and that they are what they are not 'T is known by fearfulness sadness hatred and such doleful passions of the Mind some conceiting themselves to be beast of this kind others of that Some are fearful of what will not hurt them others would hurt or kill themselves cause no body else will some weep others laugh Some foretell strange things to come others cannot tell what was done yesterday 'T is a deplorable disease very uncomfortable state long and tedious and in Aged people seldom cured The Cure The best thing is Potable silver taken 6 grains at night and a dram of Elixir Proprietatis Elixir Vitae Essentia Magna Essence of Saffron Syrupus Alkermes or Spiritus Analepticus in the morning The Chymical oyles of Cinanion Cloves or Rosemary given to the quantity of 8 drops at once in wine or warm broth is excellent So are flowers of Antimony corrected 6 grains at night taken in London Treacle Take Black Hellebore salt of Tartar and as much white wine as will work them into stiff past put it in a glass stop the Air from it and after it is two months old give 5 or 6 grains at a time in a pill and increase the dose Twenty grains of Matthews Pill is excellent Sect. XV. Night-mare and Cramp BY the Night-mare I mean that oppressive weight and nocturnal suffocation which the Greek Physitians call Ephialtes and the Latines Incubus It commonly seizeth the Patient 'twixt sleep and wake he thinks he feels something very heavy upon him he strives hard yet cannot move or stir himself only groans but cannot speak 't is caused by eating full and late suppers of such meats as are hard of digestion excessive drinking or such like intemperance and if it continue long many times turns to the falling sickness madness or an Apoplexia The Cramp or Convulsion is a shrinking or contraction oâ— the Nerves either of the whole body or of some particular part That of the whole body proceeds either from the marrow of the back when the Muscle that move the head and back are drawn together or from defect of the brain when thâ— face is pluckt also with the body That of a part is a particular obstruction of its original If it be taken in time iâ— may be cured else not The Cure Both these distempers are cured with the same Medicines have prescribed to be used in the Epilepsia at the 12 Section In the Cramp you may Annoint the part shrunk with oyl of Amber mixt with oyl of Roses and apply over it Emplastrum Histericum Sect. XVI Pearl and Cataract THat which is vulgarly known by the name of a Pearl is sometimes called Pin and Web being a white spot contracted by the Cornea and comprehending a small space of the Pupilla the Cataract or suffusion is a distemper wherein the watery Humour of the Eye becomes too thick In the beginning of the disease the patient thinks he sees small things before his eyes as Gnats hairs and the like it commonly affects but one Eye at once when the disease is confirmed the sight totally perisheth there appeareth dark matter in the Pupilla or white spots about it there are red veins about the Circle and a thick skin over the whole Eye The Green coloured Cataract and that wherein the Pupil of the Eye is dilated so far that no circle may be seen within the Tunicles the Eye seeming all black or all white are both uncurable but if the patient be young and can see as through a mist he may be helped The Cure For a Pearl put into the Eye a whole seed of Oculus Christi and wash it with this water Honey two ounces juice of Celandine three ounces white Vitriol a dram dissolved in a ounces of water and drop it into the eye For the Cataract wash the eye 5 times a day in the infusion of Crocus Metallorum in white wine giving ten drops of Oyle of Rosemary every morning in warm wine or broth Sect. 17. Blindness Inflammation of the Eyes BLindness is sometimes Total and yet the Eye to look upon ails nothing If the disease proceed through obstruction of the Optick nerves as commonly it doth through super-abounding Humidity and the sight totally extinct 't is accounted incurable but if it be occasioned through the gathering of humours in the forepart of the head as some affirm it may compressing the Nerves there is some small hopes of recovery Inflammation of the Eyes Is that which is commonly called Blood-shot caused through defluctions occasioned by heat blows great grief and the like and 't is easily helped The Cure In Blindness 't is convenient to sharpen the Patients drink with Oyl of Vitriol or Oyle of Sulphur and take Oyle of Rosemary ten drops at a time morning and night in four spoonfulls of warm wine Take Tutia and Aloes of each three drams white Sugar 2 drams rose-Rose-water and white wine of each 6 ounces mixt and in a glass well stopt digest in the sun or in some other such heat for a monâ—th shake it every day then let it settle pure off the clear and wash the Eyes with it both morning noon and Night both for this distemper and for a Cataract Inflammation or blood-shot is cured by salt of Lead dissolved in fair water or rose-Rose-water or white Vitriol one ounce dissolved in three pints of water and the Eyes washed with it or with whites of Eggs beaten to water or wash with the water squeezed out of rotten Apples Sect. 18. Deafness IF this distemper proceed from a Feaver 't is remedied by curing the Feaver if it be some times better and sometimes worse or proceed from a distemper of the Brain it may be helped But if the Tympany be broken the disease from the birth or absolute and of long continuance there is no hope of recovering The Cure Take the Gall of a Partridge mix it with so much Oyl of Amber and drop in three or four drops at a time and do it three times a day for want of that use the fat of an Eele a Mole or Hedghog as the former The juice of Radishes is much commended so is the juice of an Onion soaked in Brandy and roasted but I think oyl of Carawayes two drops at once is better Some use the water that drops out of a green Ash stick laid with one end into the fire boyled a little with the said fat of an Ele and dropped into the Ear warm but above all take snakes or Adders being fat which is in July cast away the heads tayles bowels and skins put the other in a glass pour spirit of wine three inches above them stop it well and digest in a warm place till the substance be turned to an oyle keep it for use and put two or three drops at a time into the deaf Ear. Sect. 19. Bleeding at Nose 'T IS caused by stripes blowes falls heat vehement exercise or else through an abundance of thin blood with pain and
inflammation of the head and if it be not soon stanched is dangerous The Cure Put a Tent into the bleeding Nostril dipt in the white of an Egg and cover'd over with Bole Armoniack Give the Patient inwardly Syrup of Vinegar and apply Sticticum Paracelsi to the Crown Burn blew wooling cloth to Ashes and snuff them up the Nose and cast cold water in the face Tye up a spider in a linnen Cloth bruse it a little and hold it near the Nose but touch it not Dry the Patients blood to powder and snuff it up the nose and take Inwardly six grains of Salt of Lead Take Vinegar and Plantain water of each two pound mix it dip folded Linnens and apply them to the soles of the feet palmes of the hands and against the Liver drinking Vinegar and holding some of it in the mouth or take twenty drops of Tincture of Corals in wine or ale Bind the Head very hard with Incle and let the knot be in the neck and lay a spunge dipt in Vinegar to the Nose Wet a Linnen cloth in Vinegar and wrap it about the Members of him that bleedeth Take Century Green Rue and red Fennel of each a like quantity stamp them strain the juice into Ale and so drink it Wet a Cloth of Linnen in sharp Vinegar burn the cloth and blow the Ashes into the bleeding nostrils Sect. 20. Tooth-Ach THe common opinion of Physitians is that this distemper is caused either simply through heat or cold or else complicately through defluction of Rheum c. But old Hippocrates said that hot cold moist or dry was not diseases but that which is sharp bitter sour and harsh And Helmont affirmeth that the Tooth doth not Ake from Rheume falling on it but by either the Goome being uncovered it is made too sensible or else matter of the last nourishment being badly digested doth putrifie about the root of the Tooth hence comes pain It is most common to rotten and hollow Teeth and these are seldom cured without they be taken out The Cure Take 20 Ivy leaves a little long pepper boyl them well in old Wine with a handful of Salt and hold the liquor in the Mouth on the Aking side Take Primrose roots Infuse them ten dayes in Brandy and snuff a little up the Nose Take Opium and Saffron of each two grains ty it up in a bit of silk or thin rag and hold it between the Teeth If the Tooth be hollow put a piece of a Crowfoot root into the hole or dip lint in Spirit of Sal Armoniack and apply it thereunto Drop three or four drops of juice of Rue into the Ear on the Aking side and lye an hour after on the other side Take white Pepper in powder one dram Oyl of Origanum ten Grains mix and keep it in a box and snuff a little up the Nose on the aking side Sect. 21. Quinsey IN a true Quinsey there is difficulty of swallowing and breathing Redness of the neck and face a Tumor and swelling in the Throat and sometimes a Feaver and is commonly very dangerous The Cure Most Physitians in this case draw blood The juice of Orpin taken two or three spoonfuls at a time is excellent so is the juice of Housleek or Crabfish the juices may be mixt with the distilled water of the Herbs and if a few drops of the Spirit of Sal Armoniack be added it will be the better and let the tongue be rubbed with the said juice of Crab-fish or Housleek let the Patients drink be Sal Prunella dissolv'd in water or take Spirit of Nitre two drams Spirit of Wine and Spirit of Salt of each half a dram put them to a pint of water and drink it at three times and to sweeten the blood which in this case offends by reason of the sharpness of the Liquor Latex the Tincture of Corals is a famous Medicament taken ten drops at once in Wine or Ale The Ashes of burnt Crabs or Swallows taken inwardly are much commended and the Ashes of an Owl feathers and all well calcin'd blown into the throat is an excellent thing to break the Imposthume Sect. 22. Pleurisie THis disease is an Inflammation of the Pleura or skin girding the Ribs caused through abundance of Venal blood sent thither chiefly offending in quality for the Archeus being exasperated an exorbitant Pestilent Impression is made in the Latex taunting it with a superabounding sharpness the which lighting into the flesh between the Ribs causes a Pleuretical pain and sometimes the fibres of the Pleura are rent asunder from the Ribs and while it doth but never so little slacken it self the neighboring Blood runs to it in the place of the wrinkles made by contracting of the Fracture and this by repeated turns is the cause of a great Aposthume according to the frequency and sharpness of the contractures 'T is known by a Feaver difficulty of breathing hard Pulse like a saw a Cough pricking pain and sometimes a Tumor If the Feaver be violent spittle bloody very white green or black or the Patient very old or Astmatical 't is dangerous The Cure In this disease most draw blood and affirm the necessity of that way but this hath only the power of privation leaves the root of the disease from whence commonly springs up a Relaps A dram of Goats blood taken at once first dry'd and powdr'd is the best remedy I know take it in Poppy water at night going to bed every night repeating it in want of this give Spirit of wine and Spirit of Sal Nitre of each twenty Grains in Poppy water as the former Tincture of Corals and Tincture of Tartar twenty drops at once of either sweetens the blood notably When the Imposthume is broke give Syrup of Succory and Spirit of Ground Ivy mixed with its own Salt Sect. 23. Cough and Asthma THis disorder call'd a Cough is commonly caused through cold taken or through some sharp matter contain'd in the Breast and Lungs which causes a cough without spitting If it happen to Aged people having a great obstruction of the Lungs and cease suddenly 't is very dangerous 〈…〉 The Asthma is of two sorts viz. the moyst and the dry the moist Asthma produceth a Cough to expectorate the offending matter yet differs from Cough in that it hath a mattery Imposthume or secret flegm obstructing in the bowel whereby it brings forth excrementitious matter and corrupts its proper nourishment The dry Asthma commonly comes from the Gass of Mettals and Minerals to diggers Melters and Chymists vitiating the Channels of the wind-pipe whereby nourishment degenerates into Excrements There is swelling in the Lungs and stoppage in the Throat In Children it turns into a Catarrh in men it generally ends in a Chachexia Plurisie or Dropsie The Cure For a Cough cut the flegm with Syrup of Vinegar then use Syrup of Succory taking at night Elixir Proprietatis Tincture of Sugar or extract of Elecampane and hold in the mouth
Trochisci Bechici All these medicines are good in the moist Asthma as also juice of Radish Roots with Tincture of Sugar The dry Asthma is cured with Epilepticals as Section the 12th Sect. 24. Inflammation of the Lungs and Vlcer of the Breast AN Inflammation of the Lungs is accompanied with a sharp Feaver caused by some preceding diseases for the most part known by great heat difficult breathing and stretching out of the breast with a redness there the breath is hot the eyes swell a dry Cough Appetite is lost the Tongue is dry the Patient is desirous of cold Air and cold water If this disease follow a Pleurisie 't is very dangerous An Ulcer of the breast is generally from an inflammation of the Lungs being suppurated and the Rupture of the Impostume whereby the matter falls into the cavity of the Breast while the suppuration is perfecting the Feaver increaseth but being broken the Patient spits Matter is faint with heaviness in the bottom of the Breast a Cough and great pain If the matter spit up be green livid froathy or brought up with difficulty and the belly loose 't is very dangerous If the matter be not spit up in a Moneths time it turns to a Consumption The Cure An Inflammation of the Lungs is cured wih the same Medicines mentioned for a Pleurisie at Section the 22th For an Vlcer in the breast Take 10 grains of Antimonium Diaphoreticum at once four times a day Anoint the stomach with Oyntment of Tobacco and then lay on a pultis of Figs and Raisons stoned mixt with oyl of Amber and Juniper berries sharpning the Patient drink with oyl of Sulphur or Vitriol Sect. 25. Consumption THis distemper is a wasting of the whole Body the Patient breathes difficultly the Eyes are hollow the Nostrils sharp is Thirsty and hath a Cough sometimes and the hair falls off spits either froath blood or matter from an Ulcer in the Lungs If the matter spit up stink If the body be very loose or an acute disease conjoyned 't is very dangerous But if the Ulcer be but new begun there is hope of Recovery The Cure Balsom of Sulphur is excellent take it 3 or 4 grains at a time Morning Noon and Night and let the Patients drink be sharpen'd with oyl or Sulphur 20 or 30 drops to a pint The oyles of Rosemary Cinamon and Carawayes help much taken ten drops at a time in brothe Lukewarm there is a Syrup made of Corals or Tincture of the same used with good success so is Syrup of Turneps and extract of Elecampane a spoonful at once in any convenient Vehicle Trochischi Bechisi taken 5 grains at once 3 times a day hath proved effectual so hath a Syrrup made of the juice of Cabbage 1 ounce a day Take Choyce Myrrh 4 ounces Saffron half an ounce Nutmegs two ounces Aromaticum Rosatum two ounces Olibanum one ounce Honey three pound make it into an Electuary and take as much as a Hazzle nut 3 times a day Sect. 26. Spitting of Blood IT may be caused by excessive crying leaping blows or falls or inwardly through Plenitude or sharpness of the Liquor Latex corroding the vessels 'T is commonly ill more especially when 't is from the Lungs and many times foretells a Consumption if it be not critical c. The Cure All those Medicines mentioned in the last Section for the cure of a Consumption are proper to be used here to which these following may be added If the disorder be caused through sharpness of the Latex Goates blood gently dry'd and pouderd and given a dram at a time is excellent Henbane-seed powdered and mixed with Electuarium ad Tabidos and given morning noon and night is commended The Electuary is thus prepared Take Nutmegs and Cinnamon of each 3 ounces Ginger three drams Mâ—gistry of Pearl two ounces clarified Honey twelve ounces beat the species severally then mix them together with the Honey given half a dram at a time morning and evening Trochisci Beehici taken 5 or 6 grains at once is profitable 'T is thus made Take juice of Liquoris one pound white Sugar 2 pound Opium one ounce with the mucilage of Gum Tragocanth make it into Roles or Troches and dry them But above all is Roche Allome dissolve it in water and distill off the water to a dry bottom and give 20 drops at a time in any drink Sect. 27. Pain of the Stomach THere is sometimes accompanying this disease a pain in the Head which shews the distemper to arise from Wind and continuing unremoved a Timpany follows If there be a perpetual gnawing felt in the stomach then it is caused by Worms and so less dangerous if there be a looseness vomiting or the patient thereunto inclined it shews a sharpness in the stomach and if it be accompanied with a Feaver or the extream parts be cold 't is very dangerous The Cure If the distemper be occasioned by Wind things Carminative are most proper Take the distilled oyls of Cumming-seeds half an ounce of Fennel Annis and Caraway of each one dram of Dill and Camomil of each half a dram mix and take 3 or 4 grains in luke warm broth If worms cause the disorder take the cure from the 5 Section If it be caused by some preternatural sharpness in the stomach some anoint outwardly with the oyntment of Tobacco and use Laudanum 3 or 4 grains given at night in a pill but 8 or 9 drops of oyl of Cinamon in luke-warm broth is much safer spirit of Camomil in mint-Mint-water is famous in the case so is Essence of Elder Angelica and Rosemary Sect. 28. Swounding and Beating of the Heart SWounding in some is caused through extraordinary fear Immoderate grief c. and in this case 't is the least dangerous in others its without manifest cause and these commonly dye suddenly but in a Feaver 't is dangerous and pernitious Immoderate and unnatural beating and trembling of the heart may be known by feeling and is sometimes caused through shame joy fear or Anger In others 't is continual and in these cases the least to be feared But if it be caused from a Tumour in the Perecardium or Arteries of the Lungs as some Physitians say it may it is incurable and coming upon an acute disease very dangerous The Cure Of both these distempers are performed with Cordials mongst which Aurum Potabile and Species Alexipharmaca taken 5 or 6 grains at a time of either is excellent so is Elixir Proprietatis and Elixir Vitae 20 grains taken in Wine or Syrup of Clove-gilly slowers Oyl of Citrons and juice of Alkermes mixt with Spirit of Wine is highly commended so is the Essence or spirit of Bawnt Borage and Buglose Magistery of Pearls and Corals There are a sort of Flies which Children call Lady Cows with Golden colour'd wings being gently dryed and powdered are given inwardly with good success Sect. 29. Depraved and Lost Appetite A Depraved Appetite is that which fondly covets longs
for and desires to eat hurtful things not fit for food as Oatmeal unripe fruits Chalk Coals Ashes c. it commonly happens to Women with Child and Maids troubled with the Gren sickness this may be of long continuance but of it self in Maids it is not dangerous yet if it be not cured great obstructions Cachexia's Dropsies and pain of the stomach follows Want of Appetite is cause by obstruction of the mouthes of the Meseraicks or through too much fullness and over glutting of the stomach or else weakness want of natural heat c. and if it happen in the declination of a disease it signifies a relapse if it be caused through want of natural heat 't is most dangerous and worse to be liked in children than in men The Cure To women with child the blood of a Vine is commended Maids may remove the cause which is best performed by Elixir Proprietatis Essence of Garlick Savin or Penroyal Tincture or spirit of Tartar taken 4 or 5 times at Night going to bed 8 drops at once In a depraved appetite give 9 drops of oyl of Cloves or oyl of Cinamon in warmish broth sharpen the Patients drink with the oyl of Vitriol or oyl of Sulphur and in both cases strengthen the stomach as at Sect. 30. Sect. 30. Vomiting THis disorder is generally caused through weakness or foulness of the stomach weakness may arise from Antecedent causes as too much emptiness want of natural rest superlative Anger boundless Passion and the like If the matter vomited up be green black livid or stinking it is for the most part dangerous but being of none of these colours but coming after a Flux of the belly 't is good or on a Critical day 't is accounted by the Galenists a plausible sign of Recovery provided the matter vomited up be such as they call Flegm and Choler The Cure Most Physitians in this case when it is caused through the foulness of the stomach give a gentle vomit The stomach must be strengthened with Syrup of Corals and Pearls and Spirit of Mint take a spoonful at a time morning noon and night Crude juice of Quinces is wonderful powerful and Syrup of Vinegar is none of the worst Medicines Let all the Patients drink be sharpned wirh oyl of Sulphur give 15 Grains of Elixir Proprietatis in Sack at night going to bed or the like quantity of Elixir Vitae applying to the stomach a Cataplasm of Bread and Vinegar or a plaister of London Treacle There may be a Magestery made of Oyster-shells and given to the quantity of 20 grains at a time with good success Sect. 31. Iliac Passion THis is a distemper of the small Guts commonly occasione through obstruction of the Bowels with a coldness and putrifaction of food it is known by most vehement and horrible pain the stomach abounds with too much moisture there is a great rumbling in the Bowels Wind and belching without ease the dung is stopt and if the disease increase the Patient voyds all the excrements upward and then 't is mostly accounted deadly and being accompanied with the Stranguria 't is the worse The Cure 'T is performed by those Medicines prescribed for removing the Colick at the 32 Section a dram of Cream of Tartar dissolved in a mess of unsalted broth hath been found effectual so hath oyl of Almonds and Malmsey wine I use to sharpen the Patients drink with oyl of Vitriol to a pleasant acidity which hath proved effectuall when all hope from common means hath been past and clisters was vomited upward Sect. 32. Cholick T IS a pain in the Gut Colon sometimes caused by Wind and then there is a stretching forth and swelling of the belly if it be occasioned through Inflammation of the said Gut there is an inward burning hear stoppage of Urine the body is bound sometimes there is vomiting thirst and a Feaver If the distemper be behement the belly bound with watchings vomiting Hiccough coldness of the extream parts and cold sweats all these are desperat symptomes but if the disease be gentle and the body soluble there 's little danger The Cure Take Salt of Wormwood and drop on it spirit of Salt till it cease broyling dry it and give 8 or 9 grains at a time in broth Infuse Hawthorn flowers in Rhenish wine distill off the spirit and take a spoonful at once Take Lemmon Orange and Citron peels of each two ounces spirit of wine one pint infuse them together 20 dayes pour off the Tincture and give a spoonful at once in wine with a few drops of oyl of Cinamon Take spirit of Salt and spirit of wine of each a like quantity mix them in a Glass and administer 40 drops at once in a draught of wine or Ale Take 6 or 7 grains of salt of Lead in white wine or ten grains of Ens Veneris taken in broth at night going to bed and the like quantity at morning and noon two hours before and after meat hath been found very effectuall If the disease be caused by wind give Oyl of Anniseeds Fennel or Carawayes in warm broth proper spirit or distilled water Sect. 33. Flux of Blood and Matter A Bloody Flux is an Exulceration of the Bowels known by vehement pain and bloody Excrements when the disorder is in the Great Bowels the dung is as at other times comes forth with wind froathiness and Blood aloft but if the small Guts be exulcerated there is pain about the Navel the Excrements are of various colours if black and stinking the case is desperate commonly they are of a Lead colour and there is a gnawing felt If there be pain in the Liver and Midriff Vomiting and Hiccough Loathing of meat a Feaver thirst or pieces of flesh voided the ease is dangerous A Flux of Matter generally follows a Flux of blood the Patient continually goes to stool the Excrements are crude and pale and the taste is lost if the disease last long it may turn to a Dropsie when it follows other diseases 't is for the most part deadly There is also an ordinary flux of the belly which in a dropsie shews recovery but if it happen to a woman with child or the Excrements be Green Blew Black or Yellow 't is of evil signification The Cure Let the Patient drink Cows Milk plentifully Potable Gold and tincture of Corals are excellent so is the juice or pulp of Quinces or a dram of crude Allum dissolved in water and so drank but Roach Allum dissolved in water and it distilled off in Ashes is highly famous so are Bramble Berries gathered unripe dried and powdered and given in Red wine the juice of sloes or Poppy water Tincture of Emeralds is excellent 5 grains at a time See the following Sect. Sect. 34. Tenasmus THis distemper is a continual desire in the Patient to go to stooll without voiding any thing except bloody or filthy matter like snevil some say it is generally caused by cold or that it may
is many times white Gravel sent out with the Vrine The Cure Both these distempers are helped by such Medicines as strongly provoke Urine ' mongst which there are a sort of wood Lice call'd Sows are famous being washt in white wine and the juice squeesed into a draught of white wine and so drank you may begin with the juice of three at a time and so increase every day one till you come to 20 and then decrease the number You may pierce a Birch-tree in the moneth of March and it will send forth abundance of Liquor which being drank with Gromwell seeds is highly Famous in this case so is the water distilled from an herb called Arsmart used as the former or three spoonful of the juice drank in a glass of white Wine works the same effect there is a fruit grows on white Thorn call'd Haws the stones where of being gathered full ripe powdered and mixt with Gromwell seeds gives great ease to the Patient being drank in white wine See the 41 Section Sect. 40. Diabetes IT is commonly call'd unmeasurable Pissing for the Retentive faculty is so weak that whatsoever is drank by the Patient is sent forth again by urine as it was taken there is an unquenchable Thirst heat in the Bowels Leanness and if it be not suddenly cured 'tis deadly bringing the Patient into a Consumption The Cure Tincture of Emeralds in a his case is excellent so is the salt and Tincture of Corals to the quantity of ten grains of any of them at once taken in Malaga Wine Take harts horn burn it till 't is white powder it boyl the same in common water and let the Patient drink thereof or take 4 or 5 handfuls of the inner bark of the young and tender branches of the Hazel-tree branches of one years growth boyl them well in common water or rather in small beer and let the Patient take thereof for his common drink or in its stead if steell be often heated and extinguished in water and that water drank 't is said to be helpful in this case But binding Crocus of Iron is very powerful in this Distemper and muy be taken 20 grains at a time Dissolve salt of Lead in water and therewith bathe the back and let a drying diet be used Sect. 41. Stoppage and Difficulty of Vrine SToppage of Urine may be caused by a stone clotted blood hardness swelling or hurt of the Nerves relating to the bladder 't is very dangerous if it continue long and the Patient is troubled with a Hiccough and his breath stinks of urine Difficulty of urine is with Heat and Inflammation of the part causing hot Vrine but is less dangerous than the former but it the Patient be old if it continue long and so ulcerate the neck of the Bladder it is not easily helped The Cure The most potent medicines to cure these diseases are those set down in the 39 Section where I treated of the stone to which these following simples may be joyned being proper in both cases viz. Camomil Centaury Burdock Roots and seeds Asparagus Brooklime Winter Cherries Garlick all sorts of Parsley rest-Harrow Betony Caraway seeds Cummin seeds Anniseeds Fenugreek seeds wild Carrot seeds Juniper-Berries Bay-Berries 8t Johns-wort Guaiacum Fennel Broom Endive Ragwort Lavender Cloves Feaverfew Smallage Pellitory of the Wall Rue Garden-Cresses Cicely Nutmegs Cocle Peniroyal Radish Saxifrage Wild-Time Time Lavender Tamerisk Vervain Tansie and Nettles Sect. 42. Feaver THe cause according to Van Helmont is an Alcalie abounding and there is a Poysonous excrement in the Midriffs the most gentle feavers continue but one 2 3 or 4 dayes wherein the Pulse is equal and Urine not much differing from its natural colour and these are not dangerous if it continue longer 't is call'd a Putrid Feaver wherein the Vrine hath no sediment but is thick and red the Pulse is unequal and there is great heat if there be a looseness and vomiting there is hope of recovery There is also a continual Feaver which is sometimes accompanied with a Pleurisie Quinsie Vleer or Inflammation of the Lungs and this is very dangerous There is moreover a Burning Feaver wherein the Tongue is dry rough and blackish there is a burning heat thirst gnawing in the stomach Pale and thin Excrements and great watchings and this is very dangerous but if the Vrine be red with signs of Concoction there is hope The Cure The best and safest way to cure a Feaver is by such universal Medicines as simpathize with nature and fortifie the heart as Potable Gold 5 grains at once in Sack or take spirit of Wine 2 ounces Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers 1 ounce Confectio Alkermes 1 dram mix and give a spoonfull at once in good Wine Sect. 43. Ague THere are three sorts of Agues properly called Feavers the first is named an Intermitting Quotidian afflicting the Patient every day the cold fit comes colder and colder by degrees yet is not very excessive on the one hand nor the hot fit much vehement on the other but the disease commonly lasts long and many times degenerates into a Dropsie Cachexia or Lethargy The second is call'd an Intermitting Tertian it cometh every other day with pricking and vehement cold the pulse is equal and anon a violent heat increaseth with much thirst and sometimes vomiting The third is call'd an Intermitting Quartane and comes with two days intermission between the fits in the beginning the pulse is slow the fit comes with vehement cold and afterwards comes a hot burning fit the Vrine is white thin and watry this sort of Ague commeeth long sometimes turns to a Diopsie and to old people is oft mortal The Cure Take ten drops of spirit of Sal Armoniac in centaury-Centaury-water at right going to bed 3 or 4 times a weak keep very warm and expect sweat Crude Allum twenty grains at once in warm Ale is excellent Take Bay Salt and fresh English Hops of each two handfuls and 4 ounces of Blew ourrans beat them all well together spread it on Linnen and apply it to both the wrists Sect. 44. Hectick-fever IN this disease there is an unnatural heat kindled as well in the fleshy and sollid parts as in the spirits yet so without pain that the Patient cannot tell that he hath a Feaver there is a slack and hard pulse dry cough Eyes hollow shedding of Hair Nose sharp the face is Leady Vrine thine crude white or pale and at last oyly the stomach is drawn in almost to the Ribbs and the whole body consumeth This distemper is for the most part mortal when it turns to a Marasmos and that is when all or most of the foresaid symptomes joyntly appear but if it be taken in time and good means used they may prove effectual The Cure This disease is cured like a Consumption at the 25 Section Let the Patient feed much upon Raisons of the Sun and Almonds and let him drink Milk with a few drops of oyl of Cinamon But Asses Milk with salt of Pearl is said to transcend Annoint the back bone with oyl of Bay-berries mixt with oyl of Almonds Take Nutmegs and Cynamon of each 3 ounces Ginger 3 drams Magistry of Pearl 2 ounces Honey prepared 12 ounces make it into an Electuary and take thereof 4 times a day the quantity of an Hazlenut at once Spiritus Analepticus taken half an ounce at once is excellent The Essence of Borrage and Bugloss is highly commended in the case so is the Magistry of Corals 10 grains at a time Sect. 45. Spotted-feaver and Plague A Spotted Feaver is a continual malignant burning-Feaver the Patient is tormented with pain in the head faintings excessive Heat Thirst and watchings having after a few dayes spots coming out sometimes all over the body and sometimes only on one part being small and of a reddish purplish livid Leaden or sometimes blackish colour the distemper commonly ends in seven dayes time if the spots turn livid or black and the Vrine look as it did in health 't is exceeding dangerous The Plague is a continual Malignant burning Feaver wherein the Patient is hot within and cold without there is excessive pain in the head with heaviness weariness Lumpishness carelessness sleepiness and Sadness of the mind loss of Appetite vomiting thirst bitterness and driness of the mouth Vrine thick and stinking The Pulse small and deep there is Bubo's behind the Ears under the Arm-holes or in the grom or else Carbuncles or Blew Reddish or Lived spots the Disease is dangerous but 't is most deadly when no Buboe's come forth or when they come forth and go in again or if they the spots appear of a Livid or black Colour 't is commonly mortal The Cure These distempers are helped by such Medicines as chear the spirits and comfort the heart as the Tincture of Life Which is thus made Take spirit of Wine one quart Cochineal or English Saffron one ounce put them in a large glass well corked set it in warm place for 20 dayes pour off the tincture and give a quarter of an ounce at once in the Patients drink Spirit of Harts-horn 20 drops at once is excellent but the most transcending medicament is 5 grains of Potable Gold The Conclusion THis Compendium adventur'd upon the Publick Stage for the Worlds Speculation I gathered into so small a Volume for my own Use as Occasion serves in my Practice But conceiving it might be serviceable for such Ingenious well-disposed Persons as are willing to help their poor Languishing and Sick Neighbours that want Silver-cords to draw the Advice of Money-sucking Physicians to supply their Necessities I have adventured to run the hazard of being sharl'd at by all Callumnious Tongues of whom I may say as was said of old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nor do I so much as hope to escape being bitten by the Heels by those Gnathonical Currs who prefer Self-Interest before a Publick Good like him who said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Howbeit I have Herculean Hopes that this little Piece of Medicinal Marrow will meet with some Ingenious Interpreters of my harmless Meaning who would do good to all to the utmost of my Ability An Advertisement POor People languishing under Bodily Distempers may have free Advice and Medicines for notâ—ing from the Author of this Book who may be met with most if not all Market-days at the signe of the Crown in Loughborough FINIS
a Feaver Madness is without the Phrensie is dangerous Madness is tedious not perilous The Cure For to help the Phrensie give 10 grains of salt of Pearl in Poppy water for one dose or 5 grains or Laudanum given at twice 6 hours betwixt dissolve it in Sack Potable Silver taken 6 grains at a time in this case is excellent Tincture of Antimony or the flowers corrected are powerful Black Helibore is a famous specifick make it into powder and boyl it twelve hours in water to the thickness of a Syrup add its weight of Sugar and give half a dram at a time Madness is cured with the same medicines Laudanum excepted give now and then a dram of the blood of an Ass taken out of the veins behind the ears and sweat after it oyl of Rosemary is good I use salt of Lead and Ens Veneris with good success 8 grains of the first and 20 of the latter Sect. X. Lethargy and Deep or dead sleep THe Lethargy is a drowsie distemper conjoyn'd with a Feaver the patient breaths weakly sleeps profoundly the Pulse is great and strikes seldom though the party be often spoken to he through sluggishness scarcely answereth to the question only openeth his eyes and shuts them again sometimes raves and is very forgetful If he be old Gross Fat and the disease of long continuance 't will hardly be cured The deep or dead sleep is a disorder of the Brain wherein the Patient sleeps with his eyes continually shut and he will say nothing though he be stirred and pricked with needles it 's difference from a Lethargy is only in degrees and this is without a Feaver the cure is difficult The Cure The principal cure of these diseases is potable silver taken 5 grains at night and as much in the morning The Chimical oyl of Rosemary is excellent and may be given from 10 to 15 drops at a time in a little Sack and the Temples and head being shaved may be anointed with it or oyl of Caster then lay a Plaister of Stickticum Paracelsi on the head taking now and then in the day time 20 or 30 drops of Elixir Proprietatis and sweating with 15 drops of spirit of Harts-horn or 10 grains of Bezoar Mineral is good Sect. XI Apoplexia Catalepsis THe Apolexia is a depriving the whole body of sense and motion they have pain in the head sleep deeply gnaw the Teeth feel not when hurt open not the eyes Answer no questions make little Urine its sediment is like meal and its colour like Rust or Canker they snore and breath little 'T is said to be caused through obstruction of those passages whereby the spirits are carryed from the Heart to the Brain If this distemper be a strong one 't is uncurable and how weak soever not easily helped 't is the worst when it seizeth young people in the summer And if Medicines prove effectual against the Apoplexia yet commonly it leaves a Palsie either in the whole or part of the body Catalepsis is a kind of Congelation sudden detention or benuming both in Body and Mind the Patient lies as though he was dead moves not the eyes Sense and Motion are lost the pulse is weak and he remains in the same figure of body in which he was taken whether he lye stand or sit with his eyes shut or open the disease if cured degenerates many times into an Apoplexia or Lethargy The Cure In both these distempers the Essence of Rosemary is excellent a quarter of an ounce at a time or 10 drops of the Chymical oyl taken in 2 or 3 spoonfuls of wine or 15 drops of the spirit of the brains blood of a sheep taken often Aurum Potabilie 6 grains at once transcends all other medicines bath the head with tincture of Papper and anoint it with Balsamum Polychrestum Elixir Proprietatis 15 grains in wine is proper in these cases Sect. XII Epilepsia THe Falling-sickness is a Convulsion of the body hurting the mind and senses at some certain times for when the fit comes the patient is pluckt together falls down trembles cryes out and if the disease be violent foams at mouth Van Helmont saith t is caused by an infensitive befooling and mad poyson afflicting for a space being installed in the Midriff It commonly happens to children but if it happen to persons of full age t is seldom cured The Cure Provoke sneezing with Helebore and administer Elixir Proprietatis or Elixir Vitae a dram at a time the Antepileptick spirit of Vitriol 8 grains at once in some cordial spirit is excellent take 12 grains of Pulvis Antepilepticus twice in a week Take the Livers of forty Frogs dry them with a gentle heat and give them in fine powder at five times morning and evening The powder of native Cinabar is much commended mixt with the oyle of Carraways Oyl of Amber ten grains at once may be often administred dry the brains of a Weesle make the same into fine powder and drink it in vinegar The volatile Salt and spirit of venal blood is famous in this case 5 grains of the Salt or ten drops of the spirit for one dose Take every morning 2 drams of the Opeate of Moniagnana commended by Riverius Give a new born child 2 drams of oyl of sweet Almonds mixt with sugar before it suck or take any thing for preventing this distemper Sect. XIII Palsie and Trembling THe Palsie is a distemper in which the whole body or some particular part or member doth lose its sense or motion or both according as all or some of the Nerves are obstructed If the back bone be principally affected with the obstruction the lower parts are afflicted but from the affection of the brain the face and upper parts are offended this disease is more frequently seizing in the winter than in summer and happens oftner to old people than young ones If it be not occasioned from the cutting of a sinew it may be cured Trembling commonly goes before a Palsie and is caused through weakness of the sinew either by reason of old Age or excessive drinking The Cure Tincture of Tarter 10 drops or spirit of Tartar 20 drops at a time are proper in the case take 12 grains of Pulvis Antepilepticus once in two dayes and provoke sweat by 10 grains of Bezoar Mineral taken at night or six grains of potable silver bathe the place grieved with an essence of Green Tobacco leaves made with Malmsey wine rub and chafe it well in and use it often Then anoint with Balsamum Hystericum or Vâ—guentum Martiatum A cataplasm of the greater Walnut-root is much commended and often bathing the part with Milk and Oyl Trembling is helped by the use of Elixir Proprietatis a dram taken at once morning and night and by all the former medicines mentioned against the Palsie Sect. XIV Melancholia THey that languish under this distemper have strange imaginations conceiting themselves to be like what they resemble not
be by means of a Flux of Blood or matter if it continue long there is danger of an Vlcer and if it happen to a woman with child there is great danger of Abortion The Cure This distemper is helped with those Medicines mentioned in the foregoing Section of Fluxes to which these may be added being a like proper in all four cases Take new butter unsalted melt it in a Bason set in hot water pour off the clear from the feces and then boyl it for half an hour and therewith mix verjuice juice of sloes or Rose Vinegar and use the same as sauce to the Yolkes of Eggs boyled hard dry the blood of a Hare to powder and take it inwardly Take a large Apple fill up the middle part where the core lay with a piece of an Honey comb the Honey being squeezed out Roast it in embers and so eat it wax and all Take the outward bark of black thorn dry it and powder it and drink it in red wine Take white stones with red veins boyle them in new milk till half the milk is wasted and drink plentifully thereof or new milk wherein steel hath been often quenched works the same effect Take yellow wax and ducks grease make an oyntment for the fundament Sect. 35. Hemorroids THis Distemper is also called the Piles 't is the flowing of-blood to the Fundament by the veins which in some sent forth much in others they send out little or no blood and these latter have commonly vehement pain in going to stool And at other times also if the Flux of blood be very immoderate 't is dangerous and brings great weakness Dropsies and an ill state of body to the Patient but if the flux of blood be moderate Critical or otherwise for the benefit of nature 't is healthful The Cure If the Piles be swell'd or the pain vehement apply to the place Crocus Metallorum take inwardly the binding Crocus of the binding Crocus of Iron 30 grains at a time if the flux of blood be great There is an herb called Pile-wert being made into an oyntment hath been found succesful but if it be made up with the ashes of burnt cork and Capons grease 't is the better or mix salt of Lead with fresh butter and therewith ancint the place Take Conscrve of Roses and therewith mix a little fine Bole and take a knifpoint full at a time but above all is the fume of Frankinsence put it on some live coales in a deep pot and let the patient sit over it Sect. 36. Obstruction of the Liver IN this Distemper the Urine is watery thin and white the Excrements of the belly are moist and Chylous of the same Colour as the Urine is of the Patient is commonly lean of body yet very pursie and dull the face is pale and after eating there is a pressure in the right Hypocondria with ill digestion If it continue long it is not to be cured The Cure The best and most absolute Medicine in this case is the spirit or Tincture of Tartar taken to the quantity of 8 or 9 drops at a time in Wine or Ale Tincture of Corals may be taken as the former many in this case use the filings of Iron crude whereof they give twenty or thirty grains at a time thrice a day but the oyl of Iron is better it s thus prepared Take filings of steel dissolve them in spirit of salt put the dissolution into a Glass retort place it in a sand Furnance and distill off the spirit which come off sweet in taste whereof you may give 8 or 9 drops at a time the common way of curing this disorder is by giving every morning a dram and half of Pulvis Cachecticus and stiring well after it The Yellow Jaundice are cured by all these Medicines which are proper for the cure of the Green-sickness and therefore I shall say no more of that disease see Section the 37. Sect. 37. Yellow-Jaundice T IS known by yellowness of the skin most discoverable in the Cheeks and whites of the Eyes the tongue is bitter and some have a hiccough and vomiting the Urine is Reddish or Yellow in so much that it will dye a piece of Linnen Cloth of the same Colour If this disease come to the Patient in the beginning of a Feaver 't is dangerous if it comes upon an Inflammation of the Liver it foretells an Impostume if upon a Scirrhus it ends in a Dropsie The Cure All the medicines mentioned in the 36 Sect. for to open obstructions of the Liver are also proper for the cure of the Yellow Jaundice Drop oyl of Vitriol on Salt of Tartar till it cease making a noise then dry it and give twenty grains at a time in broth or any other convenient liquor Take the Gall of a Raven dry it to powder and drink thereof in Ale a week together Take a great Apple pick out the core fill it up with Butter Turmerick and Saffron Rost it and give it the Patient to Eat do so four or five mornings together Elixir Proprietatis is excellent half a spoonful at a time boyl in the Pat ents broth Ground Ivy and the Rootes wires and Leaves of Strawberries Sect. 38. Obstruction of the Spleen T IS known by heaviness pain beating swelling on the left side under the Ribs there is loathing of meat blackness of the Tongue Thirst a Feaver lying on the right side is very painful and on the left is not easie If it continue long it degenerates into the Scurvy and a Schirrus afflicts the Patient with Melancholy and pain in the side The Cure Give every morning a dram of Pulvis Cachecticus and ten drops of spirit of Harts Horn at night The Tincture of Tar-drawn with its own spirit or the spirit alone are famous in this case whereof 6 drops may be taken at a time in Sack Drop oyl of Vitriol on Salt of Tartar till it cease making a noise then dry it and give Twenty grains at a time in broth Tincture of Corals is much commended take 8 or 9 drops at a time in fragrant Wine Take the roots of Polipody stamp them to an Impalpable pap boyl them in common water six hours strain out the feces clarifie the decoction and make it into a Syrrup whereof take a spoonfull at a time two or three times a day Anoynt outwardly with the oyl of Rue and apply a Plaister made up with the juice of Hemlock Sect. 39. Stone in the Reins and Bladder 'T IS known by pains about the Loynes there is some times sand and redish gravel voyded in the Urine which is oft bloody thin and in small quantity the thigh on that side where the stone is most commonly is pained and as it were benummed Stone in the bladder is known by vehement pain there after making water and the bigger the stone is the greater is the pain the Urine sometimes stops suddenly the Patient Pisseth with most ease lying on the Back and there