It is a malignant matter because the pains are sharper then in an ulcerated Cancer because when remedies are applyed it is often more violent Galen prescribeth Theriac Signs Prognostical Arthritis preserveth from many diseases Aph. 49. s 6. Swelling or melancholy veins appearing are good If it return not again it is mortal They that are costive can never be cured of it It is taken away either being dissolved or else it is changed into bloody watery matter or to hard knots or is carried to the principal parts Laur. saith it is sometimes brought to suppuration if the humour by ligature be pressed forth into the fleshy parts The Cure 1. Revulsions must be applied as if there be plethory feavers and strength a vein must be opened of the same side or if the hand be ill in the opposite hand by cupping glasses with scarification blood-suckers by chasings ligatures 2. Means to evacuate After that give one purgative at the beginning before meat whilst the forces stand of such things that are indifferent strong Whilst the purge worketh the foot or part affected must be laid higher or must be guarded with defensatives Vomits are excellent Then diaphoreticks at first and colder diureticks as Harts-horn and the root of the Clot burr 3. Topicals that are Anodyns Forestus praiseth Duck-weed and flowers of Camomill with Barley meal boyld in milk that they are wonderful good Spiegelius commends the distilled water of the roots and flowers of Meedsweet Fat things are hurtful we must often proceed to Narcoticks See Aph. 25. s 5. First use resolvers and moderately repecussives of Plaintain Frog-spawn water Housleeke Purslane Roses with moderate resolvers in any form but the repellers must be cold and moyst Resolvers are the water of the flowers and leaves of Mullens Earth-worms decoction of Mugwort roots in sea or salt water Spiegetius commends the Urine of men salt of Urine and the spirit of salt tempered with water of Meede-sweet anointed on the part with a feather The liquor of Snails resolved with salt in a copper vessel or boyld in vinegar and oyl of Roses Resolving suffumes are profitable Pigeons dung boyld in vinegar is good and nettles boyld in wine Hard humours are cured with softning cataplasmes of old cheese juyce of Tobacco and by Fumes Rotten cheese with the broth of a gammon of bacon Scal. addeth the powder of a fire-stone burnt See Senn. concerning Arthritis Storks-dung boyled in Hogs-grease Schrekevos The Sciatica requireth only resolvers and attractives If the pain be stretching forth if the part will not retain the print of the finger pressing it wind with fleam doth seem to be a true Arthritis Some unexperienced Chirurgians supposing matter to be under have opened it with great hurt to the patient Fabr Cent. 1. obs 79. Cent. 4. obs 84. saw the Gowt cured by torture The Physitian is oft times deceived thinking the cause to be hor. 1. If he say He is helped with hot means therefore it is cold whereas by opening the pores hot things may be cooled 2. The pain is asswaged by cold things therefore it is hot because cold things take away the sense but not the cause 3. The pain is intense therefore it is hot since cold things by a malignant poyson can do the same 4 The colour is yellow therefore it comes of choler because much fleam is died with a very little choler 5. There is a Fever and fiery coloured Urine therefore but by reason of watchings and pain a Feaver may arise Pareus l. 17. Rulandus cured it by purging sweating with the roots of Afarum 2 ounces Centory the lesse two handfuls a lath of Juniper wood 1 pound Juniper berry half a pound Preservation is made by diet dunghil cocks and capons must be avoided for they are gouty by eating sand Senn. Fat things must be eschewed and things that are fried all must be seasoned with Mugwort as it is wont to be done and Parsley To ride and walk overmuch is very hurtful The feet must be put into new hot liquor of grapes prest out Some every moneth open a vein in the great toes or the feet others every month before the ful moon set cupping glasses to the soles of the feet without scarification one may purge Medicaments against the Gowt are profitable which see in Senn. The joynts must be strengthened many wayes Question What is the cause Fernelius saith that the antecedent cause is without the Scull 1. Because many Veins end there and there is heavinesse of the head 2. Because the excrement gathered in the brain is purged forth by the nostrils the palate Laur. and Senn. argue against this But should it be collected within the scull and should run from thence by the palate alwaies nauseating vomiting a cough should go before Arthritis If it come from the Heart or Liver bubo's in the groins and arm-holes should go before it for there are properly the emunctories Fernelius will have the matter descend not by the vessels but under the skin Laur. denieth it 1. Because Feavers end in Arthritis whose causes are in the veins 2. It is often cured by opening a vein 3. Because before the paroxysme the veins swell and are red 4. It should cause shivering Fernelius will have fleam to be the cause it is not blood for that without the vessels would corrupt and putrefie not melancholly for that would go to a scirrhus nor would it suddenly affect us not choler for that would turn to matter not salt fleam for that would exulcerate 2. Whether every pain of the joynts be Arthritis I deny it for so disjonting and pains of the pox and pains of the hips in maids and women in child-birth also a humour bred by degrees in the joynts should be Arthritis which is false for as oedematous humours is rather caused by it then Arthritis so by the drying up of humours in the joynts there groweth pain in the joynts Aph. 16. s 3. yet not Arthritis 3. Whether may we purge when the pain is Crato denyeth it Ep. 167. also he denyeth that causticks are convenient in the feet because we may not evacuate the part affected whence Erastus saith that the Leprosie is ill cured by diaphoreticks and Crato saith the same of a dysenterie by Clysters but Pareus calls it an opinion full of errour l. 17. Hollerius Arthritis that is vagrant is Scorbutical and a pain of divers parts The Cause It is a thin watery matter of all the humours swelling and malignant The parts affected are the Nerves because it is very luxuriant in the back and the loins by reason of the marrow of the back that lyeth under because the action of the nutritive faculty is hurt because it is cured with remedies good for the Nerves The kinds 1. It hath Tumors about the joynts which if they last long they bring forth spots as in the Scurvey which sometimes coming to suppuration are turned unto a malignant ulcer chiefly about the feet
warm Milk oyls of Roses Violets Saffron To wipe away Honey of Roses is good and water of Honey put in by a Tunnel Also Orris root Myrrh Saffron All um melted in wine Inflammation of the Tonsils is cured by Repulsives as by syrup of dry Roses The Ligature of the Tongue is often loosned by Mid-wives with their nails or the edge of money but they do this oft times where there is no need be it as safe as it wil it hath been sometimes mortal Oft times there is no need of Incision Nothing of flesh is cut but only what is Nerves If it grow again together it must be cut again Faâ—r cured his own brother that was dumb to 〈◊〉 years old by cutting the string so that he ever spake plain Cent. 3. obs 28. The Catarrh is cured if Diet be observed give the Nurse a Pectoral decoction to the Child a Clyster or Suppository or a Vomit with oyl of sweet Almonds give expectorating means Anoint the Stomach cause sneezing c. Gripings of the Belly Heurnius in the first spoonful of pap gave one scruple of Anniseed very profitably Clysters Solutives Topicals are good The decoction of water of the hearb Cardiaca is given by Mid-wives for gripings of wind and that very well for that hearb mightily helps the pain of the Heart whence it hath the name Scowring when they breed Teeth proceeds from a Feaver watchings pain The heat of the Feaver troubleth the humours It is cured as Diarrhea Maw-Worms Signs The Mouth is full of spittle sleep is troubled they scratch their Noses they chew often there is a dry Cough Preservation is by Diet. Before meat give the decoction of Sebestens or roles of Diaturbith with Rheubarb decoction of grasse roots Mous-ear juyce of Lemmons Citrons two drops of spirit of Vitriol Infants cannot away with bitter things They are cured with Corallina Worm-seed Roots of white Dittany Harts-horn the water and decoction of grasse roots Remedies against the Epilepsy are fitly mingled with them If there be a Feaver we must give cold things as juyce of Lemmons Pomegranates Oranges Vinegar Harts-horn Bezar a Clyster of Milk Apply bitter things outwardly Heurnius commendeth this that followeth for Children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb from two drams to half an ounce water of grass one ounce it is given for one Dose every other day See Worms Little Dragon Because they are like little dragons the Indians are troubled with on Midsummer day Senn. saith they are true Worms with heads like black hairs Their back is pricked as with a Needle they toss themselves up and down and wax lean Heurnius saith you must rub their Back-bone and Shoulders till they wax red next only with skin pulled from fat Bacon and the hairs will appear Paraeus cured them with a fomentation of warm water afterwards with anointing with Honey and Barley meal The heads that peep forth must be pulled out with Pullers Dudith Ep. 27. cured his Children from them with a Bath into which he cast crums of Bread rubbed out one handful and a little ashes The Children being washed with the strained water the Bread shewed forth innumerable hairs the second day fewer then he anointed the shoulders with meal mingled with Vinegar which being washed away there appeared little swellings which being scraped away with a knife they were called little dragons but unless they were presently scraped off they hid themselves within they are thought by old women in Poland to be little worms INFLAMMATION is Phlegmone a swelling with heat rednesse stretching out from abundance with resistance and pulsation which are the marks to discern it from Erisipelas It is either Resolved or comes to suppuration or grows to a Scirrhus or a Gangrene The Cure The antecedent cause namely blood must be altered evacuated revulsed intercepted It must be altered by cold and moist things by reason of a Feaver It must be evacuated by hunger opening a Vein purging if there be Cacochymia it must be revulsed by opening a Vein Cupping Ligature it must be intercepted by Astringents laid on the part and a thickning Diet. If it flow from heat and pain this must be asswaged that discussed Topicals at first must be Repellers in the increase add Resolvers yet so that the other may bear the sway In the state let the Forces of Repellers and Resolvers be equal in the declination use only Resolvers Also consider the temper of the part affected for it must be cured in the flesh one way in the Nerve another the dignity so the heart must not be tryed by vehement remedies Situation so things lying deep require stronger means The shortest way must alwaies be chosen Morning sleep is allowed for then the blood moveth which by sleep is called inward If the blood neither change to matter nor be resolved Scarifications are very necessary if it come to suppuration cure it as suppuration INFLAMMATION of the Brain or Frensy comes from Inflammation of the Brain or of the Membranes or both it proceeds from cholerick blood sometimes the memory is hurt sometimes the Phantasie alone Signs A continual Feaver delirium virulent vomiting insensibilitly sharpness of the Tongue breathing great and rare urine sometimes fiery sometimes white In a bastard Frensy the breathing is sometime little there is a stretching forth of the Diaphragma there were no signs that foreshewed a Frensy If the Brain only be affected all the Animal actions are abolished except most violent motion Prognostick It often degenerates into a Lethargy also into Convulsion and Dysentery Clear urine and white dung are deadly If they were mad before and suddenly grow quiet as if they slept they dy We must not sit neer to Frantick or mad people or to those that are sick of the Plague nor let them put their Fingers to our mouths For. saith that Lud. was so hurt by mad people Fab. cent 1. obs 84. telleth how he was bitten by a Frantick woman The Cure The cause must be pulled back by opening the Liver Vein then the median-Vein it must be derived by opening the Veins of the Fore-head Nostrils under the Tongue The Orifice must be made straight Also after the third day if there be strength to endure it For. used Cuppings with Scarifications Ligatures c. Iutercipients must be applyed to the Temples We must evacuate by true Purgatives when the disease is sharpest and the matter swelleth If there be Cacochymia it must be altered by such means as prepare Choler Topicals at first must be Repellers sor strong people in Summer they must be cold otherwise warm in the augmentation we must add Resolvers c. Lay cold Epithems to the Liver and Heart Let sleep be carefully provoked by sleeping remedies The Chymists commend the Spirits of Terra sigillata distilled without any addition being yellow and sowre it is given to one scruple They must be admonished to make water The Secrets must be fomented with the decoction of Pellitory c. If the sick
Vehement motion hath cured many Out of Guaicum oyl is not distilled a Spirit with difficulty An extract is made with a convenient Menstruum PIMPLS Red. They proceed from a vapour of burnt blood The best Remedy is water of Pilewort distilled from the whole plant Costus Colewort seed and Paints PISSING Involuntary proceeds from the resolving of the Bladder and the sphincter Muscle stopping of Urine is only from resolving of the Bladder Solenand commends as a secret the powder of a Cocks Throat broiled raken with red wine or soaked in Posca about night also the Testicles of a Hare burnt are commended PALPITATION of the Heart comes first from something troubling the Heart from vapour humours water collected in the Pericardium the Stone c. 2. From some small defect of Vital spirits 3. From preternatural heat increased which oft times hath broken the Ribs See Fern. For. saith the cause is hot or cold Galen saith in his time they all dyed before sixty years Signs If it be from wind the fit is sudden short If a humor be the cause it is longer and slower in coming It comes often from Hypochondriacal Passion and stopping of the Courses If it be from water the sick say they swim in water The Cure In young Men or in declining age opening a Vein is good and evacuating the cause The cause is discussed with oyl of Citrons or true Rhapontick two scruples that which followeth is a secret of Forestus Green Balm bruised laid on fire-hot Tyles sprinkled with Rose water and Vinegar laid to the Heart Conserve of Balm Treacle water of Harts heart or an Ox is Rondeletius way The PAPS If they ly hid they are called forth according to Amatus with a glasse Vial that hath a straight Mouth which being filled full with scalding water the water poured forth again it is laid hot to the Paps The PALSEY is made when the Nerves are either cooled or moistned by fleam choler for all Choler is not sharp as appeareth in those that have the Jaundies for either their Forces are laid asleep or pressed by weight by a melancholy humour or their continuity is dissolved Prognosticks If a Member with the Palsy be made less it is not or is hardly curable But if it should proceed from cold or a humour the disease cannot be so violent nor would it resist the most vehement Remedies and those that are Cacochymical should be Paralitique Nor yet from dryth for so hectical people should be Paralitique If the feeling cease the motion remaining sound then the Nerve which is fastned into the Membrane of the part is affected that being safe which goeth into the flâ—sh The differences Weakness differs from the Colick and from the Palsey because in this the Head and marrow of the Back in that the Limbs only are affected as the cure sheweth for medicaments are laid to the part affected and the Intestins 2. In that there is oft times great pain and it goeth oft into a Convulsion 3. That is cured at first in a short time the same is the condition of a Palsey Scorputick only that in those that are sick of it there remaineth some motion and soon goeth away and returns The cause of weakness is often Cholerick and raw it cometh not from the Head because that is seldom affected in the Colick nor would the Colick cease But the very same matter is carried through the Veins into the Limbs as a Pleuresy comes from a dysentery stopt But Erastus saith Wherefore should not nature provoked by Clysters rather cast forth the matter by the Belly Answer The Passage is not free Spiegelius will have it done by the Arteries and by them the purgative force of Clysters is carried to the Heart The Cure If it be from fleam that must be evacuated by Generals taken away by Topicals The same cure is for stupidity Topical Resolvers If it come from a sharp humour as from the Colick in the Scurvey in that we must not dry so much nor respect the Brain Generals and Topicals are all useful Monav. ep 242. saith that this that followeth is good in weakness Take the fat of a Gray a Fox a Hen a Duck a Goose a Stork of each one ounce juyce of Sage and Wormwood thickned of each half an ounce oyl of Bays one ounce anoint after Bathing Specificals are Marigolds Lavender Berries and shavings of Juniper Meadsweet Primroses wine of the infusion of Marigolds Lavender for one Month one or two spoonfuls It must be set in the Sun at an open window If it come by way of Crisis the Flux must not be stopped In the Palsey of the Tongue after Generals For. opened a Vein under the Tongue Cupping glasses without scarification must be set under the Chin. Vomit is not good Gargarisms must be first attenuating then add such things as draw fleam Cauteries to the Neck The juyce of Sage alone rubbed on the Tongue recovereth the speech In a Palsey of the Weasand soft things can hardly but gross things may easily be swallowed In a Palsey of the Bladder add torrefied Turpentine Trochis Alkekengi without Opium An astringent fomentation to the neither part A Potion of the roots of Cyperus Galanga of each two drams Lignum Aloes sweet Calamus Cypress nuts Balaustia Pomegranate Pills Myrtils Acorn cups roots of our Ladies Thistle great Comfrey of each one dram Galls Frankincense seeds of Agnus Castus Rue of each one scruple c. If all fail use this that followeth approved Take Acorns I ounce half Galanga half an ounce boyl them in 2 pound of red Wine and Smiths water Frankincense 2 drams boyl strain drink them Topicals If the Yard it is cured with a Fomentation of a Ly of the ashes of a Hart and Buls pisles Foment the Spondils Prescribe such things as take away barrenness If the Fundament use drying Clysters astringent apply Cupping glasses to the Buttocks Make Fumes of the bark of the Pine-tree one ounce bark of Frankincense half an ounce Pix Colophonia Frankincense Mastrick of each three drams Castoreum one dram shavings of Harts-horn half a dram If it be from a fall apply to the part Coolers Astringents for fear of Inflammation and hot Resolvers If it be with wasting Topicals and Internals must be moderate The PESTILENCE The Cause is divine Hipp. Which Erastus ep 275. affirms to be a hidden quality of the Air. And Ep. 269. he saith purrefaction is the cause not in making but already made which cannot be corrected by altering but must be taken away by evacuating Signs It infects many is contagious it suddenly casts the Forces down the Pulse is deadly a Feaver Small-Pox Prognosticks To be well in mind and the appetite to remain is good If Vomit be absent other signs are deceitful Differences If it proceed from infection of the aire it is very contagious it quickly killeth few have Botches or Pushes breaking forth The Urine is like to sound mens there did
precede signs of the Aire affected for Beasts have died Fishes they have left their dens the waters being half dead c. If it come from corruption of humours that is known by the signs there are Spots Botches Pushes The Urine is naught a vehement Feaver afflicts also a Tertian a Quartan intermitting witnesse Pareus l. 21. Those that are scabbed are lesse troubled with the Plague A Botch to go before the Feaver is good to follow naught The Moon decreasing is deadly for the Terms come forth weaker Arist l. 7. de H. Anim. c. 2. Preservatives Chambers must be clean so much as we can A sign of this is If Eggs shaked be not corrupted and stink in 24. hours in a place infected or new Bread from the Oven So if shaked Eggs be put between him that is infected and one that is sound the Eggs but not the sound party will be infected So to those that are about to dy they put hot bread to their Mouths that the Chamber may not be infected 2. Let the Body be cleansed with moderate Purgatives and such as expel poyson as Agarick c. By convenient Diet. 3. We must preserve by taking Antidotes as Pills of Ruffus half a dram yet in old men childing-women and such as have the Emroids cauttiously Elixar vitae of Paracelsus For. commends this following even for Infants every day so much as a nut Take Nuts Figs Rue of each alike beat them severally in wooden Vessels Mingle them with syrup of juyce of Citrons it is very good Also this that followeth is to be taken to the quantity of a small Nut. Take confection of Nuts one ounce and half old Treacle Mithridate of each two drams right Bole-armenick Terra sigillata of each one dram and half with syrup of Lemmons or in Winter with syrup of Citron Pills mingle it He gave it in the Winter with Wine in the Spring with Carduus water or Scabious in Summer with Sorrel water Sometimes he added half a dram of Confectio Liberans Every morning he washeth the Face with water and Vinegar of Roses with a sweet Nodulus An unguent for the Nostrils as oyl of Scorpions to anoint the Wrists Temples Heart Nostrils Troches to be held under the Tongue A little bag for the garments Epithems Fab. obs 34. c. 2. Monavius ep 248. approves the powder of Arsnick Toads Crato is against it Ep. 167. In the Pestilence at Lausanna none died that had an Issue Fab. had two c. 4. obs 23. We must anoint under the Nails the Arm-pits and Groins Bags must be kept in the Wardrobe of cloths The Cure To open a Vein is not good if the Plague arise from contagion or fault of the air If twelve hours be past if there be spots a Flux or Botches otherwise before the eighth hour giving first a Lenitive Clyster you may do it When there is a Botch or Carbuncle draw blood on the same side setting a Cupping glasse to the Botch lest the venom be drawn inward Fern. opens the Head Vein in the Arm if the Carbuncle be under the Arm-pits the Liver Vein of the same side if it be in the Groin Thigh Hip Leg Ankle with scarifying and cupping yet he alwaies did it before eight hours After two hours he gave an Antidote if it were vomited up he gave it again He purged not before the third oft times the fourth day with Lenitives as Rheubarb Agarick Epithym c. Cassia is not convenient by reason of its moisture nor Rose water for its Astringency To drink cold water in the Plague and malignant Feavers is deadly Let them eat lustily though they have no stomach The first day he will not let them sleep on the second and third he willingly provokes it with unguent Populeum Senn. Once he moveth sweat after he opens a Vein if need be All before eight hours past Par. commends salt of Mugwort If spots comes forth Paraeus anoints the sick with Quick-silver as if they had the Pox. PTHYSICK It either followeth the Pleurisy or it proceeds from a sharp Distillation or the breaking of a Vein See Aph. 16. s 7. Rondeletins holds it commeth most from the third cause by ignorance of the Physitian who neglecting Revulsives will cure spitting of blood with Astringents There is a lingring putrid Feaver joyned with it or a Hectick from an Ulcer of the Lungs which lasts sometimes twenty years Signs of the beginning of it are a long during Cough then something bloody then mattery is cast forth the Body wasts there is a lingring Feaver hard breathing matter coming forth by Coughing the Hairs fall c. How matter is distinguished from fleam See Aph. 81. s 4. 11. s 5. The Cure The cause must be purged by Rheubarb c and Lenitives not strong Clysters It must be revulsed intercepted The disease or the Ulcer requireth detergents and Mundificatives or Expectorating means for the spittle must be bound up no way afterwards we must glutinate Fracastorius comendeth a Lohock of Turpentine with Myrrh and Bole to be miraculous Laur the juyce of ground Ivy half a pound Sugar six ounces make a syrup let him take often with a spoon Water of Alehove with Sugar of Roses To use old conserve of Roses or Species Haly against the Prhysick Erast ep 272. saith that all who had an Ulcer in their Lungs though it were not discerned yet they died by the use of Vitriol waters Conserve of Roses must be often given in great Doses Vulnerary Potions as also the decoction of Guaicum China are much commended unless there be a Hectick Feaver Fumes are good taken at the Nostrils See Cough Also the smoke of Tobacco Topicals let him often take Conserve of Roses or a little preserved roots of great Comfrey For. giveth by turns things to expectorate and glutinate and at last remains upon them that consolidate PRIAPISM is a stretching of the Yard without lust and it is not asswaged by Venery It is cured as the Fury of the Womb with Mints Especially with the root of water Lillies by hunger Vomit Chafing of the upper parts A PUSH A Fellon differs from Phlegmone by the smallness blood thickness it suppurateth of it self it paineth is an acute little swelling It is cured by suppurating medicaments after that by Sarcoticals Psydracia are red Pushes of the Forehead and the Head They are cured with Driers as with white Chalk with juyce of Housleek and with Vinegar and Lytharge Ceruss and oyl Phlyctenae called wild-fire they are little blisters from a yellowish matter and sharp they last to the fourth day Besides Generals Topicals must be Coolers and Moystners They are opened with a Needle the Ulcers must be dryed Pushes of the Cornea are cured as Ophthalmia All these comming again are most dangerous because they set upon the Forces cast down by the former matter because those that grow well require much nourishing and diseases returning require slender Diet we must deal warily here and
Riol Also oft times the Body ascending is known by the touch and is mistaken for the Womb. Three Symptoms urge swooning suffocation and Convulsion and sometimes this sometimes that sometimes lightly sometimes grievously torment them Signs Weariness precedeth a sad look they are easily taken with horror It is cured by putting stinking things to the Nostrils and sweet things to the secrets It differs from swooning because swooning is more sudden the Pulse is small in strangling as in swooning there is a cold sweat they are often joyned Swooning lasteth not long suffocation sometimes for three days They must not be buried before seventy two hours past for in that time all the humours absolve their motions put a feather to their Mouth a dish of water to their Heart or a glasse to their Mouth Sneezing Remedies are more certain Prognosticks It afflicts most in Winter sneezing is good cut them not up before seventy two hours Vesalius learned this by his own example witness Par. l. 23. 46. yet in his Ep. 30 and 31. he saith Vesalius dyed not of grief but when he had ended a sacred Voiage he died in the way of a burning Feaver The Cure Loosing all Ligatures raise the sick put stinking things to the Nostrils as fumes of feathers of Partridge Hairs Lether Horns Castoreum underneath sweet things chiefly a smoke of Horses warts dried Clysters for the Womb Pessaries outwardly oyl of Rue Treacle c. an unguent for the Nostrils and Ears oyl of Amber Sage c. pour in Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar and spread upon a round piece of leather apply to the Navel Make a nodulus of Asa foetida two scruples Castoreum one scruple Some are cured by only chewing Lovage seed and swallowing it down See Child-birth wine is hurtful Powder for the Muther is this Take Dittany root seeds of Carrots one dram choise Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Saffron oriental half a scruple fat Castoreum one scruple Dosis half or one dram with Beer or water of Camomil Treacle with Mugwort water root of Angelica juyce of Garlick rub upon the Navel with Aloes it is a secret put the leaves of Bur-dock under the Feet Fecula of Briony made in Pills to ten or twelve grains with a little Castoreum extract of Elder-berries dried made with Aqua vitae and spirit of Vitriol by distillation to one scruple Preservation is wrought by Generals and Specials of Balm Penny-royal Angelica roots c. SUPPURATION is not to be opened before it be ripe for it will turn to a Fistula in a part that wants blood as the Pleura and if the matter be malignant and sharp If it be from a cold matter it must not be opened before the concoction of the whole matter The Signs are if the pain heat tumour a Feaver be increased when the heat pain Feaver are remitted and the tumor is lifted up into a point the matter is concocted Suppurative medicaments are necessary when the humour is so impacted that it cannot be repelled either by reason of the nearnesse of some principal part or so thick that it cannot be resolved It must be opened on that part it riseth to a point according to the straightness of the Fibraes â—hat the matter may not run forth by heaps Suppuratives shut the Pores that the heat cannot breath forth and so they differ from Emollients It must be opened either with an Instrument oâ— a Medicament either with a hot iron seldom or cutting iron as in a Ring Medicaments are either potential Cauteries or more gentle as leaven Onions roasted in the Embers Garlick Pigeons dung black Sope Mustard-seed Salt Figs Diaquilon Dogs dung Nitre coughing crying sneezing vomiting Scabious Horehound Carduus benedictus Add some of these to ripening plaisters Give syrup of Hore-hound with water of Scabious STITCHING 1. A little Pipe with a little hole is put to receive the point of the Needle to hold the lips of the wound immoveable then make a knot yet the lips must not be wholly drawâ— together that the matter may come forth First give a stitch through the middle of the wound In great wounds take in much flesh 2. A dry stitch with a sticking plaister 3. That which belongeth to Hare-lips 4. Stitching of the Peltmongers which belongeth to the Intestins 5. Stitching of the Belly for wounds of the Peritonaeum SWOONING Is a sudden failing of the Forces by reason of the vitall spirits affluence denied or because they are not bred for want of matter or great heat or are consumed by heat malignity vacuatives grief or strangling by some crude humor as in a Feaver with Swooning or by frights c. Diagnosticks There preceeds a languishing Pulse and small the Face is pale the outward parts are cold they sweat in fainting there is no sweat and the Pulse remains It is distinguished by the Pulse from strangling of the Womb. Prognosticks Aph. 4â— s 2. The Cure The spirits must be preserved sprinkle the Face with Cinamon water Rose water Wine Vinegar For women alwaies use stinking things Apply Epithems to the Liver Heart little Bags Ointments Balm sprinkled with Wine that is pleasant heated on a hot tile give bread dipt in Wine chiefly chafings of the ends of the Fingers is most profitable and other Revulsives lying down Tormentil and other Cordials Take two Pome-Citrons pouring on Rose water and Sugar sprinkled on them boyl them to an Electuary If it be from wasting of the spirits Chafings c. are not fit but Rest So Take the best powdered Sugar what you please moisten it with the best Cinamon water that it may be a little fluid to which add some drops of spirit of Vitriol oyl of Cinamon four drops of Cloves two drops Mace Nutmegs Anniseeed of each three drops Give it in a spoon at pleasure TEETH rotten and black are made so by over-hot cold sweet sowre things or paintings of Mercury Preservation If after meat the Mouth be washed with wine and Cyprus or Mastick be put into the Teeth The cure If one every Morning hold a grain of Salt under his Tongue and when it is melted rub his Teeth with it The spirit and oyl of Vitriol mixt with water makes the Teeth very white A Pumex stone fired and quenched twice in white wine and the third time fired and so left until it be cold then powdered and washed makes the Teeth exceeding white also not fired For. l. 14. Some use only tosted bread Paraeus L. 16. Cuttle-bone Harts-horn Cinamon Coral Crabs-eys Egg-shells Snails shells the Jaw-bone of a Pike Mastick roots of Birthwort Orris Rosemary flowers Lavender Roses white sand most fine Some use only oyl of Vitriol with Honey of Roses The ashes of Rosemary branches Tobacco ashes TEETH are pulled out with Iron either by reason of extream pain or because they are rotten and make the breath to stink or if a tooth stand out of order great dexterity of the Hand must be used lest the Cheek-bone
be removed from its place or broken with the hole whence may follow a Flux of blood or the Bone may alwaies remain wrested that the sound be not pulled forth for the unsound The Tooth being taken out let the blood run freely wash the Mouth with Oxycratum and avoid the wind That Teeth may be pulled forth without violence put in Ivy Gum or the roots of wild Cucumber steeped in Vinegar three days Henbane seed or root of the same rosted must be laid hot to the root of the Tooth but touch not the Teeth that are neer Keep the Mouth open that the spittle may run forth but swallow it not TEETH astonished The cause is a sowre tast The Cure Purslane chewed the juyce of it is good bitter Almonds small Nuts Wal-nuts Mastick dry root of Liccoris Wine Salt TEETH Pain It proceeds from a hot or cold cause or Worms in the Teeth that watery humour flows thither from the Head or from some other part Signs Prognostick A Tumor after pain is good The Cure The cause must be evacuated pulled back and derived by all means the Veins behind the Ear may be cut by Vesicatories c. Astringents must be applyed to the Fore-head and the Temples Topicals in a hot cause Rose water with a third part of Vinegar juyce of Plantain Housleek of Lettice Sorrel c. Rul useth water of Night-shade with water of Vitriol If the Gums be affected also Vinegar must be left because of its acrimony unguent of Alabaster Senn. root of sharp Docks cut in pieces and put into the aking Tooth helps wonderfully also the decoction of the leaves of Bur-docks Fer. Paraeus with three remedies cured the greatest pains of the Teeth 1. Setting on Leeches the swelling Gums being gently scarified 2. Open a Vein under the Tongue 3. The Veins behind the Ears If it be from a cold cause Garlick rosted in the embers put into the aking Tooth Aqua vitae Pepper Juniper Gum half an ounce Rhenish Wine eight ounces boyl and strain them hold the strained liquor hot in the Mouth hot oyl of Juniper and smoke of Tobacco hath been often approved Senn. Take root of Fern Cinquefoil of each three drams Bistort two drams leaves of Rue Sage Betony flowers of red Roses of each half a handful boyl them in red Wine and water of each a sufficient quantity to wash the Mouth in any cause The last means are Narcoticks Rul puts in some oyl of Camphir or some drops of the Hazle-nut tree with Cotten The last remedy is pressing a hot iron to the roots of the Teeth or Narcoticks or drawing them out yet first use the milk of Spurge and Frankincense mingled with white Starch or touch the Tooth with the distilled water of salt Ammoniac We have seen the greatest pains of the Teeth cured so soon as the Patient hath Vomited Crato ep 182. TEETH loose It either comes from too much moisture or the Pox or anointing with Quick-silver or from the Scurvey The cure If from moisture premising general dryers use Topicals hot and astringent but forbear such as black the Teeth as Pomegranate shells Balaustia Galls Vitriol binding with a golden thread is often followed with Inflammation TOOTHING of Children is about the seventh Moneth The Cure The Nurse must be cured and if it be feaverish things actually cold must not be put into the Childs Mouth By all means the Gums must be softned with a Liccoris stick or with oyl of sweet Almonds or Hens grease or Butter For. stamps the Brain of a Hare and Honey together and rubs the Gums with it the Brains of Chickens and Birds also the juyce of live Crabs bruised is commended drawn forth with the water of the flowers of Beans if the Gums be washed with it Par. l. 23. c. 67. opened the Gums with a Pen-knife The right Dog tooth of Wolf is wont to be hanged on with a silver chain TETTERS of the Greeks is nothing but the Leprosy Gelsus also cals the Leprosy Tetters but with the Latins as Pliny Tetters or Ring-worms is a sharpnesse of the skin with dry pushes and great tickling creeping to the next parts Fern. makes four kinds of Tetters 1. Itching 2. Tetters 3. The Scab with Pustuls 4. The Leprosy The cause Fernel is Choler or corrupt fleam Senn. a thin and sharp juyce mingled with a thick The Cure is the same as in Saphatus Falling out of the TUEL It comes from too much straining in Child-bed from Acrimony as in a Dysentery weakness of the Sphincter from a moist distemper cold cutting for the Stone from a fall It is cured according as the cause is In old folks it is hardly curable it is put up either by the Hand of the sick or of the Chirurgion If there be a Tumor it must be discussed by Resolvers it must be continued by taking away the cause and by Astringents in the form of Fumes also and Insessions Aetius oft times somented the Tuel with only Brine Paraus applyeth a Sponge to the Tuel wet with an astringent decoction Let him stand to do his businesse for so it will not fall out Hipp. bids to shake the sick hanging of his Feet for so the Intestin will go up again Anoint it with the spawn of red Snails Falling out of the Womb is from the same cause It is cured if you first give a Clyster of Mallows and Oyl and the Bladder being emptied let it be put up either by the Hand of the sick or of the Midwife or of the Chirurgion let her be set as in cutting for the Stone If it swell it must be fomented that it may be done the more easily Let the Chirurgion hold a great actual Cautery in his Hand and fain as if he would burn the Matrix with it so by a fright it will reduce it self It is retained by taking away the cause also by Cupping glasses with much flame set to the Navel with sweet things to the Nostrils with a rotten Egg applyed to the parts Lay on Bur-leaves to the Head Vomiting is good Topicals must be astringent Pessaries Sarcoticks must be given inwardly and used outwardly fumes of an Eels-skin seasoned with Salt Fomentations let inward means be drying as roots of China Guaicum Note that at the time the Terms should flow Astringents must not be used See Pessaries in Senn. If it corrupt that must be cut off the rest must be burnt with a Cautery Of the Uvula Some cut a new hard Egg and strew it with Ginger laying it to the crown of the Head others Oke leaves with Honey others Wallnuts bruised with Aqua vitae others leaven others Mugwort others burnt Salt See Inflammation Of the pointed Grissle It is depressed not broken from a blow a Cough humours and so presseth the stomach Signs The meat is swallowed with some pain nausearing after meat they feel weight their appetite abateth There is difficulty of breathing after labour Cachexia Consumption Jaundies It is cured by
To the Temples but set it neer by them In the Winter and full Moon Trepaning is more dangerous for the Brain swelleth It must be done in three days yet Paraeus in Winter and Summer used it after ten days When it cometh to the second Table the blood runneth forth but not alwaies for in some places the Skull is thin TREMBLING The cause is a preternatural moving Faculty burdened by the fault of the animal spirits or Nerves or nervous fibras in the Muscle If the spirit by reason of disorderly motion hath not its influence from the Brain as in anger joy fears frights for from hence the vital spirit is variously moved and so the generation of animal spirits is wanting a distemper cold and moist of the Nerves or from malignity as trembling from Quicksilver Vermilion in Gold-smiths which For. cured with only Goats milk nervous remedies from Obstruction wine The Cure If it be from a want of the spirits it is cured by Restoratives if from a humour with distemper it is cured by Generals Topicals Chymists coÌ„mend the essence of Balm in cordial water A Bath wash the trembling parts in water of Cinque-foil or decoction of Juniper berries with Wine let them dry of themselves or with water of infusion of Mugwort A Lotion with their own water Sage beer meat seasoned with Sage flesh of Storks wood Pigeons a Hares brain fried Infuse Juniper berries all night in water then let them infuse in Aqua vitae eight days swallow ten berries every day the decoction of Guaicum Monav. ep 240. after Generals giveth the extract of Calamus he foments the hands with a decoction of Wine with Sage and Aqua vitae VEINS swollen with melancnolick blood are cured by Chirurgery for above and beneath the Vein it is bound and when it is made naked of the skin the Vein is cut and the blood being let out it is cured But since this cure is difficult and oft times leaves malignant Ulcers Hier. Fabric cuts the vein bound not with great Incision but by prickings that are small Then he layeth on Medicaments of Bole armenick Dragons blood Mastick with Gum Traganth steeped in Wine of Pomegranates or Verjuyce made like a Candle and he layeth this long waies on the Vein and upon the Medicament a reed made hollow to hold on the Medicament for so the Vein consumes If there be an Ulcer joyned with it the Vein must be cut out VERTIGO is when all things seem to turn round Scotoma is when over and above the sight is darkned Why they than look down from on high should be taken with a Vertigo the cause is natural for that by looking on a thing that breedeth fear the spirits are dissipated from terrour the spirits are drawn in again whence follows a contrary Motion the common sense and imagination are primarily hurt The Cause of Vertigo is the circulation of the spirits animal by a thin vapour Scotoma is from a thick The antecedent cause sticketh either in the Brain and there be signs of the Brain affected or in the Liver Spleen Hypochondres and there be signs of them affected or from some outward cause Prognosticks They that in a Vertigo see a green or purple colour encline to the Epilepsy they that see black to the Apoplexie they that see red are thought to be more subject to madness The Cure Let the Patient alone in the fit and if the cause ascend from the lower part Revulsion must be made by frictions the Face must be sprinkled with Wine give Suppositories Clysters put sweet smells to the Nostrils hot or cold rub the Nostrils with oyl of Amber c. rub the Temples with Rosemary water the Forehead with wild Marjoram annoint the Palate with Theriac Senn. alloweth also opening a Vein but with caution If an Apoplex be feared for preservation is Carway seed soaked in Wine and then dried if daily half a spoonful be long chewed about bedtime and lastly be swallowed When the fit is over open a Vein as the Head Vein It is cured as the Head-ach by Generals Topicals Bears-ear is commended the water or extract of Scorzonera a dryed silk-worm is strewed on the Crown Take dung of a male Peacock for a Man or a female for a woman one dram infuse it all night in white-wine strain it through a linnen cloth give it for a Vertigo from a new Moon till a full Moon If it come from some other part by consent the humour prepared must be evacuated the Vapour intercepted revulsed discussed we must strengthen VOMITING too much is cured by Revulsives Clysters Oyls Frictions and principally by heating the extream parts Give Astringents before meat put Cupping glasses to the bottome of the stomach Topicals A crust of bread infused in Mint water and Vinegar of Roses sprinkled with Mastick powder baked opium An ULCER is the solution of continuity from something that corrodeth with the taking away of some parts they differ in form one is circular c. in subject in cause Diagnosticks The cause is known by the signs when raw thin quitter runs forth plentifully with pain pricking it is then beginning In the increase the matter is better and more sparingly c. If the Rest diminish it is the declination Prognosticks White matter or rather ash colour light and equal is good See Aph. 45. 4. s 6. Aph. 65. 67. 2. 21. s 7. The Cure The humour must be evacuated by Generals we must apply Digestives yet it is safest even at the beginning to mingle Detergents with Digestives unequally as Turpentine with juyce of Smallage yolks of Eggs oyl of Roses Saffron The part affected must be observed as in Phlegmone If the Ulcer be scowred too much it becommeth dry the flesh is consumed the Lips grow red there is a sense of biting If it become more dry and there be a good colour and neither quitter nor matter run forth of the Ulcer we must use Sarcoticals The purer the Ulcer groweth so much the more mild must Detergents be A scar is made with Powders or Emplaisters that heal but not in a moist form If there be for example a dry distemper the Ulcer being so long let alone the dryness must be cured most fitly with a fomentation of water and oyl warm and by Emollients If the distemper be with matter which is known by the swelling pain and plenty of Excrements before all the matter must be evacuated the parts strengthned the humour reâ—ulsed intercepted repulsed the best Repellers are Issues made in the opposite part And without these oft times Ulcers cannot be cured and old Ulcers cannot be closed unless an Issue be made in the opposite part Lay Sarcoticks on the Mouth of the Ulcer yet without biting stronger then otherwise The circumference must be washed with Repellers or some resolving Cataplasm laid on The Medicaments must be oft times changed Guido brought on the skin with a Plate of Lead If it be foul the filth shews
resolves the humour into winds or else windy meat Signs Prognostick This is not so dangerous as the moist is The Cure 1. The winds must be brought out discussed tempered with Clysters of sweet oyl or of linseed or sweet Almonds with a decoction emollient and Carminative also by Topicals Oyle and wine must be given if nothing hinder 2. The matter must be evacuated by syrup of Roses solutive and tempered by broths If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes The COLICK in general is a pain of the Guts violent and wandring The cause 1. Is wind either from feeblenesse of heat or from strong heat and tough fleam or from a windy melancholick humour or from windy meats 2. The dung hardned the Stone worms a Hernia all which by dissolving continuity cause pain 3. A wind or humour collected between two coats Signs diagnostick It differs from pain of the stomach for that is alwaies above the Navel and often comes to the Back bone between the Shoulders because the stomach is bound to the Back bone of the ninth spondil It is eased by parbreaking It differs from pain of the Mother because the pain of the Mother is communicated to the Groins and Hips and goeth no higher then they Child-bearing went before the Courses are stopped Prognosticks The Cholick often followeth the Jaundies coming by obstruction of the Passages that choler passeth in so the Jaundies often follow the Collick for the same reason If it lasteth long it causeth a Dropsie a Hernia and Rupture of the Navel The cure 1. The cause must be taken away 2. The pain The pain is removed by Internals and emollient Topicals Baths also by Narcoticks if the cause be hot But if it be cold they make the cause of the disease worse and shortly after greater pains arise Seldom must things be given by the Mouth It is safer to give them by Clysters as one scruple of Philanium Romanum For. gives laudanum opiatum to three grains Specificals are the whitest dung of a Wolf to one dram or hanged outwardly The guts of a Wolf to one dram in liquor A roasted Lark in powder Harts-horn one dram in drink Guts of a Hen dried to one dram or half a dram of the powder of the stones of an horse washed in water and dried in an Oven Whilst the pain lasteth they must eat nothing A COLICK from Excrements from wind Signs diagnostick There went before it a stopping of the Belly with weight of the Belly pain head-ach and palpable hardnesse The Cure 1. Cast in emollient Clysters and lenitine and by degrees strong Purgatives are to be mixed until the excrements be voided if they awake not a lenitive may be given by the Mouth as Manna one ounce and half Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce with Hen-broth Oyl of Galbanum is good with the plaister of Bay-berries applyed outwardly The last remedy is Hippocrates Bellows whereby the Intestins are so blown that they are separated from the internal Excrements in their Superficies After that a Clyster is given If it come from worms it is cured as Worms If from Hernia as a Hernia Cupping glasses applyed to the Navel have cured it miraculously The Belly must be bound with broad swath-bands This following Clyster hath helped wonderfully Take Maligo wine Oyl of Nuts which also For. commends of each three ounces Aqua vitae one ounce Oyl of Juniper and Rue of each three drams give it hot The COLICK from a cause between the Coats Signs diagnostick A most sharp pain it is fast as a stake The Cure Clysters emollient and carminatives must be given take heed of vomit by all means after let the Clysters be made sharper Carminative dissolvers as Garlick may be exhibited by the Mouth Outward Remedies help If it proceed from a sharp humour as in the Scurvey sticking in the Veins and Coats of the Intestines it is cured by Coolers moystners Internals and by Topicals that void choler c. as in the dysentery If it come from inflammation of the Intestines it is cured as an Inflammation Question Whether purging Clysters are convenient I deny it because they draw to the affected nor are they evacuated for the Belly is stopped Senn. For. Pareus A COMA that is slepy is an action diminished the influence of the spirits being hindred The cause is a Narcotick force obstruction of the Brain worms the Matrix compression of the Scull Signs diagnostick The sick sleeps long and profoundly with his Mouth open It differs from Carus because in Coma if you ask them they answer from syncope by the pulse and the face in Coma is not like to one that is dead Prognostick Aph. 1. s 2. 3. s 2. in continual Feavers it is mortal That is less dangerous that comes by consent The Cure He must be raysed purged Revulsion made the cause must be derived the Brain must be dried and strengthned If it come by consent the parts that first offend must be cured COMA that is waking is when the sick with his Eys shut striveth to sleep and cannot with a delirium or without so one sick of a Coma cut off a Monks head that was his Keeper when he slept as Heurnius saith The cause is a Narcotick vapour but it is turbulent also or joynd with a hot vapour that hinders sleep Signs Frognostick It usually changeth into Lethargie or Phrensie The cure Since it alwaies enters allmost with a malignant Feaver besides the cure of it we must oppose the malignity and venome of it make revulsion and strengthen c. COMBUSTION The differences either heat is only felt in the part or only bladders arise or an Eschar is made Prog nostick From Thunder commonly it is mortal In the Abdomen it is hardly cured the deeper the Eschars are the lesse do they pain The cure 1. The Empyreuma or Atoms of the fire must be called forth which is done by heat If the burning be small presently put the part to the fire or stove it with hot water then beat Onions in a Mortar with salt and lay them on Or take raw Onions one ounce and half salt Venice soap of each half an ounce mingle them in a Mortar pour on Oyl of Roses and of sweet Almonds what may serve Fab. obs 93. cent 4. Fresh horse dung Sage Dwarf elder Elder leaves beaten with Salt and Oyl of Nuts Quick lime washed nine times with Mallow water and Butter Oyl of Linseed juyce of Onions May butter juyce of Elder Hogs grease Camphir Oyl of Olives Lime to washed is mingled with oyl of St Johns-wort or juyce or some Cream Take Lard cut one pound melt it in Rose water strain it through a fine cloth wash it four times in water of Henbane or Plantain three new laid Egs mingle them Unguents for scaldings must be so made that they stick not too fast but may easily be wiped off If bladders be raysed they must not be opened before the third day nor after but
restoreth the Muscles removed by the first second from their places Afterwards they apply Splints The binding being done the sick must be asked whether the Limb be not too hard bound If he say I unbind it and bind it looser Too loose is unprofitable too hard causeth defluxion It is a sign of right swathing if the next day the part swell with a flegmatick Tumor If the part swell hard it is too straight if it swell not it is to loose If it be too straight next day bind it more loose Foment the part with water and oyl otherwise before the fourth day nothing must he moved From the third to the seventh the part groweth smaller wherefore on the seventh day it must be bound closer then before because there is no more fear of Symptoms If it be a simple Fracture wet the bands and plagers in Oxycratum or in red wine if it be with a Wound In Summer wet them oftner when the Symptomes cease leave off wetting them lest the breeding of the Callous be hindered 3. Cure the Symptoms and prevent them by Generals and Topicals Clammy nourishment generate the Callous yet Fab. obs 92. cent 1. disallows this because some by this means have fallen into a Dropsy and many have been cured without it taking the juyce of Primroses and the powder of the root or the juyce of Agrimony Also the powder of the stone Osteocolla to one dram with water of the root of Comfrey Ptisan or some broth every day taken fasting wonderfully makes the Callous especially if it be mingled also with Topicals Fab. obs 90. cent 1. Topicals are Emplaster Diapalma in Winter barbarum or the black plaister in Summer In progresse of the disease some wet the swaths with Rosemary water which they write to be most effectual for Fractures General If the ends of the bones prick the Periosteum or flesh the place must be opened and the splinters taken away if they stick only to the Periosteum but do not prick it they must not be taken out If they stick neither to the bone nor the Periosteum take them out We must often move it up and down for fear it should be crooked If there should be inflammation strive not to restore it for fear of Convulsion yet never stay beyond four days before you reduce it Place the parts in that posture that is lest painful Fab. cent 1. obs 93. Give them a bottome of thread to hold in their fingers that they may remain in a mean posture The Arm must be carried in a scarf bent at right angles not higher lest nothing should come forth not lower lest too much 1. Alwaies let the part lye easily 2. Equally 3 Something high A FRACTURE with a wound is more hard to cure for the bones must be reduced and the wound must be cured If there be inflammation reducing must be deferred till that is over the bone being reduced the wound must be cured Binding is done either with larger swath-bands and looser then in a Fracture without a wound and in the bottome of the Plaister or Cataplasm in the middle of the Swath-bands a hole is left that the wound may be cleansed the bands shall only hold the bones together Splints must not be laid on there is no use for Chests Or the binding is made with one Swath and once coming about which is woven with a double or treble linnen cloth like a plager and sewed exactly at the borders so broad that it may cover the whole wound Pareus l. 13. the coming forth of the matter is not hindered A FRACTURE of the Leg with a wound Pareus l. 14. for a wound of the Leg applyed the white of an Egg Butter and Meal and bid to extend the Foot If the wound was not open enough to take out the Splinters to enlarge it with a rasour and to try whether the Splinters could be taken out with the Fingers to crush out the clots of blood with the Hand to bind up the cavities of the Ham and Ankle as it must be and fill them up with hards wrapped in linnen lest by the hardness of the wisps the heel should be inflamed that he should place his Foot foftly equally and something high defended by a Cover to draw out three small Porrengers of blood from the Liver Vein on the left side At the second dressing he annointed the edges of the wound with oyl of Roses for six days used longer it stops up the Pores he sprinkled the Plagers with Oxycratum and red wine for nine days the Patient eat nothing but twelve Damask Prunes and six mouth-fulls of Bread The drink was nothing but sugered water or water alone he was purged with a Bolus of Cassia and Rheubarb On the eleventh day a Feaver and a defluxion came upon him which came to be an Impostume flowing forth with much matter from the portion of the corruption suppressed and more loose Ligature a convulsive motion also threw the bones reduced out of their place so that they were to be reduced again the Feaver ended the seventh day after that he laid on a Detergent digestive when the matter should break forth He laid in the bottome a Bed of Onions their Pills taken away He hastned the Callus with clammy meats and so in four Moneths he was cured A FRACTURE of the Scull with a wound of the Membranes The signs are if the Patient fell with the blow without sense or hearing If by his Nostrils Mouth Ears Eys the blood run out Lastly if he Vomited If with the Probe the roughnesse of the bone may be felt If Ink of Galls alone if we fear Vitriol being anointed and scraped with rasping Instruments it leave a line Differences 1. If there be a Fissure with a wound for two or three days we must leave the work to Nature shave the Haire apply something to stop the blood The next dressing the musculous skin with the Pericranium must be cut yet missing the Temples and Sutures it must be pulled from the Scull and either by the scraping Instrument or Ink the Fracture must be searched out but to be more sure whether the Fissure hath passed both places the sick must be bid to shut his Mouth and Nose and to breath forcibly for then by the Fissures will come forth bloody matter Then with most soft cloths with Cephalick powders the whole wound must be filled we must strive to ease the pain and unto the fourth day we must apply a repelling Medicament of Barly Meal and Bean meal of each six ounces oyl of Roses three ounces make a Cataplasm The second dressing the Fissure must be made clean by the scraping Instruments or the Trepan must be set on If it be a small Fissure of but one Plate whether we must follow it exactly to the end Aqua Pend. Celsus denieth it When as Galen warns us that if the Fissure be long ways that we must not follow it to the end Also in Europe those
white Lillies Solomons-seal Bean flowers c. GALLING is cured with the juyce of the hearb wild Tansey bruised with Dears suet Goats suet a tallow candle with oyl of Roses yolks of Eggs Goose grease Mucilage of Gum Traganth made with Rose water GUMS SWOLN is an inflammation of the Gums it is cured with Generals Topicals must neither be strong nor sharp Poyson must be avoided if it suppurate open it with a Lancer c. Gums with flesh growing too much about the Cheek-teeth are oft times with pain and a Feaver This followeth inflammation It is cured by binding it daily with a thread till it fall off or else by an Instrument of Iron HEAD-ACH The cause is either a bare distemper and then there is no heavinesse of the Head the Eys move easily there went before some procatarctick cause Or Matter from the common and proper signs so blood possesseth the fore head fleam the hinder part of the Head Choler the right side melancholick the left Or winds There is extension without heavinesse it quickly riseth and remits there is tinckling Or watery humour The pains are wandring distillations frequent much spittle The subject If the hair being lifted up the pain is increased which cometh not to the roots of the Eys it is without the scull If it come to the roots of the Eys it is within the scull The differences It is either by essence or by sympathy from the stomach Liver Spleen Courses Emrods stopt or from Ulcers shut up which is known if it come at distances of times if it be intended by the increasing of some other disease if there be signs of some other part affected the fore-part be most affected The Cure If it come from a naked distemper the indications are for contrary Alteratives by General Topical means If from Matter that must be voided revulsed the Head must be strengthned and altered by General Topical means Unguent of Alabaster is of wonderful force opening a Vein is alwaies good if by too great pain there be fear of inflammation Also Potions must be given in great quantities ten ounces at a time Let Sugar for pain of the Head be the whitest for that which is not so pure doth hurt In all Cephalick means for every humour you must add such as bring forth fleam That which is called Clavus is a pain in the Ey-brows from sharp matter with wind shut up between the scul and the Pericranium In Cephalick melancholy a Vein may be opened for to make proof of it Arthritick powders dry excellently which see in Senn. l. 1. p. 1. c. 11. Fâ—rnelius saith He never met with any Head-pain which he cured not Take Aloes the best half an ounce Species Electuary de gemmis Trium santal red Roses of each six granes with syrup of Wormwood and of Violets make a mass The dose is 1 dram twice a week two hours before Supper Scholz Ep. 121. If it be from drunkenness it is cured as Choler in the Head If from watery humours as fleam in the Head especially by sweating and diureticks Topicals must be laid to the forepart of the Head about the Fore-head Temples the Coronal suture to which alwaies add Vinegar The hinder part cannot bear it by reason of the Marrow of the Back Actual cold things may be applyed yet carefully in old people and children c. If they grow hot or dry remove them Also hot means in hot Head-ach are convenient and seldom cold things Veiven is commended a crown also of Roses Knot-grasse Clivers worn Plantain root hanged on Put under the Feet Colewort leaves beaten with Pigeons dung and Elder Vinegar lay Leaven Sope and Salt mingled upon cole leaves to the Feet it is approved See Symptoms of Feavers HERNIA of the Intestines The cause is either the falling down of the Peritonaeum or rupture or loosening Fabr. denyeth the first Ep. cent 3. annexed because in Aneurisma the starting of the Navil swelling of melancholick Veins Arteries the Peritonaeum and the Vein is dilated because in cutting for Hernia binding and Ligature of that falling down cannot be made for the parts broken are drawn one from the other The Signs A hard swelling sometimes great sometimes almost quite gone in the Scrotum pressed with the Fingers goeth back with a murmuring noise and pain if the Peritonaeum be broken it cometh suddenly if it be loosened by degrees Oft times by the sluggishness of Nature the Testicle resides in the Groin causing pain and swelling supposed to be Hernia It is cured by leaping c. Epiplocele is driven in without pain or murmuring The Cure The Intestin must be put up again if by reason of winds and hardnesse of the Excrements it cannot be sent back it must not be forced by violence but first we must apply emollients resolving If in vain cast in a resolving Clyster If this be also to no purpose by consent of the friend incision must be made in the Scrotum that the Rupture of the Peritonaeum may be made greater So the Intestine being put back again the Peritonaeum must be shut by stitching If the wind be from fleam the cure is difficult for strong discussives increase wind in which case some give oyl of sweet Almonds Suppositories and Clysters do more safely bring forth the fleam Incision I spake of before doth very seldom good Senn. It often maketh the Physitian suspected of man slaughter The Intestin put in is kept in with a Truss let the Diet be healing and astringent and all internals also must be the like Then we must be careful that the Excrements of the Belly be soft So often as the Patient goeth to stool the Intestins must be kept up with the Hand let him ly upwards some days in his bed Topicals are great Comfrey Sanicle Panfies white and black Solomons-seal Cinque-foyle Tormentil Cypress nuts Female fern Mous-ear Thorow wax Rupture wort the hearb called Holleriana because Hollerius saith that the juyce of that hearb for nine days drank in red wine doth perfectly cure Herniaes The root of Aveus of which internal remedies may be made under any form as well as Topicals The Cure by the golden paint as they call it is performed three ways either with a thread of linnen or by a leaden rod or a golden rod. Par. l. 7. Paraeus never would subscribe to take out the Testicle unlesse a Gangrene or fleshly Hernia befell them Platerus hath another way whereby Herniaes are cured without incision See Senn. A HERNIA of the Groin is a round swelling in the Groin which is easily thrust inward The Cure For. l. 27. cured it with a gentle purging Clyster with an emollient and resolvent fomentation the Intestins being thrust in again the place is anointed with oyl of Eggs Myrtils Hypericon of each what may suffice then for many daies he applyed the Cerate against Rupture and a Truss The drink was Beer of the infusion of great Comfrey with Sugar or Claret of the decoction
it is mortal INFLAMMATION of the Spleen There is pain swelling heaviness on the left side which yet oft times affects the right side and doth as it were compass a Man There is a continual Quartan Ague the Feet and Knees look red there is difficulty of breathing the Nostrils and Ears look pale it differs from obstruction because here is no great dissention it is without pain or Feaver If it proceed from wind there is no heavinesse exercise endeth the pain it is contrary in Inflammation Prognosticks It seldom suffers Inflammation but most seldome an Ulcer it is changed into a Scirrhus The Cure Open a Vein in the left Arm or in the Ankle if the Courses be stopt Then apply a Repeller as oyl of Roses with which mingle cutters or Vinegar Oyl of Camomil After that evacuate the humours prepared with true Purgatives Thirst must be endured so much as we can Afterwards Topicals must be Resolvers as the custome is INFLAMMATION of the Breasts It is cured by opening a Vein Purgatives and Alteratives Let the Topicals be Repellers but yet weak ones lest there grow a Cough difficulty of breathing Consumption Scirrhus Afterwards add Resolvers but such as are moderate lest they make a Scirrhus If it suppurate it must be helped forward if it open not of it self open it with a pen knife The Ulcer is not cured if the other Brests Milk be not dried up which will be done if she do not let the Child suck and lay on a woollen cloth wet in cold water INFLAMMATION of the Stomach Signs There is a sense of extending the Tumor often appeareth outwardly If it be the outward part the pain after meat is not so sharp but when the meat is digested the appetite is better nothing is cast forth of the Impostume If it be the internal part the pain is sharper after meat if the external when the meat is digested all the Symptoms are more vehement There is heat thirst a most hot Feaver delirium swooning vomiting It is very hardly discerned from Inflammation of the Abdomen about that Region but only by vehemency of the Symptoms The Cure Revulsion Clysters internal Repellers and outward those allmost actually cold these hot After that add Resolvers yet alwaies add Astringents and strengthners Help the pain with one ounce or two of syrup of Poppy If it suppurate cure it as suppuration and let the Diet be almost as Topicals From hot Topicals applyed to the Stomach grows Inflammation of the Liver Fab. cent 2. obs 46. INFLAMMATION of the Reins Signs Heat great pain spreading to the Bladder the Testicles and the bastard Ribs by sneezing motion the pain is encreased the sick cannot lift themselves up There is astonishment of the Leg by compression of the Nerves the outward parts are cold the Urine is at first thin in the increase red there is cholerick Vomiting and a vehement Feaver In Inflammation of the Colon the pain goeth inward and there appeareth a change rather in the dung then in the Urine If the Emroids come upon it it is good The Cure Revulsion a Clyster in a lesse quantity Alteratives without diureticks Purgatives In the declination milder Diureticks are good Topicals must be as before The matter must be evacuated by Urine INFLAMMATION of the Mesentery It is not seldom yet is it seldom known Oft times it hath a Semitertian for company there is pain of the Lungs which extends it self above and about the Stomach the Belly is stopt If it stick about the more ignoble parts the Feaver is slow without thirst the matter is often voided by the Belly It is cured as before Also the same way is the Inflammation of the Bladder and the Peritonaeum INFLAMMATION of the Testicles This is cured the wonted way Let all Topicals be so applyed that the Testicles may hang down lesse Lay an Intercipient at the side of the privities Verven boyled in Wine is commended in the declination or bread with oyl and water INFLATION of the Stomach It commeth from wind bred from causes related in the Colick There is a resisting Tumor also belching and windinesse If it come from weaknesse the signs are perceived if it come from windy nourishment the sick will declare that If it come from other matter there are oft times signs of Hypochondriacal affection In one that groweth well it threatneth to return If it last long a Tympany The Cure If the Inflation be small apply Carminatives without and inwardly as oyl of Carways three drops Plaister of Bay-berries First take away the cause by Vomit Purging c. There is no heaviness felt the pain is not continual with a noise c. The same way the windinesse of the Liver and Spleen are cured Pain of the Spleen is not in the Spleen but in the Peritonaeum and Muscles of the Abdomen from wind water causing also a windy Cramp Camomil Hierapicra are good ITCHING of the Ey-lids is cured by Generals Coolers Moistners Topicals first emollient as warm water then more sharp as water of Honey three ounces Sugar one dram Aloes one dram and half mingle them Or Aegyptiac one dram dissolved in Plantain water and dipping a soft linnen rag into it touch the Ey-lids bewaring the Eys Or Take White-wine half a pound common Salt one dram let them stand in a Barbers bason for six days or let the Urine of the sick stand for a night in the Bason or sharp Vinegar For. prepared unguent of Roses with a little Tutty It is taken away with long time swathing if every third day the Swathe be taken off and the part be fomented with warm water or water and oyl or with decoction of Camomil Balm in Wine or Pickle the Bladders must be opened they must be anointed with white unguent of Rhasis red Desiccative c. Of the Yard and Matrix is taken away with one dram of gold Lytharge infused twenty four hours in the sharpest Vinegar oyl of Violets sometimes one ounce sometimes but half half an ounce make an Unguent The juyce of dwarf Elder extracted and dryed with oyl of Roses made thick in a leaden Mortar KINGS-EVIL is a Scirrhous Tumor of the Kernels shut in a bag Oft times it possesseth all the Kernels seventy have been found in the Mesentery If it be in the Throat it is called Bronchocele These differ from other Tumors in number for they are many and take deep root Oft times it fasteneth in the Groin and under the Arm-pits It is a hard Tumor that yieldeth uot to the touch is painful The Cause is fleam or melancholy hardned Platerus saith it is made of a limentary juyce hardned when as they are not changed into matter nor corrupt but last long The Cure The antecedent cause is taken away by Generals the weaknesse of the Bowels ingendring fleam must be corrected Topicals must be Specifical Resolvers as Viper-grasse Pilewort Crowfoot Root of Sword-grasse If it will not be resolved it must be suppurated cut
Differences 1. When the Brain is primarily affected 2. By consent of the Heart and the whole Body 3. Hypochondriacal 4. From the Matrix That which comes from the Emroids the Spleen c. belongeth to the Hypochondriacal The first proceeds not from a bare distemper for else the actions should not be diminished and if it came from cold it would affect old men It comes from a humour in the Head that is too earthy Hitherto belongeth mad love or doting from too much care of the Mind hunger watchings anger The second is made from a melancholick humour either sticking in the branches of the hollow Vein and of the great Artery and from impure vital spirits whence it is almost continual there is present cold of the Heart with drynesse there went before it frights watchings c. The third is made of a Melancholick humour sticking in the Vena porta whence it afflicts by turns about the Liver the Caule the Spleen If the vapour be not communicated to the Brain it is a bare Hypochondriacal affection Hitherto conduceth rest and the Belly bound The fourth is made in Widdows that are lusty for men from stopt Courses and a melancholick humour Diagnosticks If it be the first there is a continual doting vehement the Hypochondres are well there is tinkling a Vertigo heaviness of the Head c. they trifle If it be from mad love they are merry If it be the second the whole Body is melancholick the delirium is not continual c. they easily fall into Madnesse Epilepsie c. The Cure The cause must be altered evacuated the distemper must be taken away at times the Head and Heart must be strengthned If it be mad love things that extinguish seed must be given they must change the Aire c. Vervin carried about exstinguish lust Also Mints whence grew the Proverb In time of war neither sowe nor eat Mints Opening a Vein is good Mingle with all medicaments moistners and strengthners Confectio Hamech is not so convenient Vomiting Whey in abundance for a little profiteth not Decoction of Wormwood Steel sowre waters mineral Baths baths wherewith Galen cured many Topicals laid to the Spleen and Heart the Diet must be moist Some use the Trepanum taught by chance For. cured many with a Lenitive after a decoction of Penny-royal and the lesser Centory Sometimes with syrup Byzantine some times with Mints sometimes Wormwood sometimes with Borrage Apples Bugloss easy Vomits easy Purgatives decoction of Wormwood and with Diureticks Aph 11. s 6. Scholtzius Ep. 241. where Monavius speaks of a certain noble Bohemian who died of a love potion If it be the fourth the pain is various chiefly on the left side on the Region of the Heart which sometimes seizeth on the whole Brest there is a manifest pulsation in the Back about the Diaphragma the Courses flow sparingly Let a Vein be opened in the Arm if there be Plethory If the time for the Courses be at hand in the Ankle Purge wandring melancholy which the Arabians call Kutubuth It chiefly troubleth men in February The sick cannot stay an hour in one place but wander alwaies not knowing whither they go It comes from the proper passion of the Brain they must be cured the ordinary way MEMORY It is weakned by a cold moist distemper It is cured as flegmatick Head-ach by alteratives Purgatives Strengthners Confectio Anacardina is good which is called a Confection of wise men whereby many have gained an admirable Memory the Dose is half a dram and less It drieth vehmently wherefore if any principal part be hot they get Memory indeed but they cannot live long It may be made without Castoreum that it may be more pleasant Every morning rub hard the hinder part of the Head and Nape with Ivy water distilled from the Tree three or four times in a glass Stil A secret oyl of Frankinsence Myrrh c. MEASLES They have alwaies a putrid Feaver with them sometimes Continual sometimes Intermitting The Cause is the menstrual blood the Aire the Diet. If the blood be thicker they are the Small-pox if thinner they are the Measles they break forth critically the fourth day Scowring straightness of the Breast bloody urine hoarsness are mortal For they either dy of a Quinsey or Swooning or scowring The Cure Before the Pox break forth in those that are not exceeding young if there be a continuall Feaver it is good to open a Vein otherwise not Give Lenitives or Clysters In the augmentation and the state Cordials and such things as expel Mitigaters are useful either temperate or cold as the nature of the Feaver requireth For. prescribed such a one Take Barley cleansed one pugil Liccoris scraped half an ounce red Chiches two drams all the great cold seeds of each half a dram Cordial flowers of each one pugil three fat Figs boyl them in the strained liquor dissolve syrup of Pomegranats half an ounce for two Doses Infants should according to For. be wrapt in red cloth yet so that it touch not their skin The decoction of Lintels is good but not in substance Turnep-seed Citron-seed Columbine Carduus Benedictus in form of emulsion Epithems have proved mortal Or never or cautiously must they be ripened Butter hath often done hurt They must not be opened unless they be very Malignant The ripe wheals must be anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds so they leave not filthy holes The eys are preserved with rose-Rose-water and a little Saffron Afterwards you may add juyce of Fennel Rue Vervain Straw-berries A Saphir stone put to childrens Eys preserveth them Crat. Ep. 160. The Nostrils are preserved with Rose water with juyce of sowre Grapes Posca c. Into the Ears drop oyl of Roses Myrtils The Throat is wonderfully preserved by a Gargarism of Goats milk and Plantain water The Lungs with this following Take syrup of sweet Pomegranates two ounces Sugar Penidiate three ounces Syrup of the infusion of Roses Diamoron of each half an ounce Diatraganth frigid three drams Purest white Starch two scruples make an Electuary It is a secret Give children Figs with syrup of Pomegranates OBSTRUCTION of the Liver is made when the Veins and Arteries are stopped in the substance of the Liver Diagnosticks The sick feels heaviness and by and by after exercise or meat he feels pain in the Liver When he ascends a steep place he is pressed with an unusual difficulty of breathing the Excrements of the Belly are moist and plentiful If it be the hollow part there is thirst nauseating if the round part the Diaphragma is more pressed It commeth from a vapour and there is weight or from wind if the hollow part be affected it is more easily cured The Cure If there be Plethory opening a Vein is good that the use of aperients may be the safer all which are hot Purge the Body give aperient means be the cause hot or cold give openers as Succories Lettice the four great cold seeds with other
plentiful and clammy If it be corrupt and that from too weak a Medicament there is a stink and the Ulcer appeareth whitish If it corrode there is pricking pain alwayes increasing It is cured by Generals Topicals detergent as with spirit of Wine Fleshy excrescence in Ulcers cometh either from too much blood or because Sarcoticks are laid-on that dry not sufficiently If the first the flesh is good if the latter loose spongy If the first it is cured by fasting c. The latter with greater Dryers Epuloticks and Corrosives without pain The green water is good which Senn. oftimes commends as Take raw Alum Verdigrease of each two drams boyl them in eighteen ounces of Wine till a fourth part be consumed strain it then add Camphir one dram dissolve it in spirit of Wine one ounce and add it to the former If the Ulcer be with a hard Circumference and the hardners will not yield to Emolients the hard and wan flesh is most fitly cut out to the quick flesh that scarifying may be made and strong Detergents used If the Ulcer be with a Tumor eating not only the Cucula but also the flesh it is called an eating-Ulcer It comes from a sharp humour not so thin as in Wild-fire nor so thick as in a Cancer It is cured as an Ulcer with tumor and distemper That Ulcer is very ill bound up three or four times a day unless it be by reason of extream pain Let there be an Ulcer within the Leg alittle above the Ankle afflicting with great pain that is hollow corrupt joyned with corruption of the Bone circular with brawny swollen Lips compassed with inflammation and swollen melancholly Veins Suppose this be propounded to be cured Generals first premised first of all you shall ease the pain taking away the cause of it by Softners Coolers Narcoticks so the pain with the Inflammation being asswaged wash away the rottenness In the mean time by the way you shall make the Ulcer corner-ways you shall cut off the brawny substance of it you shall correct the putrefaction you shall make the Bones scale the Ulcer being cleansed must be filled with flesh brought to cicatrise Par. Querc commendeth the Sugar of Saturn to be miraculous Vulnerary drinks An ULCER of the Eye is known by sight and if it be in the Cornea there preceedeth a white Push a little Ulcer the Cicatrix is made white if it be in the Adnata it will be red It is cured by Generals Revulsives Intercipients laid to the Temples Anodyns Detergents as with Sugar Honey Myrrh Saffron Frankincense water of Strawberries three parts Sugar one part distilled when they have been eight days in digestion in Balneo Rue Horehound Ey-bright water Infusion of Sarcocolla Aloes c. bound in a linnen clout and pressed forth Take Frankincense Mastick of each one scruple Myrrh Aloes Succotrine of each half a dram Tutty prepared one dram Sarcocolla infused half a dram powder them mingle them with the white of an Egg and juyce of Quinces make Troches to be dissolved in Fennel water Give internal means to restore the sight as Take Conserve of Ey-bright one ounce and half Betony Rosemary of each one ounce roots of Elecampane candied two drams Fennel candied half an ounce extract of Rue seed half a scruple the essence extract or spirit of Valerian roots half a scruple Siler mountain one dram Sage Rue Vervain of each half a scruple with syrup of Betony or Staechados make an Electuary let it be taken at Bed-time Strew salt of the powder of Ey-bright on their meats Montan. ep 75. relates that he saw one use it by the Nostrils because the Ulcer was not well cured Vitriol in small quantity dissolved in much Rose water serveth instead of all Detergents For. premising a Lenitive purgeth with Fennel Ey-bright Senna leaves Pillulae Lucis to one dram Opening a Vein Cupping Scarifying fomentation of Mallows two handfuls flowers of red Roses one dram and half Quince seeds one dram and half cleansed Barley one pugil boyl all in ten ounces of fountain water add water of Mallows Roses of each half an ounce soment it twice in a day he dropped in the Collyrium following Take Troches that are white of Rhasis for the Eys without opium two scruples Rose water two ounces mingle them and drop it in lay upon it a double linnen cloth wet in the former fomentation after that in the fomentation was infused Fenugrec seed exactly washed two drams and half of Quinces two drams in a Nodulus after that Ey-bright water half an ounce was added to the Ey water after that in the same Collirium was put a little Sarcacolla soaked in Brest milk then a little Frankincense Saffron with the Mucilage of Fenugree seed At first let the sick sleep on the opposite side until the matter break forth in the side affected Venatius for an Ulcer of the Eye ill cured was commanded to forsake Padua An ULCER of the weeping flesh namely an Aegylops For. because of the danger doth not willingly undertake the cure of it If it were not yet ulcerated after Generals there is need of repelling means after that add Discussives as rank nuts If it be suppurated open it in time cleanse it Verdigrease of it self is a secret If it be with rottennesse of the Bone there is need of a Canstick Fab. cured them with Setons An ULCER of the Ear. Signs are pain burning great pricking in the Ear matter This sometimes is sent forth from the Brain inflamed which is easily known Sometimes as in children from the impurity of the Brain without an Impostume in the Veins of the Brain and Passages of the Ears matter is bred and there is no pain and the matter once spent is heaped up again The cure By Generals Topicals Detergents as juyce of Betes Horehound oyl of bitter Almonds juyce of Onions with Honey of Roses or Mel Rosarum the side is anointed with unguent of Alabaster juyce of wake Robin Briony the matter that comes forth must be put-by with wooll with honey-Honey-water afterwards with Wine then with Oxymel The Probe must be wrapped with Wool The pain is taken away with a piece of Frankincense infused in Milk till it be dissolved and drop'd in by drops If there be Plethory and the matter runneth not yet out of the Ulcer pain urging a Vein is fit to be opened Galen for old Ulcers ufeth scales of Iron powdred beaten with Vinegar and seven times dryed then with Vinegar it is boyled to the thickness of Honey The matter must be drawn forth by a great Syringe unless it come forth it self An ULCER of the Nostrils If it be new and stink not it is easily cured if old and stinking hardly it is called Ozaena which oft times gives suspition of a Cancer It is most difficult to cure it hath crusts The Cure Generals premised also the decoction of Guaicum and a vulnerary drink Let the Topicals be Astringents and Discussives mingled
whence worms like Cantharides are brought forth Sometimes the whole matter lyeth upon one part whence the whole body is freed from pain an Impostume groweth which endeth in a Fistula 2. Without swelling this often causeth learnesse with weaknesse of the joynts Diagnostick signs There are wandring fierce pains all the body over especially in the back and the Loyns First It seaseth on one part only then suddenly it fasteneth on the next the most are bound in their bellies their Urine is like to those that are well but that sometimes little worms like those thar breed in rotten cheese swim in the bottom of the urinal and are mingled with the excrements of the belly Some have a good stomach others not Prognostick The cure often extends to some weeks The Cure Empiricalls are Earth-worms provided divers wayes Some give the ashes of a quick Mole burnt with wine at the decrease of the Moon Dogmaticalls Take Serna powder 2. drams infuse this 12 hours in Betanywater 6 ounces strain it hard adde Diacarthamum half an ounce mingle it Take roots of Devils-bit 1 ounce round Birthwort 3. drams Sage Betany of each one handful Southernwood Rue Perwinkle Savin of each 1 pugil boyl all in fair water with 4 ounces of this decoction for a dose passe through a colender 5 Earth-worms thrice washed in wine powdered then mingle Treacle half a dram cinamon in powder 1 scruple Sugar what may suffice drink it and sweat upon it repeat this for some dayes together The Impostume is broke with Plantane and salt beaten in a mortar and applyed the Impostume being broken some lay on a Cataplasm of Salomons seal with Ale with the roots of the Oke-fern Others do strew on the powder of a Mole H. de Bra. ASTHMA is the hurt of Breathing without a Feaver with a noise and frequency of breathing from the straightness of the wind-pipe if it be taken properly the disease is stubborne and long The Cause use increased by the straightnesse of the wind-pipe obstructions from the plenty of the humours the thicknesse stone hard swelling that matter is seldom sent from the head it is often collected by degrees it is most commonly sent by the vein-artery or the arterious vein for should it flow often from the head there would be a cough because those that are asthmatical are commonly Cachecticall and their feet swell because it often ceaseth without expectorating because by suppression of the Emrods ariseth constipation from some swelling humour compression by sinking down and growing together constriction by grosse vapours rising from the womb Whatsoever is troublesome to the instruments of breathing if it cannot easily be removed it causeth one to Cough if hardly it causeth Asthma for there is not strength enough to cough it out but if more hardly it causeth Orthopnoea and if it cannot be cast out it is a strangling Catarrh Diagnostick signs If it come from a thick cause bred by leisure an Asthma comes by degrees and it is continual If it floweth thither it increaseth at sometimes an in Autumn winter in the night If it come from the Brain there be signs of a Catarrh If it come from the Liver there is a swelling of the Feet and an ill habit If a thick humour stop the Wine-pipe there is a Cough with a noise it is bred by degrees there is Catarrh the Patient is sound If the fleam stick in the stomach there is a Cough with a sound and seldom any thing is expectorated and the disease being obstinate and lasting long killeth a man If it proceed from the drinesse of the Lungs so Heurnius saw a mans Lungs so dry that they were like a dry Apple there is no spittle the whole body is lean Prognostick It strangleth children old folk cannot be cured Aph. 40. s 2. young people hardly It is dangerous in a sharp Feaver It is sometimes changed into Peripneumonia a Dropfy and an ill habit of the body The cure In the Paroxism the cause must be pulled back by chafings Ligatures Cupping-glasses Clysters and opening a vein if the forces will admit if the humour be thin they must purge Topicals must be emollient and resolving When the Paroxysm is extended beyond the fourth day Vesicatories must be laid ro the Back against the region of the Lungs Out of the Paroxysm the matter prepared must be evacuated then expectoratir â—eans must be given The Breast muâ—â— be annointed If it come from a Catarrh the Brain must be purged The Catarrh must be hindered Use of old Treacle is excellent as of Diacalaminth as of Aqua vitae with Elecampane then dry the matter with a decoction of Guaiacum let the diet be attenuating the drink thin wine water and honey motion before meat must not be sudden or vehement for so many have been choked APHTHAE The cause is sometime a fault in the Mouth when humours are collected in it or of the whole Body as in malignant acute Feavers or of some part as of the Head Lungs Liver Spleen Belly Matrix in children sharp milk corroding the Tongue also milk corrupting which sendeth forth sharp vapours The difference Some are new some old some malignant some not some are on the Tongue some come on the Palate some from Blood some from choler Signs diagnostick Little swellings are seen sometimes red sometimes black sometimes white sometimes black and stinking Prognosticks Stinking black ulcerated crusty inveterated in children are mortal because you cannot apply means to them by reason the parts are soft moyst whence they easily corrupt corruption of the bone in those that are of years is dangerous If they happen in acute pestilent Feavers they are deadly The cure For children take away the sharpnesse of Milk from the Nurse by general and Topical means Give the child a draught of Honey of Roses Diamoron with Oxymel First give astringent Syrups then add discussers if the Milk concoct ill suckle it not so often If that be in vain bring them to suppuration laying Figs on them or boyl Bran in water til it grow clammy strain it and add Honey to the liquor or with Milk or Mucilage or syrup of Juleps or Gargarisms or Pills to hold under the Tongue and Lohocks for Infants Where the Patient is of years the humours must first be temperd 2. The conineut cause first requires astringents and then Resolvers If they be malignant Actius prescribes the Green water or Aegyptiac or to dip the Probe in scalding Oyl or in Aqua fort is which is not strong enough to work on mettals this following repelleth Take water of Honey suckle Plantaine Nuts of each 3 ounces Flowers of dry red Roses 1. pugil strain it and dissolve in it syrup of Pomegranats and Diamâ—ron of each 1. ounce mingle them The Spirit of Vitriol 2 drops and of Honey 1 ounce is good Crato Ep. 183. For inveterate Aphthae the ashes of Fennel-root burnt either alone or mixed with Honey are most profitable Least they should proceed
the Vessel in sunder being brought to light that the heat of the parts may compress the end of it Some when the Spring comes that Frogs first cast forth their spawn take a coorse linnen cloth so much as may serve and wash it often in this spawn and lay it in the Sun to dry and this they repeat three or four times and so the cloth being dryed at the time they need it they cut a piece off twice greater then the wound and lay it on the wound BARRENNES For. prescribed this that followeth Take Saffron long Pepper Cardamnum Pellatoty of Spain of each half a dram tails of Scincus with the Reins 2 scruples Galanga 4 Scruples Rape seed Parsnip seed Rocket seed Nettle seed ash-keys of each one dram Leeks white Ginger choise Cinamon of each 2 drams Electuary diasatyrion of Mesues description 6 drams with syrup of preserved Ginger make an Electuary keep it in a Vessel of glasse Take one hour before supper the quantity of a Nut and drink a cup of wine upon it Let the Patient take about bed time one dram of this following powder with wine Take white Ginger 1 dram Gallinga 2 drams Bulls pisle 3 drams make a powder Root of Egyptian Bean raw or boyled eaten Oyl of Marjoram with Hares runnet and a little Musch The secret of Lobelius Schrekevos commends this following as revealed by God Take yolks of Eggs fresh butter Bulls pisle Chiches Galanga Satyrian Zedoary Ginger preserved Mints Cocks and Wolfs testicles of each 1 dram Rocket seed Cloves Ginger Pepper long white and black Anniseed Ash keys Cinamon of each half a dram brains of Pigeons and Sparrows well boyled and roasted of each half a pound the heart of the Indian Nut Pine kernels cleansed Fistich nuts sweet Almonds cleansed Mallow seed Mercury Hasle-nuts shaled Dates of each 2 drams boyl all in sheeps milk and water bruise them strongly and add Tailes of Scinci half a dram make a Confection with Honey of Roses or Sugar what may suffice boyl all at a soft fire for an Electuary Helidaus holds this for a secret Take Pennyroyal Origanum of each two handfuls boyl them in Malligo wine adding musk three grains let both be perfumed Also the fume of Sage boyled received The same Author giveth one or at most three grains of Amber in a rear Egg in the morning shavings of Ivory and powder of Sage of each alike the decoction of Eringo roots in wine CACHEXIA is a cold and moist distemper of the body with a symptome of the colour changed and a disease of magnitude by the swelling of the Feet The Cause is a watery Flegmatick raw blood the fault is of the Liver the Spleen of the stomach of the Brain an nicer of the Reins because the wheyish humour running back hath infected the blood stopping of the Courses too much glutting and craming themselves Signs Diagnostick A pale leady colour a soft tumour about the Eyes Cheeks Feet Hands Prognostick It often afflicts children by too much greediness old men and women It may be cured unlesse it come from an incurable disease The Cure The vicious matter must be evacuated The cause must be removed The distemper must be taken away by general remedies and topicals The Powder called Cachectical is profitable as some other powder of filings of Steel steeled wine Senn. l. 3. p. 6. s 2. c. 2. Fer. l. 9. A CANCER is a hard Tumor sharp unequal round unmoveable wan sticking deep in the Veins that swell with a black humour and are spread in the body like to a Crab. The Cause is black choler Heurnius in Aph. 38. s 6. saith there is a double poyson one putrifying which is enraged by suppurating remedies another corroding that is enraged by Cleansers Signs Diagnostick The Tumor is hot and painful and is ulcerated The Ulcer is foul and stinking the lips of it are swolne thick wan Prognostick Aph. 38. s 6. by hidden Cancers are understood such as are not ulcerated Senn. Fabr. cent 3. obs 87. No Cancers though they be of the Breasts are cured by cutting off but they will grow again Cancers of the Lips How they must be extirpated Pareus teacheth l. 6. c. 29. The Cure It is performed by exact cutting away The increasing of an ulcerated Cancer must be hindered and of one that is not ulcerated that it come not to ulceration Palliative is made 1. By Diet. 2. By evacuatives and alteratives 3. By revulsion and derivation by Issues 4. By Topicals The juyce and decoction of Nightshade Endive the flesh of Snails boyld River Crabs green Frogs Oyl of Frogs See Senn. l. p. 1. c. 20. ashes of Crabs Senn. Scabious heath Robert Chervil Dill Honey-suckles Mans dung in powder For. l. 17. ashes of Mullens of the lesser Celandine of Robert Oyl of Eggs and wan mixed in a leaden Mortar with water of Night-shade with a leaden pestle Asses milk is good and Treacle Wild Cresses bruised or in fomentation also blood-suckers laying on of Cats and young Whelps divided Powder of Galls of burnt Crabs mingled with Oyl of Roses and laid on with Lint Pareus his Plate of Lead anointed with Quick-silver is excellent and an Antidote for all malignant Ulcers but because it keepeth in vapours Forestus liketh it not Par. l. 8 bids that it be made full of holes Crato Ep. 59. Crabs eys ground small on a Marble taken in broth or wine can do much in the greatest pains of a Cancer Aegyptiac is mortal for cancerous Ulcers Fabr. l. 3. obs 86. An old woman cured a Cancer laying on Sage chewed with her Teeth For. l. c. The Cure of that is ulcerated is done by Minerals with Unguent of Tutty Diapampholigos or juyce of Nightshade clarified and stirred in a leaden mortar with a leaden pestle 8 ounces of common Tutty ten times washed in Night-shade water 2 drams of burnt lead washed likewise 1 dram Oyl of Roses half an ounce juyce of Nightshade what may suffice make a Liniment in a leaden Mortar with a leaden Pestle Some lay on daily a Hen which the Cancer eats For. l. c. Emplaister of Ceruss it is truly cured either by Section or burning or burning means If there be good blood and matter that runs from it the cure is perfect See Senn. l. c. No Atractives or Digestives profit nor Oyls or fat things except Juyces white wax and Goats suet For. l. 28. A small Cancerous push growing slowly about the Chin Mouth Nose is called Nolime tangere A Cancer in the Legs and Shanks is called a a Wolf Senn. l. c. Blood is sometimes commodiously drawn by distance of time The hearb Carduns benedictus and also the Eys of Crabs Magistral is given succesfully in water Arsemart Senn. l. 4. p. 3. s 1. c. 7. See there the manner of Section See what must be looked to concerning the Muscle of the Brest in the Anatomists A Hen cut through the middle is excellent to lay on being every day renewed Famous
the sharpness of the matter when parts are contracted beyond their extension they are dislocated distorted that they cannot again be extended Prognosticks In Hippocrates Aphorism a Convulsion growing suddenly if a loosnesse of the Belly or a Feaver come upon it it is ended If they escape four days they are well The cure If it be by consent the part that principally offends must be cured If it be by essence opening a Vein is good or cupping-glasses with scarifying If the Legs be drawn set them to the Hips if the Hands set them to the first Vertebra of the Thorax If the Tongue the Eye-lids set them to the first Spondils of the Neck Purging chasing sharp Clysters anointing of the Back bone are good Topicals must be resolvent beginning from the milder oyis of Camomil Dil c. Goole-grease c. Internals must be as in the Palfey The Mouth drawn awry must by no means be opened with Instruments If it be from a wound the soul matter must be wiped away and Inflamation must be cured If from eating Mushroms Galen gave Hens dung with Oxymel for a great secret The Nerves hardned by too great dryers cannot be cured CRISES Though they be imperfect the matter being not yet concocted yet are they good For. saw when a Crisis was often repeated yet the sick escaped so from an Apoplex a Palsey from a Lethargy swellings under the Ears is good Fern. l. 2. c. 1. saith that profitable Crises are not made by bleeding 1. Because alwaies red blood runs fresh 2. Because it pulls not away the root of the disease without an irregular flux See Aph. 25. s 4. Zach. answererh l. 1. histor 64. that that blood appeareth red because it droppeth out by drops so that the heat of it is taken away by the ambient aire wherefore the cold will not suffer the Heterogeneous parts to be separated from the good So the blood remaineth red In the Arm it floweth out by heaps so that the heat remaining the grosse parts are separated from the good CHILD-BIRTH In hard labour some have the bones of the privities stretched out Paraeus will have it that the bones without names are separated from the Os sacrum Also they may be distended with the Perinaeum and the bone of the Crouper Wherefore those that are in labour must not bear upon the Perinaeum And Topicals must be applyed to the Perinaeum and to the Crouper bone and of the Privities Signs A most greivous pain which if it cease suddenly the Child being not delivered the Mother dyeth The Cause Hard labour is either the fault of the Mother when the expulsive faculty is weak or of the Child when it is greater and not well postured or of the Passage namely when the membranes are too strong the Neck streight from ayre too hot or cold In women of the first Child from plenty of Excrements driness If the Child be dead or the Physitians hand put in not the Mother seeleth any motion the water runs forth If the Secondine be thrust forth before the Child If the pain be greater the breath stink the Perinaeum be cold If the Mouth of the Womb be soft and hot it is the Birth The cure The places must be softned by all means The Child-bed Woman must be placed in a Bed as in cutting of the Stone or in a stool that she may lean on the side of the Bed Let her hold her breath and not cry Cause her to sneeze give her Clysters sharp suppositories Put stinking things to her Nostrils Let her drink Beer with Butter and oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce Let her Belly be empty feed her sparingly anoint her with oyl of Amber Give her one drop of it with Vervain water Also let her take first of all Cinamon water or take white Dittany Amber of each one dram and half give half with hot wine Oyl of Cinamon oyl of Hasle-nut tree the powder of the Secondine torrified five or six berries of Juniper taken with Figs five times wonderfully helps forward delivery Dittany Cassia lignâ—a Myrrh Many have been delivered by taking half a dram or one dram of pills of Asa foetida Powder of Ladies Bind to the thigh an Eagles Stone which also draweth the Matrix to it wherefore use it not long Also Coral Roots of knot-grasse green Coriander bound to the soles of the Feet or to the Hips Use none of these till the Moon of the ninth moneth be past They that have broad shoulders bring forth great children with the Child let the Secondine be taken out gently or presently after lest the Matrix follow If there be many children so many Secondines there are If it stay behind it must be taken forth with medicaments or by the hand The Navel being tyed the Womb must be swathed with a swath-band The Secondine being drawn forth put in the Matrix It is a wonderful secret to drive out the Secondine for the Terms stopped strangling of the Matrix the dead child a Mola bruise the green leaves of Lovage and drink the juyce pressed out with wine or Mugwort water In the Winter give Lovage seed boyled with Mugwort water Also one scruple of the Trochis of Mirrh with two ounces of wine If it help not it must be taken forth with the hand see Paraeus or by incision The oyl of Hazle-nuts Bitter things kill the child If the after burden come sparingly away by chafings c. they must be drawn in the lower parts to the womb A vein must be opened in the Ankle Topicals Clysters must be emollients If some days after child-birth be past a Purge of Rheubarb Agarick are good Give things to attenuate the blood and the five opening Roots c. If they flow too much cure them as Diarrhaea Pains after child-birth are either in the belly or in the womb which are like to a Tenesmus when the force of expelling is prolonged They proceed either from the cold Ayr or clots of blood or blood too sharp Senn. cureth it by removing the cause he prescribes not purgatives but internal heaters and Topicals For. holds for a secret beer boyld with Camomil flowers or without purging the Ladies powder or the infusion of Camels meat Cinamon c. If the privy member be broken when it is cured again at every child bearing it must be opened with a rasour Feavers of one day continuing sometimes many days called Feavers of milk do commonly go away of themselves if they be really continual putrid Feavers they proceed from the suppression of the Terms or the vitious provision of the humours CHILD-BLANES are an inflamation of the Feet by the Winter cold Preservatives are socks wet in Aqua vita and keep them warm They are cured as Aples and Egs congealed if they be put into cold water or rubbed with snow So the cold being drawn forth which is known by the pricking pain abated the part must be fomented with milk boyld in Rosemary c. The
from the dry hearb Gall of Patridge with equal part of oyl of Amber Water of an Ash with its salt is specifical Querc Crato Ep. 59. Carduus benedictus four handfuls infuse them twice in two pound of Carduus water distil it after 24 hours infusion he puts a clout into the Ear dipped in that water Water of bread It is seldom cured after six Moneths An old woman put one or two grains of musk into the Ear succesfully with cotten Another used the oyl of young mice steeped newly littred miraculously Juyce of Iâ—y clarified dropt in with wine Juyce of Onions with some convenient liquor Oyls of bitter Almonds Marjoram of yolks of Eggs of Hempseed of Turpentine Wax Juniper Mustard-seed Guaicum juyce of Tobacco Let all be warm put in no new till the former be well purged to which end serveth coughing sneezing three or four drops of the medicament is enough to drop in at once let the sick ly on the sound Ear. Stop the Ears with cotton Avoid unctuous things as much as is possible ECSTASIS is either true as when the mind is drawn away to contemplate heavenly things or Demoniacal as the dancing of witches to which belongeth the Ecstasis of Cardan and those of Lapland Or Natural whereby men think their dreams were so indeed and that they saw quires of Angels ELIPHANTIASIS of the Greeks or a Leprosy of the Arabians is a Cancer of the whole Body or a disease in augmented magnitude from a hot dry distemper and solution of continuity The cause is black malignant Choler the remote is Conception whilst the Terms flow a hot and dry distemper of the Liver and the Spleen Signs Diagnostick A Nose wan red Cheeks cleaving of the Nails a shrill voice stupidnesse in the Legs and the whole Body that they can scarse feel the prick of a needle If some grains of salt be cast on the blood of a Leprous person the salt dissolveth if the blood swim on clear water he is infected If the Ashes of burnt Lead swim on his water he is Leprous Lemn Prognostick It is not cured but at first The Cure Diet is prescribed opening of a Vein purging Cordials Baths after bathing give the Ashes of a Kites Head Feet and Bowels burnt in a pot but the flesh must be eaten for three days together which some hold for a secret That the use of Vipers will not suffice Palmarius observed Fernelius Erastus That it is sufficient and whereby Gisb. Horst said He cured himself and many others See Vidius Schenkius Palmarius his greatest hopes lieth in Quicksilver ELEPHANTIASIS of the Arabians is a swelling of the Foot wan and looks like an Elephants Foot It is cured at the beginning but old cannot be cured Senn. often observed that the Hands also will swell so that pressed by ones Fingers they leave pits like Oedema It is cured as before EMPYEMA is a collection of Matter in the hollow of the Brest The Cause It followeth chiefly the inflammation of the Tonsils or the Pleura of the Lungs c. Signs diagnostick If such an Inflammation went before which could not be cured there is a weight about the Diaphragma fluctuation when men change the side they lye on At last a Feaver cometh softly which is partly putrid partly hectick about the evening and morning it is fiercest A continual Cough bloody spittle if they lie hid in the right side there is felt heat and weight Hippocrates bids to lay a wet cloth to both sides where it is soonest dried there lyeth the matter Prognostick Thirst lost-Appetite loose Belly stinking spittle are deadly Oft times it degenerates to a Consumption then the Temples are mightily extenuated the Feet swell the Nails are crooked If the matter lye on the left side it is the more danger Aph. 44. s 7. 27. s 6. The Cure The matter must be let forth where Nature carryeth it For. gave a Clyster of a decoction of Barley and honey of Roses anointed the Brest with oyls of Camomil Lillies Cats grease Whelps grease using an emollient fomentation then he gave Cassia and when the urine grew thick Diureticals then a Purgative with these the Patient was cured If there be a Cough expectorating things must do it as juyce of Ivy four ounces thrice or four times in a day If all be in vain Incision must be made whilst the Forces last If the Lungs be not ulcerated cut between the four and five or five and six Rib of that side where the greatest pain is EPILEPSIE either is essential to the Brain or by Sympathy from the Stomach Marrix Worms outward parts in children and those that are of age Differences There are three degrees 1. The fall is felt before hand they fome not it lasteth not long and the sick after the paroxysm remembers all in a great Epilepsie it is worse in a mean it is betwixt both The Cure Let the sick be freed from the paroxysm which is done if so soon as the fit cometh you give one Pill of laudanum opiatum with a fourth part of oyl of Camphir or the Antepileptick Pill of the roots of Piony mans scull or oyl of Amber The Head must be laid higher a wedge must be put into the Mouth the sick must not be moved violently but not at all for the fit is prolonged by it Let him be raysed After the fit he is cured as Head-ach from fleam or melancholy by preparatives evacuatives for some time even continued for a whole moneth by Sweatings and other general means by Topicals that are proper A Partridge Liver powdered at the fire in a por and distilled with water of Yarrow in a glasse vessel Crato Ep. 104. Syrup of juyce of Carduus with the extract of sweet Cane Ep. 140. Mans blood is allowed by Zac. l. 1. hist. 23. because milk is good alwaies hang on an Amulet as Take Piony root half an ounce seeds of Male-piony one dram and half also roots of Briony Diet. Goats blood Heart of a Goat of a she Goat of an Eel are the worst eating of Turrles the best Quails are naught the Feet must be kept hot drunken people beget such as are troubled with Epilepsies If the disease be proper to the Brain the fit is more violent it comes about the new and full Moon there are signs of the Brain affected the other are well Setaces are principle good applyed to the Neck If an infant be affected it may be prevented if as soon almost as it is born you give it the Epileptick powder with milk if after milk you procure vomit which is done by pressing down the childs Tongue and put a feather anointed with oyl of sweet Almonds or some other in the Throat The Nurse must be cured as though she were sick of the Falling sickness The infant must be purged with honey or Raysins Holl. In the paroxysm they must be cured as elder people If it be from worms they must be killed and driven forth
ERYSIPELAS The Rose or Holy fire it is made not of pure Choler for that exulcerates and it would become the Shingles but from the Cholerick or more hot part of the blood Signs A Feaver with quaking shivering great pain and heat a Rose colour It is distinguished from Phlegmone 1. Because if you lay your Finger on the Rose the part groweth white the blood flying away it is not so in Phlegmone unlesse the part be pressed 2. The heat pain and Feaver are greater so that the part is often lifted up into a little bladder 3. The colour of Phlegmone seemeth blackish but of Erysipelas yellowish Prognostick Aph. 26. s 6 7 2. The Cure If there be Plethora the antecedent cause must be evacuated by opening a Vein and purging aster that the endeavour of nature must be furthered by sweating Antidotes with water of flowers and Rob. of Elders Theriac c. Some roast a Nutmeg wrapped in Flax or Hemp in the Embers and with Colambine seed so roasted they give it with Scabious water for an excellent Antidote Commonly they lay on a linnen or woollen red cloth or Barly meal The common people abhor moyst things yet a linnen cloth wet in Elder water and strongly wrung forth is fitly laid warm to it Topicals as for Scaldings if they be cold they easily cause a Gangreen better therefore is the oyl of Elders which they call golden milk then the water of Elder flowers also the water of all flowers lean bran Wierus writes for a secret That the Gall of a Carp anointed warm with a Feather upon the part affected and then a dry linnen cloth laid over it will do it If you will use cold things use them so long till the heat be something abated which the Patient will declare The Diet must be cold and moyst which also serveth for Preservatives The EYES Affected either the Coats Adnata and Cornea are affected as EYES inflamed which if it be but light from smoke heat of the Sun drinking of Wine it is called Taraxis if it be very great so that the white swell above the black it is called Châ—mosis if it proceed from Plethory or Choler only that is known by the signs it is cured by Generals by those that pull back the precedent cause first being removed The temporal Veins must be tyed Letting blood is good in the Arm of the same side though it come from Choler the Choler altered must be purged Open the Vein of the Forehead A Setace is most effectual for a long disease These first done you must come to Topicals Most often it is taken away by Generals alone Mercurial Galen Mercatus warn us that we do not apply Topicals in the begining to an Inflammation of the Eys for many have been blinded with multitude of remedies Apply them very sparingly yet to the Fore-head and Temples Repellers are safely applyed at the first Milk dropped into the Eys corrupteth and groweth sharp unlesse it be changed every hour Alwaies add to Repellers Scowrers as to Milk Saffron Sarcocolla Opiats thicken the optick Spirits let them be seldom used Alwaies mingle such things that are proper for the Eys Cold things are good for a sound Eye for preservation warm things inclining to cold if you would repel to heat if you would discusse You must not at the same time apply a Repeller to the Eye and to the Temples For. dropped into the Eys the white collyrium of Rhasis without opium half an ounce dissolved sometimes in Milk sometimes in Rose-water also with opium in extream pain In the declination Sarcocolla alone soaked in Milk to one dram or dissolved in water of Fennel Ey-bright oyl made of the flowers of Succory or Blew bottles made by setting them in the Sun An Emulsion of Poppy seed Saffron Opium of each three grains with a Cataplasm Fon. commendeth Crocus metallorum Ruland with Ey-bright water Hipp. commends Wine But Zwinger in his Theater reports that P. Ramus at Paris by too much watching fell into an Ophthalmy who when as J. Sylvius bad him to drink wine according to the Aphorism the disease increased mightily that he grew almost blind Gallen commends a Bath after Universals Sarcocolla is soaked in milk often and sparingly powred on lest it grow sowre If Chemosis be made beat the yolk of an Egg with the flesh of a Fly and with a clout lay it on Gal. EYES inflamed being dry if it be without pricking it is with hardnesse of the Ey-lids it is called Sclerophthalmia If the Eys itch with pain and swell not but are red it is called Xeropthalmia If they itch with a little flux it is called Psorophthalmia It is cured with Generals softning Topicals One gave counsel to his Patient to lay the white of an Egg with Rose-water to the Eye Roots of Celandine bruised laid on with leaven and the leaves roots bruised to be laid to the Soles of the Feet In all Inflamations of the Eys that are very great that which followeth is profitable before other Remedies Take white lead washed one ounce white Starch six drams Gum Traganth Sarcocolla Tutty prepared of each half an ounce Camphir Opium of Thebes of each one dram Rose-water what may suffice make a Mass Dissolve a little of it in Rose-water and drop it into the Eye with a Feather Infinite have been cured with it A HAW in the EYE is a little nail it is a nervous membrane commonly rising from the inward corner sticking close to the Coat adnata sometimes stretched forth to the Apple of the Eye rising from Ophthalmia the small Pox or some continual Flux The Skin is not membranous but something made up of the swelling Veins It is often Cancerous it is discerned from the weeping flesh because the roots of the Nail ever inclineth most to whitenesse Prognostick If there be a beginning of suffusion the nail may not be cured that which toucheth the pupil of the Eye should it be taken away by Chirurgery yet the scar will hinder the sight Those that are white and with narrow bottoms are more easily cured The cure Besides Generals and Astringents Topicals applyed to the Temples must be first emollient then detergent The powder of Egg-shells soaked in Vinegar and dryed are effectual if you strew the powder into the Eys For. saith there is a red nail that is moveable He prescribed first of all this that followeth Take Mallow leaves four handfuls Night shade two handfuls by reason of the Inflammation if there be any Violets water Lillies flowers of red Roses of each one handful make two little baggs boyl them in the water wring them out and moderately hot lay them to the Eye four times After this Take Camomil flowers Melilot of each one handful Fenygrec seed three ounces make two little bags five times in a day foment the Eys with them After fomentation a Collyrium was still dropped in of the juyce of Mallowes Fennel Rue very well clarified Purging was continual with
decoction of Mallows Fennel Rue Ey-bright Fumitory Rheubarb Senna made like Claret After softning detergents as juyce of Mallows Fennel Rue clarified with the Gall of an Eel and Sugar-candy afterwards also a little white Vitriol was added After that juyce of Rue and Celandine double of Fennel lesse of Vitriol one dram and half Verdigrease five grains and the party was cured A certain Matron cured the poor with this following water Take the Entrals of a Pike and together with the Gall Liver Bowels cut them small in pieces add one handfull of Fennel and distill them The juyce crushed forth of Pismires The green of brasse corrodeth lesse when it is burned then unburned That which Covers the whole Pupil the Chirurgion must not meddle with Par. A Cloud wherein the sick seem to look through smoak is from a humor compacted in the Cornea A white spot is made either from a scar and it is incurable or from fleam collected between the Cornea They are cured by Generalls Topicals emollient and detergent with the juyce of Pimpernel with a blew flower and first with Rosemary flower water water of Honey if it cannot be cured the white colour is taken away with the juyce of sweet Pomegranates If a yellow colour in the Jaundies seize on the Cornea receive the vapour of Vinegar cast on a burning tile by the Eys the decoction of Rheubarb if Choler of Agarick if fleam drop into the Eye snuff up into your Nostrils Blood-shot is an effusion of blood in the Adnata and Cornea from a stroke a fall It is cured if it be greater with topicals revulsives repelling then with discutients alone With the decoction of Fenygrec exactly cleansed or in the form of a fomentation Pigeons blood Colewort leaves boyld and applyed new Cheese If it be old it requireth stronger means tops of Hysop beaten tied in a sinnen cloth let down into boyling water laid warm to the Eye takes out the blood that it will stick to the cloth Root of Devils-bit Root of Solomons seal Vine water Hypopion is when Matter is gathered under the Cornea there went Blood-shot before running of the Eyes inflammation Fern. cureth that as the Haw Galen Paraeus by opening the Cornea to the Iris Or they affect Vvea as The falling down of the Vvea by reason of the unity of the Cornea disolved If a small part of the Vvea fall down it is called Myocephalus if a greater part Staphyloma the greatest is called Clavus when it is grown a Callous No man hath cured Staphyloma but a little pipe artificially drawn may derive them by Channels If it be from an Ulcer of the Cornea it is curable if it come from a Rupture or wound it is also cured Dilatation of the Pupil called Mydriasis when the Apple is greater then it should be It is either natural or cometh from extension from dryness or flowing thither of humours from a stroke a fall too much holding their breath in women with child All things seem lesse to these men but the humour doth not affect the whole Vvea otherwise the Apple would be made lesse for the weight of the Vvea would contract it but the Pupil The same is to be said of drinesse If it come from drinesse it must be softned if from a humour it must be evacuated revulsed resolved by Topicals it must be restrained Fern. useth this following Take dry Roses dry Mints Spicknard of each two drams Bark of Frankincense Mirrh of each half a dram Saffron one scruple Pompholyx Acacia Spodius all of them washed one dram washed Aloes half a dram powder them sift them make Trochis with Gum Traganth dissolve one of them in Rose water A Cataract Suffusion is the obstruction of the Pupil by a humour Paraeus saith by a skin It groweth between that space that is between the Cornea and the Crystaline humour It is counted counterfeit by the Ancients The black is incurable Copulation makes for this about the break of day they see clearest because a few spirits are dispersed by a great light by a lesse they are collected It is made also from the subtilty of the spirits from the finenesse of the Body from Dilatation of the Pupil Generals premised Revulsives Topicals resolving the hot breath of one that eateth Fennel must be often received the Eys being gently rubbed with the Fingers If it be old see first if it be ripe the sign where of is if he can see nothing but light can distinguish nothing Those are incurable that are not dilated by rubbing the Ey-lids so That which is with a consumption of the Eys that which followeth great diseases those that are green black yellow wan plaister-colour Contrarily those that are chest-nut colour sky colour sea green are curable 2. Let the Moon decrease let it be two or three days after the full let her not be in Aries let there be no pain of the Head nauseating Cough Let the Needle be of iron let the sick look with his Eys toward his Nostrils then the needle must be thrust in the middle space between the lesser Cornea and the Iris avoiding the Veins and the Cataract must be thrust down from above downwards laying on the white of an Egg with Rose water Let the Eys stay bound up to the eighth day Or they affect the weeping piece of flesh as Excathis which is a Tumour of that flesh from blood It is cured by Topicals corroding by Generals with the Iron Rhyas is a diminishing of it which followeth other diseases It is cured by Sarcotick remedies Squinting comes from a Convulsion of the Muscles It is either natural or from a faulty situation of the Crystalline Or without any manifest cause they hurt the sight as Amblyopia which is called Gutta serena wherein the Eye and the Apple remaining clear the sight is depraved Myopia is when they see only what is before their Eys Nyctalopia is when men see nothing in the night sometimes well These are cured by Generals rather then Topicals If the cause be in the Brain the other senses suffer with it If it began suddenly it is obstruction If by degrees it is either distemper or restraint It begets too great light in the Eye by the heat reflected and so hurts A white colour is by dilating of the Pupil Topicals are the secret of Maximilian the Emperor namely distilled water of fresh Goose dung a Goats Liver eaten roasted the vapour of it boyled the liquor droping from it in roasting it must be anointed Rondelet found this to be more effectual if the leaves of Fennel Celandine Rue be stuck into it The powder is strued into the Eye The meats must be seasoned with salt of Eybright Saphyr water called so from the colour See Sennertus the species of Occonis c. also the Collirium or Sieff that follows is useful Take water of Fennel and Ey-bright of each four ounces Tutty prepared one ounce and half the best Aloes one scruple infuse them
effect is called Die Breun it cometh with shaking As led by the Hand they shew the pain of the stomach and cannot endure to be touched there for it is hard There is an unquenchable thirst and a delirium They almost all fall into deasnesse and swelling behind the Ears The Cure If it come by contagion giving a gentle remedy to bring forth the dung give presently an Antidote but if there be pain of the stomach anguish heat nauseating those humours must first be taken away by purging or vomiting with Agarick Senna leaves Diaphaenicon Rosarum Mesves c. Vomits here are often the most profitable The humours being voided or if there were no such the first or second day open a Vein though the first day the spots should appear so there be strength Almost all who neglected bleeding at the first died If there be Vomiting or Scowring it is more safely let alone Open the Liver or Medias of a Vein in the Foot which is most commodious of all chiefly in women Also it may be done on the third day After the third day Vomits Purges for opening a Vein is mortal Cupping glasses instead of opening a Vein may be set to the lower parts then we must fight with Antidotes yet with such as do not increase the Feaver One dram of Species liberantis Bezar stone Harts horne flowers of Brimstone Amber Zedoans all things of a Pome-citron The roots a part and Bezar a part are all most effectual Afterwards Diureticks may be given The drink must be neither wine nor beer let it be the decoction of Harts-horn with spirit of Vitriol or Barly water with juyce of Lemmons Symptoms of Feavers Pain of the Head is cured by general means by Topicals Many commend a Radish root cut in slices and laid to the feet first washed with Salt and Vinegar Juyce of Housleek and Alces of America For Housleek on houses is full of juyce in the greatest heat but flags in a cloudy aire because it draweth the dryer vapours for its nourishment The root of Rhodia is commended one ounce with Rose water half a pound boyl them apply the decoction with a linnen cloth to the Head The unguent of Alabaster with Populeum must be anoynted on the Coronal suture Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone and moystners that are of the strongest as with the water or juyce of Housleek Sal prunella spirit of Vitriol Barley water Thirst if it be from heat of the Lungs the Mouth is dry they can hardly speak which cannot be quenched with drink but it will presently come again Here it is better to take in the coldest Aire than to drink It is good to hold cold water in the Mouth preserved Cherries Lettice leaves Purslane preserved or sprinkled with cold water Oxycratum pieces of Pome-citrons conserves of Sorrel pieces of Cucumbers Gourds first sprinkled with Sugar Crystal Tamarinds Strawberries garden Currence to hold in the Mouth The decoction of the Roots of Sorrel which will look like red Wine Give drink in the vigour If the cause be in the stomach the humour must be voided namely that is hot and sharp The white Feaver is a disease or a symptome with a pale colour of the Face languishing of the Forces heavinesse of the limbs loathing of meat panting of the heart difficulty of breathing sadnesse a flegmatick swelling of the Face Hands and Feet from depraved nourishment and plenty of crude humours proceeding from an ill disposition of the Bowels Liver Spleen Stomach and so from obstruction of the Vessels about the Womb and the Bowels that are neer and from thence the Courses being stopped The cure is the same as for Leucâ—phlegmatia yet so that the Womb must be regarded as in the stopping of the Courses yet so that the Bowels must be looked too A lenitive opening a Vein unlesse the disease be inveterate the Blood and Forces being corrupted Purgatives Aperients Diaphoreticks Marriage unlesse the Cacochymia be too great are good cheifly Steel after general Remedies The root of Scorsonera taken any way Bezar stone A FICUS cancerated Fab. obs 1. c. 1. A cancerated Ficus in the right Ey A fit Dyet being prescribed a Clyster given water of Borrage Sorrel Betony being drunk with syrup of the juyce of Lemmons and Pomegranates a Vein being opened and Leeches set behind the Ears on the same side and cupping glasses applyed to the Shoulders an infusion of Rheubarb and Senna being given made of waters of Betony Eybright Agrimony with syrup of Roses and the Feet being washed in the decoction of hot things he washed the Ey with distilled water against the Cancer and applyed an Intercipient to the fore-head Yet the Tumor increasing when out of it at once there flew 73. ounces of blood and a half by Chirurgery he took out the Eye The fear of the Patient stopped the Flux of blood and a painful Ligature about his Limbs wherefore a Lenitive drink is ordered and a Cordial or water of Buglors Roses Violets balm of each one ounce syrup of Citron pills and Sorrel of each one dram confectio Alkermes one dram Powder of Diamber half a dram and to the Heart was â—aid an Epitoeme sowed between of flowers leaves seeds cordial powders made up with Cotton on red Sarsnet The stomach was annointed with a stomach ointment The Chirurgical part being done a powder of the Author to stay blood with the white of an Egg was plentifully cast on A defensative was laid to the Fore-head and a Digestive to the wound And lest nature should again send the humours thither he set a Settace between the first and third Spondiâ— A FISSURA on the Nipples or Chaps It proceeds from violent sucking and a cholerick humour It is not credible that it comes from drinesse here as it doth in other parts It is prevented if in the three last Moneths or the last Moneth only two cups of wax like to Acorn cups or Fox gloves be made and filled with Rosin of the Firr tree and laid to the Nipples and held there with linnen cloths when the Rosin is spent we must put in more Topicals must be emolient also the juyce of Crab-fish with Cream If they cause pain when the Child sucketh lay on the Nipples a cup of pewter or silver peirced through and covered with the Dug of a Cow new killed for so the Child will suck and yet not touch the Nipple with his Lips General remedies are Coolers and such as purge choler The same way all other Chaps are cured A FISTULA is a winding Ulcer white straight callous from dried fleam and oft times is without pain Signs Prognosticks Fistulaes with notable rottennesse of the bones as of the Huckle and the Hip-bone which pierce to the Bowels which are in a part that hath principal Nerves the Body being weak are to be left by Prognosticks Signs Diagnostick Prove them by a leaden Probe a wax Candle If there be
rubbing them with the green leaves of Cherry-tree or with rose-Rose-water wherein Camphir hath been dissolved Others use Cherrytree-gum dissolved in Vinegar with a little Oate-meal Or from an inward cause as in women with Child in Maids from their Courses stopt eating of roots of red Beets c. The spots are swart sometimes as broad as ones Hand they are cured by an emulsion of Hemp-seed and the juyce of Bugloss root pressed out A FELLON Is a swelling at the ends of the Fingers with inflammation pain a Feaver tossing from a venomous humour it is held incurable Pareus often made Incision in the inward part of the Finger even to the Bone according to the length of the first Joynt it is effectual so it be done before it be ripe Let much blood run forth Then the Finger must presently be thrust into strong and hot Vinegar wherein Treacle is dissolved to call out the venome to asswage the pain Fab. obs 97. c. 1. In the beginning very often cut by degrees the only Superficies of the Skin when spots appeared which being cut the watery blood ran forth he laid on Aqua vitae with Treacle and he cured all GANGLIUM is a Tumor about the Bones of the Joynts which are covered only with skin The Cause is the weaknesse of a Nerve or a Tendon from a stroke or labour so that it cannot concoct its nourishment It belongs to Scirrhus Tumors not to Oedema as Scrofulous Tumors do It differs from Atheroma by the inequality and resisting of the Tumor It is cured by Generals The Topicals must be emollient then apply heat to it to discusse the Ganglium or break the Bladder with your hands lay on a Plate of Lead cut or burn it if you may on the Joynts you may not Bring it to suppuration if the rest be in vain A GANGRENE The hot fire as a Sphaecelus is a cold fire It is first made by too much cold 2. From a venemous quality 3. Transpiration being hindered or from superfluity of humors as in Inflamation 4. From too much outward heat 5. For want of nourishment and influence of heat which causes exstinguish al natural heat Signs If it come from the 1. cause there proceedeth a pricking pain rednesse then coldnesse numnesse If from the 2. there is swooning a continual Feaver a delirium If from the 3. the pain and pulsation is diminished without any resolution or suppuration of the Matter the colour is wan and it stinketh The part if it be black is colder then a Marble-stone and most soft If it neither move nor feel at all if it stink much and green corruption floweth it is a Sphacelus yet oft times some motion is perceived even in a Sphacelus namely when the head of the Muscle is not hurt it moveth the benummed Tendon wee must beware we be not deceived by it The Cure Evacuate the humour if there be any prescribe a Diet. The Heart must alwaies be corroborated by inward and outward means If it be from cold and the Gangrene be not yet either rub the frozen part with Snow Senn. of a Gangrene afterwards give Theriac with wine to make him sweat when the cold is something abated gentle Chafings with oyl of bitter Almonds and with Milk of the decoction of Rosemary are profitable But if a Gangrene be you must rather scarify as in that which followeth c. If it come from the second cause besides Generals opening a Vein Purgatives not violent sweating means and Cordials take place And 1. Incisions must be made if it pierce to the bone eschewing Vessels or scarification will suffice or we must burn it 2. The Incisions must be washed with a sharp decoction that is detergent of Scordium which is principally good here roots of Angelica 3. Put in Aegyptiac with Tents into the cuts so often untill the dead flesh be consumed to be cut off with a rasor which the smell colour sense of the part will shew 4. Apply over the whole part a Cataplasm that is drying and resolving 5. Upon the part affected an Astringent If it be from the 5. cause repelling means have no place unlesse there be a manifest Gangrene If there be a Sphacelus some make incision in the sound part some in the dead because in this there is no fear of symptoms or bleeding Senn. distinguisheth If the putrefaction spread no farther but ceaseth which when it falleth out there appeareth a Circle exactly red and very tender about the part affected let the incision be made in the dead part otherwise not Senn. likes Pareus his way how he stoppeth the blood See Senn. Oft times the sick many days after complain of the pain of their Foot that was cut off Also there is a Gangreen Scorbutical which beginneth commonly from an internal cause without any manifest cause about the end of the Foot with black and blew spots with a crusty dry Ulcer that yields no matter It lasteth sometimes above six Months It seizeth on the Tendons which do not so soon corrupt as the flesh it is with most bitter pains GONORRHEA comes either from the retentive Faculty hurt from a cold and moyst distemper or from watery sharp Seed provoking the expulsive Faculty It is insensible If it be from distemper it is corrected by contraries chiefly with the water and juyce of Mints Astringent Baths Driers by Generals and Topicals yet we must distinguish well whether it be Seed or a flegmatick humour that runs forth It maketh a consumption of the Back which alwayes accompanyeth Gonorrhea GONORRHEA Venereous is an inflammation of the Parastatis from unclean copulation with sharp matter pain heat of the urine extension of the Yard which may last at the least ten years The Cure At first you must cool and moisten by Clysters Lenitives opening of a Vein Generals Topicals In the declination use Resolvents as Turpentine If in making water the heat be intollerable let the Patient make water with his Yard put into a Pot full of warm Milk or water If there be an Ulcer cast in detergent means as Barly water syrup of Roses Plantain water Honey of Roses Pareus oft times addeth a little Aegyptiac Make it cicatrise with a drying and an Astringent injection If in vain then make recourse to Guaiacum GUTTA Rosacea Sometimes it is a preternatural rednesse without Pustules Bladders or Ulcers Sometimes with Pustuls and Bladders Sometimes with an Ulcer which lastly also is called Noli me tangere It infects the Nose chiefly The Cause is hot thick Blood bred from the fault of the Liver which by its thicknesse can neither go back nor be discussed It is hard to be cured The Cure The blood must be cooled by Diet opening of a Vein Cupping glasses with scarification and general means as purging the cholerick humour the Topicals are the water of all flowers which is distilled from Ox dung first let the Face be softned with the vapour of warm water Lac Virginis water of
of Eggs another with the liquor of Snails strewed with salt the place being first rubbed with a sharp cloth he cured with oyl of Nuts decoction of Southern wood Mugwort oyl of Juniper Conies-fat Goats dung ashes of Walnut shells Mouse ashes with Honey Fat of green Frogs dried first using the Ly of the ashes of Frogs produceth hairs every where even in those that are Lepers ashes of Nigella with goldsmiths water cured one that was bald by Quick-silver For. used Goats milk and nervous things hot urine The fat of a Pike the froth of lean flesh Monav. Ep. 284. commends Ladanum chiefly HAIRS are made black by the decoction of astringent things by Internals purging fleam By Topicals the green shells of Wal-nuts Cypress-nuts Galls boyld oyl of Nuts Cadmia a Ly wherein Coliquintida is boyled Myrobolans as well inwardly as applyed outwardly Cloves Bean-stalks They are made yellow if they be washed with Ly of the Ashes of the old Cole-worts adding Barley straw Some to that Ly add green wheat Liccoris shavings of Box or put Saffron in the Ly the decoction of Broom flowers Mullens with yellow flower Citron Pills water and oyl of Honey They are made to curle if you wash them in the decoction of the root of dwarf Elder or anoint them with Harts-horn and oyl of Olives The ends of the Hairs cleave from a burnt humour It is cured by a cooling Diet by purging black choler by an emollient fomentation Worms which shorten the Hair are described by few they can scarce be seen by the Eyes they eat the ends They are killed by Vinegar of the infusion of Nettle-seed also by Scabious Southern-wood Centory c. Platting of the Hair Die Mahrflechten it troubles Men and Horses It began in Poland It is hereditary springing from the water and aire If the platting be cut off the poyson slips in again and makes dangerous affects Opening a Vein and purging are useless here HICKOP The Cause is the rending of the upper orifice which proceedeth from humours vapours rising from the Womb Hypochondres driness inflammation of the Liver a Wound of the Membranes of the Brain The cure The Ancients held their breath held cold water in their Mouth they sneezed If it be vehement Hickop cure the symptom neglecting the cause by Narcoticks as by syrup of Violets Poppeys or this following of For Take seeds of Dill or Carways one dram white Poppey seed two scruples Manus Christi with Pearls one ounce make a Nodulus infuse it in small Beer If it be by consent take away the cause if from cold by heaters if from wind likewise If it be from too much evacuation it is cured by sharp moistners If it be from plenty of meat evacuate it If it be from poyson first give a Detergent then Specifical to drink If from worms drive them out Castoreum Cumin bound to the left Wrist For. anointed the Back-bone against the Region of the Stomach with oyl of Violets he gave syrup of Violets to moisten and syrup of Mints to strengthen Astringents of syrup of Mints Wormwood are not good till the matter be evacuated YELLOW JAUNDIES is a spreading of the Gall. If it come from the straightness of the Passages or from the Vessel of the Gall the Excrements of the Belly are white there is no Feaver but heavinesse it cometh suddenly without losse of strength If effectual remedies do not profit the straightnesse proceeds from the stone If there be signs of the Liver affected that is affected If it lasteth long it threatneth a Dropsy The cure First we must open and chiefly by Dodder than which there is nothing better Saffron Agrimony Hore-hound Centory the lesse Germander Wormwood The yellow stone found in the Gall of a Bull is profitable One dram of Earth-worms with juyce of Succory roots of greater Celandine Elecampane Tartar Vitriolated Cremor Tartar dissolved in steeled Wine spirit of Salt A decoction of Straw-berries 3 handfuls Raysins four ounces Hore-hound half a handful For Children seeds of Columbines Openers and Purgatives may be mingled After that we must evacuate Galâ—l de vi purg denieth here to open a Vein For. useth it in Plethorick Bodies The Purgatives may be strong For. gave a woman with child that had the Jaundies half an ounce of Electrary of the juyce of Roses Rheubarb one scruple Diagridium one grain Spicknard three grains with water of Balm Hops Fennel of each one ounce at once It is a sign the obstruction is opened when the excrements of the Belly are again yellow coloured and the urine is not so yellow as it was If it proceed from the Colick when the Passage for Choler is stopped by stâ—am and winds it is cured as the Colick From the Colick come the Jaundies from the Jaundies the Colick If it come from heat of the Liver without a Fever here is too great quantity of choler from thence groweth a Feaver the Urine and dung are yellow the hands and Feet are hot The Cure Opening a Vein is convenient if there be Plethory the distemper must be corrected and the cause evacuated If it be critical the urine and dung hold their natural colour it must not be cured If it be symptomatical on a day that is not critical the matter not concocted invadeth It is taken away the Feaver being cured If it come from inflammation of the Liver it is cured as an inflammation of blood If it be from poyson it is cured by Antidotes Rondeletius promiseth health to women with child if these things following be laid to their Wrists and Feet Take the leaves of Missleto of the Oke two handfuls Celandine Hore-hound of each half a handful beat them in a mortar with a little wine Par. useth this that followeth Take goose dung two drams white wine three ounces drink it two hours before meat Querc gives Goose dung one dram or half a dram or dung of a white Hen half a dram for four days BLACK JAUNDIES It is commonly thought to come from the Spleen when the melancholick humor is not attracted Platerus saith preternatural Choler is the cause of it which is collected in the Vessel of the Gall and is corrupted in the meseraique Veins and gets a green and black colour from corruption Because in the Spleen there is no cavity no hollownesse nor can it be carried to the hollow Vein because it invadeth suddenly It is cured as the Yellow Jaundies by steel c. If the colour cease not it must be discussed by sweaters also by a dry Bath and after the Bath rub the Body with emulsion of Hempseed A Tench cut through the back layd to the Abdomen or Soles of the Feet draws forth the yellow and black humour The ILIACK Passion is the motion of the Guts turned wherein the Chylus is not rightly distributed and the dung is retained and at last are cast forth at the Mouth The cause is said commonly to be the inflammation of the Intestins from the hardnesse
things that are hot The most useful are Wormwood Southern-wood bitter Almonds also Columbine seed The opening syrup of Sennertns of Scholtzius of Dodder From what cause soever it came Tartar Vitriolate is good which Crollius calleth a general digestive Crystals of Tartar Steel Extream mischief may come from too much use of openers When the sick hath taken an Opener let him ly on his right side Let the Topicals be aperient also For. writeth that this following helps miraculously Take of a Wolfs Liver prepared one dram and half species of Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatraganthon frigid of each half a dram Rheubarb Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar of each four grains dissolve it in the decoction of Dodder Maiden-hair with water of Fennel Bugloss Scabious hops with Sugar what may serve make rouls of three drams The Ancients gave one dram of a Wolfs Liver with Wine when there was no Feaver with a Feaver the juce of Endive Cremor Tartar Troches of Capers of Harts-tongue Topicals are unguent Fomentations c. The same way is to cure obstruction of the Spleen OBSTRUCTION of the Passage of hearing If it be from a worm slipt in that must be if it can be drawn forth alive with sweet things as with a sweet Apple roasted or laying on leaven Honey If this do not we must kill it with juyce of Wormwood Peach-kernels Centory the lesse oyl of Hazle-nut-tree Philosophers oyl Spirit of Wine juyce of the Leaves of Elder Hemp dropped in or with Oyl and Vinegar When it is killed it is brought forth by pouring in water Oyl Wine or putting in Tents dipt in Turpentine for it will stick to that or the like If they be hard things to make the Passages slippery drop in warm Oyl but if the thing swell from the humour moist things must not be applyed Sneezing must be procured the Nostrils and Mouth being shut If in vain you must take it out cautiously with Pullers Pareus moreover with the Ancients appoints cutting of the Ears which Aquapendens condemns utterly as hurtful If it be any watery thing the Antients poured in Oyl the Ear lying downward the sick must hop on the Foot on that side the Ear is affected inclining the Head upon that Ear. If in vain sneezing must be provoked or a dry Sponge must be put into the Ear. There is also another manner in Senn. Also it may be sucked forth with the Mouth a Pipe being put into the Ear but the Ear must be stopped with Wax OBSTRUCTION of the Throat by a hard thing it must be taken out with Pullers if the thing can beseen If it cannot be seen strike the Patients Neck with your fist More Vomit with oyls as of sweet Almonds or fat broth Some bid to swallow down great gobbets A Wax-candle or a leaden rule bended anointed with Honey or Oyl is thrust in and the thing is driven forth Cough must be moved by injecting sowre things Fab. obs 36. cent 1. hath described a fitter Instrument See Senn. If in vain you must commit the matter to Nature and Time and by Topicals emollient Plaisters cause it to ripen for the Inflammation being ended the thing is cast forth If any thing slip into the sharp Artery when you eat sneezing is good strike the Patients back with your fist If sand fall into the Eye Clary seed Crabs-Eys Pearls must be put into the Eye let the Eye be shut under the Ey-lid and the thing sticking to Crabs-Eys will fall out together If in vain take it out with Pullers Fab. wife took out Iron with a Loadstone OEDEMA is either Phlegmonodes Scirrhodes or Erysipelatodes The Signs are a whitish colour a soft thin Tumor the Finger pressing it leaves a print If it be otherwise it is from wind Besides Generals and the nature of the part Topicals must not be applyed until the part be first heated by Chafing It is cured either by Resolvers or Suppuratives or by Section as also Atheroma in the Vessel whereof there is matter like Pap. It is more loose and returns slower it is not so hard as a Wen nor so unequal And that out of which stones horns and nails are taken is harder and resisteth the touch Meliceris yeilds quickly and returns The matter is like to Honey Testudo and Meliceris are on the Head and Skull That which is called Talpa differs from Testudo only by hardness and belongs to Atheroma-Natta ost times is bred in the Back the Shoulders and belongs to Steatoma Lupia Pareus cut a Lupia from the neck that weighed eight pound OSSACRUM excoriated is cured Take Sheeps suet Cream of one night of each one dram white chalk half an ounce mingle them or add oyl of Roses or Quinces what may suffice It is prevented by rising with a cord hanging over the Bed let the parts be born up with a hollow pillow lay on linnen osten anointed with unguent of Roses PAIN is the action hurt or the sensitive Faculty a sad sensation The Cause It is no distemper as appears in Section extention nor dissolved unity but when as of one thing there is but one next cause solution of continuity is made from heat cold drieth with and without matter but not from moisture alone from extension and a Malignant humour The Cure All things that gently affect the sense of the part take away the pain as Arodyns the pain is not felt but the cause or they take away the distemper of it so cold things take away heat or they evacuate the matter as Cuppings purging Topicals or they tame the malignity as Aegyptiac or take away the feeling as Narcoticks Question Whether heat of the Aire can cause pain in a Nervous part as in the Ear I deny it because the ambient air is alwaies colder then the heat of the Brain Whether Pain attract Laur. denieth it because Nature should more hurt then profit but the humours more easily fall down on the part weakned and the part weakned cannot discusse the humours PAIN of the Loins In Feavers it proceeds from a diseased cause sent into the large Veins of the Loyns The Cure opening a Vein Cupping Unguent of Roses c. PILES of the Fundament are of two sorts that are outwardly and but one internal from the Vena porta Differences They are either open or blind in the Fundament or Intestin or the sphincter The blind are either bladders from fleam or warts from melancholick blood or Grapes or like Mulberries called Mariscae The Pain is not in the Veins that want feeling but in the adjacent parts from distention The Cause is the opening of the Mouths of the Veins provoked by gross burnt blood hot Purgatives as Aloes they that deny this are worthy to be whipt The internal Piles cannot be searched but by Speculum ani Prognosticks Aph. 11. s 6. In the pain of the Piles if there be not present help there groweth Inflammation or an Ulcer The blind swelling Piles unless they swell mightily and cause vehement
another obliquely even unto his Groins But when the pain is extream they must nor be used This must be done until the Stone fall into the Bladder Paraeus L. 16. For. Lib. 14. STONE of the Bladder When the Stone is fallen into the Bladder the pain abates Therefore then if the Forces will endure it the sick must ride or go a journey on soot also he must drink freely and forbear to make water after it as much as he can that the water being augmented the Stone may be driven forth with it In the mean while outwardly and inwardly Diureticks must be applyed When in is come into the Ureter we must be careful that it get not back but with the Fingers it must be brought to the utmost Glans the Passage being made slippery if it stay in the Glans it must be pulled out with Hooks if that be in vain it must be bored out with a piercer included in a Pipe But if it be far from the Glans and can by no Art be got out then the Yard must be cut on the side with a straight line nor above because of the Vessels not beneath for it is a Membranous part In the mean time the Ureter must be tyed with a Thread that it get not back again and the fore-skin must be drawn out as much as may be that it may cover the whole Glans Incision being made and the Stone taken forth the skin must be let go again that the whole skin may cover the Yard that is cut for so the uniting will be the easier The last remedy is cutting for the Stone See Senn. Paraeus Chirurgery I. 16 The extream means are Narcoticks but warily exhibited Crato ep 121. cured the greatest pains discussing the winds by Clyster the heat of the Bowels being increased he so anointed the Navel with oyl of Turpentine Juniper Nutmeg the Stomach with only oyl of Nurmegs he gave by the Mouth the decoction of Veronica with Wine or the decoction of Turneps with Sugar-Candy Butter or Oyle of sweet Almonds but the shell must be taken off and the water of the first boyling must be thrown away he anointed also with the water of whites of Eggs. Fernelius saith that all Stones of the bladder come from the Reins because al slimy matter is voided from the Bladder by-Urine wherefore every Stone of the Bladder if you break the shell there is a Kernel in it that was wrapped up by it it is of an ash colour and rough Fab. cent 4. obs 5. see Hist of Guilh. Laurembergius who cured a Stone of the Bladder with Medicaments Senn. l. 3. p. 8. s 1. c. 2. Waters sent to the Bladder by a Catheter can break a Stone there and one may make tryal of it by stones taken out of the Body The SHINGLES rise from yellow pure thin Choler it eateth because the choler is sharp it causeth small creeping Ulcers and excoriations that are not deep with wanness Some call it Formica but not properly The Cure is by Generals The continent cause must first be cooled as by Lettice c. It sheweth when the heat is abated digestives discussives which are useful If there be Pushes the Coolers must not be moist but dry as Willow leaves Knot grasse Aquapendens used this following Take the juyce of Tobacco three ounces yellow wax two ounces Rosin of the Pine-tree one ounce and half Turpentine one ounce oyl of Myrtils what may suffice make a Cerat For. applyed leaves of Colts-foot Paraeus found unguent of Elecampane with Mercury to be a sure remedy The oyl of Birch branches dried collected in a pewter vessel is commended If it spread daily touch the edges of the Ulcers with the oyl of Vitriol or with Aqua fortis So Pareus cured uncurable Ulcers Par. l. 6. SHIVERING It differs in degree from vehement cold The Subject is the Muscle The Cause the expulsive Faculty moved and so it belongeth to the Symptoms of the natural Faculty but because the animal faculty riseth up also to expel the mischief it is referred to animal Symptoms Gal. and others make the remote cause to be cooling and the motion of the influence of heat from the Center to the Circumference and contrarily but in vehement cold stirred up by Choler also where sharp things are put into an Ulcer or a spark falls upon the Body vehement shaking goeth before cooling Therefore the cause is some troublesome thing suddenly rending the sensitive parts in the circumference of the Body and stirring up the expulsive faculty The opinion of Galen is sometimes true In Feavers extream shaking cometh from the rending of the sensitive parts as of the stomach c. yet so that it draweth into consent the parts in the circumference of the Body as also by the vapours sent thither Cure particular is not requisite for this for it followeth other diâ—eases In Feavers the back must be anointed with hot things as with oyl of Camomil SPOTS natural according to Senn. are bred from imagination of the Mother Par. l. 23. they are made from a part of the menstruous blood sticking yet to the sides of the Matrix from a fresh Flux or from a kind of dew distilling out of the Veins before the time the greater sort incurable also those that are like Warts and wan they are to be washed with the blood of the secondine also with the Courses or the Mothers fasting spittle SPITTING often is of that spittle which is bred in the first concoction and in the third in the Brain and which falls upon the Tonsils it is concocted and voided by the Mouth sometimes it is sharp sometimes white c. The cause is fleam from the Brain or stomach chiefly falling in the morning it comes not alwaies from cold but oft times in diseases from burning heat It cometh also especially that which is made after meat from affection of the Hypochondres the Scurvy It oft times preserveth from diseases It is cured if the cause be taken away as the Catarrh by Dryers and Evacuaters SAHAFATI must not be cured in an Infant for it preserveth it from the Epilepsie yet if we must do something let the Nurse be purged gently wash the Head with decoction of Mallows Borrage Barley this being done lay on warm Cabbadge leaves anointed with Butter or of Ivy also the leaves of Orache anointed or roots of Marsh-mallows boyld in Boys urine Topicals are allowd or the juyce of Fumitory Scabious Elecampane Lytharge oyl of Nuts Hogs grease For. hath an infallible remedy for Boys and Infants Take the yolks of Eggs roasted hard sixteen Myrth one dram root of Cuckoe pint half a dram black Hellebour six grains fry them in an iron frying pan without flame until they froth then presse out the oyl and fry them so often and presse them out till they will froth no more cast away the dregs and keep the oyl in a close vessel for your use In those that are of years it is
swath-bands Let the sick take up a heavy thing with his Hands it is retained by Cupping glasses and Astringents From hence may grow what the Germans call Dasz Wehe thun See Senn. of Dislocation TONGUE great or a Tumour sometime it is without pain from the plenty of profitable nourishment flowing to it sometimes from Cacochymia and then it is either Oedema or Cancer or Inflammation and sometime from the French-Pox from anointing with Quick-silver from biting or touching of some venemous creature The cure If it be from plenty of blood or Inflammation it must be pulled back and evacuated as in Phlegmone In Galen it was revealed to a Countrey-man in his dream to use a double cloth of linnen wet in juyce of Lertice If it be Oedema or from the French-Pox or Poyson it is cured as Oedema If it be a cancerous swelling it is incurable TERMS of women flowing It is made the same way as bleeding at the nose c. The signs are the same It is often incurable Diapedesis is most easy Anastomosis easy corroding is hard to cure The Cure We must by times make Revulsion by opening a Vein Cupping glasses set to the Brests 5. Aph. 50. Cholerick humours must be temperd purged We must bind by inward and outward means A certain old woman cured one that was incurable giving nine times one dram of powder of mens bones with red Wine If it be from ill humours we must not stop suddenly Guainerius giveth for a great experiment one dram of the ashes of Goats dung If such an irregular Flux follow child-bearing women use this secret they dry a Wal-nut and powder it and give it at thrice in red Wine or Martlemas flesh above a year old tosted and dried in an earthen dish For. used this that followeth with profit Take red Coral Bole Armenick Datestones of each half a dram give it at twice in a rear Egg. Let all Topicals be astringent Injections are good and the juyce of Yarrow Plantain Bloodwort c. Pessaries washing the Legs with cold water roots of Nigella held under the Tongue Blood-stone roots of Corn-Poppy Tree moss bound under the Arm-pits Sanicle and Straw-berry leaves bound under the Feet TERMS stopt It proceeds either from the fault or want of blood or from straightness of the Passages It differs from Conceiving because women with child for the most part keep their natural colour are merry but in Terms stopped it is contrary Symptoms that befall great-bellyed women at the beginning to grow lesse but not so here in great bellyed women the motion and situation of the child is perceived the third Moneth but not so here If it last fix Moneths Hipp. saith it cannot be cured Straightnesse procceds either from grosse humours or a swelling or an astringent Bath The Cure They are not to be provoked in starved Cachectical people who have but little blood They must be moved when they were wont to run before In the Inflammation or falling down of the Matrix move not the Courses If it come from Obstruction as it often doth and there be Plethora open a Vein in the Arm to take away Plethory for if that remain to cut a Vein in the Ankle will do no good for being that all blood is so drawn to the Womb one hindreth and detaineth another Contrary to this Zach. hist 76. l. 1. useth Cupping glasses with Scarification Ligatures Chafings of the lower parts Mercurialis mightily commends Causticks below the Knees which Sen. denieth because they derive other humours from the Womb. Afterwards we must purge alter and that often Lastly give things that move the Terms as the powder of Ladies Take seeds of broad Cummin Ammeos Cinamon of each two ounces and half Cumin seed three ounces seeds of Fennel Smallage Carways Nutmegs sweet Calamus Galanga of each one dram and half Ginger Mac̄e Cloves of each one dram Saffron three drams and half make a powder Let the Topicals be Emollients and such as move the Terms as Baths Oyls Fumes Evaporations Clysters Pessaries For. in the stopping of the Terms with Cachexia first exhibited Pils of Hiera with Mugwort water then a long Purgative decoction then a Purgative Potion Treacle one dram with two ounees of white wine the first decoction was repeated such a Potion Take Diacatholicon six drams Electuary Indum majus three ounces syrup of Maiden-hair and Mugwort of each half an ounce with three drams of the decoction of Mugwort Rennyroyal Balm for one Dose A Bath of things fit for the Matrix after the Bath he anointed the Thighs with an unguent Take oyl of sweet Almonds Lillies Butter fresh Marrow of Calves Legs of each one ounce oyl of bitter Almonds Mucilage of Marsh-mallow seeds Linseed Fennygreck of each two drams juyce of Rue Mugwort of each half an ounce a little Wax make an unguent After give one dram of Treacle with one ounce of the broth of red Chichs When the first quarter of the Moon was at hand he opened the Saphena but when the Veins did not appear he set Cupping glasses with Scarification to the Legs and so cured it If these had not helped the Authour would have proceeded to the decoction of the wood mingling Dittany the force whereof Jacchinus often proved Savin Nigella seed one dram in the decoction or the meal of it bound in a woollen cloth and set under is excellent See Difficulty of Child-birth TERMS dropping This proceeds either from thickness and sharpness of blood straightness of the Passages and it causeth pain or from the weakness of the retentive Faculty and thinness of blood and it is without pain It is cured the sharpness being allayed the Faculty strengthned the straightness removed c. TENESMUS The next cause is something provoking the expulsive Faculty the remote cause is stone of the Bladder sharp Medicaments Worms salt humours a Dysentary an Ulcer of the Sphyncter long Hickop is deadly Dysentary The cure The humour must be softened with Clysters evacuated as the variety of the humour requireth they must be injected in small quantities The pain must be asswaged by Topicals Suppositories are profitable also fumes if from an Ulcer Dysentery it must be cured by fumigations under The TREPAN hath place only in three cases 1. When the Bone presseth the hard Membrane 2. When it pricketh 3. If matter be gathered within the Skull Never apply it to the Bone wholly broken but to the sound yet as near as may well be to the fracture It must not be used 1. In a Bone so broken that for the greatest part it is divided for so it would be pressed into the Membrane 2. On the sutures for then rather two or three small Trepanes should be applyed on both sides the future 3. On that Region of the Fore-head which is near the Ey-brow by reason of the hollow between both tables 4. To the lower parts of the skull lest the Brain fall out by the hole 5. To Childrens forepart of the Head 6.
The Head must be dryed by all means First of all let the Crust be removed by a vapour of warm water with Fat Butrer washed in Rose water the Crusts must be cast out by sneezing Afterwards Verjuyce with Honey is good juyce of Hore-hound Calamint juyce of Pomegranates boiled in a brasse vessel Mirrh Allum Rondel cured Ozaenas which neither French men nor Italians could cure by the fume of Candles made of red Wax lighted received at the Nostrils through a straight Tunnel Celsus commendeth juyce of Cresses with Allum The juyce of Calamints or Galens powder Some commend this that followeth Take red Roses Myrtils sweet Calamus Angelica Gentian Mace Cloves of each half a dram Camphir Ambergrease of each four grains Musk six grains make a powder If that fail Salt Armoniac with Vinegar An ULCER of the Stomach is cured by Generals as opening a Vein Lenitives Vomit is mortal With easy meats Raw Honey is detergent when you must glew together add Gum Traganth with an Astringent decoction without Acrimony Let the meat be moyst a decoction of Figs Dates Prunes Raysins milk yolks of Eggs drink Hydromel and a vulnerary Potion An ULCER of the Bladder comes also by Cantharides Yet Senn. though he had applyed them to all parts of the Body a hundred times never observed it Signs are pain in the Privities so oft as the sick maketh water matter blood a Tenesmus difficulty of urine Priapismus The matter is more tenacious and clammy then matter of the Reins It is cured by tempering the humors by Coolers and Moisiners then we must scowre by Internals and injections Principally the Troches of Gordonius are profitable See them Conserve of Roses Bole armenick Milk oglutinate Vulnerary drink ULCER of the Reins The urine is made without impediment matter is mixed with the urine it stinketh lesse See Aph. 76 77. 81. s 4. It is cured as an Ulcer of the Bladder Whey Make an Emulsion of the four cold seeds with Milk If the matter come forth sparingly glutinate use vulnerary drink WEARINESS One kind is not natural or drying which followeth labour another natural this is either ulcerating which makes a sense of pricking in the circumference of the Body from a sharp vapour or humour as from cholerick or black Choler or extensive from Plethory or any humour that is not sharp or from hot blood which they that feel complain that their parts are as it were bruised or broken and it ariseth from Plethory and Cacochymia together or of leannesse when motion is difficult by reason that the flesh and fat of the Muscles is consumed after long diseases The Cure When Wearinesse riseth from the humours about the Muscles and in the circumference of the Body they must be taken away If from Cacochymia that must removed by rest sleep spare diet and that breeds good juyce and by moderate drinking of Wine In ulcerating weariness Purging in extensive opening a Vein in Phlegmonodes both these are good if it be from labour it is not onely cured by rest but by labour but not-so-much WHEALES angry or Pimples of sweat rising in the Neck Brest Arms c. they proceed from cholerick sweat exasperating the skin of which see Aph. 21. s 3. WHEALS rising in the night that vex us in the night and are of divers colours It is never greater then a Bean it exulcerateth it is cured as the cause is WORMS A Lotion of bitter things kills Lice a shirt stayned with Saffron and worn a while wonderfully a washing with Lavender water Barly bread and Paper burnt of each a like quantity made up with Bores grease takes away Cyrones WORMS are either round or the Bots or broad these either Gourdfashion or lesse like to a Gourd Signs of round worms are pain and great prickings of broad worms an obscure pain other signs are common They are cured by things that kill worms as by Corallina to one dram in powder Tanfey seed roots of Primrose Wormwood Hore-hound Citron seeds Angelica bitter Almonds Powder of worms is suspected by Tabexnae Montanus Water of the decoction of Graffe Harts-horn shavings of Ivory juyce of Lemmons Plantain Purssain Endive Sorrel To children give grasse water one ounce with syrup of juyce of Lemmons or some grains of Salt are put into the Mouth Spirit of Vitriol Elixar proprietatis broad worms require stronger Medicaments as many Walnuts chiefly roots of Fern of which powder half a dram may be given to an Infant to those that are grown one dram or two drams Treacle dissolved in juyce of Lemmons Hiera Yet sweet things must be mingled here and Clysters that are sweet must be given to allure them downwards being killed cast them forth with Diaturpeth with Rheubarb in rouls Sebestens with a decoction of syrup of Peach flowers Aloes Agarick The Bots are cured by suppositories For anointed the Belly with this following Take oyl of Egs Lillies Oxgall juyce of Onions fried with new Butter of each two drams mingle them He gave this following Take Aloes half a dram red Coral or Diatraganth frigid ten grains with Scabious water make three Pills lest the Aloes should cause heat let him sup upon it one spoonful of juyce of Citrons He gave a child of three years old more then one scruple of burnt Harts-horn Those things that are applyed outwardly as Gall c. must not be laid to the stomach Heurn used this following for children Take syrup of Succory with Rheubarb two drams to half an ounce Grasse water one ounce for one Dose every other day For. cured a Boy that for one year was miserably afflicted with the decoction of Wormwood and little Centory to another he gave juyce of Pomegranates one spoonful oyl of Olives half a spoonful mingle them It is a secret of the French Queens The same gave what followeth for one Dose to a great bellyed woman in a Feaver Take Harts-horn burnt seeds of Zedoary Purssain of each half a scruple mingle them For children let Harts-horn burnt be put into Raysins without stones For the Bots the experiment of Aetius is good namely a Suppository made of old salt Bief the fat being taken off WARTS A Nail a swelling of the Fundament namely when a wrinkle of the skin groweth hard Thymus namely a Wart with a narrow bottom and a large supersicies of a colour reddish like Thyme flowers A Fig wart is a great Thymus a Crest from preposterous Venery These are oft times malignant The cause is thought to be a flegmatick melancholick humour Platerus takes it to be the moist nourishment of the skin and the Cuticula Warts are oft times contagious The Cure By Medicaments as Fallop commendeth the leaves and juyce of Willows Purstain stampt being wet with its juyce also leaves and flowers of Marigolds Figwort roots of Cuckoe pint Sow-bread fresh Celandine Nigella with urine The liquor that runs from the flowers of Mullens set in the Sun in a glasse of its own accord Gum Succory the juyce running from
wounds are not so dangerous To the scraped Bone never apply moist or oily Remedies but Cephalick powders unlesse there be fear of inflammation by extream pain If the Membranes be hurt also when the Skull is opened if it be not open enough the Membrane must be uncovered something must be applyed to stop the blood chiefly that excellent remedy of Galen of Aloes one part Frankincense half as much To ease the pain powre in Pigeons blood which is also detergent and for to wipe off more use Honey of Roses with the juyce of Smallage and if need be Egyptiac Mathiolus commends especially oyl of Eggs. Oyl of Hypericon is good Mastick and the Cephalick ointment which you may find in Senn. Turpentine with Aqua vitae juyce of Calamint Nip Many apply to the Dura mater Oyl of Roses and other Moistners because it strengthneth and hinders the defluxion Others require only dryers because the Tympanum and Nerves delight in dryers so do all Ulcers because oyl offends the Nerves because cold is an enemy to the Nerves Senn. distinguisheth If the Membrane be white pure unhurt driers are useful as Honey of Roses with four drops of Aqua vitae but if the Membrane be touched and there be fear of inflammation from pain Oyl of Roses Omphacine is good then it varieth according to the temper as in soft Bodies and Children Oyl of Roses is good for strong Bodies Rosin of the Firr-tree or oyl of Hypericon mingled with it if it must be drier put in more Rosin then oyl In Summer oyl of Roses in Winter Rosin of the Firr-tree The Dura Mater by reason of the aire alwaies looseth its motion and the superficies of it resolveth into scales sometimes with a stink which frights those are not skilled by practise in it but this is common and superficial it is washed off with Honey of Roses Senn. in this case prescribed in alClyster roots of Piony one ounce seeds of Piony two drams The scales of the bones must not be pulled away by force but we must further the motion of them not the falling off we must further the Callus to come 2. Is a Contusion when the bone is pressed down yet so that it is not broken into many shells It is reduced with a Cupping glasse with a great flame but this causeth fluxion the sick with his Mouth and Nostrils shut must force his breath upwards which succeedeth in children or lay on a cleaving Plaister or raise it with a Trepan or a Trefine A Plaister of Ivy Gum sodders bones wonderfully 3. Is Effracture when the bone broken into Splinters is thrust inward those Splints must be taken out or the bone must be cut away either with Beaks or Rasps or with Pullers and with a leaden hammer it must be broken Sometimes a Bone so pressed down settles to his natural equality 4. Is Sedes when the print of the blow remains in the Bone it is reduced as a Contusion 5. Is Resounding when either some other part or place is cleft then where the blow was but the place of the Counter-Fissure is guessed at If the hair being shaved off a Plaister be laid on of liquid Pitch Wax Turpentine Aloes for hence if any place appear to be more swollen moister softer it is likely the Fissure is there so that the Patient also thinking of no such thing is compelled now and then to put his hand upon that place Signs Prognostick There are four Fractures wherein a Chirurgion may be deceived 1. When the Fissure under is very small as a hair 2. When the inward place is Fissured the outward remaining unhurt 3. When a Bone pressed down forthwith returns to its natural posture 4. When the Bone receives the blow in one place and the Fissure is in another Fab. cent 1. obs 17. In a Fracture of the Scul anger was mortal Obs 19. A venereous act obs 20. Too great noise langhter immoderate sneezing obs 24. Let the aire be most carefully hot Fab. c. 3. obs 22. A Cucupha is common for the wounds and contusions of the Head Also the roots of Aveus the leaves and flowers of Betony c. FUNGI Oft times by the hole made with the Trepan comes forth Sponges namely a Fungus red flesh The Subject of them is the Membrane hurt The Cause are grosse vitious humors They are cured by evacuatives also by Topicals Take Savin in powder two drams Ocre one dram make a Powder which sprinkled on them consumes them Par. Faby hath another Powder FURY of the Womb is a delirium with an unmeasurable desire of Venery growing from the heat of the Seed and of the Matrix communicated to the whole Body It is cured by Coolers opening of a Vein and purging of black Choler Specificals are such as quench the Seed as Lettice Water-lillies Willows Purflane Agnus castus Rue Dill Hemp-seed chiefly Corals Emralds All these beaten anointed to the Teflicles extinguish Venery We must cool by Internals and Topicals See the water of Chastity in Senn. l. 1. p. 2. â— 10. l. 4. p. 2. s 3. c. 5. The FROG It is a swelling under the Tongue that is common to children seldome it hath the nature of Inflammation but rather of Oedema The filth of it is like the white of an Egg and sometimes yellow The Cause is a Tartareus humour or fleam coming from the Head The cure is by Generals besides Topical Resolvers as powder of Salt Hysop Pomegranate Pills of each two drams rub it with this Senn. requireth Cutters and Resolvers For. nseth the powder aforesaid as also Plantain water half a pound Honey of Roses half an ounce flowers of wild Pomegrantes one dram and half Allum half a dram let them boyl these are Astringent and may be are good at the first Senn. looketh to the declination or the state If in vain Pareus provides a Plate of Iron-bored through equal to the Mouth when it gapeth wide and he applyeth it so to the Mouth that the swelling may be answerable to that hole afterwards by the hole make a burning with an Iron crush out the filth and wash the Mouth with a decoction of Barley Sugar and Honey of Roses leave none of the humour for it makes it come again Gal. will not willingly open it with an Iron for fear of a Flux of blood A wound also made under the Chin the matter will presently come forth which is done if the Mouth cannot fitly be opened For Children Senn. mingleth powder of Sage or Origanum with Honey of Roses and spirit of Vitriol two drops or Cuttle-bone Sal gemmae Pepper of each one dram make a powder he layeth under the Chin or upon the Chin a Plaister of Goose dung FRECKLS Either come from heat of the Sun namely where the colour is changed into swart It is prevented if the Face and Hands be anointed with the white of an Egg beaten with rose-Rose-water or with the emulsion of the four cold seeds It is cured in women by
and plenty of dung also from a Hernia or from poyson Yet Senn. doth not believe it can be from obstruction of the small Guts for the Excrements could not come forth at the Mouth but he saith that as in vomiting the circular fibres of the stomach so in the Iliack Passion the cause is in the winding of the small Guts because Clysters in the Iliack Passion are often cast forth by vomit and Suppositories also The cause of that motion is 1. The inflammation of the Intestins 2. Retention of the dung 3. Ulceration Most commonly it seizeth on the small but sometimes the great guts also Signs Diagnostick The Belly stopt Vomiting more then in the Colick the pain lesse If the small Guts be affected vomiting and nauseating is greater Prognostick All Iliack Passions are dangerous When the dung is vomited up it is mortall Aph. 44. s 6. Aph. 10. s 7. it killeth in four days The cure Emollients are useful internals and Topicals One ounce of oyl of sweet Almonds is singular Let the Fundament be alwaies fomented with Emollients Apply Emollients to the Abdomen A Bath is good fat broths softning Clysters If it come from inflammation it is cured as inflammation of the Guts If from the dung hardned it is cured as the Colick If it cannot be cured Hippocrates with a pair of Bellows separates the guts from the dung by blowing them and then giveth a Clyster If it come from Hernia it is cured as a Hernia IMAGINATION of it self neither alters nor moveth because it is an apprehending power and the action of it is immanent but only by accident so far as it maketh for desire or hate and so the natural Faculty of moving is drawn into consent which either sends or brings back the humours and the Species It produceth diseases only by frights and fears whereby the humours are moved and corrupted But if the imagination be of a great Nose a great Nose is not made It cureth not a disease by it self but so far as it makes confidence and joy It affects the Infant with ill conformation by the Passions of the mind and the motion of the humours and spirits proceeding thence whereby the forming faculty is troubled In a determinate conformation when bloody spots are made like Mulberries the Imagination doth represent such forms to the forming Faculty as the soul of the Mother so affected affects the soul in the Seed and that the Infant Regiment of INFANTS The Navil string being cut off if the Infant be plethorick let the blood run forth if it be lean let the blood be pressed inward with the Hand yet the Infant will have fewer Small-Pox if the blood be not pressed in with the Hand as Riol observed If it be of a reddish colour and cryeth aloud it is sound Let it be washed with wine of the decoction of Rose leaves Myrtils c. Galen bids strew it with Salt but amiss An Excrement like to chalk sticking in the Mouth must be wiped out with a stick tied in a clout wet with oyl of sweet Almonds Honey and Sugar All the common Joynts must be unfolded Before the Tet be offered to it give it Honey or syrup of Roses with oyl of sweet Almonds and Sugar Some say that the Mothers Milk is not good for the Child till the excremental blood that is with the after-burden be purged away But the condition of the Milk must be considered if it be bad give it not if it be wheyish Spiegelius saith it cannot hurt but it doth much profit Put no great light nor a candle neer the Child Let it ly one Month on the Back and afterwards on the side Let the light be right over against the Eys wherefore the sides of the Cradle must be vailed that the Child may look only straight forward Hanging Cradles are the best Let them sleep more then wake The Body of the Infant must be daily rubbed gently After four Months the Hands and Arms may be let loose from swath-bands Let it never accustome it self to one Breast only for so it will use but one Hand After some moneths make it Pap of Wheat-meal a little dried at fire or of the whitest Bread before it have teeth solid meats must not be given it When the teeth come forth use it to more solid meats Let it not stand too young Put it in a little Cart to learn to walk put a roundle about the Head The Child must not be removed from sucking till the number of its teeth be compleat It is best weaning it when the Moon increaseth in Spring and Autumn INFANTS Feavers They proceed either from corrupt Milk or breeding of Teeth or Worms The Nurse or Mother must be purged with Diacatholicon syrup of Roses c. Give the Infants Alteratives as the juyce syrup of Violets syrup of juyce of Lemmons water of Endive Succory Violets The Back-bone must be anointed with the Mucilage of Flea seed with oyl of Violets and Wax Lay an Astringent as oyl of Quinces to the stomach Heurnius commendeth this which followeth Take conserve of Violet flowers two ounces Borrage half an ounce Pulp of Cassia new drawn one ounce Mucilage of Flea seed half an ounce the Dose is one or two drams Syrup of Roses Violets of Succory with Rheubarb Cassia may be given c. Senn. saw a Child dy by 3 drops of oyl of Amber given to it by an old wife the Belly is loosened most conveniently by suppositories clysters whey syrup of Roses A disease of Infants called Siriasis which is an inflammation of the Brain and the Membranes which there followeth upon a hollownesse in the forepart of the Head and the Eys It comes from flegmatick blood corrupting also from milk too hot Women call this Das blatt Schissen because the Membrane of the Fountain falleth and causeth a hole In three days commonly it killeth the Belly must be loosned with oyl of Roses the Fountain must be anointed afterwards add oyl of Camomil the Nurse must use cold and moist Diet and dwell in a colder aire Fear in sleep if it come from worms or a Feaver it is cured by a particular way If it come from corrupt Milk Vomit removeth it Give Honey of Roses solutive with Milk confection of Jacinth or Coral Hang upon the Infant outwardly a Wolfs tooth Corals the horns of Italian Beetles which they call the flying Hart. Watchings If they proceed from corrupt Milk take that away if from worms remove them The Nurse but not the Childe must take sleeping Medicaments Washings of the Feet are rather profitable of Dill Mallow leaves Willows Vine leaves c. The soles of the Feet are profitably anointed with the marrow of Harts bones Oyl of Dill new is safely applyed to the Head to the Nostrils oyl of Violets with a little juyce of Lettice for an Ointment Moisture of the Ears which unlesse it be cured the Bones corroded will cause deafnesse the pain must be mitigated with