Tumor of the Head caused by the Collection of Waterish humours in some part of the Members constituting the head The immediate cause is either 1. A Wind which is seldome in regard of the rarity and purosity of the head which appears by the hairiness of it and the Thumes and Tenuity of the Wind made of a very thin humour and so easily dissolved and dissipated 2. Thin and Waterish humour which is sometimes thick and coloured by the mixture of the Ichor of other humours with it This humour is collected more often in the Womb then out of it and in the head then other parts because 1. Of the great moisture of the Brain 2. The plenty of Vapours which ascend to the head and by its coldness turne into Water 3. It being the seat of Waterish humors for the Head is placed over the Belly as the Head of a Still over the body of it 4. The Density of the Skull which retains the Vapours The Signes by which this Disease is known relate to the Cause or Place If Wind be the Cause the head lightly struck will sound like a Drum and the Tumor prest by a Finger yeilds to it and leaves a Dent which presently fills up again If an humour be the cause and not within the Skull the Tumor is soft clear if prest it slowly returns to its former fulnesse the Colour of the Skin is unchang'd and there is crying and want of sleep If the humour be within the Skull the Infant hath an heaviness of the head cryes and cannot sleep and in those of elder years the eyes are prominent and stand out weeping and can hardly be shut and sometimes the fancy is hurt The Presage If the Tumor is within the Skull some think it incureable others think it cureable by Cauteries and by Diaphoreticks If it is on the outside of the Skull it is dangerous because of the Dignity of the Head and the tenderness of it in an Infant for every Disease of the head is dangerous especially in an Infant whose tenderness cannot endure a Disease or Remedy and if the humor should move inwardly there is great danger of a Lethargy or Apoplexy The Cure is by discussing and extenuating the wind and evacuating the humour insensibly or sensibly by purging or manual Operation for the doing whereof a convenient Diet is necessary which ought to be directed to the Nurse if the Child suck otherwise to the Child Wherefore let the Air be hot and dry where the Nurse and Child is kept if it be not so naturally by the season of the year prepare it so by good fires and fumes of sweet and hot woods If the Child suck let the Nurse watch much and if it is wean'd let it sleep lesse then if it was sound because watching doth much dry the body as sleep softens it Moderate Exercise and a soluble belly is very convenient which if need let it be help'd by a Suppository made of Hony The Nurse and Child both are to abstain from Wine and in the place of it a Drink is to be made of Water with Coriander seed prepared and Anniseed let the Meat be such as discusses and breaks wind and dissipates humours wherefore let the Bread have a little Coriander seed in it and the Flesh be rather of Wild Fowl and roasted rather then boyled a Moderate use of spice is profitable and Coriander canded with Sugar All Herbs and Waterish Fruits are to be avoided If the Nurse be sound avoid purging her lest you hurt the Milk if she be unsound purge her as the quality and nature of the humour require External Remedies only belong to an Infant for Purges and other Remedies are to be used to the Nurse and very carefully least they hurt wherefore this Fomentation will be convenient Take of Pennyroyal Maryroom Savory of each an handful Cumminseed and Aniseed of each an Ounce boyl them together in a pint and an half of Water to a Pint in which wet a Spunge and apply it to the head afterwards anoint the head with the Oyl of Cammomile salted if this prevails not the Oyl of Anniseed may be added and to the two Oyles without the Salt you may add a little of the Powder of Anniseed and Fennel-seed It will be convenient for the Nurse to use the following Electuary which will make the Milk discusse wind Take the Conserve of Bettony and of Rosemary of each an Ounce the Powder of Coriander and Anniseed of each an Ounce mixe them and take Morning and Evening half an Ounce In a Child of some years that can endure Medicaments Purge the Child first gently with two Ounces of the Hony of roses solutive mixe it with a little Broath Afterwards prepare the humour thus Take of Mugwort Savory Staccados Celandine of each half an handful boyl them in a pint and half of water to a Pint. Take two or three Ounces of the said Decoction of the simple Hony of Roses of the Syrrup of Staccados of each half an Ounce mingle them and give it the Child 3. or 4. days together then purge the humours so prepared Take of the Pills called Pillula Aurea one Dram and a half of Castor two Grains of the Root of Ireos finely powdred half a Dram mingle them with the Hony of the Syrrup of Roses solutive and make thereof for one Doss or quantity to be taken at once five little Pills If the Child refuse Pills Take an Ounce of the root of Ireos of Raisins of the Sun half an Ounce the Seeds of Fennel and Coriander of each half a Dram boyl them according to Art Take of the Decoction an Ounce and a half of the Trochische of Agarick two Drams infuse them all Night then strain them strongly and add an Ounce and an half of the Hony of Roses solutive After sufficient Purging the use of the Electuary directed before for the Nurse and the External Remedies will be convenient to which may be added this following Lixivium Take of Figtree-wood two pound of Salt or common water twenty pints make of it a Lye according to Art when it is strained add to it Coriander-seeds and Anniseeds of each a Pugill of Bran one Pugill the Leaves of Penny-royal Maryroom and Mugworth one handful and an half boyl them away to a fourth part then strain and use them In the same manner you may prepare a Lye of Brimstone beaten and applied to the head with a drye woollen Cloth it dries the head very much stronger driers are dangerous There may be made Plaisters of the aforesaid Herbs being boyled and bruised to the form of a Plaister and laid upon the head a Plaister made of Snails bruised and applied to the head untill they fall of themselves is an approved of remedy The following Ointment doth very much discusse the water or wind in the head Take of the Oyl of Ireos and Cammomile of each two Ounces of the Powder of Sulphur and Ireos of each two
which make Phlegme all which is done by 1. A Convenient Diet let the Air be hot and dry the sleep little exercise moderate avoid much rubing or kembing of the head and bearing weight on the Head avoid all perturbations of the mind except moderate anger and Wine that is strong and thick if you use Wine do it moderately and mixe it with water Let your meat be attenuating and drying as Bread well bak'd and with Anniseeds or Coriander-seeds Let your flesh be of Wild-fowl and rather roasted then boyled avoid Spices as filling the head with vapours and all thick grosse viscid and cold meats as Beef Cheese Milk Eggs fried or hard and the like Hence it is that the Children of poor persons are more troubled with this Disease then the Children of rich men because they eat grosse and ill Diet which makes and â—oments the humour 2. Purging Take of the Leaves of Senna half an Ounce of Polypode two Drams Ginger 15. grains half an Ounce of Raisins stoned Sebestens Pruins of each three in number of the Flowers of Borrage Violets Red Roses and Rosemary of each half a dram boil them in a pint of fountain water until half be consumed Take of the Decoction two Ounces of the hony of Roses two or three Ounces Let the humours be prepaired thus Take of the Leaves of Brownwort Plantain Dry Bettony and Mint of each half an handful boyle it according to Art of the Syrrup of Roses and Oxymel of each half an Ounce mingle them After the humours are prepared purge thus Take 30 or 40. grains of the Pills of Agarick or infuse two Drams of the Trochische of Agarick in three Ounces of the Water of Bettony all night strain it and add 2. or 3. Ounces of the Hony of Roses solutive Observe that most gentle Remedies often used is better then violent and hath often cur'd 3. By the restraining of the moving of the humour into the Part by rubbing Cupping-glasses and Blisters and there is no remedy so effectual and fit for derivation diversion and evacuation of the humour and in all Swellings and Tumours in Children about the Neck as is the exulceration of the Skin of the Head which is best done with Mustard-seed and a Nettle but with prudence and moderation but have a care you use not Cautharides which cause great pain and pissing of blood 4. By discussing the humour in the part if it be moderately thick and viscid which is done by inward Medicaments as by the use of the Trochische of Vipers and Treacle but principally by outward Medicaments first by softning it and then by dissolving it Emollient or softning Medicaments are the Plaister of Diachilon with the Gums or this Ointment Take four Ounces of Diachilon one Ounce of Hyssop four Ounces of the Root of Ireos finely powdred mingle them and with the Oil of Almonâ—s make an Ointment which use several days until the matter is softned then use Discutients as drye Figs or a Plaister made of Hony or the root of a wild Cucumber bo led in old Oyl to the form of a Plaister is very effectual so is this following which is stronger Take of Stavesacre Nitre of each two Ounces Rocket four Ounces with as much Turpentine as is convenient make a Plaister The Ashes of Colworts mixt with Hony is also very good Observe that strong Discutients may not be used lest Feavers are caused and the tender Flesh of the Child hurt If the matter be very viscid and contumacious it is not cur'd but by cutting or burning it which is very dangerous and turns them into Cancers that are mortall as is experienc'd in the using such remedies for the Kings Evill in the Neck Breasts or Grayn CHAP. IV. Of Pustules and little Risings in the Head PUstules or Risings or Swellings for the most part they are in the Head but sometimes in the whole body In the beginning they are small and little afterwards they are sore and make hard white Scabs and Crusts by the driness of the humour In sucking Children they are call'd Crusta in those of elder years they are called Achores they are ulcerous Tubercles or Ulcers with small risings perforating the skin with small holes through which passeth a sanious or filthy matter The cause is as some think a nitrous and salt Phlegme mixt with Choler Others a putrid corrupted and Ichorous blood but I consent to them who think the humour is mix'd partly thick and partly thin waterish salt and nitrous and according to the various mixture of the humours with the salt waterish humours the various colours of the Sores arise being thereby black red white or yellow and those humours are either generated in the womb of the Mother out of the Menstruous blood or after the Child is born by the fault of Milk or Diet nature purifying and purging her self sends them forth into the outward parts of the body The signs are manifest to Sight the Child cries cannot sleep and are watchful the Child Itches and after Itching they are sore a bloody humour passes forth and oftentimes the Child is lowsy If they proceed from blood there is a redness pain and more easie Itch but if from a more sharp humour there is a great Itch. The Presage Pustules sometimes degenerate into great Ulcers and sometimes corrode the Skull by the Malignity and badness of the humour that the Membranes may be seen They many times preserve Children from great and many Diseases as Feavers Falling-sicknesses and others by natures purging her self by the skin They heal frequently of their own accord by Time and Age. The Cure is in 1. A Convenient Diet by avoiding salt sharp hot and sweet things fish and fruit If the Pustules are moist a drye Diet is convenient as the eating of Wild-fowl roasted bread twice bak'd c. which ought to be us'd only by the Nurse if the Child suck 2. Evacuation of the humours by Blood-letting Leeches or Cupping-glasses and purging the Nurse if the Child suck not prepare the humours with Cichory Eudave Fumitory and Agrimony of each an handful boyle them in a pint and an half of Water until half a pint be consumed Take thereof three Ounces and add the Syrrup called Syrrup Byzantius and the Syrrup of Fumitory of each half an Ounce or temper the humour that is faulty with the Syrrups of Borrage and Fumitory The humours being prepared Take of Rhabarb one Dram infuse it all night in three Ounces of endive-Endive-water in the Morning strain it well and add an Ounce and an half of the Syrrup of Roses solutive The Body being purged the part excoriated is to be cur'd by outward Remedies A Bath of common Water in which the Leaves of Scabius Agrimony and Plantane are boyled is very good The Ointments of Litheridge Cerusse or Diapompholiges cures it CHAP. V. Of Chapt Lips in Children THe Lips are made not only for Beauty but also for use for the defence of the Mouth and
Child was Epileptick but the Disease made in him by the Evil of the Divel The froth in the mouth is made because the Spirits and Fume which come from the Lungs is mixt with the Spittle and Phlegme that comes from the head which moved and exagitated to and fro turns into froth as the sea-Sea-water agitated and broken with many winds The Noise is a kind of Voice made from the motive faculty hurt and depraved Prog. This Disease in Children is the most acute Disease and therefore mortal because of the straightnesse and narrownesse of the Veins that cannot receive the grosse Phlegme and so it remains in the Brain or because of the moistnesse of the Brain and the weaknesse of the motive faculty the humor cannot be dissolved or driven forth far enough out of the Ventricles of the Brain 2. Those that are once cur'd are never again Epileptick because the expulsive faculty continually expells gathering of humours the same way it did when the Disease was removed whereby it cannot be gathered into the Ventricles to offend 3. The Epilepsy which is by Error of Diet is incurable of it self without help 4. The Falling Sicknesse which is from the Birth of the Child and his Parents is cur'd of its own accord without any rethe great humidity which is the cause of this Disease is lessened by Age and the faculties are stronger If it happen after the change of Age that is after 25. years it is most difficult and impossible to cure because then the faculties are strong and congenited moisture lessned cannot overcome the cause of the Disease which is very powerful and as it produceth it can preserve the Disease and because the humours which makes the Episepsy are Melancholy and dry and so difficult of themselves to be taken away and daily increase by Age. The Cure is 1. A convenient Diet which belongs to the Nurse for a sucking Child and the same is to be used by a Child that doth not suck You are to choose and prepare the Air to be hot and dry they that live in cold Countries their Children are often Epileptick use moderate sleep for this Disease is as it were asleep avoid unseasonable exercises fears and frighting which hath often brought the Disease Bathes and fulnesse are hurtful so is much fasting it fills the head So Wine hurts the Nerves and is to be avoided the Drink is to be such that heats but not hurting the head the meat hot and attenuating which hath cur'd many but that which breeds gross humours is windy and with a certain propriety offends the head is to be avoided 2. If the Child suck and the Disease be by consent from the Stomach which is most frequent being oppress'd with too much Milk let the Child suck seldome Or from the ill quality and sharpnesse of the Milk correct the Milk and apply this Plaister to the Stomach Take of the Powder of Aloes and Myrrhe of each half a Scruple the Powder of Mastick one Scruple and mingle them with a little Wax and Rosine and apply it to the mouth of the Childs Stomach If it be by the fault onely in the head which is most frequently the use of Hony is profitable Take of Paeony half a Scruple of the Leaves of Stocados and Betony half a Pugill Cyperus one Scruple powder them finely put of this Powder in a little Spoon and put it into the Childs mouth and presently give him the Breast that he may Swallow the Powder A Seton in the neck is very profitable so is the following Powder sprinkled upon the head Take Maidenhair Cypresse Iridis of each two Drams Cloves one Scruple powder them finely and mix them The whole body may be anointed with Camomile and the oyle of Iridis Take the Leaves of Coltsfoot one handfull of Oak Misseltoe half an Ounce boyle it according to Art and dip a Cloth in it and wrap the child in the Cloth it is much commended Paeony and Smaradge is much commended to be hung about the Childs neck that it may reach to the Stomach If the Child be somewhat great and the Epilepsy be by consent and from other parts sending a thin humour or vapour to the brain Purge him as he is able to suffer and alter the distemper of the part If it be outwardly in the Arm Thigh Hip or other part rubbing is good and a discutient Plaister applyed to the part then if it will not do Blister the part If the Disease be by the fault only of the head use first this Clyster Take of the lesser Centaury half an handfull of Mallowes one handfull of Bran tyed in a Cloth half a Pugill boyle them according to Art Take of that Decoction 8 Ounces of Hony an Ounce and half of Chamomile 2 Ounces and an half of Salt half a Dram mingle them and make a Clyster then prepare the humours Take of the Leaves of Stocados Betony of each half a handfull the seed of Paeony one Dram boyle them according to Art Take of that Decoction 3 Ounces more or lesse as the Childs age will bear of the Syrrup of Stocados and Oxymel Simple of each half an Ounce mingle When the humors are prepared then Purge but although this Disease require vehement remedies yet they are not to be used by reason of the Age. Two Scruples of Pillulae Aureae are sufficient or take of the Trochische of Agarick two Drams infuse it all night in two Ounces of Betony-water strain it hard then add two Ounces of the Hony of Roses solutive the Electuary di Psillie one Dram mingle and make a Potion this Disease many times appears not in two or three moneths and is very stubborn therefore for the perfect curing it Take of Guyacum two Ounces of the Water of Betony two pints infuse it 24. hours and boyle them to the consumption of a third part and in the end add two Drams of the seed of Paeony finely powdered of Oak Misselto one Dram and half of Coriander-seed one Dram afterwards Strain it and make a Syrrup of it then take the same Guiacum and put four pints of common water to it and boyle the fourth part away and in the end add two Ounces of Anniseed and use it as ordinary drink and give of the Syrrup three or four Ounces every morning continuing so 40. 50. or more days Blistering is good so are Fontanells and Issues There is no Disease that hath more remedies commended by Authors then this hath I shall content my self with the following remedies Take of the seed of Paeony and take Misseltoe of each two Drams Cardamums one dram Cantharades prepared two Scruples Powder them and make an Electuary of them of which half a Dram may be taken three hours before meat Take Coriander prepar'd Mustard-seed Nutmeg of each half a Dram the Seed of Paeony 7 Drams Dictamnes 2 Drams make a Powder of them and give the Child of it in the morning at your pleasure in
the Filth and slimy humour from it which is requisite also to be done 2. Retaining it in its place after it is put into it which is done by astringent remedies which ought not to be very strong because they exasperate cause pain and want of sleep to which use serves Terra Lemnia Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence and Cerusse which are to be sprinkled upon the part apply to the Fundament a Spunge dipp'd in an Astringent Decoction of Sanicle Herb-robert Acornes or Leaves of Oake or the greater Comfrey CHAP. IX Of the Galling of Children THe Galling of Children are certain Ulcers in the Skin or Excoriations which happen to Children between the Thighes sometimes they are in the Feet Lips and between the Thighes in those of elder years The Cause is 1. External sharp Urine especially in fat Children sharp and cholerick Filth of the Belly and Foulness of Cloaths walking rough Cloathing and violent motion drawing the sharp humours to the Skin or exasperating the humours in the Skin 2. Internal and immediate a sharp and corroding humour which is either generated in the part exulcerated or it flowes from the body into those parts 3. Antecedent the fault of the Milk if the Child suck In elder ones an ill Diet especially meats that are hot sweet salt or corroding The Signs are obvious because the part is red and pain'd especially if it be touch'd and rubb'd Presage If they are neglected they turn into ill Ulcers and are dangerous otherwise they are easie to cure The Cure is if the Child suck let the Nurse use a good Diet and abstain from Motion Watching Anger Wine and all meats that are sharp salt and corroding If she be of an unhealthy blood let her purge The Child is also to be often wash'd and clens'd from his filth and excrements and his Cloathes are to be clean and not hard If the Child doth not suck the like Diet is to be used as is advised for the Nurse and the same remedies for preparing and purging of the humours and outwardly to be applied are convenient which are advised in the Fourth Chapter to which I refer you To them may be added Dear-Suet or the Suet of a Goat Take a Turnip make a Hole in it then fill it with the Oyl of Roses and Roast it of which make a Liniament CHAP. X. Of Chilblanes and Kybes CHilblanes usually follow Tumours and Swellings and the matter of it is dry sharp and corroding and makes an Ulcer which for the most part is dry and no matter or humour issues of it It happens to Children chiefly because they lesse feel the cold and defend themselves against it and so are most frequently hurt with the cold It happens to he hands and Feet and not other parts of the body because 1. The hands and feet are farthest from the fountain of heat the heart 2. They are without Flesh and have no defence from outward injuries and do abound with Nerves and Bones whereby we have great pain and are more cold in these parts then in other parts insomuch that these parts many times corrupt and putrefie with cold by what is said Chilblanes may be defined A dry Ulcer in the hands and feet chiefly in Infants The Cause is cold or shoes that hurt being too straight rough or hard The Signs are An Inflamation more or lesse sometimes Pustules afterwards exulcerations a little pain but the Itching greater a purulent Ichor comes from it that seems to be like ripened or thin matter The Presage It is not dangerous if it be not neglected if it be a Mortification of the Feet may happen and so Death The Cure is in 1. Preservation from it wherefore avoid straight and hard shoes defend your feet from the cold Air and rub your feet with salt and hony mingled which is good in the begining when the swelling only appears so is the washing your feet with salt water or with a Decoction of Betes And when there is only a Swelling these are good as Turnips boyled and applied in the manner of a Plaister Bran boyled in Wine Take of the Gumme Ammoniacum one Dram of Resin two Drams dissolve them over the fire add thereto six Drams of Common Oyl of Wax half a Dram let the Wax be dissolved then add Flower of Fengreek Frankinsence and Mastick of each two Drams mingle them 2. In curing the Ulcer Aloes alone or mix'd with sweet wine cures it being laid to it if the Ulcer be sordid clense it with the Ointment called the Ointment of the Apostles when it is clensed that no filth is left then skin it with the Plaster called Diapalma CHAP. XI Of the Scab THE Scab is a Swelling with a distemper and exulceration of the Skin The Cause is a corrupted blood mixt with salt Phlegme and burnt Choler either generated in the womb of the Mother by the menstruous blood or after the Child is born by the corruption of milk or fault of Diet by which the Liver chiefly is intemperately hot or the blood is corrupted by contagion which being expell'd to the Skin there sticks exulcerates it and makes it sore The Signs are manifest and are in the Definition The Cure is in 1. A convenient Diet the meat ought to be boyled not roasted of an easie Disgestion not salt hot or having ill qualities unclenliness and unseasonable exercise are to be avoided 2. Tempering and purging the humors as in the fourth Chapter 3. By provocation of Sweat with a Decoction of Scabius Harts-horn Fumitory and Cardus benedictus 4. External Remedies which gently clense and drye Quicksilver is much commended but it is only convenient if the Scab be contumacious and in the oldest Children Unguentum Enulatum is profitable but be careful it be without Mercury Take of the Oyl of Roses four Ounces live Brimstone one Ounce the Juice of Limons two Ounces the Resine of Pine-tree one Ounce mixe them and make an Oyntment of them Take of Turpentine four Ounces wash'd in-rose-in-Rose-water the Juice of four Oranges the Yelks of four Eggs and an Ounce of the Oyl of Roses mingle them all and make an Ointment of them which is excellently good if the Scab be old and dry Elecampane powdered and with Hogs grease made into an Oyntment is highly praised so is Brimstone finely powdered and annointed with Milk Also Garlick beaten very smal and mix'd with Hogs grease is very good CHAP. XII Of the Itch. THe Itch is a pain exciting a desire of Scratching without the unevennesse or exulceration of the Skin The Itch is sometimes in the whole body but most frequently in the Soles of the Feet by reason of the hardnesse and thicknesse of the Skin hindering the humours to evaporate The Cause is Choller or salt or thin Phlegme thereby insinuating it self into the smallest pars but it is viscid and clammy that it may adhere and cleave tenaciously to the parts It is caused in the Womb of the Mother by the Menstruous blood or
by the corruption or fault of the Milk or by meats and drinks that are hot salt or other things that heat the Liver The Signs are manifest The Cures are 1. By attemperating the humours with the Whey of the Milk of Goats and the Syrrup of Fumitory 2. In evacuating the humors Take a Dram of Rhabarb infuse it all night in a little Water strain it and add three Ounces of Whey and two Ounces of the Syrrup of Roses solutive 3. Mitigation of the pain and discussing of it by Baths of Water in which are Mallowes Cammomile or Pellitory So much of External Diseases The Second Book Of Universal Diseases in CHILDREN CHAP. I. Of Feavers in Children in Generall HItherto have been considered External Diseases Internal are either Universal which affect the whole body or perticular which affect some parts A Feaver is an Universal Disease so is the Small Pox and a Consumption which three Diseases will be considered in this Book Although Feavers and their Causes are common to all Ages yet in regard Infancy is most obnoxious to them and hath peculiar considerations in the Cure of them Limiting the strength quality and quantity of the remedy it will not be altogether improper to call Feavers Childrens Feavers Children are subject to Diseases that are accidental and Symptomatical proceeding from other Diseases as in breeding of the Teeth Inflamation of the Gums c. and also to Feavers essentiall and of their own accord and to all sorts of them but especially a Synoche Feaver in regard their bodies are hot and moist their temperament sanguine and their bodies dense by which transpiration of the heat is hindered which increases and produces a Feaver Children may have a Quartan Feaver though their natural temper be contrary to it because 1. Humours partake aswell of the matter as of the Agent and Temperament of the body wherefore as Humours and Excrements of the body do not shew the Temperament for old men are cold and dry of temper yet they abound with Phlegme so do they not only depend on it but on Diet likewise which in Children is very often grosse and unorderly eaten and so Crudities and very thick humours are made 2. If the Mother was elderly and of a Melancholy temper the menstruous blood with which the Child was nourish'd may much alter the temper of the Child 3. A Quartan Feaver is not always made from Melancholy but may be made from any humour that is thick The Internal Causes are the humours of the body The External Causes are chiefly 1. The Air If the Winter be cold and dry and the Spring hot and moist bodies cannot be cooled in the Summer but burn and cause Feavers besides in the Summer Childrens bodies are more thin and spare 2. Unseasonable and immoderate exercise being full or empty 3. Immoderate and ill Diet whence are Crudities Obstructions and Putrefying and so Feavers Presage All Feavers in Children for the most part are not dangerous because the natural Faculty is strong and active in them and can resist powerfully the Causes of Feavers Children sometimes by Feavers have an Hectick Feaver not by the difficulty of the Curing it or the greatnesse of the Feaver but by the morosity of the Child that will not be govern'd The Cure is If the Child suck the Nurse is to be cur'd with such things that alter and purge as the kind of Feaver seems to require It is much doubted how blood is to be lessened in Children that have Feavers Some think that after the Fifth Month Cupping-glasses may be applied and blood drawn out by them Others think not before a year which opinion is most safe because this Age is wont greatly to be overcome by pain and trouble and Cupping glasses are painful but after a year Cupping glasses may be applied but only to sanguine and strong Children And then not to the part above but on the Thighs because the Spirits and strength are not so wasted from those parts as from above And only to the taking away an Ounce of blood and no more Besides these remedies others may be added Inwardly may be taken the Juice of Granates which is highly praised with Oxymel and Citron It may be made thus Take of the Juice of Granates one Ounce of Simple Oxymell half an Ounce you may give the Child a Dram at a time unto half an Ounce but it is better to mixe the lesse quantity of Oxymel because the Childs Nerves are very infirm and Oxymel and all sower things hurt the Nerves wherefore the Syrrup of Maidenhair Syrrup of Red Poppies are good If the Child is bound in his belly you may not use purging Medicaments because the Childs body is hot naturally and is more heated by the Feaver so it is dangerous to add the heat of a purging Medicament wherefore it is better to use a more gentle Clyster or Suppository Take of Whey half a pint of Hony half an Ounce of Salt half a Dram mingle them make a Suppository of Flesh and Hogs grease or the common Suppository for strong Suppositories are dangerous Outward remedies may be used 1. Things very gentle may be applied to the head or Feet to provoke sweat as the Root of a Reed if the Childs body which is Dense be opened by Sweat the heat and putrid vapours will go forth 2. Cloths dipped in Cichory Endive Plantane or Rosewater applied to the Breast Side or Back for cooling The Liver and Stomach ought to be helped in Concoction in all Feavers much more here which is done by cooling and binding remedies applied to them Take of the Oil of Mastick half an Ounce powder of Red Corall Sanders and Red Roses of each two Scruples of Wax a little make an Oyntment of it but if the Child be between seven and fourteen years he must be handled in another manner which shall be set forth in the following Chapter CHAP. II. Of a Synoche Feaver EVery Synoche putrid Feaver in Children is from obstruction made by gross humours in hot moist and sanguine bodies and the putrid matter is in all or the greater veins The Cure of it in a Child between 7. and 14. years will be in removing the obstructions and tempering the Febrish heat which will be done by 1. A convenient Diet let the Air be cold motions of the body and mind avoided if the belly move not use a Clyster or Suppository let the Drink be water or Barly water the Diet sparing only Barly broth or Broth of Meat But because this will be accounted too strict and hard to indulge you may add to the Broth bread and sometimes the Yelk of an Egge but be careful you do not nourish too much because the strength and the Disease are nourish'd together The time of eating let it be as it was when the Child was well 2. Blood-letting Some think that Blood-letting ought not to be before the Child is 14. years old because that which the opening of a Vein ought
an Ichor thin waterish humour and that it is by Ebullition appears in the heat colour and Accidents that happen By this we may resolve our selves 1. That in our dayes scarce any man but hath this Disease because it is hereditary which came first by the fault of the Stars which affected all or almost all and now is propagated As Indians now generate children with long heads which in former Ages they endevoured to make by Art and now is become a natural disposition 2. This Disease is mortal to some and not to others by the abundance and badness of humours and ill constitution of body that the blood and Ichors boyling causes an unquenchable Fire and remedilesse putrefaction besides the badnesse of the Air and errors in the ordering of the person 3. They happen most to Children because they are full of blood and thin waterish humidity and abound with heat being nearest to the principle of Generation besides they are given much Motion 4. They that have most thin and waterish humours have most breakin gs out and the thicker and more tenacious the humours are the worse the marks and deformities are 5. The face is most troubled because of the Ebullition of the blood the vapours ascend to the head and so impetuously that neither the Spirits of the head or face or the Air to which the face is exposed can resist besides the face is moist and rare and apt thereby to receive them 6. The Feet and hands next to the face are chiefly troubled notwithstanding the Skin is hard because of the Sympathy between these parts and the Liver which is seen in a hot Liver by the burning of the hands and feet 7. The Small Pox troubles the eyes more then the Meazles because the matter is thicker and can be lesse resisted and repelled 8. The Small Pox is contagious and infectious by the boyling of the blood which sends vapours at a great distance which enter into other persons and infect them as it is in those that have sore eyes and by the Hereditary Propriety so that consanguineous persons are more easily affected in regard of the Similitude of their temper and for that reason whole Families in a Plague are destroy'd 8. Some have this Disease twice very rarely thrice almost all once because this Hereditary Disposition only disposes and continues as long as the Seminary parts in which it is implanted doth remain which most commonly is consum'd the first time the Blood is inflam'd and set on fire especially the second time when the Blood Ferments 9. Scars and blemishes are left chiefly in the Face Lips and Foreskin because the Skin of them is without Flesh or hath but very little and therefore difficult to heal The mediate causes of the Small Pox are 1. Internall hot and moist temper soft and fat habit of body and tendernesse of Age. Boys are more dispos'd to it then Girles by the disparity of heat in them boys being hotter 2. External hot and moist Air Southern constitution Spring time and an hot and moist region or Contagion or other things that move or corrupt the thin and waterish part of the Blood By what hath been said the Small Pox may be defin'd to be a disease having Pustules in an outward part of the Skin with a continual Feaver by the peculiar Effervessency and Ebullition of the Ichorous Blood excited by the expulsive faculty The Signes that this Disease is Imminent and coming which either immediately accompany the Disease or proceed it are Pain in the Neck and Breast with a heavinesse of the Eyes Itching of the Nose Shortnesse of Breath Suddain trembling and starting Often Sneesing Urine sometimes muddy sometimes sound weepings of the Eyes and tears falling of their own accord from them a continuall Feaver The Signes of the Disease present are manifest being little swellings and spots in the Meazles they are Red and not high in the Small Pox they first appear as the head of an Needle or Pin immediately after they are greater and red and daily increase untill they are ripen'd grow white are made an Ulcers and Soars and are dryed up Presage If the Small Pox and Meazles are White and a few appear without any other accident or if many appear and the Feaver is diminish'd and other accidents and the breathing easie there is no danger If the Small Pox are black or green or if few or many appear and the other accidents are worse and exasperated and the breathing difficult then it is pernitious and Mortall They who dye of the Small Pox dye either with a Sounding an Inflamation with which they are strangled or a looseness of the Belly which destroys the strength of the Child The Cure is in 1. Preserving the inward and outward parts the outward are call'd so because they are seen and they are the Eyes Ears Nose and Mouth The internall are Liver Lungs and chiefly the Guts the eyes are frequently troubled with heat and a tenacious Ichor that Exulcerates them whereby the Children cannot sleep which is helpt by cooling and moderately binding Medicaments as the water of Roses or Plantain mix'd with Sumach Take of the water of Roses and Plantain of each five Ounces Sumach half an Ounce infuse them all night and with a little white of an Egge mix them wet a little Cotten in it and wet the eye often with it if there be pain and Itching take the water of roses and milk and add a little Myrrh to them the scratching of the Eyes are to be avoided If the Ears be pain'd itch and run let them be kept open if the pain be great dip a Spunge in hot water with the Oyle of roses and lay it to the Ear the scratching whereof is very hurtfull The Nose is defended from Ulcers if Roses or Plantain be boil'd in water and the steam taken in at the Nosthrills The Mouth is helpt by this Gargarisme Take of the water of Barly one Pint and an half the leaves of Plantain and Flowers of Roses of each one Dram to which you may adde the Juice of Barbaries or Orange and wash the mouth with it 2. In helping of nature in expelling the humour which is perform'd by 1. Dyet that is convenient The Air is to be temperate or rather somewhat hot that the Pores may be opened and the coming forth of the Small Pox promoted therefore let the child be kept in a close room that the cold Air by no means may come in by the opposition of the Air many Children have dyed with a Benigne and gentle Small Pox the matter of the Disease being repercuss'd to the interior Parts let a red cloth be laid next the Skin which is conceiv'd by divers to be helpfull by a similitude it hath with the boyling Blood Be carefull your cloathing be not too much lest the Child be Smothered and Swound and so provide that the outward Parts are rather hot then cold but that neither the heat of the Air
or weight of Cloathing encrease the Feaverish heat of the Child and if the tongue waxes black with heat the breathing is short and Swounding is fear'd let some cold water be near the Childs mouth that he may suck the cold Air in Sleep is helpfull but the troubles of the mind especially Fear is to be avoided only a little Anger may be admitted which help the expelling the humour If the Belly be bound a very easie Clyster or Suppository may be used which doth not hinder the motion of nature because they only work in the Guts and the motion of nature is to the Skin and in the Veins besides Clysters do not deject us that they may be fear'd contrary to what some think Avoid fulnesse and emptinesse let the body be kept in quiet and rubb'd a little for it expells the humour let the drink be Barly Water with the Juice of Limmons or Barberies or a Decoction of the roots of Sorrell or a Decoction of Ivory or Hartshorn especially in the beginning and whilest the Feaver is vehement If the Feaver is not very vehement a Decoction of Barly and Figs will be most convenient and commonly with successe hath been used by most eminent Physicians for that effectually expells the humours to the Skin If Wine be permitted it must be but a little and in it steep Lettice Endive or Sorrell Avoid gross meats Spice Salt and Sweet meats for sweet things destroy and so doth bitter things being dry and contrary to the Childs nature which is moist wherefore the meat must be easie to concoct cooling as Barly Broth or Broth in which cooling Hearbs are boyled and when the danger is over you may feed them with Broth and Yelks of Egs put into it with some Juice of Limon or Vineger A dried Fig is good meat for it expells the humour to the skin 2. Emptying of the blood before the Eruption and breaking forth of the Small Pox or Meazles If the Feaver is great and there be a fulnesse of blood then it may be admitted unlesse the Age is very tender or something else hinders it It may not be used upon Children that are weake and forbeare the emptying of blood in Children before they are 10. Months old though the Arabians appoint at five months The lessenning of blood ought to be upon the first visit of the Physician because of the beginning of the Ebullition of the blood which is commonly then the Fervour whereof ought to be abated and nature eased so that one ought not to stay until the fourth day but it may be done when one will before that time and not after The lessening of blood is done several ways as by letting blood which ought to be very seldome Cupping-glasses or Leeches the latter is most easie and one or two may suffice in the place of Cupping-glasses or opening a Vein 3. Medicaments All Physicians agree vehement remedies are not to be used but some think gentle means may be used in the beginning of this Disease but I conceive that Medicaments may not be used in the beginning because the operation of it will trouble nature in her work which is critical the Physician being called when the blood is boyling and it is a rule there is nothing to be done unlesse nature act imperfectly which cannot be known in the beginning but a Clyster may be then and at any time used for that works only on the Guts as is said a little before Take a pint of Barly-water 4 Ounces of the Syrrup of Violets three Ounces of Butter and an Ounce of red and course Sugar mingle them for a Clyster the quantity is to be altered as the capacity of the Child is A dried Fig is a convenient Suppository and one made of hony Where the humour moves forth and the whole matter comes forth there no evacuation must be used for there the Child and all things are quiet But if the Child is troubled the trouble may be taken away with a Lenitive Take of Tamarinds half an Ounce Sebestens 15. of Barly two drams of the Flowers of Borrage Violets and Roses of each a Dram boyl them in a pint of water to half a pint Take 4. Ounces of this Decoction and an Ounce of Manna or more as the Child is Some think a gentle purge before the eruption breaking out and appearance of the Pox and Meazles if the Child abound with ill humours and the Feaver rage may be used for it lessens the ill humours that thereby nature doth expel more cheerfully but if the Small Pox begins to break forth then a Purge is pernicious and mortall The rest of the Cure is in helping nature in expulsion wherefore if Nature doth not expell readily and strongly but slowly use such a remedy as cools binds and opens Take of Lents one Ounce of Figs 10. Maidenhair two Drams Smalledge roots half an Ounce Sorrell half a handful boil them in a pint and an half of water to a pint use it morning and Evening from four Ounces to six as the Child is If nature expels strongly omit the opening things in regard of the Feaver which is great and the openings are not then to be used but when nature expels slowly which is known by the fewnesse and slownesse of their coming forth This expels Take of Lents two drams of Figs fifteen of Barly one dram of Lettice and Sorrell of each an handful boyl them in a pint and an half of water to a pint use 6 7 or 8. Ounces of it Morning and Evening as the Child is Note that Lents boyled alone loosens the Belly from whence are mortal Fluxes nor it is not to be used alone for a remedy because of its thickness and binding qualities Take of French Barly one Pugil slic'd Liquorish half a dram red Cicers one dram of the greater Cold seeds of each half a dram Cordial Flowers of each one Pugill three Figs boyl them well in water to 6 Ounces after it is strained dissolve in it half an Ounce of the Syrrup of Granat which is to be taken at twice it is very good it mitigates and tempers the Feaver These that follow are also good to expell as Confection of Hyacynth Alkermes Contraherva Harts-horn or Scabius boyled so is Antimonium Diaphoreticum Bezar-stone and the Bezardical Minerall some use to bath with Luke-warm water to promote expulsion by relaxing the Skin Observe that Medicaments that are Cordials and expelling are to be used from the appearing and first coming forth of the Small Pox to the Eleventh day which some call the increase and state of Eruption of the Ebullition If the Scabs dry not of themselves and have matter in them and are ripe they are not to be opened unlesse they be malignant for if they be ripe and white their heat and fervour and eating of the flesh is gone and they will dry and fall of themselves and so there is no danger of its putrefying and leaving holes and marks If the
plenty of Urine and worms If the defect is because the meat is not exactly prepar'd in the Stomach there is belching of Wind Vomiting and want of Appetite or some hot distemper If from the fault of food if in Infants the Nurses milk is not good for milk is made of food by the colour and ill constitution of the Nurse it is easily known if the Milk is bad it will not be very white have an ill taste not sweet of an ill smell and more thick and fluid then it ought to be The thickness and thinnesse of the Milk is known if some Milk is Milk'd upon the Nail of the Thombe and if it presently runs off it is too thin if it stayes and moves not off it is too thick Or if you curdle it the whey and curds ought to be equall else it is to thin or to thick besides if the Milk be thin andsharp the Child is troubled with Pain loosenesse and very ill breakings out If the milk is thick the Child is costive and there are little Inflamations Swellings and Vomitings they pisse little move and breath with difficulty and are full of Phlegm In those that are elder the badnesse of food is known by the colour of the Skin and out-side of the body wherefore if the countenance be ill colour'd scabby or pimpell'd or if any other part is weak as the head Stomach or Liver or if their be any infirmities distempers or passions of mind it is certain the Leanness is from the fault of the food Also it happens by the weaknesse from some Disease If these things had not been the Child would have had a florid and fresh colour good appetite and would eat and not complain If Leannesse be from Fascination no art or natural means is effectual and there is no internal or external cause of Leannesse in regard of the Nurse or Child Presage 1. All Suddain Leannesse proceeding from a Feaver is mortal because of the Vehemency of the cause weakness of the strength tenuity of the humour and laxity of the whole Body 2. Consumptions that are seldome and not from Feavers especially those that are great and ill are sometimes cureable 3. Lean bodies that are moist and have a moist Skin may be made fat because all soft bodies are apt and fit to be extended into any dimension 4. Bodies that are dry and have their Skin hard and rough can scarce be fatned 5. Bodies that have the Skin dry and cleaving to the bones that neither by the hand nor Art can be stretch'd out there is no hope of fatning them but if the Skin be wrinkled and rugged so that it may be drawn forth and as it were seperated from the bones there is some hope of making them fat The Cure is 1. in Children that suck if the Milk be too little or bad change the Nurse and choose one who hath good Milk the notes whereof you have before let her be of a good constitution of a white and red colour of a good converversation and behaviour not under 20. nor above 40. years old having had Children twice and being not above 2 or 3 moneths from her last delivery broad chested having breasts neither big nor small but moderate If the Nurse may not be chang'd let her be in a temperate Air let her Sleep well it augments Milk let her avoid Passions especially Anger Grief and Love for they corrupt the Milk and congresse with a man spoils the Milk or provokes the menstruous Flux that the Milk is lessened A Nurse that lives with her husband is allowed coition and congresse with him lest She be disturbed by desire of it and by experience we see that Mothers that live with their Husbands and use congresse Nurse the Child without any hurt The Nurse ought to use moderate exercive rubbing of her bosome and breasts before she eats is convenient let her not drink or very little and that which is sweet which lest offends the head lest by increasing Milk the Child hath the Falling Sicknesse The meat ought to be of a good and plentifull nourishment avoiding sharp salt and bitter things the best bread the Flesh of Birds Veal Mutton and the like Fish is to be avoided Broath especially with the Milk of Almonds increase Milk If the Milk be faulty by the coldnesse moisture and thinnesse of it the Dyet must be hot for the correcting of it If the Nurses body abound with cold and moist humours prepare and purge them but with gentle Purgatives as the Syrrup of Roses or Rhabarbe whose weak vertues are extinguish'd before they are communicated to the blood if you purge strongly let not the Child suck the Nurse two or three days after If the Milk is too thick the Diet is to be attenuating Vinegar Raddishes and the like are good a gentle Vomit is more convenient then a Purge If the Milk be sharp and hot the Nurse is to be kept in a cold Air Rest Baths of fresh water are convenient Wine is hurtful let the meat be Barly broth with cooling Herbs especially Lettice which cools and thickens the blood and increases Milk avoiding salt and things acrimonious and Spices If the fault be not in the Milk but in some part of the Infant the Nurse is to be dieted and purged and the Infant is to take no inward Medicament but external because these Ages bears not vehement Medicaments wherefore external remedies are only to be used and therefore if the Childs Stomach be cold and moist hot or dry Plaisters Bathings and Oyntments are to be used for the correcting of them Take the Leaves of Marjoram Mint of each one handful the Aromatick Reed and the Flowers of red roses of each half a handful the water of Calamint one Pint of Sweet Wine two Ounces boyle them well and with a Cloth dipp'd in it bath the Stomach if it be cold Afterwards annoint it with this Take the Oyl of Mastick half an Ounce the Powder of Cinamon and Cloves of each half a Dram mixe a little wax with them and make an Oyntment If the Stomach be dry bath it with Milk and annoint it with this Take fresh Butter the fat of an Hen of each half an Ounce Saffron four grains the Oyl of Wormwood three Ounces mingle them and make a Liniament If the Leannesse is from heat Take Cichory Endive Water-lilly and Wormwood waters of each four Ounces Vinegar two Ounces make a fomentation for the Liver afterwards annoint the side with this Take of the Oyntment of Sanders â—iâ—hory and Liverwort waters of each two Ounces of the Vinegar of Roses one Ounce make a Liniament If Leanness is from Loosness the Nurse is to use binding meats as Quinces Services Rice Medlers or Broth of an old Hen and Calves feet Corral or Jaspers Stone hung about the childs neck is convenient So is this Take of Mirrh and Quince of each half an Ounce powder of Red Coral two Ounces of Oakwater two Ounces the powder
of Mastick and Tormentill of each half a Dram mingle them and make a Liniament the senting of the Clothes with Fumes of things that are binding are also convenient If Leannesse arise from the drynesse of the whole body use Bathing with fresh water in which are boyled Mallowes Lettice Water-Lillies or Endive and a Liniament may he made of the Oyl of Roses Violets Butter without Salt and Hogs grease Clysters are also good in these cases made of Milk or Bread boyled in broth or made of Eggs because they may nourish Children being they are next to Generation that is the state which they had in the womb in which they were nourish'd by the Navil without the Concoction and preparation of the Stomach Observe that Plaisters to draw nourishments to the parts are not convenient for Children because their bodies are as Wax and that sort of remedy by the heat of it doth enervate and wast the flesh of Infants If the Child is bewitcht a Saphir or Carbuncle hung about the Childs Neck is conceived good so is Hartsthorn hung in the house and many more which I omit as superstitious or false If the Child doth not suck but is nourish'd with solid Meats then the Cure is by removing 1. The External Cause or the Internal Disease if it be the cause of it caused by proper remedies to it Afterwards by procuring a good Nourishment distributed and assimulated which is done by a convenient Diet. Let the Air be temperate and moist heat hurts and be careful the Child is not Clothed too hot Let the sleep be long the mind quiet the Exercise moderate and that which is slow fatness and swift exercise consumes the Belly moderately loose Baths used seasonably Wine that is thin thick Wine obstructs and is not vehicle for the meat Odoriferous somewhat sweet not sharp but very moderately used The Meat nourishing somewhat fatty Juicy neither salt nor acide unless it be to provoke a Stomach as the Flesh of Fowl Veal c. Eggs the Brains of a Calf or Hog-bread boyled in Broth Rice boyled in Milk Parsnip steep'd in Milk Raisins and Almonds Besides these there are meats that fatten either by a quality 1. Manifest by helping concoction as Spices by being gratefu to the Stomach and increasing the native heat of it as Cinamon Cloves and Nutmegs Take the Pulpe of a boyled Capon and Patridge of each half an Ounce of the Pine Kernell Pistack Nut steep'd in Mallagoe Wine half an Ounce of Sweet Almonds an Ounce Cinamon Clove and Nutmegs of each an Ounce and an half Fine Sugar as much as suffices make Lozenges they are pleasant and fatten much or by apposing and fastning the meat as all Diureticks and Diaphereticks do which opens the wayes and carries the nourishment to the parts So doth Drinking likewise between Meals or by apposing and fastning the meat to the parts by their tenacious and viscid humidity which humidity in hot and drye bodies is to be cold and in cold bodies hot 2. By a Propriety and an occult quality as Sarcocolla now the Indian Nut is in great use the Marrow whereof being finely bruised an Ounce or two or half an Ounce is mix'd with broth Take of sweet Wafers and Sarcocolla of each one pound make a past with Butter and drye them then powder it and use five Ounces in cold water Observe cold water is praised by many and cold meats but this is by a manifest quality and good where Leanesse is by the great heat of the Liver The Third Book Of Inward DISEASES of several parts CHAP. I. Of the Epilepsy or Falling-Sicknesse IN the two precedent Books you have the External and Universal Diseases in this Book you have Inward Diseases belonging to particular parts of the body but in regard Children especially before 7. years of Age have not the use of reason reason being as it were drowned and drunk with moisture and humours which made one say the Souls of Children differ nothing from the Souls of Beasts for whilst we are Infants we all live the Lives of Beast using only the faculties of the Vegetative and Animal Souls therefore the faults of the Actions of the rational faculty as Phrenzy and Madness are not considered by Physicians amongst Childrens Diseases which likewise I omit in this Book The Epilepsy hath several Names I shall only mention three of them here It is called 1. A Childs Disease because Children are most frequently troubled with it by the cold distemper and large moisture of the Brain 2. An holy and divine Disease so divers of the Ancients testifie in their Writings 3. Lunatick 26. Matth. the Lunatick there was the same with this because as one excellently says they who are conceived in the change of the Moon when the Moon is in conjunction with the Sun without Light they have the Falling Sicknesse The Falling Sicknesse is a preternatural involuntary and intermitting contraction and retraction of all the Muscles and Nerves The mediate cause of an Epilepsy by consent is a Vapour raised from the lower parts to the head which some think is but seldome whether it be from fear corrupted Milk in the Stomach Worms breeding of Teeth the Small Pox Meazles or Feavers The immediate Cause of the Falling Sickness when the Brain is primarily affected is a thin humour or vapour because it is made and gone quickly therefore the matter of it must be such as may go away and return quickly which cannot be in a thick humour which must be dissolved by concoction which is done in time and not suddenly which vapour or thin humour by a peculiar vertue doth prick the Membrane of the Brain and part where the Nerves begins causing a Constriction of the passages and exciting the sensible parts to an Expulsion of what is hurtful thence is the shutting out and Retraction of the sensique Spirits and by a defect of them follows a diminution or cessation or abolition of the Actions of the mind and thereby all the parts of the body have a convulsive motion A cold and moist temper of the Body hereditary Disposition and the Nativity being in the Eclipse of the Moon are Dispositions to this Disease The external Causes are 1. Things which administer matter as grosse and vaporous meat as old Pigeons Sparrows Eales c. 2. Things that excite it as Moon-shine the smell of stinking things also great fear and tickling Signs of the coming of it in children are because the Child is born of Parents that have the Falling Sicknesse in those that are elder Pains of neck back heart fears and inordinate motions in the sleep often spitting Signs of the Paroxysme and when it is upon the Child are as 17. Matth. a noise crying out falls in the fire foames out of his mouth and is without sense so was the Child cur'd by Christ in the Chapter aforesaid but that Child was Epileptick and possest with a Devil as one learnedly sayes or as another sayes the
Ounces of it with a little Sugar the Stomach being empty Outwardly are useful the rubbing and compressing the hands being annointed with the Oyl of Scorpions If it help not boyle the Pellitory of the Wall in the Oyl of Rue and make a Plaister and lay it to the parts about the neck of the Bladder or Take a Cruce Glass in which Oyl hath been kept a long time put it in hot water then put the Yard of the Child into the Mouth of the Cruce Glass and it is very effectual CHAP. XVII Of the Stone of the Bladder CHildren are very obnoxious to the Stone of the Bladder and are often troubled with it by their much eating causing much crude humours which stay not in the Reyns but is expelled into the Bladder Female Children are seldome troubled with it because they have the Channel of the Bladder broad straight not contorted and crooked The Stone of the Bladder which is immediately made in the Bladder is more often made in Children then in old men because Children are great Eaters thereby abound with much crude humours which is the matter of the Stone and falls into the Bladder besides Childrens native heat is strong which easily hardens the matter into a Stone old men although they abound with crude and earthy humours because their heat is weak in the Bladder the Stone is not made to which may be added the strength of the expulsive faculty the narrowness of the passage and the tenuity of the humour in Children The Stone which is first made in the Reins is in old men more often then in Children as is proved by experience because old mens expulsive faculty is infirm and the Ureters wide so that the thickest and grosse matter is detained in the Reins and consequently turn then into a Stone The material causes are humours thick petuitous and tenacious the efficient cause is the greatnesse of the heat The immediate internal causes are chiefly the narrownesse and straightnesse of the passage or Channel then the hereditary disposition and propriety from parts and the Milk of the Nurse being bad either from Diet or temper for when the Child doth suck impure Milk if the Child hath large Veins from the Stomach to the Bladder the impure matter is carried to the Bladder where it settles with the Urine as muddy water shak'd together in some Vessell and then resting makes a Sediment in the middle which Sediment of the Urine afterwards is conglobated and made round by Phlegme like a little hill and is hardned as Iron in a Furnace The External Causes are the same as in the Strangury The Signes are 1. Groaning and pain in making water 2. The making water by drops 3. The Blood is often mix'd with the Urine 4. The water is somewhat white crude sometimes with a slimy sometimes with a Sandy Sediment 5. Inflamation of the Bladder 6. Itching of the Preputium and foreskin and frequently scratching of the Privities Prog. The Stone of the Bladder is very dangerous and difficult by reason of the pain and in curing Suppression of the Urine which often happens The Stone if it cannot be cur'd by cutting it is mortal for the most part because the Stone growes in Children so great that as the years increase Nature cannot sustain it The Cure is If the Stone be Small and newly begun by such things that break and diminish the Stone by a quality that is either 1. Manifest as by Goats Blood Restharrow Ceterach Saxifrage the Root of Parsley and Fennell Lapis Spongia Lapis Judaicus the Stone that is found in the Call of an Oxe powdered and drank in White wine or a Decoction of Restharrow Take 2. or 3. drams of Turpentine wash'd and melted and mingle it with two Ounces of the Water of Restharrow it is much commended 2. Or an Occult quality and propriety as the Throat of a Hen burnt and powdered and given in Wine So Eryngoes boyled breaks the Stone by propriety Before the use of these remedies the Child is to be put into a Bath Water for some dayes in which Mallows are boyled that the matter may be somewhat softned and more easily and safe done in Children in Men. CHAP. XVIII Of Costivenesse and being bound in the Belly COstivenesse is a preternatural disposition in Children by which they discharge not the filfth and Ordure of the Body either in a due hour and time or in a due measure The Filth ought every day to be expelled and if much be eaten or that is not nourishing the greater the quality of the Excrements ought to be expelled The Causes are the offending the Guts either not by sending the expulsive faculty to them by a resolution of some Nerve or Muscle by a distemper or obstruction or because Choller is not sent to the Guts by which the Guts are stimulated and excited to an Expulsion Or the Expulsive faculty of the Guts is hurt by some Tumor or Skin or some distemper The Guts are offended also by some Errors within by viscid and thick humors wrapp'd and mix'd with the Filth and so gather the Filth together that they fasten them to the Guts that they cannot go forth or with great difficulty or Externally by the coldness of the Air for it is certain that Costivenesse is more in the Winter than Summer much sleep idleness great Meditations they drye the Belly drink that is thick and binding and sparingly used the same Errors also in meats as also preposterous eating taking first astringent things afterwards liquid and they that are accustomed to dine and omit it are bound in their Bellies The Signs are the Child 's not discharging his Belly every day and complaining and if the Child is somewhat great it is troubled in the head and when the Child empties it self it is with pain groaning If it proceed from a cold distemper the body consumes is pale windy and belching if from gross and viscid humours they will appear in the Filth if from the want of Choller sent to the Guts the Colour of the body will be muddy and the Filth of the Guts white or somewhat Ash-coloured Prog. The Astriction of the Belly in most are dangerous especially in Children which great eaters for which Diseases are generated in them in time and in the Time of breeding of Teeth cause Inflamation Feavers and Convulsions the body being full The Cure is 1. In moving the Belly in sucking Children that the Nurse use meat that loosen the Belly as Mallows Dry Figs Raisins and the Broth of Coleworts and all such meats which can loosen the Belly for as the Milk is made out of Blood and it out of meat so it is not to be doubted that the Milk is affected with such meats as the Nurse eats The remedies that are to be used to the sucking Child ought raiher to be External then Internal The External are Suppositories made out of hard Hony or the roots of Mallowes Garlick roasted in Ashes and put