together according to the rules I have prescrib'd This being perform'd I hope your Bowels being strengthen'd the humours will be amended and the Collection of all the Causes of â—…he before past accidents being cut off nay the fear of a recidiva or relapse which might happen upon closing up the Fistula in the Fundament which though it be a thing to be desir'd yet it is osten full of danger when nature of her own accord seeketh a vent And this is confirm'd by Cardinal Richâ—…leus Arm who possibly might have injoy d a longer liâ—… if the Cure of his Fistula had been prosecuâ—…ed with less diligence In the using of the Steel let necessary Purgations be interposed having a care from henceforth of such as have Aloes in them they irritate and offend the Fundament unless their bitterness be altogether taken away which though it may be perform'd by Art yet in my judgement it signifies little to attempt that thing which hath less utility then Ostentation in it Having taken your Essence of Steel which ought not to procure any loathing to you warm Bathes are to be thought off and the use of Asses Milk and of mineral Waters but the place of these I believe will be supply'd by the Steel I wish I could be by your side to direct you but whether that will be hereafter or no I know not although I heartily wish that I may once again see my Country The Steel sent to you was prepar'd wholly and compleatly with my own hands and by Gods assistance you will receive more advantage from it than from all the rest God give it his blessing c. COUNCEL the Fifth In the same disaffections of the Hypochondries for the same Noble Councellor at Law Sent into France MY last Letters gave you a large account how to make use of the Steel which as I suppose is the chief and apt remedy to recover your health it only remains that I send it to you ready prepar'd which I now do you are to receive seventeen Ounces weight of the Syrup which that it may be temper'd and fitted to be used according to the rule laid down in my former Letters take order to have this following Syrup carefully made Take sweet smelling Apples commonly call'd Queen Apples with short Stalkes as many as you please cut away their rind afterwards draw a water from them in a double Vessel in a boiling Balneo Maria till you have got a sufficient quantity pour the foresaid water upon the rinds which have been first laid upon a Table until they are almost dry add to them new Lemon peels cut small distil this Water again by a Body of Belvee Earth or Tin or so that the Distiller may carefully avoid the breaking of the Vessel in a large glass Alimbeck and head of the same Metal put into the inward part of the spout of the Alimbeck a Nodule or little Bag made with fine Linen and fill'd with half a Dram of Ambargreece and six grains of Mosck put the Vessel into a Kettle of Water filled with Hay or Saw-dust Make the joining of the Body Head and Reciver fast with Lute or Paste made of Meal Quick-lime and the White of an Egg draw a Water from this by distillation in which with a gentle heat dissolve as much white Sugarcandy ground to a fine powder as it can possibly contain to make it of the consistance of a Syrup of which take exactly twenty three Ounces dilute and mix it with that quantity of the prepar'd Steel which I send to you which is sufficient for you to use threescore days which is the time prefix'd by me This Syrup is included in an Earthern Bottle well stopt and sealed with my own Seal which Note least it be chang'd I would willingly have sent you the whole prepar'd but that the price of the carriage would have been insufferable keep this as a Treasure for the recovery of your health which perhaps you will not attain too in the place you now dwell in take it all leaving no remainder of it I wish I were nearer you for my presence would conduce much for the right use of so great a Remedy although you cannot want expert directers when you shall be in that vast City of Paris Give me an account of the success chiefly if the desire of recovering your perfect health shall call you home and hinder you from expecting the Spring which assists the efficacy and operation of Medicines As to the swelling behind your Ear it is a thing of difficulty and for the most part eludeth the force of Medicines I hardly think you are in that condition now that upon the account of that you need my advice since I imagine this grief of yours is already past the declination but if there do remain any stubborn hardness let that be overcome by some Mercurial Remedies which will advance the power of other Medicines and efficaciously overcome the hardness I do often make use of them and I do find if all hope of suppuration be gone yet these do so rarifie the humours that nature is able to dissolve that humour that was congeal'd into the form of perfect Matter This besides other Experiments happen'd in two Pestilential Tumours of which one was under the Arm-pit they retain'd their hardness for six weeks though the Malignity was extinct yet by the help of Mercurial Remedies they were brought to a happy suppuration COUNCEL the Sixth In the same Disease for the same Gentleman IN convenient time as the next Spring a little after the Equinox the general praescripts being before made use of and by them the peccant juices carefully prepar'd and evacuated then exhibit the Chalybeat Medicine Continue the use of it according as it ageees with you for threescore days observing necessary cautions Wherefore let this number of days be so divided that there be exhibited of our Steel Syrup two Drams for six days three Drams for as many days four for xii days five for xii days more six for eight days together seven for eight days eight for eight days let it be given in any grateful Liquor whether it be in Clarified Whey the water of Apples of Fumaterry Burrage Baume or thin Capon Broath Wine small Beer c. or in the Restorative Water of which mention is made in what follows After the taking of the Medicine you must walk or use some other gentle exercise by which the body may be moderately warm'd without procuring sweat but forbear Dinner for four hours which may be sufficiently large according to your Appetite and the disposition of your Stomack easily to concoct meat of good juice But let your Supper be sparing not cramming in Meat before the former Food be digested let your ordinary Drink be Oligophorick Wine that is such as will bear but little water of a Brick colour or a Flesh colour very well diluted with the Decoction of cleansed female Fern roots of Lentisk or Mastick wood and Nephritick
strew some of it upon coals for a Fume If you add Ê’ ij or Ê’ iij. of Amber to the â—…foresaid Powder though it will not be the gratefuller yet it will be the more efficacious Trochises to Fume the Kings Shirts and Cloaths â„ž Damask Roses gathered after the Sun-rising lb ss Benzoin â„¥ ij Mix them and make them into a Paste by â—…ong beating them together in a Mortar of which form Trochises to be dryed in the â—…hade â„ž Of these Trochises reduc'd to a Powder â„¥ j. Musk gr j. Civet gr iij. Caraman Balsom ℈ ss Make Trochises with Rose-water and a little Gum Tragacanth to be dryed and kept in a â—…ox close shut to be used in the mornings II. Trochises â„ž Trochises of Roses â„¥ vi Powder of Benzoin â„¥ ij Musk gr j. Civet gr xvi Rose-water as much as is sufficient Make a mass The III. Perfume â„ž Very fine Powder of Juniper-wood Benzoin an Ê’ vij Musk ℈ j. Rose-water q. s. with the Muscilage of Gum Tragacanth Make a mass It will be convenient to sprinkle his Hankerchief with Aqua Angeli let the settling of this Water be made up into Pastills for to fume the Chamber Shirts and other Vestments Aqua Angeli â„ž Wood of Aloes Storax Calamita an â„¥ ss Benzoin â„¥ iv Nutmegs Yellow Sanders Cloves an Ê’ ij Boil them in Rose-water such a quantity aâ—… may cover them four fingers do this in 〈◊〉 close Vessel with a gentle fire in Sand oâ—… Ashes continue the boiling for a day and 〈◊〉 night then strain it and add to it Of the best Rose-water lb iij. Orange flowers Jessamin flowers Musk an ℈ j. Of the remaining mass being warm make Pastills The Balsom for the Nostrils â„ž Balsom of Peru Ê’ iij. Distill'd Oyl of Angelica or if you have it that which drops from the Stalks being cut Oyl of Citron-peels an Ê’ ij Rosemary Juniper an Ê’ j. Roses distill'd Ê’ ss Orange Butter Jessamin Butter an â„¥ ss Ambergrease ℈ iv Oriental Musk Civet an ℈ ij Mix them all together as they should be and by grinding them upon a Porphiry make a Balsom for the King to anoint with in a morning before he go out of his Chamber Oyl of Amber often rectified with Spirit of Wine is excellent good Mathiolus's Oyl of Scorpions is very efficacious if our Lord the King anoint his Pulses and the region of his Heart with it when he hears a Sermon or admits a crowd of people to come to him Let his Diet be refrigerating and drying let him change the Air and avoid the concourse of people Besides these Prophylactick for the cure of the disease when it is present have these following ready prepar'd Aqua Theriacalis described in the London Pharmacopoea p. 12. Antidotus Saxonica vera Electuar de Ovo Vegetabile ac Minerale Pulvis rubaeus Pannonicus alter Pharmac Aug. p. 114 Pulvis griseus Caesaris ibid. p. 3. Species Liber ibid. p. 137. Diascordium Magistrale Mayernii Diascordium Fracastorii Theriaca Andromachi Londinensis Antidotus p. 91. Mithridatium Damocratis Confectio Alkermes Confectio Hyacinthina Salts of Butter-Burr Meadow-Sweet Elder Rue Scordium Iuniper Pope Leo's Oyl of Scorpions Species for Emulsions composed of Citron Seeds Mustard Seeds â—…actis â—…erlurum or Milk of Pearls Let these Purges be in a readiness Tryphera Persica Mesusi vel Iohannis Damasceni Pharm Aug. p. 56. Pilulâ—… Ruffi Mastichinae Fernel Angelica Seeds with other Cordial Herbs Another Councel or Advice in the Plague Written in French and presented by the Kings Physicians to Lewis the XIII the French King The Curative Part. THese are the signs of the simple Plague when it is alone and it is joyn'd with no other kind of Feaver a small Pulse Lâ—…nguid low unequal decay of strength Fainting Vomitings and Anxieties but nevertheless the heat is so moderate that the Feaver is insensible there is no Thirst no Pain the Urine is like healthy peoples But the sick dye in this gentle state of the Disease contrary to hope and opinion If the Pâ—…st be joyned with a putrid Feaver then there are these Symptoms a most sharp pain of the head drousiness ravings difficulty of breathing with a stinking breath unextinguishable Thirst loss of the Appetite urgent Vomiting burning heat of the inward Bowelâ—… with coldness of the extreme parts turbid confused and flame colour'd Urine the excrementâ—… of the Belly extremely stinking If the Plague be simple let this Composition be made use of â„ž A new lay'd Egg pour out the White and fill it with Saffron rost it under hot Ashes till it be almost hard then the Shell being taken away beat the Egg with these things added to it White Dittany Tormentil Angelica Juniper-Berries an Ê’ ij Camphire gr iij. Mix them all in a Mortar with the weight of all of them of the best Turpentine or Mithridate Let there be taken gr xx in equal parts of Spring-water and White-Wine reiterate this Dose thrice in an hour if it happen that the Stomack cast it up by Vomit but after that hour is elapsed give a simple Glyster to expell the Excrements in which oftentimes the Contagion is lodg'd which being voided presently procure Sweat by giving of the folâ—…owing Water â„ž Of the roots of Sorrel Gentian White Dittany Tormentil an â„¥ ss Juniper-Berries â„¥ ss Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Citron an Ê’ ij Old Mithridate â„¥ j. Shaving of Guajacum-wood â„¥ ij Water of Sorrel Meadow-sweet Carduus Benedictus an lb j. Let there be taken of the foresaid Water two or three Ounces with â„¥ ss of Syrup of Lemons sustaining the sweet for 5 or 6 hours according to the strength of the Patient avoiding Sleep whilst it is breaking forth in the interim giving the Patient slices of Citron to suck infused in cold Water the Berries of ever-green Thorn and wash'd Cherries and the like that he may cool his Mouth The Heart being thus fortify'd the Excrements voided and the Venom expell'd by Hidroticks or procurers of sweat let there bâ—… given to the sick Broaths made with Sorrel Lettice Cichory season his Meat with the juice of Sorrel Oranges Lemons give fooâ—… often but little in quantity lest the stomack be burthen'd Let Drink be allow'd morâ—… freely for Thirst is hurtful Let there bâ—… given Spring-water in which is infused Liquoris and a good many slices of Citron noâ—… omitting to boil it But our opinion is Wiâ—… may be allowed notwithstanding the heat to defend the Heart which is destroy'd by often â—…aintings But let the Wine be small and thin and a little rough according to the height of the Fever if the Patient be desirous of it Let his Sleep be little and every hour to temper the heat of the Mouth Gargule with simple Water or diluted with a little Wine in the mean time make the Patient chearful nourishing the hopes of health in him for nothing is so pernicious in these kind of Diseases as terrour and fear is Also let the sick be in a temperate
upper and inferiour parts do difficultly admit of Cure but all our endeavours must be made use of and the success submitted to God expecting from his will a happy event You have already been under the Cure of Experienc'd Men of Art which their own accounts testifie And amongst our rules this is the Chief If all things be done rationally and success do not presently follow the intentions and indications of Cure remaining still the same we are to insist upon the same Medicines without any alteration unless something happen which absolutely compells us to it But to satisfie your desire because you expect my advice I will having begun proceed farther submitting my Councel to the judgement and experience of those Learned men under whose hands you now are I being at so great a distance from you And in the first place I advise as soon as the Weather shall be more temperate That you try the Change of Air experimenting another and more propitious one without delay being carried in a Litter or otherways so that the motion may not hurt you beginning your Journey with the rising of the Sun and getting into your Inn before Sun-set Travel to Volcas Aurange Mompilier Bitteras c. breath dry Air the heat of whieh you may easily temper in the House according to the conveniencies the place allows Galen the Master of Physicians used to send Consumptive Patients to Tabias not that he might be rid of the care of them but to dry up the Ulcer and Defluction by drawing in of a more pure Air indow'd with a drying faculty and a Balsamick power from the Plants which grew there Some years since a Gentleman of these parts call'd Mr. Cotton who was in a confirm'd Consumption spit matter mix'd with blood and was extreamly extenuated being a mere Skeleton cover'd with a dry skin This Gentleman was sent to these parts and upon his return he was absolutely recovered he liveth healthy with his Family and is Father of many Children I have seen that I may discover the Efficacy of the Air in Diseases of the Lungs a Gentleman who having received a deep wound in his Breast he was twice Cured thereof by making an Aperture in the opposite side which necessity compell'd to be made betwixt his Ribs which Aperture became a Fistula He travel'd into Spain where after five years stay the Fistula healed up returning to his own Country which was a cold and moist Climate it open'd again of its own accord and he was healed again by going into Spain for the same number of years as formerly From hence it will plainly appear to you that the Air pervading all the Bronchia or Pipes of the Lungs and passing directly to the Heart is more efficacious in exerting the force of its native or acquir'd qualities and virtues than any other sort of remedy whatsoever The Second head regards Drink If you can forbear Wine altogether you will do very well to do so for whether you drink much or little it doth affect and will afflict your head I hear they make good Beer at Geneva if you can get that which is small and clear or else the Decoction of Barley well fermented and without Hops that may be commodious for you which moreover you may render Medicinal by the addition of China roots or the roots of the greater Canes or Reeds of Narbon and with Troâ—…matick or wound Herbs and Pectorals amongst which the Male Veronica Bugle and self hete are the best If you leave your native Soil and your own House which are not healthy for you to dwell in there may be prescribed a weak Hydromel or Meade or else a thin drink made with Raisons but well fermented and impregnated with the virtue of the foresaid simples and others as Pimpernal the greater Comfory AElurop Plantain Midlin broad leaved Lungwort which is a Moss of an Ash-colour growing upon old Oaks These kind of Drinks rendred familiar and ordinary and pertinaciously continu'd by their constant use work wonders they being endow'd both with a Nutritive and Medicinal Virtue Arcaeus an approved Author a Spaniard doth much commend Guajacum in Ulcers of the Lungs and I know by experience it is very successful nor is the use of it to be feared in lean bodies for its accrimony and heat if you proceed by degrees to use it may be temper'd by adding the larger quantity of Water or it may be boyl'd in Barley Water or else the Roots of China or Reeds are harmless and without heat dry sufficiently moreover do not descend from the necessary advice given you about Diet by your Physicians Cows Milk is useful to condense and nourish well but to refrigerate and cool Asses Milk is more efficacious it detergeth and cleanseth better and carries off the watery Excrements by Urine to which intent also lignum Nephriticum conduces being added to your ordinary drink add to this that it leaves nothing untouched but brings it away with it self if only it pass well And this your own experience will make out to you there being this occasion given to make proof of its effect Follow what your Physicians advise you The force and virtue of the Milk will be augmented if the Beasts feed upon Herbs which are appropriate to your Grief I commend Sugar of Roses with which sweeten your Milk I firmly hold upon this account that a Syrup made with Vulnery Herbs and Wood Tortoises in Narbon call'd Garrige shell Snails the Tayles of Craw-fish green Froggs of which you have plenty will be of great use to you for the future dilating'an Ounce of it with a draught of Milk You may cast in a fourth part of rose-Rose-water into the Decoction of the aforesaid simples being clarefi'd before the Sugar is put to it I would have to be added to the Tabblets of Sugar of Roses which you use some truly prepar'd Blood stone Harts-borne well and Philosophically calcin'd by the vapour of some Pectoral Water and I approve of Crabs Eyes prepar'd after the common way Concerning the Lapis haematitis or Blood stone read what is delivered of its virtues in your Disease by the most experienc'd amongst the Ancient Physicians Alexander Trailianus cap. 1. lib. 7. Practicae under the title of Such things as are convenient for those which spit blood from the defluction of an acrid humour which I also think useful for those which spit blood by reason of an Anastomasis and all sorts of Haemoptysis proceeding from the Breast let the Cause which produces it be what it will A Cough is the most troublesome Symptom of these kind of Diseases for it irritates and shakes the Lungs and will not permit the mouths of the Vessels to close nor grow together Take care therefore to prepare Becâ—…hical or Pectoral Tabblets of an Extract made without the least burning but perform'd with the vapour of water let it be made of the best Liquiris macerated in the waters of Fluellin and Mullin adding to it new made Penidies
her former state doth easily overcome what remains Let us direct our aim then at this point since in my judgement any other method of Cure though it may appear never so useful will prove ineffectual for the future I do not touch upon your Diet being certain that those to whose care you have committed your health will not pretermit any occasion of either doing what is fit or omitting what is inconvenient let us proceed to remedies of these I think it will be vain for the future to continue in the use of slight ones which are usually prescrib'd more for the comfort of the Physician then the Sick which are really adiaphora or indifferent they are innocent truly but by being so they afford no help This Evil is to be pluck'd up by the Roots otherwise it will be perpetually hatching and producing a new Brood Let Vomits lead on the first and main Battle as well for their efficacious removing the filth of the first regions of the body as also to remove by their specifick efficacy from which only the Triumph and Victory over Melancholly is to be expected future impediments Of these I know none more prevalent nor of less danger than the infusion of Crocus Metallorum made in Canary Wine allowing an Ounce of this to a Pint of the Wine of which if you are easie to Vomit you may take the first time one Ounce adding of simple Oxymel half an Ounce and one Ounce of Cardus Beneditus Water if you are hard to work upon then you may take from the quantity of ten Drams to an Ounce and half of it though I think it safest to begin with a small Dose except the vehemence of the Disease perswade otherwise Vomit three or four times nay more making use of no other Medicine between but if your endeavours to Vomit prove fruitless the Stomack may be easily moved to it by drinking of Barley Water or thin Chicking Breath nay only with warm Water procure this sort of Evacuation at least three times allowing the space of two or three days between after which apply your self to Purgation beginning with Elleborat and Hypochondriack Apozems If by rubbing and pressing hard with your hands the whole Abdomen and the Hypochondries there be found pertinacious obstructions there it will be necessary then to exhibit some preparing Medicine for 7 or 8 days together which being perform'd the Purgation of the humour is to be administer'd again If there be any occasion to open a Vein from which nevertheless I expect little benefit let the Physician that is present take care of that I note this one thing to you that I prefer the opening of an inferiour Vein in the Malleoli or Ancles rather then a superiour in the Arms unless there be somewhat else that hinders it The Body being thus conveniently Evacuated the whole business of the Cure is to be directed to the use of Steel in this Cure the chief Medicine There are three Weeks at least to be imploy'd about the foresaid general praescripts and in the mean time care must be had of that intense dryness of your Tongue which is so troublesome to you which I hope in a small time will be dissipated from which no great danger is threaten'd so that care be took that the Body be cleansed from those hot dry and vitriolick juices of the nature of Canker of Brass which doth enduce this intense and unsatisfy'd thirst in which case there is great relief found in the opening the Veins situate under the Tongue by which the heat of the Lungs and Heart is allay'd and the Brain effectually discharg'd if you find the Brain to be possess'd with this matter and if you find the continual Numbness of the Members to remain together with an imbecility to move apply a great visicatory to the Nuck of the Neck and make two Issues in the topes of the Shoulders The Head being shaved put upon it Fernelius his Cataplasme or some other Epispatick Anointing the whole Back-bone every day with Balsom of Earth-worms or Batts c. And when the Weather is convenient for it go to the Baths of Borbon or Aquense which are not far from your House and use to wash your Body with them and let the whole Spine of your Back be dropt upon by these Waters I do firmly believe your Panick fears will vanish if you devote your self to the use of Steel by the virtue of which I have seen many Melancholly persons deliver'd the weakness of whose Limbs did declare that they were already Paralitick And among these a certain Maid of Honour committed to my â—…re the last year by the Queen of Bohemia who by the force of this Melancholly juice had the motion of all her Limbs took from her whom by Gods assistance I restor'd to the Queen again Merry and enjoying a firm health to the admiration of all those which had her in Cure before me in whose judgement she was afflicted with a Palsie I proceeded altogether another contrary and yet common way by the help of which she attain'd her health For 't is only old Dogs that are the best Hunters But concerning your Fistula I think it is not far from being healed if your Chyrurgion may be credited who is a most expert man to whom which you before desired me to do since I have lately writ there is no need that I take up my pen again that he may be further satisfy'd of my kindness Outward Remedies are needless for the future but lest I should seem to be wanting in my Care and Friendship if there is any thing needful to dry and confirm the Cicatrice use the Balsom of Sulphur of which you have heard me spake often which will supply the place of all other Medicines which are fit for the part affected you may apply Emplastrum Diasulphuris to the part which since it needs some detersion and cleansing upon that account it is convenient to use the solution of Crollius his Lapis Mirabilis or another according to my judgement of equal efficacy consisting of pure Bole-Armenick White Vitriol and Camphor prepar'd according to Art or you may well use the Mercurial Water described by Hartman made of Mercury sublimate freed from its corrosive Spirits by Tynne according to Art When the fear of a Palsie shall be dissipated and the humour bred in the Hypochondries overcome and cut off also when it shall only remain to imploy our endeavours that the Cure of the Fistula be made firm and undoubted And that the birth of the same germinating kind of Ulcers in those lower parts subject to corruption may be prevented then the use of Mercurial Medicines taken inwardly will be seasonable which in convenient time and place shall be prescribed to you with necessary cautions as also certain other exsicating Medicines taken from the Classes of Minerals and these such as promote a Diaphoresin or transpiration at the pores whose power and faculty is to discuss malignant vapours and
to hinder defluctions These produce different actions according to the divers distemperatures of the receiving parts which Distempers they master and overcome by their particular efficacious impressions But enough for this time and I will only subjoin an orderly description of certain Medicines promised above If you please you may make use of Mr. Favonius the Apothecary who will be very careful in their preparation If your Fistula be healed and Cicatriz'd that it may long remain so it is necessary you go to Geneva c. In the first place prepare the Stomack for the space of two days before that so you may Vomit easily As â„ž Of simple Oxymel â„¥ iij. Oxymel of Squills â„¥ j. Mix them for 4 Doses taking them in a draught of Ptisan at a large distance from Meals Then â„ž Of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum made with Canary Sack proportioning â„¥ j. of the Crocus to â„¥ xvi or a Pint of the Sack take I say of this infusion philter'd through a Papire â„¥ j. Of the water of Carduus Benedictus â„¥ j. Simple Oxymel â„¥ ss Mix them and make a draught to be given in the Morning with observing a due and regular order in the time of its Operation Let this Medicine be repeated Thrice interposing the space of two or three days betwixt each time of taking according to the strength and disposition of the Stomack a regard being had to the Operation of the Medicine If there be occasion those that can bear the Operation well may increase the quantity of the infusion to Ten Drams or an Ounce and half In the days between it will be necessary to soment the Hypochondries and region of the Stomack with an emollient inciding and Opening Decoction by this means the humours which are to be discharg'd by Vomit will be render'd fluid and the Operation will succeed with the less trouble After taking the third Vomit a day or two being allowed for quiet let there be given the following Apozem â„ž Of the Roots of female Fers Cichory Lions Tooth The Middle-Barke of an Ash-tree the Roots of sharp Leav'd Docks an â„¥ j. Marsh-mallows â„¥ ss The Barke of Caper-roots Of Tamariske an Ê’ x. The fresh Roots of Polypody â„¥ iij. Of the Leaves of Fumaterry Germander Ground Pine Agrimony Bettony Of all the sorts of Maiden-hair an M. j. The Flowers of Cowslips St. Iohns wort an P. iij. Water-Lillies P. ij ss The Tops of Rosemary Marjarom an P. j. The Seeds of male Piony Ê’ iij. Of sweet Fennel Of Corryander prepar'd an â„¥ ss Of Carthamum fresh full and such as sink in water â„¥ ij Raisons of the Sun stoned Iujubs an Ê’ iv Sweet smelling Apples cut into bits with their peels on N. iij. Make a decoction of all these in a s. q. of water in which was steeped before for the space of four hours Sparkling Tartar of White Wine Ê’ vi Clean picked Senna Leaves â„¥ ij The small shings of true black Heâ—…or roots Ê’ iv After a sufficient decocting strain it which reduce by gentle Boyling to â„¥ xv in which dissolve Of the solutive Syrup of Damask Roses made with Agarick Of the Syrup of Cichory with a fourfold proportion of Rhubarb anÊ’ j. ss Spirit of Vitriel gut xii mix them and make an Apozem for three days to be taken a Mornings with care and keeping within doors either every day or every other day according to your strength and this to be done three hours before you take any Broath If it seem convenient either between or after these Purgations to open either of the Saphena Veins let that be committed to the pleasure of your Physician which is present with you Afterwards let the peccant juices be prepar'd again and again and the obstructions of the Bowels powerfully recerated by this following Medicine â„ž The Decoction of sweet seuted Apples Nephriteck wood adding a little 〈◊〉 â„ž iij. Small White Wine lb j. Spirit of Salt Vitriol an Ê’ j. Mix them exactly in a flat glass dish then â—…resently drop leisurely into it of Oil of Turâ—…ar made per deliquium q. s. to extinguish â—…ll acidity or sowerness add to thâ—… Syrup of the flowers of red fluelin with the Violet flower Syrup of Cowslips an â„¥ â—…j Clâ—…on water one spoonful Make a perfect mixture of them by long agiâ—…ating them together Take of this Liquor 〈◊〉 v for a Dosâ—… twice in a day at a good â—…stance from Meals do this eight days together which time being elapsed repeat Purging Thus. â„ž Clean pick'd and small cut Senna Leaves Ê’ iv Choice Rhubarb Ê’ ij The stringy fibers of true black Hellebor roots ℈ iv To these being strain'd pour such a quantity of the strain'd Decoction of Tamarynds and Tartar as is sufficient to make the infusion for a whole Night upon warm Ashes adding Of Lavender flowers ℈ j. One blade or flower of Mace In the Morning after a gentle boiling strain it in which reduc'd to a Dose dissolve Syrup of Damask Roses with Agarick Calabrian Manna an â„¥ j. Spirit of Vitriol gut iv Mix them for a Potion to be given in the Morning with a careful governing of yourself This being perform'd your Body is sufficiently fitted for the use of Steel the methoâ—… of taking which was sufficiently describ'â—… to you the first time In the interim Sir while you are at leisure betwixt making uâ—… of the prescriptions and that will take up good space of time but absolutely necessarâ—… to the right preparing of the peccant juice and the Cure of your Body In the mean spâ—… use these things which have a respect to tâ—… dryness of your Tongue As a Syrup made with the white of an Egg and Sugarcandy Trochisch's of Liquoris prepar'd from its Extract mix'd with Sugar of Roses adding a â—…ittle of the Mucalage of Gum Tragacant The distill'd Water of Milke with the Syrup de Mucilaginibus taken by a Spoon or put of a glass Bottle or out of a phyol with a narrow mouth The use of Rock Chrystal truly prepared with Conserve of Violets or Water Lillies is good An injection into the Iawes made with Barley water and Milke warm from the Cow either by it self or adding a little Sal pruâ—…lla Syrup of the Juice of the greater Semperâ—…uive or House-leek boyl'd with Sugar adding 〈◊〉 little of the same Sal prunella see that you â—…se them by turns lest Nature being too much accustomed to one frustrate or reject â—…eir effect I doubt not but those Symptoms which â—…hreaten a Palsie will either be diminished â—…r for the most part removed by the before â—…rescribed Medicines which Symptoms if they â—…ould persevere though but a little that â—…he fearful mind of the Patient may be satisâ—…'d by the advice of the Physicians which â—…re present let there be apply'd to the head being shaved Fernelius his Cataplasme against Catarrhs described in his Councels for divers days together Apply to the hinder part of the Neck a large Visicatory with which excite a Blister
wood In the passing through the Chalybiate course let your body be purged by this following Potion the days which follow the xij the xxiv the xliv the Lij and the Lx. giving the draught four hours before any Broath observing due Orders â„ž Fresh Polypody roots Pulpe of Tamarinds an â„¥ ss The clean picked Leaves of Senna cut small and sprinkl'd with well sented White Wine Ê’ v. The small strings of the roots of true black Ellebor Ê’ j. Tragee Commun Cream of Tartar an Ê’ ij Make a decoction in a sufficient quantity of the distilled Waters of Fumaterry and Water Lilly flowers add to the straining Of choice Rhubarb ℈ ij infused by its self in Baume Water Of yellow Sanders Ê’ ij reduce them all unto a small Dose in which dissolve The solutive Syrup of Damask Roses with Agarick â„¥ j. Calabrian Manna â„¥ ss Mix them make a Potion to be taken in the Morning In the days betwixt let the Chalybeate Syrup be dissolved in a draught of Laxative Ptisan prepar'd with Senna and Liquoris according to Art do this every third day Let the restorative Water be prepar'd of the juice of the pulpy flesh of a Calf a Capon 〈◊〉 Weather the hart of a Lamb and a Calf distilled in a body and head to which let there be added the juice of Queens Apples â—…ew Whey and the Blood of a Golt Pig a Lamb a Calf all agitated so long till they â—…re freed from the Fibers and Strings Some Cinnamon and Mace and let them be distill'd 〈◊〉 a double Vessel to the distilled Liquor â—…dd the fourth part of the strongest and best â—…d Wine and distil it again reserve the Liquor in a glass Viol close stopt for use â„ž Syrup of Queen Apples Of the flowers of red Fluellin an â„¥ vi Of Citron Peels â„¥ iv mix them and drop into them as much Spirit of Salt as will make them moderately sower add Of Confection of Alkermes â„¥ ss Reserve it for Iulips mixing â„¥ j of this Syrup with four of the aforesaid Water to be taken five hours before Dinner and two before Supper those days in which you take the Martial Syrup or if your Stomack be any way disturbed with this drink betwixt the two Meals then you may take it at the hour of sleep chiefly if you perceive that the Spirits are low or any inclination to swounding These things being perform'd exactly and in order there will be place for the usual strengtheners and renovators of the Body and the Specificks against Melancholly warmisâ—… Baths of fresh Water Whey of Asses Milk and perhaps Mineral Waters All and every one of which are to be prescrib'd according aâ—… occasion shall offer and according to the sucâ—… cess of the former In the interim let there be prepar'd by thâ—… hand of a'careful and expert Artist the following Bezoartick Pastills than which theâ—… is nothing more precious to defend the Heaâ—… and Brain against the impulse of any sort 〈◊〉 malignant vapours The Bezoartick Pastills â„ž Harts-born Philosophically calcin'd by the vapour of strong White Wine with the shavings of Iuniper Ebeni and Rhodium wood according to Art Harts-born Bezoar prepar'd from Harts-born calcin'd to whiteness with the strongest Oils of Vitriol and Salt an two Ounces The Scull â—…f a Stag and of a healthy man that was hang'd both prepar'd the same way of each one Ounce Of the Majestery of red Coral Of Pearl Of Mother of Pearl precipitated with Alom an six Drams Crabs Eyes The black tips of the Thighs of the greater sort of Sea Crabs prepar'd an one Ounce and half The roots of Carlin Thistile ten Drams Indian Contra Yerva half an Ounce Cuchinill The Oriental Bezoar stone The Occidental an five Drams Of the Flesh of the Liver Heart and of the Back-bones of Vipers taken at a fitting time twelve Drams Of Cloves Of Mace an one Dram Ambar-greese two Drams Mosk half a Dram. Of the fixed Ceruss of Antimony one part to five of the rest Make a subtile powder of all of them and taking a sufficient quantity of the strong Gelly of Harts-born a little coloured with Saffron adding a little of the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth made with distill'd Treacle Water make a Past of which form Pastils of convenient shapes for use let them be dry'd and kept in a Box impenetrable by the Air in a dry place When the Melancholly vapours are oppressingly urgent the Palpitation of the Heart or other vaporous disaffections assaulting let there be given ten twelve fifteen or twenty grains in Confection of Alkermes the Water of a Stags head Treacle water Wine or any other Cordial Liquor These things being exactly performed this Noble Gentleman was Cured though he followed his Pleasure c. COUNCEL the Seventh In divers disaffections of the Perinaeum upon which followed a Gangreen and an Ischuria or difficulty of Urine For a Noble Person The Description of the Disease BEcause you are desirous to know the state of this Noble Patient I will in few words but in order open it to you at his intreaty Upon his return hither out of England he often complain'd of heat in his Urine and many times also of a stoppage of it but taking of the Emulsions and Glysters you prescrib'd him applying also of Candles he was easily recover'd but he was continually sensible of a pricking pain though not very sharp in the left part of the Perinaeum and this for two or three Months before this Disease which continued till the Aposthume in the Perinaeum was broke But about the beginning of the Month of April this year 1620. when not exactly observing the lâ—…iet prescrib'd him and also exceeding in the exercising of his Body there was a certain stinking scent perceived in his Urine This stink by degrees was so increased that it was wonderful how such put refaction could remain so long in the Body without a Feaver Nauciousness and other grievous Symptoms Also at the same time there was to be seen at the bottom of the Urine a certain viscous matter not unlike the Spawn of Frogs The Month of May being past when he travelled to the Alpes to see his Lands and Possessions he went on Foot up and down the Rocks and contrary to custom and above measure having overheated himself he was invaded with Symptoms after a more grievous manner When he was return'd I prescrib'd him Emulsions and caused him to take Milk Glysters several times I anointed his Reins with refrigerating Ointments and Oils I have purged his body with gentle Cholagos or purgers of cholor and opened a Vein in his Arm And because plenty of that stinking viscous matter was expell'd with his Urine I perswaded the use of Whey with Sugar for some days together These things being observed together with an exquisite Diet for xiv days all things appearing fair and well and the stench of the Urine seeming to be much abated I was call'd to Solâ—…durum not long after my going away the Disease
the account of stirring up a destuction But I account it worth while to buy with a small present inconveniency a great benefit arising from thence Let the parts in which the Sandy Bâ—…ost is lodged be fomented with Relaxing Emollient and Diuretical things prepare a Semicupe or half Bath if the decay of the Limbs be not very great adding to it very much Oil. To remove the rubs and obstructions stopping the passages let there be given the before describ'd Tartarus Vitriolatus in Pelletory water white Wine Oil of sweet Almonds c. The Liquor of Raddishes prepar'd with Sugarcandy is excellent nothing is more precious then Lapis Prunella dissolved in common Ptisan or Pellitory Water adding a little Syrup of Marsh-mallows The Conserves of common Mallows-flowers and of Roses prepar'd at a fit time renders the passages slippery to which let there be added a third part of powder of Liquoris Gum Arabick and the pulpe of Pruines mixed in equal proportions and let this Noble Person take the quantity of a Wallnut of it in a Morning for five or six dayes drinking a little white Wine upon it and that before his taking the Monthly Purge and the Dinretick Broath Ease the bitterness of his pain as often as there shall be need by giving of Laudanum I neither will nor ought I to burthen this worthy Person with more Remedies the Omnipotent God grant that these Medicines may remove the cruel tortures with which this stout Commander is afflicted Dated London February the 17th An. 1622. COUNCEL the Ninth In a case of a Caruncle in the Yard For a Noble Person The Description of the Disease THe Noble N. is of an excellent habit of Body strong and now is past the 37 th year of his age and is by Nature of a hot and dry temper When more then xij years ago he had contracted a Gonorrhea by immoderate and too violent Copulation and had been afflicted with it for some time he relateth that a certain Night in the act of carnal Copulation he had a large efflux of pure blood instead of Seed From the beginning and truly for many years since out of modesty he concealed his Disease and almost quite neglected it by degrees there followed upon it a difficulty of Urine which for all that was sometimes more violent at other times more remiss according to his Diet and Exercise But in the mean space for many years this Patient could scarce ever make water without difficulty and heat and in the time of making Urine he felt also pain almost in every part of his Yard and a Branny substance did often appear in his Urine and doth also still appear he voids his Urine not in a strait line but sometime on one hand and sometimes on the other also for many years there hath continually distilled by his Yard a certain purilent matter but without pain and sometimes though not often after the excretion of Urine there hath follow'd a drop or two of Blood Though his pleasure in Copulation be less then it was formerly yet nevertheless he-hath many Children by his Wife Moreover when the last Summer by reason of publick business and that of great moment he rode Post a very great journey on Horseback the disaffected part was so bruised and rubb'd and also the grief was so exasperated that all the Symptoms which I have related were wonderfully increased wherefore about the end of the Month of September at which time I was call'd to him I purg'd him divers times with Cholagogs and the Patient used a Semicupe or half Bath as also I exhibited by 〈◊〉 the Syrup of Violets and Marsh-mallows with the water of the Opening Roots that it might be as it were a vehicle to the Syrup I commanded the Perinaeum to be â—…inted with an anodine liniment and the â—…ins twice every day with a refrigerating Ointment which Medicines were not made use of without advantage his pain abated and he began to make Water with less difficulty when therefore all things were safe for I knew nothing yet of the Caruncles or that it was a Disease inveterate I did hope that I might return to my own Family and what was further to be done I left to the Patient and his Domesticks to perform Not long after my going away when the Disease began to renew it self again there was another Physician call'd in to advise He again purged his Body with Cholagogs and with Syrup of Violets and Marsh-mallows he exhibited also with great success Emulsions made with the greater cold Seeds and sweet Almonds when I was call'd again the pain still continuing the sick person then discover'd to us that it was a Disease of long standing it was agreed upon then by us that I should search with a Probe and a Catheter what was at the bottom of this grief or what was its cause Wherefore the Body being re-purged with Cholagogs composed of the compound Syrup of Roses solutive together with the Electuary of the juice of Roses and the Catheter being put in I found Caruncles in divers places chiefly towards the left side of the Urinary passage which Caruncles do even now so stop up the passage and are so painful that to this very time he could not search farther then the half way of his Yard neither with the Catheter nor with the Syringe or could the Patient Probe or feel any further with wax Candles which instruments and Medicines he hath hitherto applyed to himself with his own hands therefore I could not hitherto make any Medicine reach any farther though I doubt not that a great part of the Distemper nay the root of the Disease is hid in the Prostatas For if the Urinary passage was exulcerated from the long continuance of that Gonorrhea and the Caruncles grew from that occasion how much more reasonably may we suspect the disaffection and exulceration of those Glandules Moreover the pain although obscure which the Noble Patient did feel more then two months since about his Fundament as I shall declare afterwards did denote some kind of Grief to be lodged there for truly as Hippocrates and Experience cause us to believe Ubi dolor ibi morbum esse where there is pain there the Disease is His Urine also the last Autumn did many times flow from him against his will and that whilst he slept without doubt by reason of the Sphincters being hurt which doth immediately adjoin to those Glandules and the great pain which the Patient did suffer heretofore proceeded from the Sympathy that part hath with the Prostatas The Urinary passages being searched and the Caruncles being discovered we applyed two Bags composed of emollient resolving and pain easing Roots Herbs Flowers and Seeds and we anointed the whole Perinâ—…um with an anodinus and Emollient â—…iniment As also we injected an Emollient decoction with a Syringe into the Urinary passage But as I said before the Pipe of the Syringe could never be admitted deep enough by reason of
place letting in often fresh Air by opening the Doors and Windows which oâ—…ght to be towards the North These Remedies together with Diet so used it is taken by many for an excellent thing to anoint the Arm-pits and Grain with Oil of Scorpions or Oil of Lillies adding Treacle to it and this to be done several times to extract the Venom by this â—…he Heart is defended and freed from it Blood-letting doth not seem necessary unâ—…ess a putrid Fever be joyn'd with the plague with extreme pains inflamations anxieties difficult breathing a high Plethora and other â—…he like accidents which are the issue of fulâ—…ess in letting blood observe not so much â—…e quantity as the measuring it by the teâ—…our of the Patients strength and vigour let this Medicinal Indication be a general Canon and Rule Observe these few things with whatsoever means the Disease is to be opposed let it be done at first before the Disease be confirm'd and have taken root Begin with the Cordial Potion giving of it thrice in an hour if the Stomack cast it up again At the same time cast in a Glyster and presently let blood except something hinder exhibiting a little after the Sudorifick Water so that these helps and remedies are to be administred in the space of six hours letting blood procrastinated is unuseful since it is better to let it alone then to make use of it when a Bubo appears for he that doth that intends mischief not to Cure To Cure a Bubo Many use only boiled Scabious bruised and brought into the form of a Poultess adding Hogs-lard to it from the great power thâ—… is endow'd with in these Diseases it haâ—… gained the name of Casse bosse the Cure 〈◊〉 Bubo's To this Cataplasme some add Liâ—… roots or Onions baked under the Embeâ—… to which being bruised they add some Yollâ—… of Eggs Pigeons-Dung and Leven beatiâ—… them all together with a sufficient quantity 〈◊〉 Oil of Liâ—…tes afterwards they apply it warm changing it every other hour They add to every Ounce of Oil one Dram of Treacle To Cure a Carbuncle To this purpose it may be sufficient to apply only Scabious or Sorrel backed under the Embars making it into the form of a Poultess with Yolks of Eggs and fresh Butter to be renew'd every hour The leaves of Mallows March-mallows Pellitory of the wall c. The rest are wanting Advice for the Constriction or Stranguling of the Throat arising from Melancholly vapours proceeding from the Hypochondries For Dr. Bouvard chief Physician to Lewis XIII King of France Written in French FRom the relation of the compression of your Throat which is not fix'd and stable nor continual and is without an Ulcer Tumour and Inflamation And from your perceiving an agitation in the region of the Hypochondries from whence acrid and hot vapours are carried to the Throat which is the Tube and Funnel of the Chimny in the extremity of which there resides a Distemper which proceeds from another place just as the Nostrils are exulcerated by acrid Phlegm and Choler inflames and vellicates the Fundament in Bloody-fluxes although the cause of those evils lurk in other places We suppose this Disease is only a Symptom of an internal cause afflicting you to wit of the Hypochondries Liver and other adjacent parts with a notable hot and dry distemperature upon which account the Belly is bound and all the Thin and serous humours are snatch'd into the Veins there being lodg'd plenty of Choler and other gross humours in the chief Veins of the Mesentery and the natural Caveties of the Bowels This foundation being laid it is easie to procure help by Diet and generous cooling and moistening Evacuators And if your recovery do not presently follow according to wish you must not therefore abstain from Medicines a word is sufficient to an understanding Physician Prescribe your Diet to your self by strong refrigerators I understand you have used weak mineral waters such as Monfran once or twice a year I hear to evacuate you have frequently let Blood in your Arm use Laxative Ptisans with Cassia and Senna and other slight sort of Purgings of that kind with Syrup of Roses and Peach-blossoms universal Baths and also use Milk and clarified Whey in which Fumaterry hath been insused drink Asses-milk plentifully persist in the use of these according to the vehemence of your contumacious and habitual Disease which otherwise no doubt will encrease and bring upon you worse Symptoms In the same Disease By Dr. de Arduynes Physician of the Hospital of Charity at Paris call'd St. Iames. Written in French WE have been made acquainted with the Disease with which N. D. is afâ—…licted which in my judgment is an off-spring of the distemperature of the Bowels whose office is to prepare the nourishment from which Bowels plenty of vapours ascend to the Head which afterwards fall down to the Throat and parts adjacent The parts which are affected are the spaces betwixt the Laryngx or Tope of the Wind Pipe and the Bone Hyoides To the Cure of this Disease frequent and iterated Purgation is necessary to be begun with this usual Ptisan following â„ž Of the common Ptisan made of the roots of Cichory and Bugloss Flowers two pounds in which infuse of Oriental Senna Leaves Ê’ ij strain it and prepare a Ptisan of which take two or three Wine Glass-fuls in a day one upon an empty stomack another a little before Dinner the third about four of the Clock in the Afternoon This Purgation being perform'd in the use of which you are to persist for five or six days first the Basilica in the right Arm then that in the left Arm is to be opened Let Bathing follow this letting of blood for seven or eight days other Topical Medicines as Oils Poultises of Swallows-Nests c. are altogether useless for having used the former Medicines health will follow If any thing remain of this Disease it is easie to look to its specifick cause but in this case we are to be warned of the effect By the same Person for the same Person Out of French into Latine WE do collect from your Note sent to us in which the Symptoms with which the Noble D. is afflicted are related that there is some lessening of the Disease and that it did arise from vapours in the Head whiâ—…h descended by the way of the Throat And because there is less plenty of these dry vapours from hence there doth not follow so great a distention of the part but on the contrary they being confin'd within their first region from hence there follows a greater distention of the Hypochondries then formerly from hence ariseth that kind of affection or Disease we call Windy Melancholly which is now much flighter then it was Nor is it needful to enquire if there be a Phlogosis or Inflamation or no in those places for this is certain wheresoever adust Melancholly lurketh there is always present and joyn'd with it a distemperature the reason
Blood Stone and Manus Christi composed with Pearls and Corals If you are not inclin'd to sleep procure it by intervals with Art take care therefore to prepare either Diacodion Tabellatum or use Syrup of white Poppies dispensed as it ought to be using them at the hour of sleep and taking them in the Cream of Barley beginning with half an Ounce or three Drams and so proceeding by degrees to an Ounce at most if necessity require it but have a care you use them not if they may be spared As to General Remedies viz. Purgation and Blood-letting let the use of the first be seldom always avoiding strong Purges for it is enough to use Laxative Ptisans prepar'd with Senna Tamarynds Cassia and Syrup of Cichory with a fourfold proportion of Rhubarbe sometimes adding new granulated white Calabrian Manna all being well clarified Neither omit letting blood which let it be frequent rather then much according to indications moreover the revelling and derivative Medicines prescribed by your Physicians are to the purpose and therefore to be apply'd at convenient times according to advice As to the Issue which is in your Arm I do not dislike of it but according to my Judgement I had rather have one made by burning in the Neck betwixt the first and second Vertebra's or two Issues made upon the Shoulders betwixt the superiour Angles of the Omoplats and the Spine of the Back Besides these let Medicines be provided ready against the Paroxysme that is when the blood doth abound in this case I do no â—…ess approve of opening a Vein in the Foot than in the Arm or let a Cupping-glass be apply'd to the region of the Liver use Oxycrate made with Plantain water and Frog Spawn Let Trochises or little Balls be made with Gum Tragacanth dissolv'd in Plantain water and compacted with a Powder composed with half a part of Rock Alom reduced to a subtile Powder a fourth part of Harts-borne calcin'd with fire till it be white also a fourth part of prepar'd Blood stone and coroâ—…ted Manus Christi the weight of all of them Hold these Balls in your mouth and let them melt by degrees and so swallow them for they dissolve but slowly The effect of Alonâ—… 〈◊〉 this cafe is very great it may be given at â—…he hour of sleep to the quantity of a Dram 〈◊〉 Barley Broath several days successively it may also be dissolv'd in Milk that is turn'd â—…d become thin by Boiling in it Plantain Mullin Allheale Pimpernell Tormontill and Vinca per Vinca or Periwinckell clarifying this Milk by settling and adding Alom to it that so it may be given with Apozemes or Iuleps I cite here this Experiment taken out of our Authors because by the prescribing the use of it I have gain'd honour and credit especially in the ordering the use of it to a Noble Matron afflicted with a desperate Haemoptysis or spitting of Blood from the Lungs ejecting from thence divers pounds for several days together I ordered to bruise the tender Leaves of red stinging Nettles and to give five Ounces of the juice pressed out of them and clear'd by settling Twice in a day if there be added to this an Ounce of rightly prepar'd Syrup of Coral the Medicine will be more efficacious And although she was then Threescore Years Old weak and helpless yet she was restored to perfect help for five years You may put the Councel I have given you into use for now I have nothing more to say If God grant you Life it must be restor'd by proper Remedies I shall always be ready to serve you in the preservation of your Health as far as my Experience in the Practice of my Profession will enable me London February 20 1657. This Illustrious Nobleman is now living Anno 1674. He is more then Threescore Years Old a Batchelor hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Shoulder Blades which stand off like Wings shewing by his Habit of Body and all other signs his native propensity to a Consumption spitting Matter perpetually afflicted with a Cough only using drying Food as Salt-meat Herrings and smoaked Meats finding moist Food to be hurtful for him COUNCEL the Third In various Hypochondriacal Distempers For a certain Noble Councellor at Law Written in French WHen I carefully take under examination all those Symptoms with which you have been molested and tired out and having also an Eye to your Temperament I do constitute the root of aâ—… those Griefs with which you have been afflicted to be in a Melancholly humour not only geâ—…erated in the Liver and evilly separated or expell'd worse wrought upon in the Spleen remaining to the hurt of the Stomack anâ—… those parts by which it ought naturally tâ—… be discharg'd but also mixed in the Veins with the rest of the Mass of Blood nay extended as far as the Brain which this offensivâ—… Enemy of Nature doth assault as an Organical part upon whose temperament an alteration being made by it from hence the Principle Functions of the Soul do act erroniously at sometimes And from this humour and from nothing else is the Original of your fore-pass'd Melancholly afflictions returning upon you by fits the settling of humours in the parts near the Fundament the malignancy of which humours consists in a Septick and Corrosive Salt hath begotten that great Ulcer which is now turn'd to a Fistula That troublesome heat of the Palm of your left hand and the sole of your Foot doth plainly shew the power of the Spleen affecting the upper as well as the nether parts also the intense dryness of your Mouth all which are induced by Sulphurious Nitrous and Vitriolate exhalations sent up from the Bowels Moreover the Stupor and Numbness of your Arms Legs which affects you only by Periods and Fits not constantly to all which may be added the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or stuttering of your Tongue returning by intervals from these without doubt I say is the Idea of your Melancholly afflictions all which may be constituted to proceed from the Reciprocal flowing of that juice from the Spleen to the Brain and contrary ways flowing back again which oftentimes introduceth grievous Symptoms as the Epilepsia and others insomuch that it is not absurd to make a presage from these signs of the near approach of a Palsie though I think the danger may be prevented if you be but strong enough let us omit the Cure of the Fistula since it is almost healed But lest we Triumph before the Victory be gain'd we must allow the space of five or six Months to expect whether perhaps any new budding of the Disease do not cause us quite to lay aside our conceived hopes of a perfect Cure for the Melancholly humour is not unlike the dispositions of the most sort of Poysons which by the force and efficacy of Antidotes are somewhat weakened and the Tempest which they brought with them allay'd and the introduced Symptoms ended so that Nature being restor'd to