plenty of Urine and worms If the defect is because the meat is not exactly prepar'd in the Stomach there is belching of Wind Vomiting and want of Appetite or some hot distemper If from the fault of food if in Infants the Nurses milk is not good for milk is made of food by the colour and ill constitution of the Nurse it is easily known if the Milk is bad it will not be very white have an ill taste not sweet of an ill smell and more thick and fluid then it ought to be The thickness and thinnesse of the Milk is known if some Milk is Milk'd upon the Nail of the Thombe and if it presently runs off it is too thin if it stayes and moves not off it is too thick Or if you curdle it the whey and curds ought to be equall else it is to thin or to thick besides if the Milk be thin andsharp the Child is troubled with Pain loosenesse and very ill breakings out If the milk is thick the Child is costive and there are little Inflamations Swellings and Vomitings they pisse little move and breath with difficulty and are full of Phlegm In those that are elder the badnesse of food is known by the colour of the Skin and out-side of the body wherefore if the countenance be ill colour'd scabby or pimpell'd or if any other part is weak as the head Stomach or Liver or if their be any infirmities distempers or passions of mind it is certain the Leanness is from the fault of the food Also it happens by the weaknesse from some Disease If these things had not been the Child would have had a florid and fresh colour good appetite and would eat and not complain If Leannesse be from Fascination no art or natural means is effectual and there is no internal or external cause of Leannesse in regard of the Nurse or Child Presage 1. All Suddain Leannesse proceeding from a Feaver is mortal because of the Vehemency of the cause weakness of the strength tenuity of the humour and laxity of the whole Body 2. Consumptions that are seldome and not from Feavers especially those that are great and ill are sometimes cureable 3. Lean bodies that are moist and have a moist Skin may be made fat because all soft bodies are apt and fit to be extended into any dimension 4. Bodies that are dry and have their Skin hard and rough can scarce be fatned 5. Bodies that have the Skin dry and cleaving to the bones that neither by the hand nor Art can be stretch'd out there is no hope of fatning them but if the Skin be wrinkled and rugged so that it may be drawn forth and as it were seperated from the bones there is some hope of making them fat The Cure is 1. in Children that suck if the Milk be too little or bad change the Nurse and choose one who hath good Milk the notes whereof you have before let her be of a good constitution of a white and red colour of a good converversation and behaviour not under 20. nor above 40. years old having had Children twice and being not above 2 or 3 moneths from her last delivery broad chested having breasts neither big nor small but moderate If the Nurse may not be chang'd let her be in a temperate Air let her Sleep well it augments Milk let her avoid Passions especially Anger Grief and Love for they corrupt the Milk and congresse with a man spoils the Milk or provokes the menstruous Flux that the Milk is lessened A Nurse that lives with her husband is allowed coition and congresse with him lest She be disturbed by desire of it and by experience we see that Mothers that live with their Husbands and use congresse Nurse the Child without any hurt The Nurse ought to use moderate exercive rubbing of her bosome and breasts before she eats is convenient let her not drink or very little and that which is sweet which lest offends the head lest by increasing Milk the Child hath the Falling Sicknesse The meat ought to be of a good and plentifull nourishment avoiding sharp salt and bitter things the best bread the Flesh of Birds Veal Mutton and the like Fish is to be avoided Broath especially with the Milk of Almonds increase Milk If the Milk be faulty by the coldnesse moisture and thinnesse of it the Dyet must be hot for the correcting of it If the Nurses body abound with cold and moist humours prepare and purge them but with gentle Purgatives as the Syrrup of Roses or Rhabarbe whose weak vertues are extinguish'd before they are communicated to the blood if you purge strongly let not the Child suck the Nurse two or three days after If the Milk is too thick the Diet is to be attenuating Vinegar Raddishes and the like are good a gentle Vomit is more convenient then a Purge If the Milk be sharp and hot the Nurse is to be kept in a cold Air Rest Baths of fresh water are convenient Wine is hurtful let the meat be Barly broth with cooling Herbs especially Lettice which cools and thickens the blood and increases Milk avoiding salt and things acrimonious and Spices If the fault be not in the Milk but in some part of the Infant the Nurse is to be dieted and purged and the Infant is to take no inward Medicament but external because these Ages bears not vehement Medicaments wherefore external remedies are only to be used and therefore if the Childs Stomach be cold and moist hot or dry Plaisters Bathings and Oyntments are to be used for the correcting of them Take the Leaves of Marjoram Mint of each one handful the Aromatick Reed and the Flowers of red roses of each half a handful the water of Calamint one Pint of Sweet Wine two Ounces boyle them well and with a Cloth dipp'd in it bath the Stomach if it be cold Afterwards annoint it with this Take the Oyl of Mastick half an Ounce the Powder of Cinamon and Cloves of each half a Dram mixe a little wax with them and make an Oyntment If the Stomach be dry bath it with Milk and annoint it with this Take fresh Butter the fat of an Hen of each half an Ounce Saffron four grains the Oyl of Wormwood three Ounces mingle them and make a Liniament If the Leannesse is from heat Take Cichory Endive Water-lilly and Wormwood waters of each four Ounces Vinegar two Ounces make a fomentation for the Liver afterwards annoint the side with this Take of the Oyntment of Sanders â—iâ—hory and Liverwort waters of each two Ounces of the Vinegar of Roses one Ounce make a Liniament If Leanness is from Loosness the Nurse is to use binding meats as Quinces Services Rice Medlers or Broth of an old Hen and Calves feet Corral or Jaspers Stone hung about the childs neck is convenient So is this Take of Mirrh and Quince of each half an Ounce powder of Red Coral two Ounces of Oakwater two Ounces the powder
the Filth and slimy humour from it which is requisite also to be done 2. Retaining it in its place after it is put into it which is done by astringent remedies which ought not to be very strong because they exasperate cause pain and want of sleep to which use serves Terra Lemnia Sanguis Draconis Frankinsence and Cerusse which are to be sprinkled upon the part apply to the Fundament a Spunge dipp'd in an Astringent Decoction of Sanicle Herb-robert Acornes or Leaves of Oake or the greater Comfrey CHAP. IX Of the Galling of Children THe Galling of Children are certain Ulcers in the Skin or Excoriations which happen to Children between the Thighes sometimes they are in the Feet Lips and between the Thighes in those of elder years The Cause is 1. External sharp Urine especially in fat Children sharp and cholerick Filth of the Belly and Foulness of Cloaths walking rough Cloathing and violent motion drawing the sharp humours to the Skin or exasperating the humours in the Skin 2. Internal and immediate a sharp and corroding humour which is either generated in the part exulcerated or it flowes from the body into those parts 3. Antecedent the fault of the Milk if the Child suck In elder ones an ill Diet especially meats that are hot sweet salt or corroding The Signs are obvious because the part is red and pain'd especially if it be touch'd and rubb'd Presage If they are neglected they turn into ill Ulcers and are dangerous otherwise they are easie to cure The Cure is if the Child suck let the Nurse use a good Diet and abstain from Motion Watching Anger Wine and all meats that are sharp salt and corroding If she be of an unhealthy blood let her purge The Child is also to be often wash'd and clens'd from his filth and excrements and his Cloathes are to be clean and not hard If the Child doth not suck the like Diet is to be used as is advised for the Nurse and the same remedies for preparing and purging of the humours and outwardly to be applied are convenient which are advised in the Fourth Chapter to which I refer you To them may be added Dear-Suet or the Suet of a Goat Take a Turnip make a Hole in it then fill it with the Oyl of Roses and Roast it of which make a Liniament CHAP. X. Of Chilblanes and Kybes CHilblanes usually follow Tumours and Swellings and the matter of it is dry sharp and corroding and makes an Ulcer which for the most part is dry and no matter or humour issues of it It happens to Children chiefly because they lesse feel the cold and defend themselves against it and so are most frequently hurt with the cold It happens to he hands and Feet and not other parts of the body because 1. The hands and feet are farthest from the fountain of heat the heart 2. They are without Flesh and have no defence from outward injuries and do abound with Nerves and Bones whereby we have great pain and are more cold in these parts then in other parts insomuch that these parts many times corrupt and putrefie with cold by what is said Chilblanes may be defined A dry Ulcer in the hands and feet chiefly in Infants The Cause is cold or shoes that hurt being too straight rough or hard The Signs are An Inflamation more or lesse sometimes Pustules afterwards exulcerations a little pain but the Itching greater a purulent Ichor comes from it that seems to be like ripened or thin matter The Presage It is not dangerous if it be not neglected if it be a Mortification of the Feet may happen and so Death The Cure is in 1. Preservation from it wherefore avoid straight and hard shoes defend your feet from the cold Air and rub your feet with salt and hony mingled which is good in the begining when the swelling only appears so is the washing your feet with salt water or with a Decoction of Betes And when there is only a Swelling these are good as Turnips boyled and applied in the manner of a Plaister Bran boyled in Wine Take of the Gumme Ammoniacum one Dram of Resin two Drams dissolve them over the fire add thereto six Drams of Common Oyl of Wax half a Dram let the Wax be dissolved then add Flower of Fengreek Frankinsence and Mastick of each two Drams mingle them 2. In curing the Ulcer Aloes alone or mix'd with sweet wine cures it being laid to it if the Ulcer be sordid clense it with the Ointment called the Ointment of the Apostles when it is clensed that no filth is left then skin it with the Plaster called Diapalma CHAP. XI Of the Scab THE Scab is a Swelling with a distemper and exulceration of the Skin The Cause is a corrupted blood mixt with salt Phlegme and burnt Choler either generated in the womb of the Mother by the menstruous blood or after the Child is born by the corruption of milk or fault of Diet by which the Liver chiefly is intemperately hot or the blood is corrupted by contagion which being expell'd to the Skin there sticks exulcerates it and makes it sore The Signs are manifest and are in the Definition The Cure is in 1. A convenient Diet the meat ought to be boyled not roasted of an easie Disgestion not salt hot or having ill qualities unclenliness and unseasonable exercise are to be avoided 2. Tempering and purging the humors as in the fourth Chapter 3. By provocation of Sweat with a Decoction of Scabius Harts-horn Fumitory and Cardus benedictus 4. External Remedies which gently clense and drye Quicksilver is much commended but it is only convenient if the Scab be contumacious and in the oldest Children Unguentum Enulatum is profitable but be careful it be without Mercury Take of the Oyl of Roses four Ounces live Brimstone one Ounce the Juice of Limons two Ounces the Resine of Pine-tree one Ounce mixe them and make an Oyntment of them Take of Turpentine four Ounces wash'd in-rose-in-Rose-water the Juice of four Oranges the Yelks of four Eggs and an Ounce of the Oyl of Roses mingle them all and make an Ointment of them which is excellently good if the Scab be old and dry Elecampane powdered and with Hogs grease made into an Oyntment is highly praised so is Brimstone finely powdered and annointed with Milk Also Garlick beaten very smal and mix'd with Hogs grease is very good CHAP. XII Of the Itch. THe Itch is a pain exciting a desire of Scratching without the unevennesse or exulceration of the Skin The Itch is sometimes in the whole body but most frequently in the Soles of the Feet by reason of the hardnesse and thicknesse of the Skin hindering the humours to evaporate The Cause is Choller or salt or thin Phlegme thereby insinuating it self into the smallest pars but it is viscid and clammy that it may adhere and cleave tenaciously to the parts It is caused in the Womb of the Mother by the Menstruous blood or
an Ichor thin waterish humour and that it is by Ebullition appears in the heat colour and Accidents that happen By this we may resolve our selves 1. That in our dayes scarce any man but hath this Disease because it is hereditary which came first by the fault of the Stars which affected all or almost all and now is propagated As Indians now generate children with long heads which in former Ages they endevoured to make by Art and now is become a natural disposition 2. This Disease is mortal to some and not to others by the abundance and badness of humours and ill constitution of body that the blood and Ichors boyling causes an unquenchable Fire and remedilesse putrefaction besides the badnesse of the Air and errors in the ordering of the person 3. They happen most to Children because they are full of blood and thin waterish humidity and abound with heat being nearest to the principle of Generation besides they are given much Motion 4. They that have most thin and waterish humours have most breakin gs out and the thicker and more tenacious the humours are the worse the marks and deformities are 5. The face is most troubled because of the Ebullition of the blood the vapours ascend to the head and so impetuously that neither the Spirits of the head or face or the Air to which the face is exposed can resist besides the face is moist and rare and apt thereby to receive them 6. The Feet and hands next to the face are chiefly troubled notwithstanding the Skin is hard because of the Sympathy between these parts and the Liver which is seen in a hot Liver by the burning of the hands and feet 7. The Small Pox troubles the eyes more then the Meazles because the matter is thicker and can be lesse resisted and repelled 8. The Small Pox is contagious and infectious by the boyling of the blood which sends vapours at a great distance which enter into other persons and infect them as it is in those that have sore eyes and by the Hereditary Propriety so that consanguineous persons are more easily affected in regard of the Similitude of their temper and for that reason whole Families in a Plague are destroy'd 8. Some have this Disease twice very rarely thrice almost all once because this Hereditary Disposition only disposes and continues as long as the Seminary parts in which it is implanted doth remain which most commonly is consum'd the first time the Blood is inflam'd and set on fire especially the second time when the Blood Ferments 9. Scars and blemishes are left chiefly in the Face Lips and Foreskin because the Skin of them is without Flesh or hath but very little and therefore difficult to heal The mediate causes of the Small Pox are 1. Internall hot and moist temper soft and fat habit of body and tendernesse of Age. Boys are more dispos'd to it then Girles by the disparity of heat in them boys being hotter 2. External hot and moist Air Southern constitution Spring time and an hot and moist region or Contagion or other things that move or corrupt the thin and waterish part of the Blood By what hath been said the Small Pox may be defin'd to be a disease having Pustules in an outward part of the Skin with a continual Feaver by the peculiar Effervessency and Ebullition of the Ichorous Blood excited by the expulsive faculty The Signes that this Disease is Imminent and coming which either immediately accompany the Disease or proceed it are Pain in the Neck and Breast with a heavinesse of the Eyes Itching of the Nose Shortnesse of Breath Suddain trembling and starting Often Sneesing Urine sometimes muddy sometimes sound weepings of the Eyes and tears falling of their own accord from them a continuall Feaver The Signes of the Disease present are manifest being little swellings and spots in the Meazles they are Red and not high in the Small Pox they first appear as the head of an Needle or Pin immediately after they are greater and red and daily increase untill they are ripen'd grow white are made an Ulcers and Soars and are dryed up Presage If the Small Pox and Meazles are White and a few appear without any other accident or if many appear and the Feaver is diminish'd and other accidents and the breathing easie there is no danger If the Small Pox are black or green or if few or many appear and the other accidents are worse and exasperated and the breathing difficult then it is pernitious and Mortall They who dye of the Small Pox dye either with a Sounding an Inflamation with which they are strangled or a looseness of the Belly which destroys the strength of the Child The Cure is in 1. Preserving the inward and outward parts the outward are call'd so because they are seen and they are the Eyes Ears Nose and Mouth The internall are Liver Lungs and chiefly the Guts the eyes are frequently troubled with heat and a tenacious Ichor that Exulcerates them whereby the Children cannot sleep which is helpt by cooling and moderately binding Medicaments as the water of Roses or Plantain mix'd with Sumach Take of the water of Roses and Plantain of each five Ounces Sumach half an Ounce infuse them all night and with a little white of an Egge mix them wet a little Cotten in it and wet the eye often with it if there be pain and Itching take the water of roses and milk and add a little Myrrh to them the scratching of the Eyes are to be avoided If the Ears be pain'd itch and run let them be kept open if the pain be great dip a Spunge in hot water with the Oyle of roses and lay it to the Ear the scratching whereof is very hurtfull The Nose is defended from Ulcers if Roses or Plantain be boil'd in water and the steam taken in at the Nosthrills The Mouth is helpt by this Gargarisme Take of the water of Barly one Pint and an half the leaves of Plantain and Flowers of Roses of each one Dram to which you may adde the Juice of Barbaries or Orange and wash the mouth with it 2. In helping of nature in expelling the humour which is perform'd by 1. Dyet that is convenient The Air is to be temperate or rather somewhat hot that the Pores may be opened and the coming forth of the Small Pox promoted therefore let the child be kept in a close room that the cold Air by no means may come in by the opposition of the Air many Children have dyed with a Benigne and gentle Small Pox the matter of the Disease being repercuss'd to the interior Parts let a red cloth be laid next the Skin which is conceiv'd by divers to be helpfull by a similitude it hath with the boyling Blood Be carefull your cloathing be not too much lest the Child be Smothered and Swound and so provide that the outward Parts are rather hot then cold but that neither the heat of the Air
weakness or the fault of the matter of the Teeth being not sufficiently glutinous and earthy or by a privation of matter by Worms or a loosnesse in the seventh year Teeth fall out and others grow in their places growing of Teeth continues until fourteen years afterwards very few grow unlesse they be those called Posteriores Gemini which sometimes grow at 80 years The sooner Teeth come forth the less pain but they are the weaker Teeth come forth in the Spring and Summer more easily but with worse Symptomes and effects in the Winter with more difficulty but with lesse danger for they are lesse troubled with a Feaver Loosness or Vomit because their inward heat is more strong But a modern Author says that in every time of the year some are more troubled some lesse according to the natural constitution of Children which the times of the year cannot hinder The Teeth are of an equal number in men and women being 32. The Cutting Teeth which are four above and below grow first which are made of a thin matter and as they are made first so weaker and are broke fall out sooner then the rest the next are the Teeth called Dogs Teeth whose use is to break the meat as to cut is before breaking so the Teeth that cut are first afterwards the Teeth that break the meat afterwards the great and grinding Teeth grow whose matter is more hard and earthy and therefore they break out the more slowly and last of all the Gemini which never are renewed and grow again Hence it appears why the breeding of Teeth causes so many evils if they should grow in the Womb they would not be troublesome but growing after the Birth of the Child and in that time when the Gums are most soft which being bruised and crushed by a hard body as the Bone is causes great pain The Signs are the Childs crying loosnesse pinching the Paps whilest they suck the Inflammation and heat of their mouths and when their Gums are rubbed they are eased Prog. The breeding of Teeth is alwayes dangerous by reason of the great and grievous Symptomes and effects it produces as Convulsions Feavers and other evils If the Child is loose he is lesse troubled with Convulsions and fat Children more than lean yet there may be Convulsions by the sharpnesse of pain If the Child hath an acute Feaver there is seldome Convulsions by fulnesse it being remedied by the Feaver Teeth come forth more slowly most commonly with a little Cough because there is a defluxion in the mouth which argues the weaknesse of the brain The Cure is in a cold dyet of the Nurse and the pap kept cool which much refreshes the Child the Child is not to eat any hard meat and the Gums are to be cooled and relax'd the Juice of Mallowes and Lettice cools Take the Juice of Mallowes half an Ounce of Butter washt in Mallow-water half one Ounce half the yelke of an egge mingle and anoint the Gums with it this that followes is stronger Take of the Juice of Night-shade half an Ounce of the Oyle of Roses six Drams of Butter washt in lettice-Lettice-water three Drams mingle them and anoint the Gums with it it being cold rubbing the Gums with your finger for it often mitigates pain The Gums are relax'd by things that are fat as all fat of a Hen c. Oyl of Almonds and the Brains of a Hare boyled in the place whereof may be the brains of a Hen Hony boyled is much commended It is conceived by some that the breeding of Teeth is the more easie by hanging about the neck Corral a Jaspis-stone or the Root of wilde Colothwiths which others think superstitious CHAP. XIII Of the Hiccough CHildren are more chiefly affected with Diseases in the lower Venter in three parts the Stomach Bladder and Guts which follow in their order The Hiccough is a motion like to a Convulsion in which the Stomach endevour to expell what is hurtful infixt in the mouth of it The cause is in Children the plenty or quality of the Milk or nourishment being too cold sharp or corroding vehemently irritating the expulsive faculty sometimes but rarely it comes from emptiness The external causes are a cold Air hot and sharp meats as Pepper The Signes are manifest for as the Proverb is Love and the Hiccough cannot be hid if it is from fullnesse the Child is greedy and Vomits if from cold it is known by rhe Nurses using cold meats and externall injuries that preceeded it if the Childs Stomach is fomented with hot Cloathes it ceases presently if from evacuation fasting flux or vomit preceeded it if from acrimony the meats are corrupted or the milk is sharp and biting and the Child often mourns and grieves and there are pains of the Belly besides the Ordure shewes it Prog. The Hiccough in Children for the most part is safe if it be made from emptiness it is mortal for Children which are naturally full and very moist if they are vehemently dryed by a great cause they are hardly restored If a Hiccough be with the Falling-sicknesse or another kind of Convulsion it is Mortall The Cure is if the Hiccough be from 1 cold use hot things inwardly and and outwardly Take the Syrrup of Mint or Betony outwardly the Oyl of Anniseed Chamomile and Wormwood besides Plaisters and Ointments that are hot and set forth in several Chapters 2. Plenty or quality of Milk correct it as is shewed in several Chapters and if it be from the Acrimony of the Milk let the Child use a little quantity of this Take of Saccharum Rosatum half an Ounce of Bole Armenick half a Scruple mingle them If from Evacuation the same remedies are good as are for Leannesse from Evacuation see the Chapter of Leannesse Bathing with sweet Water and Broth is good in elder Children the Yelks of Eggs and all Meats that easily nourish It is related by some that the Herb called Alyssus held in the hand look'd upon or smell'd to cures the Hiccough by Propriety of Substance Others say that Sneezing and holding the Breath cures all Hiccoughs but these Helps are too difficult for Children and Infants Sneezing and Vomiting because they evacuate the matter is commended CHAP. XIV Of Vomiting and a vain desire of Vomiting BEsides the Hiccough the vain desire of Vomiting and Vomiting happens to Children for the matter that troubles the Stomach is either infixed deeply in the mouth of the Stomach and so makes a Hiccough or infixed but not profoundly and either in the Mouth or Tunicles of the Stomach whence it is a vain desire of Vomiting or else the matter is contained in the Space of the Stomach and so makes a Vomiting The Causes of Vomiting or a vain desire of Vomiting in Children are The humidity and laxity of the Stomach the plenty of cold humours falling from the head the plenty of Milk or Meat the Acrimony and coldnesse of the same Milk The External causes
Ounces of Wax a little and make an Oyntment of them Remedies also are convenient which are put in at the Nose or Ears As the Oyl of Cammomile with a little Ireos or Brimstone or the Oyle of the Gumme called Sagapenum with a little Castor Some commend the Brain of a Wolf dried and sprinkled with Musk put into the Nose In the use of these Remedies you are to take notice that if the water moves from the internal to the external parts it is incurable Likewise if the Water is plentiful which is collected out of the Skull the use of inward or outward remedies are in vain because as strong internal remedies in this tender Subject are not convenient so moderate and weak remedies do not prevail the like is also in external Medicaments wherefore there is only hope in a sensible evacuation by Chyrurgery and Incision which is to be used if the water be not discuss'd within three weeks by the preceeding means Incision is dangerous in regard of the tenderness of the Age and greatness of the distemper and ought to be the last remedy and not to be used upon Children newly born but in others of elder years In the making Incision if the Tumor hath a great point the head of the point is to be opened with two or three Cuttings and in the lowest part for the easier evacuating the humour which Evacuation ought not to be at once but by degrees lest the Spirits are dissipated and care is to be taken that the coldness of the Air doth not hurt the Brain After Incision is made and the water evacuated by little and little Proper Medicaments to wounds are to be used as Linnen wet in Oyl or Wine which Medicaments are to be straightly bound if the Child is very strong but if very tender and weak the place that is cut is to be only covered with some soft Wool or the like dipt in Medicaments proper for wounds If after Incision the Flesh will not grow by the fault of the bone as if often happens scrape the bone gently that the fault may be removed and the flesh grow If the Water is between the skin and the Temp'ral Muscles or between the Muscles and the Skin it is mortal to make Incision but you must expect the setling of the Water in the sides of the Muscles not belonging to them Some there are that use Caustick Medicaments and burn many Ulcers in the Childs head and if it is not effectual then they come to Incision but it is very dangerous for exulcerations in the Childs head which is full of water are never or hardly cureable CHAP. III. Of the Kings Evill THe Kings Evill is a hard or Schirrous Tumour contrary to nature growing for the most about the Neck and chiefly of Children The immediate cause is sometimes Flesh but very seldome Sometimes the Glandules turn into this Tumour but most frequently Phlegm or Melancholy hardned Some think the Cause is an Alamentary Juyce hardned because they are not changed into a disgested matter nor do putrefie and continue a long time The Antecedent causes are youngness of Age cold and moist temper softners of Flesh and Muscles and shortness of the Neck thereby the humours fall easily from the head in the neck and cleave tenaciously The external causes are the coldness and moisture of the Climate Idlenesse drinking crude and thick waters the use of Cheese Fruits and grosse food but chiefly voracity and imoderate eating wherefore Children and Infants are principally troubled with this Disease If the matter is not viscous and glutinous although it condenses yet it is not coated or contained in a Membrane but if part of the matter is glutinous when it is congealed by the cold of the Part or Glandule a skin is made round about and consequently a Bladder or Membrane in which afterwards the matter by degrees thickens the thinner part being in time consumed The difference of this Disease is taken from 1. Magnitude some being as great as a Melon others moderate and little as a Pea. 2. Nature Some gentle without pain or inflamation and with a moderate hardness Some moderate between a Schirrus and an Aposteme or Malignant with pain and inflamation and very great hardnesse 3. Constitution some being elevated and move hither and thither others as if they were impacted and unmoveable 4. Place Some are about the hinder part of the head others about the auteriour part some in the Skin others profound and about the noble great vessells 5. Plenty Some are accumulated into an heap others not The signs are Tumour sometimes round sometimes somewhat long sometimes of the same colour with the Skin sometimes more red hard and without pain and move not to and fro being handled The Kings Evill is known from hardned Glandules because 1. The matter of Glandules is more subtile and thin then the matter of this Disease which is more thick viscid and contumacious hence it is that as often as the thin and subtile matter is incraffated the Kings Evill is made of the Glandules 2. Hardned Glandules are more separated from the next Flesh that it it is easie to discern them from the flesh by Feeling the contrary is in the Kings Evil. 3. The Kings Evill hath for the most part a Membrane or Coat the Glandules not Some distinguish them thus Take the Leaves of Ivy and Citron and bruise them together lay them upon the Tumour and if in three dayes the Tumour lye hid it is a sign of the Glandules but if they are exasperated by the Medicament then it is a sign that it is the Kings Evill The Presage is This Disease is troublesome and wearisome to the Patient and Physician for whatsoever way you deal with them they are exasperated and if they seem to be cur'd return again It is very difficult to cure but with lesse difficulty and danger in Infants and Children then in youth because they often degenerate into Cancers and dangerous Ulcers The Kings Evill that is little superficial and gentle are not very dangerous are more easily cur'd but such as are great deep and malignant are pernicious and for the most part incureable The Kings Evill though it is most exactly cur'd yet it returns again which is not from the motion of the Moon as some have thought because they have return'd after a Month a year or two years but the cause is 1. The Viscosity thickens and contumaciousnesse of the matter which is not perfectly eradicated and extirpated in the Cure but some part is left which vitiates and corrupts the temper and nourishment of the part 2. The Coat or Membrane which is tenaciously infix'd that it can scarce be extirpated and so is fill'd with new matter if it be extirpated yet there remains some roots or ligaments out of which the Membrane or Coat growes again and so the Tumor or Kings Evill remains The Cure is taking away the antecedent cause and correcting the Debility of the Parts
to do nature doth it of its own accord which consumes daily much of the Childs substance by insensible transpiration therefore it needs not evacuation lest the strength be dejected Others are for Blood-letting because if a Child can endure a disease from fulnesse why not the remedy which is Blood-letting otherwise as often as a Disease begins with the imbecility of strength especially which happens out of a natural dissipation and resolution so often will that Disease be certain and necessarily mortal Besides they which are against Blood-letting allow purges which are contrary to nature and is worse then Blood-letting moreover they bring notable examples for it as Avenzoar's letting of his son blood at three Months old In this Feaver because evacuating blood is an excellent remedy you may in the place of Blood-letting use Leeches which with ease open a vein and do not wast the Spirits they will be most safely safe applied to the Thighs and also to the Arms Or you may use Cupping-glasses which are not to be used in the upper parts because they draw humours from the whole body to the heart wherefore it is safer to apply them to the Loyns or Hips and then they must be oblonge and a narrow mouth because to draw from profound parts If you apply them to the Thighes they are to have a broad mouth which draws from the parts which are next and remote according to Latitude If the Belly be not loose use a Clyster or Suppository before you use Cupping-glasses or Leeches afterwards endevour to remove obstructions by internal and external remedies that attenuate and deterge without any notable heat Take Barly half a Pugil the Leaves of Hyssop half an handful boyl it according to Art Take of that Decoction two Ounces and an half of Simple Oxymel five Drams mingle it and drink it when you have thus prepared the humours Purge gently Take of Sebestens two Drams of Raisins the Leaves of Hyssop the Flowers of Borrage of each one Pugill make a Decoction according to Art take thereof three Ounces of the Hony of Roses solutive and of Manna of each an Ounce and a half mingle them the Purgative Medicaments may be lessened or increased as the body requires Outwardly things that open obstructions are convenient Such as are gentle as meal of Barly rubb'd upon the Skin Barly-water and a little Oyl of Almonds cool and moisten the Breast and prevent the increase of the heat of the Breast A Bath of fresh Water is very convenient This way may be observed also in a Tertian or Quartan Feaver respect being had to the humour that is faulty CHAP. III. Of the Small Pox and Meazles THE Small Pox is a Disease formerly unknown to the Ancients having neither writ any Book of it nor described it and it is not improbable it had a Beginning in our Northern Countries as it had in the West-Indies in which parts it is said by Historians that in that time in which we were infected by them with the French Pox they took from us the Small Pox and Meazles It is a Disease belonging only to Mankind and not to Beasts not is the Murrain or Leprosie in Hogs the same Disease with it as is supposed by some The Small Pox and Meazles have the same matter cause and Cure but the Meazles are made of the thinner matter and they differ from the Small Pox in that 1. The Meazles have little swellings or that the rising of them can hardly be seen 2. The matter of them is more dry and subtile 3. They trouble and affect the eyes lesse then the Pox. 4. The Small Pox for the most part terminates into an Abscessus and Collection of ripened matter which lasts many days and blemishes the body but the Meazles scarce passeth the seventh day either then they vanish or are almost wasted and leave no deformity The Cause as I conceive is not the Impurity of the maternal blood as by most is supposed because 1. The Small Pox proceeds for the most part from the fault of the Air and Stars 2. The fault of the menstruous blood was ever since the Sin of Eve and therefore this Disease should have been always but before the time of the Arabick Physicians no Author was found that writ of the generation of this Disease or clearly explain it which if they had done they would not have concealed it from us it being a great and dangerous Disease in regard they communicated in their Books small Diseases 3. There is scarce any man but some time or other hath a greivous Disease which makes an Ebullition or boyling of blood and putrefaction until the body is clensed and purified divers ways and so the fault from the menstruous blood would be expelled but it is otherwise for it follows immediately other Diseases and the sanguine man who is most healthy is most troubled It is granted that the seed of a Disease may lye in part of the body for many years but the whole blood infected cannot stay long and resist so many injuries and if as some think the menstruous blood infected should ferment and turn into other ill Diseases as pestilential Feavers then the rest of the time they would be free from this Evill 4. Sanguineous Beasts that have menstruous purgation would have this Disease as Bitches Asses and Mares having the matter of the Disease as menstruous Purgation and the Agent Heat 5. Natures care and wisdome for Preservation in seperating the Excrements from Nourishment in the Womb the excrements are past into the Tunicles in which the Child is wrapt and immediately after it is born it purges by stool plentifully and more then is fit for its bigness which is sometimes bloody black and white and afterwards it hath Sores in the head which purgeth the ill humours contracted in the Womb and though natures care may fail in some it cannot fail in all Nor is the cause of this Disease the fault of the Air as some conceive it to be because 1. This Disease arises from the Pravity of matter 2. The quallity of the Air that produces the great effects that follow the Small Pox would be very strong and powerful and so young men would not be free from it The true cause is a paternal propriety in the blood and Ichors of it boyling by heat which Ichors may be excited in the body divers ways That the Ichors is the matter is seen by the 1. Breaking of it out into the Skin 2. All Synoche Feavers arise out of the boyling of the Ichors of blood which Feaver is always in the Small Pox. 3. They are the Ichors or thin and serosous part of the blood because they are not sharp if they were there would be a concussion of the body and shaking when they are expelled That the Disease is made by the Ichors or thin and serosous and waterish humidity is manifest because the humor that goes forth is not a Pus and thick matter but
Wine that is hot A long use of Mithridate with a Decoction of Paeony cures any Epilepsy as some think so doth a little fine Mosche given twice or thrice a day Take of the Oyle of Amber the Spirit of Vitriol of each two or three Graynes with the water of Betony and it presently frees the Child from the Fit CHAP. II. Of Convulsion CHildren often fall into a Convulsion by the weakness of the Nerves plentiful use of thick Milk Crudities and by breeding of Teeth The matter of it is the same as is in the Falling Sicknesse and it is very like to it so that an Eminent Physician said a Convulsion was an Epilepsie of a part and an Epilepsy a Convulsion of the whole body both being a Contraction of the Muscles but they differ one from another because in an Epilepsy the Internal and External senses are hurt but in a Convulsion the Brain is not so affected and the sense is not lost in the Epilepsy the matter in the Muscles is quickly discuss'd in the Convulsion not which is only also a contraction of the part but the Epilepsy is a Convulsion of the whole body A Convulsion is a preternatural Contraction of one or many parts of the body If it be a Contraction of the Anteriour parts of the Neck towards it is called Emprostonos or a Contraction of the parts before us If the hinder parts Opistotonos if both the hinder and anterior parts are contracted it is called Tetanos The Cause of a Convulsion by consent is when the knawing or pricking of the Mouth or Stomach or any other part hurts the beginning of the Nerves The Cause of an essential Convulsion is either repletion or exiccation for as strings fil'd with too much humour or are too much dryed they are contracted and break so it is with the Nerves if they imbibe too much humor they grow broader and shorter and so contract and if to drye they shrink up Repletion is from a Phlegmatick humour the exiccation and dryness is from a great peculiar Feaver which doth not universally dry the whole body but wast the Nerves more then the flesh and that violently So that though a Hectick Feaver doth very much drye the body yet it produces no Convulsion in regard the dryness is made leisurely and easily in all parts so that the Nerves are not dryed with any great vehemence Some saye that this dryness proceeds from any immoderate evacuation or things that vehemently heat and dry The External Causes are a moist Air wherefore Children have the Convulsion most often in the full of the Moon the Air being the most moist hurting the Nerves of the Child Watching Fear which making the Spirits retire the Nerves are contracted Bathes Costiveness and binding of the Belly Drinking of strong Wine Milk plentifully taken or thick crying the ill Diet of the Nurse and from other parts Signs are manifest if it be made by consent it is in a moment if by essence it is always if from repletion it is made suddenly and in a small time if by dryness and inanition it is caused by degrees and in a longer time Prog. The Convulsion that begins from the back is mortal 2. Children â—hat have the Convulsion perish for the most part before the seventh day from their Nativity 3. Convulsions in Children are more easily cur'd then in men because their humidity is Airy and is easily overcome 4. Convulsions from a perfect and consummated drynesse is incureable but that which is not from a perfect dryness is cureable which as the dryness is more or lesse is easier or with more difficulty The Cure of a Convulsion from repletion and moisture is the same as in an Epilepsy The Members and parts contracted are to be restored gently by hands to its straightnesse then annoint and rub the part with a convenient Oyl as of Lillies or Cammomile The Syrrup of Betony and Staecados with the Spirit of Black Cherries may be used Carduus Water is very good If the Convulsion is from drynesse the Cure is by moistning of the body by Diet and Medicaments a Bath that is hot and moist is convenient and annointing the part with the Oyle of sweet Almonds sweet Butter and such things that soften and moisten CHAP. III. Of a Palsy IN the two preceeding Chapters were considered the depravation of Motion in this place the Abolition and diminution of motion will be discoursed of not abolition of the whole body for Children are never troubled with a universal Palsy and privation of sense and motion in the whole body which is called an Appoplexy appears by experience and observation and Apoplexies are made for the most part from 40. years to 60. Although Children have often the Falling Sicknesse which hath the same matter and part affected as the Apoplexy and differs from an Apoplexy because it is a Privation of motion and an Epilepsy the Depravation Nevertheless a Child is not troubled with the Apoplexy not because it proceeds from a Melancholy humour as some think which a Child hath not which is untrue for a Child may have a Quartan Ague which is caused by Melancholy as you may see in the Chapter of Feavers but because the matter in the Epilepsy is not so thick as that which makes the Apoplexy being only Phlegme besides the Phlegme of Children is Airy and flatulent Moreover the expulsive faculty of the Brain is strong in Children so that it more effectually expells the humour that it stop not the Ventricles of the Brain which happens not in those Ages in which the humour is thick and lesse flatulent and the expulsive faculty more weak A Numness and Palsy is a distemper of the same kind and differ only in degree for a Numness is but as it were an imperfect Palsy and a Palsy is as it were a certain great Numness The cause is a pituitous humour which by coldness moistness thickens obstructs the Nerves that they cannot receive the animal Spirits or Influence of thea nimal faculty as this obstruction and condensation of the nerves and ways of the faculties is more or lesse so it makes numnesse or weak motion or want of motion In a Palsy there is no motion because the wayes of the faculties are totally stopt in a numnesse they are not stopt completely therefore the faculty operates and there is a weak motion The external causes are compressions by falls blowes binding tumours or other causes which can compresse and condensate the nerves that a free ingresse of the faculty is hindered Signs if a part is affected with the Palsy it cannot move and is called the Dead Palsy if with numnesse the party can move but weakly and with difficulty If the Disease be in the Spinalis medulla the Arms and all the inferiour parts are hurt if the right part of it is affected all the parts on the right side if the left the left parts If in the Osse sacro the parts above it are
Ear are very nerveous Note the outward part of the ear is fleshy and cartilaginous The humidities of the ears are reckoned amongst Childrens Diseases by some but not the humidities of the Nose or Palate because the Expurgation by the Nose and Palate is natural to men and Children but the expurgation by the Ears is not natural The Cause of it is the great humidity of the Brain which cannot be all evacuated by the Mouth and Palate so that excrementitious humours which abound are evacuated by all Passages wherefore many will not drye up this humidity unlesse it ulcerate or threaten obstruction or deafnesse The Cause of the pain in the ear are the humours especially Choller Ichorous matter Wind or Worms Prog. The Pain of the Ear is very dangerous The Cure is 1. The mitigation of the Pain with luke warm milk or Water and the Oyl of Roses mix'd and a Cloth dipp'd in it and laid upon the Ear a Decoction of the heads of Poppy and as the Causes of the Pain are so ought remedies to be for the taking them away If the pain is from hot humours the part is red and hot and cur'd by cold things if from cold by luke-warm things if from Wind the Diet ought to be such as discusses Wind for which purpose Coriander is good for the Nurse to use and that the Child sleep upon the ear which pains him thereby natural heat is augmented and dissipates the Wind the Oyl of Cammomile or Anniseeds poured into the Childs ear is very good if the pain be from an Ichorous matter wipe and clense continually the Ear with Hony or Hony and water if from Worms put into the Ear bitter things that kill the Worms as the Oyl of bitter Almonds See the Chapter of Worms If there be humidity of the Ears and the Child old enough to be purged let him take three dayes this drink Take of the Leaves of Mirtles Bettony Staecados Violets of each half a handful let a Decoction be made according unto Art then take thereof two Ounces and an half of the Syrrup of Wormwood and Staecados of each two drams mingle them afterwards purge the head thus Take of the Pills of Agarick half a dram of Castor one grain two Cloves mingle them and with the Hony of Roses solutive make five little Pills The head being purged for the drying up of the humidity if it be cold infuse into the Ears the Oyle of Irnie or Rue If hot the Oyl of Roses with the Oyl of Cammomile Observe in the use of remedies that they be always lukewarm when you use them neither hot nor cold not in a great quantity but by drops and that the Child lye on the Ear that pains and observe the moisture flowing out of the Ears is not to be stopp'd CHAP. IX Of the inflamation of the Glandules in the mouth call'd the Almonds of the Ears THe Inflamation of these Glandules is reckoned by some amongst Childrens Diseases but onely in Children after breeding of Teeth Others say this Disease may be in Infants but in them it would then be very mortall by the plentifull flowing of humours which often strangles If the Gums are inflamed in Infants and the Glandules ulcerated before breeding of Teeth why may they not be inflamed what should hinder that an infant may not have this disease sometime and not be choak'd as I conceive The inflamation of these Glandules is an Intumescency of them made by a flux of humours The internal cause are all the humours especially Phlegm The external causes are a hot or extreme cold Air violent exercises hanging down the head vociferations strong drink and meat that heat the blood The Signes are if the mouth be opened heat pain rednesse and Swelling near the root of the Tongue difficulty in breathing and swallowing Prog. This Disease usually causes the Quinzey and inflamation of the Lungs and divers other dangerous Diseases 2. If a loosenesse of the belly happen upon this Disease the Flux cures it The Cure is 1. in a good Dyet avoiding any excesse of the air smoak the Sun all exercises of the body vehement motions of the mind especially anger bathing if the belly be bound move it with a gentle Clyster or suppository not by a remedy at the mouth for it is dangerous abstain from wine and use Barly water with the Juyce of Granates and Mulberries and Quinces let the meat be such as may be supt as Barly Broth bread boyled in broth with the Juice of the Seeds of Limmon the Yelks of Eggs in broth with the Juice of Granates 2. In revulsion of the humour by daily rubbing Ligatures especially Cupping-glasses applyed to the Loins and lower parts not the upper parts lest it draw the humor to the part affected 3. Repelling the humour by cooling and astringing remedies as the Sirrup of Mulberry Granate Mirtle with Barly water Rose water Plantain or Oak-bud water and wash the mouth with it to which purpose may be red Roses powdered finely and other astringent powders 3. Dissipating evacuating the humour with remedies that by a moderate heat attenuate and turns the matter into a wind Take the leaves of Dill Flowers of Camomile of each half a handfull of Bran half a Pugill the leaves of Marjarome six Drams of Common water a pint and an half boil it according to Art strain it and add three ounces of clarified Hony gargarize with it being Lukewarm If the matter cannot be discust but it begins to ripen help it with annointing the neck with the Oyle of Almonds or by applying a plaister of Diachilon The ripening of it is helpt inwardly by the roots of Mallowes or Figs boyled and Gargarizing and washing the mouth with it CHAP. X. Of the Sorenesse of the mouth THe Ulcers of the mouth in Children are Ulcers of the Superficies of the mouth that is the whole internal part of the mouth with a fiery heat They are easily caused in Infants by reason of the tendernesse and softnesse of the Palat of Children they being unaccustomed to meat being newly born and by their greedinesse and sucking more then they can digest wherefore it is a great fault in Nurses that whensoever the Child cryes to quiet them with giving the Breast for it is a rule amongst Physicians that milk should not be given not above three or four times in a day The cause is whatsoever is corroding or accrimonious or sharp whether the humours of the body meat or medicaments In Children they are chiefly caused by the sharpnesse and corruption of the Milk whereby ill vapours are sent from the Stomach into the mouth The external causes are whatsoever may heat the head of the Child as the air being hot the use of hot meats immoderate exercises and drinking of strong Wine The Signes are Swallowing with pain and difficulty if they are malignant they for the most part follow ill and pestilentiall Feavers besides they are fetid black or livid causing pain and
are profound If benigne and not malignant they are without a Swelling or profoundity If from blood they are hot and red If from Phlegm they are lesse hot lesse painfull and are white If they are made by Melancholy they are blackish and dark coloured Prog. All Ulcers of the mouth are hard to cure because the Medicament cannot conveniently adhere but those that are black stinking profound very painfull are very dangerous and is a most miserable horrid death of them which dye and are consumed by this Disease The Cure if the Ulcers are benigne they are cured by altering the temper and cicatrizing with cooling and astringing remedies If the milk be bad change the Nurse or correct the Milk by dyet and purging the Nurseas hath bin shewn the Ulcers are healed with Hony of Mulberries or Sirrup of Pomegranates Mirtles or Red Roses dryed with which the Nurse dipping her finger is to touch the Ulcers and if they be contumacious mingle a little powdered Alum with the Sirrup of Mulberries for the Powder of Alum hinders the spreading of the Ulcer and without any notable pain If the Child is somewhat great the dyet ought to be cooling and meats that may be suck'd is to be used as Broths and Eggs with Broth or Verjyce If the Ulcers are great commonly causing inflamations and drawing of the humours Cupping-glasses applyed to the Loins are convenient and to evacuate by them what the age and constitution of the body will permit then purge Gently the Medicaments to be applyed to the Ulcers are the same as in Infants or make a decoction of Millefoyle or Plantain with Red Roses Sanders and take of it four Ounces and mix with it an Ounce of the Sirrup of Mulberries wash the mouth with it In Malignant Ulcers in Infants Take of the Scordiuum finely powdered one Dram of the rinde and Pill of Pomegranes finely powdered two Scruples burnt Alum one Scruple Hony as much as will suffice If the Child is somewhat great the use of the Juyce of Granates especially sowre is good If this is not effectuall use Aqua Magistralis Aluminis Unguentum Egyptiacum or the Flower of braâ—s corrected with a little Sirrup of Mulberries These are not to be used but in great necessity because the Palate hath two broad ways one to the Lunges and another to the Stomach and therefore it is dangerous any venemous medicine should come thither wherefore it is better to use remedies in such a form as cannot go further then the Palat as when the Ulcers of the mouth are touch'd with the Oyle of Sulphur or Sublimate water which is an excellent remedy against all inveterate Ulcers Take of sublimated Mercury twelve Grains the water of Roses and Plantain of each eight Ounces boyle them to the consumption of a half part the use of it is that the Ulcer of the mouth be touched with one drop which if it cause a considerable pain then mitigate the pain with Milk that hath Steel quench'd in it CHAP. XI Of the Ranula of the Tongue THis Disease is an Inflamatory humour of the parts under the tongue and especially of the Veins in Children for the Veins under the tongue being with a petuitous blood sometimes Melancholy which is sweat out or goes out of the mouth of the Veins into the Passages of the flesh and there being collected the humour is elevated into a Tumour or Swelling which is called Ranula It sometimes resembles a soft Aedema which being opened a white matter like to the white of an Egg flowes from it The Cause is a petuitous blood or as some say a petuitous humidity The Signs are manifest to Sight there appears a Tumour with great pain and heat and a hinderance of Speech the colour of the humour is as it were mixt of the colour of the Tongue and Veins Prog. This Tumour if it be neglected is dangerous it sometimes makes a Feaver and suffocates Children The Cure is by a cooling and astringing Diet in using Vinegar Verjuice Limons and the like with meat Clysters are convenient Purges by the Mouth are hurtful If the Child is somewhat large Cupping-glasses applyed to the Thighes are convenient so are Friction and Ligatures after Astringents are good Salt of Armoniacum rubbed upon the part is commended by all Maryroom rubb'd upon the part stronger then it are Flower of Brasse Allume burnt Spunge and Tragacanthum burnt If these cure it not the Tumour must be cut off at the Roots for sometimes the humour is in a Coat which if it be not taken away the humour returns after the Cutting of the humour stay the blood with salt powder of Mirtles Totmentil or Bistorte then Cure it with Myrrh and drying things that cures wounds CHAP. XII Of Dentition and breeding of Teeth THE generation and perfection of Teeth is the work and intent of Nature but in regard the matter out of which they are made suffers not that this Work can be done without trouble and pain It causes that a Disease followes the generating of Teeth which Disease is not intended by Nature Dentition is an Eruption or breaking forth of Teeth first conceived in their proper holes It is said by some to be a violent work of Nature and the gums are as it were prick'd with needles whereby great pain is caused and a supernatural heat in those parts is excited which drawes the humours thither which are made putrid salt and sharp in those parts and being precipitated to the Stomach and guts strongly excites the expulsive faculty and consequently causes loosnesse and sometimes Dysenteries Bones and Teeth are the same according to kind and matter but differ in Species and name The difference of Bones and Teeth in their nature and particular beings appears 1. Teeth are made after the Birth of a Child all other Bones before grow to a certain time and have no sense and never are renewed but Teeth grow during the whole life have an acute sense and grow again It 's observed that amongst the Bones the Teeth only cannot be consumed by fire Neverthelesse they are corrupted and consumed by a putrid Phlegme besides Teeth have no marrow and fat as other Bones have and therefore they are the most hard body They are corrupted with hot things as by washing them with warm water but preserved by moderate cold as by washing them with cold water nor are they hurt by an actual extraordinary cold for in Frost they are not troubled but by a cold that is potential because Teeth have but a little heat and cannot resist a great cold Teeth were made for the breaking of hard meat for speaking and distinguishing of Tasts and therefore they have soft Nerves in them and although Histories relate several have been born with Teeth yet for the most part they break forth in Children about the 7th month sometimes sooner as in them which use more hot milk They are very slow in some sometimes to the Third or fourth year either by
Ounces of it with a little Sugar the Stomach being empty Outwardly are useful the rubbing and compressing the hands being annointed with the Oyl of Scorpions If it help not boyle the Pellitory of the Wall in the Oyl of Rue and make a Plaister and lay it to the parts about the neck of the Bladder or Take a Cruce Glass in which Oyl hath been kept a long time put it in hot water then put the Yard of the Child into the Mouth of the Cruce Glass and it is very effectual CHAP. XVII Of the Stone of the Bladder CHildren are very obnoxious to the Stone of the Bladder and are often troubled with it by their much eating causing much crude humours which stay not in the Reyns but is expelled into the Bladder Female Children are seldome troubled with it because they have the Channel of the Bladder broad straight not contorted and crooked The Stone of the Bladder which is immediately made in the Bladder is more often made in Children then in old men because Children are great Eaters thereby abound with much crude humours which is the matter of the Stone and falls into the Bladder besides Childrens native heat is strong which easily hardens the matter into a Stone old men although they abound with crude and earthy humours because their heat is weak in the Bladder the Stone is not made to which may be added the strength of the expulsive faculty the narrowness of the passage and the tenuity of the humour in Children The Stone which is first made in the Reins is in old men more often then in Children as is proved by experience because old mens expulsive faculty is infirm and the Ureters wide so that the thickest and grosse matter is detained in the Reins and consequently turn then into a Stone The material causes are humours thick petuitous and tenacious the efficient cause is the greatnesse of the heat The immediate internal causes are chiefly the narrownesse and straightnesse of the passage or Channel then the hereditary disposition and propriety from parts and the Milk of the Nurse being bad either from Diet or temper for when the Child doth suck impure Milk if the Child hath large Veins from the Stomach to the Bladder the impure matter is carried to the Bladder where it settles with the Urine as muddy water shak'd together in some Vessell and then resting makes a Sediment in the middle which Sediment of the Urine afterwards is conglobated and made round by Phlegme like a little hill and is hardned as Iron in a Furnace The External Causes are the same as in the Strangury The Signes are 1. Groaning and pain in making water 2. The making water by drops 3. The Blood is often mix'd with the Urine 4. The water is somewhat white crude sometimes with a slimy sometimes with a Sandy Sediment 5. Inflamation of the Bladder 6. Itching of the Preputium and foreskin and frequently scratching of the Privities Prog. The Stone of the Bladder is very dangerous and difficult by reason of the pain and in curing Suppression of the Urine which often happens The Stone if it cannot be cur'd by cutting it is mortal for the most part because the Stone growes in Children so great that as the years increase Nature cannot sustain it The Cure is If the Stone be Small and newly begun by such things that break and diminish the Stone by a quality that is either 1. Manifest as by Goats Blood Restharrow Ceterach Saxifrage the Root of Parsley and Fennell Lapis Spongia Lapis Judaicus the Stone that is found in the Call of an Oxe powdered and drank in White wine or a Decoction of Restharrow Take 2. or 3. drams of Turpentine wash'd and melted and mingle it with two Ounces of the Water of Restharrow it is much commended 2. Or an Occult quality and propriety as the Throat of a Hen burnt and powdered and given in Wine So Eryngoes boyled breaks the Stone by propriety Before the use of these remedies the Child is to be put into a Bath Water for some dayes in which Mallows are boyled that the matter may be somewhat softned and more easily and safe done in Children in Men. CHAP. XVIII Of Costivenesse and being bound in the Belly COstivenesse is a preternatural disposition in Children by which they discharge not the filfth and Ordure of the Body either in a due hour and time or in a due measure The Filth ought every day to be expelled and if much be eaten or that is not nourishing the greater the quality of the Excrements ought to be expelled The Causes are the offending the Guts either not by sending the expulsive faculty to them by a resolution of some Nerve or Muscle by a distemper or obstruction or because Choller is not sent to the Guts by which the Guts are stimulated and excited to an Expulsion Or the Expulsive faculty of the Guts is hurt by some Tumor or Skin or some distemper The Guts are offended also by some Errors within by viscid and thick humors wrapp'd and mix'd with the Filth and so gather the Filth together that they fasten them to the Guts that they cannot go forth or with great difficulty or Externally by the coldness of the Air for it is certain that Costivenesse is more in the Winter than Summer much sleep idleness great Meditations they drye the Belly drink that is thick and binding and sparingly used the same Errors also in meats as also preposterous eating taking first astringent things afterwards liquid and they that are accustomed to dine and omit it are bound in their Bellies The Signs are the Child 's not discharging his Belly every day and complaining and if the Child is somewhat great it is troubled in the head and when the Child empties it self it is with pain groaning If it proceed from a cold distemper the body consumes is pale windy and belching if from gross and viscid humours they will appear in the Filth if from the want of Choller sent to the Guts the Colour of the body will be muddy and the Filth of the Guts white or somewhat Ash-coloured Prog. The Astriction of the Belly in most are dangerous especially in Children which great eaters for which Diseases are generated in them in time and in the Time of breeding of Teeth cause Inflamation Feavers and Convulsions the body being full The Cure is 1. In moving the Belly in sucking Children that the Nurse use meat that loosen the Belly as Mallows Dry Figs Raisins and the Broth of Coleworts and all such meats which can loosen the Belly for as the Milk is made out of Blood and it out of meat so it is not to be doubted that the Milk is affected with such meats as the Nurse eats The remedies that are to be used to the sucking Child ought raiher to be External then Internal The External are Suppositories made out of hard Hony or the roots of Mallowes Garlick roasted in Ashes and put
Afterwards to evacuate the humors Take of the Decoctions of Tamarinds two Ounces and an half of Rhubarb two drams of Spike 10 Grains infuse them all night then strain them well and add half an Ounce of Electuary Lenititve and make a Drink If all these remedies are ineffectual use half a Scruple of Laudani Opiati in one of the Clysters as is above directed CHAP. XXII Of Worms VVORMS are very familiar to Children by reason of crudity and corrupt Phlegme from their eating of fruits and milk after other meats for it is observed that sucking Children which eat Flesh are most troubled with Worms because their tender Stomach cannot concoct solid meat and therefore it corrupts and breeds Worms besides Milk is presently concocted and passes into the Guts if flesh unconcocted be mingled with Milk and passes with it into the Guts it putrifies there Worms are Annimals generated in the body variously hurting the Operations of the Body Worms are found almost in all parts of the body as appears by the diffection of Bodies and the Excretion of Worms but it is doubted whether the Worms were bred in those parts or crept there especially Worms found in the Stomach Some think Worms may be bred in the Stomach because the matter of Worms is no lesse communicated from food or defluxion or otherwise from other parts and that the efficient cause being also not wanting in the Stomach but more frequent they breed in the Guts The Cause is a petuitous crude and viscous humour which ariseth from immoderate eating meat easily putrefying and causing a thick Juice as Cheese Milk Summer fruits things that are sweet sugared honied and the like having something that hath an analogy to seed instructed with a formative virtue which disposes the matter to receive this form of a Worm and not another and informs the matter so disposed as we see peculiar Worms to proceed out of Wormwood the Salt of the Sea Milk Hony and other things The difference of Worms according to their Figure is threefold some are round and long others broad and long and some small compared with the other two sorts Worms differ in their colours being white red livid ash-colour or yellow the variety of which colours proceeds either from the crudity or coction of the matter out of which they are made or from the variety of the nourishment or diversity of corrupted matter out of which they are generated The Signs of the three sorts of Worms in common are many a Stinking breath unquiet sleep with starting trembling grating of the Teeth Itching and often rubbing of the Nose paleness of the Face red by Intervals the Eyes hollow and darkish the white whereof being turned pale or yellow spitting much Phlegme the swelling of the belly with murmuring and noise in it the Griping of the Belly which is worse when one is fasting sometimes looses Vomiting and Epilepsy The Signs of the particular Worms if they be long then the biting of the Belly is more vehement a little drye Cough Hiccough a vain desire of Vomiting abominating meat sounding troublesome dreams with trembling rising up and crying out If the Worms are broad they are known by Excrements not unlike the Seeds of Goardes an unsatiable desire of eating sudden dejection of things newly taken leanness and consuming a great pain sometimes in the right side sometimes in the left If short Worms the pain is continual a most troublesome Itch about the Fundament with a continual desire of evacuating Prog. Broad Worms are the worst because for the most part they continue longest The short Worms are the least hurtful because they are little and thin and are bred in the thick Guts most remote from the noblest parts and easie to be expelled with the Excrements and for Medicaments to be applied to them 4. Worms that are great fat thick and fill'd with blood are worse then thin short and extenuated because these showe the scarcity of matter those the abundance of matter 5. White Worms are scarce dangerous but Worms that are yellow livid or red are much worse 6. Worms that are expelled dead where there is no Feaver or a Feaver that is benigne dye by the scarcity of the matter but in malignaut Feavers they dye rather by the venome and so worse then living Worms The Cure is 1. In a convenient Diet the Air is to be temperate and inclining to drynesse sleep and watching moderate avoiding sleep immediately after meat immoderate Exercise avoiding idleness and rest the Belly soluble if it be bound loosen it with a Clyster or Suppository the Drink if there be no Feaver ought to be Wine and Water somewhat binding bitter or sharp not sweet Vinegar and Water is good so is sharp Wine but if there be a Feaver in the place of Wine let there be a Decoction of Pruines that are sharp or facid Cherries or Granates The meat ought to be easie to digest attenuating and penetrating wherefore convenient meats are such as are sharp acid bitter oyly and sweet things viscid thick and fat things are hurtful the flesh of Birds is much commended Beef and Veale are greatly discommended with what is not convenient mix'd Vinegar Verjuice the Juice of Granates or some other sharp Juice avoid all Fish and things made of Milk only such fruits are to be used which are acid as Granates Oranges Limons Services Medlars sharp Pruines avoiding all crudities and indigestable meats either from the quality or quantity of them 2. In the use of Sena Tamarinds or Mirabulous but above all Aloes for the consuming of the matter of Worms which is in the Stomach or Guts Take of Aloes Succotrinae two drams Mirrhae Scordum White Dictamus of each a Scruple with the Syrrup of Wormwood make Pills the quantity at once is half a dram or forty grains 3. In the killing or dulling of them that they cannot resist the remedies which is done by things that are bitter sharp salt acid oyly in the use of which observe 1. That bitter or salt things or such as kill Worms are to be mixed with sweet things which delight them and drawes them to that which kills them otherwise they avoid it 2. Remedies used by the Fundament ought either to be sweet things alone or else to prevail in sweetnesse above other things which are mix'd with them for the Worms drawn by sweetnesse move the lower parts of the Guts but remedies taken in at the mouth ought to be more sharp and bitter then sweet otherwise the Worms would move into che Stomach and cannot be conveniently kill'd 3. The remedies ought not to be vehement because they would offend the Stomach and the Worms agitated by them would be more grievous and offensive 4. The Stomach ought to be empty when the remedies are used else they would be obtruded and extinguished in regard they are weak 5. There is no remedy which commonly kills all Worms and there is no remedy so present as Coralline and Sea Mosse 6. If the Child hath a Feaver then remedies which are cold ought to be used if not then hot remedies may be used Every kind of Worm hath its proper remedies and the Long Worm being in the next place to the Stomach requires not such strong remedies as the oother Worms do wherefore Wormwood Southernwood Coriander seed or the Decoction of Calament are sufficient which may be used in powder or a Deâ—oction The Syrrup of Mint Wormwood or Purslane is very good so is a Decoction of Sebesten Outwardly apply above the Navil for Long Worms are in the first Guts a little above the Navil this Oyntment Take the Juice of Wormwood and Southernwood of each one dram and an half the Powder of Scordum Aloes of each two Scruples of common Oyle one Ounce of Wax a little make an Ointment or take of Mirrh and Aloes of each a dram Powder of Scordum and the Seeds of Wormwood and Citron of each half a Scruple with Wax and Rosine as much as is sufficient make a Plaister Treacle dissolved with the Juice of Limon or Vinegar is good applied above the Navil or taken inwardly so are the Seeds of Nettles Fennel Cummin and Mint and in regard that Worms that are killed are not expelled therefore use such remedies as kill and expel them as Rhabarb Hiera Aloes Agarick take 2 drams or half an Ounce of the Syrrup of Sychory with Rhubarb with an Ounce of the Water of Grasse which given every day is much commended If there happen a loosness that is not moderate and dejects the strength restrain it gently with Plantane or Purslane boyled in broth The Broad Worms are cured like the Long Worms but require stronger remedies because this Worm is greater Ferne Cardamon Costos and Treacle are commended The Ascarides or Little Worm require stronger remedies then the Long and Broad Worms do because they are most remote from the Mouth and Stomach wrapt in viscid humours and are made of viscid and thick humours These Worms have also peculiar remedies Take the Leaves of Wormwood one handiul Lupines one Pugil and an half boyle them then take of that Decoction 12. Ounces Hony of Roses 3 Ounces of Salt one dram and an half mingle and make a Clyster Take of Nitre of Salis Gemma of each one Scruple of the Gall of a Bull one dram of Hony as much as suffices make a Suppository or foment below the Navil or about the Fundament with the Decoction for the Clyster Also is good flesh salted and the fat cut from it and made in the form of a Suppository and put into the Fundament So is old Cheese Many things are propounded by Authors to be taken in at the mouth as Scammony and Co'oquintida which are too strong for Children the Juice of Ireos will be better and convenient for it moves the Belly and consequently expells the Worms and by a peculiar faculty kills them Pillula Ruffi Hiera cum Agarico are also good FINIS