rottenness Caleine To burn to ashes in a Crucible Cacochymical Abounding with evil humours Cardialgia Pain at Heart Heart-griefs Cardiogmos Heart-burning Carminative are such medicines as break-Wind Catheter A hollow Instrument to open the passage of the Urine to draw Urine from the Bladder or to remove the Stone Cartilages are Gristles Cataract is a Disease of the Eye See the 11th Chap. Book 2. Callous The skin or flesh grown hard or unsensible Cerates are Medicines made of Wax softer then a Plaister and stiffer then an Ointment Cephalick Capital of or belonging to the Head Chalybeated Water Milk or Wine as when red hot Steel is quenched therein also when a tincture of Steel is drawn by Wine c. Chylus a certain white substance wrought by the digestive faculty of the Stomach and is carryed to the Liver Chirurgeon Surgeon Cicatrize To bring to a scar to skin a Wound or Ulcer Circumvolution Turned round Condense To make thick Congelation Freezing or joyning with cold Chorion The skin that covers the child in the Womb. Constipation Stopping up Collyries Eye-salves Contraction Drawing together Cornea a coat of the Eye like a horn Compression Thrusting together Contusion Bruising bruise Cold Seeds The greater are the Seeds of Citrul Cucumber Gourd Molone The other are the Seeds of Endive Succory Lettice Purslane Confirmed is when a Disease is perfect Couched is when any film is pressed down or taken out of the Eye with a Needle Continuity Joyning together Compact Firmly united Concoct is when the blood is separated and made pure or when Flegm or other Humours are separated from the blood or other mixtures Connatural infirmity is that which is born with a Man as to be born with one hand is a connatural Disease Convex Bunching out Conjunct cause See antecedent cause Constriction a drawing together Congestion a gathering together Conjoyned matter See conjunct cause Corroding Eating knawing biting Consolidation closing of a wound Commissura The Mold of the Head where the Skull is united Consistence a Body or Substance Complication of Diseases is a mixture of divers Diseases in the body Coalition Healing up of a wound Coincide That happeneth together Co-indicants are divers considerations in a sick body which call for one and the same Remedy Contra-indicants are such as disswade a Remedy Coction of Humours See concoct Commemorative Remembring what is past Contumacy Rebellious stubborn Corroborate To strengthen Gostiveness Is when the body is hard bound and seldom goeth to stool Columella is a loose spungie piece of flesh it sticks to the roof of the mouth just at the swallow Coagulate is to thicken any thing by heat Coronal Suture is the Seam where the two sides of the Skull close running through the Crown Crude Humours are such as are not well digested in the Stomach Critical Evacuation is when by bleeding at the Nose Mouth by Vomit c. the humours offending are sent forth by the strength of Nature Crystalline Humour is that part of the Eye which is like Crystal Chronical