with crums of white bread like a poultis spread it on a double cloth and apply it warm If the body be temperate and a doubt of worms instead of the syrrup aforesaid use worm-seed according to the directions in the Chapter of Canina appetentia if blood cause vomiting you shall have directions in the Chapter of sputum sanguinis Vomitus In a cold cause procure vomiting with Asaron if nothing prohibit Pilulae and after use stomachal pills mint-mint-water and the syrrups of wormwood if you want more look in Sitis and Imbecillitas stomachi I have oftentimes stopped vomiting with Aquamenthae syrrup cidoniorum Mixtura of either one ounce mixed together CHAP. XXXIV CHOLERICA PASSIO is an immoderate perturbation of the stomach caused by vomits upwards and downwards the Latins call it Cholerici It is caused through much crudity and rawnesse of the stomach choller Causa and sharp humours with an ill and corrupt digestion For the signe Signa there is pricking and biting about the stomach and withall vomiting and a flux of the belly it is called the chollerick passion in English there do oftentimes accomcompany this disease cold sweats a swift pulse frequent little and short with Syncope If children be taken with this disease Curatio sleep profiteth much in old men for the most part deadly the juyce and syrrup of Quinces with syrrup of Roses and Myrtills is excellent in a hot cause as this Recipe following ℞ Mixtura Miva Citoniorum ℥ 4. syr Citoniorum Mirtilorum ana ℥ .j. cons Oxiacanthae ℥ ss Give of it to the patient often in the best red Rose-water Vomitus providing that if you see a plethorick body and abounding with choller give a vomit with stybium if nothing prohibit or else this Apozem following ℞ Apozema Syr. de Rhabarb Rosarum sol ana ℥ .j. The decoction of Seene as much as sufficeth to make an Apozem give the one half over night and the other half in the morning warm they must abstain from all hot things as strong beer wine hot waters spices c. and take soopings of a cooling quality as broath made with cooling herbs Victus ratio as sorrel borage and burnit Endive succory sorrel possets and lemmond possets barley water and cooling juleps are very good Julepus made with the waters of Endive purslaine sorrel and syrrups of the same In a cold cause Vinum the best wine thin and odorifferous is sometimes sufficient in a full body purge with this or the like purgation ℞ Potio purgans Diaphenicon ʒ.ij Benedict lax pul Sanctus an ʒ.ss White wine Pilulae as much as sufficieth to make a potion or you may give stomachal pills if their body be not able to bear a strong purge but these vomitings many times in a hot cause syrrups or juyces of quinces and syrrup of Myrtils in a cold cause the syrrup of mints and cordial mint water is sometimes sufficient Lastly this emplaster following is excellent to be applyed either to the stomach or belly ℞ Olei cotoneorum myrthini ana ℥ .ij. Emplastrct Weckerus Hypocistidis acaciae Rhu ana.ʒ.ij. Corall rub ʒ.j cum cera resina fiat Emplastrum CHAP. XXXV IMBECILLITAS JECINORIS is caused of a distemper either hot cold moyst Causa or dry 1. Signa A hot distemper doth burn up as well the humours which were before in the liver as also those humours which are carried to the liver by the veines Mesenterii and there is stinking grosse choller avoyded by the belly and is abundantly coloured also a fever vexeth him he abhorreth meat and many times casteth up choller with a sore thirstinesse the vrine high and a swift pulse 2. In a cold distemper it doth make the flegmatick and raw humour which is already contained in the liver tough and hard to be moved and the humours that be carried to the liver it leaves them half digested this indureth long and the belly floweth certain dayes abundantly but lesse stinking and not so much in quantity and is like putrefact blood curded but indeed for the most part you shall find it as it were a certain slime and dregs of grossblood coming nigh to melancholy many times there appeareth a faint fever the face doth not fall and there is a greater appetite of meats 3. A dry distemper doth make the humours drier and thicker and less in quantity than the former but thirsty 4. A moyst distemper make the humours more thin and watery and they are less troubled with thirst therefore they which have a weak faculty of the liver are called Hepatici 1. Curatio Venae-sectio In a hot cause if there be not great aridity and driness with exceeding heat open the liver vein of the right arm otherwise not for blood is a bridle Ceratum Victus ratio and temperator of choller in all heat of the liver Ceratum santalinum is good Use broath wherein is boyled Lettice Endive and Succory no flesh except it be chickens partridg birds of mountaines or a little veal no wine except the stomach be weak then let it be very thin and anoynt the stomach but especially the region of the heart Oleum with Oleum Rosarum aut violarum If he be in a pining condition make him gellies and put in red saunders and let him take of this julep following ℞ Julepus Syrrupus Endiviae Acetosae Portulacae Rosarum Rub. violarum ana ℥ .j. Barley water as much as sufficeth to make a julep if the stomack be weak adde a little syrrup of wormwood also this Electuary following is wondrous proper ℞ Electuariū Cons Rosat Rub. ℥ j. Spec. Diarrho Abb. ʒ.j Spec. Aromat ros ℈ .j. Syr. lujulae q. s f. Elect. Mosle Or as you shall see cause you may adde Rosarum Rub. Trochis Diarhod Coral Rub. Diatrion santalon For the poorer sort direct chirnmilk boyled with sorrel and so let them drink the Ale thereof 2. In a cold cause or distemper take savory Hysop sage and parsley in his broth let his meat be dressed with aromatick things as Cinamon Cloves c. Also wine is good Vinum Decoctio especially clarret providing they avoyd idleness also the decoction that is set down in Paralysis is good adding wormwood calamint anise fennel and let the one half be wine sometimes drink it with syrrup of wormwod and agrimony use hot oyles as nard wormwood cammomel cinamon cloves and spicknard Oleum also for the poorer sort use wormwood beer and wormwood wine 3. In a moyst distemper use a drying diet Diacurcue ma. and provoke sweat Diacurcuma is good so is syrrup of wormwood 4. In a drie distemper use a moystning diet also mixe strengthening things with your moist things one dragme of wolves liver in powder and ministred in sweet wine allayed with water is very excellent
the next Chapter Fernelius This Electuary following is commended by Fernelius ℞ Electuarium Rasurae eboris cornu cervi an ℈ ij cinamomi electi margaritarum electarum Pulveris electuarii Aromatici rosati majoris electuarii triasantali an ℈ .j. cum unciis iv sacchari albi fiat electuarium Vel ℞ Linimentū Mucilaginis seminis faenugraeci extractae in aqua endiviae ℥ j. olei absynthii rosarum menthae de capparibus an ℥ ss macis caryophyllorum Rosarum rubearum pulverizatorum an ℈ .j. cerae parum fiat litus Fernelius consil 37. de cachexiae curatione Vel ℞ Vnguentū Rondeletius Ol. de absynth nard an ℥ .ij. ol cyton ℥ j spicae utriusque an ʒ.j cyperi sandali rub albi an ʒ.ss coralli rub ustiʒ i.ss cerae q. s fiat unguentum ungantur hypochondria Rond lib. 3. cap. 38. CHAP. LIV. ANASARCA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a dropsie causing all the body and flesh to be loose and wet like a spunge spitting when it is pressed It is called also Lupophlegmatia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. This kind of dropsie is caused through great coldness of the liver Causa or other parts that be cooled which bringeth the liver into the same affect as the coldness of the spleen stomach Bowels Lungs Reines and Midriffe sometimes through unmeasurable voyding of Hemroyds or Menstruis or through their retention for in all these the liver hath no unnatural swelling and yet the dropsie followes onely through refrigeration of the liver sometimes it waxeth hard as is seen in those that drink cold water and so cool the liver on heaps and so the dropsie follows before it be lifted up into a knotty swelling sometimes it followeth the Gout loathing of meat evil state of body Jaundies Caeliacus morbus and dysenteria The whole body swelleth Signa and is like a dead body and there is difficulty of breathing heavinesse naughty colour and thirst women are lesse troubled with the dropsie then men but children for the most part are taken with Anasarca this is least dangerous First if age and strength will suffer Curatio and that there be retention of Hemroyds or Menstruis draw blood Secondly purge with Jalap Jalapum Cambogiae Vinum absinth or Rhubarb or Gambogiae gr 12. with syrrup of wormwood also wormwood-wine and beer is good purge often and not too much at once Elder roots sodden in wine are good you shall find remedies enough in obstruction of the liver you must provoke urine with broom-flowers Vinum genistae M. ij in white-wine quar 1. also eringa roots boyled in broath are good Take wormwood flowers of broom hysop tops of red nettles ana M.j. chop them small seeds of annise fennel carraway ana ℥ .j. bruise them mixe them and knead them into a loaf of wheat bread lb. iv bake it drie then break it into small pieces and put it into a ferkin of strong drink when it is well wrought let it stand a week and then let the patient drink of it often or take a dry broom faggot half a peck of bean hulls three handfulls of dry wormwood Lixivium diuret and with dry ash burn them to ashes make lye of it you may make a small quantity for it will not keep for the liver Pulvis take powder of Diacurcuma ℈ .j. powder of Diatrion santalon Diarrhodon Abbatis anaʒ ss nutmegs spicknard an ℈ j.ss Aromat rosat ℈ .j. Rhubarb ʒ ss seeds of Endive fennel ana ℈ .ij. wormwood ℈ .j. sugar ℥ .j. commix them you may adde carraway-seed cummin aniseed parseley lovage liqueris c. biscake-bread with good stood store of aniseeds Also a poultis with beane-meale Cataplasma fenegreek laurel-berries wormwood and origan sodden in wine lay it all over the body If it swell you may adde melilote sage mints savory rew cammomel flowers myrrh castoreum peniroyal cardamume sothernwood bathe the swelled legs with bot oyles or if there be the gout with the dropsie this poultis following is good Cataplasma Take leven lb. ss Turpintine ℥ .iv. make them like a poultis or pulpe with white-wine vinegar spread it on a thick cloth strew one ounce of Cantherides in powder apply it one night to the swelled legges smalledge broath is good Victus ratio Exercitium with parsely rosemary c. A drie diet must be and exercise is excellent this drink is much commended Take a pint of the ashes of bean hulls put it into a quart of water and a quart of white-wine set it on the fire Potius diuretica and stirre it all the while untill it begin to boyle then set it by one hour or two then powre it from the ashes through a cloth and adde twelve ounces of syrrup of Dialthaea brue it together and drink a quarter of a pint at a time last at night and first in the morning mid forenoon and mid afternoon If bound administer a clyster twice or thrice a week candid Eringa roots are very good to eat at meals Hercul Saxon. Elaterium Hercules Saxonia in lib. 3. cap. 32. saith Fortissimum medicamentum est succus cucumaris agrestis qui dicitur Elaterium si dentur ejus gr iij. extracti per punctionem si enim per expressionem extrahatur dantur ejus grana octo vel decem And he did usually make pills therewith after this manner ℞ Pilularnm alephang ℈ .j. elaterii grana iij. Pilulae cum elaterio Hercul Saxon. vel iv misce f. pilulae In this disease the liver must be strengthened for which purpose ℞ Radic Apii ℥ i.ss radic Asari ℥ ss Epithema Platerus absinthii M.j. florum Bugloss Borrag Sambuci ana p. j. seminum cuscuteʒ ij endiviae ascetosae anaʒ j. santal omnium anaʒ i.ss Spicaenar vel casiae lign sqaenanthi anaʒ ss decoquantur in vino aqua pro fotu regionis hepatis Plater Tract 3. cap. 3. pag. 293. Rhasis in 7. contin Rhafis notat in cura hyposarcae singulariter rhabarbarum nam est medicina solennis curans eam à quacunque causa provenientem CHAP. LV. ASCITES 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this kind of dropsie swells the whole body except the upper parts thereof which are not puffed and if you strike it there is heard a sound like as a bottle that is not full of water being shugged The upper parts drie away It is caused through much waterish humours Causa heaped up between the skin or filme called Seritoneum and the bowels also weaknesse of the liver c. For the sign Signa the body doth not pit when pressed the pulse is feeble swift and small shortnesse of breath heavinesse thirst c. as in the former Chapter their legs swell Let his diet be easie of digestion Curatio Victus Ratio Soldanella as birds of mountains chickens partridge black-birds c. first purge
1. cap. 2. Hercules Saxonia Ve ℞ Succi lactuc. ℥ i.ss oleo violac ros omphac Linimentum Hercules Saxonia ana ℥ .j. aq ros succ Cimon ana ℥ ss Misce fiat linimentum CHAP. IX MEMORIA DEPERDITA The losse of memory chanceth sometime alone and sometime reason is hurt with it The cause is sometimes of coldnes Causa Signa with moysture sometimes by a cold drie distemperature If coldnes with moisture be the cause then the party is very drowsie and sleepy and much moisture is avoided at the nose If it be caused of a cold dry distemperature the patient is watchfull and yeeldeth forth little or no moysture Curatio Oleum Gordonius For the cure if it be caused of a cold and moyst distemperature Gordonius adviseth to use oyle of Castoreum and of Euphorbium also to give for certain dayes together Confectio ex ana cardisʒ ij with the decoction of smallege and fennel rootes and it is sufficient to mixe one dragm with a little quantity of Methridate Methridatum or Treakle and to take every morning a spoonfull of syr of stoecados doth profit much oyle of cinamon is good to anoynt the head Ol. Cinamomi and if the cause be cold and drie cure it with things that be hot and moyst ℞ Nuc. moscat gr ij caryoph gr vj. lign Rotulae Hercules Saxon. aloësʒ j sach fin dissol in aq maior q. s f. rotulae CHAP. X. MELANCHOLIA is a delirium or doltishnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which springeth from a melancholick humour without a fever which doth so perturbe the seate of the minde that the speech and actions are altogether void of Reason The cause sometime is of the common vice of melancholy blood Causae being in all the veines of the whole body which also hurteth the braine but sometimes only the blood which is in the brain is altered and the blood in all the rest of the body is unhurt and that chanceth two wayes for either it is derived from other places and ascendeth up thither or else it is ingendred in the brain it self and sometime it is ingendred through inflammation and evill affect about the stomack and sides therefore there be three diversities of Melancholy according to the three kindes of causes The signes are Signa fearfulnesse sadnesse hatred and also they which be Melancholius have strange imaginations for some think themselves bruit beasts and do counterfeit their voice and noise Some think themselves vessels of earth or earthen pots and therefore they withdraw themselves from them that they meet lest they should knock together moreover they desire death and do very often determine to kill themselves and some fear that they should be killed many of them do alwayes laugh and weep some think themselves inspired with the holy Ghost and do prophesie upon things to come but these be the peculiar signes of them that have melancholiousnes caused through the consent of the whole body for in them the state of the body is slender black rough and altogether Melancholius caused naturally or through certain thoughts watchings or eating of wicked meats through hemroyds or suppression of Menstruis but they which have Melancholia caused through evill affect of the stomach and sides they have rawnesse and much windinesse sharp belkings burnings and grieviousnesse of the sides also the sides are plucked upwards and many times are troubled with inflammation especially about the beginning of the disease also there is costivenesse of the womb little sleep troubled with naughty dreams swimming of the head and sound in the ears For the cure if it be caused of adusted blood Curatio first administer a clyster afterwards open a vein with this caution Venae-sectio that if good blood shews forth close up the vein but if the blood shall appear grosse black and turbulent then we draw away according as we shall see cause a sufficient quantity but first administer this clyster following ℞ Epithymi thimi florum Stoecados violariae Clyster Mercurialis fol. Malvae an M.j. bulliant in sufficienti quantitate aquae ad lib. j. colaturae adde cassiae novit extract ℥ .i. ss olei violati ℥ .iij. saccar Rub. ℥ i.ss salis com ʒ.i vitelli ovi N. j. fiat Enema Or else administer such a potion as you shall think proper then to digest the matter we give this syrup following ℞ Syr. de pomis simpl ℥ .i. Syr. violati ℥ ss aqua Mixtura bugloss violarum boraginis ana ℥ .j. misce Let his meats Vietus ratio be meats of good juice which are hot and moyst but more moystning than heating and musick with what delights you can but let his diet be slender If it be caused of adusted melancholy Purgatio first purge with pills or potion which purge melancholy afterwards if you see that blood abound open a vein with the former caution but however open the hemroyd veines with leeches and use a concoctive syrrup and anoint the temples of the head and pulse of the hands and soles of the feet with this oyntment made as followeth ℞ Linimentum Vnguentum Olei nenupharis ung popui ℥ ss misce prolinimento Or else you may take ung populeneum ℥ .iv. dissolve opium ℥ ss if you see cause drop in Ol. nucis muscat gr iij. into a little of the oyntment aforesaid also Landanum paracel 3 or 4 grains or more according as you shall see cause And syrrup of poppies ℥ .ij. mixt with ℥ .iv. of the water thereof Iulepus is good let him ride or walk by places pleasant sayling on waters and such things to delight in If the disease proceedeth from the stomach and sides Vomitus either vomit or purge which you shall judge to be most proper and fitting remember to keep accustomed evacuation which you do with this decoction ℞ Myrobal Indarum Stoecados Arabici Decoct Epithymi Mesue Epithymi Passularum mundat ana ℥ .j. myrebal chebul summitatum fumariae anaʒ iv fol. senae ℥ .j. polypodiiʒ vj turbithʒ iv agrimoniaeʒ 5 omnia praeter epithymum coquant in seri caprini lib. tribus ad duarum librar consumptionem tunc adde epithymum semel fervefac tolle ab igne adde Hellebori nig ʒ.j agariciʒ ss Salis Indiʒ i.ss frica cola utere Mesue de decoctionib fol. 130. CHAP. XI MANIA AVT INSANIA FVROR that is madnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they that have this disease be woode and unruly like beasts it differeth from this frensie that because this disease comes without a fever The cause is much blood Causa flowing up to the brain yet the blood is temperate sometime it happeneth through a sharp chollerick humour and sometime melancholy and choller do so prevail that they are forced to be bound in their beds some are of opinion that sometimes a spirit troubleth this kind of evil which
have been taken with great swounings with wonderful successe â„ž Aquae mariae syrrupus è succo lujulae ana â„¥ .j. misce CHAP. XXVII SINGVLTVS is a motion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa as it were a a cramp raised through the expulsive faculty of the stomach which goeth about to expell hurtful and evil matter For the most part it is caused of fulness or emptinesse as Hippocrates doth affirm Hippocrates also somtimes it is caused of or through the biring of sharp humours in the stomach or coldnesse and sometimes hot fevers may be the cause when either the stomack or some other bowel is inflamed Fulnesse is knowne by heavinesse Signa and emptinesse of those things that went before you may know if the meat be corrupt by the burnt savour of it but you shall know sharpnesse by gnawing pricking and pulling 1. Prognosticks are if neesing follow upon the Hicket the patient is delivered so that it proceedeth of fulnesse 2. The Hicket coming in an Iliac passion is evill or coming with swouning or with distention of nerves or with dilerium is a deadly signe 3. Also coming upon the inflammation of the liver of the wombe of the brain or upon some notable wound is very dangerous and oftentimes deadly 4. In acute diseases and burning fevers and the pestilence it is for the most part deadly 5. Also if it happeneth through two much emptinesse it is alwayes evill 6. It is also evil if it cometh with vomiting for it threatneth danger of inflammation of stomach Cuâ—atio and braine As concerning the cure we must consider the cause If it proceed of emptinesse it is the more dangerous and therefore must be helped by giving fit and convenient nourishment that thereby that which is defective may be supplied If a flux of blood or an exceeding flux of the wombe do cause this infirmity we may give oyle of sweet Almonds either by it self or in warm water he is to be nourished with cordial broath there are some that cure this Hicket with drinking of milk that do refresh Amilum Victus ratio but the best is Amilum given with milk and the broth of an hen and the flesh thereof capons chickens and Rear-egges with the powder of Eringium is wondrous proper his drink must be white-wine diluted with water Oleum the back and stomach must be anointed with oyle of violets and sweet almonds If sharp humours have stirred up the hicket we must give such things as are sweet and fat as the fat of broath of henne or cock or two spoonfulls of clarified honey or penidice Mel. or pinecarnels with sugar or it may be purged Purgatio so that it be prepared before with drinking of Aqua mulfa if it proceed through heat Vomitus and biting sharpnesse then to provoke vomit is wondrous proper and to give all cooling things as julleps Apozems or juices Julepus Theriac or waters of succory and such like you may compose your juleps with syrrups of violets Nymphea of poppie or the like when the hicket is most strong we give new treakle If it proceed from a cold cause and the matter grosse and viscus prepare the humour with oximel and then a vomit or purge as you shall see cause and compose this Electuary following for them that are able â„ž Confect Caryophyllorum â„¥ .j. Cinamomi Electuarium Aromat Rosat anaÊ’ ss Syr. Hyssopi q. s.f Elect molle Also Lozenges are very proper Lozeng made of Aromaticum Ros Candid Ginger is very good Castoreum also ℈ ij of Castoreum in white wine but many times one purge or vomit is sufficient Dioscorides Dioscorides commends Aristoloch radix cum aqua Asplenum herba cum posca castorum cum aceto Also he commendeth Ineezing if Singultus cometh of fulnesse Dioseor lib. 2. cap. 4. CHAP. XXVIII DOLOR STOMACHI or pain of the stomach is caused divers and sundry ways Causa as when naughty venemous and gnawing humours be kept in the stomach whereby it chanceth that through intollerable gnawing they cause swouning Stomachae cardialgiae which they call Stomachia or cardialgia sometime pain of the stomach is caused through some stroak or fall and an inflammation may be the cause thereof In a hot cause Signa there is felt a sharp pricking pain gnawing in the mouth of the stomach bitternesse in the mouth vomiting of chollar and there followeth a great weaknesse and feeblenesse of the whole body in a cold cause the pain is lesse Curatio and more dull and slow in a hot cause give this Apozem following the one half over night and the other half in the morning warm â„ž Apozema Syr. de Rhubarb â„¥ j. Rosarum sol â„¥ ss Decoctio Sennae q. s f Apozema Or if you see cause Vomitus you may vomit with the infusion of Stybium and afterward you may take the seeds of paeony in water of succory If it proceedeth through some stroak or fall then this ♃ following is good â„ž Mixtura Mumiae gran j. boli arm gran xvj croci gran vij Let it be given the patient you may adde Sperma ceti and if the pain be intollerable then succour him with this ♃ following â„ž Syrrupi Rosati Absynth an â„¥ .i. ss Mixturae opii gran j. Boyle it very lightly with one boyling then let it be mixt with â„¥ .iij. of the broath of a chicken give it the patient to drink In a cold cause purge with such a purgation Purgatio as you shall think proper by the water or clysters according as you shall see cause such a one as may purge wind and flegme or perhaps melancholy with Cassia and after may be given the seeds of Nasturtium in Goats milk administring Syr. de absynth menthae mel rosati in aqua feniculi absynthii Julepus likewise Electuaries and oyles outwards are good Also â„ž Spec. Aromat ros Ê’.ij Spec. Diarrhod Abb. Tabulae Rondeletius Ê’ j Sacchari albi dissoluti in aqua menthae â„¥ .iij. fiant Tabulae secundum artem ponderisÊ’ ij Rondeletius Vel â„ž Spec. Imperialium â„¥ ss pinearum electarum Tabula Crato subtiliter incisarumÊ’ ij Spec. aromat ros Ê’.i.ss Sacchari in aqua rosarum dissoluti â„¥ xiij olei cinnamomi gr iij. moschi gr ij fiat confectio in morsulis secundum artem CHAP. XXIX TVSSIS Galen in lib. 1. cap. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Galenus Causa de Symtomatum causis doth affirm that a cold distemper of the instrument of breathing to be the cause of the cough also a humour distilling from the head to the Trachaea arterea going about within doth provoke the cough sometimes it is caused through cold or flegme descending upon the lungs sometimes it happeneth through heat dissolving the superfluous matter of the brain and so through a cattarrhal distillation the cough is
excited The outward signes are smoak and dust If it be caused through a cold distemper Signa they spit out nothing while they cough neither is it so violent but may be eased by holding the breath because through holding the breath the instruments of breathing that were vexed with cold do waxe hot and contrary they are provoked with breathing oftentimes to cough their face is pale and they are not thirsty If a hot distemper be the cause there is felt thirst and often breathing do relieve and succour them it is also sharp and more tedious and they spit but little this is a thin hot Rhoume distilling from the head to the Trachaea arteria and sometimes happeneth in the plurisie For the cure in a cold cause Curatio which for the most part happeneth in winter may be helped with hot things his neck and feet are to be kept warm Oleum and oyles of mace dill and lillies be good to anoint the brest and if he have a plethorick body give a purgation made by the judgement of the water If a thin cold Rheume give penedice in every sooping they take and syrrup of oximel is wondrous proper Oximel If from thin and sharp humours then ingross it with syrrups of violets foals-foot and maidens-hair and stay the distilling humour with such things as you shall find proper in Catarrhus In a hot cause first an Apozem as you shall see proper after take mallowes M. 6 currents Apozema M. 3 stamp them together Decoctio then take Liquoress â„¥ j. boyle them in four pints of water till halfe be wasted strain it and adde stone-sugar â„¥ .ij. Syrrup of violets â„¥ j. give the patient five or sixe spoonefulls at a time last at night first in the morning about ten in the forenoon Syr. de papavere erratico and four in the afternon also syrrup of poppies in poppy water or given alone is good CHAP. XXX PICa is a languishing of the stomach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a provoking and desire of vomit or casting of meat received and sometimes vomiting of chollar and flegme or it is a certain desire of vitious and unwholesome meats for they desire strange things as raw-flesh shells coals chaulk lime salt vinegar old rags rotten leather tar candles one I knew would eat tobacco-pipes The cause according to Piso is a hurtful action of the animal faculty which doth erre Pisco and not desire good nourishment the part affected is the mouth of the stomach as may be perceived by the appetite this disease hapneth for the most part to young women being repleat and full of naughty humours but chiefly when they are with child sometimes to maides and girles and such as are troubled with Cachexia which is an evill state of the whole body with a waterish disposition whereby it waxeth loose and soft the cause signe and cure you shall have in its proper Chapter For the signe of pica or malacia Signa Malacia is that if there be shed burnt and black chollar in the stomach they desire such things as are acrid and sharp as coales ashes tobacco-pipes and all such things as are drie If salt humours they desire those things that are salt some have referred the cause of this disease to be crudity corruption of the whole body which being communicated to the mouth of the stomach they will have it to be affected by consent in like manner there do appear daily spittings gnawing of the mouth of the stomach If there be flegmatick humours heavinesse and according to the variety of vitious humours and patient doth desire the foresaid divers and strange meats This disease for the most part as I said before happeneth to young women with child about the fourtieth day from conception and do continue often untill the fourth month and then it ceaseth partly because vitious humours are avoyded by vomit and partly because they are concocted by reason that about those times the woman receiveth but little nourishment through a loathsomenesse partly because the multitude is diminished by evacuation that in the first two months the child draweth but little to it self because it is but small of growth but in the increase it doth require more nourishment so much as it draweth something that is vitious as well as good and so it happeneth that the whole body becometh more empty from that vitious quality and is lesse offended with naughty humours As for women with child Curatio Viâ—ctus Ratio they seldom make use of a physician but if any do prescribe a sparing diet as chickens rabbets or the like with parseley but nothing that is fat a mornings to eat almonds and reysons of the Sun and oximel and to drink muscadel in the day time is good but suffer not much drink to be drunk because the meat will swimme and if a plethorick body give clysters Vomitus or provoke gentle vomits but not in the first month for danger of Abortive or if a child laboureth of this disease use the means prescribed in the Chapter of Canina appetentia if it take hold on men which is but seldom known Vomitus first prepare the humour with oximel and then administer such a vomit as you shall know to be proper If chollar be adust and scorcheth prepare the humour with this Apozem following â„ž Syr. de Rhabar â„¥ j. syr Rosarum sol â„¥ ss Apozema Decoction Sennae q. s.f Apozema Let it be taken the one half over night and the other half in the morning after this give such a purgation as you shall know to be proper by the water or if need be give stomachal pills Pilulae which are wondrous proper to take one pill at a time one hour before supper when they have gone a day and have not had a stoole or they may purge good roundly with 7 or 9 at a time Syrrup of Rhubarb is good for children Syrrup de rhabarbaro and so is honey and muscadel but indeed they must be diligently admonished and must be constrained from the use of such unwholesom feeding those of reason must hearken to perswasion and children must be made to forbear with the Rod After purging or vomiting â„ž Julepus Platerus Aquae mens ij succi granat vel agrestae â„¥ ij Sacchari â„¥ ss coquatur parùm Vel â„ž Julepus Platerus Aquarum acetosae endiviae ana lb. ij sucei Ribes vel agrestae vel granat â„¥ .iij. succi limonum vel pomorum acid parum coquantur addito saccharo vel sine eo â„ž Electuarium Platerus Conser ros â„¥ .ij. conser acetosae â„¥ .j. cons viol bugloss nenuph. ana â„¥ ss Rob. de ribes q. s.f Electuarium In a cold cause you may use outwardly Oleum nucis moschatae Oleum caryophyllorum absynthii menthae c. In a hot cause Oleum Rosaceum myrrhinum cotoneorum Weckerus cum aceto
adhibitum Weckerus lib. 2. pag. 471. CHAP. XXXI ANOREXIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa or losse of appetite is for the most part caused through aboundance of cruid and raw humours lurking in the stomach or oppressed through nourishment corrupted sometimes it is caused by consent as from a defluxion of the brain from whence a thin wheyish matter is sent unto the stomach or else from the liver being strongly affected for it happeneth oftentimes upon the recovery of some sharp and acute disease that there is left behind a weaknesse of the stomach Also a chollerick humour pressing the mouth of the stomach may cause this evil and also it happeneth in fevers and especially in Synochus not putrified because through the aboundance of blood there is no attraction For the sign Signa in a hot cause there is felt gnawing in the stomach a desire to vomit and thirst sometimes a fever with rotten humours but contrary in a cold cause the part affected is the mouth of the stomach In a hot cause or chollerick humor Curatio Victus Ratio a cold diet must be prescribed moderate sleep quietnes must be used or provoked his body must be kept soluble if you see cause give a vomit Vomitus if otherwise purge with this Apozem following ℞ Syr. de Rhabarb ℥ j. Rosarum ℥ ss Decoct Apozema sennae q. s.f Apozema In time of year sallets are good with lettice succory vinegar and sugar and such like in a cold cause first vomit or else purge which you shall find to be most proper by the water with his meat let there be given mustard or else cloves cinnamon pepper and vinegar with sugar or tarragant is good with mutton or capers and to drink on mornings wormwood-wine is wondrous proper also Electuaries Lozenges Vinum absynth and the like but for the poorer sort first vomit or purge and drink wormwood beer Lastly refrain all kind of trash and take of this Electuary following ℞ Rosarum Ligni Aloës anaʒ vj macis Electuarium latificans Rhasis nucis moschatae galliae moschatae cardamomi utriusque cinnamomi croci ana ʒ ij cyperiʒ v caryophyllorum mastiches spicae nardi Asari anaʒ iij. melle emblicarum excipe moschi gr xv aromatiza Datur à . ʒ adʒ iij Rhasis If you see cause Ceratum you may apply outwardly Ceratum stomachale and use some of the oyles prescribed in the former Chapter CHAP. XXXII SITIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath a twofold cause natural and animal The natural is by natural inclination to require a cold and moist substance for to supply the place of the substance that was dissipated wasted and spent but the animal appetite is when the stomach feeling it self to be empty of moysture doth desire drink as happeneth in burning fevers Sometimes falt humours are the cause Causa and drinking of old wine the part affected is the mouth of the stomach either by it self or by consent with the heart or liver and chiefly by the inferiour parts thereof or with the lungs or by the veines of the Mesenterium or the Jejunum inflamed for those parts are accompanied with a hot and drie distemperature and indeed hapueth for the most part in hot and putrified fevers in hydropsies and such like As for the sign it is needlesse Signa for it may be known by the patients words if the stomach be heavie and dull it signifies repletion if falt humours that 's known by the patients eating of salt things if the cause be windinesse there is felt extension if chollar bitter belchings and extream thirst if sharp humours biting gnawing and such like If the cause be an hot inflammation Curatio he must abstain from hot things salt things and immoderate exercise and if a plethorick body Venae sectio open a vein and administer an Apozem made as you shall see fit and a Julep made as followeth Julepus Take French barley ℥ i. ss French pruins ℥ .iv. boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water untill half be wasted strain it and adde plantin wator ℥ .ij. conserve of barberries ℥ j. mixe them and drink thereof often and hold the conserve of aforesaid in your mouth letting it dissolve by degrees adde to the julep loafe-sugar and if it proceed of drunkenness drink Aqua hordei if it cometh of salt humours Julepus as in the scurvie then drink Aqua fumariae syrrupus fumariae make a julep and drink thereof Also purging is good and refrain salt things But when it chance to those that have burning fevers then give them Posca that is Posca vinegar and water sodden together if you will Aqua spermatis ranarum you may adde conserve of barberries and Aqua spermatis Ranarum is very effectual mixed either with some cooling syrrup or conserve or given by it self a spoonfull at a time Sperma ant semen ranarum colligitur mense Martio Destillatur autem per alembicum vitreum Quercetanus CHAP. XXXIII NAVSEA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a naughty and wicked motion of the expulsive faculty of the stomach It is caused of a vitious humour contained in Causa the stomach being either hot or cold which humour either swimmeth in the concavity or hollownesse of the stomach or it is stuffed in the filmes thereof cleaving like bird-lime sometimes great exercise after meales sayling on the seas and over fat meats or stopping of the Menstruis may be the cause In a hot cause Signa you shall find the sign in the Chapter of weakness of the stomach if vitious humours do swim in the stomach then for the most part vomiting followeth If a tough humour like bird-lime be drowned in the cotes of the stomach it causeth a disposition to vomit but bringeth forth nothing also a dulnesse throughout the whole body As touching the cure of vomiting Curatio you must note in the beginning it ought not to be stopped if the sick be the better for it especially if such things be purged as ought to be it is also good and may be suffered if not it is evill for the cure Clyster the readiest way is sleep if it may be procured as in a hot cause if the body be costive administer a cooling clyster adding thereto oyle of violets ℥ .iij. or give gr iij. of laudanum Paracel which is good providing the body be first made soluble also infuse a piece of bread in white-wine vinegar or rose-vinegar and bruise it in a morter Ceratum and adde thereunto powder of cinnamon cloves red-roses or the like this may be applyed to their stomachs warm if children be troubled with vomiting give syrrup of Rhubarb Cataplasma such a quantity as fitteth the age and strength of the child and you may take cammomel wormwood mint and porret of either half a handfull boyle them in halfe a pinte of wine-vinegar and thicken it
whil'st they are casting out there is also felt bitternesse of the mouth thirst a thin state of the body and other tokens signifying choller 5. If flegmatick humours be the cause all those forementioned signes are contrary 6. If humours flow from the head to the belly the egestious will appear frothy and the temperature of the brain will be very moyst 7. If through fullness of the body it is easily known 1. Curatio If it be caused through weakness of the instruments you shall find remedy in the Chapter of Imbecill stomach 2. If through the fulness or other causes and nature labour to help it self you must suffer it a while for being stopped the vitious humours are carried upwards and do cause pain in the head a frensie lethargy or impostumation behind the eares but if it shall continue long casting forth not only superfluities but melting as it were the state of the body and consuming the strength then labour to stop it 3. If through chollerick humours Apozema an Apozem of the infusion of Rhubarb is much praysed at the first taking of this disease Cassia and Manna is good then this julep following ℞ Aqua plantag Portulacae ana ℥ iv Syr. Julepus Mirti cons oxiacanthae ana ℥ .j. Make a julep and take steel gadds red hot Chalybs quench them in milk scum it and drink it is much commended if there be no fever if there be powre a fourth part of water to the milk and boyle it untill halfe be consumed 4. If chollar be in the bowels Clyster Electuarium give a clyster of the decoction of French barley with oyle of Roses or the like then make an Electuary with conserve of Roses Diatrion Santalon Syrrup Mirt. For the poorer sort take bolearmenia instead of the Diatrion sant Aliud with the conserve of Roses and Syr. Lujulae or Myrtills 5. If it be caused of flegmatick humours that be gross and tough minister the infusion of Agarick with Mirabol Emblici or use clysters made with the decoction of Centory and oyle of Rue Cataplasma after that apply the poultis outwardly upon the stomach which you shall find in the Chapter of Nausea page the 67. onely instead of vinegar use clarret or red-wine and a little cinamon and if he be over-greedy of meat let him use a spare diet 6. If it be caused through weaknesse of the vertue retentive bathe the body with oyle of of Myrtills soure mulberries dried in the Sun and beaten to powder Pulvis and drunk in some binding syrrup do marvellously stop This Lohoch following is good ℞ Cons Ros Rub. ℥ ss Diarrhod Abb. Diamoron Lohoch Cons Ros Rub. ℥ ss Diarrhod Abb. Diamoron Diatri sant Coral Rub. ana ℈ ij Balaustiae Rosarum Rub. anaʒ ss Mastic ℈ ss Bolus arme ʒ.i.ss Syrrup of Myrtills as much as will make an Ecligma or Loch with fine white sugar and plantin water leaving out the conserve and syrrup you may make Lozenges Rice-broath is good 7. If Diarrhaea cometh through Rheumatick matter see the Chapter of Catarrhus CHAP. XL. LIENTERIA is a certain lightnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or smoothnesse of the bowels even like as there chanceth a scarre on the outside of the body in this disease the bowels do not hold the meat but let it slide away before it be changed or perfectly digested in the same likeness that it was eaten It is caused oftentimes through a grievous flux Dysenteria by name going before Causa which causeth deep exulceration of the bowels and consequently scarres now the mouthes of the veines which draw nourishment from the bowels being obstructed and the bowels being become smooth will not suffer meats to be distributed but let them slide out before they be altered this disease is many times caused through debility of the vertue retentive in the stomach also sometimes when dropsie water is avoyded by the belly this flux Lienteria followeth Whatsoever causeth this flux Signa the sick do taste or feel no meat there is an evill plight of the body their excrements are pale cruid raw whitish unequal and very watery not mixt with blood or choller he feeles a burning all over the sides loathing of meat if soure belchings do happen it is a good sign the meats abide some while in the stomach For the cure let him be sparing of drink Curatio for much is forbidden in all fluxes 1. If it be ingendred through weaknesse of the virtue of the stomach search the cure in its proper Chapter as in Imbecill Stomachi Diarrhaea and the following Chapter But to be short minister those things that restrain and strengthen the stomach and bowels as syrrup of wormwood mints and wormwood wine Oleum is good use outwardly oyle of mastick wormwood mints and myrtills make the poultis that is set down in the former Chapter and strew on the powder of Cinamon Cloves Galingale Baulaustia or red Roses 2. Those that have a scarre the eating of sharp things are profitable for that it causeth a Refrication and rubbing upon the scarre it renueth natural heat therefore use scouring things with restrictive medicines with the meat use vergis the juyce of soure pomegranates lemonds or the syrrup of the same or of unripe grapes also a clyster of the decoction of Balaustia Clyster sloes French pruines unripe grapes and such like some Authours do much commend vinegar to receive the fume upon hot tile stones others the fume of Frankincense Laud paracel and Amber to be an excellent thing but in all fluxes Laudanum paracel judicially administred two or three graines is said to be a most sure help Actuarius Diacodion Weckerus Also for the same purpose Actuarius his Diacodion is wondrous proper the making of which you shall find in Weckerus his antidotary lib. 2. p. 786. After purging with Aloes or Rhubarb or Clysters you must strengthen the ventricle with this Opiat following ℞ Opiat Riverius Conservae ros antiquae ℥ vj. theriacae opt ʒ vj. mivae cydonior quantum satis Fiat opiata de qua capiat ℥ ss manè nihil superbibendo River lib. 5. cap. 4. Lastly make this oyntment following ℞ Ol. amyg amar arum ℥ .iij. ol nard cham Vnguentū Rondeletius an ℥ .j. vini albi ℥ i. ss decoquantur leviter quibus adde cerae q. s terebin abietinae ℥ ss spicae celticae schenant Cyperi galangae an ʒ.j seminis apii petro an ʒ ss fiat unguentum ungatur regio ventris circa umbilicum Nam in illis partibus obstructiones aperiendae sunt Rondel lib. 3. cap. 19. CHAP. XLI DYSENTERIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an exulceration of the bowels being tormented and fretted very much with pain some reckon four kindes of Dysenteria 1. The first is when blood is sent forth by circuit through some part of the body being cut off or through some
the Saphena beware of hot diureticks and acrid medicines as scammony use outwardly oyle of roses and quinces cooling clysters with Cassia is very good Olcum or Cassia inwardly with syrrup of violets also to drink Aq. sperm ranarum is excellent Aq. sperm ranarum fasting is hurtful use diureticks when the Absessus is broken as parsley and fennel in clysters put in oyls of roses violets and cammomel If you want more look into the Chapters of other inflammations and the Chapter of ulcers in the reines for the which honey and milk is good This clyster following is proper in the inflammation of the kidneys ℞ Rad. althaeae ℥ .j. fol. malvae violar Clyster lactucae ana M.j. prun dulc paria iv hord mundat flor violar ana P. j. fiat decoctio ad ℥ .viij. vel x. In colat dissolve cassiae vel diapruni simplicis ℥ .j. ol violac ℥ .4 Riverius vitellos ovorum num ij Fiat clyster Riverius lib. 8. cap. 3. CHAP. LIX CALCVLVs RENVM 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa happeneth oftner to men then to children The cause is continual crudity and rawnesse of the stomach whereby much grosse and earthly humours are heaped up together which being parched with a burning fiery heat about the reines hardneth into a stone The stones do sometimes differ in greatnes and figure colour and sharpness they are black whitish and pale They feel grievous pain in the reines Signa even as it were a bodkin thrust through and yet no swelling without he have much adoe to turn his back bone the leg against the diseased rein is astonied with abhorring of meat and vomiting the urine is sometime pissed forth little in quantity and watery afterward followeth perfect suppression of urine the womb avoyddeth nothing yet maketh many proffers to go to the stool sometimes blood is avoyded through the violence of the stones especially if they be sharp the urine hath gravelly residence when the stone is removed If the stones be light and round they are easily sent forth but very hard if they be long and sharp For the cure Curatio if thou wouldst first prevent it in any person prohibit fulnesse of diet and all such things as ingender gross and obstructive juyce unleasened and light bread gross and new ale and beer with new and unsetled wines and their exercises must be mean also let them avoyd cheese and milk and plenty of flesh all things that do heat and inflame the liver and kidneys are to be avoyded let him not stand with his back against the fire sallets are good Victus ratio and let his meat be such as yeeld nourishment as veal pullets chickens partridges doves larks and hedge-sparrowes which is said to be best Cassia Cassia is much commended to be given in a good quantity with syrrup of violets Althaeae maiden-haire or lymonds the broath of Althaeae is very good with the roots of parsely fennel cicers and the root and seed of saxifrage with a little new butter ℞ Bolus Terebinth venet ℥ .j. aut ℥ i.ss let it be washed in saxifrage water take it in wafers also some of the aforesaid syrrups taken in Aq. sperm ranarum cannot but be excellent wine of Alkekengie Vinum and also the milk of an asse is much commended by Aetius also syrrup of marrich mallows Aetius Potius diuret taken in parietary saxifrage or onion water is good Secondly if the stone be ingendred if there be a plethorick body and strong some will advise the vein in the ham of that leg that is astonied to be cut and also purging Phlebotomia if nothing forbid it otherwise take this clyster following ℞ Malvae Althaeae merculialis capil ven Clyster parietariae ana M.j. nastur M.i. ss Sem. Apii feniculi anaʒ iij Boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water strein it and adde ℥ .i. of Cassia Hierapicra ℥ ss oyls of dill and cammomel ana ℥ .j. Salicom ʒ.ij f. Enema anoynt the region of the reines and loynes with oyles of dill sweet Almonds cammomel and Althea Cataplas A cataplasme made with wheat meale linseed fenegreek lupines cammomel fennel roots beaten well and leaves of Althea If the stone stick fast or rest quietly in the kidneys beware of diureticks you must first loosen the reines with foments and cataplasmes as aforesaid and if the stone shall happen to fall into the bladder or yard and so stop the urine then make use of a silver Cathetur and diureticks the blood of the goat in saxifrage water is good Elect. Dulcis the ancients use Justinum or Elect. Dulcis In the fit you may use clysters bathes unction Cassia turpentine to disturb the stone use the clyster abovesaid to which may be added in the boyling cammomel roots of parietary and aniseed in the streining hony of of violets ℥ .j. venus turpentine ℥ ss oyles of scorpions ʒ ij aut ℥ ss give syrrup Dialthaea Syr. alth to make the passages slippery in some diuretick water but this is to be noted that if the stone be old or hard it is in vain to use diureticks but if it be sand and small stones then use those things aforesaid If you want more look into the Chapter of obstructions and the three kinds of dropsies and also into the Chapter of inflammation of the reines Hercul saxonia lib. 3. cap. 41. p. 346. Hercules Saxonia did frequently use Turpentine and indeed it is of great force not only to cleanse the reins and bladder from slime and gravel but also to break the stone ℞ Bolus Riverius Terebinthinae in aqua saxifragiae vel parietariae decies lotae ℥ ss cum saceharo fiat bolus Vel. ℞ Aliud Riverius Cassiae recentur extractaeʒ vj. terebinthinae ℥ ss pulv liquirit ʒ.ij misce fiat bolus Vel ℞ Aliud Terebinthinae ℥ ss Pulv. lithontrypticiʒ ij Misce fiat bolus Riverius lib. 8. cap. 1. pag. 235. If the inflammation and pain be great apply this cataplasme ℞ Cataplas Fontan Mucilaginis seminis lini faenugraeci an ℥ .vj. pinguedinis gallinae ℥ .iv. farinae hordei q. s.fiat cataplasma Fontan lib. 3. cap. 31. pga. 413. Vel ℞ Vnguenti populeon ℥ j. dialth ℥ ss misce Vnguentū Mar quardus Or if that will not be sufficient you may adde one dragme and a halfe of Opium CHAP. LX. DIABETES is a disease about the reines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 causing much thirst and what is drunk is pissed out again even as it is taken It is ingendred of weaknesse of the retentive vertue of the reins Causa but the attractive vertue is so strong that it sucketh the whole body through immoderate heat causing a stubborn thirst For the sign they drink continually Signa because the drink they take passeth swiftly out again their bowels seem to burn the loynes swell up and the stones and
haunches also gnawing in the bowels a wrinkled stomach the body is lean with consuming If there be fulness of blood bleed in the arm Curatio Venae-sectio Victus ratio if nothing forbid it Let his pot-herbs be endive lettice and purslain pomegranets also are good wine that is red and thick being well allayed with water is good Rob. de ribis or barberries and juyce of knot-grass syrrup of Myrtils and juyce of pomegranets are good and sweating is very excellent This opiate following is very good Opiata ℞ Conservae ros Antiquae ℥ iv Boli armeni coralli praepar cornu cervi usti ana ℈ .j. cum miva cydonior fiat opiat Look into the chapter of the flux Dysenteria and there you shall be furnished with simples and compounds of the same temperature and vertue as are those aforesaid This electuary following is very much commended ℞ Electuariū Weckerus Carnis citoniorum conservae consol majoris ana ℥ .j. mucilaginis gummi tragacanthi sem citoniorum extractae cum aqua rosan ℥ ss Amyliʒ iij Boli armeni sanguinis draconis an ʒ.j misce cum syrrupo de papavere myrthino fiat electuarium de quo capiat bis in die semul noctu Vel ℞ Emplastrū Weckerus succi plantaginis succi virgae pastoris an ℥ .ij. Pulveris myrthiʒ iij. Pastillorum de spodioʒ ij misce Wecker lib. 2. part 2. pag. 563. Ex diabete forti vehementi sequitur hectica ergo cito est curanda CHAP. LXI VLCERIS RENVM To an inflammation suppurated there doth succeed a great and hollow ulcer which is seldom or never cured for the continual passage of urine hinders the consolidation of the ulcer the cure consists in exsiccation and drying It is caused through breaking of the veine in the reines Causa through sharp and gnawing humours carried into the reines There is pain in the loynes Signa with heavinesse and matter is commixed with the urine with lttle pieces of flesh or haires swimming in it Hippocrates saith lib. 4. Aphor. 75. Hippocrates Si sanguis pus cum urina reddatur exulceratae vesicae aut renum significationem praebet also ubi dolor ibi morbus For the cure barley water is good Curatio Phlebotomia clysters with Cassia open a vein if nothing forbid it Asses milk is good to scoure the ulcer goates milk to replenish and incarnate the ulcer also an emulction made with sweet Almonds Emulsic and the four greater cold seeds with barley water this emplaster following is good ℞ Pul. rosar rub boli armen Emplastrū sanguinis draconis an ʒ.ij mastichis carnis cidoniori an ℥ .j. With oyle of myrtils make an emplaster Ewes milk is good to consolidate the ulcer let him eschew crudities much thirst abstinence hunger labour wrath solitarinesse exercise Vicius ratio watching and immoderate riding let his diet be tender and easie of digestion for pot-herbs mallowes endive sorrel purselain and lettice almond milk is good with honey also goates whey and pul contra gonorr is good If you want more look into the former Chapter and also into the Chapter of ulcers of the bladder Ex sententia Rhasis nihil melius est in ulceribus renum vesicae aliorum locorum urinallium Rhasis quam aqua lactis quia mundificat lavat abstergit choleram ad intestina derivando CHAP. LXII CALCVLVS VESICAE stones in the bladder ingender oftner in children than in elder folk It is caused through grosse and thick urine Causa that is carried into the bladder and setleth there and through the heat that is in children breedeth into a stone The sign is Signa often itching with handling their members which are swollen and making water continually being vexed with a strangury their urine is cruid and waterish with white sand to be certain the chirurgian may use the Catheter yet many have been deceived because the stone is sometimes wrapped in a coat of clammy flegme so that it yeilds no sound The cure is much alike to the stone in the reines Curatio only if possible use stronger diureticks excellent authours affirm Sectio the safest way is to cure it by section and not to strive so long with saxifrage because it wasteth the spirits so in the end they are not able to indure to cure To inject oyle of scorpions is much commended Ol. Scorpienum and to anoynt the perinaeum with it also the powder of the stone that is found in the gall of an oxe the stones of spunges in powder and goats blood being warm Pulv. sem gemistae and injected with a syringe also broom-seed in powder and drunk in white-wine also this ℞ following is much commended Infusio Take parietary of the wall and parsley of either a handfull a good great red onion bruise them grosly then put them into a quart or three pintes of white-wine let them stand all night in the morning straine them and adde ℥ 4. of syrrup of marsh mallowes you may infuse Juniper berries with it Bacc. Juniperi in this drink will be fit to take any diuretick powder Raphanus Rusticanus also horse-radish roots are much commended Lapis vesicae si confirmatus jam sit ad aliquam magnitudinem jam pervenit vix alia ratione curari potest quà m sectione Hartmannus de vesic affec pag. 263. Hartmannus Lapis in vesic a indiget fortiori medicamento quà m renalis quia longior via CHAP. LXIII IN FLAMMA VESICAE Hippocrates according to Hippocrates it is for the most part deadly he saith Si vesica sit dura dolore vexetur Funestum eoque magis si accedat Febris continua They are vexed with a sharp fever Signa they watch rave and speak they wot not what they vomit pure choller and they cannot make water the share is hard with vehement pain and have a desire to the stoole as in Tenasmus the order is thin and sometimes the wombe is costive For the cure bleeding first in the arm Curatio Phlebotomiae Clyster and afterward in the foot is much commended but first a cooling clyster to ease pain nourish the bladder with oyle wherein is sodden dill linseed rew or fenegreek or Althaea and remember the bladder is full of sinewes and therefore cold things are hurtfull I conceive that Aq. Mixtura sperm ran with syrrup dialtheae given warm must needs be proper If there be necessity use a syringe to draw out the urine but beware of strong diureticks wine sharp things and spices Victus ratio and let their diet be thin and of a cooling quality In inflammatione vesicae valent cadem quae in inflammatione renum Hartmannus CHAP. LXIV VLCERIS VESICAE Causa It is caused either through some byle or botch or swelling which hath been before or through
some rupture or gnawing of a flux There followeth sharp pain of the bladder Signa casting out matter when the ulcer is foul and filthy the matter is more slimy and dreggy sometimes thin skins like leaves and wooll are sent out If the ulcer spread abroad and feed deep the urine is bloody mattery and stinking also there is difficulty of making water and rising up of the yard if there be pain about the pubes it sheweth the ulcer to be in the bladder If pain be in the perinaeum then the ulcer is in the neck of the bladder If in the yard in the uriter note that ulcers of the bladder be incurable or at least very hard to cure as well because the bladder is sine wey as also because the urine which is of nature sharp doth continually touch the ulcers and so gnaweth them that it will not suffer them to conglutinate For the cure Curatio if he have a fever which for the most part is annexed with it labour to quench it milk is much commended Lac. Clyster either drunk or injected make a clyster with mallowes fenegreek linseed cucumber-seed c. when you administer it let the Patient lye groveling upon his knees Pilulae give milk and honey to scoure and cleanse the ulcers pills of Alkakengie with opium are commended to ease pain If you would stop the ulcer from spreading use lotions made with bolearmenie and barley water Mel. rosa Mel rosarum injected with milk is a good cleanser also Syrrup rosarum ciccarum in barley water to inject is good what is wanting else you shall find remedies enow in the Chapter of Ulceris renum Yet you may according to Fontanus directions use this injection following every fourth day ℞ Mucilaginis seminis altheae Injectio Fontanus citoniorum psillii an ℥ .j. aquae albuminis ovi conquassati ℥ i.ss lactis muliebris ℥ .ij. cerusae ℥ .iij. gummi Arabiciʒ ij misce exactè in mortario plumbeo cum syphone injiciantur quart in die Lastly inject Bolus armen vel sanguis draconis cum aqua plantaginis in sufficienti quantitate CHAP. LXV ISCHVRIA in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suppressio urinae in Latin it is a disease in which the urine of the Patient is stopped It is caused sometimes through weaknesse of the bladder Causa not being able to thrust out that which is contained in it it is also caused of grosse humours or of a stone congealed sometimes of inflammation or of hardness sometimes by a piece of flesh or hard knob ingendred in the passage of urine also of clodded blood also it is caused of matter sent down to the reines or liver or from some other part also through over-long holding of the urine also through the obtuse sence of the bladder If stopping of the urine be caused through weaknesse of the bladder Signa it may be known by their diet and course of life If of the stone you may know that by the signes in the Chapter of the stone If through inflammation or swelling it is known by pain fever and sight if through a piece of flesh or knob is may be known by putting in an instrument and also if the knob or boyle be broken there cometh out blood or fragments of flesh if clotted blood be the cause there went before pissing of blood 1. Curatio For the cure if it be caused through imbecillity of the bladder use heating things as pasneps Apium fennel Apium sperage smalledge c. after diureticks the palsie drink were good 2. If through gross humours then use those things that cut and divide Decoctio as oximel decoction of hysope peniroyal origan thime and inject oyle of lillies c. 3. If through clodded blood horse-radish roots infused in white-wine is good Raphanus Rustica in drink motherwort stichas wormwood sothernwood c. 4. If through inflammation look into its proper Chapter 5. If through a piece of flesh give such things as spread abroad the pipe and conduit of urine Syphon as in the Chapter of the stone in the reines also the using of a syringe is good 6. If through a dull sence of the bladder it must be cured even as the weaknesse thereof is cured onely beware of strong diureticks 7. If through holding their urine too long stand so as the neck of the bladder may leane downward and lay both your hands about the share press it thrusting out the urine by little little and thus he may do in the dull sence of the bladder which some I think do but suppose may be the cause of Ischuria some commend clysters of parietary cammomel Nasturtium Clyster majoram peniroyal Origanum plenty of remedies you may find in the Chapter of the dropsie and stone Crato Crato commendeth these pills following ℞ Terebinthinae coctae ℥ j. Pilulae ex Terebinth Rhabarbari electissimiʒ iij. Succini albi succi Glycyrrhizae anaʒ ss Cinnamomi electiʒ j misce fiat massa de qua formentur pilulae mediocres Vel R. Olei Terebinthinae arte chimica extractiʒ j Julepus Fontan syrrupi violati ℥ .j. aquae raphani aut ononidis q. s fiat julep capiatur Petrus Salius capite 14. scribit in extrema necessitate dentur gr 11. cantharidarum integrarum cum semen ameos ℈ .j. quod est cantharidarum antidotum ut probari verùm ut dulcis fiat remedium adde zacchari candi pulverizati ʒ ss Fontanus lib. 3. cap. 36. pag. 437. CHAP. LXVI DYSVRIA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa urinae difficultas is a disease wherein the urine is hardly pissed It is caused through weaknesse and coldness of the bladder sometimes through gross humours Weakness and coldness is known by the patients words Signa and the thinnesse and whitenesse of the urine For the cure Curatio Diacur cuma Oleum Hercul Saxon. Diacurcuma is commended and to noursh the share with oyles of Rew Dill Lillies and Castoreum there is plenty of remedies in the other foregoing Chapter and thither I referre you Hercules Saxonia saith that Curatio dy suriae quando provenit ex humoribus permistis cum urina habet omnes has intentiones ut evacuentur revellantur deriventur contemperentur partes à quibus gener antur corrigantur Si à frigore infirmitas Hollerius calorificis utendum est unctione perinaei pectivis fomentis balneis cly steribus potionibus aliisque remediis Vbi verò urina acrior est Phlebotomia Potiopurgans siquidem corpus bene carnosum est si inflammationis suspitio vena basilica secanda est Purgandum cum ʒ.x Cassiae dissolutae in sero caprino vel liquore convenienti Hollerius lib. 1. cap. 47. CHAP. LXVII STRANGVRIA Stillicidium urinae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a disease whereas the urine distilleth down by drops or by little and little and causeth a
rotteth and putrifieth within the veines Causa it agreeth with an exquisite intermitting Tertian because it is ingendred of the same humour that the other is But yet differs in that in an intermitting Tertian the choller is carried all over the body but in this causos it is contained in the vessels with the blood so that when the choller is stirred vehemently and driven about by nature there is wont to follow vehement cold and rigour Hippocrat Hippocrates saith 4. Aphoris 58. That if it happeneth in a burning fever the Patient is delivered from the disease It is known by these signes Signa their tongue is drie grosse rough and black also gnawing of the stomach thirst watchings and many times ravings their egestions of the wombe be liquid and pale For his cure use lettice and sorrel Curatio Victus ratio in his broath strew his room with the leaves of the vine flowers of roses violets and water-lillies also sprinkle cold water in the roome But the first intention is to open a vein Venae-sectio from whence a large quantity of blood must be drawn This Epithema is good â„ž Aqua rosarum rub lactucae ana â„¥ iij.ss Epithema aqua endiviae cichorii an â„¥ i.ss aceti â„¥ .j. triasantali ana â„¥ ss Sem. portulacae gr iv fiat Epith. moysten rotten wool in it and apply it to the liver If you will make one for the heart take the waters of Bugloss Burrage Pul. elect diamarg frigid corall saffron c. Lastly cause the chollerick humour to be voyded either by sweats vomits or egestions downwards and labour to quench the heat with Aq. sperm ranarum or the like or if you please you may make a julep of barley water Julepus wherein is boyled the strings of the vine a handful bruised with a few pruines to the streining adde sugar syrrup of violets poppies or any other syrrup that is of a cooling quality The manner of preparing barley water Guibertus Aq. hord according to Guibertus is thus Accipe hordei communis manipulum unum Bulliat in libris duabus aquae ad quadrantis consumptionem Extracta ab igne refrigerata coletur per linteum mundum ad usum CHAP. VI. EXQVISITA TERTIANA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cassa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 febris intermittens It is caused of choller carried by the sencible parts of the body yet it remaineth pure sincere and unmixed and therefore it is called exquisite In every fit they feel a vehement cold Signa rigour and stiffenesse and as it were pricked In the increasing of the fits the pulse are vehement great and frequent with thirst he breathes out as it were a flame of fire coveting cold water sometimes they vomit choller the belly being loose Their urine is chollerick the fit lasts commonly 12. houres sometimes lesse according to the quantity of choller or the quality of it or the strength of the patient Duplex tertiana If it invade the Patient daily with the signes aforesaid it is called Duplex tertiana a double tertian Galen in the most hottest fevers giveth counsell to draw blood even ad lypothimiam Galenus Curatio Vena sectio after the third fit it is most proper to be done At the first opening of the vein we may draw blood more in quantity then at the second because the first is for evacuation the second but for refrigeration let this be done the day before the fit The next day at the houre of the coming of the fit give a vomit of the infusion of Stibium Vomitus 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 or 15. drams according to the strength of the Patient The next fit procure a sweat with Diascordium mithridate Mithridatum Victus ratio gunpowder or the like Let him use that which cools and moystens as the flowers of violets burrage roses water-lillies endive succory lettice damascene pruins purslaine sorrel roots of grasse of these may be made decoctions Amongst compounds there is Elect de prunis damascenis without diagridium Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatria santalon in powder EmplastruÌ„ and the conserves of the former simples Also tosted bread infused in rose-vinegar beaten in a morter and adding coral Ê’ i red roses and cinnamon of either half a dram and applied like a plaister is good also Ceratum santalinum Ceratum and clysters doe well and if the Patient be not able to take a vomit give him strong Apozems For the extremity of heat Aq. sperm ranarum remember Aqua sperm ranarum If rest be wanting â„ž Haustus Syrrupi papaveris et nenufaris ana â„¥ .j. aq lactucae â„¥ .ij. misce bibat Or if you please VnguentuÌ„ you may use unguentum populeum mixed with a little opium and then to drop in 3 or 4 drops of oyle of nutmegs and bathe the temples of their head with it is good the manner of making with the quantities are set down in the Chapter of Melancholia Cataplasâ—ma towards the latter end Also take briony root slice it the inward bark of Helder rew fether-few walnut-tree bark or leaves and cellindine of ether a like quantity stamp them with a little salt spread them on a cloath grate a little nutmeg on it and apply it to the wrists If you want more look back into the Chapter of Causos If you think good you may minister this potion â„ž Potio purgans Elect. de succo ros diaprun sol anaÊ’ v. syr ros alex. ex 9. infus â„¥ ij decocti communis q. s misce fiaetpotio Carolus Amatus This is for a strong body But for a weak body this that followeth may serve â„ž Potio Syrrup de cichor compos cum rhab. â„¥ i.ss Elect. de succo ros Ê’.iij decocti gram acetos end q. s.fiat potio Varandaeus pag. 7. Vel â„ž Massae pilul aggr de Rhab. an ℈ .ij. diagr gr iv cum aqua foeniculi fiant pilulae numero xi deaurentur Carolus Amatus CHAP. VII TERTIANA NOTHA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa or bastardly Tertian it is caused when choller is mixed for the most part with flegme In this fever Signa the time of the fits exceed twelve hours and there is not such great heat in the state and rigour of this fever as in the exquisite Tertian besides it doth not end in abundance of sweat as the exquisite Tertian doth Give them ptisan and mulsa Curatio Victus ratio Venae sectio wherein hath been sodden Hyssop and Origan fasting If the Patient be strong bleeding helpeth much then take this clyster following â„ž Malvae mercurialis violarum origani Clyster Hyssopi ana M.j. sem nasturtiiÊ’ iij coquantur in s.q aquae usque ad consumptionem medietatis cujus colaturae accipiatur lib. 1. adde Benedict laxat Hierapicra anaÊ’ iij mel rosarumÊ’ iv oleum violarum cammomeli ana
the matter of the disease be prepared and the passages opened to expell peccant humours Rhabarbarum for which purpose Rhubarb is most excellent for it is directly opposite to the essence of the disease The simples are these Rhabarbarum Catalogus simplicium Agaricus sem Carthami Jallappa Turpethum Epithymum c. The compounds are these Syr. Rosar solut Compos de cichor cum rhab. Syr. epith fumariae Diacatholicon confectio Hamech Benedicta laxativa ℞ Decoctio commun ℥ i. ss Syr. Mixtura purgans de rhabarbaro ℥ j. misce Give the child half of it over night and the other half in the morning warm you shall find an excellent decoction of a strengthening quality in the Chapter Paralysis ℞ Rha b. opt.ʒ.i.ss vuar passar exacinat m.j. Infusio cerevis commun l. j. infund per 12. horas de colatura hujusmodi bibant puelli qui noctu avidè potum expetunt 6. Specifical alterant medicines are remedies diametrically contrary to the nature of the disease and such as directly impugn it The simples and compounds are these Catalogus simplicium compos Radices Eryng Tamarisc Abortonum Absinth pontic chelidon major crocus Radic curcumae sarsaparillae sassafr chinae tria santala lignum Guaiaci ejusque cortex flor sulph chalybs praepar crocus martis sal chalyb. vinum chalyb. syr chal vinum album Rhenanum sperma ceti moschus Ambra Grysea castoreum c. Also the root of osmond the royal of the male fernbrake Asparagus madder maiden-hairs Ceterach hearts-tongue liverwort betony sage rosemary and the leaves of dead nettles may well be numbred amongst specifical simples for their singular vertue in this disease ℞ Apozema Rad. osmundae regal spicas no. vj. veron maris linguae cervin ceterach capill vener hepat ana m.j. salviae anthus ana m. ss passul minor ℥ .iij. Glycyrrh ℥ ss macis ℈ ij coq in l. vj. aq fontan s a. ℞ Colaturae l. iij. adde syr capill vener ℥ iij. misce ff Apozema capiat puellus haustulum hujus quotidie mane horâ quartâ pomeridianâ tum etiam noctu si potum tunc potierit immo si voluerit utatur eo pro potu ordinario This is most proper for those who have the Rachites complicated with a cough and an obstruction of the lungs If the liver be afflicted put in the flowers of Tamarisk the roots of male-fernbrake raisons white and red sanders Sassafras wood and sage leaves ℞ Sarsaparill ℥ .viij. rad chinae ℥ .ij. lig sassafr Sacculus ℥ ss eboris ℥ .j. osmond regal veron maris ling. cervin ceterach capill vener hepat summitat lamii ana m.ij. Boyle them in four gallons of new Ale untill one be consumed then add another gallon and stirre it up and down with a stick then strain it and put the ingredients into a boulting bag put a peece of Iron into them and a bit of leaven hang it into the Ale with a string and let the child drink of it for its ordinary drink ℞ Sarsaparill incis contus ℥ iij. rad chinae eryng ana ℥ ij linguae cervin ceterach hepat capill vener veron maris salviae ana m. ss cort tamarisci sant rubr anaʒ ij passul corinth ℥ .j. macisʒ ss Victus With pure oat-meal a cock chickin and a sufficient quantity of water make your broath Also this Electuary following is good ℞ Conserv rosarum rub ℥ i.ss cons flor borrag Electuarium salviae lamii caryoph anthus ana ℥ ss Diatri santal diarrhod abb croci salis chalyb ana ℈ ss cinam Glycyrr hispan anaʒ ss chalyb. praepar ʒ.j cum syr de cichor cum rhab. f. Electuarium Let the child take half a dram two scruples or a dram every morning by it self or else in possit Ale 7. Remedies that correct the symptomes such as the flux of the belly the lientery profuse sweats Rhabarb and painful breeding of teeth are these Rhubarb Senna Tamarinds Myrobalaus for they leave behind an evident binding after evacuation So that the cure is perfected partly by purgations by astringent remedies by such as open and partly by such as strengthen the parts ℞ Mixtura Fol. Sennae elect ʒ.ss rhab. ℈ .j. pulpae tamarind ʒ.i.ss semin anis contus gr x. Infuse them in a sufficient quantity of water boyle them very gently and to an ounce and a half of the decoction adde Syr. de rosis siccis vel myrt vel menthae ℥ ss ℞ Bolus Conserv rosar rub ℥ ss rhab. opt pulv gr xij Syr. de coral q.s.f Bolus To be given in the morning or if the symptomes be violent ℞ Bolus Laudani dispensatorii Londinens gr ss magister corall gr xij conserv caryoph vel rosarum rub ℈ .j. syr cydon q. s f. Bolus To be taken at bed-time If you want more look back into the 39 40 and 41. Chapters in the first book For profuse and excessive sweating mark what Hippocrates saith Hippocrates sudorem illum qui praeter causam fluit purgationem postulare That that sweat which floweth away without cause requireth purgation For which purpose Rhubarb is most excellent Rhabarb also French and Rennish-wine is commended But because according to Galen Galenus Vinum pueris inimicum by reason it heateth above nature and hurteth the head Mix with it rose-rose-water or put in Borrage or rosted Apples adde a little sugar and nutmeg Also Electuaries with steel Electuariū If there be no cathar cough inflammation plurisie or flux Diarrhod abb Diatri sant and conserve of Barberies are good For the painful breeding and aching of the teeth vomiting is commended or to rub the teeth with a tobacco leafe moystened Nurses use coral but to rub the gums with a marsh mallow root is better If the pain be violent use Laud. gr ss as before Laudan 8. External remedies may be divided into two kinds namely the manner of exercise and things externally applicable Gentle exercises are referred to the manner of lying down To the agitation of the body in the cradle To the carrying them about in the nurses arms and to sedendary pastimes 1. First lying upon the back among all postures of the body doth chiefly recede from exercise and is almost only allowable in the extreme weaknesse of the spirits as in acute fevers inflammation of the liver spleen lungs in a plurisie in the growing of the lungs with the Plura and an impostum c. The simple lateral position conteineth somewhat more of exercise to correct the crookednesse of the back-bone a little bag may be made to lay under the gibbous part 2. Secondly rocking of the cradle in time of sleep must be intermitted This kind of exercise is most profitable for weak infants that can scarce stand upon their feet 3. The bearing them about in the nurses arms is most agreeable to the same children Let the nurse sing and wave
be raised sharp upward First cut the Cephalica vein on the same side Curatio Venae sectio Fomentatio and make a fomentation with Fenugreek Althaea cammomel and meal of Linseed to ease pain EmplastruÌ„ Emplast Oxycroceum and melilot plaister is good some have performed a perfect cure with Argent Vng enul vivum The oyntment thereof being rubbed upon a plaister of melilot and applyed two or three times Lastly this cataplasme following is very good â„ž Cataplas Paraeus Rad. liliorum ceparum sub cineribus coct an â„¥ iij. vitell ovor num ij axung suillae unguent basilicon an â„¥ .i. fari sem lini â„¥ i.ss fiat Cataplasma But if the matter so require let the tumor be opened If you see cause you may put Vng Enulat in the Cataplasme CHAP XVII OZAENA 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an ulcer in the inside of the nose deep stinking and rotten out of which are sent forth a loathsome and stinking savour with many crusty and stinking excrements The cause is sharp and rotten humours Causa which flow to the nostrils Let the head be dried and strengthened Curatio Pilulae cochiae but first purge him with one dragm of head pills and â„ž Omphacii â„¥ ss cortic mali granati VnguentuÌ„ vel conficiantur sic an Ê’.iij myrrhae aluminis ladani anaÊ’ ij calchit aloes cort thur an Ê’.j ol rosat myrrh an Ê’ ij cerae rub q. s fiat unguentum Also the nostrils may be anoynted with the juyce of pomegranate boyled in a brazen vessel unto the halfe Monardus Monardus commends the urine of an asse The juyce of Cresses with Allam are good and â„ž Mel. rosarum â„¥ .j. cerus ℈ ij misce Mixtura And anoynt the scabs therewith Lastly let him drink of this julep often â„ž Aqua fumariae p.j. Syr. fumar â„¥ iv misce Julepus Weckerus And to mitigate pain Weckerus in lib. 2. par 2. pag. 423. doth commend axungia gallinae cum ol viol pauca cera CHAP. XVIII PROFLVVIO SANGVINIS ex naribus flux of blood at the nose Causa is caused by a twofold meanes as internal and external external as some fall a stripe vehement exercise and tarrying in the sun of inward causes as plenty of blood and thinnesse of the same and sometimes great drinking of wine You may know if it come through plenty of blood Signa by a heavie pain in the head much blood in the face and by the rednesse of the eyes First open a vein on the arm Curatio Venae-sectio if nothing forbid Then take a little bolearmeny and Aqua sperm ranarum mix them together and spread them on a double cloath and apply it to the temples and let the Patient snuffe up a little of the water aforesaid often cold If the Patient be ancient and have lost much blood comfort him with claret wiâ—e burnt Historia and sweetned with loaf-sugar This course I did once take with an ancient woman of fourscore years of age that had lost so much blood that I feared greatly she would die under my hands and God cured her There are many excellent remedies to be found in the Chapters of other fluxes Yet this medicament following is of great use â„ž Medicamentum Aquae plantag â„¥ .viij. aceti ros â„¥ .j. aqua ros â„¥ ss duo ovi album boli arm veriÊ’ i. ss concussa cum panno lineo fronti apponantur Forest Forestus To. 1. lib. 13. ob 13. CHAP. XIX POLYPVS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a fleshly matter growing in the nostrils like unto a kind of carbuncle Hippocrat Hippocrates doth affirm that it is uncurable Sometimes it is caused through grosse humours descending to the nostrils Causa and sometimes it ariseth through a melancholy humour Signa It is one while white another while reddish and adheres to the bone of the noseâ— and sometimes fils the nostril hanging towards the lips and resembling the foot of a sea Polypus There is also found sometimes a softmembrane long and thin and is filled with a flegmatick and viscid humour which in expiration hangs out of the nose but is drawn in and hid by inspiration It makes one snuffle in their speech and snort in their sleep Some kinds of Polypi are painful hard Curatio and resisting having a livid or leading colour such must not be touched with the hand But apply this Anodine â„ž Olei vitell ovorum â„¥ .ij. lytharg auri Anodyna tutiae praep an â„¥ .j. succi plat solani an â„¥ j. lapid haematit camphorae an â„¥ ss Let them be wrought in a leaden morter and so make a medicine to put into the nostril Those that are soft loose and without pain are curable some pluck them away with an instrument but the best way is to waste them away with Aqua fortis or oyle of vitriol and then to ease pain take ung de bolo nutritum for a fleshly Polypus some commend a Polypody root to be put through it to waste it CHAP. XX. FOETOR ORIS stinking of the mouth it is caused for the most part through putrefaction of the gummes Causa or teeth or through meat sticking still in the teeth many times it cometh through a hot distemper of the skin of the mouth sometimes through corrupt and rotten humours sticking in the mouth of the stomach sometimes ulceration of the mouth or lungs is the occasion of the stinking breath If it chance through putrefaction of the gums Signa or teeth or meat sticking in the teeth it is easily known If through heat in the mouth there is felt thirst If through vice in the stomach the breath is more stinking before meat than after Exulcerations of the lungs are known by extenuation of the body and by coughing c. Let his meat be easie of digestion Curatio Victus ratio if stinch of the mouth come through corruption of the gums look into the Chapter of the scurvie If through ulceration of the lungs look into the Chapter of Ptisis Vomitus If it proceeds from the stomach administer a vomit and then strengthen the stomach with Aromat Aromat rosat c. rosat Diambre c. If through ulceration of the mouth look into the following Chapter CHAP. XXI APHTHAE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are certain ulcers bred in the uppermost part of the mouth and are by the Barbarians called Acola they have a certain burning heat some be whitish some be reddish and some be blackish and those be most perilous of all other They ingender for the most part in children Causa Causa when either the nurses milk is naught or the child cannot well digest it These ulcers sometimes chance to them that be of perfect age caused by a flux of vitious and sharp humours The tokens are easie they which be red
moderate for too sound sleep drawes back the matter to the center and increaseth the feaver You must neither purge nor draw blood the disease increasing or being at the height unlesse there be a plurisie squinancie c. A gentle clyster is good in the state and increase of the disease Decoctio you must make a sudorifick decoction of figs liquorice husked lentils citron seeds the seeds of fenell and smalledge the roots of grasse raisins dates gold millet marygold flowers and harts-horne at the latter end of the boyling put in some saffron or ℞ Radic gram aspar foenic. an ℥ .iv. liquyr Syrupus ras ℥ ss fol. acetos m. ij fic n. xx flor cord p. j. fiat decoctio In lb.j. diss Syr. acetos simpl vel limon ℥ .iv. sacch parum fiat syr aro capiat serò mane ℥ iv donec tota faecta sit expulsio 1. You must defend the eyes Medicamentum when you first begin to suspect the disease with rosewater or vinegar and a little camphire If the pain and inflammation be great then use Aloes Aliud and Tuttie washed in the water of fennel eye-bright and roses 2. You must defend the nose with a Nodulus Nodulus made with a little vinegar water of roses the powder of sanders and camphire 3. You must defend the jawes throat and throttle and preserve the integrity of the voice Oxycratum by a Gargle of oxycrate 4. The Lungs and respiration must be provided for by syrups of jujubes violets Syrupi white poppies and water-lilies 5. To prevent Pockarrs after they are ripe open them with a golden or silver needle lest the matter contained in them should corrode the flesh that lies under and after the cure leave pock-holes behind it 6. The pus or matter being evacuated Lini◠they shall be dried up with ung rosat adding thereto ceruse Aloes and a little saffron in powder 7. Olcum Being dried up like a scurf or scab anoynt them with oyle of Almonds or Roses or with some creame that they may the sooner fall away 8. Vnguentū If there be any excoriation through scratching then shall you heal it with Vnguentum album camphor adding thereto a little powder of Aloes or Desicativum rubrum 9. To help the unsightly scars of the face Lac virginale Ol. lil Goose Ducks and Capons grease are good and also oyle of lillies and Hares blood newly killed hot Many cry out against bleeding though it be done a little before the pox come out Phlebotomia for my part I have opened a vein ofttentimes with good successe on strong bodies so that the pox have come forth within 24 houres after bleeding without any danger Also Bezoar is excellent to send forth the pox Byzabar But the most familiar thing for children Diascordium is Diascordium Lastly the meazles are cured by resolution only Cons samb and not by suppuration For which purpose conserve of Eldern flowers is especially commended not only to be eaten but also to be rubbed upon the heated parts If there be great faintnesse Cordial take Aqua Mariae syr lujulae of either one ounce give him a little often CHAP. XLVII ELEPHANTIASIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paulus Avicennas Galenus or leprosie according to Paulus is a cancer of the whole body The which as Avicen addes corrupts the complection form and figure of the members or according to Galen This disease is an effusion of troubled or grosse blood into the veines and habit of the whole body 1. The primitive cause is Causa either from the first conformation or comes to them after they are born by the too frequent use of salt spiced acrid and grosse meats Also familiarity copulation and cohabitation with leprous persons Sweat and spittle left on the edges of the pots or cups for there is a certain hidden virulencie in the leprosie strong wines drunkennesse gluttony and a laborious life full of sorrows and cares The suppression of the Hemorrhoids and courses The small pox and meazles Also a Quartan feaver the drying up of old ulcers for that they defile the masse of blood and thus in conclusion the leprosie is caused 2. The antecedent causes are the humours disposed to adustion and corruption into melancholy by the torrid heat 3. The conjunct causes are the melancholy humours which are now pertakers of a venenate and malign quality and spread over the whole habit of the body corrupting and destroying it first by a hot and dry distemper and then by a cold and dry contrary to the beginnings of life which consists in the moderation of heat and moysture 1. The first sign is a falling away of the haires and you may perceive scauls in the head 2. The second is a numerous and manifest circumseription of round and hard pushes or pustules under the eye-browes behind the eares and in several places of the face like hard kernels 3. The third is the more contract and exact roundnesse of the eares 4. The fourth is A Lyon-like wrinkling of the forehead which is the reason that some term this disease Morbus Leoninus 5. The fifth is the exact roundnesse of the eyes and their fixt and immovable steddinesse 6. The sixth is the nostrils are flat outwardly but inwardly strait and contracted 7. The seventh is the lifting up thicknesse and swelling of the lips Also the stinch filthinesse and corrosion of the gummes by acrid vapours rising to the mouth 8. The eighth is the swelling and blacknesse of the tongue and as it were varicous veins lying under it Their face riseth in red bunches or pushes and is overspread with a duskie and obscure rednesse Their eyes are fiery fierce and fixed Some leprous persons have their faces tinctured with a yellowish others with a whitish colour according to the condition of the humour for Physicians affirm that there are three sorts of Leprosies one of a reddish black colour consisting in a melancholy humour another of a yellowish green in a cholerick humour another of a whitish yellow grounded upon adust flegm 9. The ninth sign is a stinking of the breath and also of all the excrements proceeding from leprous bodies 10. The tenth is a hoarsness a shaking harsh and obscure voyce coming as it were out of the nose 11. The eleventh is a morphew or defedation of all the skin with a drie roughnesse and grainie inequality such as appears in the skins of plucked Geese with many tetters on every side a filthy scab and ulcers not casting off only a branlike scurf but also scales and crusts 12. The twelfth is the sense of a certain pricking as it were of needles over all the skinne 13. The thirteenth is a cunsumption and emacination of the muscles which are between the thumb and forefinger Also their shoulders stand out like wings 14. The fourteenth is the diminution of sense or a numbnesse over all
the body by reason that the nerves are obstructed and so the free passage of the animal spirit is hindred 15. The fifteenth is the corruption of the extream parts possessed by putrefaction and a Gangrene 16. The sixteenth is they are troubled with terrible dreams for they seem in their sleep to see Devils Serpents Dungeons Graves Dead bodies and the like 17. The seventeenth is they are subtill crafty and furious and suspicious in all their dealings 18. The eighteenth is they desire venery above their nature 19. The nineteenth is if you wash their thick gross and livid blood you find a sandy matter therein 20. The twentienth is the Languidnesse and weaknesse of the pulse Also the urine is sometimes thick and troubled and oftentimes of a pale and ash-colour Lastly the face and all the skin is unctuous or greasie Cure cannot be promised to such as have a confirmed leprosie Curatio for it is scarce curable at the beginning Therefore care must be taken to free such as are ready to fall into so fearful a disease Such therefore must shun all things in diet and course of life whereby the blood and humours may be too vehemently heated Let them make choice of meats of good juyce Victus ratio Purging bleeding and bathing shall be prescribed by some learned Physician Gelding is much commended in this cause because it deprives them of the faculty of generation and makes them become cold moist which temper is directly contrary to the hot and drie distemper of leperous persons I have oftentimes after purging and bleeding used Vnguentum enulatum with good successe in the beginning of the leprosie â—nguentuÌ„ whilst the body was covered only with a scurf Let them drink the water and syrup of sumitory mixed together Julepus for the space of a whole year â„ž Rad. buglossae glycyrrhizae an â„¥ j. Potio purgans polypodii â„¥ ji passularum â„¥ ss prunorum sebesten ana num xx senae â„¥ .iij. thymi epithymi cuscutae an â„¥ ij anisi â„¥ ss florum borrag buglossae violarum an p. j. fiat decoctio de qua accipe â„¥ iij. quibus adde confect hamech Ê’ iij Syrupi ros lax â„¥ ij misce fiat potio Capiat mane For the poorer sort you may make use of Cassia Diasena Diaprunum Diacatholicon c. When he is extream thirsty Aq. sperm ranar. he may drink Aqua sperm ranarum with a little sugar or syrup of fumitorie I am perswaded it is an excellent water to kill the virulencie of this disease because it is extream cold and moyst for surely if it be so effectual in an ulcerated cancer it must needs be effectual in the leprosie Gesner saith that the dung of a Fox pounded with vinegar by anoyntment cureth the leprosie speedily Remember to keep accustomed evacuations which you may with this Bolus following â„ž Diaphoen Ê’.ij confect hamechÊ’ iij cumÊ’ j Bolus pul diasenae sacch fiat bolus vel cum decocto senae polypod fumiter borag bugloss Forestus epithymo prunis Lastly â„ž Rad. Serpentar VnguentuÌ„ utriusque Asphodeli vel liliorum enulae campanae betae croci sativi ana lib. j. pistentur optimè oleo rosaceo omphacino adde unguenti citrini lib. ss axungiae Serpentis â„¥ .iij. Terebinth â„¥ ss Platerus olei de frumento vel vitellis ovorum â„¥ i.ss ol de tartaro â„¥ ij Sulphuris vivi nitri an Ê’ iij. Litharg vel cerusae â„¥ ss borag ustaeÊ’ vj. mus s lini â„¥ ij succ lapatii fumariae limonum an â„¥ .iij. Tutiae prae sarocoll nutrit thur an Ê’.ij agitentur invicem in formam nutriti ungantur partes scabrae ulcerosae pustmlosae CHAP. XLVIII APOSTEMA HEPATIS The Apostume of the liver should have been placed amongst the distempers of the liver in the first book yet I think it better to place this Chapter here then to leave it out The cause is two-fold Causa external as a fall bruise or by going too narrow giâ—t c. Internal as gluttony indigestion of the stomack weaknesse of the vertue digestive of the liver Also humours gathered together in the liver and sometimes it happeneth through imperfect cleansing of the Gall Spleen Raines and Intestines Also through cold There is pain in the right side Signa tending upwards towards the ribs and shoulder blade as it were the plurisie He can hardly lye upon his sides and especially on the right side his face is very black he hath no appetite his urine is blood-red especially if the impostume be hot he hath a cough and also the hick-cough parbreaking short oreath retention of urine and great thirst If cold be the cause there is heavinesse and oppression â—uratio â—â—uae-sectio In a hot cause first the liver vein must be opened next you may open the Salvatella Venae sectio Victus ratio Then gentle clysters must be administred his diet must be of a cooling quality and â„ž Aquar ros solatri sempervivi plantag Epithema ana â„¥ .ij. aceti ros â„¥ ss camphor ℈ ss santal citrin vel rub Ê’.ij omnia bene invicem misceantur fiatque epithema hepatis The third day after the impostume is known take barly meal stewed figs Cataplas and dates beaten to pap and tempered altogether with oyle of roses and vinegar and apply it Inwardly let him â„ž Herbarum endiviae cichoreae Decoctio fumiterrae agrimoniae ana m. j. Rad. foeniculi apii petroselini ana â„¥ ss polypodii quercini â„¥ .ij. sem anisi foeni culi anaÊ’ i. ss passularum â„¥ ss aquae fontis quant sufficit fiat decoctio s a. â„ž decoct colati â„¥ ij.ss syrup Haustus de quinque Radicibus â„¥ ss misce fiat haustus In a cold cause take heed of bleeding Clyster Administer a clyster made with wormwood centaury field-mints seeds of anise and cummin decocted with a little coloquint And anoynt the place with oyle of spike Boyle in his broth Agrimony Germander the roots of Smallage Parsly and Fennel You may know when the impostume breaketh by the Patients shivering quaking swouning and vomiting and by his voiding of blood through the stoole and urine This plaster following is good to ripen Emplastrâ— asswage paine and strengthen the liver take barly meal and fenegreek meal of each one ounce Linseed meal three dragmes mill-dust roots of elecampane smalledge and wormwood of each five dragmes Cammomell melilot violets and roses of each three dragmes White lilly roots Pigeons dung Spica Romana of each one dragme Oyle of cammomel and violets as much as will suffice to make a plaster Afterwards cleanse him with Mellicraton Mellioraton or with the decoction of barly and figs. This Cataplasme following is good to help ripen the Apostume of the liver â„ž Cataplas Rad. althae ae mundatae â„¥ .ij. farinae hordeiÊ’ ij farinae faenugr sem lini pinguedinis anseris porci anae
Electuarium one ounce and an halfe of conserve of Roses or of Bugloss and three dragmes of Bolearmenick prepared Mithridates Mithridates highly commendeth Walnuts take two in number those that be very dry two figges Mixturae twenty leaves of Rue and three graines of salt beat and incorporate them together and take the quantity of a Hasel nut at a time fasting and drink a little wormwood-wine after it Also pomanders are good and it will be very convenient to apply to the region of the heart a bagge filled with yellow sanders Saculus mace cloves cinnamon saffron and treakle shaken together and incorporated and sprinkled over with strong vinegar and rosewater in summer and with strong wine in winter Thus much for prevention 1. Now so soon as one is blasted with the pestiferous ayre after he hath taken some preservative against the malignity thereof he must withdraw himself into some wholesome Ayre And it were good to hang the chamber and also the bed with thick or course brown linnen cloaths moystened in vinegar and water of roses And sweet fires may be made of Juniper Ash Benzoin c. 2. Victus ratio Their diet must be cooling and drying And first of all begin the cure with an Antidote because by its specifick property it defends the heart from poyson and drives and expels it out of all the body by sweat vomiting scouring and other kinds of evacuation The Antidote I would have you make choyce of Theriaca Mithridatum is Treakle or Mithridate that is three or four years old which excell all other Antidotes for by strengthening the noblest part and the mansion of life they repaire and recreate the wasted spirits and overcome the poyson not only being taken inwardly but also applyed outwardly to the Region of the heart botches and carbuncles for by an hidden property they draw the poysons unto them If there be great heat Mixtura mix with Treakle or Mithridate the juyce of limmons in sorrel water The Patient ought to walk presently after he hath taken his Antidote but yet as moderate as he can After that he must be put warm to bed and covered with many cloaths and apply swines bladders filled full of Carduus water to the groines and arm-holes to procure sweat for sweating in this disease is a most excellent remedy When he hath sweat sufficiently according to the strength of his body let the sweat be wiped with warm cloathes and dried Let him be kept from sleep if possible untill the third or fourth day yet if necessity require he may sleep but not above three or four houres on a day and a night but not at all on the first day After sweating let him take the rind of a preserved citron conserve of roses bread tosted and steeped in wine the meat of preserved myrabolane or the like then let him eat of some cordial confection And you may make Epithemes after the following formes ℞ Aquar rosar melissae ana ℥ iv Epithemae aceti ros ℥ iij. sant rub ʒ j. caryophil ʒ ss croci ℈ ij caphurae ℈ j. boli arm terra sigill zedoar an ʒ.j fiat Epithema Vel. ℞ Aceti ros aquae ros ana lb. ss Epithema caphuraeʒ ss theriac mithrid anaʒ j. fiat epithema When you intend to use them take some portion of them in a vessel by its selfe wherewith let the affected bowel be fomented warm many will not allow either of purging or bleeding in this disease I confesse in weak bodies it ought to be neglected but in strong bodies that abound with corrupt humours both are necessary to be done Hippocrat Sec. 2. Aphor. 22. for Hippocrates saith Morbos ex repletione ut curat evacuatio sic eos qui ex evacuatione fiunt repletio c. The best way if purging be fit is to take six or ten graines of scammonie Purgatio Pilulae beaten into powder with one dragme of Mithridate or Treakle Ruffus his pills may be profitably given half a dragm at a time every morning two or three houres before meat they ate to be had at the Apothecaries Agaricus The ancient Physicians have greatly commended Agarick for this disease because it doth draw the noysome humours out of all the members let it be elected and prepared truly into Trochisces Also Antimonium is highly praised by the experience of many Antimoniū So is mugwort and the pickle of Anchovis Vide Rond elet lib. 7. de pis c 3. for some have taken eight ounces at a draught and have been freed from this disease so that it hath been counted a most certain and approved remedy against the pestilence 1. Cucurbitulae So soon as the Bubo appears if nothing forbid apply a cupping-glasse with a great flame unto it and let it stick to the part for the space of a quarter of an hour and be renewed again every three quarters of an hour Then apply this liniment Linimet◠take Vnguentum dialthaea one ounce and an halfe oyle of scorpions half an ounce of mithridate dissolved in aqua vitae halfe a dragm After it is fomented Cataplas fill a great onion being hollowed with Treakle and the leaves of Rew then rost it under the hot embers beat it with a little leven and a little swines grease and so apply it warm unto the Abscess or sore let it be changed every six houres until it be growne unto its full ripenesse and bignesse If the inflammation be great Cataplas make a Cataplasme with the roots of marsh mallowes and lillies of each half a pound Of line sorrel and fenugreek of each half an ounce of Treakle one dragme ten Figs and as much hogs-grease as shall suffice make a Cataplasme according to art When the Bubo is come to perfect suppuration it must be opened with an incision-knife or with a potential cauterie the rest of the cure is easily performed 2. So soon as the carbuncle appears Fomentatio Let it be fomented with water and oyle mixed together wherein a little treakle hath been dissolved The day following Cataplas take the leaves of sorrel and henbane rost them under the hot ashes afterwards beat them with four yelks of egs two dragmes of treakle oyle of lillies three ounces barly meale as much as may suffice make thereof a Cataplasme and apply it And round about the carbuncle Medicaementune lay the salve of fine Bolus made with vinegar and rose-water for to defend the parts adjacent from heat Also Scabions brayed between two stones Aliud and mixed with hogs-grease the yelks of egs and a little salt is much commended by the Ancicients Rapbanus rustican And a radish root cut in slices and so the slices laid one after one unto a carbuncle or pestilent tumor doth mightilie draw out the poyson In the beginning the point or head of the carbuncle must be burned if