Constitution Leaches must be applyed to the jugular Veins and Linements must be used to the temples nostrils and neck and to the soles of the feet and glisters which empty the belly plentifully must be injected and every sixth or eighth hour specifick Remedies must be given Take of oyl of Copaiba and Castor each two drams of oyl of Ambar half a dram make a Liniment Apply to the soles of the feet the Pâ—â—istâ—r with Euphorbium spread on Leather Take of prepared Pearle of the Powder de Guttita each one dram mingle them for twelve Papers whereof let the Child take one morning and evening in a Spoonfull of the following julep drinking after it one or two Spoonfulls Take of the waters of black Cherries and of Lilly of the Vallies each two ounces of Fennel water and Compound Peony water each two drams of Syrup of red Poppies six drams Take of the powder of the seeds of Rue of Castor and Asasetida each a sufficient quantity mingle them and tye it up in a rag sprinkled with Vinegar and put it often to the nostrils Vnzerus Commends much the gall of a sucking kitling all the juice being taken out out of the bladder and mixed with a little water of Lime-flowers and given to the Child and an excellent Physician says that he knew several Children cured with this Remedy When by reason of breeding Teeth difficultly Convulsions happen this symptom is secondary and less dangerous and therefore does not require the first and chief work of healing in this case we are more solicitous to ease the pain and to take off the Fever and therefore we order a thin cooling diet and the eruption of the Teeth is to be endeavoured either by rubbing or cutting the Gums and things that are annodyne are to be applyed to the swelld and pained parts and blisters and bleeding are to be used often and we ought to procure sleep and to qualifie the fury of the blood But in the mean time temperate Medicines for Convulsions and such as do the least stir the humours are to be used and blisters often do also give relief But Children are sometimes seized with Convulsions from other occasions and accidents the cause most commonly of such is either in the head or in the bowells when the former is suspected as is wont to be known by the signs which shew watery humours heapt up in the brain the Medicines above-mentioned must be used Moreover for those who bear purging well a vomit or gentle purge must be prescribed Wine and Oxymel of Squills also Mercurius Dulcis Rhubarb and Rosin of Jalap are of good use When the cause of the Convulsions seems to be lodged in the bowels or where Worms or sharp humours in the belly are the cause for Worms a purge of Rhubarb or of Mercurius dulcis with the rosin of Jalap must be given and the following Medicines are also of use Take of the roots of Virginia Snake-weed powdered one dram of Coral calcined till it is white half a dram make a powder The dose is half a scruple or a scruple twice a day for three days following drinking upon it the dâ—â—oction of the roots of grass Take of Hiera Piera and of Venice Treacle eachone dram make a plaister for the 〈◊〉 If the Convulsions are thought to proceed from sharp humours disturbing the bowels and stomach purging upward or downward is to be ordered by turns to this end a gentle vomit of Wine of Squills or falt of vitriol is to be given if the Child is inclined to vomiting of its own accord Take of Syrup of Peony three ounces Salt of vitriol two scruples of Compound lavender-Lavender-water one dram Mingle them give a Spoonfull three or four times in an hour till the Child has once vomited or went to stool once But if evacation downward seem most proper give the infusion of Rhubarb or the powder of it or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb or Syrup of roses with Agarick and with these remedies seasonably used Convulsion fits have been often cured in Children and moreover Glisters are to be used frequently and external Medicines namely Fomentations Linements or Emplasters must be applyed to the belly Take of the leaves of Camomile cut small two handfulls put them into two bags made of fine Cloath or of Silk which being dipt in hot milk and pressed out are to be applyed successively to the Belly CHAP. XIV Of Squinting SQuinting belongs to animal Actions hurt wherewith new born babes are seized This Disease is either natural by reason of an ill conformation of the eye or is co tracted by custom the Infant turning its eye often in the Cradle to a Candle or the light ill placed or it is occasioned by a Disease when after frequent sits the muscles of the eyes are distorted If it be from the very birth it is hardly cured or when it proceeds from sits but if it arise from an ill custom it may be cured if it be taken in time but when it is let alone a long while it is in a manner incurable It is cured by placing a Candle opposite to the part whereunto the Eye is preternaturally inclined or fine Pictures or the like may be offered to the sight in the same manner and by constant and daily use the eye may be reduced to a right position or a mask may be so made that the sight may be directed right CHAP. XV. Of the Pain Inflamation Moisture Vlcers and Worms of the Ears AMongst Childrens Diseases Hippocrates reckons the moisture of the ears for the brain of Children being very moist part of the humidity is sometimes evacuated by the ears And this is seldom done without an inflamation for most Commonly if superfluous humours flow plentifully to the ears an inflamation is occasioned and pain arises from thence and when it is not discussed by reason of the moisture of Childrens bodies but turned to matter afterwards blood matter and senies flow out and sometimes Worms are bred in the ear These Dâ—seases are not to be neglected for the pain which is most commonly joined with them may kill a grown person in seven days sayes Hippocrates and much easier a Child or may occasion fits or great watchings besides because Childrens ears are very moist Worms are are apt to be generated in them and sometimes by a continual flux of humours and by foul Ulcers the bones of the ear are at length corrupted and if the Ulcer is not cured in time an incurable deafness arises and therefore the cure must be begun early And first if the pain be very violent care must be taken to quiet it but Childrens bodies cannot bear strong Medicines it is sufficient for them that their ears be fomented with warm milk with oyl of Roses or Violets or with a decoction of poppy heads or you may put into the ear the white of an Egg with a little Saffron And to cleanse the care from moisture it is good to use honey of Roses
them in all things necessary to a good Life CHAP. II. Of the Diseases and Symptoms of Infants in General WHat ever diligence has been used for the right ordering of the Diet of Infants yet notwithstanding they are often subject to Diseases for that blood which was wont to be evacuated every month and those vitious humours that were wont to be carried off with it being detained nine whole months in the Womb it may easily happen that the Child be injured there by especially all Mothers being not equally healthful and besides many great errors being committed in Diet many vitious humours are communicated to the Fetus with the nourishment all which tho not always disorder Children in the Womb and sometimes after they are Born occasion various Diseases and Symptoms and sometimes the Child is injured in the Birth or by the cuting of the Navel-string or by the change of place for when it was in the Womb it was encompassed with peculiar coverings flesh membrans and humours all warm and soft The Diseases and Symptoms of Children are many some common with the adult which being added by some Authors to Treatises of Childrens Diseases makes them bulky and therefore I will here pass them by and treat only of such as are proper and familiar with them In the cure of Infants a special regard is to be had to the Methods and Medicines for Children by reason of the weakness of their bodies cannot under go severe methods or strong Medicines They do not well bear bleeding nor strong Purges but where purging is required a Suppository ought to be used or a Glister must be injected For instance Take of the leaves of Violets and Mallows each one handful of the Flowers of Camomile and Violets each one pugil boyl them in a sufficient quantity of fountain water Take of the strained liquor four or five ounces according to the age and add to it of Syrup of Roses solutive half a ounce six drams or an once of oyl of Violets half an ounce make a Glister Take of the Whey of Goats-milk a sufficient quantity add to it of Syrup of Succory with Rubarb or of Honey or of Syrup of Roses solutive six Drams of Oyl of Violets half an ounce make a Glister But if there be occasion for other Purges they are most conveniently given to the Nurse or Mother for the purgative quality is imparted by the Milk to the Child or lenitive purges may given to Children respect being had to their age as Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb Cassia Manna or the like CHAP. III. Of the Fevers of Children THE first indication incuring Childrens Fevers is to prepare well the acid that it may be the easier ejected but this preparation must not be endeavoured by Sudorificks properly so call'd that is such as heat the body which are by no means to be used for Infants or Children but such things as absorbe the acid and gently restrain the Ebullition are to be used the chief of these are Crabs-Eyes and Claws Oyster-shells Cuttle-bones Egg-shells Coral Coraline Pearl Mother of Pearl both the Bezoarstones Hearts-horn burnt burnt Ivory the Bone of a Stags heart Shavings of Harts horn Bolearmonick Seald-earth Blood-stone and the like and among compounds compound powder of Crabs Claws the Goastone and confection of Hyacinth Take of compound powder of Crabs Claws and of Pearl prepared each one dram mingle them make a powder to be divided into six equal parts Or Take simple powder of Crabs-Claws one dram of Crabs-Eyes prepared two scruples of Cochinel six grains mix them make a sine powder to be divided into six Papers let one be taken as soon as may be and another two hours after and afterwards let one be taken every fourth hour for the first two days unless the Child be a sleep but let the Powders be taken in a spoonful of the following Julep and give a spoonful presently after Take of the Aqualactis Alexiteria four Ounces of black Cherry Water each two Ounces of compound Peony and Epidemick Water each two Drams of pearled Sugar half an Ounce mingle them make a Julep Or Take of Sweet Almonds blanched number ten beat them in a Morter and pour upon them gently half a pint of Barly water or of Aqualactis Alexiteria strain it and add six Drams of simple Cinnamon water half an Ounce of White Sugar mingle them make a julep Sometimes I am wont to use other things being omitted a julep that hath much Pearl in it but I order that the Glass should be well shook before it be poured out Take of Black Cherry water four Ounces of the Water of all the Citron two Ounces of Aquamirabilis and prepared Pearl each two Drams of White Sugar half an Ounce mingle them make a Pearl julep give three spoonfuls at a time But if the Child be troubled with a Cough give half a spoonful of some â—ectoral mixture or Linctus and let him take less of the Powders above prescribed Take of the Powder of Coraline and simple Crabs claws each one Dram and an half of the Syrups of Maiden-hair and Marsh-mallows each one Ounce balsom of Tolu half an Ounce of red Popy-water half an Ounce mingle them Bolearmonek is often properly mixed with such things to good purpose it powerfully stops Cattarhs flowing upon the Lungs The juice of Penny-royal eated and sweetened with Sugar-cany is also better than most other remeies Oyl of Sweet-almonds is very ood if Children can take it so is Brimâ—â—one and the Flowers of it The foresaid Powders are to be repeated seldom or often according to the degree of the Symptoms but it is here to be noted the Gripes Restlessness and Watchings of Children are as easily apeased by testaceous Powders as Pains nd Watchings by Narcoticks in grown eople The third day unless the Small-Pox Meazles or Scarlet-Fever appear I order a Child of one year old to be purged in the following manner Take of Syrup of Succory with Rubarb 〈…〉 Drams of choice Rubarb powder'd fifteen Grains or a â—â—uple of Aqualactis â—â—â—lectiteria one Dram of small Cinnamon water thirty drops mingle them Or Take of Sweet-almonds blanched number three beat them in a marble Mortar and pour upon them gently an Ounce or an Ounce and an half of Barly-water in the strained liquor dissolve three Drams or half an Ounce of the best Mannaâ— mingle them and make a purging Emulsion Sometimes I order this or the like Plaister to be applied to the region of Navel especially if Children are troubled with Worms Take of Succortrine Aloes one Dram of the powder of the leaves of Savin of the tops of the lesser Câ—ntaury and of the Flowers of Camomile each one Scruple with a sufficient quantity of Venice Turpentine make a Plaister let the margin of it be spread with the Plaister of Cumin to make it stick the better and sometimes it may be converient to add to the other ingredients a Scruple of
Coloquintida There is no purging Medicine more â—oper for Children and more innocent â—an Rubarb it gently and safely evaâ—ats the matter occasioning the Fever â—d gently purges off the Humours that â—rthen the Stomach and whole Body â—d it strengthens wherefore it is very â—oper for Infants Children big belliâ— Women Old Men and such as have â—en weakned by Diseases After the Purge hath done working â—me Powder like the former must be â—ven in the Evening and afterwards â—ust be repeated three or four times in day at fit times for two days and on â—e third day purging must be used â—d it must be dosed according to the â—eration of the former These things being performed the â—orst Symptoms most commonlly â—ase As to Bleeding of Children tho it â—ay be used when the Febrile matter is cast upon the Lungs or for a hooping Cough yet it is plainly a remedy not agreeable to their nature A Child about three years and aâ— half old was seized with a small Fever that was continual and accompanieâ— with very irregular Exacerbations she complained of a great pain in the Head and sometimes in the Belly she nauseated all meat and was very sleepy 〈◊〉 that the standers by thought she would have the Small-Pox There was a twitching of the Nerves in sleep and she haâ— sometimes a dry Cough I prescribeâ— the following things Take of Aqualactis Aleâ—iteria six Ounce of Epidemick-water half an Ounce 〈◊〉 prepared Pearl one Dram of the simpâ— powder of Crabs-claws two Drams 〈◊〉 Cristaline Sugar half an Ounce mingâ— them make a julep whereof letâ— her takâ— three spoonfuls every fourth hour shaking the glass before useing of it Take of Succotrine Aloes one Dram of the tops of the lesser Centaury of the leaves of Savin dry'd each half a Dram of Burgundy-pitch one Dram of Venice-turpentine a sufficient quantity make a Plaister to be applyed to the Navel The next day she persisted in the use of the julep and a Blistering Plaister was applyed to the Neck A Glister with Milk Sugar and Salt was injected â—ecause the Belly was bound At bedâ—ime she took the following Bolus Take Aethiops Mineral and Merourius Dulcis each fix Grains of Marmaladâ— of Quinces two Scruples make a Bolus The next morning she took the folâ—owing purging Syrup Take of Syrup of Buckthorn two Drams of the Earl of Warwicks Powders six Grains of choice Rubarb powdered twelve Grains of tincture of Saffron twenâ—y drops of black-cherry-Black-Cherry-water one Dram mingle them On the fourth and fifth day the folâ—owing mixtnre was given by spoonâ—uls Take of Coraline two Drams of the leaves of Mint dryed and powdered one Scruple of the simple powder of Crabs claws one Dram of Balsamick Syrup and of the Syrup of Marsh-mallows each one Ounce of orange-Orange-water half an Ounce mingle them The evening preceding the sixth day the Bolus before prescribed was repeated and the morning following the purging Syrup by the virtue where of the Child vomited up a Worm and soon after recovered The Fevers which are occasioned by corrupted Milk are known for that the Teeth are not come and there are signs of corrupted Milk grips frequent yellow or green stools Fevers that come from breeding the teeth known by the signs of breeding teeeth these Fevers most commonly are not dangerous for the cause being taken away they cease of themselves but if the corruption of the Milk continues long the Childrens lives are in danger Those Children says Hyppocrates who have an Acute Fever upon breeding the Teeth are seldom troubled with convulsions yet they are sometimes destroyed by a Flux of the Belly and Watchings If the Fever proceed from corrupted milk you must use cooling and moistening things because such Fevers generally come from Choler and therefore such nourishment must be given to the Mother or Nurse viz. Lettice Endive Sorrel an Emulsion of the four greater told Seeds and a Ptisan of Barley and the Mother or the Nurse must abstain from Wine whilst the Childs Fever continues and the Nurse must be gently purged with Manna Cassia or Syrup of Roses Solutive and alteratives may be given to the Child as the Juice â—nd Syrup of Violets or the Syrup of Sorrel or Citron the waters of Succory endive and Violets sweetened with Sugar and the Spine must be anointed with an Oyntment made of the mucilages of the Seeds of Quinces and Fleaâ—ane of Oyl of Violets and a little Wax or a Plaister made of Houseleek Planâ—ain Night-Shade Rue Barley-Meal â—nd the White of an Egg may be applyed to the Stomach and it is necessary when the Milk is corrupted and â—urns to choler to apply to the Stomach â—ooling and astringent things that the â—orruption of the Milk may be prevenâ—ed and the Concoction helped Take of the Oyles of Roses and Mastich each half an Ounce of red Sanders and Coral each one Scruple of Wax a little mingle them But if the Fever proceed from breeding the Teeth we must endeavour to make the eruption of them easie but more of this when we come to speak of breeding Teeth and the Alteratives mentioned before for the Fever occasioned by corroupted Milk are of use here and do good CHAP. IV. Of the Small Pox. THere are two sorts of them the distinct and confluent the distinct begin with a shivering and coldness which is presently followed with excessive heat a violent pain in the Head and Back Vomiting a great propensity to Sweat in grown persons But I have not observed says Sydenham any such disposition in Children either before or after they come out A pain at the cavity of the Breast beneath the region of the Heart if it be pressed with the hand dullness and sleepiness especially in Children and sometimes convulsive fits and if these happen to them that have all their Teeth I reckon the Small-Pox are at hand which most commonly coming out a few hours after sufficiently answer the prognosticâ—tion For instance if the Child has a Convulsive fit in the evening as it usually happens the Small-Pox appear the next Morning and more over I have very often observed that when they come immediately after these fits they rise in large Pustles and are mild and favourable and seldom Flux It is to be noted that sometimes the course of separation is past over gradually without any sickness but most commonly as we said before the sickness before the eruption is most violent The distinct Small-Pox usually come out on the fourth day inclusively and sometimes a little latter but rarely before at which time the Symptoms most commonly abate or totally vanish The eruption is after this manner first pimples as big as small pins heads here and there shew themselves and first of all in the Face Neck and Breast and afterwards in the whole body At this time the Jaws are afflicted with a pain that increases as the Pustles rise which growing daily bigger and higher inflame the neighbouring skin and flesh for about the eight day from
of Lenitive Electuary dissolved in four ounces of Succory water or the like which draught generally gives some stools before night but if it does not an Anodyne must be given in the evening and sooner notwithstanding the Purge if great restlessness or some considerable sickness threatens danger if therefore the Purge does not answer the first day it must be repeated the next and then it seldom fails and in this manner Bleeding and Purging may be repeated by intervals as occasion requires But it is to be noted that the sick must not be purged till the thirteenth day or after nor then unless bleeding has gone before For spitting of blood and bloody Urine coming upon the Small-Pox for both these Hemorrhagies come sometimes at the beginning of the Disease after Bleeding largely once give an Anodyne Take of red poppy-Poppy-water two Ounces liquid Laudanum 14 drops of distilled Vinegar three Drams of Diacodium half an Ounces make a draught to be repeated every night at bed time Note that bleeding must be ordered and prescribed according to the age and condition of the Patient The like is to be observed in giving Anodyens and dosing other Medicines Take of Troches of Lemnian Earth Blood-stone Dragons Blood and red Coral prepared each half a Dram of Dragons Blood and red Coral prepared each half a Dram of Mastick and Gum Arabecâ— each one Scruple mingle them make a fine powder whereof let him take half a Dram every third hour drinking upon it four or five spoonfuls of the following julep Take of the waters of Plantain and Oak-buds each three Ounces of Cinnamon water hordeated two Ounces of Syrup of dryed Roses one Ounce make it a little accid with Spirit of Vitriol Emulsions also of the four greater cold Seeds with white Popies do a great deal of good After the Hemorrhagy is quite stopt you must proceed according to the method prescribed in the Small-Pox The loosness in Children must be permitted in the Flux-Pox because it evacuates the morbisick matter At last when the Pustles are crusty and hard anoint the face often with Oyl of Sweet-Almonds Note if in the distinct Small-Pox the Face does not swell you must give an Anodyne presently But if the Patient be light headed and very Sick and makes water often but little at a time he can be relieved no other way death being near at hand than by giving Narcoticks freely or by taking away a large quantity of Blood and exposing the Body to the Air But I would not be so understood here as if in every frenzy coming upon the Small-Pox there being no symptom more frequent that I should advise bleeding presently but only in that which therefore happens because the Face does not swell in the distinct kind tho there be a great number of Pustles Note also for a suppression of Urine which sometimes aâ—flicts young and brisk people nothing does so well as taking the sick out of Bed and after he has walked twice or thrice cross the room by the assistance of the by standers he will presently make water freely and be much relieved thereby Note the symptoms arising from catching cold or by evacuations unduly used whereby the Small-Pox are struk in must be removed by Cordials and an agreeble Regimen But they must not be continued after the symptoms are gone off the chief of these are flatting of the Pustles and a looseness in the distinct Small-Pox for in the Flux a depression of the Pustles is natural nor is a looseness dangerous in Children In both these cases a Cordial Portion made of distilled Waters Diacordium liquid Laudanum and the like is proper not only to remove these symptoms but also at any time of the Disease if the Sick complains of a pain at the Heart or of Sickness But to speak the truth symptoms of this kind are very rare compared with those that owe their original to the other extreme which is more fatal tho less blamed When the Patient is mending and and the Pustles are falling off after he has eat meat a few days namely about the 21st or 22d day I think he ought to be blooded if the Disease has been violent and after bleeding he must be purged three or four times CHAP. V. Of the Meassels THis Disease chiefly invads Infants and all those that are together in the same house it begins with shaking and shivering and with an inequality of heat and cold which mutually expel one another the first day the second day it ends in a perfect Fever with violent Sickness Drowth and want of Appetite the Tongue is white but not dry there is a tickling Cough with a heaviness of the Head and Eyes accompnied with perpetual drowsiness and for the most part an humour distils from the Eyes and Nose and this effusion of Tears is a certain sign of the approaching Measles to which this is to be added no less certain viz. that tho this disease shews it self most commonly in the Face after the manner of little swellings in the Skin yet in the Breast rather red Spots than swellings are perceived arising no higher than the superficies of the Skin The Patient sneezes as if he had taken cold and the eye-lids swell a little before the eruption he vomits but is oftener troubled with a looseness with greenish stools but this chiefly happens to Children that are breeding their teeth and they are frowarder in this Disease than they are commonly wont to be The symptoms increase till the fourth day at which time generally tho sometimes they are deferred little red spots like fleabites begin to come out about the Head and other parts of the Face and being increased in number and magnitude branch into one another and so paint the Face with large red spots of various figures which are occasioned by little red wheals not far distant one from another that are elevated a little above the Superficies of the Skin and their Protuberancies may be perceived by a gentle touch tho they can scarce be seen These spots spread themselves by degrees from the Face which at first they only possessed to the Breast Belly Thighs and Legs but they affect the Trunk and Members with redness only without any sensible inequality of the skin The symptoms of the Measles do not abate by the eruption the Cough and Fever increase with difficulty of breathing weakness of the Eyes and the defluxion on them and the drowsiness and want of Appetite continue the same as before On the sixth day or there about the skin breaking and the Pustles drying off the forehead and Face grow rough and at that time the spots in other parts of the body are very large and very red About the eight day the spots in the Face vanish and are scarce perceived in the rest of the body but on the ninth day they totally disappear and as we said the Measles most commonly vanish on the eighth day at which time the vulgar being deceived by reckoning upon
chief Coralline Wormseed the Roots of white Dillany Harts-horn the Water and Decoction of Grass Roots and Mercurius dulcis As Take of Worm-seed two Drams of Coralline and Hartshorn prepared each one Dram of the Roots of Peony white Dittany and Magistery of Coral each one Scruple make a Powder Or Take of Worm-seed Coralline each one Dram and an half of the Roots of white Dittany and Tormentil each half a Dram make a Powder or give the essence of Peach Flower or half an Ounce or an Ounce of the Water or Decoction of Fern or half a Scruple or half a Dram of the Powder of Fern. But you must consider whether a Fever accompany the Worms for if there be a Fever you must use cooling things and add to them such things as resist Malignity as the juices of Lemons Pomgranats Oranges Vinegar Hartshorn Bezoar and Confection of Hyacinâ—h or the following Potion may be given Take of the Water of Grass four Ounces of Syrup of Sorrel and Citron each one Ounce of Syrup of Violets half an Ounce of Spirit of Vitriol two or three Drops mingle them give a Spoonful or two at a time Moreover you must observe that Medicines to kill the Worms especially bitter things must be taken in by the Mouth and that sweet things must be injected after the manner of a Glyster for the Worms hating bitter Medicines will go downwards aud will be allured thither by the sweet things and so will be the easier ejected and therefore when Medicines are given to kill the Worms a Glister of Milk must be injected Or Take of Raisins number Ten of Figs number Seven Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water in four or six Ounces of the strained Liquor disolve an Ounce or an Ounce and an half of Sugar and so make a Glister It is to be noted also that you must not always keep to one Medicine for the Worms will be accustomed to it and so will not be driven away Apply outwardly to the Belly especially about the Navel Medicines that are Proper to kill Worms as the Leaves of Peach Tree Wormwood and Lupins of each a like quantity or apply to the Belly Cummin mixed with Bulls Gall or a Cataplasm made of Wormwood St. John's Wort Bulls Gall Or Take of the Powder of Wormwood Nigella the lesser Centaury Wormseed the Meal of Lupins each half an Ounce of Oyl of Wormwood a sufficient quantity of Wax half an Ounce mingle them over the Fire make an Oyntment wherewith anoint the Belly Or Take of the Powder of the Seeds of Nigella and of Wormwood each two Drams of the Meal of Lupins two Ounces of the juice of Rue one ounce and an half of the juice of Wormwood four ounces or if you cannot get the juices make the Cataplasm with Oyl of Rue and Wormwood apply is to the Navel in a Rag as large as the Palm of the Haâ—d Or. Take of Venice Treacle half an ounce dissolve it in the juice of Wormwood and anoint the Belly therewith or take of the Meal of Lupins four ounces of the Powder of 〈◊〉 Myrrh Tansie Wormseed each two drams of Scordium Vinegar two ounces of Bulls Gall half an ounce with a sufficient quantity of the Juice or Oyl of Wormwood make a Cataplasm Or the following Bath may be prepared Take of the Leaves of the Peach Tree and Wormwood each a sufficient quantity Boyl them in Water and let the Child sit up to the Navel in it But if there be a Fever more temperate things must be used As Take of the Juices of Purslain and of Peach Leaves each three Ounces of Vinegar one ounce of the Meal of Lupins a sufficient quantity make a Cataplasm Chap. XXVI Of Ruptures CHildren are afflicted with Ruptures by the fall of the small Guts into the Scrotum the Peritoneum being relaxed or broken by violent crying a cough and much straining in going to Stool But grown Children are sometimes bursten by violent motions of the Body and indeed the Peritoneum in Children is tender so that it may be easily relaxed or broken There is another Tumor which often happens in the God of Children new Born which is commonly reckoned amongst Ruptures and yet the Peritoneum is sound it proceeds from watery Humours abounding in the Belly A Rupture or Tumour of the Scrotum appears to sight But we must carefully mind whether the Swelling be occasioned by the falling of the Gut into the Scrotum or from a watery Humour that flowes thither in a Rupture the Swelling is most commonly in one side of the Scrotum for the Peritoneum is seldom broke in both sides and you may percieve that by touching with your Finger and the hole through which the Gut falls may be felt with the Finger But the watery swelling of the Cod is most commonly on both sides and the Scrotum is more inflamed than when there is a Rupture and no Hole can be perceived in the Peritoneum and no cause that might produce a Rupture went before and there are signs of Crudity present A Rupture in Children is easier Cured than in grown persons for the Peritoneum in them is soft and easily unites Some say that all watery Swellings in the Scrotum are harder cured than a Rupture but this is false in Children for experience Testifies that this watery Swelling is easily Cured by Discutients nay it often goes away of it self in progress of time the Humours being dried up In the Cure of a Rupture we must endeavour to keep the Childrens Bodies open that they do not fill their Bellies too much nor cry much and if they are some what grown they must abstain from all violent Motion You must lay them on their Backs and gently put up the Gut and apply a proper Plaister or Cataplasm and bind it on with a Truss Take of Plaintain Sanicle each half an ounce of the Meal of Lentils and Lupins and red Roses each two drams of Frankincense one dram Alum half a dram make a Powder and with a sufficient quantity of it beaten up with the white of an Egg make a Cataplasm to be applied to the part â—ffected Or Take of Frankincense Cypress Nuts Aloes and Acacia each two drams Myrrh one dram make a Powder mix it with Iseing-glass and apply it in form of a Plaister Or Take of Cypress-Nuts two drams of Balaustins of the Powder of the Root of Comfry Thorrow-wax Sanicle Rupture-wort each one dram Bdellium one dram and an half Bole-Armentick two Drams Dragons Blood four Scruples Greek Pitch one ounce Rosin of the Pine six drams with Turpentine-wax and Oyl of Eggs. make a Cerate Or Take the green Leaves of Thorrow-wax and the fresh Roots of Comfry beat them them small and with a third part of new Wax make a Plaister and apply it to the part affected Or Take the Roots of Comfry cleansed beat them and heat them and apply them in a Linnen Rag and change them every twelve hours
Small-Pox and Measles and they also sometimes come from Worms This disease is easily known by the standers by for the Children groan and shake in their sleep and cry out of a sudden and a hot and fetid vapour exhals from their mouth most commonly This disorder must not be contemned for it is often the forerunner of sits wherefore you must endeavour to remedy it in time by removing the vitious humours from the stomach that corrupt the meat In order to which the Nurse ought to be healthy and to eat moderately of meats of good juice and to abstain from all that yeild an ill nourishment that the milk which the Infant sucks may be good The Infant also ought to suck sparingly that the Stomach be not burthened nor must the Infant after sucking or feeding be presently laid asleep but must be kept up a while that the meat may descend to the bottom of the Stomach and be the easier concocted and that the corrupt meat may be removed from the Stomach or vomited up Oyl of Sweet-Almonds may be given to the Child or you may give a spoonful or two of Honey of Roses solutive to carry off the vitious humours by stool The cause of the disease being taken off the Stomach must be strengthened which may conveniently be done with magistery of Coral and consection of Hiacinth given in milk and you may anoint the Stomach with the Oyls of Wormwood Mint Mastick or Nutmegs And before sleep it is good to give the Child a Lozenge of Diamosch dissolved in Milk If this symptom proceed from a Fever you must take care of that if from Worms proper remedies must be used Some in this case use Amulets as Coral or the tooth of a Wolf hung about the neck CHAP. XII Of Watchings ALL the while the Child is in the Womb it is almost perpetually asleep and for some times after it is born if it be well it is always almost asleep for the brain is yet very moist and abounds with a great deal of humedity therefore when it watches much and cannot be brought to rest either by rocking singing or giving the breast nor by any other way it is to be reckoned of a sickly constitution This Disease is very dangerous and especially to children because it is so contrary to the nature of them and occasions Convulsions Fevers and Catarrhs and other Diseases If those acid Vapours that disturb sleep and occasion watchings proceed from the corruption and fault of the milk care must be taken for a Remedy If a Fever or some pain be the cause it must be removed and the child must be cleansed but Medicines that provoke sleep are not so safely used in Children as in grown-persons Some Nurses indeed are wont to give Infants at bed time Syâ—up of Poppies or the like but this is very injurious to them but if there be occasion the Nurse ought rather to take things that cause sleep moderately as sweet Almonds Lettice the seeds of white Poppie and the like As to externals the feet may be washed with a Decoction of the tops of Dill of the flowers of Camomile and the heads of Poppies and it is very good to anoint the soles of the feet with the marrow of Stag's bones but strong Narcoticks must not be applyed to the head for the moist and weak brains of Infants will be thereby offended It is safest to use fresh oyl of Dill for anointing the Temples or you may anoint them with the oyl of Roses mixed with a little oyl of Nutmegs or you may apply a Cataplasm made of the seeds of white Poppies a little Saffron and Womans milk and the â—ostrils may be anointed with a little â—yl of Violets if the brain be dry a â—ag dipt in Violet or Lettice water and pressed out may be applyed to the head CHAP. XIII Of Childrens Convulsions CHildrens Convulsions are so frequent that they are almost the only species of Convulsions they are chiefly subject to them in the firstâ— months and at the time they breed their Teeth but they also happen at other times and proceed from other causes in such as are disposed to them Sometimes they do not come presently after the Birth but lie hid until the breeding of Teeth or not till a great while after and take their rise from other evident causes as from an unhealthy or big bellied Nurse from milk coagulated or corrupted in the Stomach from a Feverish disposition from Ulcers or Scabs in the head or other parts suddenly disappearing from changes of the air or from the conjunction or opposite aspects of the Sun and Moon We must endeavour to prevent these Convulsions in Children and Infants oâ— to cure them when they are come for if the former Children of the same Parents have been subject to Convulsive Fits this Disease ought to be prevented by the early use of Remedies in such as are born after To this end it is customary to give to new-born Babes as soon as they begin to breath some Medicine proper for Convulsions as some drops of pure honey a Spoonful of Canary Wine sweetned with Sugar oyl of sweeâ— Almonds fresh drawn a drop of oyl of Ambre or half a Spoonful of Epileptick water besides these things used at first which certainly do good some other Remedies ought to be administred For instance give a Spoonful twice a day of the following Liquor Take of the waters of Black Cherries and Rue each one ounce and an half of Langiuses Epileptick water one ounce of Syrup of Coral six drams of prepared Pearl fifteen grains mingle them in the Viâ—l The third or fourth day after the Birth make an Issue in the neck and if the countenance be florid evacuate by bleeding an ounce and an half or two ounces of blood from the ingular Vein But take care that too much blood do not flow out in sleep Rub gently the Temples with the following Linement Take of oyl of Nutmegs by expression two drams of balsam of Copiaba three drams of Ambar one scruple mix them Hang round the neck the roots and seeds of male Peony and Elks-hoof sewed up in a rag Moreover Medicines proper for Convulsions must be given daily to the Nurse Let her take morning and evening a draught of Whey wherein the roots of male Peony or the seeds of sweet Fennel have been boyled Take of the Conserves of the flowers of Bettony Male Peony and Rosemary flowers each two ounces of the roots and flowers of Male Peony each two drams of red Coral prepared and white Ambar each one dram of the the roots of Angelica and Zedoary prepared each half a dram with a suffient quantity of Syrup of Peony Make an electuary let the Nurse take the quantity of a Nutmeg of it morning and evening and be very orderly in her diet But if the Infant be actually seized with Convulsions you must apply a Blister to the neck or behind the ears and if the Infant be of a hot
Sassafras Lentisk-wood Rosemary the knotty part of Firr the Roots of China and Sarsaparilla the three Sanders the Roots of Osmund Royal or rather the Cloves of the Roots the Roots of Sea-fern or rather the Buds of them Grass roots the Roots of Asparagus Eringo Succory Burdock the Barks of the Roots of Capers the Capillary Herbs and chiefly Trichomanes Ceterach Wall-rue Harts-tongue Liverwort Male-speedwell Agrimony Brooklime Watercresses the Leaves and Flowers of Sage Rosemary Bettony dead Netâ—le and of Tamarisk Also Steel prepared or its Salt or Vitriol Tartar Castor Flowers of Sulphur Earth Worms Millepedes prepared and the like whereof Compositions may be made in the following manner Take of the Cloves of the Roots of Osmund-Royal or the Roots of Sea-fern or the Twigs of the Roots of it scarcely sprung above ground one handful boil them in a pint of Milk or Spring-water to the consumption of a third part let the strained Liquor with Sugar be drank twice or thrice a day Take of the Leaves of Tea one dram of the Flowers of Sage and Bettony each half a dram put them in a convenient Vessel and pour on them a pint of boiling water let them stand close and warm about an hour sweeten the strained Liquor with Sugar and let it be drank in the same manner as the former Take of Lentisk-wood Rosemary of the Roâ—ts of Sarsaparilla flowering Fern or male-fern each three ounces of the Herbs Agrimony Maiden-hair Speedwell Haris-tongue Sage Bettony each two handfuls of the tops of Fern and Tamarisk each two handfuls boil them in soâ—r Gallons of Ale till one is consumed when it has done working in the Vissel put into a bag two hundred Millipedes washed in white Wine and gently bruised of Juniper-berries two ounces of Nutmegs sliced number two hang the bag in the Vessel and put a piece of Steel in it to make it sâ—â—k If there be any suspicion of the Scurvy you may add of Water-cresses and Brooklime each two handfuls after a fortnight let it be drunk for the ordinary drink But the Medicine which is most approved in this Disease is Ens veneris five or six grains of it may be taken every Night at Bedtime in half a spoonful of Syrup of Gillâ—flowers If the Lungs are stopped with viscid Humours as happens often and the Mesentery with scrophulous Glands three or four drops of Balsom of Sulphur mixed with Sugar-candy powdered may be given Morning and Evening Note Steel must not be given in Coughs Plurises a stoppage of the Lungs nor when there is a Hectic Fever The Bath water is very proper and is excellent to take off the swelling of the Belly the following artisicial Bath as much commended Place the Sick in a large Vessel and put round him warm Barley Fermented which has been a while infused in boiled water as is usually done for making Beer cover him well and let him abide in it to provoke sweat Regard must be had to the Symptoms coming upon this Disease the most frequent whereof is a Looseness for the cure of which gentle Purgers as an infusion of Rhubarb Tamarinds and Sanders or a Bolus made of them is of use and sometimes astringents and gentle Opiats may be used but Purging must go before Sometimes immoderate sweating afflicts the child which if it follow a Feverish Fit is critical and ought not to be rashly stopt but if it flow in ordinately it is a sign that the Body is oppressed with ill Humours therefore this sort of sweat must be corrected by a gentle Purge especially with Rhubarb Apperitives also and such things as help Concoction must not be omitted Breeding of the Teeth difficultly is familiar to this Disease and often occasions a Fever in which case gentle evacuations especially by Glisters must be made and sometimes it is necessary to cut the Gums to make way for the Teeth and to apply a Blister behind the Ears and if there be great pain and watchings Hypnoticks must be used as a dram or two of Diacodium in a spoonful of Cowslip water External things must be used as Exercises of all sorts and if the Child be able walking srequently if not he must Play sitting or be carried about in the Nurses Arms or the like Frictions are also good in this case with warm Flannel the Parts to be rubbed are the Spine which is primarly affected and the Muscular parts but you must not rub the Bones where they stick out the Concave parts of the Bones you must Ligatures are also of use which are to be made above the Knee and above the Elbow but they ought to be soft and loose Boots are also of use but you must take care that they press a little upon the Protuberant part of the Bone and scarce touch the Cavity Bodice are also to be used to keep the Body up-right Swinging is also necessary A Formentation of all sorts of Wine and common Aqua Vita is also very good for this purpose to corroberate the nervous Parts which must be used for the weak Parts and especially for the Spine which being done the Parts must be â—â—ointed with Oyl or some proper Ointment which we shall mention by and by and instead of Wine the following Decoction may be used Take of the Roots of Osmund Royal or of Male-fern three ounces of the Leaves of Bettony Sage Rosemary Marjoram Water-cresses each one handful of the Flowers of Cammomile Melilot and Elder each one pugil of the Berries of Lawrel and Juniper each half an ounce boil them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain water to a quart add of white Wine or of common Aqua Vitae one pint Keep the strained Liquor for use Take of the Leaves of Elder Lawrel Marjorum Sage Rosemary Bettony and the tops of Lavender each two handfuls of the Berries of Juniper and Lawrel each one ounce cut them and bruise them and put them into a pot with three pound of May Butter or of Fresh Butter and add to them half a pint of Aqua Vitae and while the strained Liquor is hot add half an ounce of Oyl of Nutmegs by expression and one dram of Peruvian Balsom mix them make an Ointment Instead of May Butter Beef Marrow or Deers Suet and Oyl of Worms or Oyl of Foxes each one pound and an half may be used The Ointment must be applied warm before a hot Fire and the Parts must be rubbed with a warm hand till they are dry If the Belly be hard and swelled the following Ointment must be applied Take of the Oyls of Capers Worm-wood and Elder each one ounce of the Ointment above prescribed one ounce and an half of Gumm Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar half an ounce make a Linement whilst the Ointments are applied to the Hypochondres the Bowels must be handled by the Nurse If the Lungs are affected the Breast must be anointed with some pectoral Ointment or with the Ointment of Marshmallows and at the time of Unction a